Minneapolis is apparently home to the newest Damien Hirst, as an art installation featuring the burned carcass of a cat, with an American flag staked through its heart and an Obama/Biden yard sign next to it, popped up in a public park yesterday. Clearly, though, the authorities don’t understand Conceptual Assemblage when they see it.
A threat to President Obama in the form of a burned cat staked to a tree stump drew officers from several city and federal agencies to a south Minneapolis park before dawn on Monday.
The cat’s carcass in Longfellow Park was staked with a handheld American flag on a small stick, according to a federal law enforcement official. Standing next to the cat was an Obama/Biden 2012 lawn sign, the official said.
But what of the Assemblage’s other components?
On the stump along with the cat, with the flag’s stick staked through its throat, were an iced tea can and a cat food tin, the federal official said. There was no note, the official added.
Artist fail. There should by all means have been a note, or “artist’s statement,” preferably citing Kant’s probings of the nature of truth and Brecht’s Man’s Inhumanity to Cat.
In other news, probably time to put some more taxpayer dough into mental health.
[StarTribune, via Wonkette operative "Mssr Grumpe"]
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If the FBI doesn't have an Art History major on staff to interpret this, there are probably about 8.6 million unemployed ones they could hire.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.
Too soon!
Way too soon…. I have two kitties at home.
Oh, we have one of those at home- an unemployed art history major- not a burned cat. The FBI does have a few(1?) art history major(s) in the office that looks at art/artifact theft. My daughter looked into that job- but takes tickets instead because the FBI wasn't hiring 1,000,000 art history majors last year.
One of my favorite books has always been "101 Uses for A Dead Cat".
(Sorry Barb).
I prefer 101 Uses for A Dead Human, where the people are buried heads down asses up, and the kitties using their butt cheeks as bicycle racks.
was 'piece of modern art' one of them?
I blame Pussy Galore and Goldfinger.
Y también, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill.
But is it art?
Don't be ridiculous, of course it's not.
Now a dog on the roof of a car; that's art.
or technique?
The hoveround tracks at the scene should provide authorities with a valuable clue.
Your move, Jesse Helms.
He's busy munching on Breitbart parts right now.
That's just sick. Was Paul Ryan in the area, perchance?
Or Ted Nugent at least?
The cat wasn't actually burned. It just looked that way after Ryan sucked all of the kittycat's blood out of it.
Thank God it wasn’t a Mark di Suvero piece those I-Beams are a bitch to take down.
"Just let them fall down on their own." – Tim Pawlenty
The artist is clearly expressing the point that cat food is wasted on cats when it could be feeding the elderly.
Its clearly a statement in favor the the ACA. Thanks to requirements that health insurance cover gynecological services, there won't be any more burning pussies.
I HAZ A SAD. :(
*or*
That's as close to a pussy that asshat who did this will ever get.
We are all dead cats today…
The cat slipped and fell on the flag stick.
-The dog
Why must you be like that,
Why must you chase the cat?
Win.
Dog libel!
This is politics 101 for the GOP.They start with killing small animals,and the next thing you know mass murder of the middle class.Classic psychotic behavior.
Also, bedwetting.
True 'dat! GeeDub used to put firecrackers up the butts of frogs and blow them up. Then he moved on to Afghan and Iraqi children and their parents.
I haz a sad
The burned cat carcass represents what subsidized housing does to the black community and the empty cat food tin embodies the public trough after decades of liberal, nay, fanciful policies.
You have to figure out the iced tea can your damn self.
Iced tea because it's hot out there and an artist gets thirsty.
Maybe it was a 'George Zimmerman is innocent' reference.
The skittles packet blew away.
No snark – the person who did to a cat doesn't deserve any humane treatment whatsoever.
I'm hoping the cat was already dead but people who would even do that to a dead animal are not people I want my kid selling Girl Scout cookies to.
I'd start by looking for John McNaughton. Perhaps he's run out of fingerpaint.
This is another Pussy Riot stunt.
spacibo
Has /b/ been alerted? They don't like people who hurt cats.
Gah, what the fuck is wrong with these sadistic sickos?
This is a pro-Obama installation. Like the phoenix, America (the flag) will rise from its corpse (poor Mittens) only under the protection of a benevolent hand (Obama / Handsome Old Joe) and with welfare and health care for all (cat food).
The ice tea was because it was hot because of climate change and I was quite parched and the garbage can was, like, ALL THE WAY over THERE.
All signs point to the Doberman Gang.
But wouldn't they use a German flag?
Because nothing says keep that Nigerian, commie, socialist, fascist, blah's hands off my tea bags quite like cat torture. Sometimes, I really do not like some of my fellow citizens.
There really isn't anything funny about this. It's just disgusting and the person who did it is probably a sociopath.
No probably about it, cruelty to animals is huge predictor in youth of a sociopath.
Robert Hughes would have understood.
so a threat to Romney would be a burned turd covered in goldflakes?
No, it would be a hair gel slathered gerbil with a dollar bill stuck in its ear.
This really isnt a Mommy blog is it?, Ken, … KEN
I have 3 kittens in my lap right now and simply do not care for this story. I will happily spay and neuter that sick fuck when they find him.
Tie him down,
Smear tuna on his teabag
Set the cats free.
Repeat as necessary.
I just can't snark. A kitty? Someone killed a little animal for no good reason? I have cats and a dog. I am just so depressed now.
I guess burning a cross was too expensive so he burned a cat instead?
The cat had recently changed his name from Cat Stevens to Yusuf Islam.
and the first cut was the deepest.
It's a wild world
Does anybody know the whereabouts of Hitler Cat?
Kibble Nacht !!
Feles gratia feles
"Feles gratia felidis". You're welcome.
Maybe the cat was killed for yelling for some motherf*cking iced tea! Bill o'Reilly, maybe?
Has anyone paid a visit to that Schrodinger character? He is a pervert when it comes to cats.
He's wanted dead and alive.
Now PETA and the Tea Party will spend the next month arguing about whether it's worse to desecrate a flag or a cat.
While there are a lot of worse things in the world than a dead kitty. whoever did this should be neutered with a dull rusty scalpel.
It's only art if somebody buys it.
Which Damien?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pTFvh1NfmXI/TeWPBP1S1PI…
The one who killed Gregory Peck.
Torturing a cat is typical behavior for a Romney/Ryan supporter.
The art of compassionate conservatism.
This is why we canz NOT haz cheeseburgers.
Oh, waiter! I'll take a little palate cleanser in the form of stuffonmycat.com.
Poor little kitty must have yelled at Paul Ryan at the Iowa State Fair.
OT, but there is a really good Op Ed piece about Ryan's Fairy Tale Budget in the NYTimes today by David Stockman.
THIS article is just sad. Poor kitty.
Unrelated to this post.
This meeting is killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to "teach" salesmanship. How do you teach getting clients hammered and get the to sign on the dotted line when they are piss drunk? That's Baconz sales modus operandi! This is somthing you have to experience. You can't teach this crap in Yale.
(this post is 100% snark free)
Impress them by using big words.
i was promised we'd learn hooker negotiating.
Haha, I had to write a course on Client Relationship Management yesterday. "Be nice on the phone", "ask them if there is anything else we can provide them with", "educate them about cross-company offerings they may not be aware of that can build efficiencies for them", blah blah blah. Good luck!
"educate them about cross-company offerings they may not be aware of that can build efficiencies for them"
Some of us are eating lunch here!
I'm writing course outlines for when school starts. Gah. My bullshit meter is maxing out.
But please, please, no "synergy". Please.
I'm guessing whoever assigned you this task never read "You Can't Teach A Kid To Ride A Bike At A Seminar".
[insert Glengarry Glen Ross reference]
The trick is to pay waitresses to bring you iced tea with their double shots…(decades of experience),…. oh, and strip bars are no good – too much distraction; use Hooters instead…. but I'm sure this is Baconz 101….!!!…..but it's in the salesmanship meeting you should be drinking double shots yourself…
Drop trou, show them your core competency, and run away.
Minnesota nice strikes again.
ANOTHER future episode of Criminal Minds. How many more dead cat installations are out there, I wonder, still waiting to be discovered?Use the Obama/Biden reference to draw on the full resources of the FBI and catch that guy before his behavior escalates to something bigger than cats. Please.
Can we be sure this wasn't the remnants of some crazed ritual carried out by Bobby Jindal and Michele Bachmann after they both learned they wouldn't be Mittens' running mate?
I do NOT approve of this message.
Somewhat related:
Has anyone else seen the I think Fancy Feast Mornings commercial where the woman is awaken by her hungry kitty then she (the woman) proceeds to fix her kitty a plate with Fancy Feast Mornings breakfast complete with a flower in a vase while totally ignoring her husband/boyfriend? She only notices him when he touches her and then her face is like "oh yeah, you live here too, I guess I should acknowledge your existence and not just focus all my attention on the cat". <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0sgwS-eg” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0sgwS-eg
The NRA has already issued a press release, once again pointing out the obvious: If that cat had been carrying, this would never have happened.
That poor animal. I hope the police find this potential serial killer and punish them to the full extent of the law. Things like this make me want to reform current laws against animal cruelty. They're really not half as severe as they should be.
Not according to Steve King. They are putting animals above humans, since you can rape a woman in public, drive her across state lines for an abortion, burn the fetus on a tree stump in the park using 14 american flags as tinder, drive the woman back to the playground and drop her off, and there's no crime there.
Or something.
Good point. Hey – does Rep. King have an alibi for when all of this happened?
P.S.: Damien Hirst can keep puking up Spin-Art guitars, but Imma keep on hating his ass.
My 70 year-old mom, who fosters dogs and cats and is a huge Obama supporter, lives a few blocks from there, and is FREAKED.
Bless your mom.
Your poor Mom! I would be freaked out, too.
Does this help or hurt funding for the NEA?
I'm going to need to spend some therapeutic time on "OMG – Cats in Space!" this morning.
People suck.
Now, I'm not saying Mittens was personally responsible for this, but can he prove he wasn't?
I'm sorry… :-(
Um….drugs has changed?…
Today I officially hate everyone. RIP kitty.
What now, an effigy lynching? Perhaps next, an underground trade in postcards of the dirty deeds, just like in the 1920s…
Isn't it swell when society falls apart? Oh, and (yawn) another crazed shooter in College Station. Whatever.
O Hai Can Haz Noms Now——? Ryan bujit? MEEOWARRGH…..
this makes me stabby.
god.
Right wingers claiming this is a pro-Obama sicko's handiwork (the cat's dead because under the Ryan plan seniors without Social Security will have to eat cat food) in 3…2…
Scottish Fold kitty!
1. If you vote for Obama, he will kill this kitty, or alternatively, 2. if you don't vote for Mitt Rmoney, he will kill this kitty. #2 is clearly more credible.
What is wrong with Republicans?
Seriously, what is physically wrong with their brains that they think stupidity like this is even remotely acceptable?
Maybe it was an attempt to finally nail down Schrodinger's cat. I too am tired of the uncertainty about the election. If it weren't for my meds…
Can't get up the snark, just despicable.
As I sit here hugging my 19 pound, sixteen year old long hair ginger cat I cannot snark about this. I am appallingly reminded, though that this is the SECOND time I have heard of some fuckbrain murdering a cat because, well, why? Liberals?
NOTE:HORRIBLE photo with link. This is an old story and I couldn't find it w/out the photo http://www.mediaite.com/online/arkansas-campaign-…
I'm sure there is a message here other than serious mental illness and unspeakable cruelty. I don't get it, but I'm pretty sure Romney and Company see something to rub their grubby little hands together about here.
Prince takes pussy control seriously.
Cats are nicer when they're alive.
2 serious points:
1) I prefer to think that the carcass was acquired non-violently. We can hope, right?
2) I am gonna guess the iced tea is a Trayvon reference. Assholes.
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