A fantastic blog post, where a guy writes smart, short commentaries on the American Demographic maps of Religion--most of which I knew already, but well worth having an image in yr head:

here

(the quirks are the best bit, the large sections of lutherans in texas, the differences b.w the missouri and ecla synods in the midwest, the counties in the dakotas and arizona/new mexico, where they seem areligious, until you realise there is a first nation thing going on, the absence of methodists in the western half of the country, the persians of LA counties, and the general islamicism of Dearborn Michigan, etc and the unclaimedness of oregan

speaking of God--The Opus Dei's anti muslim cartoons are ony with a working knowledge of Dante and they want a little disclaimer on how the da vinci code is being mean to them, note
the hypocrisy but dont spend too much time on it

this guy paints people in custom mao posters the latest in commie chic, infused with western captialism,


John Brosio
Breathing
Oil on Panel
2006
He only paints pictures of Tornados, hes good.

Marc Quinn on Kate Moss (a working out of similar issues, wrt classicism and the grotesuqe, the opposite of his sculptures of living torso alison lechtel


Kirk Cameron witnesses to fags in WeHo and the Castro--like going into the Warsaw Ghetto to prosethise to the jews (esp. hilarous b/c he views his hamhanded attempts at tact as christian love
video here

I hve no idea what this means but Wal Mart just dumped 6.5 billon in inventory

Tony Fitzpatrick might be new favourite photorealist:


I 45, 2005


Penzoil Building (From his Amazing Curtain Wall Seires)

(both acrlyic on canvas--i love the colour, the cropping, the forced perspective, the reuse and reclaiming of mies word for impersonal monuments of glass and steel, and of course i have an obbessive love for the p/r shit, and late modernism--esp those slip on panels of solitary colour...)