all shall be well all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well julian of norwich

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

edmonton has three new subway stations, but the same buildings, the same corperate stucture, the same sort of overwhelming ennui,

Monday, July 26, 2010

  • 60/40 (60% grapefruit, 40% lime)
  • Dr. Faygo
  • Black Cherry
    • Black Cherry and Raspberry
  • Blue Raspberry*
  • Candy Apple (discontinued; reintroduced later)
  • Centennial Soda (Blueberry cream)
  • City Soda
  • Champagne Kola
  • Chocolate Creme Pie Soda
  • Club Soda
  • Coconut Cream Pie
  • Cola*
  • Cotton Candy*
  • Cherry Cola
  • Creme Soda*
  • Frosh*
  • Fruit Punch
  • Ginger Ale*
  • Grape*
A 3-liter bottle of Faygo Moon Mist
  • Jazzin' Blues Berry
  • Key Lime Pie*
  • Kiwi Strawberry (non-carbonated)
  • Mango Tango*
  • Moon Mist*
  • Moon Mist Green*
    • Moon Mist Red*
    • Moon Mist Blue*
  • Morning Mist
  • Orange*
  • Orange Chug
  • Original Black Raspberry
  • Peach*
  • Pineapple
    • Pineapple Orange* (This flavor had a difficult premiere in 1961 or 1962, when unsterilized pineapple juice sourced by Dole fermented in the product and caused bottles to explode on the shelves [6].)
  • Raspberry Blueberry*
  • Red Cherry
  • Fine Rhubarb Pie (Winning Flavor of the 2007 "Design a Flavor" contest sponsored in Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan)
  • Red Pop*
    • Red Pop w/ Lemon
  • Rock & Rye
  • Root Beer*
  • Sensation
  • Strawberry*
  • APEX signature flavors
    • Svlender Twist*
    • Ivy Sic and Lime
    • Jive Turkey Tonic
    • Connie Creme Soda
    • Quick Ben Bubbly
    • Licorice Larry Lager
  • Tonic Water*
  • Twist* (lemon-lime, formerly UpTown)
  • Vanilla Creme Soda*

* also available in diet

Shasta Cola
Type Soft drink
Manufacturer Shasta
Country of origin Maryland (U.S. state)
Flavour Cola
Variants Diet
Caffeine Free
Diet Caffeine Free
Cherry
Diet Cherry
Vanilla
Diet Vanilla
Related products Faygo Cola, Coca-Cola

Thursday, July 22, 2010

went to beast today, lovely dinner (sweetbreads, elk, choco mousse, a tough italian red), with the boys, and i realised like i do every couple of weeks, how blessed i am to have them in their life, and it must be strange to see us in public. also the guy in the next table was one of those douches who tried to seduce his date by talking about the wine list and his amazing day in tuscany
Jessica Morgan and Leslie Jones ; with contributions by Marie de Brugerolle ... [et al.].
Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, c2009.
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Friday, July 16, 2010


Theological implications of the reform party


a) idea of it as a western isolaiton party

  1. the history of wc long memory

    1. crow taxes (source?)

    2. laurier

    3. red river (Riel intro)

    4. nep (alberta report)

    5. Trudeua (Clark/Mulroney Document)

  2. arguements against this

    1. Mullroney's (Secret Mullroney Tape)

    2. Clarkes. (cf)

    3. Quebec (Bouchard Bio)

  3. either/or

    1. not dismissing the history

    2. acknowledging quebec and ontario domience (list the motherfuckers)

    3. other contexts (1905, JRS loose confedration)

  4. History/Precedent of Western Nationalism as Religious Opp

    1. William Aberhart

      1. Media (original documents)

      2. Moving from Typical to Mystical Religious (Preston Bio I, Rsearch)

      3. brief tagent into King

    2. Ernest Manning

      1. and Radio (Preston II)

      2. Bridge b/w SoCred and Con's (1962 Document)

      3. and his professional Rship with Preston (Preston II)

    3. Stockwell Day Sr

      1. Pentecostal (secondary source)

      2. Western Sepratist (ibid)

      3. BC (brief introduction b/w the middle two)

      4. SoCon and Econ unmoveable (not unmoveable, inability to seperat t he two)

    4. Ted Byfield

      1. Company of the Cross (publishing, attraction to western utopia)

      2. SoCon (alberta report)

      3. Backroom Kingmaker for Preston, still an active force) (Preston II<>

      4. Alberta Report (first person)

      5. Link Byfield and the WCC (Link's Sun Editorial)

  5. Direct sons

    1. Preston

      1. and ability to reconcile (Preston II)

      2. management (various preston b ooks)

      3. systematics (ray convo)

      4. move from primitive baptist to CMA (more cynical)

      5. Three major sections of 1992 document (U of C Archives)

    2. Stockwell

      1. slippery as hell (religious bio)

      2. ability to hide what he actually belives (mccleans and g/mail editorials)

      3. failure at Vangaaurd (discussion of vangaurd in general)

      4. connection to ted/boarding school (sjsa/not full old boy)

      5. Link

        1. Wildrose (Sun editorial)

        2. moving from indirect to direct politics (Cosh NP Editorial)

        3. Analysis of quick and dramatic turms

  6. Indriect Links

    1. Conversion of Steven Harper (religious bio)

    2. Legitmacy (sermons from bc church)

    3. Privacy (canadian virttue)

    4. Loyalty (with day)

  1. Conclusion

    1. Understanding of Current Politics

    2. Levant/STeyn (qoute from levant book and steyn's editorial)

    3. Soft/Hard Power (



Thursday, July 15, 2010

From Mulroney's a/bio:

...Preston Manning and his supporters spread venom about us and ate into our base in western Canada... (744)

..."I am v. confident about Canada's future because the Bloc Quebecois and REform Party are cut from the same cloth" I said one Wednesday in April. "They're incapable of taking a broad, generous view of Canada. They both view language as an instrument of division rather then an instrument of unity. Yes, apperaences are bleak. People are upset, crabby, self-centred, selfish. Of course they blame politicans and never themslves. It;s now our job to get Canadians off the pyscharists couh and back to reality..." (846-7)

John Crosbie gave me his own characteristically blunt views on reform in his annual letter to me in Dec. 1990: "Generally speaking, in WEstern Canada, our problem is the REform party. The problem in the west is not western al ienaiton so much as it is western lallucination. Our progress in deficit reduction and in other areas that appeal to those of a conserative na ture has to be gotten across and the reform parrt has to be confornted... (811)

Friday, July 09, 2010

slovenian gay bar firebombed with molotov cocktail.

US Supreme Court allows for the possiblity that the pope would be required to testify in sex abuse cases that occured w/i the US--not going to happen, but it dos suggest that the us supreme court is not as enamoured with religious power as it once was.

some of the g20 weapons were intended for larp sessions.

one of the biggest problems with the idea of pwa living longer, is that the health structures designed to help with a disease that started as an emergency are not equipped to budget for a disease that is now chronic--americans dealing with the funding here are struggling with this, and some advocates say the funding crunch is as bad as the regan years.

great balderessai work, that allows people to rearrange the elements of Abraham van Beyeren's Banquet STill Life--an overloaded peice of dutch merchant excesses--it is a riff on his 2001 peice where he projected the work on an emptry frame. this time, not only can people rearrange it via their iphone. link to the show that features the app, which you can also do on yr desktop and then save it to yr favourite social media. ,its horribly fun, says alot about the nature of democracy and image creation, plus digitial culture. kind of love this.


I am so excited by Tilda's turn as a sensous italian matriach in I Am Love.

this grid house in sau paulo, reminds me of the light/hill/water glass walled thrusting that marks the best of LA modernism.

aaron pederson's churchill sqaure project is really sweet, and it has a clarity that is the exact opposite of clever. he claims that he is like avedon, but moving outside in and not the other way, and i kind of sort of see it.

wilfired van winden's hotel inntell is a few dozen dutch town houses, in traditional colours, stacked up in a vague cube shape.


Ruscha, on how he decides to photograph, make prints, or paints, via crown point press.

jesuits are doing that liberal thing again, this time calling gay and lesbians catholic, saying that they are part of the universal aspect of the church.

though its amazingly crude this segment of Louis CK's new sitcom about homophobia, and gay sexual culture...Rick Colm's Ray is pretty awesome.

charles burchfield review by hollond cotter...looks like a great revival of a under rated american visionary. schedjeal's review of the show in the new yorker this week talks a little more about the history.

best use of those awful bronze dolphin sculptures, this time in vancouver, perhpas ever

half letter press does great low cost, high concept, artist books--this one is a life size poster of a section of a 7-11 wall.

beautiful difficult story, about growing up transgendered in the west, esp. among cowboys, esp. in a christian context.


DJ Earworm makes the feel good hit of the summer.

“Where were you on Christmas Day?” Graham asked.

“Like all Jews,” Kagan responded, “I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”

“I could almost see this one coming,” Leahy quipped.

Then Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) jumped in: “Those are the only restaurants that are open!
”

Rev Kevin Gray a conneticut catholic priest, embezelled 1.3m from his parish to pay for hotel rooms, clothing, meals, and sex from rent boys.

wired feature on AA how it works, and how no one has any real idea.

dwell patterns from heath cermaics.

10 outtakes from Johnny Cash's American recordings.

please let this happen (snoop dogg on coranaiton street)


Rita Moreno and Animal working thru Fever, really really funny.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Mississauga campus is beautiful, the library is beautiful, the librarian gave me two extra weeks on periodicals, and the bus back, cool breeze from lakeshore, i;m happy.

Saturday, July 03, 2010

Casting Aspersions


As someone who has recently self-diagnosed as having Asperger’s, I found Kim Pittaway’s “Confidence Game” (May) quite upsetting.

I have spent the better part of my life trying to figure out why I am so different from almost everyone I meet. Psychiatrists have mislabelled me add, ocd, or “physiologically and emotionally hypersensitive, eccentric, and ego-centric enough that the eccentricity doesn’t bother you, but otherwise fine” — an actual quote, and basically a diagnosis of Asperger’s. When I finally came across the Wikipedia page on the disorder, it was like finding the Holy Grail, and I immediately took steps to have an official diagnosis performed. After all that work, to be lumped in with con artists was quite frustrating — another perfect example of neurotypicals misunderstanding us.

I take particular exception to the placement of Anthony Easton’s comment that some Aspies “have no social skills because [they] fucking play fourteen hours of World of Warcraft a day.” It’s not what Easton is saying that upsets me; spending this much time on one pursuit is characteristic of Asperger’s, after all. Rather, I object to the way Pittaway used this quote to support the idea that a self-diagnosis is a cop-out.

But the article’s conclusion — “Just because you’re Aspie doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole,” also care of Easton — took the cake. Many Aspies have been so persecuted that they have given up on trying to integrate into society. Does this make them assholes? All in all, the piece was a sensationalist, misleading piece of crap. I am appalled that you published it, and you should be ashamed.

David Morrissey
Toronto, ON

Thursday, July 01, 2010

  1. gospel as logocentric, so any attempts to translate that tendency--to other kinds of text.
  2. these tects include flesh---one of the goals of xianity is to mediate b/w flesh and the word
  3. this requires an awareness of the word, and not only yr flesh, but the flesh of other members of the body of christ
  4. ministry then becomes this mediating, has a triune formulae, know the text, connect that text to yr flesh, connect yr flesh and the texts to others
  5. this class then, functioned as another way of recognizing how this could work, but also how it failed to work.
canada--that loosest of confederations, who is mostly defined by an intricate set of resentments, half agreed to comprmises, and failed conslidations, and who was born from one empire, and become tethered to another...and yet, in the midst all of at, kind of sort of functions most days...today, i will remember the execution of Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion, the Winnipeg General Strike, the Chinese Head Tax, WWII internment camps, the Resdential schools, the Komagata Maru, the bullying of Newfoundland, the copper disks, numbered and not named on Inuit's in Nunuvat, and last week...today, i will remember the kindess to charles ord, Lester B Pearson's work with the UN, the Hutterites moving north after the Dakotas german racism, Tommy Douglas and that peculiar Saskatchwan socialism, that Nunvat is now the largest Indigenous land claim settlement in the world,the fairly open borders in the last 25 years, that Mulroney did not manage to completely dismantle our saftey network, and that we keep trying to remember and to seek forgiveness. Pray for our remembering Kateri...

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

queer liturgy really powerful, under attended, but i was happy it happened and proud of the work.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010






Rick Barber is a Republican from Alabama, his politics are odious, but i would shove my cock down his throught, if only to keep him shut up.

last time in SF, i went to the archives there to see a show by etienne, and overheard about the presence of these photographs--i did not have time to see if they actually existited, but the idea of bathhouse polaroids from the 70s was wonderful. Three photos, and a possible book (though a book i hope will feature names, academic footnotes, works and the like to contextualise the work) have popped up---they look hopeful, happy, cross racial, and hot as fuck. yah!

LDS officals have been found guilty of 13 charges of malfesance.

gertude stein as advice columinist

show noteS for nafl, at the lat site.

Bishop Scholari's sermon preached at southwick.

From Untitled Album

play off beard slash fiction.

queer men who have been convicted for buggery, with men over the age of 16, in the UK, have had their convictions wiped--i worried that this would mean a loss of glbtq history, but we tell stories, and these stories move under g round, and the discourse is not gone because the rercord is gone.

a xian sect in malawi refuses measles vaccacines, causing 100 people to be sick.

janelle morae's many moons, an offical short film to document the release of her concept album, has a solid afro-centric space culty vibe, which makes me horribly happy.

my thotS on the g20 mostly moved b/w fbook and twitter, with email making a quick third space, and so i did not do a lot of blogging--Christopher Bird's exhausted, frustrated, and genuine befuddlement about both the cops and the far left--the failure of rhetoric on all sides, the theatrical compoenet matches how i feel.

beautiful photos, documenting signboards in a small town.

From Untitled Album

Jurgen Teller, for New York MAgazine, 2010, Helen Mirren--who when asked about this shoot, said, that she trusted Teller, because he was an artist, and she expected her art to be respected, so his should as well.

>A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/20/kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-ethnic-civil-war">uzbekistan ethnic cleansing.

From Untitled Album

Eva Mendes, new W--i wonder when Mendes will stop being the best thing about bad movies

sarah palin is going to meet with margaret thatcher--i wonder if thatcher can hold onto her contempt.

Texas and Montanna GOP platforms seek to criminalise gay male sex, and the AZ immigration "reforms" makes me wonder if the republicans are moving far far right because they have nothing else to do.


kitten eats ice cream. in a top hat.

lake ann reston va. one of the most beautiful, best designed, examples of late modernist instincts for public spectacle, but human scale...makes me delighted.

human scale story about the heart break that happens with the never ending set of disasters that happen in the gulf coast.

neon cross bulb 50s vintage, for sale, in the uk.

From Untitled Album

i think i might devolp a fetish for sock garters.

happy ice box cake. D, can you make this for me?

49 photos of Derek Jarman's stark, difficult, and at the same time,quite welcoming ive been thinking alot about jarman, just because of the queer liturgy i am doing, that includes jarman.



i really love the bright colours and over saturated intensity of the urban colours, of MAttias Hendrich's photos of berlin.

the implications of masturabtion on human devolpment.

From Untitled Album

Lichenstein, from black and white drawings, 1965

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

the cop on the c24 right now, has spent the last 20 minutes or so, talking about two groups of people, citizens and protestors, but people who protest are using their democratic rights to speech and assembly as a way of fostering change. he is also saying things like saftey, and people being safe, literally dehumanizing those who in engage in dissent.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

show at gladstone right now, of the gun/johns i did with ray&alex--beautiful hanging, and i like the work...

Friday, June 25, 2010

Production Notes, Final Performance, We The Story Tellers:

Spiritual Notes:

I intend to rework the story of Magdalene washing the feet of Christ with her hair. The piece is about giving what is essential to the church, but also being an outsider, theatrical excess, and the tension between what is allowed to be done, and what is done anyways.

It is a vital story for me because I am interested in what is proper, and what happens with that which is in excess of propriety. If we continue this metaphor; the church is becomes the body of Christ, and so by cleaning the steps with my body, I embody the devotional excess of that woman but in the shadow of the institutional church.

Theoretical Notes:

This performance was also based on two prominent works of performance art. The first is a 1976 work from a feminist collective, who scrubbed the steps of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Not allowed into the main galleries, and assumed to be good for only one thing, they made an exterior spectacle as a response to their lack of presence in the gallery. They made this response collectively. The second is Janine Antoni's Loving Care, from 1996, where she took a bucket of hair dye, and painted the floor of a gallery with her hair. The excesses of the body imposed on, and the frustration of living within the cultural context of limited self lead to pseudo-monastic interiority which expresses the essence given to her by a culture that refuses to accept. Her work in this piece, not only literally forces the people of the gallery away but results in her literally painting herself into the corner. In this context I start from the inside of the church because I do identify as a Christian. As the story teaches us, our excesses mark us outsiders. For me, the political matrix of interiority/exteriority placed in stark contrast through exaggerated motion, will provide an analytical lens where a variety of bodies, and work, and architectural spaces, and movement in those spaces, will provide a pointed critique of the institutional church.

Props, Costumes, etc:

25 Liters of Water, in an office cooler type. Black pants, and black t shirt.

Speech:

Wendy Tefler has agreed to be a plant, in order to bring the audience from the church, to the outside steps. The dialogue from the audience will be improvised, and not scripted. I will be silent, concentrating on body movement, as Antoni and the Collective were.

Ritual Action:

There will be the 11.2 liters of water on the font behind the altar. I will be coming from the far left aisle, either crawling or slouching, moving from being close to the floor, to standing up. When I reach the altar, I will be at full height. Working as a high status, slightly haughty character, I will move to the back of the font, and take the container of water on my hip. Moving slowly, with self confidence, and just a little bit of fear, move through the central altar. Wendy will start calling me out at this time, ignoring her, I will move out of the left door, down the sidewalk and around to the front stairs. Walking up the stairs, I undo the lid on the water container, slowly lift it above my head, and pour all of the water on the steps. After the water has been poured out, I wash each step from the t-shirt that I am wearing. Moving down the left side, and up the right side. After I am finished, I lay prostate in front of each person in the audience. The performance will be ended at this point.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

A queer chivalry : the homoerotic asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins /
Julia F. Saville.
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

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