the LA Times extensive seires on the drug wars that are pulling mexico apart, and the consquences for south western united states, without being too racist or needlessy paniced, this is why we need newspapers. (excellent multimedia work as well, with photos, videos, interactive maps, and hyperlinked stories)

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New Baby Aardvark, Detroit Zoo

laudatory ny times review of DTWOF. Bechdel noted that this is the first time in history that the times has used the word dyke ever, and that they only started using gay and lesbian instead of homosexual ca 1994.

an opthomologist reviews Riley.

nice little article that lists objects that genuinely shocked a professional art historian, who was used to contempary art that was intended to decimate. (the list of work that has genuinely shocked me is fairly small, and neatly mirrors her categories (ie the shock of sex, the shock of colour, the shock of violence, the shock of prank, and the shock of shock) (sex: borgeious's phalluses, les naieds at the national gallery, sarah lucas newspaper works, sickert's prostitutes, czech bestality etchings from the 1890s, Salo) (colour: riley's veldt, noland from 1967, frankenthaler's sea and mountain) (violence: grosz's drawings, the artist worker coalition's and babies:and babies poster (i saw again, at MoCCa last week and it still punches me in the guts), Chaim Soutine's oxen) (prank: warhol's screen tests, spock madonna now on the streets of new york, hermann nitsch's specatcles (though also sex and violence)) (shock of shock: paul mccarthy, kara walker, terrance houle) (sickertt is a good example, because when i read cornwall's foolish book, i knew where she was coming from, the works looked like they belonged to a sex murderer)

tucker nichols virtually curates ten natural patterns for the sf:moma

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Model Guinevere Van Seenu for ACne JEans, 2008.

Americans refuse to signanti gay discriminaiton bill at the UN

nascar settles a 2225m sexual harrassment suit.

beautifully written article on a small house near mount rainer, in the middle of a suburban neighbourhood, that was designed to work in relation to the landscape.

100 cereal box covers.

andy mangold redesigns the new monopoly box that is both gorgeous and much more functional.

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Nixon, Dinner at the Mural Room

Kenneth L:ibrecht of Cal Tech photographs snowflakes.

marx lennist rewrite of thomas the tank engine.

i dont know if i like these mumble fuck photos, i know what he is doing, the compoistion is strong, but its a little too dirty, a little too derritiave, i think. (but i keep coming back to them, and there is something about their wetness, their heavily calculated faux realness, that overcomes the hipster obviousness? maybe?

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Illustration to a guide to Historical Biology, 1867

leah evans does really gorgeous topographical maps.

the german love of canadina continues unabated.

tanuki are japanese racoon dogs with epic testicles. here are some prints of them

some important unanswered questions about the madoff mess.

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some classic anti papist photo propganada from the 19th century.

beard revue a beard blog.

303 gallery shows a table made from a chevy truck back.

annie vought uses cut paper and adhesive to make large scale antomioncal models--the ones of the neck are esp beautiful.

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James Fuentes
Grandfather Clock, 2006
Cardboard, quartz clock movement
12" x 9" x 64"

washington city paper used a photo of mine

Ratzinger is not a moron, and he has a well thought out, entirely consistent theology, and a moral theology that has yet to be queered, or at least a queer response has not been formulated (i should not say queer, i should say gay) to the idea that homosexuality is not natural--that he makes a carefully articulated defense of nature as he sees it, that he has a holistic view that suggests the lack of care that we take as humans to trees and owls is the same as a lack of care we take to our sexualities, is most likely correct at least in a thomist sense, and he is profoundly thomist (in general he is reactionary in extreme, from his latin xmas messages to his revival of hats last seen since sixtus). i think the question that queer theologians have to ask, is if same gendered sexual contact is unnatural, what are the implications for us, and the follow up is, how is same gendered sexual contact natural? (lee edelman tries to answer some of these questions in Queer Theory and the Death Drive, a book well worth picking up) (the link goes to Rocco Palmo's essay on ecology and Benedict, in relation to these recent ideas)

Richard Tuttle's small set of geometric abstractions, Purple, are cryptically, a formal taxonomizing of all the ways green can be close to blue or yellow, while still maintaining its formal ability.

coal companies posion tennessee, this time with hundreds of thousands of toxic, radioactive ash breakign levvees.

photoblog of a new york city fireman

the cavanagh company of providence rhode island makes most of the communion wafers for catholics, anglicans and lutherans in the US, the photos of ths nyt profile are bizarre.

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robin covers cobrasnake