a couple of dozen ultra caustic single panel poltical cartoons by Mr Fish.

just in case you were wondering if the bug bear was treyf, a guide to the kosher nature of yr favourite animals.

Azariah Southworth, a fairly important xian broadcaster, basically responsbile for the jars of clay, comes out.


Ring, Lichtenstein, 1962, Oil on Canvas.
it is one of his strongest early works formally--no doubt, line and shape, and how stark it is, how it is w/o shadow--and also of scale, it is a perfect blow up of a newspaper ad. But to think of it in context of the other four, it has a preciscion that the four horsemen purposely lack, which is part of it, but the two rings, one for a man and one for a woman, seems to work as a hetero-normative challenge to the queer discourses that were starting to emerge around pop. it makes me wonder how much Lstein's delibrate and carefully precise works were meant to be against the smears and slathers of the others painterly work? (ie John's False Start Lithos, Rberg's Brace from 1962) (though two of warhol's most mechanically precise works: Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot) was amde in 1962) (you could make the arguement about the pepper pot painting, is that it in how it strips the label off of teh can, it becomes a parody of warhol's other work, it is using the prececsion of craft as a sly meta-joke, but even that joke was v. tite) (also, the brillo and the del monte boxes were made in 63, were tehy influenced by this?


and the new york rangers try to work against homophobia in hockey.

Daniel Radosh lists teh 10 best xian rock songs of all time--not a bad list, actually...this is mine:

1) Page France--Chariot
The cautious joy that this works towards, the idea that it is okay to be mildly looking forward to god, but to avoid the triumphalist desire elsewhere, and also the kids in the basement of some suburb in the midwest, making joyful noise, not self conciously amateurish, but a little bit raw.
2) Belle and Sebastion--If You're Feeling Sinister.
Aside from having one of the great pop hooks, and the glorious warmth of Murdoch;s voice, it makes the theological point, that most people love G-d not because of a seeking of presence, but of a filling of intellectual, social, and personal absences. That the last sentece talks about how that fails, how "if you are feeling sinister/go off to see a minister/he will try in vain/to take away the pain/of being a hopeless unbeleiver", suggests that christ wants yr whole person, not to work as a salve.
3) Low--I Remember
The world's best known melancholic mormon's (or at least the only ones who are out about it), create tight and ambigious metaphors about loss and desire, this one might be the saddest.
4) Danilson Familie--Flesh Thing
It's the barely controlled handclaps
5) Bob Dylan--Not Dark Yet
for the line "i still have the scars that the son could not heal"
6) Madonna--Ray of Light
for her entire career, i think, the flesh and the word, how she never really lost the catholicism thru the sex and thru the kaballah, this track has an energy adn an optism, that is absent from her earlier work.
7) Larry Norman--Why Should the DEvil Have All the Great Music.
The Bo Diddly Guitar, the sing/song work, and the belief in pleasure, the combonion of outre vocal ticks and hard won earnestness, and the kind of definsiveness, would lead the way to other weirdos.
8) Tim McGraw--Drugs or Jesus
one of the best songs about the hypocrisy of Christians and the ambiguity of saving grace.
9) Pedro The Lion--I Am Always the One Who Calls
Indie Moping but with fantastic drumming and excellent self loathing.
10) One Bad Pig-- Judas Kiss
aggro punk with a fantastic talked bit of sermon, nice bit of spectacle.
slashfood used one of my photos

the woman who told the police about abuse in the Texas FLDS Compund was an African AMerican from Colrado.


George W Bush on Deal or No Deal Last Night, Screencap via Paper Bag Notes.

paul simon is an asshole who ripped off Los Lobos.

robbie williams has spent the last decade following ufos in the desert.

more depressing news out of the Pentagon:

America's most senior general was "hoodwinked" by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.

General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from 2001 to 2005, wrongly believed that inmates at Guantánamo and other prisons were protected by the Geneva conventions and from abuse tantamount to torture.

this asshole was high enough up, that not knowing was deliberate ignorance.

Ngugi Wa Thong'o explains the current situation with Kenya.

five pages of McCain's almost pychopathic anger, from the washington post.

Danica Patricks wins an Indy Race.

Reich , labour secterary under Bill CLinton, endosrses Obama, doesnt help him win in Penn.

i buy a playboy about twice a year and i will for sure buy the girls of the olive garden specially issue


John Coltrane, Alabama, performed on Jazz Casual, 1963. (the precussive use of the piano here, is esp, resonent)

sonnabend estate goes to private collectors including gagosian (all the warhol's), for about 600m. the information, because she was so private, is ambigious.

easel sized
abstract painting is making a new york come back.


foxy brown, at church, after her release from jail, last sunday, via tmz.

stainless steel sciency necklaces.

i love these wrappings without presents by christine wong yap--they are like a high minimal, conceptuall based, lo fi koons. esp. the small gold ones on the white shelf.

food rationing on both coasts

edible a collection of the strangest foods on earth.



Bird Heart, Letter Press Print, 2008

Plover Circle, Collage, 2008

Antlershroom, Collage, 2008
i like the luxurious simplicity of these collages by Amy Ross.

fascianting article about he state of abortion education in health care.

mark penxa does illustration of baseball players from 1920s and 30.

naughty drawings by owl tooth. they have a really clever, low key wit, and a kind of shel silverstien style.

McCain gets 60k/yr in disability payments from the Navy.



from Reifensthal's Personal Site.
1) that she is posing with a camera, but not taking a shot, suggests the totemic power of fame the camera provided was as important as the creation of images.
2) that they are snapshots, indicates a casualness that Riefensthal never had
3) that she is posing as a hausfrau, and in the jagger photo looking up at him, underlies the rhetoric, or at least semiotics of denazifacation.
4) the images are really about how good she was at controlling her own image, of the power of her own fame, of everyone loving her as a master--just as the images of the nuba were claimed by her and her estate as her best work, to retain the facist obsession with bodies while denying it's genocidal racism.
5) the last one, is a masterpeice of tetuonic kitsch. (the seperation of kitsch nudes and art nudes, in the post nazi world, mostly centered around reifensthal, the work she did was art, the work others did continued to be kitsch, and dangerous at that--greenberg's essay avant garde adn kitsch, and i think greenbergs obsession with abstraction came from the worry about what bodies meant in germany)