A real human rug would have gone through a tanning process. To achieve a more realistic effect, the skin should have been colored a deep amber in uneven layers resembling the marbled look of parchment. The hair might turn bright red from certain chemicals used in the process. There would also be some shrinkage and mummifying of facial features. Glass eyes would be put in.

What is it with the modern artist's preoccupation with domestic artifacts?

Was it art when human beings were actually turned into lampshades and bars of soap?

Might Ed Gein's handiwork instead be found in a gallery today had he been given a more acceptable medium to work in?

No, a cupcake is working class fare. What about brain-shaped humus on top of organic pita instead?

While it is certainly no Giza, I am glad that the Egyptians are once again making forays into engineering after a 2,000-year dryspell.

Whenever I see an extravagant amount effort wasted on such a pointless intellectual exercises I think about the true knowledge that was lost to humanity forever in the flames at Alexandria.

Might as well drive around in a big vagina.

I will not say that there is anything suggestive about a red middle finger.

Did not most of you already choose Obama?

It is no surprise that it looks like the cross-section of a stagnant cesspool with many stinking layers of disgusting deposits.