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Randall Tobias, AIDS ambadassador for the Bush admin, and a fan of abstience only education for everyone, was named as a client of Pamela Marin Associates, the DC Madam. She had dropped Marin for a Central American firm, and i could point out the sexual colonism, and hyprocisy, but really its just too easy


Blaze Star, Arbus, 196?

she did several of these, this one is backage at the two o clock club at baltimore, and i lvoe how tired it, she looks like a professonial, and taking her clothes off, is as much work, and has as little glamour as anything else.


Charles Phoneix, Tour of Downtown LA and its pyschogeographic mapping w. disneyland, but better.

i find historical socities obsessed w. recliaming the history of long dead kings hysterically funny in their futilty, i thot the high light was the R3 society, but the arch conserative anglo catholic Society of King Charles The Martyr might trump. From the website: "The Society was founded in 1894 as ‘a Church Defence Union under the banner of the Martyr-King’ and its initial prime objective was ‘intercessory prayer for the defence of the Church of England against the attacks of her enemies" If you want to see examples of said intercessory prayers, please do check out the litrugical sample.

text of the commique for the primates in dar es saalem. the first five items sound like tourist postcards from blackpool. and more of the current unpleasentness

fantastic folk and protest songs from tom smith, who releases a song a week. (he be funny)


Studio Libertiny, 14k bees, one form (its all wax), and a few weeks, and a wax vase, from the dutch design company, who are friends of droog

the ogaden violent uprising that resulted in:

65 Ethopians Dead
9 Chinese Dead
7 Chinese Kidnapped. which will turn into a gong show
Ethopia has claimed that Eretia funds it, Ereteria has blamed somlia.


Ogaden is b/w Somalia and Ethopia, and this all ties into the recent slaugther in Somoalia. the bbc talks about that here. and the cfr provides context here. and even better Global Security dicusses it from the 70s onward. China's reaction to AFrica, is the great lost story, pure capital, and a certain amorality towards capital (uie they are the no 1 foriegn investors in both the Sudan and Zimbabwae, means that these adventures will be going for decades further

remeber thompsons eulogy on nixon, Matt Tiabbi, writing about Yeltsin, in Rolling Stone, exceeds that level of vitirol. An excellent lesson in russian history besides.

HighlightS:

If Boris Yeltsin ever had a soul, it was not observable in his early biography. He sold out as soon as he could and was his whole life a human appendage of a rotting, corrupt state, a crook who would emerge even from the hottest bath still stinking of booze, concrete and sausage.

But while Gorbachev's childhood turned him into a pathologically self-hating wannabe, a scheming, two-faced party intellectual who privately lusted after French villas and foreign-tailored suits and would eventually be undone by his habit of parading in public with a wife who wore jewels and furs, Yeltsin never left the mud and never tried to. He remained a mean, thieving country drunk his whole life.

his "life" was, until today, just a biological technicality -- it is hard to kill what has, inside, been dead all along.

He likewise outlived the Petersburg Democrat Galina Starovoitova, the reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the muckraker Artyem Borovik, the Duma deputy Yuri Shekochikhin, the spy Alexander Litvinenko -- they were all too human in one way or another for today's Russia, and died of unnatural causes at young ages, but not Yeltsin. While all of those people were being murdered or dying in mysterious accidents, Yeltsin spent his golden years in an eerie state of half-preserved, perpetual almost-death.

This pattern repeated itself over and over again, and eventually I got so fed up with it that, when he got sick again in 1999, I ran a cover in my Moscow newspaper The eXile that showed a picture of a wobbling Yeltsin over the headline, "DIE, ALREADY!!!

"Inconsistent reformer" is exactly the kind of language the American media typically used when describing Yeltsin during a period when he and his friends were robbing the Russian state like a gang of New Jersey truck hijackers.

hat Americans missed during Yeltsin's presidency -- and they missed it because American reporters defiantly refused to report the truth of the matter -- was that under Boris Yeltsin the Russian state itself became little more than a cash factory for gangland interests.

warren ellis plays with publishers weekly, like a bored cat plays with a rat.



interview with larua bush, who manages to be one of the mean girls, highschool sentiment, pentagon disinformation, and pure contillon bullshit. at least hilary never pretended to be anything but a cagey, oppurtunistic bitch.

marc zoller saltz writes a cogent, adn quite clever formal and techincal analysis of the narrative/visual compoents of zodiac.

a minor narrative of spandex play, porn, and the US army.

if you arent reading Cartoon Modern, you are missing great posts, like the original colour studies of 101 Dalmations

I think that the political moralizing, and the hirealism matched by even higher camp, might make daniel edwards the new jeff koons--esp the almost reacationary moralism remade as postmodern spectacle.