My Statue of Bob is like the statue of Saddam Hussein that was yanked down in Baghdad. It's Heroic, it's a symbol, it's to honor grotesque narcissism.

My Dream is to erect a statue of Bob down on Wall Street where the Merrill Lynch Bull now stands. I used to live and work in that neighborhood for a number of years. As a sculptor I recognize that the Bull is a nasty piece-of-shit sculpt. It captures the pasty, doughy moron that is Wall Street, The Government, The Security and Exchange Commision, and the Federal Reserve.

I want the statueto be erected on a giant pedestal where the bull is. It should be 30 to 40 feet with pedestal. It should be polychromed (painted as you see it.)
...And then, after 60 or 90 days of glory, tourist photos, etc., We pull it down and beat it with shoes. After all, we Americans can't stand horrible people like Bob. He's Smug, Self-Important, Arguably Crooked, Greedy,(interested in accumulating wealth, for sure) And now a loser of such large proportion that tax-payers were made to bail him out or face a depression of major magnitude. He's sort of an American Saddam, to be sure.

So please, Pass it on. If Bob Gets Major notice, or somebody sees the merit in a conceptual/perfomance art piece like this, maybe we can "vent our spleen" a little, and keep the focus on real causes of our economic woes.

My sarcasm about Bob is that of a somewhat experienced analyst, fiscal conservative, etc. etc. Apparently, I'm more analytical and conservative than the morons at Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citigroup, uh, duh, Goldman Sachs, (though they comically and sneakily bet against their own customers) Bear Stearns and the collective fools and nincompoops that are American Finance.

It's a common occurence to see the Big Shot Invest Bankers wearing weird large suspenders. Imagine that. The Ivy League B- School Nitwits have a crazy-assed sort of uniform. My buds at JP Morgan snicker that they have meetings with all types of Bankers and that you can measure the evil by the number and size of suspenders in the room. KKR, Brown and Brown...lots of suspenders.

These people are, of course, detached from the economy. They use other people's cash to buy
shit for themselves.
Old Story: Charles Merrill, Merrill Lynch founder, gave J.P. Morgan a tour of NY Yacht Club.
Merrill: "Business is good, look at all my brokers yachts!"
Morgan:"Where are all your customer's yachts?"
-That tale is pretty much the point.