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All righty. So, last night was such an exciting evening in the arts, an incredibly exciting

evening in the arts when everyone dresses up like a dope and goes over to the Metropolitan Museum

of Art. It's amazing. The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute has a

fundraiser every year, or basically they somehow get all these celebrities to dress like, like fools,

and show up, and everybody ooze and ahs at the ridiculous and bizarre outfits that these celebrities

wear. Nothing smacks more of the Hunger Games capital fashion than the Metropolitan Museum

Vark Gala.

And there's something deeply unsettling about the richest socialists among us, spending

presumably hundreds of thousands of dollars to create some of the ugliest crap ever put

on a human face or body, and then strolling into a – strolling into a paparazzi

strewn room to show off these hideous outfits, all because they are so much better than you are.

They're so much better than I – there's so much better than everyone.

This is what taste is.

Now, this year was particularly ridiculous because the theme, every year they have a theme at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, this year's theme was Camp, Notes on Fashion,

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