High Art

This afternoon Mr. T. e-mailed me from work (he usually bikes to the metro, so I hope his morning journey wasn't too snowy and dangerous) and sent me a link to this picture of a sculpture called "Cock Bob," currently on display in the sculpture garden of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, a lovely place that I used to periodically bike to back in the day.
The sculpture was apparently mentioned in an online interview with Bill Griffith, also from our favorite low prestige island to the right of Manhattan, and it's found here on the Zippy website: http://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/1places/cockbob.html.

Also art, but of a different nature, is this soup packet, purchased recently in a local bodega (cognate with boutique, btw), and featuring this little Shrimpie, complete with captain's hat and fishing rod with hook.
It kind of reminded me of the pig with the cleaver -- did Cap'n Camaron hook himself with that rod? Or does he have it in for other shrimps of the sea? It's quite the mystery.