10/5/2004: 30,000 bananas as art

[Trilby]

Banana Bread! --- Or, the more useful BananaPhone!

[jojomonkeygirl]

I got a banana boat.....banana soup, banana cocktails, banana splits, banana biscuits, banana bread, banana milk, banana crackers, banana on a stick, banana gumbo, fried banana, stewed banana, baked banana with banana sauce and banana ice cream......ya wanna be the captain of my banana boat?

[Sperlock]

How appeeling.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Sperlock

How appeeling.

[capnhowdy]

Doesn't take much to spark a political reaction in Latin America. Or here on the Cellar, for that matter. Hard to believe it's Brittain's favorite food. I thought they only drank tea. And pissed a lot. Fishbone (personally I'd change my name) said: Don't play with your food...... I reckon someone else hauled & stacked these "nanners" for him. Shame,shame,shame. Don't play with your food. Don't make food out of what you play with. After all, The banana IS an American standard. [ weights & measures]. Please don't ask me for the link.

[melidasaur]

so if you took a dump in the middle of trafalger square, would this be art?

I love London, so I would never do that... my husband posed the question.

[Jaxxon]

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

[Cyber Wolf]

It's a good thing my Dad's not in London now. That exhibit wouldn't last a minute.

[Clodfobble]

With that many bananas, they should put a big pile of Immodium right next to it. Then at least it'd be accurate art.

[Troubleshooter]

Crap

Next...

[warch]

And its big yellow (for now) in all that grey. I like that part.

[wolf]

Thank you Els, for the lyrics (The song was the first thing I thought of on seeing the picture).

I had the good fortune of seeing Harry do that live, a year or so before his death.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by wolf

Thank you Els, for the lyrics (The song was the first thing I thought of on seeing the picture).

I had the good fortune of seeing Harry do that live, a year or so before his death.

I was fortunate enough to see Harry thrice over the years. The biggest single screw up of my entire youthful life was related to Harry, in fact.

It seems he came to KC's Midland Theater, a classic, 1920's movie palace deluxe (since completely and beautifully restored) back in 1974. In those days, concerts weren't quite so militant about enforcing you being in a seat, or coming up to the stage. With Harry's mellow demographic, it was totally cool, as was having a camera. I spent the whole show right on the edge of the stage, knealt down out of deference to the audience, shooting closeup pics of an accomodating Mr. Chapin, who would turn and smile or shoot a thumbs up into the lens for me. It was *awesome* for me, as I did and still do idolize the man.

Fast forward a couple of weeks when I left for California on a post-HS graduation visit to see my estranged father. When we arrived at Lake Tahoe, I opened my camera to load it, noticed there was a roll of film in it already, and had no idea what it could be. My first thought was that it was something left over from my job as a HS photographer, and reasoning that since I was out of school, I just yanked the roll out.

A few weeks later, I remembered that it was the lovingly shot roll of Harry Chapin pics. I was thunderstruck. Stay off the dope, kids.

I actually cried the night I heard Harry had died. He was perhaps the most influential songwriter/musician for me during my late teens. Harry was a wonderful artist and a great humanitarian.

[CharlieG]

At first I misread the title - I thought it was 30,000 lbs of Bananas....

I expected to see a smear 400 yards long the hill that leads into Scranton PA

(2 pts to the 1st person who gets the reference without looking it up)

[Undertoad]

Elspode wins.