Dutch Botanical Illustration, 17th Century,


rolling stone spends 5 pages ripping apart the american war profiteers, the usual depressing nonesense, the best bit, is that their is an american catasophric consulting comapny called custer battles

speaking of our return to the 18th century w/o the enlightenment:
The Sunday Telegraph reports that as their partners deliberate on world affairs, APEC wives and girlfriends will be whisked to Garden Island on the Saturday of the conference for an exclusive display of Australian wildlife.


Sears Catalog Page, 1945

kerry james marshall's lost boys series, discusses issues of masculinity, the african diaspora, cultural memorial, and art historical practice. the paintings are difficult, oddly decorative, and have a kind of intellectual viciousness. His use of white as an element that rises contrast, and not as an obvious erasing or whiting out, also has a formal profundity. The link is an interview, with this great qoute:

If I think about them in terms of the traditions they address in painting, I wouldn't say that it was limited so much to a tradition in American painting as much as a tradition of painting icons and/or a kind of elegiac portraiture. Look all the way back to Egyptian funerary portraits. So I would link them more specifically to that kind of a tradition and then from there into more medieval and early renaissance traditions of portraiture than I would to any particular kind of American style of painting. If anything could be said to be an American component to the painting, there's a certain element of gestural abstraction in those portraits, especially in the background. And also a certain quality of graffiti in the application of that kind of gestural kind of abstract painting in the back. If we had to link that to something that might be peculiarly American, that might be the closest. The Lost Boys was a way of combining various styles of painting into one painting so that you can have a representational image, very stylized, like the figures are, and then you add to that or superimpose on it or overlay a different style of painting. Instead of taking a particular moment in history and making paintings that are a response to that, I'm looking back and taking all of our history and trying as many of these formal styles as I can and incorporating them in my painting--as many as will support the idea that I'm trying to communicate, not just taking things at random, but as many as I can to support the idea of what the pictures are about.

(thnx sally)

jan spahr a presbyterian,was convicted of her synod for marrying same gendered folx.

christian science monitor reviews September Dawn.


Martin Creed, Installation at Hessel Gallery, Chelsea.


Pegah Emambakhsh, a Iranian Lesbian, has been denied refugee status in the UK. story here

apparently owen wilson tried to kill himself over the weekend and is now at cedars siani

context on that wood qoute and list posted below.


Neil Gaiman took this photo of Chengdayu, China, out his hotel window, god it looks depressing.

black prof discusses homophobia, the african american community, and obama. the essay is brilliant, but the comments are jaw dropping in their stupidity.


Joe does not let his children watch television, after he watches this video, i cannot imagine anything but immediately buying a 60 inch HDTV for the play room.

fascainting article about how forensic dentistry can be used to prevent domestic violence.

the pope is immune from lawsuits and arrests because he has diplomatic immunity because he is the leader of the vatican.


Still from the new Todd Haynes Biopic of Dylan, this is Heath Ledger.

canadian archivists had images of
inuits from the 19th and the early 20th century. They gave the photos to inuit youth, as a project to have them communicate with elders, and learn stories, getting important information to the archives at the same time. I think this is almsot a uniquely canadian project, and its amazing.

the crystal bridges shitload of capital saves Fisk unversity.

david k johnson who wrote Lavender Menace, a history of the queer scare as it relates to McCarthy, is interviewed by the UC Press, and he makes the point about youth, and cities that allows for sexual diversity in most cities (apparently there were gay bars and people were crusing in layfette parks across from the white house in teh 40s and 50s), he doesnt say it directly, but he alludes to the idea that before kinsey, before sexuality was highly codified, the polymorphusness made at least same sexual contact easy to find, if not safer:

But after the war a concern began to grow throughout the nation that American morality was in a state of decline. Publication of the Kinsey report fed these fears, particularly Kinsey's statistics that suggested widespread homosexual behavior. Congress responded by passing a tough sexual psychopath law for the District of Columbia to crack down on deviant behavior. At the same time the U.S. Park Police initiated a "Pervert Elimination Campaign" for D.C. parks frequented by gay men. With the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his charges that communists and homosexuals had infiltrated the federal government, the men arrested in Washington's parks on sex charges seemed to threaten not just the morality of the city but the national security. Their arrest records were forwarded to the executive agencies and hundreds began losing their jobs.

how to case mod a taxidermied beaver.


Erotic Missionary Calendar, fags stop watching about 4 minutes in. (cause thats when the chicks start)

one of the victims of that murder sucide has an ex wife, who has a blog, this is it. true crime blog gives some pretty good context and updates on the event