DOGS PLAYING FOOTBALL: A TRIUMPH
Yes, yes. Quite.Devin Wordley, Art Critic, gesturing at the wall of a gallery: Yes! Quite! A savage excoriation of the Anglo-Germanic-American bloodlust for competition and cheap, facile artifice without edges; yes, a true jab at the hollow, bloody soul of the worker’s theatre. Note the use of faux-trope here as the artist cloaks themselves in the sheep’s skin in order to come closer for the true kill, working in the cheap mock-airbrush to get his Trojan Horse of an assault on the mores of violent spectacle: a dog’s life shrouded in the illusion of glory, a…
Dude: Dude, that’s my favorite poster!
DW: Um, yes? Poster, you say?
Dude: Yeah. If you get high and look at it, you will lose your shit. There’s no helping it. I mean…they’re dogs, man. And they’re playing football!!!
DW: Yes, I see now. Dogs playing football.
Dude: You gay?
DW: Yes, yes. I am. A gay man in need of a new art review before deadline this afternoon.
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FisheriesDawg says:
The referee-dog in the background looks more like Dr. Zaius from “Planet of the Apes.”
March 14th, 2008 at 9:22 am
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Mike and His Four Noble Truths says:
Is that Army running a student body right on Florida?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:22 am
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Allahver Fist says:
Canine Troy Smith just got sacked again.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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Brian says:
Loving the bulldog UF player. How ironic.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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PW says:
#1
I was gonna say Gary Busey’s mugshot, but I like yours better.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am
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Mike and His Four Noble Truths says:
Dan Mcmanis = Daniel Moore of canine/sports art
Don’t paint any of them red or Alabama will sue your ass off for copyright infringement.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
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PW says:
5
Pardon me. I meant Nick Nolte’s mugshot.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:34 am
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CincySooner says:
Anyone else notice that Florida’s got a Yorkshire Terrier playing Safety trying to chase down the Border Collie RB?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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Out of Conference says:
I wonder if #7 is bankrolling human fighting.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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kleph says:
@1 i thought he looked more like a sleestak from “land of the lost.”
March 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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impirius says:
#2 – I was kinda thinking Pitt.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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Dinknflicka says:
Triumph. Ha! I see what you did there.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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DC Trojan says:
I suppose it’s a change from playing poker.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
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NRBQ says:
That tailback is hung like Reggie Nelson’s fuckin’ dog.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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Sundawg says:
I think the Auburn dog just chop blocked someone’s knee! [do dogs have knees?]
March 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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oc phil says:
Dogs do have knees, but they can’t look up.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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sb says:
#8, that Gator safety looks more like an ungroomed version of my mother-in-law’s schnauzer…mean little fucker…he likes me alot, too.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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The Song of Hiawatha Francisco says:
@ OOC (No. 9):
Nicely done.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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Dr. Cruz says:
#5-Both are good, but yours is better.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm