France, in its attempts to march towards secuarism and avoid its muslim influx and catholic roots, has banned religous articles from class rooms.

i think its a singualarry (sp) bad idea, and diveristy should be encouraged.

bbc

As much as I have problems with the Church, there is a time and a place for this sort of thing, doing so at the vatican mid performance would be a bad time and place

ilx

One of the first criticisms of gehry inside architectual circles, Johnathon Clancey thinks they represent "the attack of the blog"

First Nations baskets, with their subtle and permating abstractions, moving between meaning and form, are like sand paintings or quilts, the beginning of a new, american art.

a huge exhibit at the musuem of the american indian, in dc shows hundreds of varriations and implications, and also extensive how tos.

check it out
mefi

bryan and i are fighting, and this time it looks more serious then before, the clenched jaws and half sentences indiating we are serious

danielle came home and we collapse into old wonderful patterns, the only one i retained from high school, there must be something there.

she liked romaine brooks, i knew she would, its odd how much my taste has changed since and how much things have changed.

duncans show is up at fab, wall paintings, things propped up, things on floors, elegant complex wonderfully played out, nostalgic formalism, but he never calls himself a formalist.

and the show downstairs, seeping pigment thru white sheets, like if helen frankenthaler did right of the first night, and clumsy random paintings,which bored... and an installtion peice with honey and troughed canvas's that looked medical.

purple ink and red chalk make me as happy as mechanical penguins.

I want to be more like Judith Butler than like Michel Foucault.
Madonna

She wants a PhD from Oxbridge in queer theory, womens studies and gender studies, does she even have high school ?

i am glad that they captured sadaam, i look forward to when order and democracy enter iraq, i am unsure that outside forces will cease resistence. i am unsure that the violence will let up, i am cynical that the americans will improve the sitution.

Top 5 Poetry Books of the year are all collections of cannonical writers. This makes me sad, that one of the nations leading papers thinks that poems are so moribund that only what was produced is worth looking at.

Homeland Sec. Head Tom Ridge wants to make illegals, legals...mostly to keep track of them, but even so, this might be an indication that things arent all bad.

a good summary of my aesthic feelings and practices, done by the fine folks at freaky trigger, in fact i think it is the manifesto i agree with most, with its refusal to view hi as better then lo, and its refusal to capitualte to history.

ilx

will martin make us yearn for the days when creiten tried to be even a bit progressive ?

queer day

look you didnt like the badger cam, and i was sad--but i hope this is better...its a camera that measures contential drift!

saint johns dream last night, first time in years.
might have been the cold, might have been something else.

thot of gateway before bed, and in group yesterday. i do not know what is my fault, what is aspies, what is the editors and what is no one.

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

i wanted ludwig, thank josh

William Trost Richards

i did a google search, but liking him is just a little bit shameful

warhol
suicide
1962

an acessiable, well written, clever and difficult history of the turner prize lavishly illustrated, with many hyperlinks.

worth a glance

Sexuality is ethically correct when it is done by two adults who consent, and are capable of consent, being on the same power base. The problem with this is when someone consents to be cannibalized.

its a t shirt

via ship of fools