Self Righteous Breeders and Safe Gays talk very genreally about how you should be honest, w/o mentioning the consquences.

some idiot couldnt figure out how to fly, and crasehd into a high end condo.


this chart, made by a denver blogger, is equally applicable to sherwood park...

this promotional video of a shrimp deveining machine, is one of the most beautiful things ive seen

james dobson blames the foley mess on the boys

this is me

one of the most important sections of word in the world, was a discussion of the devoplmento f copyright in realtion to ameriacn protesant hymnody, it was the imperious to many laws, and most hymns in the 1840s to the 1870s were stolen and repurposed for several denomonations. so it comes to no suprise at all, that several of the same issues, and an ethic of copyright that is ambigious and dificult, esp in relation to the effictivness of evangelicalism, is being sussed out by the same groups...Geoff Boucher writes about it in the LA Times

Terrance Howard's new role is a biopic of charlie pride, which i for one, am excited about.

Three Images from Arnold Broklin, Swiss, 19th Century



the problem with believing in the narratiev of the 20th century, is that images like this, with a virtouso painterly qauilty, and a fascainating grotessqueness, are lsot and the people who try to reclaim it, attach a belief in this kind of work with a reactioanry politics. this, and the fairy painters of england, and certain nordic excesses, are sadly flown away, and the critical history of art can handle the impressionists/fauvists but not thhis at the same time

Franklin Kaemeny, founder of the Mattachine society, with Harry Hay, and the beginnings of the modern gay right struggle in north america, has his papers in the library of congress...story and images here. This heartens me immensley.


DC Wallin, Union, 2004


From the Pelinger Library Blog, Tragically unupdated in months, this gorgeous map of sheep ranges


Found Collage of WWII material, mid 50s


Annie Leibowitz, Self Portait, When she was pregant with sontags child


Thousands, off the sea of japan, some as big as 7 feet.


From this months W magazine, a seires of about 12 images, this was the only one that didnt work

more about limbo, i mean to write about this at length later...


A man who plunged to his death from the sixth floor of a German aristocrat’s home had been taking part in a gay orgy while bingeing on cocaine, an inquest was told today.

It gets kinker from their

ohum panker, the turk writer, won the nobel at 54. i found snow an impt adn moving novel, which reminded me a lot of grass, and talked much about post national identities, in a lyrical, dificult way. i want to read his other work. he seems young.

american born chinese by gene yang, is the first novel to be nominated for a NBA. i thot funhome would do it

its national coming out day today. i thot that you should know that i am a homosexual

1) the soundtrack (girl group, and falsetto, matching something truly butch)
2) the dressing, rather then undressing
3) its real presence as an urtext (anderson, the popularaztion of finland, punk, lynch, jackass?, barney?)
4) the iconography (skulls, the scorpio badge) in teh extended bedroom sequence
5) the intertextuality (james dean, who stole from the outlaws, is being stolen from in turn, in the little altar, where he acts as a trinity, with elvis and the jolly roger) (or him watching the motorbike movie while suiting up)
6) the presence of lil abner comics, and making lil abner almsot pornographic, and defiantly queer (is it lil abner?)
7) god i want the boots
8 the super quick intercutting in palces, adn how some of the boys seem very amgy
9) drugs as interior design
10) the sludgy, murky soundtrack, like a shotgun underwater
11) it seems v. LA, i just got finished reading visonar states, adn the all of it, the soundtrack, the shots of oscars, the seeing things thru movie screens, teh odd bluelightling that looks like the sunshuien glare is trying to be blocked out,
12) its only kind of satanic, but the whole sexual subtext of jesus as motorcycle boot enthusit is remarkably erotic (to the chiffons hes a rebel?!?!
13) whats the source text for the jesus scene
14) its machine fetishism, its tellign of charachter thru costume and interiro design, rather than dialouge, etc, is sirkian
15) the nude scenes are very brief, and ambigous, which makes thnigs even more exciting
16) the frenzy, teh hot to trot, overwhelming popcult frenzy, that occurs at the rape scene, intercut wtih more jesus, is really disturbing, noisy adn nightmarish
17) making the connection b/w the aesthetics of fascism, the hsitory of xianity and american popular culture, in the last third, seems to tie up the issue is a nice little bundle and the swatiska/hitler intersplices seems extrenous
18) the pan(ic) scene to the religous ambigious I will Follow Him is a really nice touch though
19 it gets boring near the end

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THE WOMBATS FROLIC, TODAY...BECAUSE IT IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE SACRED NOG

Found in a gay party mag, in manhattan, Crystal is Meth

Gauthier, at his 25th Coutier Show

20 pictures of a Peruvian pagenat for prison workers
I wrote this

Audrey Tatter

Image from Batman Confidental no. 1, the one pritned in preivews is much less gaudy, adn in that way, slightly more interesting, but rococo in its self refentiality

Ballards new one, but it looks really smart

long trenchant intereview with him...one of the things that was said about ballard recently, was that the formal innovation moved into thematic innovation, so he is taking the novel agaisnt itself, this interview supports that

From CNN
Attorney says Foley was molested as a teen and is gay
• Foley never had sexual contact with a minor, is not a pedophile, lawyer says
• Report: Congressman had cybersex with teen before 2003 House vote
• Attorney: Foley will elaborate when he is released from treatment center
story here

great polarodis from darwin bell, he takes words and makes them into cryptic or poetic senteces, sometimes cliched, adn sometimes of his own making--fsod material, im sorry i didnt think about it

images of the sultan of brunei's plane, look at the gold sink


NORML put these in ice cream, cheetos, and the visine isles of several wal-greens...to the point, and v clever

island mammals evolve about three times the speed of their counterparts, anyone have any idea why?

ny times story on the restoration of hirsts The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living., with some amazing fotos





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mark foley

the gop knew that this was happening for years, and people where becoming genuinely upset with the death of habeous corpus, tortue, etc, so they needed someone to throw on the fire--with the increasing panic chamber of adolescent sex, and the raw homophobia of american media, meant that foley was a perfect scapegoat and they swung it in such a way that everyone is talking about foley the chickenhawk and no one (except susie bright) is talkign about bush the waterboarder.

trinity of history as excercise in surreal/physical displacement:

back to basic/idlewild/black dahlia

vern robinson makes gonzo socon adds, of amazing insanity, this is my favourite

examples of dashed line in use, a good essay on the grammar of visiual isntruction

i remember a cartoon as a kid, about walking on water, and hidden stepping stones, and a gnostic gospel in university that talked of christ knowing where to walk, and the other fishers not so much---michael cross, flooded a desanctified church in london, and placed invisible markers underneath, so all of us could walk on water...its called bridge, and its intesenly, oddly, about faith, and democracy, and god...heres a link:
here and here is an image:

reasons to love america:



Bonfire of the Vanities, Minot North Dakota, Youth Leauge

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of 40 men who been tortured were found in the capital in a span of 24 hours, police said Thursday. Bombings and shootings killed at least 21 people in and around Baghdad, including five people who died from a car-bomb explosion near a restaurant.Thirty-four people were wounded in the bombing. Many of them had serious burns, and some were not expected to survive, police Lt. Ali Mohsen said at the Kindi Hospital.

story here



The U.S. has previously admitted that it is running a campaign to plant fake news stories and articles in Iraqi papers in an effort to improve its tarnished image in the country. Last December, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon secretly paid Iraqi newspapers to run articles supporting the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq.

story here

David Cameron has a video blog
here
watch them, like watching yr dad dancing bump and grind, awkard, and deeply undioginfied, thatcher might have been an evil cunt, but at least she had a reserve...

some images from the online canadian desing resource:


gideons bible expo 67


I fucking love this font



two textile designs from nordic/canadian thor heriksen


Susspicous Looking Device, Junk Funnel, 2005
(it does nothing but make nose, have a count down alarm, and be bright orange, like doreingers dangerus adn illegal installtaion, but better designed...)

more information about the mumbai terrorist bombings, including pakastani involvement


Post Secret, Oct 1, 2006


Examples of Holy Laughter

some recent things ive worked on:

interview with Janet Cardiff for Jacket.

Podcastand notes podcast for freaky trigger.

my mother, while watching the general conference on television, manifessted support for the new 70s...it was incredibly powerful

Summer Wages
(Ian Tyson)

Never hit 17 when you play against the dealer
For you know that the odds won't ride with you
And never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages.

And we'll keep rollin on'til we get to Vancouver
And the woman that I love who's living there
It's been 6 long months and more since I've seen her
She may be gambled and gone like summer wages.

And all the beer parlors all down along Main Street
The dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor
All the big stands of timber just waiting for falling
And the hustlers sitting watchfully as they wait there by the door.

So I'll work on the towboats In my slippery city shoes
Which I swore I would never do again
Through the worst fogbound straits where the cedars stand watching
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages.

Ah, she's a woman so fine I may never try to find her
For good memories of what we had before
They should never be changed for they're all that I'll take with me
Now I've gambled and lost my summer wages.

Years are gambled and lost like summer wages.

naked wombats frolicing in the sun, and so they dump the linx

shanghai continues its long tradition of fun, when the communist cheif of the city was fired for corupption last week

more examples of superhero misogyny, this time from a book about how to draw comics, published by wizard.

Soviet historian Kate Brown explains the difference b/w american and russian gulags


Wally Wood, Weird Sex, Print Seires from 1972. the rest is here and the work is of course a paroduy of EC level Wierd Science,a nd manages to be really funny, and really dirty at the same time.

the guy who invented sea monkeys adn x ray spex gave most of the money to the aryan nations, though he was jewish

a great article on Louis Armstrong and hsi role in country-his work on Blue Yodel no 9, is so seminal, because it was the start of african music and western music, emerging itno somethign strange and fecund--not rock adn roll, and not blues based in the more traditional sense--its noiser, and yet controls that noise better, and they are almost egging each other on...and it was made in LA, in hollywood in fact, so there is this awarenss of its own theatrical qualities, its own fake cowboy aestyhetic that becomes spectacle, and thats really the beginning of country, the awareness that being a cowboy was as much about the vocal arcobatics as it was about being on a horse (roy rogers, adn gene autry, and the sons of the pioneer all were on tv, and all sang like tehy were tv, and thats cause of rodgers) (and bob willis, the master of western swing, who considered his work more jazz than country, and who has a boxset here, spent 40 years unfolding what he learnt listening to this track, in an almsot quantum level (im not making sense here, i know im not, and will think about the track more and write about it)

small courts in rural up state new york, have deicded that most tradtional jurispuence(sp) can go out the window


From the New Jersey Craft Counci, annual exhibit, Chuck Up by by Susan Spencer Reckford, 2005. Merino wool. Knitted Chuck Close painting

hundred of photos of korean bars and off duty places, by soilder Fes Cannady. Excellent documentary work, though he desperately needs an editor.

they finally excommed Milinog and four others, who milingo convinecd were real catholics

a texas art educator who had 28 years expereince, and two star teaching awards, got fired when two of her charges wandered off and saw a rather acaemic nude

online exhibit of a bunch of snapshots by warhol taken in the mid 80s

myspace attempts to get yong people voting.

a millon cluster bomblets are left in southern lebanaon, 90 per cent discharged just before the ceasefire

Tutu also said he was deeply saddened at the furor caused by the appointment of openly gay V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. "He found it little short of outrageous that church leaders should be obsessed with issues of sexuality in the face of the challenges of AIDS and global poverty," wrote Allen. full story herestory here


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From lisjobs

Cecil B DeMille built the largest set in history, for his ten commandments, andafter shooting was done he buried it in the desert. 60 years later, a sandstorm revealed it here is the full story, including pictures

the columbia journalism review writes about teh copyright wars

Christopher Morris' sly photos of secret service, oddly cropped politican, landscape, theatrical staging, and the aesthetics of nu american politics...vitally impt work.
he is also an accomplished war photograpehr: who took images of brutal honesty. He found that qaulity unrewarded taking pictures in iraq under bush, he foudn things too staged, so he went home and took pictures of the staging staging

two examples of god's use of flash:
one
two

they are like Xian, Master P covers, teh second krumping for christ...

the head of the congressional committe on missing andexploited children resigned after being caught emailing a 16 yr old boy naughty thots. (liveboy/deadgirl)

atm for jesus

an excerpt from the autere, and rigous exprimental poem moonseamed birch, by geof huth.


Its weird al, but the animation is really strong

some things of note

i find john an impt corrective to my mythmaking of western culture (western as in cowboy), and i find his mind fecund, his manner genorous, and well hes assume

the show is much better seeing it a week later, im pleased with it, and i dont think that thei nterview i did with a journalist from see turned out badly at all (though she is obv attracted to ashley, and well it will be a 90/10 thing...

ashley called me his best friend, which makes a bit uncomfortable, although i love him--we are working on a seires of drawings about the apocolypse, and i feel like for a number of reasons, my ideas are being used, the give and take is something i view as realy impt, and he made new posters, which is even cooler.

had a meeting with marcus, who works as a curator for the AGA, he loved my fotos, liked the serialism of the ikons, listened to me bitch about edmonton, and asked odd questions, one of which was about who was my scene, im about to send an email explaining that, but how i define scene, who i show work to, and who i would work with, is fairly short, but international, it is not contained in one geogrpahical location (because of the web) and it is not limited to culture workers (a partial list: glenys, andrew, blair, ashley, ray, rachel, patrick, danielle, ed, frank, martin, mark, geoff, rainy) (theologian and post-cololinal worker, theologian, installtion artist, musican, graphic designer and collagist, writer, photog, and parts monkey, sculptor, installation artist, queer theorist, comics guru, painter, writer, writer, comics guru, japanese art expert, and writer, writer adn academic, installation artist, photographer) (victoria, vancouver, edmonton, toronto, nashville, detroit, london, toowoomba, dunedin)


four remington sculptures at the aga, and 12 baroque paintings--the 12 baroque paintings include a lage work from ulrecht around the time of the reformation, that was interesting for a few reasons

1) ulrecht is monthly catholic, but from what i understand, holland had as much or worse of an anti-catholic violence as england did, and the work was 12 feet high and 5 feet wide, it was an enoroumous thing....i dont know how it could be used in secretive home churches (english aesthetic objects at this time and place were by and large small, bookworks, etchings, other ephemera)

2) the work was of the annuncation of Marys DEATH, which was something that i never heard of, and didnt realise was possible

3) the work was pretty standard, in its composition, with the concentration in the bottom third, but there was a stream of flowers, in whites, pinks, and blues, oddly femmine, oddly decorative, that were emerging from one corner, in a straight diagonal line, down b/w the angel and the holy mother, thatwas so fascinting

4) remembering anncuations of pregancy, the angel of god is on the left, and mary is on the right, this is opposite...

5) it had an amazing, sevre, egpytian revival frame, in blue black and patinaed gild, gorgeous.

we have a large chunck of mixed media peices done from The Grand Climax At Hand

ideas:

presbreytian names of god printed on fredrick church postcards
42 photos of random men, with an amg guide written below