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And, all of us ignored the artwork. Which, in consideration, was probably best for the likes of Steve Olson. The man is a skateboarder, the professional sort. This means that he makes a career of duplicating actions created by vagabond, reckless others in such a precise, organized and soulless way. His works had the same sterility. He touched upon each cliché in order of chronological, artistic acceptance. Pieces read “Buy Sexual,” “Swallow” and “No Fags.” The joke, however, was that the former two were made out of cigarette cartons. Get it? In the same vein of materialism vs. materials, there were American flags made out of studs and cheetah print. And, of course, the show’s namesake “Black Honky” was offset by another large sign that read “White Nigga.” Ah, race, sexuality and consumerism – what would an art show below 14th street be without you?

It would be a collection of those of us who were gainfully unemployed before the recession and the few, fine, gay patrons of the art who allowed our type to exist if only for the right to fellate us at will. One such man was present and in orgiastic bliss. The Andy Warhol arch-type, wearing a perverted ship captain’s uniform, Live Strong bracelet, vintage Ray Bans so old that Mr. Ban himself must have designed them flitted about, gaily fingering his Patti Labelle pin and cooing at the manager’s dog who roamed the premises to the feigned indifference of my fellow writers.

I committed a faux pas by petting the mutt and soon the dirty looks from the dirty attendees forced me onto the dirty street. There I watched 10 year olds perform skateboard tricks, all original and righteous. I stared at graffiti – the actual truth of font and language as art. And, most importantly, I waited for the bus with a broken, old man, wearing a bag as a crown around his head, a Pathmark flyer anchoring it securely around the lice-ridden scalp line while he fumbled with a free, individual snack pack of peaches.

Plato would be proud.

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