insane film director ken russell (lizstmania, the devils) started as a photographer, and here dozens of photos he took of teddy girls, a varration of rockers in mid century, post war london. the gender and class signifiers of these photos are amazing, some of the girls basically drag kings.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq. full story here here NY Times

Hedda Gabbler, with robots

Syrian protesters who burnt and looted the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus at the weekend were encouraged to organise by the Syrian authorities, and received text messages from Islamic study centres urging them to gather, according to participants in the riot. from the uk independentThis ties into the information, that booklets of the danish cartoons, with new more damaging ones, being translated and passed thru europe...the islamic study centers, i have seen in vancouver, new york, toronto, edmonton, calgary, seattle, victoria and they have the same colours and the same fonts, a sort of jihad mcdonalds...i wonder how close they are connected, the explicit mechanics of information dissemation, it seems closer to the ground and less instutional then xians, but this might be my ignorance.

Father George V. Coyne, SJ, who runs the Vatican Obseratvory, talks movingly about the implications of science and faith, in this talk given to catholic university students text here



these are two early photos of the holy land, from 1870 to 1910 from here

Sun Ra and Al Koopers, brilliant, strange, space rocky genius is found mostly in the Arkestra, and the Bluesmen, their session musicans--they did a batman and robin sound track for the super camp Adam West series for a New Jersey Toy Company--DOWNLOAD EVERY FUCKING SONG here