a number of kits, avaible from a protugese architecutal firm, where you can make prefab houses out of shipping containers...here is the lin i love this sort of shit.
someone
in Tiblisi, threw a live grenade at Bush, and the damn thing didnt explode.
To the Editor:
Dave Itzkoff’s review of Julie Phillips’s “James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon” (Aug. 20) has shown your readers a fragment of the conundrum that was Alice Sheldon, but could have shed far more light on that enigmatic author. Perhaps I can help. I was a friend of Sheldon and her second husband for the last 13 years of their lives (dating from well before the truth about James Tiptree was exposed).
Itzkoff correctly notes that Sheldon was a C.I.A. agent (though he neglects to mention that Huntington Sheldon, her husband, was with the agency as well). In fact, it was during her three years there that Sheldon learned how to create a false identity, including how to acquire the Social Security number she used as “James Tiptree,” thus ensuring that Tiptree’s royalty checks could never be traced to her.
Itzkoff’s review implies that Alice’s suicide was mandated by the mercy killing of her husband; she was technically guilty of Huntington’s murder. The truth is more complicated. Ting Sheldon was in constant pain, but with no imminent hope of natural death when Alice shot him dead, phoned her lawyer with instructions to notify the police, then shot herself while holding hands with her beloved husband. In a 1980 interview (published in Charles Platt’s “Dream Makers”), Sheldon revealed that she had struggled against suicidal urges since her childhood. The handwritten suicide note found beside her corpse in 1987 had been written years earlier; she had carefully saved it until she was ready to use it.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
From the NY Times
There is something so incredible about these two stories, so difficult to parse, the instabilty of personal idenitity. the construction of self, and sheer self control, that one chooses the time of ones death, with careful precision
(the new bio looks amazing, and its getting ltos of buzz, first sf book to be on the cover, notices in book forum, publishers weekly, etc--story too good for it to be true, maybe we will get more tiptree in print)
the exaggareted fear of pedophillia is being used to increase police pressure--this time msn has a police button (which wont be mis used at al)
figuring out who has more influence, porn lovers or xians, is going to be a really fun game to watch--the puritans are trying to ban porn in hotel rooms. here is there website sophiscated web design, made to be a personal choice, family friendly service, and not anothr example of a nanny state obsessivbley making sure we dont touch our genitals
and a waldenbrooks in missippi is pulling the entire realtionships section, cause someone found the good sex bible offenisve here
hezbollah boy band
the cheif excorcist of the vatican, makes silly statements on harry potter
Tori Amos, Viktor and Rolf.
Pluto and Astrology
CA Conrad is an amazing poet, and this is a link to one of his poems, its funny and sexy
xian sex toys
here is a site where you can buy whole container ships full of irish crap, to hang on walls of simulacra laden irish pubs from darwin to lagos (including one called o kims in seoul). i want to buy a container of this, and put it on gallery walls, in a mockery of anthropology
blog from global guerrillas
Dick Dale, Surfer Musician, Mirawis composer (make one inch pins out of this imagE?)
Southern Africa's Catholic bishops have warned priests to stop moonlighting as witchdoctors, fortune tellers and traditional healers, and to rely on Christ for miracles.
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which represents bishops in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana, said on its Web sites some priests were adopting the traditional African practice of calling on ancestors for healing.
(whats the difference b/w saints and ancestors, b/w witchcraft adn prayer, b/w different kinds of magick?)
Unfinished Pine Cross, from Michaels
Nigerian poet Chris Albani, writes about sexuailty, gender and Africa...here is an interview with him here
Academic publisher Reed Elsevier, is involved in the arms trade here is a site that records all the nessc info
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