http://www.philaprintshop.com/myth.html

here be dragons
many many dragons
so many dragons...

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_patriotboy_archive.html#109108042327872472

Comment on Jerry Fallwell delivering the prayer to the RNC. Hoisting, Petards, etc

The only reason why I watched Miss America (recently on the net), is the talent portion, all american earnset ridden kitsch, plus some pretty fucking hardcore baton twirling--this year i guess im not.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/07/29/pageant.talent.ap/index.html

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/30/sikh_student_detained_by_secret_service/

Who wants to have a seminar for boston college adminastaors (sp), so that they can tell the difference b/w sihks and muslims--if you insist on detaining people randomly based on ethnicicity, you might as well get the right ethnic groups.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20040730/ts_nm/bush_budget_dc

Bush and his government are a party that is supposed to beleive in small governments, and waste reduction--i like how republicans have a tendency to cut the shit out of social programs, and still manage to have astronomical deficiets (cf Reagon)

(pat , you should look at these, they look really well drawn and really well written)

http://www.gt-labs.com/dignifying.html
and also about franklin, educational comics about the nature of women and sci, mostly obscure.

lots of tears about crick dying, and how much of a genius he was, and how impt his discoveries were to the world, none of the dna work that he did (NONE) would have happened if he didnt steal (ideas, research, results, fame, office space, lab equipment) from his brilliant coworker Rosalind Franklin--i think she was even fucked over on the noble prize.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html

http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/2004/new_world_pic.html

first pics of the new malick, which happens to be an epic retelling of pochantas.
yes you read that right.

http://www.citylibraries.info/pictures/big_picture.asp?Search=Place&Place=KEMP%20TOWN&PlaceID=10&SubPlace=&SubPlaceID=0&Record=7&Records=96&ImageID=360&From=List&StartPos=1&Picture=Photos/Pic01/00281.jpg

wealthy victorians could walk past the shores of brighton, into the ocean, thnx to a giant steam powered machine, that walks on its iron legs--steampunk at its finest

south african scum castoffs from Executive Outcomes are doing secuirty for mugabe, even whores turn down the odd client.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20040730025640865C562199

http://www.davekopel.org/terror/59Deceits.pdf

DAve Kopel manages to do the impossible, carefully and consistently label all of the slips in truth that 9/11 engaged in, without becoming a hectoring idelouge, (i find moore essentially dishonest--Page 6 yesterday talked of him eating with two bodygaurds, more then nessc. one thinks. Its like Hilary and Chelsea drinking champagane (sp) on the floor of the DNC, when everyone else was talking about poverty--as seen on the daily show)

Yale has put up the thousands of 18th century broadsheet illustrations, cartoons, etc that make up the Walpole collection--look at Cruikshank, esp. but important both as history, precedent setting, satire, art and for there gutting viscousness (sp).

http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/digital_collection.html

http://community.middlebury.edu/~mobrien/covers/
big pulp cover gallery, not academic at all, just for amusement really

can you get a hangover from too much fat and sugar ?
woke up w. something that felt like after the orgy of food and rides that was kday-- bookstore david didnt come so that made me sad.
(in fact lots of noshows)

Alex Ross, the New Yorker Classical Music Critic, has a v. good blog. He is at Bayreuth, where the annual Wagner festival is taking place. The peice that is being played is a postmodern staging of parisfal, and he has written good things about it, and taken brilliant pictures as well. One of the pictures was this, http://www.therestisnoise.com/images/IMG_1494.JPG, the dog in question is Russ, Richards own. Apparently there are several bronzes all around town of this creature--the sculptours intent is to make Wagner more friendly.

Its not working. I still hate the overly long, violently teutonic, painfully noisy, obscure silliness that marks the worst excesses of his operas, esp. the ring cylce (where you cannot actually tell the charchters (sp) apart, because they all start the same way. (

and dildos are illegal in alabama--not semi automatics,  but sex toys.
i think we need to set up an underground railroad, samzidat sex by post.

http://www.jvim.com/
Jack Van Impe thinks the world will end tomorrow, and has the pictures to prove it (look at the illustration folder)

There are a dearth of images featuring his wife, who looks like an alien grey, except with a blonde wig and a face lift tight white skin.

 

http://www.outminds.com/outspoken/outspoken_column.cfm?cid=488
http://www.clampart.com/artists/artist6/artist6a.htm

art/porn/either/neither
ryan mcginley of the south
larry clarke but fat&happy
michael meades makes me hard, of course, but he also has photos on my computer in the art and the porn folders.

good.

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/mumford/mumford7-29-04.asp

Steve Mumfords drawings of Iraq, and American Soilders there in, are haunting and documentary in a way photography cannot really be.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml
 
I am caught between feeling respect for bush being honest about his mental health and fear about his being unstable.
 
(i'm unstable, and this might make me a hypocrite--but for christs sake, im not sending boys and girls off to free the world)

http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2004/07/21/busting_berrys_music.html

This is why against Copyright, because DJ record stores, which provide a community base to artists, get commando raids committed against them, because they do mash ups and other recontexuatalzations.

This is why information needs to be free, because how you use, and fight againt, and play with texts is as creative and as important as making something "new", as if there is something new anyways.

 

Women and children are being chained together and burnt alive by Sudanese militias rampaging in Darfur
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=545741

Could it get worse ?
I shouldnt say that, cause god knows it will.

The thing that the left needs to get from the far, theocratic right, is the ability to organiuze, we used to have that, think of the church networks that allowed the montgremy bus boycotts to happen.

The latest example is http://www.americansoffaith.org/, which leads me to two questions.

1) when did they get to take over god ?
2) why cant we be that earnest, is camp/irony/sarcasm so ineffective compared to people who believe something so deeply that they cannot joke about it ?

Harare(sp) sent me this link, with his writing about Ethopian music, replete with MP3s, second century vocals, 21st Century instrumentation and an interesting theological concept.

(father god, why ?--not the angry, rended clothes, overly dramatic why, but the shoulder shrug, bemused now this why)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.main/index.html

Iraq meet vietnam, vietnam meet Iraq.

http://www.skywriting.com/misc/pics/free-speech-pen/

The Free Speech Zone at the DNC has razor wire and is gaurded by scary men with guns.  When I think of free speech, i think of assualt rifles and razor wire.

 

http://www.rentapeasant.fsnet.co.uk/index.html

if you are in england, you can rent someone to teach you about serfdom, and they bring livestock--LIVESTOCK!

(imagine how much more learning one can get with goats)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/tech/main632436.shtml

Computer Crashes have eaten voting records in Miami-Dade County for 2002.  No paper trail means they can get the resualts they want by hook or by crook--(if this shit was happening in the philipines, the UN would be all over it)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040728/ap_en_mu/courtney_love

listening to celeb skin today, and thinking of how much it is a working thru of kurt--as an orphic cycle none the less, and thinking of the poor, talented, fucked up and sad ms love, i wrote a peice for nyplm.

shes off to rehab again, i hope this time it works out.

if god is of the world and in the world, then why is he not in a water park in waco--if you  find the lord there, if you commit yr life to service and you get the joy of the holy spirit, with yr fellow brothers and sisters in the middle of waterworld, why the fuck do i care.

a million in the ganges and all of that.

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/3/beckerman-faith.asp

the article i have intended to write about media and god has been written, cjr does excellent work, and the recent links tht i have given here about kitsch and jesus should really be presented with more respect, if enough people find if vaulable then those who do not should look at where and why, examine it for flaws of course but also virtures--engage in honest and full discourse.

i havent been doing that, i havent really been democratic.

http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/013937.html

text of obamas dnc speech--read it now, gives you hope in the democratic process, if they can vote him into the senate. (ryans a crypto facist, im sorry t hat he got kicked out for kinky sex, cause it was the only thing that made him vaugely human)

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1013&IssueNum=55

More voter fraud, same machines, this time in california--bush is going to win this election any way he can. as bryan said, if this happened anywhere else, there would be riots (the problem with american attempts at riot and revoution  is that they did it right the first time, and havent done it right since, they got really close 5 or 6 times (Civil War, Haymarket, 60s in Harlem/Detroit/Watts, Chicago 68, LA 94)  come on--they're fucking you over my dears, give it a shot.)

Zhang Gong's art has the pop superficallity, irony, filth and care about craft that Superflat artists have, except he is from Beijing.
Really good, really weird.
Work here,
http://www.courtyard-gallery.com/artists/zhanggong/index.html

the problem i have w. the addiction model (and its my shit) is the problem that i have with being xian, ie i cannot concide giving up, surrendering--letting jacob break my hip, giving my burden to the higher power.

some of the pro ana sites that i have read talk about control, talk about how food is the only thing that can control, and that they want to do this, how can someone be so self aware, and so destructive...its like camus and his myth of sisphyus, where depression and sucide is consdiered an existental choice, one that needs to be kept as the ultimate possiblity in the back of ones head, except that in this case it is not kept in the back of the head, but kept in (unhealthy)  permanat tension--a tension one will lose.

 

they think its pseduo seizures, the evidence is piling up, and i think to myself, these lacuane, and frueds case studies of neurotic women, they are eeriley similar--and reading the stories of wwi shell shocked soilders in the recent hisoptry of m,ilitary pysch ive finished (fucked if i can remember the title), its like my mind has dredged up 100 yr old conditions, before it was cannonized into the medical model.

i wonder if my distrust of the medical model has devolped its own kind of nostaliga.
(aside from any/everything else)

do women make themselves thinner to take up less space
do women make themselves fatter b/c its easier to get food then love

two poppysch reasons to explain eating disorders
how much truth in each one.

reading diary of a fat housewife, stolen from my mothers book shelf when i was 15 or 16, disgusted and horrorfied by the self loathing .

how do i view my body, how do i view my food.

 

talking today to c and her friend dave and pat, about jesus etc (it was a complicated conversation, in tactics as well as subject) but they both saw the divine, and the divine save there lives--and when i was in the hospital or in bed, wanting to slice my wrists to ribbon, prayer seemed really not to function, not to work, not to do anything for me.

are the stories effective--do they cradle you and let you sleep when its dark, do they let you wake in the morning, does the smoke rise in the way you need it to rise ?

then pray the way you need to pray.

I'm not very politically involved. And I don't like to talk about it. I mean, if you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans and that's half your fan base.

Lindsey Lohan

should forefront sacred, more background maybe...not exactly sure what the editor wants.

(dave leiger(sp)--if you are are still reading this, can you give me an email ?)

second draft of ana peice, not spell checked, not grammar checked, 300 words too long, not enough facts, but i wrote it like a blog peice

First hearing about eating disorders seems to come from popular culture--from the one episode of Degrassi Junior High with scinece prohect that acciudently turned into melodramatic biography, or the cable movie of the week, with the pretty starlet playing the role she had been practicing for in real life--or the cover of the tabs, Karen Carpenter, Tracey Gold, Mary Kate Olsen--depending on the decade. Then there are the sidebarred story in publications like Cosmopolitan, sandwhiched between dressing for the proper size and how tos on how to please a lover--almost like an act of ritual pennance. What these examples do not show is how popular the problem is, how epdemic is, and how to fix it.

There are as many Bulimics, Anoreixics and Compulsive Eaters in Canada as there are schizophrenics, but it might be said that these are the shock troops for the millions who's eating is essentially disordered.
It used to be that other people saw how painfully thin these people were, saw them go to bathrooms to puke after meals, called plumbers for toilets stuck with vomit, watched a months groceries disappaer and called the doctors on thyose who were suspect, called the doctors like someone called the cops. The doctors would hospitalize the patient, renoursih and refeed them by force, suggest they go to group therapy, give them valium or other addictive sedatives, and push them into chosing meal plans as early as possible--but the thinking can still be there, these patients in their lonely hospital rooms, chosing chicken over pork--not because they love chicken, they get joy from chicken, but because there is less calories in chicken--they might be gaining weight, but they are still playing the same games.

There is another, new and more controversial way to fight these disorders, and a method that is coming into its own, that is the addiction model. It shouldnt be a suprise, every thing is an addiction these days--from fucking to gambling to drinking to coke, but there are advantages to thinking of this as a compulsive sereis of behaviours that can be treated Bill W's twelve steps. There is a collective responsibility, a realztion that one cannot make food choices because one is too sick to, that one canot make many choices, and that the first thing to do is surrender all of the deisres for that obsessive contorl of family, time, energy, and food.

One of the way's that this addiction model is being implemented is the Society for Assisted Co-Operative Recovery from Eating Disorders, held in the same building as a retreat center and a retirement home for the Sisters of Charity (fact check). The first time I walked in the front doors I saw a group of Lutherans speaking German and the second there were berobed buddhist monks on silent walks--it is a place filled with spiritual resonace.

Aside from the Higher Power stuff, how does Sacred differ-. There are the meetings (pre and post meetings for every meal, a group therapy session at 2:00, biweekly twelve step meetings at Sacred Heart Church downtown, weekly weigh ins with a medical doctor, individual meetings with private pyshcatrists and pyshcologists). Each meeting is infused with an us mentatlity, there are no indvidual problems in SACRED, only a group of addicts trying to get better together. They are a true collection of addicts too, no heirachies, every staff member there has been an addict, and most of them have had eating disorders themselves.

 The meetings I saw were painfully cathertic, much crying, intense revealtion, all of the emotional nakedness that heals, and seems to only be able to be done when someone who knows what you are going through is there to call bullshit. There was also another language, a cant that those who were in treatment spoke that those who were outside did not seem to, mostly i think by how much self help books passed each other--there was nothing poltical, not even something like Susie Orbach's ovular tract Fat is a Femminist Issue

6-12 women spend there days at SACRED, talking, kvetching, working together and eating meals plus snacks. The eating is the big part,  intended to show how much one can love food, and reteaching how to properly consume food, something so basic has to be done again. The cook seems to have done most of the teaching, a woman who grew up in South Texas, who talked to me about how much she loves the food of her childhood, becoming rapturous about fatback bacon. She cooks food with explicit joy--singing and dancing around the kitchen.  This excitement the residents don't have. Towards the end of the program  the residents have more and more autonomy towards their meal choices. They learn that joy.

From what I have seen here, from the dinners that celebrate 30, 60, 90 days of soberity, from tthe meetings, the coffee and the meals that I have eaten both out of the center and in it, i can imagine the program working. There is the solidaratary of people who have gone through massive trauma, and there is the joy of people who are going through new life. They have been open to me, answering my questions with lengthy interviews, being as self aware as they are self critical. I wonder if this is a new way out and I hope it is.

important and complicated article on african farming, i could summarize it, but i would do a piss poor job, something anyone who cares about this issue should read

http://www.interacademycouncil.net/report.asp?id=6959

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20c-art1.htm

100 best art works, 20th century, funny captions, decent list

Kerrys foreign policy has been pretty blank with what i have seen, esp. africa--but according to jimmy carter, he is much more of a mideast interventionist then i thot he would be, and he seems to favour isreal...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/456914.html

http://www.kottke.org/plus/misc/911commission.html#11
9 11 summary.
finger pointing, mostly.

i think of the farnsworth house as an object of extreme and holy beauty.
new photos:
http://homepage.mac.com/jbf/PhotoAlbum13.html

(and even if you dont agree w. me, then at least look at the pictures, really high qaulity.)

http://www.archinode.com/mitcar1.html

franz gehry, ugly.
sun rises in east

the music is standard indie, but the video was lo fi and pretty, much like chris p's brilliant work for moosejaw.

http://aviola.com/the_sad_song.html

Obama, from illinois is really fucking good--talks at the DNc about health care, education, union work, talks about waste, etc, for example :

Don't want there money wasted--by the welfare agencies  or the pentagon
The Government alone cannot teach education alone.
The slander of a black youth with a book is acting white.
They use faith as a wedge to a divide us. ]
WE have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers about why they are going, or when they will return...

(he thinks war should be an option, but not the first option---not something i would agree with, but he talks about how war is connected to race and class--but also says things like "is seamus {a marine} serving us as well as we are serving them")

obv. grooming him, hope they dont knock of the rough edges,
link here:
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.asp?id=/d/ip/dnc_tuesday_videos_152/data.js&navid=3032091&fmt=full&cp1=1

http://www.directfromgod.com/

A Letter Directly from God to your friends and family, seems to be selling itself esp. to babykillers and their ilk.

I love Xian Kitsch, just when i dont think that it couldnt get more transparent, it does.

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3362
Kenny Chesney/Unkle Kracker
Tim McGraw now too--hip hop and country realize whats happening with class/geographic signifiers perhaps ?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1268540,00.html
Standard Willam Eaggleston article, with some nice qouates from youngsters who feel inspired by him (ie everyone in the last ten)

btw saw pecker last night, and it was really good, and answered some of the questions that i have had about whos exploiting who when it comes to taking pictures...not that eagleston (sp) ever really was part of that crowd, aside from the memphis 60s recptionist, which was about colour and form, has he ever done other portraits.

english video directors and artists, smuggler, have one of the better designed websites , and the work they do is sometimes low, sometimes mean and sometimes as slick and as commerical as all get out--its also some of the v visually exciting . , look at the work for dizee rascall, for one. http://www.smugglersite.com/index_ie.html

Alex d Waal tells of how the world ignores africa, how little it knows about its history and the implications of that history, and how any of the solutions that have been proposed for Darfar is too little too late.

he also talks about how we need to let those who live in the land do what they do, they know what to eat and how to eat it, to trust them  and to learn from them is wiser then pushing thru like our old colonial selves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1268773,00.html

http://www.paradiselost.org/4-stories-pictures.html
Illustrations to Paradise Lost, look at the ones done by John Martin--visionary, crazy (like bedlam crazy) ,an a s ort of more lonley, less musuclar, more clean/clear detailed blake.

fuck hes one of a kind, but the blake is the closest that i can get to.

http://www.anivegvideo.com/AVV.html says that they outfit Animals and Plants with helmet mounted video cams worldwide... and they do.

look at some of the videos, handsome and odd.

I dont know why this fascianted me so much, but did you know that South Africa has capitals for each of its branches of government ?
Pretoria-Administrative
Cape Town-Legislative
Bloemfontein-Judicial

I wonder if this works as a check and balance system ?

i am not really a liberal, i believe in many of the things that the republicans preach as well--states rights, localized (if not smaller) governments, charter schools, less activist judges (and i loved lawerence vs texas), maybe even faith and community based initaives

yesterday, we went and had drinks at decadence, the most ghetto coke dealer bar i have ever been at, someone giving me 4x for the price of doubles, coat check girl not caring about id b/c secuirty decided not to show up, a hip hop cover of the gambler, vinyl banquettes, mirrors everywhere and a lot of red light thru semi opaque plastic.

we sat on leather couches big enough that one couch had enough hide for one brahma bull, and watched jack van impe talk about the end of the world.

 

http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=427
George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum (title says it all)

What I like about Fernwood investments is that they get the most obvious objection out of the way, right off the bat.

This is the next step in making sure that all work, regardless of intent is commercailsed to the nth degree, and also the last one to say that consumer goods (paintings, sculpture, tables, chairs, toys, comics) will always be worth more then you paid for them , if you take care of them and there is enough time in the midst.

What they do, if you are insanely rich, the word right now is about 250m, is to buy art like one is buying a mutual fund--qouting from there website:

Quantitative Econometric Research and Analysis: Fernwood employs a range of quantitative techniques such as repeat sales performance, artist-specific index and cohort index to interpret various sources of publicly available data for valuation and forecasting purposes.
Market Intelligence Gathering: Through the Fernwood network of dealers and professionals in the art community as well as the regular monitoring of publicly available information, Fernwood systematically captures intelligence that informs our buying and selling strategies.
Collector Behavior Analysis: Fernwood has identified a number of discreet collecting segments that behave in disparate ways according to key variables, and is engaged in ongoing analysis of buying and selling decisions in various sectors to inform our decision making.
Economic Analysis and Forecasting: Drawing on macro-economic data and research, Fernwood analyzes the information described above in context to make predictions about future developments.

I don't really have time for this shit, but its worth a look to see what the enemy is doing. Also he writes a long peice and links to it on the front page, about why the Picasso mess was a good thing.

Fuck him with Knives People, with Knives.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/comment/0,9236,1264854,00.html

really good article on the legacy of mr blair.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/07202004_bb_baptism.html

Mass Baptism at a water park.
America is wonderful, because every vital cultural moment can and has been infused with kitsch, every rite of passage slathered in commerce and deep fried.

 

http://www.christianwrestling.com/
http://www.christiangoth.com/
http://www.acrw.net/

nough said

They take pictures, then put words on the pictures, clever and biting words.
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.html
best new web comic in a long time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3907547.stm
This weeks good news from Darfar includes punishment by amputation for pro government rebles and evidence that mass rape has been used as a tactic in the conflicts.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004332088,00.html
it comes from the sun, which you should trust as much as one trusts our sun, but apparently blair is blaming the french for the war in iraq, saying that if they had voted on un inspections earlier then war could have been avoided.

anyone want to parse this ?

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/21/military.perks.reut/index.html

Thantos and Eros circle jerk away, this time the  army offers free big tits, small noses and other plastic surgery to soilders wives and families.

Practice, is the offical reason, and i think one that makes sense--but do they have to practice in the way that makes soilders more sexually open ?

http://www.ravelinks.com/flyers/jesusraves1_small.gif

Black Tea Society takes apart the DNC with a pick axe, saying about "democracy" that i have been saying. They call themselves anarchist, and there are problems with both their metholdogy and ideology, but they seem to be a well organized collective with important things to say.

http://blackteasociety.org/index.php

http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/crime_control_/2004/07/what_i_learned_at_the_executive_sesssion_on_gang_violence.php

This blogpost on gangs doesnt seem to realize that one of the reasons why gangs exist in poor african american and latino communities is to function as discipline and  judicial forces in places where the cops and lawyers are deeply ineffective, mostly b/c they are aa or latino.

Not defending mass violent behaviour, but it does exist for a reason.
(the rest of the post is actually pretty good reportage from the front beurcratic (sp) lines

The power involved in desire is so great that when caught in an actual rhetorical manifestation of desire—a particular sex act, say—it is sometimes all but impossible to untangle the complex webs of power that shoot through it from various directions, the power relations that are the act and that constitute it
Delany

One of the number of his qoutes that scattershot the essay

near naked ladies wielding swords are phallocentric fwiw

http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/vaults/2004/07/19/trouble_desire
eccentric blog entry about comcicon, which sexualizes it (thank god someone besisdes werthem finally noticed the cock encased in all that spandex, is there anything more phallic  and phallocentric then superheros ?)

long article in harpers, that i got some of the way thru before i got sick and went home, so i will have to read it again, but i think it makes the same mistake (superman as economic,, immigrant, socialist, jewish, but not adolsecent fable)

which is one of the arguements that i would make in favuor of batman and robin (97, shumacher)

http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/willis31.htm
also, one of the clearest and cleanest things said about nader, managing to take not the positive or negative tack.

sinkah asked me to  do a best of ilx for him, and amongst that task (the task that i did instead of ana, tonite or tomorrow at the latest), he qouted a woman named ellen willis--havent found the exact essay in question (if mark is reading this, and he has it, you could mail it to me and then i could be happy), but here is some brillaant stuff from the nation:

http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/bio.mhtml?id=164

she reminds me of greer in that fuck you, you cannot actually believe this tone, and in her width and depth of examples, and her subtle twists (ie turning hutchinson back on himself in that first essay)

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040705crbo_books1

I have always thot that fatty arbuckle was the last great lost comediaon, an antecedent and a marytyr to the gods of hollywood, and that he needed to be taken out and dusted off--as an actor and as a man.

Jerry Stahl might have done it.

Most of all, we need to see that the landscape of reality is altered. In the past, we've fought ideological movements that took control of states. Our foreign policy apparatus is geared toward relations with states: negotiating with states, confronting states. Now we are faced with a belief system that is inimical to the state system, and aims at theological rule and the restoration of the caliphate. We'll need a new set of institutions to grapple with this reality, and a new training method to understand people who are uninterested in national self-interest, traditionally defined.
Last week I met with a leading military officer stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, whose observations dovetailed remarkably with the 9/11 commissioners. He said the experience of the last few years is misleading; only 10 percent of our efforts from now on will be military. The rest will be ideological. He observed that we are in the fight against Islamic extremism now where we were in the fight against communism in 1980.

Richard Clarke, todays nyt
via war and piece

said to dee today:

so i saw two missionaries today and it filled me w. contempt, lust and religous nostaliga, the kind of emotion that only finds itself in a french film, i belong in a french film. all of my life is a french film.

then we laughed.

working still on the kgl comic script