>>4378579Yeah he was great. Subject matter upsets the delicate fuckin petunias too so he gets bonus points for making whiny little bitches asses twitch.
My favorite thing about Mappelthorpe was working at a Barnes & Noble in Wisconsin and having the right wingers and christfags come in and ask for it, bc all at once these fucking little house on the prairie looking fat morons were coming in asking where to find it, and you could say "in the fine art section" and they'd of course have no fucking idea where that is bc they've never been interested in the arts until right fucking now, so then they'd just hover and wait til you were gone, and tear the pages out of as many photography books as they could before you'd catch them. After finding that shit a few times, my friend Big George led someone to the section, stepped around the corner and waited, & heard the first tear, jumped back around in front of her, grabbed the book out of her hand and just beat the fucking shit out of her head with it. WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK GET THE FUCK OUT WHACK WHACK WHACK... He was just unloading all this built up rage on her chasing her out of the store mad as hell, while we were all dying laughing. One of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen.
Some right wing fat fuck tried to stage a book burning out front, & George filled a mop bucket of water, watched through the window, and when the guy started trying to burn the book ran out there and threw the brought the whole bucket down on the guys head. Not like dumping the water, just smashed him in the head with the hard side & metal lever about a 35lb mop bucket and went "YEAH START A FIRE AT A BOOKSTORE, REAL SMART MOTHERFUCKER". George was a hockeyplayer, was a good guy, but had a temper.
There were other incidents but those were the two I was present for. I loved Mappelthorpe. Kill the medieval fucking morons.
