Celine does AC/DC

gregory lind does gorgeous suburban landscapes from thread and muslin.

english royal post has stamps based on the covers of ian fleming novels.

wojciech kakowski, marcin mostafa and natalia paszkowsk's design for the polish paillion at the world expo in shanghai, with its qoutation of lace, is gorgeous pix here

fags banned as donors

all of the rhetoric about iran, is uncanny. i dont think bush&co can start a war in iran before 2008, but it looks like they are not only trying, but trying in order to enmesh the next democratic president in it.

there is something strange about this story about a french writer being accused of racist crimes in kigali, but i cant quite unpack it


Sally Mann, Night Blooming Catelisis, Date Unknown.

pullman on milton. choice qoute:

He was not without his supporters. When his books were ordered to be burnt, the Bodleian Library in Oxford managed to conceal their copies of such inflammatory pamphlets as The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. John Rouse, Bodley’s Librarian, had anticipated such an order years before, and arranged for their titles to be omitted from the catalogue. A similar concealment happened later in 1683, when a panic about a plot to kill the King stirred the Convocation, the governing body of Oxford University, into interdicting “all members of the University from the reading of the said books” and requiring them to be burnt in the Schools Quadrangle. That was not the university’s finest hour, perhaps, but it might have been one of the Bodleian Library’s.

lethem. interveiwed in this months gq, msotly about rock and/or roll.


Camp DAvid, 1977.

teller of penn and teller is directing a production of macbeth.

this new book on greek classicism and same gender sexual culture, apparently is controversial.


Taser and MP3 on the same machine.
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">steinem on hilary--it saddens me she was the one that won the who will talk for the women wars, as she is so enmeshed into the establishment, but thats why she won--isn't it? (the discussion of hilary and the crying thing is so brer rabbit sticky that i dont want to touch it)

a dozen dry point illustrations for a german translation of renee the fox.

free english maps

i am reminded of stalins line about voting machines and voting systems

a fascaitning expriment about pacifism and constructed war (world of war craft)

mikro credito deep fries random crap, making oddly effectiev, almost fossilized looking objects.

julie burchill wants the return of the bitch.


this video of bottles rollign around the f train from brookyn to manhattan, was moving peice of urban archelogy.

good riddence to bad rubbish.

doctorow again on copyright.

baltimore uses the word yo as a genderless third pronoun.

Majuahraf blames the victim.

fascintinagin articel wtih first person detail about living for decades with hiv/aids.