FACADES, an exhibition of photographic works by German artist ©Markus Brunetti.

Orvieto, Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta

Dresden, Frauenkirche

Piazzola sul Brenta Cathedral

Angoulême, Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

Amiens, Cathédrale Notre-Dame

The Church of Santa Marinha

Jerez de la Frontera - Cartuja de Santa María de la Defensión

Valera Igreja Paroquial

Ottobeuren St. Alexander und Theodor

One of my best friends had one of the exchange students as her roommate; she was about four foot eleven and maybe ninety pounds, and she had a passion for huge platform boots and shirts with English slogans on them. She explained exactly that – it was cool to wear shirts with English lettering on them, even if you didn’t exactly know what it meant (this was in the late 90s/early 00s).

Her absolute favorite shirt was black with BITCH picked out in enormous rhinestones. She’d worn it three times before I asked her if she knew what it meant, and she said she’d been told it meant “Like a baby dog, the cutest dog? A really cute girl puppy.” 

So I explained to her that it wasn’t quite an accurate translation, and as I elaborated on what it meant, from “female dog” on up to “a name you call a woman you don’t like” and all the reasons you might call someone that, her eyes got wider and wider until finally she yelled “THAT’S BETTER, THAT’S THE BEST! BITCH IS EVEN BETTER THAN CUTE!”

This judge is too stupid and ignorant to actually judge…