Glittersmacked

The logo for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games has just been unveiled. Smashing! Worth every one of the 800,000 or so dollars paid to the artistic consulting firm comissioned to produce it. N'est pas?

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Somewhat shockingly, early reports indicate that - far from being hailed as a logo which unites Britons in the spirit of the games - the loud, pink logo above has succeeded only in uniting them in utter condemnation. Riot police have been dispatched all across the city, as men and women alike leave work in droves to join impromptu street protests.

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"Bollocks!!", screams 52-year old Lynne Grainger, as she hurls an empty gin bottle towards the Japanese embassy.

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"I get out of France to escape the headscarf ban, and now this?! I'm gone. This is the end of the road for me," says Fatima Mahmoud as she boards a plane for her native Algiers.

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"We've had enough of this nonsense! Enough! Fuck the Kyoto pact!", screams a group of angry teens on a looting and burning rampage in Picadilly circus.

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The Prime Minister's Office could not be reached for comment.

Seven years ago, Dior designer John Galliano sent shockwaves through the fashion world when he unveiled a haute couture collection that was inspired by the clothing of Parisian vagrants. "Haute Homeless" featured models dressed in newspaper, strutting down the aisle carrying bottles of booze, and shouting obscenities at photographers and spectators who had come to see the show.

Likely among those who wish they could have witnessed this modern masterpiece is Jeff Ferrell. Mr. Ferrell, tenured professor in criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, resigned from his tenured post two years ago so he and his wife Karen could try living out of dumpsters for a while. "[H]e was aware of the subculture of people who manage to survive on what others throw away. He wanted to find out how they do it, where they look, and whether he could live that way, too," reports ths Globe and Mail. Prof. Ferrell says: "What I found was that I could be almost 100 per cent dependent on what I scrounged except for food. I even discovered an entire collection of haute couture quality clothing in amongst the rubbish."

Life imitating art imitating life? Que Profundo.