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Actual Graphic from Focus on the Family

maegan hill has four collections of photos on her site, mounds, mounds ii, rocks, and hedges. they are all excellent.

russia ends jury trials against enemies of the state, which is defined so loosely, that it could be anyone who democratically protests against putin and company.

while i like the EU i have no idea how it will maintain its structural integrity, this weeks example being Klaus, the czech PM who is now the rotating leader, and who is a fairly far right and is an avowed Euro Skeptic, though one wonders how much damage he can do in 6 months.

venture brothers do hard candy xmas, which is genius.

160 titles of b movies from the 40s to 80s.

sam sparro black and gold, anglo langorous disco, beautiful work.

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i have no idea the context of this photo.

solar powered monkey


Guy Forsyth sings If I had Possesion over Judgement DAy, as part of a pretty awesome Asylum STreet Spankers concert

lynn yeager the village voice fashion columinist who wrote adroitly about the intersections of personae, class, money, the city, and clothes, never ignoring the political, has been fired by the VV

enema bags remade as art history classics. and a high fashion calendar from a german plumbing manufactuer.

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New Washroom by Shingoro Ben, outside Kyoto

i really like chris bucks witty and sort of strange celeb photos

a bookshelf blog.

i have a much less of a problem with the states getting a trillion bucks from the federal government then i do AIG or GM.

the gaurdian goes to west virginia and interviews lynndie england, who comes across as both pyschopathic white trash and genuinely too stupid to have any idea what is going on, the story is a perfect encapsulation of Arendt's ideas of the banality of evil.

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Which is the signifer, and which is the signifed?

70 Polaroids by Warhol, via Paul KAsmin--how do they keep them so crisp, and jesus do i love the colours of late 70s polaroids---interesting too, the intersection between his photos for photo sake, and his photos as studies for prints and paintings, plus his obsession with new techonlogies.

hunter thompson motivational posters.

greg owen was shot while handcuffed, and prone, by BART cops in Oakland. Here is local news reports using cell phones cameras.

6 photos of old pittsburgh photos, my favourite being the jefferson court.


6 minutes from Los Anglese Plays ITself, about modernism, LA, and how its iconic new buildings seem to be used by villians (does anyone have a torrent of this?)

the worlds sexiest supermarket

Palin manipulated her wife's husband

Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert John Divos, 1993-2001, charming and sweet LA photo conceptualism.

a visual history of moore's law

photos of the abandoned set of the wire

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Aussie Cowboy, in the new issue of Tetu, the french fashion journal.

bob barr makes the liberterian arguement against DOMA

25 films on the 2008 national film perservation board list, including the killers, terminator, and 1950s home videos of disneyland.

Betty Parsons who died last week, spent four decades supporting new music, this list of who her grants helped is amazing, including but limited to Adams operas Nixon in China and the DEath of Kinghoefer, Harrison Bristwistle's piano concerto Antiphonies, an annual grant from 1965 until death to pay for John Cage's living expenses, annual grants from Merce Cunningham from 1988 to the present, grants for living to Harry PArth from 1964-1974, Annual grants to Steve Reich from 1980 onward plus money to help him record and compose Tehilim, Music for 18 Musicians and others, Morton Feldman's peice in memory of John CAge, Help to record early Glass recordings in the 70s,and major work by Terry Riley, Virgil Thomson, Le Monte Yonge, and dozens of others.

birthday gift idea another (rodeo and freud, hott)

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Tom Gaugh is a genius.

48 beer matts

beautiful, incredibly comprhensive blog about monsters.

living up with star wars a collection of photos of children from the late 70s and early 80s interacting with star wars, say really interesting things about folk translations of massively popular high media texts.

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