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john sims artist, activist, aquarius

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if you don't want to fuck john sims , you have issues. he's an insanely talented, controversial artist , ethnomathmatician , activist and he's painfully easy on the eyes. ok, so he's likely prone to fits of over-the-top-preachy-intensity and coffee-klatch worthy chattiness. nothing sitting on his face wouldn't cure. ANYWHO... I do have a point to this post about the aforementioned fuck daddy of doom. one of his installations, "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag" (seen below) at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science has caused such agida, the king of censorship himself, commander of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter is trying to get it removed, calling the display of Sims' work "offensive, objectionable and tasteless." he also called Sims an "irrelevant individual" with no artistic talent . There are some people who have great talent, and they rely on that talent to be successful. There are others who do...