Just an observation. There's a boiling dispute going on among some Italian art restorers concerning Michaelangelo's David, or Dave, as I prefer to call him.
Dave has acquired the grime of the centuries, it seems, and there's some debate on how to get it off.
One side wants to use an acid wash, the other, Mr. Clean.
Or whatever.
I really don't have a position on it. I'm glad that some people do. It comforts me that experts passionately argue the merits of this or that, in the same way that enormously thick German medical encyclopedias ramble on about pathologic obscurities in a language I'll never speak.
I think it's a complementary piece of the intellectual restlessness and curiousity that drove Michaelangelo to pick up the chisel and hammer.
Having said that, I note that Dave is a dead ringer for. . . Sean Penn. Herewith the proof:
Ack.
Double ack.
Trust me, I had a couple of hilarious pictures to insert above, but until I figure out their locations, or why Crimsonzine can't find them, neither will you.
What a deflating note to go out on. Still, Dave really resembles Penn. Also he was however briefly married to Madonna, which could cause much accidental incestuous commentary. Uh, well, I mean incest in the sense of...ah...
I mean that Sean Penn was married to Madonna, not Dave.
Aw, fuck it. I've edited this twice now and it still doesn't make any sense.