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...injects ricin into snack cakes (Mister Squishy), a homicidal substitute civics teacher whose students are not even paying attention when they're taken hostage (The Soul Is Not a Smithy), a therapy patient who kills himself after hearing his pain articulated as a joke on Cheers (Good Old Neon). "I was evidently so hollow and insecure that I had a pathological need to see myself as somehow exceptional or outstanding at all times," says the man ripped asunder by a Frasier Crane...
...collection are the three-page take on a scalded baby (Incarnations of Burned Children), the nightmare of a sexually abused woman whose marriage has fallen apart because she and her husband can't figure out whether he's snoring or she's hallucinating (Oblivion) and Good Old Neon, which succeeds where thousands of 20th century novels failed, nailing the yuppie angst of being found a fraud. It alone is worth buying the book...
...wiggles something that resembles a surfboard at the passing scientists. It’s slick and neon green. Panton’s tie is neon yellow...
...neon sign flashing “football” just went off in your head, you probably know where I’m going with this. Or you need a CAT scan...
...True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths." Some years ago Bruce Nauman spelled out those words in a now famous electric wall piece. An exalted statement in burger-bar neon. Did he mean it? To this day we don't know. But if there is something about contemporary art that you find baffling or unnerving or belligerent, chances are Nauman is somewhere behind it. Years before Damien Hirst submerged a sliced shark in formaldehyde, Nauman made his own comment on flesh and death called Carousel: four metal arms swing in a circle like a ceiling fan, with...