Saturday, April 09, 2011



can I call this a collaboration, Truman?

Truman Bentley Jr.
3219 Carden Drive
Columbus, GA
31907-2143
USA

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

"ROSS! You are IMPALED on the SCHWATS-STICKER OF ART!"

HAIL DADA! HAIL SCHMUCKUS!

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.
3219 CARDEN DRIVE
COSCUMBUS GEORGIA
31907-2143
U.S.A.

drosspriddle said...

damn! I didn't notice it was a swastika! you motherfucker! oh, well, let's see if we can help redeem the swastika. I call as my first witness: Manwoman.

drosspriddle said...

http://www.manwoman.net/

Anonymous said...

"Ross. You should be flattered I ASSUMED you were intelligent enough to catch that. What about the HIT-LUH RAY RABBIT with moustache, and the cruel mockery reference to Ray's sad-pathetic end, taking a swan dive off the pier. "A BRIDGE TOO FAR." Ross. All REAL ART always has hidden socioreligopolitical messages in it. If the person creating it is a REAL ARTIST. Everything in that piece was clipped from the stuff YOU sent me. The swastika is a HOPI INDIAN and Bhuddist sanskrit image anyway which has been expropriated, so you shouldn't feel ANGST toward it as a symbol anyway."

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.

Anonymous said...

"Isn't it funny how I made this before you told me that you had night sweats. It was already in the mail before you told me. Look what it says on your head. I picked that out of all the other words in your zine to cut out and glue on. I AM PSYCHIC."

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.

IT'S THE TRUTH!
IT'S PROOF RUTH!

Anonymous said...

"Damn Ross. You send him something. He senses your karma from it. Then he cuts out words from it he thinks describe you at the moment. He pastes it together. Mails it to you. Then two days later you discuss night sweats with him in an e-mail. Later that day your mail arrives and it says you are WORKING UP A SWEAT! glued across your forehead, your own words cut from your own zine! TRY AND EXPLAIN THAT! If he isn't a REAL PSYCHIC-CHOTIC, I don't know who is. And, afterall, everyone says he is in league with THE DEVIL, or at least is one of his friends."

Janice Soprano c/o
Bada Bing Club
New Jersey

Anonymous said...

"This should be a sticker, t-shirt, or rubber stamp Ross. Its awesome!"

Peggy Lynn

drosspriddle said...

yeah yeah, never mind my "night sweats," I remember when you were trying to be psychic with me & you couldn't have been wronger!

what are the four little drawings? a fly, some kind of bird?, an olive?

what's your opinion on the psueudobulbar effect, Doc?

Anonymous said...

"It's an olive, a fly, a pickle, and a pair of toenail clippers with chiplets flicking from it. The halo lines are sweat leaping from your head. PSEUDOBULBAR EFFECT often is from post head trauma. Near death experience awareness. Emotions, crying in particular is reflective of the AWARENESS OF ONE'S TRAGIC AND GLORIOUS EXISTENCE AS A HUMAN. Some call it SOUL AWARENESS. Brain damage from head trauma often results in alternate long term brain function different from birth designed innate programming. Like if you forced yourself to start writing only left handed, or if you became an amputee. There is good and evil. There is right and wrong. There is morality. There are SONG BIRDS and there are CHICKENS. That is why it is HONORABLE to have said FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. GOD AWARENESS is a scary thing. If one ever perceives GOD and then it goes away. The greatest moments are when one catches random GLIMMERS of GOD. I'm a sick twisted bastard. But until you SENSE that which is beyond the conscious awareness and THE SELF, then one is LACKING. The scary thing is once you know it, the question is does "GOD" issue these glimpses out, and does he-she-it deny it to the unworthy for whatever reason. That is what I think they are speaking of in the christian sense of what DEATH is. Anyway Ross, like THOMPSON says, SAME AS IT EVER WAS."

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.

Anonymous said...

"It's an olive, a fly, a pickle, and a pair of toenail clippers with chiplets flicking from it. The halo lines are sweat leaping from your head. PSEUDOBULBAR EFFECT often is from post head trauma. Near death experience awareness. Emotions, crying in particular is reflective of the AWARENESS OF ONE'S TRAGIC AND GLORIOUS EXISTENCE AS A HUMAN. Some call it SOUL AWARENESS. Brain damage from head trauma often results in alternate long term brain function different from birth designed innate programming. Like if you forced yourself to start writing only left handed, or if you became an amputee. There is good and evil. There is right and wrong. There is morality. There are SONG BIRDS and there are CHICKENS. That is why it is HONORABLE to have said FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. GOD AWARENESS is a scary thing. If one ever perceives GOD and then it goes away. The greatest moments are when one catches random GLIMMERS of GOD. I'm a sick twisted bastard. But until you SENSE that which is beyond the conscious awareness and THE SELF, then one is LACKING. The scary thing is once you know it, the question is does "GOD" issue these glimpses out, and does he-she-it deny it to the unworthy for whatever reason. That is what I think they are speaking of in the christian sense of what DEATH is. Anyway Ross, like THOMPSON says, SAME AS IT EVER WAS."

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.

Anonymous said...

"Ross just made some RICE CRISPY TREATS. Soon he shall put a square of cheese with pineapple on a cracker on a tray in the oven."

PSYCHIC!

drosspriddle said...

wow, you nailed that one, Tru, uncanny.

Anonymous said...

"RAWST is pushing the buggy. He can't decide is it a head of lettuce or does he buy the Romaine in the bag? He was thinking about the bother of calling Gary back to see if he has any MID."

The Psychic

Anonymous said...

"Rawst almost took that flyer off the telephone pole."

THE PPPPPSYCHIC-CHOTIC

Anonymous said...

"Theo knows your BENTSPOON BLOG is what TICKS. He sees the direction is knocking down all the stale bowling pins of art."

Samba Art DJ
Rascal Radio
Edmonton Canada

Anonymous said...

"An olive on uh tooth pick. Uh fly. Uh pair uh Toe Nail Clippuhs. Uh Pickle. Rawst. What kinna life you lead!"


Busta Rhymes
RAP ARTIST

Anonymous said...

"I bet when Rawst was little he kept a RABBIT HUTCH in the back yard. When nobody was looking I bet he'd take rabbits the size to fit in his two hands and he would just choke em' to death."

We Know What Rawst Does

Anonymous said...

"Rabbit Choker!"

PETA, Paul & Mary
Anti Vivisection Support Group

Anonymous said...

"That's why Rawst llluvs RAY JOHNSON rabbits. Cause he was uh RABBIT CHOKER TOO! And all along everyone thought they only choked they chickens!"

Bill Tyback
Ross' Third Grade Classmate

Anonymous said...

"Emily said Ross got uh HENTAI RUBBUH SSSSUIT!"

The Rumor Mill

Anonymous said...

"Ross always made C's and D's in FRENCH CLASS."

He Need Tuh Pay Attention!

theo said...

"Theo knows your BENTSPOON BLOG is what TICKS. He sees the direction is knocking down all the stale bowling pins of art."

Well Ross, if that is the case, I need some advice. Tomorrow is the final night of bowling and the big money is up for grabs. Last week I left solid ten-pins the way the rest of my team-mates drink beer. My question to you is this, given it is an easy house pattern on the oil, should I drink more or less? Also, why are you choking rabbits? Is this something BENTSPOON encourages? Will there be stew?

theo
A lesser ART GOD, usually lower case

wv: bledge” - like pledge only with puking.

drosspriddle said...

Well, I'm stumped, but maybe Truman has all the answers...?

Anonymous said...

See Ross, I AM PSYCHIC. I picked up that THEO is a heavy bowler just from talking to him. I AM PSYCHIC. Now do you see it.

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.
3219 CARDEN DRIVE
COSCUMBUS GEORGIA
31907-2143
U.S.A.

Anonymous said...

"ROSS. Make THEO dabble in earth tone impressionistic PAINTERLY style in his next few paintings. He shall expand as TOLD beyond pop art colour repetition."

TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.
3219 CARDEN DRIVE
COSCUMBUS GEORGIA
31907-2143
U.S.A.

Theo. One mandatory painting per day. Minimum.

GET ON IT NOW!

theo said...

But I like pop art repetition…
and booze…
and bowling…
and sex and drugs and rock and roll…

theo
A lower case ART GOD with dependency problems

Anonymous said...

"ROSS PRIDDLE AGREES

USE BACON GREASE FOR SAUCE!"


The Greasy Can Opener Cafe

Anonymous said...

THEO. Pop Art is like wearing worn out high tops every day. Painting non POP ART is like opening the closet, taking out a shirt and suit. Ironing the shirt. Trying to remember how to tie the neck tie. Shaved, showered. Shampooed. suddenly panicked at the REALITY one is about to go sit in church and listen and sing. Do this a while and you'll go back GETTING MORE out of THE HIGH TOPS.


FABULOUS-PERFECT
TRUMAN BENTLEY JR.