by Meg Pokrass

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Meg Pokrass is a fiction writer who lives in San Francisco where truth is questionable. Her debut collection of flash fiction, “Damn Sure Right” will be published in 2011 by Press 53. Meg’s work was selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Flash Fiction 2009. She has published over one hundred stories and poems. You can see more of her animations here at http://pokrasstinations.com/

Eh!

Recently, over at HTMLGIANT, Blake Butler posted about Matthew Barney’s drawing restraints. The only thing I really know about Barney is that he made a very expensive movie that only people in the skinniest of jeans can appreciate.

Essentially, in these drawing restraints, Barney puts himself in odd circumstances or physical situations and then creates shitty looking art.

What the fuck. Why?

I admit that to a certain extent our culture likes restraints. We like it when poor kids become rich. We like it when handicapped folks excel at sports. We appreciate midgets with giant cocks.

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