From Der Speigel, Bush at an International Conference. (More context means I would have to speak German)

the present master mason in utah is lds. that they were banned for 60 years in the middle of the 20th century, and controlled the masons before hand, this is news.

Tata from India buys Rover and Jaguar.

Greenfield Saunders photos of iraq war veterans has this kind of blankness, and glamour that are found in his porn star work, and esp. his fashion work.

al jaffee fold ins, done digitally. (i could never get the paper ones to match up.

someone please buy me this

this utagawa show in brooklyn looks well worth looking at.


John Waters, Style and Glory, 2008, one of 6 manquettes comissioned for th Armory Show.

158 pages of Vigee Le Brun paintings, drawings and prints.

charles keeping's illustrations for Horned Helmet, are gorgeous, with a fluid line, and an approite ferocity (Vikings!) (other less exciting work as well)

MArylin Minter skateboard decks.

hockney 's thesis on camera and fine art, extends into cinema and politics.

all i am going to say about max mosley, is that after his five whores played nazi sex games, they got together for a nice cuppa. arendt and freud, together again for the first time.


Wikipedia photo for the Estate of Gregymog, in Wales.

atwood on anne of green gables including the fact there was an anime?!!

... our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations. See Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, and William J. Haynes, II, General Counsel, Department of Defense, from John C. Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Robert J. Delahunty, Special Counsel, Re: Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States at 25 (Oct 23, 2001).

Footnote, Yoo Document Two.


Batman and Wolverine, Unknown Artist, 2008

It's nice to have words on paper that prove the Bush Admin was delibrately, and efficently shredding the constution.

alice shershow's jewlery, themed around alaska, have a poltical edge, and a wisdom about material fetish, sourcing and politics, that extends them above just craft--but they are v. v. well crafted.

egg collecting and working class culture, as a felony, via the bbc.

11 installation shots of the nw Murakami show in Brooklyn, including some of a giant, abstracted sculpture, he calls Mr Pointy--one of a seires. That it came from LA suggests that the switch from east to west coast, and the imporantce of the pacfic rim has become finalised.



Rainbow Portrait, 1600, Phillips. (Look at the snake on her shoulder, the cloak filled with eyes and ears, how the lace on the back of the dress looks like moth wings, the floral motifs, how she is 20 feet younger, and how the rainbow has the pearlescent shine of the unicorn, this is Elizabeth as Gaia.)

Hockney moving back to Yorkshire, has made his work more epic, less human, more about landscape, almost northern romantic, and about the contstant vitality of realist paitning. he has donated Bigger Trees Near Warter, to the Tate Britian, and it is 40 by 15 feet, in a mosiac style.

Hammer Quiz (i am poor at it, getting none of them right)

Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch:The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry from the journal of manly arts.


the influence of warhol on Easton-Ellis' Prose Style.

26 photos of soilder art on the barrier wall in Camp Buhering, Kuwait.

another KBR Rape Case.


I Love Cul De Sac, by Richard Poor.