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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Nightlife The 7 Most Humiliated People in America According to Derek Erdman

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:03 PM

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These are the seven paintings that'll be on sale tonight at the HUMILIATION party at Chop Suey. (Identities revealed after the jump.)

There's also going to be an old instructional video from the '50s about protecting your children from becoming perverts by reading magazines. As well as jokes by Solomon Georgio. As well as new humiliating songs by Jose Bold. As well as Nate Quiroga (also known as Buffalo Madonna from Mad Rad) making his literary debut with a story about his humiliating father. As well as Tacocat playing a slowed down set of their most humiliating songs, possibly with bongos (unconfirmed). As well as Wayne Koestenbaum, live and in the flesh and all the way from New York City, talking about humiliation in pop culture and in the lives of politicians, and taking your humiliating questions. As well as DJ Porq spinning before and after. You can get tickets here until 3 pm today, and after that you can get them at the door.

Get there when the doors open at 7 pm if you want to get a good spot. Show's at 8 sharp! You don't wanna miss it.

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Goddamn, I am confused. Judy Garland was humiliated, sufficiently, to qualify as a most humiliated person in America?

Also, I have no idea who the woman is with stuff on her face - and apparently, neither do you.

Mostly, I am sort of intrigued at how the artist curated this particular group of humiliated people.

Posted by karion on August 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM

... and Anita Bryant is the unlabeled one with pie on her face for those not old enough to know.

Posted by _John_b on August 4, 2011 at 12:14 PM

To be honest, those are just seven humiliated people from a list of 20 that I was given to draw. I'm not really good at drawing, otherwise Steve Bartman would be somewhere in there as well.

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on August 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM

Ahh cool, I was gonna say Anita Bryant, but I wasn't sure. She looked kinda like one of the twilight vampire chicks. Not that I would know what the twilight vampire chicks look like.

Posted by brandon on August 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM

@2 - ah, thanks. It actually feels pretty great to be "not old enough" to know something. I can't remember the last time that happened. Probably because I am too old.

Also, @3 - thank you, too. I went to wikipedia to discover what it was that made Judy Garland so humiliated and I learned that her daughter, Lorna Luft, played Paulette in Grease 2. And this is the very best thing I could have hoped to have learned this week.

Posted by karion on August 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM