Monday, November 11, 2013

What's Happening


This weekend a rerun of the remake "The Longest Yard" was on television.  There is a scene during the game where a players groin region is kicked and the Colonel Sander lookalike makes the exclamation "the even hurts my marble sack".
Here is a better example of a good case of sympathetic pain, as found on The Guardian website.
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky nails his scrotum to the cobbled road at Moscow's Red Square, then sits naked on Russia's most famous spot outside the Kremlin on Sunday. Police arrested him and took him to the hospital. Pavlensky says his protest was his response to Russia's descent into a police state and was timed to coincide with Police Day, which Russia's law enforcement officials celebrated on Sunday.
Here is a link to the site which I cannot directly share the video clip from.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/artist-nails-testicles-red-square-pyotr-pavlensky?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=MB%2011.11.13

We know that  the policeman is speaking Russian but it does sound like he repeats the question "what's happening?".  We also know what has happened, self mutilation, caught on video for the casual  study of foreign bystanders.

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