Comments on: Judd is Dead! Long Live Judd!

By: Andrew Suber

Andrew Suber — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:20:57 +0000

Dr. Kull submitted his comment by e-mail and I edited it. I made a typographic mistake re-typing his name to clarify his identity. It is editorial policy to correct typographic errors without pointing them out.

By: Mike Fauxcault

Mike Fauxcault — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:51:25 +0000

Glad to see you corrected the misspelling of Kalevi (by Kalevi–which still confuses me–Carel’s repeat of the mistake seems natural). Sorry to see you didn’t post my comment pointing out the misspelling. But you own the printing press….

By: michael r. humberto

michael r. humberto — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:17:18 +0000

Miz Carel,

As regards your more recent posting, please do keep in mind:

Foucault is the fulcrum
Derrida we don’t needa
Levi-Strauss is a louse
While Beaudrillard’s full of lard

Don’t hesitate to come to me for all your patient needs. I provide Marfa’s finest medical cures, with bitch-slaps at no extra charge!

Dr. Hummer

By: Carel Rowe

Carel Rowe — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:43:58 +0000

Dear Karevi Kull,
As en esteemed semiotician, how would you interpret a reading The Meaning of The Cubes ?
Can you deconstruct The Cubes for us, without using Derrida ? Fouccault?
(Levi-Strauss, ok) (Baudrillard, of course).
Thanks,
Carel

By: michael r. humberto

michael r. humberto — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:54:33 +0000

Ms. Carel,
With all due respect, I believe your third sentence should read: “They wouldn’t drink “Chianti” without their Brad Pitt Bulls.” Of course, some prefer Prosecco.
Is there information out there about what D. Judd liked to drink? More to the point, did he lean against a cube when he was imbibing?

dr. hummer

By: Kalevi Kull

Kalevi Kull — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:44:41 +0000

I believe that this is a humorous essay by an old colleague of mine– I recognize this pen name from a tutor he once had whom he detested. I am Kalevi Kull and teach at the University of Tartu and I know this gentleman from a graduate course at Lyon. He has a funny sense of humor and likes to tease people.

If you are interested in semiotics, I have one of the best web pages on the Internet.
http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/

By: michael r. humberto

michael r. humberto — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:19:28 +0000

J.D. Salinger, RIP. (Though some say he was phony.)

By: Carel Rowe

Carel Rowe — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:30:38 +0000

.
The pitiful truth is most local “Texans” believe Dr. Glau is “damnned right..whatever the hell he means.”

Who needs incredibly exquisite minimalist art when you got mud.
“Our own damned mud….that we kin kick with our boots and curse at and make bad music cause we’ll lissen to each other and we’re mad and drunk and just wanna party.”

They wouldn’t go to “Chinati” without their Pitt Bulls.

They yammer around, bitchin’ and whining that their dust is
“more innerestinin’” than
The Cubes.
The Cubes are only reflecting them to themselves.

Only Judd could take Marfa mudd
and make a place….
By planting a banana republic of art where there was nothing.

Of course god made Texas
(for Texans and Presidents and sunlight)

But only
Judd could make a Cube.

And only Cubes could
Make Marfa.

And only Marfa could
make Marfans.

By: michael r. humberto

michael r. humberto — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:39:58 +0000

I have been misquoted. The correct sentence reads:

This is why it is so often said that cube makes Marfa, Marfa does not make cube.

By: michael r. humberto

michael r. humberto — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:26:34 +0000

Dear Ms. C,
Cubes do not mean but be.
Melt is a relative term. Everything is melting.
Nightsticks, water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,
Molotov cocktails and rocks.
West Texans so like butt they made the Big Bendover National Park for tourists to admire.
Well, regionally it may be the butt, but locally it’s the cube. As we know.
My dear I can only subtract from what you have already said.
There is nothing in Marfa but forms and formalism of cube.
In the 19th century they prospected for cube; today it is traded freely.
This is why it is so often said that the cube makes Marfa, Marfa does not make the cube.
Let us look reality in the face not the butt: If it weren’t for the cube Marfa would be a town of proctologists.

ever yr humble medical practitioner

dr. humberto