Puke of the Week

28th Jul 2010

Puke of the Week

It has been a while since we’ve spotted some quality gawk on the streets of Cork that made us marvel but this beauty on Academy Street is worth broadcasting to the nation.

A series of three mini-pukes leading from Patrick Street led us to the final ‘stomach dump’ located in the doorway of the Beauty and Laser Clinic.

The placing of such a large volume of gawk in the doorway of a cosmetic operation like this requires some skill, and looking at the three minor expulsions en route it was clear that the mystery puker was trying to hold in his or her liquid carrot mess until reaching a planned location.

If you’re going to puke on the street why vomit outside somewhere insignificant like the Moderne or Le Chateau when you can say so much by dispatching your belly’s contents outside somewhere that makes an artistic and cultural statement. Outside a place that tries to make you less ugly. We might ask, how ugly is a puke on a scale of one to ten?

Imagine the punters and staff the following morning having to step over mounds of beer gawk and mashed veggie bile on their way to make people more beautiful. Or put another way, to make people less manky. That, apparently juxtaposing, image is poignant. Is it really juxtaposition? Are the people who want to be made less manky more beautiful than a puke?

This vomit is clearly a bold statement about our perception of beauty. The puker is telling us that beauty comes from within. In fairness, just look at the photo.

Yes, dear friends, even the late night streets of this culturally vibrant city ring fence the mountain of artistic superiority upon which Cork proudly sits.