Gulp!

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Date: 28 August 2005 15:22:37

Holy shit! When I got interested in images of female crucifiction at Glasgow Uni I presumed that all the images and accounts I would come across would be imaginative and fictive. Seems not.

Went to The Greenbelt Arts Festival for the day yesterday, met up with a few old friends and played a game of 'match the faces to the blogs' at the annual Wibmeet. Cheers for the cake and Pringles everyone. Hugh will be pleased as we finally got round to cracking open (unscrewing actually, but...) the Stormhoek freebie. Which was much appreciated by everyone apart from me (M.E./P.V.F.S. recovery = no alchohol). I did my bit for the sustainability of the festival by planting an apple tree. Well, ok, I lobbed my apple core into "the massed trees of bushyness" from a distance of about 60 yards narrowly missing a dozing pigeon and comatose camper. Apparently this is not considered suitable geek behaviour......

Also tagged along to a seminar, don't often go to many of those when I go to Greenbelt, prefer to mill around and go wherever the spirit of adventure leads. Anyway, seminar was on Comics....as in Dan Dare and Judge Dredd rather than Jack Dee and Ross Noble. They showed us lots of examples, from Robert Crumbs' works of art to the most crass Christian propaganda you could imagine (God-man(!)). There was also (inevitably I guess) one comic (and probably many more) which depicted Christ as a super-hero, which, as any good Nietzsche or Dostoevsky reader will know is THE most unsuitable psychological archetype to apply to Christ. Idiot or (Holy) fool, yes but not super-hero [runs screaming]....aaaarrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're reading this from Greenbelt, take a shower.