scooter libby goes free, and no one is really suprised.



A Woman Polishes Her Cunt on Stalin's Head.


Fantastic video for the newish Merle Haggard single, lets rebuild america first, with a strong isolationist angle.



From a European Supplier of Modernist Furniture, 20 bucks, hiart.

you know those conversations you had about the meaning of life, at dinner parties in the first year of college, where eevryone was either drunk or stoned, and everyone thought they were changing the world by being v. v. clever, apparently bush is having those salon style in the oval office, w/o the drugs. and compares the iraq imperial adventure to the american revoultion. john howard refuses to acknowledge the connections b/w petro dollars and the war.

48 Minutes of Sontag talking about Regarding the Pain of Others.



Cover for MIA's new album Kala. I am thinking of writign an essay about the folk culture of 8 bit nostalgia, but dont know where to sell it.

a one minute video from Ryan McGinley, funded by Puma. Its two people riding a bicycle naked thru a verdant green field in what looks like the south of france. isolated, pleasurable, and deeply a political, it lacks the erotic frission of his early work, but has a back to the garden gorgeousness. reminds me of the idealazation of woodstock as presented by mitchell, as opposed to the real muck of the concert:
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

the best things about these altered book peices, is not the narrative constructed by absence, but the visual construction that binds them together.



This Weiermer has a genetic condition called double muscle disorder.

great murky photos of commonness, by will rogan.

new jason panels. including this one:



Shot at 2007-07-06
the transition b/w outside adn in, in the fourth panel, told mostly thru colour, is outstanding.

apparently the biggest seal hunt int he world is in nambia.

Count Gottfriend Von Bismark infamous german decadent, finally overdosed on heroin. the telegraph obit is so dry and really quite bitchy--the last sentence is a must read.


This video was in the New Yorker. The idle rich, etc.

Wong Kari Kai is remaking Welle's The Lady From Shanghai.

chicago poster designer aesthetic appartus, makes these gig posters, that move b/w being legible and redectivley elegant, and noisy, scummy mess ups. really excellent work.


this one is my favourite.

South-African composer Philip Miller debuts his multimedia opera about the dissolution of apartheid. The performance blends image projections, recorded testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, the voice of opera star Sibongile Khumalo, and a 100-person choir.
From New York Magazine...I want to hear this.

Albini answers questions about music on a chicago poker story.

more violence in a pakistan mosque.

biafra is thinking about doing a ethopia/ereteria thing with nigeria.

our favourite madam has been given permission to release the names of her 15k clients,.



Josh Duhamel, Still From Transformers.
He looks so intense and vietnammy here, but instead of maoists he is killing giant robots, its bizarre.



Claude Cahun, 1936. (i wonder what the tapestry in the back is, it looks like a rothko or something)