U.S. Department of Art & Technology
Office of the Press Secretary, press@usdat.us
For Immediate Release: August 25, 2005
THE CULTURE WAR
REPORTAGE FROM THE AESTHETIC EDGE OF CRAWFORD TEXAS
AUGUST 18 - 25, 2005
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CRAWFORD, Texas - The US Department of Art & Technology announces the completion of the SITUATIONAL TOUR, Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge of Crawford Texas, August 18 - 25, now on view at the Blog-Chronicles of the Secretary-at-Large - http://www.usdat.us/secretary
US DAT Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer, accompanied by Under Secretary of the Bureau for Transformation, Yauger, traveled to the Texan flatlands to report on the ongoing saga of America's Mom, Cindy Sheehan, and her challenge to the President. However, when Sheehan departed, the Department re-tooled its mission and focused its critical eye on the dusty little town of Crawford, where battle lines have been drawn and a Culture War declared on the Left.
The SITUATIONAL TOUR surveys the surreal landscape of the President's Home Town, where a counter-offensive to the Sheehan Camp has been staged - the planting of the first cross at Fort Qualls, the new Republican stronghold. Gary Qualls, backed up by a legion of fired-up locals on horseback, a posse of Christian bikers who ride for the President, and a tolling Liberty Bell flanked by the Ten Commandments, defiantly declared, "how dare you bring your pitiful and unjust protest into my backyard of Texas and the front yard of President George W. Bush."
US DAT employed its state-of-the-art communications system to provide complete multimedia coverage of the Civil War that has emerged in Crawford. The SITUATIONAL TOUR, Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge of Crawford Texas, is a segment in the ongoing series, "A Season in Hell" the Department's declaration of these perilous times in post-apocalyptic America.
Visit the US DAT Web site to view the Secretary-at-Large's Blog-Chronicles; the Media Deconstruction Kit, live manipulation of Fox News; Scorched Audio, weekly, podcasted sonic commentary; and the Revolution of Everyday Life, cellular reportage, in which the revolution is being forged constantly in the everyday clandestiny of acts and dreams.
US Department of Art & Technology
A Season in Hell
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