i am drunk it is 6 am, the concert ended at 2, i am about to head home.

i have not thot about my oppostion to the death penalty in symbolic terms, but in purely practical terms, you cannot retract an executuion, if you are wrong you are permanatly wrong.

for example recently 25 prisoners in flordia have been recently exonorated.

rumours and facts about bea arthur.

1) sang with lotte lenya on broadway
2) may have shat in betty whites dressing room
3) drunkenly acosted an agent at elaines and slurred "yr the kind of man who ruined my life"
4) told rufus wainwright "im no ones fucking grandmother" after he metioned a line he wrote about wanting exactly that.
5) of her golden girls pals: we are awfully different people and we do not socialze

anne powers
found on pbs while searching for fred durst photoz

america
the minor thirds edit.

fucking the mormon missionary from cali
was like fucking america
or how i imagine the america in coca cola commericals
and hollywood sitcoms to feel like

having him close to me
was like having disneyland in me
cloying sweet and deeply artifical
fun when young, camp when old.

learning about god from him
was like learing from las vegas
except for the lack of theology
or theory.

loving him was like feeling guilty
for singing along to a pop song
and mourning for his loss
was like missing the tailfinned ford fairlanes.

it in the end
was even better then the real thing.

preacher who rallied publically against sodomites and whores is accused of soliciting oral sex from a 14 yr old boy

moses became so prideful and angry that he was not allowed into the promised land.
christ proved himself human in the desert, not by giving into temptation but by refuting it.
st anthony of the desert needed to see demons, devils, dancing girls. mirages of pleasure and then satan himself before he found god.
bryan knows this, and he knows what he needs to do, i wish him gods speed.

inka essenhigh

painterly, cartoonish, superflat(but american). sinister, with the colours of cartoons and the world arround us (here the ocean scenes in pinniocho and the surgical, clinical garb of dentists rooms and hospital scrubs), abstract enough that the giant eye just barely is visbible on a second viewing.

anthony : Brasilla, the first wholly modernist designed city, was built w/o sidewalks.

Yes and no. There are plenty of pedestrian paths to walk along. They just aren't alongside the roads. And when you think about it, if you have a choice, where would you prefer to walk? I'm also impressed by the fact that every Sunday, the central motorway is closed for pedestrians, who can then jog, cycle, scooter, and occasionally have stalls and concerts along it.
phil jones
ilx

lot of gay people think, 'I was just automatically gay. There was no decision involved,' but that's not really true. They've made their first big decision by just saying, 'I'm going to live a gay life.' And if they can make that kind of move it's an indication that the potential exists for something more. Now, a lot of them don't ever do anything about it because it's just as easy to get lost in this gay world as it is in the straight world. But if somebody really wants something different they can really do it on an independent, searching basis through being homosexual. —Tom Rauffenbart, The Ninth Street Center Journal, Vol. 2, 1974"

from bent kid

america
kgl

all that compact loveliness
and sun tanned earnestness
will cause you much pleasure. .

bleach the teeth, loosen your tie
the world will find your love of america qauint
and your lack of irony charming.

in the end you will be rewarded.
a split level, two children.
and a wife who learns to forget/

corpus christi

the body of christ
is placed on our tounges

except for the woman
facing the tabernacle

she is suckling her boy
instead.

by this turning away
she faces christ still

veronica looks over her right
mary looks over her left.

by the three
we are blessed.

going from city grime
to prarie dirt
with our romping
our ravages were tamed

until he left
and i returned to steel
while the coyotes
remained feral.

the paris review this month published a post houmus(sp) short almost lyric by ar ammons, that was found scrawled on the back of an envelope.

did they have the right to do this ?
what are the implications of lost or unedited manuscripts.

(also it was really fucking good)

: I would hope not. But I'll tell you this: I think that any honest and candid supporter of the death penalty has to acknowledge that that support comes in spite of the fact that there will inevitably be some mistakes. And that's a harsh concession to make, but I think it's the only honest concession to make, and it should spur us to have appreciation for habeas corpus, for the procedural safeguards for the accused, and for the fairness that's a part of the American judicial system and to resist efforts to take away the procedural safeguards.
al gore in the san fransico bay gaurdian
thanks to talk left for both of these links

howard dean has changed his policy on capital punishment, from anti to for, which may be realpolitik or a change of heart (is this one of the few examples of the lefts real politik?)

it looks like we were right about iraqi looting, the numbers are back up to about 6000 at a low estimate.
story here
via making light

and this is why i am against queer marriage:
the rest of the site is vaugely creepy

Silvio Berlusconi, the italian pm, who owns large chunks of media, construction, food and other buisnesses, and was about to indicted on bribery charges before he changed laws so he could be immune from prosuction until his term is up, today has recived the presidentship of the eu.

the guy is a facist, and he is a symptomn of italys continued nostalgia for this sort of shit.