Odd photo of the week

As Radley Balko says, there's got to be great story behind this photo.

UPDATE: Steven Leckart says It's a sculpture called "Ancient Echo"!

Man comforts young, semi-clothed, vomiting orangutan

[#1 posted by brassmule, June 6, 2009 12:19 PM]

And here I thought the picture was just about the plumber's crack...

[#2 posted by Schorsch, June 6, 2009 12:23 PM]

And a lesson: Low-rise jeans are for girls.

[#3 posted by noen, June 6, 2009 12:37 PM]

"Give me your keys. You're not driving like this."

[#4 posted by Boba Fett Diop, June 6, 2009 12:47 PM]

"C'mon man, we've got to clean you up. You have to be at the church in like three hours."

[#5 posted by Frank, June 6, 2009 12:51 PM]

He needs to attend a drinking skills program.

[#6 posted by nanner, June 6, 2009 12:52 PM]

urk, thanks - i'm eating

[#7 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 12:54 PM]

David Spade, a plumber and a orangutan go to a bar, and...

[#8 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 12:55 PM]

Somebody needs to keep Chaka away from the beer bong...

Trying to come up with a reason for an orangutan to be dressed in a T-shirt, leaning on the wall like a frat boy after an all-night bender, puking his guts out, and failing entirely.

[#9 posted by robbo-bobbo, June 6, 2009 1:24 PM]

Are we sure that isn't just a sculpture of a vomiting orangutan?

[#10 posted by wizardofplum, June 6, 2009 1:25 PM]

Hey! don't go ape on me,I told ya NOT to monkey around with the script.Only poor reople plagiarize

[#11 posted by Maneki Nico, June 6, 2009 1:41 PM]

"Dude, where's my liana?"

[#12 posted by zervouli, June 6, 2009 1:51 PM]

It's a sculpture of a chimpanzee by Tony Matelli. I don't know who the plumber butt dude is.

[#13 posted by devophill, June 6, 2009 2:09 PM]

@Zervouli- Well spotted!

[#14 posted by hokano, June 6, 2009 2:22 PM]

Ah, fake puke. That brings back some wonderful childhood memories.

[#15 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 2:39 PM]

Crack Killz!!!

[#16 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 3:15 PM]

Dane Cook needs to wear a belt. And stop touching the art!

[#17 posted by AliasUndercover, June 6, 2009 3:18 PM]

Darn! I was hoping it was real...

[#18 posted by A Nonny Moose, June 6, 2009 3:19 PM]

All I can think of is "What's yellow and smells like bananas?"

[#19 posted by wizardofplum, June 6, 2009 3:33 PM]

#14 Hokano-fake puke-good old days.That reminds me of a short story by the late and long lamented Steve Allen.He tells of going to an up-scale bistro in N.Y.He orders a specific take-out entree.Goes outside,cleans a section of the sidewalk,dumps the meal on ground and then on his knees proceeds to scoff the chicken ala king he had purchased.Apparently several passers-by were prompted by nature,to barf in sympathy.Nd they say
that New Yorkers are cynical.

[#20 posted by Steven Leckart, June 6, 2009 3:49 PM]

Sculpture is called "Ancient Echo"

http://www.tonymatelli.com/tonymatelli.com/Tony_Matelli_2002-2000.html#0

[#21 posted by Mim, June 6, 2009 3:56 PM]

Saw this first in my blog reader... first I thought I was looking at , then I saw it was on BB, and thought this was a picture of a vomiting werewolf. Scrolling down to find it was a chimp was actually kind of disappointing. :)

[#22 posted by thatguyruste, June 6, 2009 4:00 PM]

Yo B, what's crack-a-yackin?!?

[#23 posted by jjasper, June 6, 2009 4:10 PM]

Who gave the Orangutan a drinking license?

[#24 posted by underground_slacker, June 6, 2009 4:33 PM]

multiple sources report slurs along the lines of "get your stinking paws off me you damn hairless ape", apparently you must read it in your head like sylvester stallone to get the full effect.

[#25 posted by nanuq, June 6, 2009 4:53 PM]

"Sculpture is called "Ancient Echo"

http://www.tonymatelli.com/tonymatelli.com/Tony_Matelli_2002-2000.html#0"

Er, that is a sculpture, right? Tony Matelli isn't into taxidermy on the side?

[#26 posted by Tom Hale, June 6, 2009 5:01 PM]

Mark, is that a sculpture of you playing your ukulele in this pic? http://www.tonymatelli.com/tonymatelli.com/Tony_Matelli_2002-2000.html#4

[#27 posted by BDiamond, June 6, 2009 5:14 PM]

Okay #24, I'll bite. Why Sylvester Stallone?

[#28 posted by TroofSeeker, June 6, 2009 5:17 PM]

There's a perfectly good explanation.
I was just a kid. It was my first time drinking.
I was upset about losing my pants, because they were my new school pants and Mom is gonna be so mad...

[#29 posted by IamInnocent, June 6, 2009 5:23 PM]

Plummer: Ah come on dude, You're not the first primate to lose one's mate to Tarzan. The guy is an ape magnet!

[#30 posted by El Mariachi, June 6, 2009 5:23 PM]

Ha! He thinks he's people!

(btw, that's a chimp, not an orangutan.)

[#31 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 6:05 PM]

"Oh yeah, this monkey will definitely divert attention from my giant ass crack."

[#32 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 6:16 PM]

these comments are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo hilarious, each one is funnier than the last, example "Who gave the Orangutan a drinking license?". classic.

[#33 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 6:18 PM]

Is that Keiffer Sutherland comforting Charlie Sheen in a time of need?

[#34 posted by Jack, June 6, 2009 7:16 PM]

Sculpture, schmulpture. I hope the ham sandwich with the messenger bag realizes his jeans are sad and we don't need to see his buns.

[#35 posted by bwcbwc, June 6, 2009 7:52 PM]

And here I thought it was a cast candid from "Land of the Lost"...If I was in that movie, I'd be throwing up too.

[#36 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 8:30 PM]

Damn chili dogs!

[#37 posted by igpajo, June 6, 2009 8:54 PM]

Is it wrong to be slightly disappointed to find out it's not real puking simian?

[#38 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 10:42 PM]

Monkey with a human on his back

[#39 posted by Anonymous, June 6, 2009 11:17 PM]

This is just one of the many side effects to crack....

[#40 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 12:39 AM]

i too thought it was from land of the lost. great minds...

[#41 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 1:03 AM]

That is no sculpture, that is me last Thursday. Special thanks to my buddy helping me out there, Asscrack McGee.

[#42 posted by The Tensor, June 7, 2009 2:10 AM]

Wow, that sculpture really forces the audience to confront the power structures inherent in...uh...ape vomit?

[#43 posted by FutureNerd, June 7, 2009 3:16 AM]

The sculpture is cute, interesting. But the photograph with butt crack included is art. Btw somehow this looks like a scene in an airport, one of those transitional places like the bridge in The Scream.

Good God, Samaritan! (aka Lets All Get Some Pants).

[#44 posted by devophill, June 7, 2009 4:17 AM]

I know Stephen actually blogs for the site, but at least three people (#9 robbo-bobbo, #12 posted by zervouli, and #13, ahem, me) pointed out the sculpturitude of this particular primate before he did. (Well, actually I didn't know it was a sculpture until I googled the artist's name that zervouli provided. I just posted a link to another photo of the sculpture.) We wuz robbed, I tells ya!

[#45 posted by Ocker3, June 7, 2009 6:18 AM]

#32, it's a reference to another BB story. I'll let you find it for yourself.

[#46 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 6:21 AM]

Okay, unicorn chaser please?

[#47 posted by StCredZero, June 7, 2009 7:34 AM]

Holy crap! Charley the Australopithecine is *Real*!

http://images.salon.com/comics/boll/2003/02/20/boll/story.gif

[#48 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 8:53 AM]

Spring break's a bitch...

[#49 posted by Actionverb, June 7, 2009 9:01 AM]

"What's worse than finding a worm in your banana?..." (Finding HALF a worm!)

[#50 posted by octopussoup, June 7, 2009 9:49 AM]

I think the real Chaka just saw the Land of the Lost movie.

[#51 posted by ullrlfc, June 7, 2009 10:47 AM]

"Joe,I know the hair restorer tastes horrible,but I promise you it`s working."

[#52 posted by eltonbong, June 7, 2009 1:53 PM]

No Octopussoup, he's just sick of being asked what Will Ferrel is like in person...

[#53 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 5:40 PM]

Forsooth! Yonder photograph appearseth to have been manipulated photoshoppically!

[#54 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 7:48 PM]

#53: canst tell by the picture-cells, I'll warrant.

[#55 posted by Anonymous, June 7, 2009 10:14 PM]

this is why you dont get your hairy children drunk

[#56 posted by Nword, June 8, 2009 2:14 AM]

bronobo..

[#57 posted by Anonymous, June 8, 2009 7:39 AM]

Look at that "insert coin" human butt

[#58 posted by ill lich, June 8, 2009 7:53 AM]

"I hear ya buddy, loneliness and banana daquiris make a dangerous combination, now. . . do you remember what you did with your pants?"

[#59 posted by usonia, June 8, 2009 2:37 PM]

The monkey is real, the fellow with the belt issue is fiberglass & enamel.

[#60 posted by Anonymous, June 11, 2009 4:29 PM]

Are you sure it's not a different sculpture? The monkey and shirt are different in Ancient Echo. If it is, it's probably still by the same dude, though.

[#61 posted by Anonymous, June 17, 2009 2:45 AM]

I think it was the plumbers crack that did it!!

[#62 posted by Anonymous, July 5, 2009 9:48 PM]

someone get this ass crack creeper away from my little sister...