shanghai continues its long tradition of fun, when the communist cheif of the city was fired for corupption last week
more examples of superhero misogyny, this time from a book about how to draw comics, published by wizard.
Soviet historian Kate Brown explains the difference b/w american and russian gulags
Wally Wood, Weird Sex, Print Seires from 1972. the rest is here and the work is of course a paroduy of EC level Wierd Science,a nd manages to be really funny, and really dirty at the same time.
the guy who invented sea monkeys adn x ray spex gave most of the money to the aryan nations, though he was jewish
a great article on Louis Armstrong and hsi role in country-his work on Blue Yodel no 9, is so seminal, because it was the start of african music and western music, emerging itno somethign strange and fecund--not rock adn roll, and not blues based in the more traditional sense--its noiser, and yet controls that noise better, and they are almost egging each other on...and it was made in LA, in hollywood in fact, so there is this awarenss of its own theatrical qualities, its own fake cowboy aestyhetic that becomes spectacle, and thats really the beginning of country, the awareness that being a cowboy was as much about the vocal arcobatics as it was about being on a horse (roy rogers, adn gene autry, and the sons of the pioneer all were on tv, and all sang like tehy were tv, and thats cause of rodgers) (and bob willis, the master of western swing, who considered his work more jazz than country, and who has a boxset here, spent 40 years unfolding what he learnt listening to this track, in an almsot quantum level (im not making sense here, i know im not, and will think about the track more and write about it)
small courts in rural up state new york, have deicded that most tradtional jurispuence(sp) can go out the window
From the New Jersey Craft Counci, annual exhibit, Chuck Up by by Susan Spencer Reckford, 2005. Merino wool. Knitted Chuck Close painting
hundred of photos of korean bars and off duty places, by soilder Fes Cannady. Excellent documentary work, though he desperately needs an editor.
they finally excommed Milinog and four others, who milingo convinecd were real catholics
a texas art educator who had 28 years expereince, and two star teaching awards, got fired when two of her charges wandered off and saw a rather acaemic nude
online exhibit of a bunch of snapshots by warhol taken in the mid 80s
myspace attempts to get yong people voting.
a millon cluster bomblets are left in southern lebanaon, 90 per cent discharged just before the ceasefire
Tutu also said he was deeply saddened at the furor caused by the appointment of openly gay V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. "He found it little short of outrageous that church leaders should be obsessed with issues of sexuality in the face of the challenges of AIDS and global poverty," wrote Allen. full story herestory here
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Cecil B DeMille built the largest set in history, for his ten commandments, andafter shooting was done he buried it in the desert. 60 years later, a sandstorm revealed it here is the full story, including pictures
the columbia journalism review writes about teh copyright wars
Christopher Morris' sly photos of secret service, oddly cropped politican, landscape, theatrical staging, and the aesthetics of nu american politics...vitally impt work.
he is also an accomplished war photograpehr: who took images of brutal honesty. He found that qaulity unrewarded taking pictures in iraq under bush, he foudn things too staged, so he went home and took pictures of the staging staging
two examples of god's use of flash:
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they are like Xian, Master P covers, teh second krumping for christ...
the head of the congressional committe on missing andexploited children resigned after being caught emailing a 16 yr old boy naughty thots. (liveboy/deadgirl)
atm for jesus
an excerpt from the autere, and rigous exprimental poem moonseamed birch, by geof huth.
Its weird al, but the animation is really strong
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