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1. Daryl Scroggins on May 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am

   Oh I want one of these.

2. Someone at WNBTv on May 28th, 2008 at 9:41 am

   Hmm.

   I’ll need 2 or 3 of these, actually.

   I still have a problem staying within the lines.

3. Pascal Ébert on May 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am

   Mulva?

4. Dave Vogt on May 28th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

   What, no “Look Inside?”

5. Sheila Ryan on May 28th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

   I try to imagine how “The Cunt Coloring Book” might appear to someone born after, oh, let’s say 1965 or so, and I imagine it looks, well, silly. It looks pretty silly to me, and I was there back then (circa 1975) when silliness was in the air (and maybe even the water).

   But here is a take worth taking in, from Bill [Brent], published August 28 2006, in response to Susie Bright’s “Tee Corinne Has Died Today”.

   I remember seeing Tee Corinne’s “The Cunt Coloring Book” on the bookshelves at Good Vibes way back when and thinking: for me, this ranks right up there with Cris Williamson’s first album, Karla Jay and Allan Young’s anthology “Out of the Closets, Into the Streets,” and Xaviera Hollander’s “Happy Hooker” books in terms of legitimizing the perverse. Even though I never bought a copy to color in, it made me feel good just to know it was out there.

   There is something amazing and powerful about presenting explicit sexual content as just another flavor of material within a traditional format such as a record, an anthology, a memoir, or a coloring book. It legitimizes desire for untold numbers of humans.

   Just seeing the words ”cunt” and ”coloring book” together on a book cover made the world seem a bit less scary. Such revolutionary documents can help us recover a bit of the joy we have lost along the way to so-called adulthood. They are sacred and priceless.

   Viewed from that perspective, “The Cunt Coloring Book” is practically Blakean. And in a sense, it was, and is.

6. Deron Bauman on May 28th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

   shit, I guess now I can’t use my scratch and sniff joke.

7. Sheila Ryan on May 28th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

   Not about a sacred and priceless revolutionary document.

8. Deron Bauman on May 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

   okay, I’ll stick to my pop-up book joke then.

9. Sheila Ryan on May 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

   That’s good. Pop-up books qualify as art. Scratch-and-sniff is an artifact of commercial exploitation.

10. Deron Bauman on May 28th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    I don’t want your bourgeois divorce.

11. Sheila Ryan on May 28th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    The original Port Huron Statement, not the compromised second draft.

12. Andrew Simone on May 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Well played, Sheila, well played.

13. Sheila Ryan on May 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Thanks, pal. Always keep ‘em guessing, that’s my motto.

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