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Friday, May 11, 2012

CBPL: about to be famous?

I just got word that CBPL is featured in a video on YouTube, and that articles are appearing online about her command performance at last week's city council hearing, such as this one in the Huntington Post! I always wondered if these bizarre flyers would find an audience, and it appears that's about to happen.

For folks finding this blog for the first time, a quick introduction might be in order. I don't know this person, but I must admit to being fascinated by her many flyers, which she posts all over Lincoln, NE on an almost daily basis. Obviously she has some kind of mental problem--reading even a few of these flyers is enough to establish that. Keeping that in mind, this site isn't intended to make fun of her on a personal level. I'm just interested in the bizarre internal logic of her flyers. They form a weird "art brut" kind of narrative when viewed as a body of work. Obviously I don't agree with any of her ideologies, either. But here they are. Before today, this blog had a very small number of readers who probably share my fascination with her work as a kind of alternate reality with its own internal logic. I view her writing as a kind of Tea Party-infused contemporary manifestation of an alternate worldview in the spirit of Georges Bataille's "Accursed Share,"or perhaps more to CBPL's chagrin, his "Solar Anus."

Read a few of the flyers, and I'm sure you'll agree that she has some kind of mental illness that isn't being treated. Keeping that in mind, I hope that folks can go relatively easy on her. She's not a calculating political operative--she needs help herself.

If you go back to the beginning of the blog, the flyers appear in numerical order. She numbered most of them for a while, and I have a selection of numbers all the way up to 628. Then there are a bunch of un-numbered flyers as well...

EDIT: Wow! There are articles popping up everywhere. Gawker seems to be driving a lot of traffic at the moment. I'm not near my scanner right now, but I do have a few flyers found on lamp posts from this week in my bag. One of them (last image) seems to include most of the content used in the City Council rant. But you get a feel for the wider range of ideas covered in the flyers:



EDIT # 2: I just went out for a quick jaunt to see if any more flyers were put up today. Just one, which is already duplicated above. But here's a picture of one of the flyers in its "native environment:"


And here's another pole with no new flyers today, but notice the huge amount of tape marks left from previous dispatches:



Friday, September 30, 2011

Paradise on Earth, 62, Make "We care for all weak persons" in all our laws

"Are you a human?"  What a great opening line--I haven't gotten to hear CBPL in person, but I can only imagine how well that must work...


Thursday, July 28, 2011

Paradise on Earth, 24, Beautiful is a baby

We're still on the theme of family/not family on this round.  Replace bars with board games!  That'll be an interesting bill...

New at the bottom of this flyer: "MAKE COPIES. It appears that I've taken that to heart!



Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Paradise on Earth, 22, The flowering of civilization

You just have to love the naive concepts toward relationships in this one.  Having just looked over some of the higher-numbered flyers today, it's amazing how quickly and thoroughly the focus changes to lamp post "subliminals," doctors "self-inflicting," and various kinds of substances one might consider wearing under hats...