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Desperate for an opening zinger, I went back to the reigning diva, Mei Pin Phua...
Twenty-five years after wreaking havoc on the Empire, Lydon is still as piercing as a safety pin through the nostril. Ask about Bono's reworking Anarchy in the U.K. for a new sound track, and the response is swift. "It's horrible!" How about American rabble-rousers like shock jock Howard Stern? "He's one joke that's already tired." Post-punk diva Courtney Love? "Courtney Loves Kurt's money." Don't count on Lydon's accepting any Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors either. "Never. I don't need accolades from boring old farts." Thankfully, Lydon remains rotten...
Since Jesus is so trendy this week, I provide the following excerpt from an e-mail conversation with the divine Mei Pin Phua...
...PIN: he will belv tt u wr a particulrly testy challenge sent by god, n he will belv tt he is a bttr Xian 4 hvg endured u. u will hv thrby strengthnd e church. well done, soman. y dnt u stay in ur rm 4 e rest of ur life...
This is not the "banality of evil," as Hannah Arendt described Eichmann's bureaucratic Final Solution. The photographs present, rather, a sort of festivity of evil. Well dressed white people - the men in jaunty straw boaters, the women in pretty Sunday dresses, the children (children!) neat as a pin - are posed as they inspect mutilated and naked black corpses. People have brought picnic baskets. The pictures were sent as postcards through the mail...