This email came to us in reference to the following dumb quotes of the day:

"[In watching Madonna's 'Open your Heart' video] we can't help but notice suspiciously academic references to Lacan's essays about 'the gaze,' Deluez and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus,' the feminist critique of woman's film image, and other citations too scholarly to be believed but too precise to be missed." Eric Michaels quoted in the New York Times 


From: Ben Zethmayr <ben@purplemonkey.com>
To: f2b@fadetoblack.com
Subject: Dumb Quote

Hi 
I read this site. Usually, you manage to control your anger
enough that you only lash out at those dumber than yourself.
This time, you seem to have strayed a bit from that path.
How on earth do you construe this as dumb? I am assuming,
of course, that you have not read the essays in question, or
even watched the video with the sound on. If you do not know
what someone is talking about, who does that make dumb?

Of course, maybe you are familiar with the subject matter.
And if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops.

Ben (@purplemonkey.com (I dare you)) 

To: Ben Zethmayr <ben@purplemonkey.com>
From: f2b@fadetoblack.com
Subject: Dumb Quote

Dear: Ben

I don’t really think being smarter or dumber than someone has anything to do with the fact that any person who goes into that much pseudo-intellectual detail in describing someone as narcissistic, vacuous and irrelevant as Madonna qualifies to be featured in our Dumb Quote of the Day section. 

But, in case you were on the fence about Madonna, here are a few gems for you to enjoy uttered by the Material Girl:

"I live for meetings with men in suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that."
--Madonna

"I was thinking about dying the other day ... The death thought came while I was sitting on my toilet peeing, that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts."
--Madonna

"Crucifixes are sexy because they've got a naked man on the front."
--Madonna

"I like my pussy. Sometimes I stare at it in the mirror when I'm undressing. I love my pussy. It is the complete summation of my life ... My pussy is the temple of learning."
--Madonna

The people get the celebrities they deserve.