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The Pieman Speaks (2/10/98)
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Those of us who are old enough may never forget where we were when we heard that Kennedy was shot, but do you remember what you were doing when somebody told you that Bill Gates had just been hit in the face with a cream pie? Noel Godin remembers-- he was standing on the next street, probably laughing his tuckus off. Noel, you see is the man behind the attack, and there's a nice Netly News interview with him about his pie-ing of the Redmond Wonder.
Noel's spent the last thirty-odd years coordinating pie attacks on various celebrities who somehow offend his (admittedly lunatic) sensibilities. Bill Gates was a target, Noel says, because as the "master of the world," he "could have been a utopist, but he prefers being the lackey of the establishment." Because of this, Noel's attack on Gates was in fact a symbolic attack "against hierarchical power itself."
Heck, as far as AtAT's concerned, the act stands up just fine simply as a darn fine bit of slapstick. But if Noel wants it interpreted as a political act, who are we to spoil his fun? Damn the Man!
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