reading butler to get into this hagigoprahy of brandon teena peice, and was amused by finding this decimation, mostly b/c shes fucking impossbile slogging (not as hard as derrida, harder then lacan)

Consenting adults can decide on what information they wish to absorb and which information they chose to set aside, even if that information is pornographic. overly conserative christians , presurring a president who is too stupid to realize what is information and what is propghanda, will ruin freedom of speech for the rest of us.

(my recalcuation of the implications of pornography is still occuring)

do good liberals ignore atrocities if it means tolerance is no longer given or utopia falls (ie stalin or ani christian violence in sudan)

do good conseartives forget that the foundation of their power is genocide and hatred ? (sioux come to mind)

herethey changed my line "a mini eu of ennui driven fuck ups" to "an international mixture of apathetic, young screw-ups", and narrowed/made less complex a review in general. Its a total rewrite, and i do not remember most of the words i wrote.

thats newspapers.

Foam Carveable Pumpkins, our obessions with hygenie, our refusal to deal with our authentic vegetable natures, our cute prepackaged culture and our desire to avoid anything that could harm. (knives and fire)

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FBI reports gay hate crimes at highest levels ever is this more hatred towards queer folks or is this a question of reportage and are the cops/fbi really our friends (remember the fbi did not allow out homosexuals as agents until very recently, nominally to prevent black mail)

queer day, as is the westminister story

Teacher makes racist joke, compares african american student to Gorilla

The Queer Sitution among anglicans in New Westminister is resulting in a church court and church charges, but not against the man who is queer. The charges are being layed against

This is not a christian and loving way of dealing with this situtaion, but a beurocratic mess. Church Courts ususally don't work well in the history of christendom anyways (Christ, Galleio, Jeanne d'Arc)

Huge sight site of goregous photos of mostly european modernist and post modernist architechture, the old favourites (Lloyds Building London) and some new ambiguties (Tim Noble and Sue Websters new studios in Southhark)

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Free press has been destroyed in Zimbawbae(sp) again, with their only free paper being shut down. all africa has the story

The Primate of the Southern Cone is calling for schism (the southern cone is an anglican primate that covers most of South America. )

queer day

I'm not sure if the Chapman Bros are impt provoectours who discuss taboo issues of sex and death as a sort of post freudian cleansing or just dirty boys who like to shock.

Tim Hopkins has an entry on brown wedge (click on nyplm and follow the links), concerning the nature of shock, and its effectiveness and moralism.

Also the turner is out, while most of it is dull, i find chapmans work confusing in its intentions and complex enough to intruige. More impt, i find Anya Gallaccio's because i could not stop temporal, beautiful and haunting--a bronze tree is hung with "real" apples, they rot and fall off, decaying and staining gallery floors, the trunks stay permanatly forever. (she also pressed red gerberas, those innocous flowers of weddings and births, into the wall with plexiglass, so they also rot, making the walls stain red)

artnet/bw/art news daily/gaurdian

The bodies caused by the holocaust are just below the surface in western europe, 50 years is nothing in history. When we are in the midst of remembering certain kinds of irony come forth, maybe irony is the wrong word, what do you call it when a company who made its first fortune on Zyklon B is now constructing Memorials for its victims ?

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Long article about the Left Behind series and it's relations to Dubyas theology by Joan Didion Not alot of editoralizing, but the facts are frightening enough.

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thot about boys dont cry.

when they rape brandon and then take her into the car, call her good buddy, say they are friends, drive her to their apartment and clean up, is it a conflation of the boy who stole the girl and the girl who had ideas above his station, in addition to the transphobia.

(He said he had a sexual id crisis, but i didnt see that, i saw everyone else have one, and be unable to figure out how to verbally abuse him best, faggotand dyke occured in equal measure)

Transgendered are the last folk who the clinical cure is considered the most approite, pre op/post op--there seems to be a rise of no op, and i like that.

(a continuing series, as i have an essay to write on the film)

I have been struggling with the ethics and aesthics of sexual repsentation, the disneyfying of porn, the lack of art, of beauty, of desire and of tenderness in our depections of sex, of viewing hardcore as another kind of entertainment (cf Jenna Jameson in this weeks ew), and thats abutting my love of freedom, my love of sex, my love of the intricacies of human desire.

and the fact that when i masterbate, i often do it to pornography.



naomi klein works through a bunch of the same issues that i have been working thru

minnestoa has decided to union bust by bribery instead of force, and demands standarized testing as a resualt--which special needs kids cant do, which are culutarlly biased, which means that reading texts and becoming engaged with the world begins and ends with one right answer.

Homophobic Art Censorship in Alabama. Apparently GI Joe cannot hold his buddies hand.

19th Century Mandala from Western Rajasthan.
meant to indicate passages into and out of the world, also works with cartographic signifiers.
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Stories are coming out from all sorts of places, including Cali, New York, Indiana and Georgia have leaked out about the ease of fraud and inconstiences with the new Diebold voting machines, whose creator has both a copyright and connections to the Bush family information here

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