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Mary Wohlford, who is 80, just had this tattooed on her collarbone. She hasa living will, and a DNR order, but "dont trust lawyers so much"

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storiess about Marines killing children in Iraq, like My Lai, there have been stories suspected of this nature for a year or more, but this time Rep. Murtha, has confirmed both. Once again i repeat the image from Artists Collective Against Vietnam:
(I should just put this in my sidebar)
(im proud of murtha for doing this, deeply proud, it suggests that w. fingold there is a moral core to the democratic party, angry and ready to muck out the stalls, i suspect in 08, they will run together, and i also suspect they will fuck up. there is no center anymore in american politics)

four suicides, home made weapons, and an uprising, in Gitmo. The ee cummings poem about Olaf comes immediately to mind.






All Paintings by John Burlinghame, he doesnt mention sizes or material on his website, hes an excellent colourist, a good formal painter, and his decayed transtions are interesting, if mostly decorative (never an insult coming from these hands) i suspect i will have to see them live, to see if his paint handling and his like works, but there is something ambigious and touched about this work, i think i like them, im not sure i like them, but there is something here i think (im also in love with organic colours, greens, yellows esp, and he has them in spades)
(these by nacho labras, that look like water running down concrete walls might be better
(these by amy sillman might be worse (though the colour is much more adventorous)

The Squddies they attack

fascinating
article (along with january's desicion about copyright in favour of Koons) about the nature of copywright, approtion, craft, and fine art. This time, about how the glass artist Chiuly is intimadating assts who dare use the same "trademark" forms as he does. Chiuly is the worst thing, i think, that has happened to glass works, for a variety or reasons, mostly because he hasnt changed in 25 years, and he stagnates, and that stagnation constantly causes others to as well...look at the forms that he claims as his "monopoly on any and all glass art that is curved, nested or uses certain kinds of colors. [Chihuly] cannot use copyright registrations to protect an idea or process that is so elementary that it would preclude any other glass artist from working or creating any glass art at all." Its like Betty Woodman, the cermaicist, complaining that people are slabbing like she does, or Nancy Youngblood claiming that anyone who makes melon bowls should be stopped. (Woodman slabs in a really rough, physical way, against any of the elegance or delicacy required by many people who use clay, shes also brilliant, go read last weeks new yorker, withthe Schedjcal article about her; Youngblood is a really good example. The best paublo(sp) potter of her generation, her use of japanese forms, her extending of tradtional first nation forms, and her absorbing of recent workings in abstraction, make thousands of years of tradtions into something unqiuely hers. Her website talks of this: "while imitators may be a flattering sign of success, they provide Nancy with a determination to challenge her abilities even further". Thats how art should work, a marathon b/w master and student, heres my favourite youngblood:

Zizek on Freud (a sort of defense, or as much of a defense as a lacanian can muster)

A Plastic Surgery Editorial, from Italian Vogue (I think shot by Miesel), suprisingly self critical

several examples of why the new rules against obsecenity are hypocritical and censorous, nothing new, but decent ammunition

forty twosongs about president, literary, wise, and well constructed, sound esp good when they end up in a mix...(listening to all 42 in a row isnt recommend)


Edward Wessleman's photos of Vegas, Creepy and Banal here (i esp like the ones of hallways) (also the one above is qouting Arbus' photo of Cinderellas castle in Disneyland, almost to the level of plagarism)

here are several from his real estate seires from 1990
Im not sure they are good, but they sure as hell match my aesthetic (and qoute Baltzs' track home seires, also almost to the point of plagarism (or harry harrisons seires in the mid 70s, of edmonton houses that look quite the same)

Two stories on the poltiics of sex
A man who organized chinese male sex parties was arrested, and is spending a year in prision

one of the last new york porn theaters is being shut down, for reasons of money (Reminds me of the editorial i wrote for xtra)




Its Kind of Scary When DAvid Letterman does the job of CNN


A Brilliant, Must See Doc, on the battle for Sex Ed in the states, using albquerque as an example, includes many salient facts on the power of abstenice only ed.


A hysterically funny video, about Dildos