This is profoundly retarded. And you know how I feel about calling things retarded. (hint: generally don’t do it.)

Rapper Coolio is set to perform the “flight of the angel” at this year’s Carnival of Venice - breaking a tradition which has usually involved a beautiful woman swooping down onto Venice’s St Mark’s Square from the basilica’s bell tower. “It (the choice of Coolio) is a blow of diversity, because it will involve a black man with a turbulent past,” the Carnival’s artistic director Marco Balich was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency on Wednesday.

There is absolutely nowhere to go with this.
My mind has been blown.
I’m going to go die now.

[venezia.net, via Ben, via Lopez WHO SAW IT IN REAL LIFE]

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