Surrealism in '08!

We've written a fair amount about the forthcoming election, but PSUA has yet to formally endorse any particular candidate- not that we haven't been thinking about it... Mainly we've been paying attention to campaign ads, of course they don't really count as surreal- more like not real, or at least not true, yet without any sort of artistic intent, except for one candidate, and let me tell you he was an early forerunner for our endorsement.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present the dadaist short films of Mike Gravel:





Sigh. We miss him. Is a union allowed to endorse a write-in candidate?

Anyway, the political ad landscape returned to it's boring old self after Gravel dropped out- until it got a big old technicolor stab to the eyeball with the release of this Boy George video endorsing Obama. Featuring the animated visages of Boy George, Barack Obama, David Bowie, Divine, and Amy Winehouse, it's no surprise that it's not officially endorsed by the Obama camp. But it is crazy. So here it is.



However, Obama didn't have anything to do with it, so he doesn't get the credit and we're still without a candidate. But what of all the third party candidates? True, they must be living in some sort of subconscious dream-world if they think they stand any chance in this election, but we can't in good conscience tell you to throw your vote away.

It was looking pretty bleak. Until the emergence of Sarah Palin. While she modestly calls herself a "hockey mom," she is actually one of the architects (not literally) of one of the greatest pieces of surrealist art of the last 50 years. The bridge to nowhere.

Of course, she now denies she had anything to do with it, which is disappointing, but she doesn't actually apologize for it, she just flat out denies she had anything to do with it. Which kind of seems like the sort of thing Andre Breton could get behind. Like if Salvador Dali started insisting that not only did he not paint his paintings he did everything within his power to prevent them from being painted.

Hmph.

Well we're just going to have to keep thinking about this.

Dan