I think that the reason why the drive by truckers are so effective in their critique of current american policy is a deep geographic respect for where they are from. This is a ive performance of Dress Blues, a memorial ode to a friend who died at 18, as a marine. from the beginning, with the intoning of he was 18, to the clarion calls towards mother and family, w/o the rhetoric of the state, makes it one of the more profound anti war anthems in recent memory (esp the line american boys hate to lose/but you never planned in the bombs adn the sand/or sleeping in yr dress blues)
(also, i think its how exhaustion and confusion become foregrounded, over anger and righteousness)

the freakanomics dude discusses the tactics of terror.



those stupid baby einstein videos do nothing for yr children

uk's pulling out of iraq, and the americans are angry about it.

a semi long peice of verbal virtuosity by anselem berrigan. 15 pairs of columns, possible to be read across the two columns, down one column and then the other, down the whole page, and then down the next, or in other ways. some of the word choices, and the construction of paired ideas/themes are confusing, but in that fecund noisy poet kind of way.



linux cannot support software being used to monitor someone who was convicted and sentenced for downloading the new stairwars movie.

mitt romney's sons, who i frequently fantasize about, in an incestous orgy kind of way

boris kobe daucha prisoner, architect, and political prisoner, created these tarot cards when he was in the camps.

society of pius X's members forbidden from praying in two denver area churches.

the bst thing about this 19 photo slide show of Phillip Johnson's estate in new cannan, is that it totally upends the idea that he stopped being an impt architect in the 50s, or that he was more impt as an idea man then he was as actual builder. the work here, from the early 50s to the late 80s, is a natural and logical progression, of ideas, concepts, and technology, with a careful consideration of site placement and historical importance. Look at the gallery, with the moving walls, the library, and the brick house i wrote about earlier. It's as impt as his work for the crystal catherdral or the at and t building.


You know, i think beauty pageants should just drop the q&a

the spdier ti defense band system when you cant choke that bitch with your barehands

the most interersting thin abotu this story taht features GErard Richters new window in Cologne, is how well or poorly the translation b/w digitial and analog material's worked:

The Cologne window is made of 11,500 four-inch " pixels" cut from original antique glass in a total of 72 colors. Why not 4,096? Turns out there are stained glass-smart colors, too. Some hues in Richter's initial design were either historically inaccurate or too pale — they would have outshone the squares around them. So the artist modified his palette to include only colors with a suitably archaic cast. Because it's fine for a church window to look like it's been designed by a computer, as long as it's a computer with a gothic sensibility.

the photo comes from der sepigel, hence the german caption.

these graph paper stamps, are really really pretty. three for 12 american, including the polar condiarate, which is all circular. great for the pomo grid show, i think.

dryers still lives are really commerical and slick, but some of the work featuring jewelry in the corner of brightly painted rooms is pure formal joy, esp the coral and diamond ring on a cerulean counter, and the emerald and conch pearl brooch with a bone background. he can also shoot cheap plastic dice well.


Resin Table with Orange Slice Graphic, Californian, ca 1970

47 dead in terrorist bombs in the indidan city of Hydererbad. 600 injured. The same city in may had a blast that killed 12.


Baroness Thatcher, Lord Snowdon, 2006.