(The guns, the gold flecked lino counter and the ammo in the same colour, the bright pink soap, the shattered glass bullet hole, right at crotch level, the motel discount faucets, maybe its too fucking obv. but the ubquity and banality of violence in american life always almost amuses me, this one is a vernacular larry clarke.)
From Chelsea, NY
some first ppghs
THE Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Reverend John Gladwin, and 20 curates have been abandoned in Africa by the Anglican Church of Kenya after its Archbishop discovered his liberal views on gays.
the rest of the story here
Tony Blair today insisted no offence was intended over the auction of a copy of the Hutton report on the death of Dr David Kelly reportedly signed by his wife Cherie Booth QC. According to a Commons motion put down by a Tory MP the report, signed also by Alastair Campbell, raised £400 at a fundraising event at the Arts Club in Mayfair last week, although the Labour party has denied it was a party occasion. full story here
Pop star-turned-doll maker MARIE OSMOND has launched a personal crusade to clean up the Internet after learning her two teenage daughters have been posting sexually explicit correspondence on their MySpace.com websites. The PAPER ROSES singer felt compelled to give a statement to US tabloid National Enquirer after the publication uncovered outrageous content on her daughters JESSICA and RACHAEL's blogs. On her site, 18-year-old Jessica, who was adopted by Osmond as an infant, claims she is a bi-sexual who craves sex "as many times as possible," while her 16-year-old sister describes herself as a "slut" and a "whore" in correspondence and opened up about her dreams of having sex with DAVID BOWIE. In her statement, shocked Marie, a devout Mormon, says, "I am saddened by some of the choices that two of our children have made. "The insidious potential for harm from adolescent Internet sites like MySpace.com only exacerbates these kinds of problems. full story here
Random Facts:
North Korea is finacning its stalinist reigme with peasent theme resturants in Vladivastok. here
There are 30 offical religions that have ebelems on file at the Veterans Affairs dept. If not paart of those 30 religions (including atheism), there can be no offical marker in miltary graveyards. wicca isnt on the list. (I emailed VA for a list, with images, they havente gotten back to me)
Random Links:
hundreds of examples of american aborginal languages.
a great article on Audens tricky realtionship with jesus
a vietnam pastor is on the road to be cannonized. I dont think that Vietnam corresponds to the offical just war doctorine of the catholic church, and i wonder if being active in the conflict would be enough of a sin to get one of the holy list. i know where I stand, but im too far on the edge, and dont know enough about the case, to offically give notice.
Pictures from the first Moscow Gay Rights Rally, where police, the church, and orthodox nationlist facists arrested and beat the shit out of activists) are to be ound here here. Story here
James Tiptree, one of the best of the 70s new wave sfers, and perhaps the most under rated (still taking votes for Phillip Jose Farmer) hd a very strange life here is some of it
Lord Black bought his title no one is suprised
one of the most beautiful peices of animaiton ive seen, with monkeys, squids, snails, and a giant magical tyger, but better.
sublimated homoeroticism and hazing (the liminal space b/w homosocial and homosexual is one of the great themes of the 20th century, and left really unexpolred, this is a minor varation of that)
According to John Doyle, the Globe TV Critic, 34.2m people voted for the winner of American Idol, amd just over 32m voted Bush for president. This inst apathy, this is smart people realizing that the only thing they can control is the media.
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