ok

this is what i think

a) we have rights, as human beings, to a minimum level of security

including food, housing, pleasure, safety, and comfort

b) those rights are best distrubated, because of questions of population

by v. large orgs.

c) governments have a better chance conceptually to a multi-phasic distrubtion

d) Churches, Community and Ethnic Groups, and the like are good at narrow focuses on certain populations, but I am not sure I would trust them to do large scale work

e) part of this is money--taking money is only done in our society, by the gvnt--everything else is willign to be give money

f) the problem is post-Friedman, the expectation for those in narrow focus groups, to do the work of wide populations--

g) this has failed to work--and results in a leadership gap in churches for a variety of reasons

h) which means that people who seek to populate that leadership gap are ill trained to do so.

i) monkeys are the best mammalls

spent three hours yesterday looking for point aux prarie park, but failed to find it. 

frustrated about housing, thinking about what the implications of staying at concordia are and if i am staying, what the implications of being in philosophy and religion, liking montreal. 

had drinks with ray's video game journalist buddy yesterday, which turned out really well. 

really lonely, but i think it will work itself out.

concordia is fucking me over a bit, i think.

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P9100049, a photo by PinkMoose on Flickr.

t, you know, you come out every day in ten million different ways, and sometimes giving somebody a hand job in the back of a car in etobicoke isn’t a gay act, it’s a sort of mutually traded orgasm, like you would trade hockey cards. If you want to play some straight acting and you want to have somebody give you a hand job it’s fine. I’m not going to police you [inaudible] or your identity.

from an interview i did with a pysch student at ryserson about gay male identity and the body.

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P9080189, a photo by PinkMoose on Flickr.

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P9080189, a photo by PinkMoose on Flickr.

not homeless, registered for classes

in montreal, hope i'm not homeless tomorrow

japanese work wear is fashionable  more

Orwell named names to British intelligence--comapring this to Animal Farm, Alexander Cockburn complicates the implicaitons.

The Modern ARt Podcast has a great ability to work through small details and get a larger understanding of the artist in question--this interview with Robert Adams, talks about his move from Colorado to Oregon, the problems of depicting landscapes, the history of photography in America, and how an accidental kind of politics/enviromentalism became nessecary to discuss, to submit to. direct link

Gay Parades were banned in Moscow for 100 years

vintage polaroids.  (i guess all polaroids are vintage now)

tumblr of vintage AV  movies.


De Palma might be repeating himself--but i'll be there first day.

a story about one autistic kid who wanders off in west virginia, and the search and rescue that accompines it, the story branches off in two ways--a discussion of what it means for neuro-diverse people wandering off, and the problems with search and rescue teams lead by large memebers of the community. Beautifully written and well constructed article, must read. one of the women who was mentioned in the story, Nadia bloom, was lost for a couple of weeks, and spent the time taking pictures. Link goes to some of her images.

Did the Koch Brothers buy the VP nom for 100m? And speaking of Romney, one of his close contacnts in Miamai previously trafficked cocaine.

Billy Cunningham on Anna Piaggi

N=1 on Brutalism

Scientists have found a way to make neo-lithic seeds to rebloom, in Siberia. 32 000 years old. also, 2500 year old siberian tattoos

i want this Pasedena hosue Or this Greek Revival House in NOLa



Vogue Themed Bar Mitzah, complete with dancing

i wonder, if this speech by Obama, which is awesome and argues forcefully against Akin;s view of Rape, is not only a bit obvious, but uses women as pawns in the larger argument in a political contest--that women working through women's issues, in public, would hold more power.

Pinkash Abbey Ecclestical Incense

Anatomical Macroons

More Fat Pony! Kate Beaton FTW

I am worried about Randy Travis


Saddest Songs Ever including this one, which is just bleak:


(which contains two lines that destroy me: "there is a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes/jesus died for nothing i suppose"


Marketing Pamphlets of The Computer History Musuem

first person document about getting an abortion before roe v wade

I keep thinking that (and this is true of all QT films) that Inglorius Basterds is a manifesto about Cinema--but it seems to be, the ntirate, and the burning, and the destroying of the theater via film; in fact when Shoshanna says: "I am going to burn down the Cinema, on Nazi night, and I am not going to do it alone"--what Tarintino says, is that Cinema has the potential to destroy the real--that the act of respresentation is an act of ahistorical political "realness" that uses its own form to deconstruct power. Which is also what is said, in the inclusion of the clip that looks like Refiensthal, or Aldo Raine saying that killing Nazis was their version of going to the movies.

Punk-Prayer "Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away"

(choir)

Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away
Рut Putin away, put Putin away

(end chorus) ...
Black robe, golden epaulettes
All parishioners crawl to bow
The phantom of liberty is in heaven
Gay-pride sent to Siberia in chains

The head of the KGB, their chief saint,
Leads protesters to prison under escort
In order not to offend His Holiness
Women must give birth and love

Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!
Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!

(Chorus)

Virgin Mary, Mother of God, become a feminist
Become a feminist, become a feminist

(end chorus)

The Church’s praise of rotten dictators
The cross-bearer procession of black limousines
A teacher-preacher will meet you at school
Go to class - bring him money!

Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin
Bitch, better believe in God instead
The belt of the Virgin can’t replace mass-meetings
Mary, Mother of God, is with us in protest!

(Chorus)

Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away
Рut Putin away, put Putin away

pats dday at woodlot--hen of wood mushrooms, ox tounge, various sides including fingerling potato salad, a beaujolis rose, bishops bar.

the interesthing thing was when we sidelined into a discussion of porn.

there is a place somewhere near st clair east--let's call it bayview village, east york, that if you stand on it, there is a sheer drop, down to mud creek. standing there, with suburban style fifties houses behind you, trees in the midground, and highrises in the background, if you get really lucky, let's say midnight or so, you can see a train rushing by.

and if you are really really lucky, walking towards st clair, across the bridge, closest to st clair and yonge, you get to hear traffic and the creek make the same kind of rushing sound.

(sometimes, like underneath old mill, you can hear cars and water and subway trains work like an accidental steve reich, but that's a fruit machine on triple cherries)


and if you are the luckiest person in the world, luckier than the fruit machine and the triple cherries, you get to hear all those noises in the middle of a three hour ramble with yr best friend.

new history of gospel's queer subtext.

joe brainaird, poet and artist has been getting some major love lately, including but not limited to a Library of America volume, and this fulm.

i want this map

indestructable  usb key--dropable from 100m, emergable in water.

i have read alot about the Pussy Riot situation in Russia--and i have been thinking alot about it. i have four thoughts. the link goes to an article about the connections b/w putin's government and the orthodox church--pussy riot's protest intended to show these similarties, and so ironically, it might be a wedge for religious freedom in russia. 2) i think more and more the aesthetics of protest work when one subject or one idea is being broadcast--narrowness of focus seems to increase the efficacy. 3. i think the madonna/patti smith/bjork is earnest, but i think they might not knwo exactly what is going on, and re:madonna, is v. much using the pussy riot people as a way of reentrenching her radicalism. 4. i do worry about these eloquent women and their rship to the state, and wonder if they are about to move to the west.



backyard pvc railroad.

red shanked douc is my new favourite monkey

wikipedia list of lists

will romney doubling down on ultra right wingers  (i.e the ad in the link about obama's war on religion and chosing ryan) really win him the election?

john lahr on  cole porter, talks about him as clever enough to surrive, and becomes an example of the problems of pleasure and leaisure as subversion.

vital story on the shrinking of the family farm, and small towns in the american midwest, touching on ideas ranging from giving the land back to the bison, organic farming as a bulwark against industralism, those industrial farmers requiring less and less manpower, and the stauch conserativeness that refuses to see disaster. must read.



more on african american  voter supression

on why much of the discusison of disability and the olympics can be dismissed as "inspiration porn"

Best objects on the edges of the frames in Sofia Coppala's Somewhere

1. half deflated mylar balloons 
2. a box of proepcia tablets 
3. grey haired man, eating, in a defeated way
4. closing gate of a house off sunset
5. still life of beer bottle, pear, orange in marmount
6. lists of gallery notices taped to mirror 
7. the two valets at the four season
8. alien mask
9. special fx artist wearing a grey t shirt w robots on it
10. ruscha print, still half wrapped from shipping 
11. still life of obliesks and marble balls in milan
12. two women in short gold dresses on italian television 
13. two yellow boats just outside of big e sporting goods, 
14. helicopter
15. grey white wall 
16. all those palm trees

• May 1964: Mark Maples, a 15-year-old Long Beach, CA, resident, was killed when he tried to stand up on the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Maples (or his companion) foolishly unbuckled his seatbeat and attempted to stand up as their bobsled neared the peak of the mountain. Maples lost his balance and was thrown from the sled to the track below, fracturing his skull and ribs and causing internal injuries. He died three days later.
• June 1966: Thomas Guy Cleveland, a 19-year-old Northridge, CA, resident, was killed when he attempted to sneak into Disneyland along the Monorail track. Cleveland scaled the park's sixteen-foot high outer fence on a Grad Nite and climbed onto the Monorail track, intending to jump or climb down once inside the park. Cleveland ignored a security guard's shouted warnings of an approaching Monorail train and failed to leap clear of the track. He finally climbed down onto a fiberglass canopy beneath the track, but the clearance wasn't enough -- the oncoming train struck and killed him, dragging his body 30 to 40 feet down the track.
• August 1967: Ricky Lee Yama, a 17-year-old Hawthorne, CA, resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his People Mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. Yama slipped as he was jumping from car to car and was crushed to death beneath the wheels of oncoming cars.
• June 1973: Bogden Delaurot, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, drowned trying to swim across the Rivers of America. Delaurot and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the burning settlers' cabin. When they decided to leave the island a few hours later, they chose to swim across the river rather than call attention to their rule-breaking by appealing to cast members for help. Because the younger brother did not know how to swim, Delaurot tried to carry him on his back as he swam to shore. Bogden Delaurot went down about halfway across the river. The younger boy remained afloat by dogpaddling until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogden was nowhere to be found. His body was not located by searchers until the next morning.
• 7 June 1980: Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover in an accident much like the one that had befallen Ricky Lee Yama thirteen years earlier. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the SuperSpeed Tunnel adjacent to the former America Singsbuilding. Gonzales stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and dragged his body a few hundred feet before being stopped by a ride operator.
• 4 June 1983: Philip Straughan, an 18-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident, also drowned in the Rivers of America in yet another Grad Nite incident. Straughan and a friend -- celebrating both their graduations and Straughan's eighteenth birthday -- had been drinking quite heavily that evening. They sneaked into a "Cast Members Only" area along the river and untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat, deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. Unable to adequately control the boat, they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island, and Straughan was thrown into the water. His friend travelled back to shore to seek help, but Straughan drowned long before his body was finally located an hour later.
• 3 January 1984: Dolly Regene Young, a 48-year-old Fremont, CA, resident, was killed on the Matterhorn in an incident remarkably similar to the first Disneyland guest death nearly twenty years earlier. About two-thirds of the way down the mountain Young was thrown from her seat into the path of an oncoming bobsled, her head and chest becoming pinned beneath its wheels. An examination of Young's sled revealed that her seatbelt was not fastened at the time of the accident, but because she was riding alone in the rear car of a sled no one could determine whether or not she had deliberately unfastened her belt.
• 24 December 1998: In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached. The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected.
  This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest (it was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor's assuming an attraction operator's role) and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.
• 5 September 2003: A 22-year-old man, Marcelo Torres of Gardena, California, died, and several other guests were injured, when a locomotive separated from its train along a tunnel section of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Torres bled to death after suffering blunt force trauma of the chest.

forgot to post my atlantic debut.

here

finding it hard to work, anxiety severe, like a knot in my chest, taut, snaring.