THE COLOSSUS OF BUSH

                             Who needs the Biennale ? 

If you're sailing to Byzantium this summer, skip Venice and drop in on Albania's Côte Concrèt to view the astonishing retrospective of works by Heads Of State awaiting you in the postmodern pearl of the Adriatic, Fushë-Krujë, contemporary art capital of Nato's 28th nation!

The show features the nocturnes and cat paintings of Xhorxh Bush 43, who already stands immortalized in bronze nearby on a plinth  once occupied by Enver Hoxa, Fearless Leader of the Peoples Republic of Sqip, and King Zog before him.

Albania's Illyrian Coast  hopes to suck tourists ashore like Charybdis by turning its phalanx of coastal pillboxes into a pantheon of bronze colossi honoring  Former Vice-Presidential Chiefs Of Staff, like Spiro Agnew's mentor Artur Smër, Cheney's loyal lieutenant Skotor Libbë and Dan Quayle brain trust head, Vlym Xristol.

Albania's Post-Palladian architecture rivals anything on view in Skagway or Vegas and National Review, New Republic and Front Page seminar cruises should anchor off this New Atlantis to admire the ancestral home of John Belushi,  Mother Teresa International Airport,  Fushë-Krujë, where Bush '43's whirlwind Balkans tour  ended in 2007. 

Though some say the bronze colossus of Bush celebrates his ridding the Albanians of Kosovo, or Kosovo of the Albanians, the  Fushë-Krujënes admit  it was erected in apology for his fans having stolen GWB's watch off the Presidential wrist as he worked the welcoming crowd.