article on the mountain meadows massacre from the ensign this month. it is a brave document, taking full responsibility and not sparing difficult details. that it was posted as a full text on the net, suggests interesting things about the lds realtionship to new techonology.


norman foster talks to anthony caro.

the original text of the chicken house article, the basis for the best little whorehouse in texas. melvin howard died this week



Lizzie Grubman at a Getty Event.


LiLo, just before her arrest.

biologists engage in excercises in taxonomy with bookstores.

i like justin vinseky's photos are v. quiet and sort of politely suburban in the best way.

discussion of china's finical involvement in africa:

African markets are so undeveloped that the opportunity there is still quite small. According to Stanlib, a South African asset-management group, the market capitalisation of the whole continent is just $800 billion, of which South Africa itself makes up $600 billion. The rest of the continent’s markets, in other words, are worth a good deal less than Exxon Mobil. Put another way, China could buy every African quoted company with its foreign-exchange reserves.

ted stevens house was raided by the irs.



On the front cover of the TImes of India, last week.

small stakes does v. elegant limited edition silk screen posters, with a sophisticated visual wit.

the election results from japan, are being called evenge of the middle classes. i dont know nearly enough about it, but more questions then answers are coming.

these 10 images from mayfair, in london, by rob gardiner have a refined elegance that jettisions most of what we have learnt about the aesthetics of photography in the last 70 years. for the better.



Sol Lewitt, In Four Directions, Ink on Paper, 1980.

the bishop of chelmsford's new ordination has gone a bit off the rails, in one of those stories that is so petty, it becomes an episode from a david lodge novels.

new truitt site, which begins a CR of her work, list of collections, some writings, etc. The best thing about it though is that her cv is going to include DVDs, so that people can actually treat the sculptures as 3D objects.

the new us pasport is a fantastic example of the triumph of ornament.


The Alpaca's they plan.

great article on why ehtonal is a huge scam, which results in less food for poor people, doesnt aid emissions at all, and prevents/encourages corn famers from actually growing something that might be useful.

Robert Olen Butler's wife left him to be one of Ted Turner's girlfriend, this resulted in a letter that is a masterpeice of pasive agressive boasting.

jack barnes has been the head of the socialist workers party for decades. he was reposnible for the turn to industrialization the SWP did in the 70s, which resulted in soft college students attempt factory jobs, just as the sector was startign to die a massive death. he just sold the new york loft that the party had for 109 years to a executive at Warner Music for 1.872m.


Tim McGraw stops concert. asks for his pinky ring back (same concert where faith hill told an anon concert goer to stop grabbing tims balls)



Sometimes I am a cliche. (50 Hunks from 50 States, this one is from Nebraska)

mexico city allows same gender congujals.

the weird thing about this trailer for rendetion (a list cast, about the cia and their moving prisobners to eastern europe to tortue them) is that the prisoner is jake gyllenhall. they couldnt find an arab? (though the idea of gylenhall being tied up and his clothes being stripped from him is kind of hot)


Wolly Bully, by Sam the Sham

skull a day blog



Two Traffic Choppers, Collision, Phoneix.