From Eros Blog (19th Century, English, I think)
Archbisop Akinola, has an amazing power of rhetoric, describing the espicaplaions and rowan williams compromise thusly:
(Is the Challenge) to Fashion out a novel establishment that is elastic enough to accommodate all the extremes of the referred modes of expression of the same faith". "A cancerous lump in the body should be excised if it has defied every known cure," they say. "To attempt to condition the the whole body to accommodate it will lead to the avoidable death of the patient."
bbc here
Christopher Kelly mounts an excellent defense in favour of Larry Clark (loved kids, like the photos, hated bully, walked out of ken park offended)
Taking Sides:
Alex Ross
Some Church in Tennesse
The Wilsona School District board has approved new library book-selection guidelines in the wake of trustees' controversial decision to remove 23 books including the latest "Harry Potter" from a list recommended for a school library. Books now cannot depict drinking alcohol, smoking, drugs, sex, including "negative sexuality," implied or explicit nudity, cursing, violent crime or weapons, gambling, foul humor and "dark content."
I Think Whats Left is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
story here Wilsonia is near LA
Cecilla Fire Thunder got impeached by her tribal council.
Annie Pootoogook is an inuk artist, mostly drawings and prints, of contemprary culture. In the review of her show at the harbourfront, the globe and mail reminds us that what we consider inuit teadtional art didnt exist until the 50s, because as a nomadic people, it would be imossbile to carry large chunks of soap stone, or the nessc .equipment for litho or stone carving. the work we consider tradtionally inuk is an excercise in post colonial translation, and entertaining westerners. Some of it is incredibly powerful, but it is post settlement work, politically suspect. It also explains why they Pootoogook refuses the mytho-historical work that sells, but draws the way they live in the arctic now. She has a three generation, female background, and i think some of the reason why she gets shows at the harbour front, is that sort of chuckling at assumed naivtee, but i find her use of history, and materials historically sound, touching, formally innovative, and highly skilled. (one of the things the globe and mail talks about is her lack of colour skill, or that she cant draw--both of these can be disproven in works like this:
Where the green and the pink interact in a seies of inverted traingles, forcing the perspective in a monumental, almost classic way.
or this:
a defense of whale hunting, a history lesson, a refusal of the arctic as a dead white place, like the romanticism of farley mowat, and then that blue, like casper david fredirch, or the dun hills and the grey of the whale put into proper perspective by the shocking pink blubber.
A priest who used an ax to hack up a Rockford medical clinic where abortions are performed has been assigned to a top position at an Elgin church.
store here
(he only stopped b.c of the owners shotgun. elgin is a wealthy suburb of chicago)
hundreds of plane accidents. both pix and video.
Muslims, Xians and Jews have been killing each other in Jersulum for 1000s of years. They finally have something they can all agree on--guess what it is?
yep hating fags
speaking of fags--the us army still wont let us in, but they will let in nazis
(ive always thot nazis were hot)
this might be the best lede ever
Part of a 1.4m subway campaign funded by Jews For Jesus. Aside from their dodgy theology, two questions:
1) Where the fuck do they get 1.4m
2) Who is the designer of those posters, they are iconic, humane, and really pop--i want them. (the hand written font, the star of david, the primary colours, the simplicity of message, and the transforming it, centralizing jews as opposed to jesus,its a brilliant campaign)
Millions of Black Starlings, blocking out the sun, in Denmark.
dozens of odd creatures around new york, including this fellow:
from one of my favourite silentsA home where police found a "super" drug lab last week also housed an elaborate hospital-like operation -- stocked with thousands of dollars in medical equipment, surgical tools and supplies -- that authorities believe was to be used to treat injured criminals.
The top floor of the Runnymede Street home was filled with "boxes upon boxes upon boxes" of medical supplies and contained a room equipped with a hospital bed, fresh linens, scalpels, IV stands and surgical tools, according to Lt. Tom Alipio of the East Palo Alto police department.
"It was set up just like a hospital room,'' said Alipio, who said a second room was in the process of being set up. "We found a kit that a surgeon would use to reassemble a joint -- like a hip or a shoulder."
No Pictures, but story here
I have no idea about this peice, but i dont think its camp.
Harmony Kormine's new film is described as being about "a young American man lost in Paris. He scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing on the streets, public parks, tourist spots and trade shows. Different from everyone else - he feels as if heís floating between two worlds. During a car show Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe. Haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple. A place where everyone is famous and no-one gets old. Here, The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Nuns fall out of airplanes and children ride pigs. Everything is beautiful. Until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream" I love Kormine.
Here is a production shot:
Pretty!
This basket was made in Ghana, out of telephone wire. It is such a large problem, that it is inteferring with communication in the capital, and pushing wireless technology. story here: here
the washington post reports suspicion on whether the mexico presidental electiosn were rigged
i remember tousling with a racist on some stupid site years ago, about how the mali mosques and the chartes cathedrals were as impt, vital, holy, etc--it was a stupid attempt at equivalences, but here are some gorgeous photos: and a great article to boot.
a review of the book queer cowboys
