this asshole should lighten the fuck up, if you dont want to read the cathcher in the rye, you shouldn't--its really not worth yr time or effort. But tell them its irrelavant(sp) or that it offends you asa class warrior, or that you think that the women depicted are sillhoute symbol or anything but the fact it contains the f word.

Church leaders test themselves for hiv/aids as a way to loosen stigmas that surrounds the issue

Bitter and hard edged, the work of Tom Sach makes twee and cute bare their carnvious teeth. Reclaiming consumer packaging and captalist detruius into bullying threats, including a hello kitty painting with the caption "chill out japan or you will be nuked again"

We want to stop men from treating us like sex objects, as they have always done. We want them to ignore our appearance and to be attentive to our personalities and mind. We want them to take us seriously and treat us as equals and not just chase us around for our bodies and physical looks.

from an article explaining the polical and social implications of the Hijab. Look, i know that this makes me racist, but the HIjab makes me uncomfortable. I do not know enough about muslim culture, and i think hiding bodies is like hiding light under bushels.

but what is the difference b/w a muslim woman wearing a hijab to please her culture and a western woman wearing a bikini to please hers ?

insanely large collection of English Lit created between 1477 and 1799.

online catalog of childrens book illustrations via ucla.

wonderfully odd and in places strangely cruel, from a time where kids were treated with much less delicacy.

Some of Paul Martin's ships leak toxic sludge, and he sent them to be destroyed knowing this.

Andy Scott, New Brunswick MP, is fag bashed by a vocal detractor of gay marriage.

i think this is a good reason to be against it.

The New BMW is so wonderfully beautiful, that it is a shame that according to those in know dont think it is very fuctional.

Images of Ship Breaking in Bangladesh

CBC tells a dozen stories
about iraq that are under reported by american media.

the thing is, the amazing wonderful thing is, how deep these peoples love and ethusanism (sp) lie, they yell and blurt and ramble over hill and dale explaining why their passions are so nuriishing(sp)

like chris on charles ives sympthy no. 4
or ryan on sally mann, whose work before this i had considered cheap and explotive--he puts the full weight of his force arround the word beutiful (sp) and does not deny the obv. subtext, but renders it meaningless.

i also got to play with a digital camera, and took a couple of good shots--plus they think that i am a talented and clever photog.

chris and ryan are here and in the last 48 hours

we have talked about:
venturi
gehry
sally mann
tom berrigan
south park
the lds church
white on white in art
white and white churches
modernism
the meanings and purposes of venacualr
whether Baudilard (sp) would cream over WEM
John Cage
Charles Ives
Gertude Stein
Ezra Pound
The Raunchy Young Lepers
etc

We have done:
driving around edmonton
gone bowling
went to the mall and seen all the absurd big stuff
had a gig that went well except for the nil audience.
got drunk on gimlets

Listened to:
Ned Ragget-Reads the Alamanac
Raunchy Young Lepers Best Of
The Streets-Orignial Pirate Material
Marriane Faithful-Kissing Time
Bob Dylan-Slow Train Coming,
Momus-The Best of The Creation Years
John Cage-Atlas Eclipticalis
Lou Reed-Transformer
Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
FBH-one of the first eps.
and more.

im happy, drunk but happy.

cascade
from oblique

cold
outside
down quick
drip drop drap
midmorningmelts
magpie on snowbound
pineboughs, and sees ice
white snow and slivers of silver ice
green bough, black bird shines against
all this darkness, coldness, i am inside and
i watch the bird, the bough, the ice, the snow
light melting coldness, pointless reflection on how it
all cascades into an almost nonesense meaning in my head
cause the bird is free, you see and i am not, here with out the cold

Flash Version of Oblique Strategies always too self concious a writer to use these, i really should start.

Criticism of the theory that superpowers at war can ever be humanist--i think that what pisses me off most about the iraqi war is how unbalanced the power is (cf isreal with fighter jets/Palestine with Petrol bombs; c/c Vietcong winning their war against the americans)

UK lets post op transsexuals to adopt and marry in the sex that they have assumed.

last two thnx to queer day

Co-ed Dorms are considered, which i think is a good idea, wy to deconstruct binaries, demythologize sex difference, encourage knoweldge of how much genders have in common.

The British Foreign Office in Istanbul is expecting more attacks.

bbc

Yukos hands 30k pages of info to the Russian Gvt, this thing will take years to sort out, and perhaps the first volly in a new kind of war

moscow times