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June 11, 2007
Dial-a-Glacier
Artist Katie Paterson has created an alleged artwork consisting of a phone line hooked up to a microphone that is recording the sparse sounds of a glacier melting.
Paterson was inspired by a fever-induced hallucination that the water she drank was making her part of the glacier. Only one caller can get through at a time, so that each can experience a "one-to-one beautiful and intimate moment" with the glacier. Calls are charged at international rates.
The Shrillary campaign was delighted to learn that moonbats are capable of connecting emotionally with chunks of ice.

On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 11, 2007 12:04 PM
Comments
All I can say is, thank goodness she isn't an American who might otherwise have been eligible for a federally-funded grant for this, er, art.
Posted by: Pam at June 11, 2007 12:27 PM
The picture reminds me of an old joke, I don't know who said it, maybe Bette Davis, about a fellow actress she didn't like:
"She looked like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, or anywhere else for that matter."
Posted by: phil at June 11, 2007 12:28 PM
It would be funny to hook that phone number up to a recording of the wicked witch in Wizard of Oz and her dying words: "I'm melting... melting... melting..."
Posted by: Kevin at June 11, 2007 12:38 PM
>>>...a phone line hooked up to a microphone that is recording the sparse sounds of a glacier melting.
OK, a scientist MIGHT find the recordings kind of interesting. But as for the REST of the artical.....
(Sigh) I think my BRAIN is melting!
Posted by: KHarn at June 11, 2007 12:43 PM
The artist expects people topay good money to listen to a glacier melt? What's next, PPV paint drying?
Posted by: James F McEnanly at June 11, 2007 1:45 PM
OT: Van, got one for ya.
http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html
The site lists entertainers, professors, and "senior military, intelligence, law enforcement, and government officials" supporting trutherism. (Janeane Garofolo? Cynthia McKinney? Can't go wrong there.) The list contains many of the usual morons but my favorite is the professor of music. Anyone can see how expertise in music would bear on analysis of a terrorist attack. You can't make up stuff like this.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 11, 2007 1:59 PM
I'm sure listening to the glacier melt would be far less boring than listening to the "artist."
Posted by: metalgarth at June 11, 2007 2:33 PM
Anyone wanna wager how long it will be now until Moonbat-run public schools start taking kids on field trips to glaciers so that the kids can "become one" with them through kissing and hugging them, along with any trees or endangered animals (i.e., grizzly bears) that might be around? This would demonstrate to the glacier that the kids feel his/her pain from melting as a result of Bush-induced global warming.
That's one of the most idiotic posts I've ever made, but it sure fits Katie Paterson's "discovery".
Posted by: Toa at June 12, 2007 10:47 AM
You can listen to it at this link. They recorded 60 seconds of it.
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=8659197#8659197
Posted by: JLA at June 12, 2007 3:32 PM
Of course, we could just replace the charges for these phone calls with a carbon tax or perhaps carbon surcharges that would, no doubt, magically make the threat of global warming vanish (All while lining the pockets of Al Gouge, I mean Gore, and his moonbat Marxist entourage).
Posted by: oakley06 at June 13, 2007 10:57 AM

