eight pages written on the photo realists today, a tiny bit of book work, but as i near the end of the larger notes, i find myself losing motavation, i need to finish it before i go to seattle.

five books read:
joan didions new book on california, which has places of brilliance, her work on agriculture, her moving personal memoirs, her history of religion and her obsession with objects are all worth while, and it has that solid fluidity and refusal of genre that marks the best of her work, but lacks some cohesivness.

minimalism art and polemic in the 60s--mostly over my head, mostly silly and mostly arguiing with greenberg, which doesnt seem to be worthwhile. some interesting things said on anne truitt though, and there is a thread thruout that problematizes design and art, which i think is work that still needs to be done, and hasnt been.

curioser--a book on queer kids, has one of the best essays foregrounding the idea of prescriptive gender as it relates to boys, something that has been shockingly absent from current discourse, and has some brave things to say about pedophilia and censorship, esp. in this climate, but i think that 3 peices on henry james is really too much.

mental hygeine, a collection of canadian news paper peices, solid but kind of boring, but that might be my general connection to cancon.

the end of gay, after about 5 years--forgot how readable, how wonderfully impt, and how personal it was to how i view sex and gender.

i got kicked out of scm, for a bunch of reasons, some legit and some not...and there are other things afoot, if i got a paper done by tomorrow on art blogging, i could go to montreal, but i dont have a chance, and there might be a chance to be on a steering committee for general art blogging conference outside of montreal, like the emp thing for art, but i have to email the dude, and i havent done that tomorrow, i will do that tomorrow, i think.

so tomorrow--book work and the email.