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Rather than making people feel good about themselves, he’s more interested in skewering certain so cially cherished ideals. The more pompous and self-righteous the claim, the more he loves to deflate it. And one of his sharpest lam poons is his own car. “I hate bumper stickers, actually. I guess you could say that the car is an extreme case of reaction forma tion,” he said from behind his desk at the Amarillo Art Museum, where he is the curator of education. His car can be seen as a Darwin ian progression from his first stick er, a plain AAA identification. That one decal has mutated into a wicked herd of pop culture run amok. The front fender commands you to “Kill Your Television” and re minds you that “We Are The Veal.” The trunk boasts a sizable pink tri angle with the slogan “I’m Straight, Not Narrow-Minded.” “One of the reasons I started putting stickers on it was to identi fy it. I can’t tell one car from anoth er because of all the blandness and conformity,” he said. He sees his car as a literal mov ing target: a lightning rod for the wrath of those who take themselves too seriously. Whether the car is on the road or parked at the mall, it continues provoking and perturbing its viewers. But he can be perturbed himself, he said, by the roving slo gans on the minivans and sport util ity vehicles wheeling around town. “I’m offended by bumper stick ers I see on other people’s cars. There’s a kind of hateful smugness implicit in the one that says, ’My child is a good citizen at such-and- such school.’ What it really needs to say is, ’My child is a compliant sheep, and I wouldn’t have it any other way,”’ he said. Morey said he saw a PBS docu mentary about people and their bumper stickers and that he felt a kinship with one man featured in the show. “This guy said something to the effect of ’Why do you need to share with everybody on the road who you voted for or that you heart cock er spaniels?”’ The sarcasm is all well and good for adults, but Morey recently found out that children may not want to be as culturally forward as their daddy. “We pulled up to a place in Wolflin Square, right between like a Mercedes and a Lexus, and my youngest, who’s about four, said, ’Can’t you have a normal car?’ She was troubled by it, but she came around,” he said. Another PBS documentary about art cars helped his two daughters shed some light on their father’s mobile masterpiece, he said. A drawback to driving an eye catching car, particularly one fea turing scantily clad biker chicks, is that people feel the need to reach out and touch the stickers. “I have people assault my car. The devil girls are a hot rod cultur al motif and they are big-chested and nude. I put stickers, little smi ley faces, over the private parts and people will come and pull them off. I have to do a bumper sticker check everyday. But, I have found that when I cover the parts with little American flags, they’re left alone. People seem to be loathe to dese crate the American flag,” he said. Morey aspired to the satirical pantheon of cartoonists who make their living by regularly slamming the status quo. But, as fate would have it, he did a stint in the Air Force and came out realizing that he would be better suited to working in the art world from behind the scenes. “I found out that people would pay me and willingly listen to me expound on art,” he said. He worked for the Dallas Muse um of Art before moving to Amaril lo in 1981, where he met his wife and raised their two children. 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