October 01, 2003
EAT ME IN REMEMBRANCE OF YOU:
Bustamante Goes Boom: The lieutenant governor sits watching as his campaign implodes. (Bill Whalen, 10/01/2003, Weekly Standard)
NEXT TUESDAY, I'm voting for Cruz Bustamante--on one condition: his sister has to be the headline act at his inaugural. That would be Nao Bustamante, a San Francisco-based "performance pioneer" whose creative spark could make even porn star/recall candidate Mary Carey blush. Here's how the lieutenant governor's baby sister describes her art: "Using the body as a source of image, narrative and emotion, my performances communicate on the level of subconscious language, taking the spectator on a bizarre journey, cracking stereotypes and embodying them. As in America, the Beautiful; where I'm some kind of sci-fi-barbie-Yankee Doodle-meat-puppet, offering up a wildly distorted vision of female sexuality and the beauty myth." One of the stops on that "bizarre journey" was her 1992 epic "Indigurrito," thus described by the San Francisco Weekly: "[S[he strapped on a burrito to her loins and called for white men to come up on stage, take a bite out of the burrito and absolve themselves of 500 years of the white man's guilt."
Admittedly, I'm not much on feeling guilty about taking America from a bunch of folks who weren't doing anything useful with it anyway, but wouldn't you feel more guilty after eating a burrito out of some Latino woman's lap? That's assuming your wife didn't put a few rounds in your melon as soon as you headed to the stage. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 1, 2003 02:44 PM
I'm surprised she didn't use a tamale - probably too greasy.
Posted by: jim hamlen at October 1, 2003 03:06 PMHer act sounds kinda Dada to me... she's spoofing everything, including White Male Guilt Syndrome. From http://www.sfgate.com/offbeat/naoindig.html :
"'Bustamante skewers chastising feminists, New Age healing rituals, La Raza righteousness, and white guilt simultaneously...by making serious fun of everyone she pushes people to stop defending their personal territory of indignity and let go through laughter and irreverence.' Katia Noyes --SF Weekly"
You're not married are you, Peter?
Posted by: oj at October 1, 2003 04:14 PMWhat exactly do suppose my "personal territory of indignity" would be and how do I go about defending it? Or stop defending it?
Posted by: Brandon at October 1, 2003 04:47 PMHmm. Wonder what she would have done if some burly white dude had made a bee-line for the stage, bottle of hot-sauce in hand?
Posted by: Twn at October 1, 2003 04:49 PMOJ,
Good mental picture - Husband - " I know she's got the CC permit, but is the gun in her purse".
Posted by: RDB at October 1, 2003 05:27 PMOJ: Hey, it might be a good burrito. I'm Texan; I know to take those where I can get them.
On the other hand, I can say this because my wife is a lousy shot.
Posted by: Chris at October 1, 2003 07:07 PMNeed a photo posted of Cruz's sister before I'm committing to any burrito nibbling adventures...
Posted by: John at October 1, 2003 09:06 PMIt keeps getting weirder and weirder. You got to admit though that it has been very entertaining.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at October 2, 2003 02:34 AMThis gives new meaning to the "shaped like a taco" punchline. I gotta admit, though, I love the "sci-fi-barbie-Yankee Doodle-meat puppet" self-description, whatever the hell 'meat puppet' means.
Fred Jacobsen
San Francisco
Damn, you guilty white American men have a lot of fun. We guilty white Canadian men only get to listen to harangues in two languages from aboriginal leaders at soporific constitutional conferences.
Posted by: Peter B at October 2, 2003 08:06 AMPeter:
Yeah, but you guys are such suckers you gave them their own province, even if it is a fly-blown wasteland.
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2003 08:48 AMFred:
Here's the big question: where were the lap burrito "sci-fi-barbie-Yankee Doodle-meat puppet"s when we were young?
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2003 08:49 AMOrrin:
It was either that or be forced to eat frozen seal blubber out of their laps to expiate our guilt. No contest.
Posted by: Peter B at October 2, 2003 08:00 PM