Title
Je Suis Rodomontade
Artist
Jim Williams
Medium
Photograph - Pixels
Description
While the parodies and cartoons in Charlie Hebdo were frequently declared racist, religiously bigoted, inflammatory, or whatever else their targets called them, je suis Rodomontade!!
JE SUIS RODOMONTADE!
The US revolution brought out many unexpected heroes of the cause, perhaps the least of whom was The Mayor's French ancestor, Comte Rodomontade Demi-Taux Faux, Count of DelMonte Crisco.
Claiming to be a relative of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, and General in the American colonial army, the Count was commissioned as a Colonel in the Georgia militia. He became notorious for his clever uses of the militia to facilitate his strategic use of withdrawal from confrontations with British forces. He was so well known for his tactics that his militia unit became renowned as the Redneck Runners and the Colonial Cowards. His daring and imaginative escapes into the Okeefenokee resulted in the nick-name "Swamp Faux". The strategic placement of observers gave him the ability to never come within 50 miles of the conflict and to move further south at a moment's notice. When the Count and his horse disappeared, it was the signal for the militia unit to run. Using these tactics, he was known to have never lost a man to the His Majesty's Royal Army. The same could not be said of Okeefenokee alligators, who, upon seeing the fleeing Count, would gather behind him awaiting the troops.
After the revolution and due to his continued flight south, Rodomontade found himself in the Spanish held territory of Florida, where he successfully hid from survivors and relatives of his former miltiamen. Occasionally and unexpectedly appearing in Spanish or native settlements covered with mosquitos, chiggers and leeches, he would steal food, clothing, horses, firearms and anything else that he could carry off, including the occasional farmer's or Indian's daughter. He managed to survive this way until he heard of Florida becoming a territory of the United States and that former French nobleman Prince Achille Murat had taken up residence in St. Augustine. He found his way to St. Augustine and attached himself to the Murat entourage. Achille, raised as French royalty, had neither needed nor learned the habits of civilized society, never bathing, never changing clothes or boots until they fell off of him. He was noted for hawking and launching the largest loogies anyone had ever seen in every direction no matter who was standing there and was awarded a 36 square mile plot of territory by Lafayette where modern day Myassa County would be founded just to get his disgusting self away from St. Augustine. Upon reaching his new plantation, his advisors began trying to train him how to behave around civilized society, just in case any ever arrived in Myassa. (As of now, none has.) His advisors were, of course, further appalled when his first concession to their advise was to station Rodomontade to walk and stand to his right and spit on him.
Serendipitously, one day a member of the Raven Clan of the local Myassa tribe of the Apalachee Creek Nation was seen by Achille walking with a large, very shaggy dog. Spontaneously Murat offered to exchange Rodomontade for the dog in order to spit on the dog instead, thinking it less demeaning to himself than spitting on Count Faux. The tribesman agreed to the deal. Why not? It wasn't his dog. The Raven clan were known for their abilities to acquire the possessions of others through trickery, guile, misdirection, threat and thievery. The Count fit right in and was welcomed to the clan with the hand of the Raven clan leader's oldest daughter, Ravin' Bootie. It was a match made in Myassa and the Raven-Faux line was begun.
... To be continued ...
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January 18th, 2015
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Michael Dillon
Je Suis Charlie!lvf
Jim Williams replied:
If you have a Charlie piece, there is a "contest" where you can post it. .... http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/wacks-museum.html