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billysumday — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:12:05 -0800

Whereas: Dada is a virgin microbe which penetrates with the insistence of air into all those spaces that reason has failed to fill with words and conventions. .

The mayor of Lawrence, Kansas proclaims February 4, April 1, March 28, July 15, August 2, August 7, August 16, August 26, September 18, September 22, October 1, October 17, and October 26, 2006 as International Dadaism Month.

By: weirdoactor

weirdoactor — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:17:08 -0800

Really, really wonderful. I like stories about politicians who have a sense of humor. Unfortunately the gene for politics and the gene for humor seem to exist simultaneously all too rarely.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:19:41 -0800

For one single, shining instant, I approve of something in Kansas.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:19:51 -0800

genius!

By: Elim

Elim — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:21:34 -0800

I refuse to accept this as ART as is makes sense and therefore is suspect.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:22:12 -0800

Absurdly cool! You ain't so elephants after all, Kansas.

By: justkevin

justkevin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:24:40 -0800

What's the matter with Kansas? Not this.

By: pwedza

pwedza — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:25:09 -0800

Boog for Prez

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:25:51 -0800

Awesome :)

By: Fenriss

Fenriss — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:26:51 -0800

Having found an image of "Boog" I am a bit less surprised. But it's still pretty cool.

By: milquetoast

milquetoast — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:27:53 -0800

fish

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:30:01 -0800

batman

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:34:47 -0800

Being a proud resident of Lawrence (the only part of Kansas that does not suck, except for maybe Big Brutus), I must say that Boog is a badass.

By: whir

whir — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:35:34 -0800

Nice. Reminiscent of Bolinas's Measure G, which passed with 67.9% of the vote back in 2003.

By: tublecain

tublecain — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:36:47 -0800

A series of stories on the dada movement in Lawrence. Life can be fun here in Kansas. Thanks Boog!

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:38:44 -0800

Philosophy is the question: from which side shall we look at life, God, the idea or other phenomena. Everything one looks at is false. I do not consider the relative result more important than the choice between cake and cherries after dinner. The system of quickly looking at the other side of a thing in order to impose your opinion indirectly is called dialectics, in other words, haggling over the spirit of fried potatoes while dancing method around it.

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:39:47 -0800

I do like the quotes from the "people on the street": "It sounds like a waste of time to me," said Joe Hutchens, a Lawrence construction worker who said the issue would provide another reason for other Kansas communities to laugh at Lawrence. "It seems like the City Commission would have something better to do than that." Some people, though, took a live-and-let-live approach. "I think it is probably higher education," said Michael Levy, a rural Lawrence resident. "My daughter is an English major, and I think she would probably say something like, 'This is expanding our mind.'"

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:40:21 -0800

Lawrence , KS is reason for hope, deep in the heart of Scarlet America.

By: bardic

bardic — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:43:02 -0800

Good one Jayhawks.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:48:20 -0800

There are only 13 days in teh month, it seems. Is that dada? "Virgin microbe"?

By: kozad

kozad — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:48:26 -0800

Scarlet pants hoodoo dynamo-forged expletives explode in Kansas! News at 2:35!

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:51:17 -0800

So the Brotherhood of Dada has finally triumphed....

By: freebird

freebird — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:54:25 -0800

Is Lawrence, KS really really cool for some reason? My favorite web framework started there, and my interest in that has me poking around their local news sites and such. My current theory is that an alien spacecraft crashlanded there, and is secretly building up their culture and technology to a level where they can rebuild their warp engines, or at least have a nice night out on the town.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:58:13 -0800

Is Lawrence, KS really really cool for some reason? KU

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:59:22 -0800

"Virgin microbe"? "Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions." -- Tristan Tzara

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:01:48 -0800

Yay! fucking awesome and a half!

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:03:01 -0800

A: Four. One to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with colourful power tools.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:03:27 -0800

I reject your dadaism!

By: freebird

freebird — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:04:32 -0800

Who's your dada?

By: quadog

quadog — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:06:29 -0800

I am offended and wish to pelt the mayor with rotten fruit.

By: keswick

keswick — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:09:05 -0800

"Much like finding the last memeber of a species attempting to sodomize its own hermpahroditic organs with various objects in the hopes that it will give birth, FYAD is the closest thing to actual living dadaism that has been encountered in the last 800 years."

By: emflr

emflr — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:09:38 -0800

This was in Harper's, right?

By: S.C.

S.C. — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:13:45 -0800

I consider this Highberger fellow rather likable.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:20:39 -0800

Is Lawrence, KS really really cool for some reason? Yep. A little island of sanity in a vast sea of ... well, wheat, mostly.

By: the_bone

the_bone — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:33:02 -0800

The mayor seems like an interesting guy. He's helped get a resolution condemning the PATRIOT ACT, is trying to block a Wal-Mart superstore, experimented with creating a local currency (with former Lawrence resident William S. Burroughs on the $3 bill), apparently wrote for an anarchist zine in the mid-80s, and opened a post-election online chat with the words "Greetings, citizens! Let the wild rumpus begin!" I kind of want to live there now.

By: sighmoan

sighmoan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:37:45 -0800

I would be living there if my family didn't.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:38:55 -0800

Dada is dead; watch your overcoat. --R.A.W.

By: MotherTucker

MotherTucker — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:41:48 -0800

fish

By: raevyne

raevyne — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:43:33 -0800

Art goes to sleep for the birth of a new world "ART" - a parrot word - replaced by DADA PLESIASAURUS, or handkerchief The talent WHICH YOU CAN LEARN makes the poet a druggist TODAY criticism balances no longer launches resemblances Hypertrophic painters hyperestheticized and hypnotized by the hyacinths of muezzins of hypocritical appearance CONSOLIDATE THE EXACT HARVEST OF CALCULATIONS HYPERDROME OF IMMORTAL GUARANTEES: There is no importance there is no transparency or apparency Art needs an operation Art is a PRETENTION heated in the TIMIDITY of the urinary basin, Hysteria born in the Studio We are seeking upright pure sober unique strength we are seeking NOTHING we affirm the VITALITY of each instant the anti-philosophy of Spontaneous acrobatics IF EVERYBODY SAYS THE OPPOSITE IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE RIGHT. Prepare the geyser actions of our blood - submarine formation of transchromatic airplanes, cellular metals numbered in the leap of images above the regulations of the BEAUTIFUL and its control ...i love dada

By: shoepal

shoepal — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:46:49 -0800

If you are in the DC area or will be at any time between now and May or will be in NYC in June or after, you should check out the DADA exhibit currently at the National Gallery and moving to the MoMa in June. Good stuff! "Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is DADA, and will not tolerate a rival", but apparently Lawrence, KS is fair game.

By: user92371

user92371 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:49:02 -0800

Billysumday gets two stacks.

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:23:22 -0800

Lawrence is the Austin, Texas or Madison, Wisconsin of the middle of the midwest. This statement can mean whatever you wish it to mean.

By: Football Bat

Football Bat — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:31:13 -0800

possion!

By: blacklite

blacklite — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:44:53 -0800

that's so awesome.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:25:53 -0800

It is NOT dada on February the 4th. That is boooooring bourgeois rationalism. It is dada on February the 31st, January the 3.14157296, December the i and Tammuz the umpteenth. Poooof!

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:38:42 -0800

Frying an incandescent bulb in sealing-wax.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:20:57 -0800

Five tons of flax.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:49:14 -0800

A deleted double-post of this would make for an exquisite corpse.

By: RTQP

RTQP — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:22:25 -0800

holy crap. riced out yugo has to start celebrating this month. though perhaps on February 26, April 17, March 1, July 22, August 2, August 18, August 16, August 26, September 11, September 15, October 28, October 1, and October 4 instead. and not just in 2006, but all even years.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:01:16 -0800

But chickens don't have three breasts! Do they?

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:34:44 -0800

Huh, I read this in the paper back in December and never thought it would make it to the blue. Hooray Lawrence. Boog is cool as mayors go, but you still can't smoke in bars/restaurants and we weren't allowed to vote on it...* and for absurdism, you should know that the only recycling center in town is behind the "green" Wal Mart (and I'm not talking about the color--the store is complete with a recycling "museum" or whatever they call it; and it's a supercenter now). And outside of a small area near downtown, it's still pretty much Kansas. Oh, and the west side looks like this. So don't move here, shit's crowded enough as is, but please come and visit any time. *although, as a smoker, it's nice to be able to see when you're in a bar.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:38:40 -0800

oh, and it's not KU that makes this place cool, it's because we're near a gateway to hell.

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:46:32 -0800

Sure, we couldn't vote on the smoking thing, but meh. It also seems like chiefs increasingly cowed by the snotty whining of old people annoyed by college students--as if this town would be anything other than Topeka mk. II without KU. Hey--the Wal-Mart may be a supercenter now (or on its way), but at least we don't have two of them.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:15:08 -0800

It also seems like chiefs increasingly cowed by the snotty whining of old people annoyed by college students--as if this town would be anything other than Topeka mk. II without KU. Whatever, student. Actually, I thought you were going to say that all the Chiefs fans make it hard to get to the college anyway... I agree, two of them would have been horrible, although I wonder if it would have had some sort of museum dedicated to tract housing or something.

By: terpsichoria

terpsichoria — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:12:00 -0800

COBRA!, you totally beat me to a mention of the Brotherhood. Nobody for President!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:08:13 -0800

Nifty.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:13:41 -0800

this is completely wonderful : > If that DADA show in DC and soon NY is the one i saw in Paris, everyone is in for a real treat--simply excellent, and incredibly thorough--and it's hard stuff to show and explain.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:30:48 -0800

This is not a comment.

By: RTQP

RTQP — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:53:43 -0800

this is a reply to a comment.