The latest project by local self-dubbed ‘renusauce’ chef-artiste Flakko B. has met with mixed reviews, including undisguised disdain from certain elements of the Peorian hoity-toity (Rupert). The project claims to break from traditional midwestern stereotypes by placing redneck trailer trash shitheads in ‘fancy-ass’ settings, such as the Peoria Holiday Inn and Convention Center, and the Masterson Arts Center, and an airplane.
Flakko B. has given The Gorko permission to publish a few of their pieces. The full exhibition can be viewed online at fancyassredneckshitheads.net.
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THIS WEEK’S THEME IS RAGAMUFFINS
If you haven’t thought about Ragamuffins in some time, you shouldn’t feel alone. Real poets in their herringbone linen-blend trousers, drill suit jackets, sky blue neckpieces and brown leather penny loafers hardly ever think about street trash. Yet this morning it dawned on me, as I sat on my expansive porch and paged through a well-thumbed copy of Dickens’ The Kid, stunned particularly by the woodcuts of alley urchins, how many authors have found inspiration in the unwashed orphan.