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ten dead, 11 injured in iraq today

Mash Ups with Freddie Mecury and Fiddy. v. v. funny.

Charles Booth, the founder of the Salvation ARmy, took himself, his wife, and his followers, on walking tours thourghout london, noting levels of poverty--he also talked to any number of other people, some of whom had v. spec agendas (school teachers, beedles, government admin workers) You can get his map via the London Topographical Society, but it has not be digitalised until now v. impt. document for the history of cities, religion, and sociology.

dozens of v. v. eerie photos of giant ballons, by larminda me here genius!

Yale Uni Press architechtual study on Qaunset Huts (if you love me, you would buy me this for xmas)


Richard Jackson does cleaner, more precise, and therefore stranger glosses on the Disneyland orgies of people like Paul McCarthy ---more here with bears

Wal Mart Dance Party over Thanksgiving Weekend...video here

Gary Indiana writes perceptivley and hauntingly about the social and moral implications of Broke Back Mountain, in realtion to it as a melodrama, a problem film, like a filthy, butch Sirk. (I have been thinking of Sirk lately, because we have gotten TCM free lately, and there has been a bunch of them there--and the reading of these films is often about teh decortaive nature of them, whole essays about windows and fabric choices and costumes, and very little on how at the end yr heart swells, the world is turned right, the optisism in Sirks films, and the almost bohemian instance of a life lived against the grain as a good thing, Indiana places Brokeback in this Sirkian tradtion, but then talks about how he twists this, talks about how this against the grainess could be considered negative, violent, and dark (Ang Lee does this actually--cf Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman and even The Hulk.)

Machinma is an open source video game engine that many people make movies from, mostly inconsquential--some french leftits make v. obv. agit prop wrt the riots there, but the deomocratazaton of it, and the video game aesthetics/mutablity works.

videos from kidnapped qauker also in Iraq

Worst Sex in Fiction awards Read the Updike


19th Century American, Painted on Ivory

Gaurdian on IGRA