dan: paul anka. it wasn’t obama, it was paul anka. this guy was totally repurposing old content to capitalize on obamamania. the only thing i haven’t figured out is: when was ankamania?

jay: last week in las cruces, nm. it was all over the news here. apparently it wasn’t good enough for your fancy swiss news.

dan: i think my anka widget is broken.

Chicago (AP) — He wears Jesus’ robes and a neon blue halo, looks like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and is causing a stir at a Chicago art school.

David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.

“All of this is a response to what I’ve been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins,” Cordero said. “In a lot of ways it’s about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped.”

jay: word up! obama is going to save us all! even dan! someone has to!

dan: except it doesn’t look like obama. it looks kind of like…who? sinatra? also: “In a lot of ways it’s about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on blah blah blah-bity blah blah blah.” seriously dude. we get it. the symbolism’s not all that complicated.

jay: you sure you didn’t go to art school, dan? that’s a cooper union level dis. nicely played.

April 02, 2007 NEW YORK: Pressure from angry Catholics has forced the cancellation of an exhibition featuring a life-size, “anatomically correct” milk chocolate statue of Jesus Christ.

The 300,000-strong Catholic League mobilised last week when it was announced that the sculpture, the work of installation artist Cosimo Cavallaro, would go on show at Manhattan’s Lab Gallery.

The league said the decision to show the chocolate Christ in Easter week was a calculated insult. (from The Australian)

dan: here’s the question i still don’t know the answer to: what exactly is the objection? is it just that it’s a jesus you can eat? because isn’t that what the eucharist is? i’m being serious here. would there be an objection if someone made a jesus statue using wafers?

jay: i think the catholic league’s objection was the idea that jesus could be anything other than white chocolate.