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Casual Rascism on British Reality Shows, Part 1


Casual Rascim on British Reality Shows, Part 2.

the suse of lighting and colour, in these images of BDSM/Sex Clubs in new york and paris, add to the decadence, and the sort of mythological weight i think the photographer is trying for, it looks liek one is wandering thru the dark, looking for the comforts of flesh...(i remember patient zero, being shot in a bath house and thinking to myself, bath houses arent that well lit at all) (or reading catherine m and beleiving her, because she wrote about how blurry, dark, and difficult to seee her expereinces are) (also think of gueer sm clubs being called things like the tombs or the catacombs)

dave thomson on brad pitt


Jane Russell in Outlaw (apparently she has found jesus, i hope she doesnt reject work like this)


There is something in this story, about rural responsiblity, the preservation of lost culture, the agrian need for community strength, and hard work--cockles warmed


GLenn Gould playing Webern. (how he played bach, was much closer to the twelve tone serailists, and how he played the twelve tone serialists was so close to bach)


A Moose gets airlifted from utah to colarado, with fantastic pictures)

excellent thread of iraq war pictures, from scott seward

fosdick against fundamentalist xianity--written in 1922, nessc. reading 85 years later.

its good that bishops who worked for stool pigeons in eastern europe, i wonder what will happen if china ever democratizes, with the two catholic churches there?

the gates foundation invests its charitable funds in companies that cqause more misery for the people they are trying to help--the la times should a win a pultizer for following the money.

The Lords Gym in Clermont Fla. (YMCA was founded on this sort of shit)

one of Dan WinterS Camera Obscura peices. The ebst ones are the v. modern subjects in 19th Century code for the usual reasons (ie the shoes over the telephone lines, but also the diagonals in the circle work well) rest here

anyone who thinks that the ECLA is the great progressive hope, should look at the case of Rev Bradley Schemling

Alexander Mcqueen makes me want to be Thin and Rich:




several four h workers, between the ages of 9-19, from Denver, apparently have done weird things to sheep, in order to win their contests.

also a cumbaria lakes sheep ring tone

why hilary can win (both hilary and obama ended up in US this week, but Obama wins, becuase he got a shirtless w. child, sexy dad shot, in the fornt section of paparazzi shots.

adn george richardson has a world record for shaking hands (it says soemthing that he cares enough abuot this stat, that he hired someone with a clickr to follow him, and record it)