(This is how it’s done.)
Mr. FLG of Fear and Loathing in Georgetown announces the formation of Heretic Boys for Art, an organization open to membership to all those who appreciate fine culchah but do so from the wrong bank of the Tiber. Says he of the obvious question of how the RCBfA might react to HBfA,
“All members must recognize the risks they are taking in joining HBfA, namely the possibility of being burnt at the stake in effigy by members of RCBfA. However, I hope that RCBfA and HBfA can have a symbiotic relationship despite our differences.“
Emphasis mine. Our Faith differences can be got round in the pursuit of symbiosis? This suggests to me that Mr. FLG is probably a Palie.
While Maxy appears to be open to the idea of another voice in the marketplace, I expect that the question of whether to poke Mr. FLG with the soft cushions probably will have to be taken up in special committee and then voted by the general membership. We will send Cardinal Fang around with the decision once it’s been taken.
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September 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Fear and Loathing in Georgetown
HBfA is not open to all on the other side of the Tiber. A classical education is required. Furthermore, we will have no Godless heathens.
September 30, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Mrs. Peperium
FLG, I think you’re being a bit hasty in not allowing Godless heathens in HBfA. Godless heathens are into serious pagan art and serious pagan art has always featured women with about twelve nipples instead of the Orthodox two. Who doesn’t want a woman with 12 nipples?
But better than that, they are into serious pagan sexual rites which could make the annual regimental do of the HBfA more doing so to speak. True most of those rites revolve around the seasons and involve in acting like animals far more often than acting like people but that might be a nice change for you.
September 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Robbo
Ah, those scandalous doin’s in the ruins of Pompeii…….
September 30, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Hey FLG, may I put forth a prospective member for the HBfA?
He’s my cousin (we share the same grandmother from the Salem Witch Trials) so you know he’s a lot of fun. Plus he just had a baby girl. Well his wife did. He’s a ‘palie but not one of those ‘palies…
It’s fellow blogger Nasty, Brutish and Short. I’ll send him an email….
September 30, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Fear and Loathing in Georgetown
Sure, but his admission is contingent upon producing a satisfactory portfolio.
September 30, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Robbo
Well, Mr. NBS has been absent from his post for some while now, so he’s got some serious catching up to do.
September 30, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Mrs. Peperium
He’s not absent. He’s locked out…..
September 30, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Robbo
Yes, well he needs to get his finger out and jimmy the locks or smash a window or something, because his contributions are sorely missed.
October 1, 2008 at 2:49 am
Nasty, Brutish & Short
Oh aren’t you all too kind. I am indeed locked out. Also, without time to blog and/or really figure out how to get back in. Plus I am “in trial.” That means I get to behave badly until the trial is over.
Also, I’m not sure I would help with some raproachment with the RCBfA, as Sir Basil Seal does not care for me. So I am not sure I would help The Cause.
I can say, though that when I was the editor of the conservative paper at Sewanee (which I founded) that our local yokel printer was indignant when we tried to print a photo of (if I remember correctly), Titian’s Venus of Urbino. Does that get me any cred?
October 1, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Can’t you just see the old family resemblance between NBs and I?
NBS, (and you too FLG) this is not the 21st century. We will have none of this rapprochement between RCBfA and HBfA. They are Catholics. You are heretics. Or Protestants if you prefer. Why in the old days you guys killed each other with relish. And that jovial spirit should still remain alive and kicking between the 2 clubs today.
Now that’s there’s 2 of you in the HBfA, you’ve got work to do. You must get your staff (chef or head bartender) to infiltrate the RCBfA. Once safely ensconsed and enjoying the trust of the RCBfA, they must then slip all the RCBfA-ers mickeys. Once the RCBfA-ers are near comatose then they make off with not only their artwork and mascot but all the silver spoons.
When they awake, have a handbill announcing the HBfA’s next art viewing laying on their laps. Oh, and make sure your staff knows to do this on a night that Father M. is not around. You may be heretics but even you must know it’s not kosher to slip a Catholic priest a mickey.
Oh, and FLG, you are mistaken. There is no guilt involved with the RCBfA. If you don’t believe me, just ask Father M. And as an aside, the only true blue stuffed to the gills with guilt Catholics I’ve met are those career feminist whack jobs who, before Vatican II, would have found themselves happily ensconced in the nunneries.
October 1, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Old Dominion Tory
I welcome the formation of HBfA because, as those on the wrong side of the Tiber consider various works, they will inevitably notice that much of the worthwhile art in the world was sponsored and preserved by The Church and Catholic monarchs or created by Catholic artists. This will–or, at least, should–prompt many of them into considering what in the Catholicism caused these phenomena, and, if they are able to lay aside traditional Whiggish views of history, cause them to reconsider the Church as a whole.
In short, I can easily see a time when HBfA becomes a superb tool of Catholic envangelization. Imagine the story these new converts will tell, “Looking at nudes in Baroque art started me on my journey to The Church. Who knew?”
October 1, 2008 at 3:02 pm
MCNS
Mrs P,
Paganism aside, who doesn’t want a woman with 12 beers?
I believe Belloc had a suitable toast for such occasions.
October 1, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Fear and Loathing in Georgetown
ODT’s comment reminds me of the end of Love in the Ruins. “The monks began gathering books again.
October 1, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Christopher Buckley is a prententious ass living off his father’s shirt tails.
Thank you. I feel better now.
No I don’t.
He can’t write a sex scene worth reading. He must be lousy in bed.
Now, I feel better.
October 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Mrs. Peperium
That should read “pretentious”.
October 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Fear and Loathing in Georgetown
Your apparently instantaneous Buckley hatred was prompted by something in particular? He’s not a member of HCfA.
October 1, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Fear and Loathing in Georgetown
That’s HBfA.
October 1, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Oh, if I wasn’t ticked enough, now I’m over the top.
The Detroit Federation of Teachers just called the house looking for my husband.
Guess what? He’s not a teacher. Nor a pupil in the school system and not a resident of Detroit.
So, you ask, why did they want to speak with him?
Easy.
They wanted to know if he required an absentee ballot.
Since he wasn’t home they asked me if I required one.
No.
Then she asked if I planned to vote this November?
(This is sounding totally illegal at this point, don’t you think? She is supposed to be educating the illiterate children of Detroit – and liberals wonder why Detroit has a 21% graduation rate….)
“Yes.”
She wanted to know if I was planning on supporting Senator Obama?
“No.”
She thanked me and hung up…
Our house shall now be fire bombed….
Oh, and why am I ticked at the pansy, Christopher Buckley….yes any married man that talks like he does is a pansy- ask my mother.
He’s voting for Obama because Obama is more conservative….
October 1, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Old Dominion Tory
Mrs. Peperium– You should have said, “Yes,” to the question about voting for Senator Obama. Then, someone might have arrived at your house on Election Day with an envelope bulging with bills as a ways of rewarding Mr. P’s civiv virtue. And, any cash taken from the union is cash in a much more deserving place.
October 1, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Hadn’t thought of that….
I must admit I was wrong about Christopher Buckley. It appears he’s not a pansy as just today the story broke that he knocked up his Random House publicist and the child, a boy, is now 7 years old. But it appears Mr. Buckley is a complete cad and total bastard in his treatment of the boy which would be his son and Christopher’s father, WFB, doesn’t come off looking so hot either.
October 1, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Mrs. Peperium
Oh, so now that we know the truth about Christopher Buckley, he should be supporting Obama. It’s just he should be more honest in his support. He’s supporting Obama because they are both bastards and cads. Obama, if one reads his book like Christopher did, has a brother George who he wrote about glowingly. What Obama the millionaire left out is that George now lives in a 6 ft square hut in Africa on an income of $12 dollars per year.