Too Soon?

MC Lars and YTCracker "9:11 am (Rudy Giuliani)

Oh, MC Lars, what would I do without you?  Meanwhile...

There is some interesting discussion going on over at Boing Boing about this sculpture made by one of the bloggers, Jenny Ryan: 

I've recently been thinking about how serious everyone (especially artists) takes themselves and everything around them so I was happy to see this controversial sculpture—read any of the posts and you will see both irrational outrage and irrational support. 

Most of the outrage seems to imply that the artist is disrespecting people who lost loved ones.  This to me, implies a mentality of ignorance.  Who is to say whether the creator of the piece experienced 9/11 personally if not the artist herself? The artist should not have to justify her legitimacy to the masses.

Think about all the repercussions to artists. Here is a list of songs banned by Clear Channel after the event, in case you've forgotten.  Rage Against the Machine was banned completely. And they still don't allow Biggie to say "Blow up like the World Trade" in Juicy, which, by the way was released in 1994 (I still can't get over it!).

In other 9/11 related news, I'm glad they have stopped playing "God Bless America" at most baseball games since it's a crappy song. No disrespect to Irving Berlin but couldn't we have picked something a little more...great to honor the victims?

What's worse is when people like Giuliani use the tragedy as a platform to run for president.  Or any of these "commemorative" items sold at Ground Zero to tourists.  Especially this scrunchie, found by another Boing Boing reader, sold at the Patriotic Superstore (no, joke):

Don't worry, the description reads, "tastefully printed".  So order with abandon.