x tra west took the r kelly peice.

links:

an amusing essay on henry james, and his apparent testicle injury--it came thru on mefi, and two impt things were imparted
1) the dude who quit his masters cause everyone apparently was gay, and this wasnt fair (james is a frequent subject of queer theorists, and i dont think its b/c they think hes gay, but because his view of sexuality is so gossetted, so quiet, so closeted, and his biography is similar, that the tools of sexual deconstruction (ie unravlleing, noticing power differentials, gender and sex as performance, themes of veiling and unveiling, and a formal overlapping w. biography work better w. james then almost any other 20th century writer--ie how he wrote is how he lived...(and his prose is really close to other genuinely (semi) closeted writers, like gide, forrester, and the little ive read of proust)

2) apparently in moveable feast, hemmingway told a ribald story about fitzgeralds cock--he was so worried it was too small, hemmingay brought him to the met in new york, to show the greek statues (ie butch men/small dix) fitzgerald left more dispondent then he came. how hemmingway saw fitzgeralds cock is the interesting question


Charles Ray, 2005, Ink On Paper, Untilted (smaller, more decroative, less autobio, then his usual work--at matthew marks new drawing show, most of the big guns, really ugly work, but i liked this.

lego brokeback

Melina Raissinia, is an artist, writer, craftswoman and rugmaker. Here hand made rugs have an elegant, intriguing, almost child like sense of design, with great colours, and lots of white space, a sort of handhewn geometry, that reminds me of klee--they are some of the most beautifully composed images, and they look much different then the high gloss attempts at art or the punk fuck you of locult made high, like the graff rugs i posted a few months ago (work i loved, but rassinia is much mroe complicated)

here is here site, with essays, paintings, drawings, etc

Edit: Go to the link, the images are being fussy.


genuine mid50s batman strip, the yellow is fotoshopped

First Big Drug SCandal of the Torino olympics,ends with the austrian coach in the loony bin.

fantastic bitter rant about the really quite stupid stalker laws that are infesting LA, esp, how celebs blame pappazari, instead of taking repsonsiblity w. their own idiocy. and another on Jill Caroll, the christian relief worker/hostage in Iraq. When did the LA times become the American paper of record...


Jesus Kitsch

forget that its from daily kos, apparently the GOP is back to astroturfing southern churches found here

There is also the philosophical problem. Bush has done real violence to the principle of limited government with all of his talk about how the government has to move when someone is hurting and his aim to leave no child behind. Some of his programs are, I think, easily defended on the merits. But that doesn't change the fact that as general philosophical issue, Bush has conceded that the government is there to help in a way Reagan never would have. Sure, Reagan made exceptions to his general anti-government position. Sometimes they were pragmatic, sometimes they were legitimate exceptions (conservatives aren't uniformly opposed to all government interventions), and some times his deviations were hypocritical, at least in the eyes of some. But such hypocrisy was the tribute conservatives must sometimes pay to politics. Bush has conceded much of the fundamental ground to liberals when it comes to the role of government. Now the argument about governmental problem solving is technical -- "will it work?" -- rather than principled, "is it the government's job?"
far right cassandra, Jonah Goldberg, on NRO online, found here (hes batshit but a fantastic writer)

new book of american soilders taking photos of themselves, from the gq website, so it went from print web print.

Fiction:
48 Cory Doctorow
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
read it cover to cover in 36 hrs--he writes well, pushes a narrative along, jumps all over the place, and a strange mix of social realism, allegorical fantasy, cyberpunk and family melodrama...i still dont know if i liked it, the urban fantasy stuff would seem to be right up danielles alley, and pat loves him, so im going to put it on the shelf until i can talk to pat and ds read it.