“The Plug Ho”

circa 2001
Artist unknown, but widely attributed to “Bloocrab”
Digital watercolor medium

On Loan From the Wee Wee Collection

Little is known about the artist who bore the nom de plume “Bloocrab,” much less the aesthetic influences in his life. Rumor has it that he resided in and took up his craft on the northeastern seaboard of the United States in the early 21st century. However, we feel the setting in this piece likely pays homage to the decadent Berlin cabaret scenes of the 1930’s and early 1940’s (which appears to be the impetus for much of the artist's so-called "bloo" period). We would note that this oeuvre was discovered posthumously several years ago hidden in a container of Old Bay Seasoning.

I find this to be a deeply moving piece despite its ambiguous sexuality.

The bright and garish colors accentuate the whorishness of the subject – but they bear some further explanation. The red “slutty” association is patently obvious. The yellow in the plug bag slung so carelessly over the shoulder is analagous to urinary excreta and further accentuates the banality of the subject’s state of mind. The brownish earth tones present in one of the plugs hints at coprophilia but we believe this is unlikely (in the contemporary literature there is a cryptic reference to "floater" but we are unsure of its meaning). The subject is brightly and gaily adorned – for he is juxtaposed on the drab, melancholy background which serves as the metaphor for every day life.

We feel that the confinement of the subject within narrow margins is a deliberate act on the part of the artist – the subject is yearning to break free from the exigencies of mundanity but cannot, thus rendering his circumstances all the more tragic. The plugs tucked away safely in the bag (a subtle sexual overtone in and of itself) were presumably acquired through ill-gotten means– and some believe the act of plug thievery represents the subject lashing out at the world which has so deprived him of bourgeoisie ego-realization -- or the fulfillment of a perverted class-struggle by-proxy -- rather than the manifestation of some fetishized pathological addiction. Others take away a more bawdy interpretation - that each plug purloined and secreted away into the plug sheath is a metaphoric completion of the sex act.

The subject’s grasp of the “bar” may strike some as an overtly onanistic modality. However, it is our understanding that the pose simply provides foundational grounding upon the firmament of the universe, and here is where, ironically, the subject finds succor. That the pole extends upwards and out of the picture suggests possibilities without bound. But is this escape within reach?

The "bar" motif generates no small amount of controversey within the literary community. If salvation is at hand, then why is the subject averting his gaze, almost cavalierly? An alternative theory posited by critics and scholars alike is that the subject may simply have had an endless phallic fixation on all things that are longer than they are wide, thus perpetuating his existential purgatory.

Or, he might have spotted another plug to ho.

Inasmuch as we would want to be sure, we will sadly never know.

Your Dead

....if ya didn't like that one, your going to hate the "JOB" I just sent ya ..... :confused: :happy: - :laughs:

:smash:

..sorry, :(

...kinda like a blind date ...I got ya all worked up for nothing :(

:D no worrys mate.....

Thats funny on many levels, hehehehe

Very interesting critique there weewee. Very long,detailed, exacting, to the point. Now I think I understand the piece. Thank you. :D

Not only can you learn about fishiong here at striped-bass.com, but you can take an art lesson:happy: :laughs:

You Need Help Ben.
BTW major Plugs will be leaving Your Bag for this one:happy:

Can you feel the angst? It's heartbreaking. :laughs:

There's MORE where that came from, I just need Bloo to crank out more inspiration. :D

Inspiration = Pictures of WeeWee

Give!!

No way Jose! If you do that BM has to write up a critique. :smash:

Originally posted by bloocrab
Inspiration = Pictures of WeeWee

Give!!
Ben You Be all Done Now:D

:smash:

wEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....:happy: :happy:


I HAVE AMMO!!!!!

Bloos last pic was hard to beat, but I did a 007 and got a hold of some of his earliest art work........can you say E BAY $31,000.00

at least!!

Bassmaster, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!!! :af: :af: :af: :af:

;) :p :smash:

Originally posted by fishweewee
Bassmaster, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!!! :af: :af: :af: :af:

;) :p :smash:
Really Just for that..................

:smash:

I C U want more:smash:

Oh, that's just cruel. Middle of February and your posting summer fishing pics. :crying: :crying: :crying: :smash:

Can anyone play?

http://www.striped-bass.com/images/pp_2003/fwwfirst.jpg

Bloo ,Your work is Now cut out for You:devil: :devil2:

:eek: :crying: :wall: :smash:

Hey FWW, what a great write up! And Bloo, that is one of the funniest pics I've seen in a while. LMAO!

bloo, i'm sure you can come up with something really good with the last picture john posted!!:) :cheers:

Ya know...I read it and to tell you the truth I was thinking the exact same thing...Your command of the english lanquage is a little dissapointing and there was one passage that would make a preacher curse..I must humble myself now for fear of becoming a sycotic bashtagde....u go Weeeeee Man...

:D :bshake: :faga:

goose, is that a big fish coming out of your zipper or is it a huge, fat erection? im not gay...:rolleyes:

BM, are you asian?

No Im Mental

BM, *imiating arnold from hey arnold*reallt? as in mental mental or methol?

speak English

alright, define "mental."

why

Mr. FWW

A most excellent critique of an original New England artist.
Was BM in the Hasty Pudding Review?:laughs:

because i wasn't sure on your word. "mental." i am partly "mental" (ADHD and depression). So i dont want to get a wrong impression on you, you know? it's kinda strong word. it doesn't insult me, but i dont want to get the wrong idea.

Im nuts

as in nuts for fishing, right?

no mental

alright, let's squash this, okay.

hey guys, which mermaid do you find attractive...
this ariel or the next posted reply, a picture of king trition lookking for an excuse to indulge his power to poke a sailer's ass?

or this one...

thats mental

hahahaha, that's good one.

these are good eating and put up a good fightweb page (http://home.attbi.com/~dstratrap/skunk.jpg) http://home.attbi.com/~dstratrap/skunk.jpg

that was a good one it had nice color and smell

that's funny, Bm.

Hey guys, well Notaro - this being a semi family friendly site where 12 year old girls may be looking over their father's shoulder, lets clean it up a little pleaze.... Thanks... As for Chubbies & Mermaids & Arnold , I think this is the wrong board...

Thanks...

till you replyed to this john, you must have just shook your head when you read this!! like what the @#$% is this all about!!:D

Originally posted by Indanite
Mr. FWW

A most excellent critique of an original New England artist.
Was BM in the Hasty Pudding Review?:laughs:

Why thank you, Mr. Indanite.

If Bassmaster was in the Hasty Pudding Review, he'd bring down the house.

He is one of the funniest people I have EVER met. :laughs:

Why thank you, Mr. Indanite.

If Bassmaster was in the Hasty Pudding Review, he'd bring down the house.

He is one of the funniest people I have EVER met. That's 'cause he useta 'tend their watering hole :cheers:


MM - I just thought that its OK to to be near the line its tough to run over it. We have a place for running over. What I preffer is that Joe Computer User doesn't need to worry when his kid is looking over his shoulder needing to explain anything like that to a 8 year old kid. That's a job for the parent to pick a time & place, not for us to set it up first. We fish. And again, we HAVE a place for that.... Le Guuterrr...

John Can You drive Me to the nut House?:smash:

Too late, no vacancy BM.

I've taken up all the rooms. :smash:

back to grilling fish wee wee now;)
I cant wait to see My bloo Pics:D

:err: :err: :err: :err: :err: :err: :crying:

M/T your mail box

10-4

i know we all have the same idea about mr rogers god bless him!!
but i was wondering what you two think about barney the dinasour i would like to know if were on the same page!! lol!

Oh man, I wish I had a pic of my Barney The Dinosaur 50 foot pistol target. :laughs:

I watch it every day:smash: :smash: :smash: cant wait till My"little Widget" out grows it.
I sing the songs now:smash:
super d duper post

how fast i could get you 2 in a conversation about barney lol!!:happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

As BM said...it's da shacknasty's talking. :smash:

yeah...

I haven't started playing with those schweeeet pictures yet, but don't you worry..........IT'LL HAPPEN!!! :D

.....Now as far as you "Mental People" go......

I found something for ya -

"How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity"

1. - At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and
point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they
slow down.

2. - Page yourself over the intercom. Don't
disguise your voice.

3. - Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4. - Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in."

5. - Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks.
Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6. - In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."

7. - Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."

10. - Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

11. - Sing along at the opera.

12. - Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of
jungle sounds all day.

13. - Have your coworkers address you by your
wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim.

14. - When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won!", "I won!"
"3rd
time this week!!!!!"

15. - When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot,
yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!!"

16. - Tell your children over dinner. "due to the economy, we are
going to have to let one of you go."

...that should cure some of your illnesses :)

4. - Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in."

SWEEEEET!

although I wish I had this knowledge at the beginning of the day! (would have been the perfect day for this....:rolleyes: )

shacknasties kicking in again... :hihi:

Originally posted by fishweewee
“The Plug Ho”

circa 2001
Artist unknown, but widely attributed to “Bloocrab”
Digital watercolor medium

On Loan From the Wee Wee Collection

Little is known about the artist who bore the nom de plume “Bloocrab,” much less the aesthetic influences in his life. Rumor has it that he resided in and took up his craft on the northeastern seaboard of the United States in the early 21st century. However, we feel the setting in this piece likely pays homage to the decadent Berlin cabaret scenes of the 1930’s and early 1940’s (which appears to be the impetus for much of the artist's so-called "bloo" period). We would note that this oeuvre was discovered posthumously several years ago hidden in a container of Old Bay Seasoning.

I find this to be a deeply moving piece despite its ambiguous sexuality.

The bright and garish colors accentuate the whorishness of the subject – but they bear some further explanation. The red “slutty” association is patently obvious. The yellow in the plug bag slung so carelessly over the shoulder is analagous to urinary excreta and further accentuates the banality of the subject’s state of mind. The brownish earth tones present in one of the plugs hints at coprophilia but we believe this is unlikely (in the contemporary literature there is a cryptic reference to "floater" but we are unsure of its meaning). The subject is brightly and gaily adorned – for he is juxtaposed on the drab, melancholy background which serves as the metaphor for every day life.

We feel that the confinement of the subject within narrow margins is a deliberate act on the part of the artist – the subject is yearning to break free from the exigencies of mundanity but cannot, thus rendering his circumstances all the more tragic. The plugs tucked away safely in the bag (a subtle sexual overtone in and of itself) were presumably acquired through ill-gotten means– and some believe the act of plug thievery represents the subject lashing out at the world which has so deprived him of bourgeoisie ego-realization -- or the fulfillment of a perverted class-struggle by-proxy -- rather than the manifestation of some fetishized pathological addiction. Others take away a more bawdy interpretation - that each plug purloined and secreted away into the plug sheath is a metaphoric completion of the sex act.

The subject’s grasp of the “bar” may strike some as an overtly onanistic modality. However, it is our understanding that the pose simply provides foundational grounding upon the firmament of the universe, and here is where, ironically, the subject finds succor. That the pole extends upwards and out of the picture suggests possibilities without bound. But is this escape within reach?

The "bar" motif generates no small amount of controversey within the literary community. If salvation is at hand, then why is the subject averting his gaze, almost cavalierly? An alternative theory posited by critics and scholars alike is that the subject may simply have had an endless phallic fixation on all things that are longer than they are wide, thus perpetuating his existential purgatory.

Or, he might have spotted another plug to ho.

Inasmuch as we would want to be sure, we will sadly never know.

:laughs:
I spent 4 years in art school and out off all the crap, all the bs critiques, NOTHING compares to that opus above.. what a hoot!

However, we feel the setting in this piece likely pays homage to the decadent Berlin cabaret scenes of the 1930’s and early 1940’s (which appears to be the impetus for much of the artist's so-called "bloo" period).

I would like to add that in Berlin, "Bloo" would be pronounced "Bloa" ....


Now, all that said, I'm saddened that we haven't seen any blooisms lately ('coures, hes busy getting arrested with stolen cars and all :buds: )

Yeah, what John said. :laughs:

Holy moly WeeWee - you got a helluva vocabularly for surfcaster - I'm surprised you don't outsmart more fish.

joe
hes just a yuppie fisherman with a dictionary with a line of crap- a mile long . hes not all that bright . ya see he refuses to wear sunglasses and hence hes always squinting .

so how smart is he ?

he says hes a financial guy but I saw him reading the NY times on the back of a sanitation engineer master refuse vehicle .

so how smart is he ?


hes a grown man playing with his bb gun and a poster of his favorite purple dinosaur .

so how smart is he ?

Originally posted by Joe
Holy moly WeeWee - you got a helluva vocabularly for surfcaster - I'm surprised you don't outsmart more fish.

He's asscared of eels :laughs:

Hi Joe :wavey:

Dear Ben,
How I love the smell of Your waiders on a Hot Summer evening.
The way You plug I just have to have them.
and the way You man handle that zipperhead rod just makes me melt as I back lash Your reels with Joy.
Yes I am mental and I do see dead people.
But I got to ask You one thing Ben
Have You seen Your plugs today:devil:

:crying:

Im selling You to I dream of Genie

Originally posted by bassmaster
speak English and this is coming from BM .......:happy:

...hello fellowz :wave:


...sorry for the lack of mouse-droppings but eyes binn bizzy lookin at house plans and figuring how to modify them to her liking.


Any architects in the house??.......I'm trying to squeeze as hard as I can...:rolleyes:

:happy:

:confused: :eek5: :spin:

:eek: :eek: :eek:

:humpty:

OH BEEHAVE!!


:laughs:

Lovely............... nice work Bloocrab.



:rotf2: :love: :conf: :lm: :devil:

:laughs: :laughs: :laughs:

:laughs: :rotf2: :rotfl: :rotf3: :laughs:

:laughs: :hihi: pissin me pants bloo yoo killin me... :laughs:

dead sexy indeed! :eek5:

I wanna date her

I LOVE his/her/IT's color of choice....


:laughs: :laughs:

I Included 2 Because you'll need them.......Oh......and Drink Heavily

Whew! I thought Bloo was gonna come after Me.
Dang Wee wee You getting phat

Originally posted by bassmaster
Whew!


....:cool: What?...you think YOUR'E safe??


:laughs: :laughs: . . . ... you wait, I'll bury you in the gutter:eek:

Originally posted by bloocrab
....:cool: What?...you think YOUR'E safe??


:laughs: :laughs: . . . ... you wait, I'll bury you in the gutter:eek:
Oh chit

:laughs: I mean :err:

Listen, just come clean you two and I will buy you a weekend for two at a nice bed and breakfast in Provincetown. You know, one with a rainbow flag out front. Whadaya say? You know you two want each other, maybe just a cheap motel room in West Yarmouth will do? You guys are flaming!!

Originally posted by Flaptail
Listen, just come clean you two and I will buy you a weekend for two at a nice bed and breakfast in Provincetown. You know, one with a rainbow flag out front. Whadaya say? You know you two want each other, maybe just a cheap motel room in West Yarmouth will do? You guys are flaming!!

Swing by and make it a threesome, Steve. :heybaby: :hihi:

I feel a "Rhime of the Ancient Barfmaster" coming on... :laughs:

http://www.fishweewee.com/images/480_barfmaster.jpg

Sorry Ben, I don't go that way but I know a money maker when I see one so what if I film the weekend, like a documentary and sell the DVD or VHS of it here on the site? Make some dough for John and me famous as an avantgarde filmaker like Fellini or Lena Wertmueller. All black and white, no color. No plot, we will just film everything and let it roll. You guys will be celebrities with the artsy fartsy crowd, probably win the annual Provincetown Film Festival! Tentative title "Who's on top?". It will make millions!! I already have a scene pictured that features a tub filled with Wendy's Chili and you two on a Saturday night! A man, this will be bigger than "Pink Flamingos" or "Glen or Glenda"!:laughs: :D

:bshake: hmmmm, chili with bassmaster :heybaby:

:yak: