@Ishtar_in_CapeTown: I know, SQ85 already clarified yesterday.

I understand the persona, I understand the look... I just wish she'd change it up a little more. She's running the risk of becoming a cartoon of herself instead of an artist portraying a character. Bowie had different personas, and even different looks for each of those personas.

@happysquid: I love how later Shannel totally admitted to faking that whole incident.

@awkwardturtle: That is true. I was thinking zombie/brains, though. I think I've been watching too much "The Walking Dead".

Oh man, what a cute ad. ALL EXCEPT the nutcracker's eyes rolling back in his head as he opens his jaws for tasty peanut brains.... that was a little creepy.

@ukuleslie: I'm in their town of origin, so through other people I've heard some great stories. Best one?

@ukuleslie: She apparently hated that riff in Celebrity Skin. And then Billy Corgan told her that riff would sell millions. He was right.... he's still an asshole.

@umyes: Sometimes art is art, you know? I think you get the fact that they're meant to explore an idea and ask questions about how we treat the topic, not necessarily be products we'd buy in a store.

Those are pretty thoughtful pieces. Although I'm waiting for the comments that take these art pieces literally and as impractical.

@SQ85: So you're saying that by pointing out the wrongs of some Africans towards her ethnic group, it nullifies the European's treatment of Sarah Baartman as an individual? Let alone, of course, the far reaching consequences of that whole mess.

@Venus Hottentot- aka: Unnamed S/OracleOG: Not much context there. God, what a fucking horrible story hers is. Europe really showed who the barbarians were in that case.

@rocknrollunicorn: done and done. Turns out that was the group I had joined, but I just messaged you.

@DorothyWordsworth: Oops, sorry. I just tried to think of a popular french-inspired chef. Her book came out in 1961. So, a couple years off. The bit about it seeming classy because it's french and needed a fridge is true, though.

@boxspelunker: I strangely listened to an NPR interview about it a couple months ago. It was so strange that the information just stuck, I guess.

@boxspelunker: Because French cuisine (ala Julia Child, etc) involved a lot of cooking with aspic. It was seen as classy, and started out as a little exclusive because you needed a fridge to make it all happen.

@Magic_Hour: I joined the Chicago one, but it's been dead for a while.

@brightpeonies: Oh, I could win this thread so hard.

@Daoudmac: Wow, I was surprised by how much I like this. I'm hearing some Morrissey, some Decemberists... I want to hear more, I think. Got an album suggestion?

@rocknrollunicorn: I've been trying to get together a Chicago meetup, actually. It's just so hard to know what's the best way to get the word out so that a lot of people see it, and remember who exactly is chi-town based.

@Armer Farmer: It's truly as horrible as King Midas' golden touch turning into tragedy, or Medusa turning into stone because of her own glare.