works going okay, had a huge seizure wednesday, and have full shift tomorrow, depression back pretty hard.

Russ Minter is an English Boxer with whom I would like to fuck.

Kevin Mitchell is an english Boxer whom I would like to fuck.

big ny times on cooper design institute show on colour and fashion, D and Rachel should see the slide show.

Brilliant Salmon Rushdie Essay against purity
, and against the critics of a polyglot post nationalism--actually much sublter and calmer, with less wit then he manages, but much worth reading.

more blank an d banal modern photos, these ones with an industrial feeling and a really intresting rythymic sense--think Baltz wih colour.



Geoff sent this backgrounder on the australia situtaion which makes us realise that terortial space, of blocks and feet is often more powerful and more willing to be fought over then nation or race--what people assumed to be racial (and how can stripping 14 yr old muslim girls of their head scarves be anything but) and about gender (5000 drunken young men, shirtless and raw) is really about what it means to be australian, what it means to be part of one neighbourhood in sydneny--someplace geoff called the most segragated place in the world. the nation state dying, and immigrants coming and going, the politics of the invader and the invaded will be forefronted in hte next few years--esp. in post commonwealth nationstates who's idenity is unconnected to a national ethos, or whose national ethos is quickly becoming more and more liminal (canada, australia, great britian, south africa of course) (but alos those non commonwealth countries, who are wrestling with their colonial histories,and their racial subtexts (french/algeria; brazil; germany) if nationhood is not national, and is not ethnic, and is barely geographical, then what do you have left--city state block tribe, and tribes destroy each other quickly But sometimes there is hope here for example, muslims gaurding christan churches against violence on xmas