Big Star, Night Time

the vatican office that supervises sexual abuse claims that they are vastly under staffed. the scandal gets closer to benedict who was contacted and refused to disclose/defrock a serial pedophile working in wisconsin. and the boy scouts maintained similar secret files:"testimony from a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responsible for a Scout troop of church members suggested the Scouts never provided training about spotting abuse or preventing it."

laurel and hardy--i was talking to dave about stuff and things, and he totally passed the Keaton test, then we moved on and he loved laurel and hardy and harold lloyd, and chaplin a little less. I like H&L more then Keaton, because I like the idea of two people who love each other so much that all of the disasters seem charming, and dave likes keaton for their unflappiblity. both work.

white board unicorns

80s xian kids kitsch--this time about not fucking around on yr spouse.

a href="http://pinktentacle.com/2010/03/photos-expo-70/">film and video from OSaka 70s expo.

there is neo-baroque homoerotica and then there are these murals in a coffee shop in veina, which look like tiepelo and robert altilla luckas's mind melded subconcious in the middle of a fisting session.

french vernacular signage

the nyrb follows the money vis a vis oppostion to health care.

From Untitled Album

dolphins by judith leiber

i find the politics of jeff sheng's don't ask don't tell photos a little naive, all things considered but the formal concerns, how he assumes the unique humanity of the sitter thru material signifers while darkening and shadowing easily recognizable faces and bodies is almost inegenious.

this was amusing pisstake of secualr educators trying to evangelize kids.

butler on obama, the mid east, war and torture


God ZZ TOP, how come I was never told about them before.

sweet little illustrations by Nikki McClure.

using rushdie's archive at emory university as an example, digital has a much shorter shelf life then almost any paper


trailer for the big c, which looks really funny--has one great line: "are you ready to order" "i'm just having deserts and liqour"