Rafael was the best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I mean yeah, Leonardo would always pay the pizza guy, Donatello could build pretty good bongs out of the stuff you might find in a sewer, and Michelangelo occasionally did not make you want to punch him in the nuts. But Rafael kicked ass, took names, and he did it with a pair of miniature tridents. He had the temperament of a six-year-old, which of course we all were.
But Rafael was also the worst Renaissance master. To begin with, he stuck all his stuff on the walls of the Vatican where no non-millionaire could see it. He also adamantly refused to paint sexy naked biblical chicks even after the pope said it was OK! Instead he painted every wrinkled old philosophizing ballsack that ever came out of Greece. Christ, the guy couldn’t even paint a solid non-crappy dragon, something even a six-year-old artist manages to figure out. Up yours, Rafael!
But the most relevant modern-day Rafael would have to be the terrific improv group made up of Dan Black, Joe Burns, Don Fanelli, Cathryn Mudon, Hunter Nelson, and Andrew Yurman-Glaser. They’re playing at THE SCENE with Reverse 5 this Saturday. Buy your tickets now, before the pope outlaws them or they’re defeated by the Shredder. Jokes!
Reverse 5 hosts THE SCENE
Saturday, May 15
7:00pm at the PIT
A very special episode of The Scene happens this Saturday. You really ought to be there.
