edd hurt talks about the cultural implications of big and rich. their first album i thot was really interesting in how it managed to make camp objects seem deeply earnest, and vice versa, and its radically fractured musical signifers, but they ave become more sentimental, less radical, more steady in what they like, the last album was a disaster. hurt disagrees with me, but the article is well worth reading.

the warhol pricefixing scandal goes to court, i find it ironic that the master of the inauthentic author/producer managed to find himself the biggest bulldogs in the buisness.



19th Century, Star Pattern, Northern Penn., 19th CEntury, most likely Amish.

us solider charged with murder for not revealing his hiv status.

fascaiting video of the silver shaun leane, who does jewlelery for alexander mcqueen, its one of those style.com things, so vaccous and not very careful of the tradition, which is a shame because leane's work fits into mcqueens aesthtic of radicializing anglocraft and aesthetics (and by radicailizing, i mean using techniques from the 12th century to make paduong style bodices or papua new guineasque face skewers, if both of those were saxon or pict)







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Three images from Andres Larsen Dahl, from the late 1860s to the early 1870s. Wisconsin. Though they do mention people, the properties overwhelm them, I dont know if this is a question of technology or an aestethic choice, but they do remind me, quite obviously, of atget, which leads to questions of city vs country, fame vs obscurity, and the role of historical societies in perseveration of lost imagery (what would have happened to atget if he hadnt been discovered by breton and the surrealists?) (images via soth's blog, in an entry on circle pictures, he didnt mention content then, and i chose images that werent nessc in circles)


the college republicans talk about the war in iraq, the talking point about going into the war seem easy, but the not joining itself comes difficultly. a michael moore stunt, but amusing.

russia expells uk nationals from its embassay over Litvinenko's murder.

steisandS concert demands in lonon have reached louis xvi's levels

a large number of broadway gays, apparently are goign in for the ex gay thing...

though this errol morris article on visual imagery and versmilliutude is about still imagery, it seems an implicit response to criticism about documentary film makers...its talk about truth and false in nature of "art" doesnt say anything new,but what it does say is clear and wise.



Violet Blue as Hunter S Thompson

6 heart breakings pages of context on isabella blow. the qoutes from her husband and the absence of talk from dahl or mcqueen are the impt bits.


Rachel pointed out this video of phillipino prisoners performing thriller, and by prisoners i mean thousands of them, its interesting for a few reasons
1) the implications of getting that many people doing the same thing (ie the spectacle of masses bodies)
2) the rise and fall of michael jackson
3) the gender roles, and the use of one transgendered prisoner as a "star"
4) the last few seconds, with their portrayal of prison rape, turn the implication of horror, into something more autobiographical.

just when you thought bush couldnt widen executive privelege any more, he goes and does it...also this peice of legistalation that threatens to confiscate property and capital from:

"(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person."

its a reworking of the seizure leg that udnergirds the war against some drugs,and it is vague enough to be politically convienent.

jenny holzer does twitter.


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Koen Harner, Modified Atlas of Anatomy, Digital Print, 2000

images of the ventroliquist musuem in knoxville tennessee, creepy in the uncanny valley sense.

swansea university translates and digitizes the collected work of medeival welsh poet dafydd ap gwilym, poltical, filthy, and often v. funny, the limited translations i have fond gwilym have made him one of my favourite poets of the era, here is a dick poem with the fantastic lines:
By God penis, you must be guarded
with eye and hand
because of this lawsuit, straight-headed pole,
more carefully than ever now.
Cunt's net-quill, because of complaint
a bridle must be put on your snout

Rugger
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Situtiaonal Homsexuality and Rugby: A Case Study in Scouse. (w. druken publick handjobs)

The Mull of Kintyre was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown.The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland.

(via wikipedia)

237 reasons to have sex

four pages of vazoleen posters.

250k promise keepers go to washington, rising from the dead.

gullaini'sd advisors included a adult baby, a cop who hires illegals and took kickbacks, and now a paedophile preist.

russian neo nazi skinheads, beat 7 anarchsits and killed one enviromental, in the ukraine. more information via indy media uk

new w photoshoot that combines fur with furries, in some wierd magical autumnal forrests.

this is the correct link to those container ship casulaties

jihadist blog attempts to prove that homosexuality is a jewish conspiracy, with a list that features both tony kushner and gerteude stein.



Still from Captavity, the thing that pissees me off about the film its cliches, its lolitiachan aesthetic, its boredom, and its lack of effort, is encompassed in this image.