Midterm Sweep = Pockets Full of Cash!
Holy crap I can’t believe it! The Democrats have swept the elections giving them control of both houses of Congress. This unexpected result can and will mean only one thing: Money for the artists! Oh I can just smell the freshly printed currency coming our way, stacks and stacks of bills filling our studios. Fire up the Works Progress Administration for cripes sakes. Just start handing out all sorts of contracts to make giantly colorful paintings to hang in the lobbies of all the banks we are in debt to. (Is that irony? I have been wondering for some time.) That will get us in good with the rich people again. It has been a long time since we were tucked in so tightly in bed, scratching each other’s backs, snorting blow off of our chests…They will invite us to the most fabulous parties and everyone will be merry and drunk and buying each other’s art and snorting blow off someone else’s girlfriend’s chest…We will make so many lovely things and everyone will know it is truly Great Art and the history books will fill their pages with glossy reproductions of non-representational paintings (paintings that don’t look like nothing) entitled “Endless Darfur Suffering #2.” The museums will soon grant us retrospectives to exhibit the twelve pieces we have made in the past three years and only charge $18 to the tourists whose should really head down to the lobby of the bank that provided them the credit with which to finance their vacation. Finally, the univeristies will invite us to recite our lines to the swollen fresh-faced ranks of freshmen who have come looking to bask in the glow of our genius. And it is all thanks to the Democrats. I love them.
Sincerely Grateful, David Petersen