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You Know What Really Sucked? [Dan Collins]

I have this friend. His wife left him for another guy, but that didn’t work out for her. Meanwhile, my friend poured his life into his work, got wealthy and bought himself a sex-bot (Evangeline). Anyway, his ex reprogrammed the damned thing to save the sperm rather than flush it, and she used it to artificially inseminate herself, and now the guy’s in court trying to overturn the child support award that the state gave her.

Sucks, huh?

To make matters worse, while he was all wound up with the court business, his <scare quotes>pal</scare quotes>, who was supposed to be taking care of his place, raped his sex-bot. How fucked up is that?

18 Replies to “You Know What Really Sucked? [Dan Collins]”

  1. Jonathan says:

    You know, just about every snarky comeback I can think of involves questions of whether artificial intelligences can give informed consent. And there’s something deeply wrong with that.

  2. Sarah atWp says:

    HAH! I never fall for this kind of crap.

  3. Pablo says:

    Ever wish Yale had kept that Taliban dude hanging around? Just to see the look on his face.

  4. thor says:

    The point of art is not to make your bacon and eggs never taste the same after a showing.

  5. The temptation to be a curmudgeon is hard to withstand. When a drama critic encounters a “Gay Fantasia” or an art critic encounters an exhibition of soiled teddy bears — indeed when anyone trained in anything encounters the self-congratulatory work of someone trained in nothing — it is very difficult to resist the temptation to lay back one’s ears and bray.

    — J. Bottum, review of _Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century_, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, in _National Review_, May 15, 1995

  6. memomachine says:

    Hmmmm.

    DUDE! Whez teh sexe?

    I’m bummed!

  7. datadave says:

    Evangeline should meet my Ex’s sex bot, O’Jay.

  8. Alec Leamas says:

    Dan, you have to see this: http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/04/17/theres-no-way-this-is-real/#comments

    Those of you who objected to post-abortion effluent as the subject of art on the grounds that it was a) a flippant treatment of a serious moral issue and b) really, really silly/bad art were WRONG. WRONG for lending credibility to what someone plainly stated that she had done. It was, like, a total hoax that is entirely impossible. (except for the fact that the stories that I read referred to “abortofacient drugs” which, I am aware, do exist and are available, as in the case of a mega-dose of birth control pills, no?) You just believed it because it confirms your straw-man of feminists.

    Then, in the comments, on more than one occasion, there are statements of support for what the “artist” claimed to have done in the first place, thus reinforcing those so-called “straw-men.”

    Good stuff. Also, when seeing a picture of the “artist,” did anyone else think “Shvarts” was an onomatopÅ“ia?

  9. Dan Collins says:

    I did see that onomatopoeia angle, Alec. My comment was, “But is it shvart?” I’ll check out the Pandagony, though, thanks.

  10. Mikey NTH says:

    Where does art stop and the heavy dosing with medications begin?

  11. Rob Crawford says:

    So, Alec, your default mode is to assume feminists are lying?

    I’ll keep that in mind.

  12. Ouroboros says:

    “Well, if “art” means thinking up ever-increasingly degraded ways of getting attention, this person has certainly created “art.”

    That line would seem to apply to much of today’s art world.

  13. McGehee says:

    I give art letter grades.

    This was definitely “F” art.

  14. JD says:

    “Well, if “art” means thinking up ever-increasingly degraded ways of getting attention, this person has certainly created “art.”

    I do not think she created art. She committed an act of art.

  15. Alec Leamas says:

    “So, Alec, your default mode is to assume feminists are lying?

    I’ll keep that in mind.”

    I don’t have a hard-and-fast rule for feminists, other than that they rarely like it “hard-and-fast,” or, at all.

    I think a thread stating that Chrystal Gail Mangum’s rape accusations were “performance art” would be appropriate at this time. “Haha! She like, totally fooled all the feminists! Hah-za! Bing! Pow!”

  16. McGehee says:

    15. Comment by McGehee on 4/18 @ 2:33 pm

    I just realized who will reappear if I say that two more times…

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