Pot boner success

[Re: “Pot and boners,” Sasha, April 16] I’ve had boner problems due to a bad diet and pharmaceuticals since I was in my 20s. Since I started using only pot in 2002, I have great boners and always get the job finished. I must be doing something wrong.

>>Russell Barth, Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User, Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis (PAIDOC) www.paidoc.org

Viva socialist Cuba

[Re: “Getting saner on Cuba,” Angel, News, April 16] I agree that “the influx of Cuban-American relatives and their remittances will doubtless make the average Cuban’s life a little less difficult.” 

However, we need to remember that Cuba is the only remaining genuine socialist state in the world and therefore too much of a cozy relationship with Uncle Sam may end up in the same economic mess as the USA presently finds itself in!

>>Jalal Hussain

Eat the fat

[Re: “A bullet to Bambi’s brain?” Letters, April 16] Like Manish Patwari and Morgan Boenke, it seems that most of my acquaintances—be they carnivorous, vegetarians or omnivorous, or even anorexics who hardly touch any of the above mentioned sources of sustenance—are putting in their two cents’ worth of opinions on the subject. Please allow me to also express one cent’s worth of mine. Why only one cent? Well, I’m a senior pensioner, and in these tough economic times, that’s all I can afford.

Look, as I see it, the world is presently facing two major problems: overpopulation and a critical shortage of food. The solutions to both problems were answered by a genius European demographer at the turn of the last century.

I do not recall his formula word by word, but what he said in essence was this: let’s simply legalize worldwide cannibalism and both social crises would cease to exist. Let half of the population dine on the other half and thus reduce the global human inhabitants by 50 per cent, and as an added benefit, the remaining population will be adequately fed.

Yes, yes, I hear you out there: “But who will eat whom?” Why, of course, the skinny ones will eat the fat ones, and in our affluent over nourished Western world, there is no shortage of such succulent individuals at all. Bon appetite!

Brilliant, right? Unfortunately, the genius concept was squashed at its conception by a consortium of the burgeoning fast food establishment who saw their promising fast food empires slipping through greasy fingers. Ah, the evils of capitalism!

>>Ed Binder

Stop the cartoon

violence

[Re: “The Red Scary!” Motion Picture Purgatory, April 16] I can’t object to every indecent thing in your paper, since it’s part and parcel of an increasingly obscene society, but Motion Picture Purgatory always takes the cake. Trembles portrays rape and murder so casually, and never ceases to show nude women being victimized by violence.

Rape and pillage never get so much consistent coverage in your pages. It is as if this everyday violence is some sort of cartoon. It is not, it is real, and one way to put the brakes on is to stop glorifying violence against women in an artistic fashion. It is bad satire to consistently cartoon rape and murder. If indeed your ad space is costly, you are providing hundreds of dollars of free advertising for violence, and hiding behind the mask of art while doing so.

>>J.M. Wolowitz

Missed relation

[Re: “Two for one,” Artsweek, April 16] In regards to the Mirror’s review of my work “Landscape of Sorrow”: the piece next to “Landscape of Sorrow” is a series called Journey of the Seventh Fire, where I am beading corporate logos. It is supposed to be read with the scarred piece, as I am talking about the landscape being abused by these multinational companies. These two works relate to each other and therefore are appropriately placed together. Of course, had these works been presented at the MAC, they might have been curated differently. Desire Schematics are the beaded prints, which are in a completely different room.

>>Nadia Myre

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