News From My Muse

June 2009,

I have been busy with life. Life happens. But I have great news. I am the recipient of the Free Press 2009 Arts Activism Award. Etched upon it is a quote of mine: "Great art is inherently subversive." Indeed, any art of historical note is. Give deference in your art to beauty and aesthetics but first give deference to its meaning. Please, give generously to the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism, a 501C3 organization and Goddess Bless the Truthtellers. In other news, my song Blame the Cows has been nominated for Best Political Song in the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards. What an honor this is because my songs were judged by my peers from among literally thousands of entries. Blame the Cows is a tribute to our crappy (no offense to Thomas Crapper, inventor of the modern toilet) American Mainstream Media and the hot gas that comes from our radios and televisions in the form of Rush Limbaugh, well known slanthead, right-wing propagandist, drug addict and defacto big smelly cheese of the now defunct GOP. Though Limbaugh would insist that the ozone hole and global warming are the fault of the poor cows, we of any intelligence know differently. We know that the bovine gas is really coming from our radios. Wow, just to be nominated by the Just Plain Folks folks is such a gas!

Go forth with vigor!!

Peace, Victoria Parks