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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (306)	4/28/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3795

That is a good guess actually. No, he drew something that nobody else could draw. That way it was easy to see if it were really him, and not somebody goofing. He drew a perfect circle, freehand.

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (306)	4/28/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

This is the stuff I remember from college. I flunked Art History 3 years in a row. I got straight As in everything, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Commercial Art, all of that, but I just could not abide the stupid Art History. We were supposed to memorize where the damn paintings were. What museum. The first year, on the final exam, I skipped all the stupid questions about which museum and did an essay on brushes and how they were made. I got an F. The second year, I tormented the teacher every class period by interrupting and asking questions about how they made paint in Egypt and stuff. The teacher finally had me barred from the class and flunked me. The third year, I just sat there and watched and took notes on the artists. But I flunked the final exam on purpose. I drew pictures of the museums on the exam and didn't identify them as the correct museums. Cracked me up. The last year, I found out that I would not be allowed to graduate unless I passed this Freshman Art History class, so I memorized all the museums the night before the final and got an A. And the good part was that I actually remembered some of it, like where that painting by Leonardo in the National Gallery was, and I went and saw it. I like Frank Zappa's quote about music, "Some people wouldn't know good music if it walked up and bit them on the ass." Claus Oldenburg said, in answer to the question "What is Art?"; "Art to me is like Ornithology to birds." Now we have these freaks like Marilyn Manson, whom I saw in an interview explaining how his "art" could be compared to great art of the past, and he is an artist, and so on. He's a psychotic mutant jerkoff. The thing that pisses me off about him and the other balls of dung that do what they do is that they claim they are artists. They get paid for it. They collect the money, which in my mind is kinda tacit agreement that they are responsible for what they do. Then somebody does something Bad and says Marilyn said it was OK, and Marilyn says, No, no, I am a leaf in the wind, an artist, I am not responsible for whatever people conclude from My Work. Right. Art is good communication. Art takes someone and tweaks their soul a little, and lets them know that they are great; it gives them hope. It does not make them vomit. A freak puking is not Art, no matter how much the freak wants to claim it is. I hate people that attack Art. I think attacking Art is evil. I think it's better to attack the bad things. Like criminals. Like scammers, and paid touts, and BB scam creeps. Artists, like you, Mr. Bill, create the civilization. The morons just sit and watch and bitch about it. Sometimes, they make the artist think that he is bad; that what he is doing is wrong. Screw them, and everyone that works for them. Screw you scumballs that attack Art. Take your damn money and go home and wonder why you failed. Do Art, Mr. B. Do Art.