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As it was meant to be seen

You know, I could post a lengthy, thoughtful post today about news coverage, journalism ethics, politics, broad trends of culture or any number of other meaty issues.

I could do that. But, as the great and wise philosopher Richard M. Nixon once said, that would be wrong.

Because when there's a new film version of Sophocles' greatest drama, "Oedipus Rex," shot entirely with vegetables, that's got to take precedence.

"Sex, violence, and cauliflower abounds!" says writer/director Jason Wishnow, who adds that the film is "performed by vegetables -- in the tradition of BEN-HUR. See a potato as it was meant to be seen, 15 feet tall!"

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(courtesy of Boing Boing)



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