Cock the vote

Cock the vote

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  “Immediately underneath the poodle, that’s Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She was the last breast cast I did. She’s wonderful and flat-ish. Second row from the top on the far left is Peaches. I cast her right breast. Her tour manager was holding the other, and I think he was so excited that he pushed down too hard. Looks like someone took a bite out of that peach!”
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  “Jimi Hendrix was the first rock star I cast. When I cast Jimi, I didn’t lube his hair enough, so he was stuck by his pubes. While he was waiting for me to pull him out one hair at a time, he just started having sex with this right-sized hole for his dick.”
  Photo: Andrew Nawrocki

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  “I did this drawing of Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders. He was my first fuck. They were playing in town with Dick Clark’s Caravan. My friend and I found out what hotel they were staying in. I never casted Mark because the substance that my teacher told us to use—basically sand and water—was not conducive to a hard-on.”
  Photo: Andrew Nawrocki

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  “I think penises are cute and cuddly. They’re more like plush toys to me. I have so many dickknacks and I’m always happy to receive them, but I’m running out of room to display them. I might need a bigger apartment.”
  Photo: Andrew Nawrocki

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“Immediately underneath the poodle, that’s Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She was the last breast cast I did. She’s wonderful and flat-ish. Second row from the top on the far left is Peaches. I cast her right breast. Her tour manager was holding the other, and I think he was so excited that he pushed down too hard. Looks like someone took a bite out of that peach!”
Photo: Andrew Nawrocki

11/10/2010

It’s completely reasonable to wonder why recovering groupie–cum–mayoral candidate Cynthia Plaster Caster, the South Shore native who’s crafted a career from making dental-mold casts of rock-star penises and breasts, would be a good city leader. When we asked, the 63-year-old former UIC art student (born Cynthia Albritton) had a droll response at the ready: “City government is about dealing with dickheads, and I’ve been working with dicks most of my life.” The candidacy ( chicagoforcynthia.com), like Caster herself, is cheeky yet sincere. “Someone’s got to be hard on crime in this town, hard on corruption in City Hall and hard on fixing the budget deficit,” she says. “This is no soft matter.” On a recent afternoon, the vibrant NPR addict, wearing her “Hard Party” campaign T-shirt, welcomed us into the phallus-strewn Lincoln Park apartment where she’s lived for more than 20 years to show off the erection collection she calls “my sweet babies.”

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