every so often i see some photos from a Maya Lin project I hadn't seen before, and I am reminded of how wise and gentle her work is. That she made the iconic post modern statement of mourning, often preculudes an appreciation of her other work, like the langston hughes library, on Alex Haley's farm...practical, close to the land, and devoted to local forms, it is a v. smart building that is humble about the skills of its maker.

innovative twisting drawers.

this story about Deborah Palfrey killing herself instead of going to jail, makes me so angry and so sad.

60 photos of school lunches. do not look nutrious or appetizing.

has anyone seen Jorgen Leth's Scenes from America? The synopsis, written on imdb by Anon, sounds fascianting:

As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film

i wrote this

godwin on godwin's law. where he makes clear the rhetorical itnentions of his concept.

the independent on global proifteers of the world food crisis.

fascianiting
first person essay on what men who loev men and women who love women, do with bodies, the difficult and personal realtionships between our need for affection and our need for saftey--my aspies, because of its realtion to touch, and because of its elimnation of social boundries, means that i am much less aware of and require much more, the touching of people, and so i never considered the implications of pdas.



D Sent me these, but I haev no idea who took it, the clothes are D&G

three thoughts about the sdsu drug raid.
1) tactically, one never deals large amounts from one fixed lcoation, esp. when the world knows of yr rep as a party school.
2) tactially, one decides b/w coke or pot, one is much safer to be caught with then the other, one is much easier to hide.
3) it is alot safer for students to sell to students, then to get the gangs and guns involved, when real criminals come in to fill the whole.

the 100 worst album covers ever.

snubs her family on her deathbed, and leaves the entire (substantial) estate to her wife, who she marriedo n her deathbed. (Almodavar, make this movie)

bill henson opera series, 1990-91, taken at the paris opera, beutiful but expected, note the comments on the bottom though.

longish suckjob on Gagosian, still cryptic.

this boston article about people trying to sell their pick up trucks is reflected in the pick up truck ads i see on televsion, which lately have become more and more hectoring and desperate.


the Mothers day card I am sending mine.

roger ebert on the inevitale hillary clinton movie.


This is kind of sweet, and kind of sad, and more then a little creepy, the virtue of the net, i think, is to allow these discourses to seep out.

teh problem with serra is that you cannot fully dismiss him until you see his stuff live.

the birth control pill in common usage, is not an aborfeacent, and i really wish rabid conseratives osbessed with maintiaining power over women's body would quit saying it was. (also, when yr cites include Eternal Perspective Ministries, The National Catholic Register and the Humane Vitae, i am not going to start truting yr ability to read medical texts well)

fascainting online collection of LDS Primary Ephemera, from 2003. Look esp. at the primary logos on the lower third of the page.

even Houllebucqs mother hates him. My favourite qoute:

This individual, who alas came from my womb, is a liar, an imposter, a parasite and above all - above all - a petit arriviste ready to do absolutely anything for money and fame."

erica barnett's colelction of misogynst links against hilary, is a slap to the face for obama supporters, a bracing call to make sure that this rhetoric is not used.



Photo of Gennie, who provided the genetic samples.
my spirit animal the platypus, has been found to be stranger hen thot possible, after the genome has been mapped. article on the toxicology of platypus venom.

four hopeless but v. well drawn, diary entries from Anders Nilsen


Johnathon King, There is Nothing Wrong With Buggering Boys. (where he plays Oscar WIlde.)