REAL ART
WHEN STEALING IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

From the Houston Chronicle's Celebrity Buzz blog:

What happened to Paris' $3,200 birthday cake?

A $3,200 cake stolen from Paris Hilton's Los Angeles birthday celebrations has been donated to the homeless by the thief.

The gateaux grabber, who identified himself as Paz in a cheeky, boastful post on Facebook.com, managed to sneak into Hilton's pre-30th birthday bash last Tuesday and made off with the uneaten cake minutes after the socialite blew out the candles.

In the online post, he wrote, "I woke up this morning with a birthday cake in my living room. It's big. It's red. It says 'Paris'. And it's (expletive) delicious."

More here.

Oh, this is just too rich.

So, of course, this won't bring anybody out of poverty. It won't end our disgusting corporate enforced materialistic consumer culture. It won't ensure the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin and elsewhere. It won't put Goldman Sachs executives in prison for the rest of their lives.

But it is brilliant.

Paris Hilton is the perfect symbol of our sick society. She's totally useless, but is somehow famous, a sort of meaningless pop icon, and, of course, as an heir to her family's hotel empire, fabulously rich, a parasite who creates nothing but consumes vast quantities of value. Stealing her goddamned birthday cake, which cost about as much as I can earn in six weeks as a waiter, and then using it to feed the homeless, is nothing short of Real Art, the kind of thing that, even though it doesn't directly and immediately change society, does get people to think. And because it's Stupid Spoiled Whore Paris Hilton we're dealing with here, it gets lots of people to think.

Bravo, Paz!

Now what are you going to do next?

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