Tangerines in a Red Net Bag

Rick Rubin, Patrois(?), New York Times.
Illustrating a story about him as new exec at Columbia, he looks like jeremiah

pulp cover gallery

a great blog on morbid anatomy, with lots and lots of pictures.

Anatomical Drawing of a Hermaphrodite, 19th Century, England

the MI5 spent at least a decade spying on Orwell (the problem with 1984, is that it assumed the mechanics of the state had to be huge, overwhelmingly present, as opposed to small, intimate, and unending)

more republican sex scandal though this is women and whores.

fort meyers flordia high school journalism classes grade students, at least partially, on ad revnue.

richard stickler, the department of mines director, was rejected twice by a republican congress, and was a recess appointment, from the article:

Stickler used to be a mining executive who - according to various media reports - ran mines which had several fatalities and "...an incident rate that was often twice the national average."

children's book intended to teach about curing homosex.

fantastic pulp comic, a sort of anthology of sf pulp visual tropes, called planet, from the 40s.

i have been reading fredrick seidel's poetry lately, and reading stories like this--his work is deacdent, louche, and v. wealthy, and his bio seems more impt to most critics then the writing. that said, the sex in his work is amazing, just the kind of erotic imagination that happens when you dont have to do anything in yr life but shop and fuck. the boston review fellates him into oblivion.

romney is so squeaky that this democrat slam site is pathetic. (their has been a pdf of a 1981 questionare that romney completed for planned parenthood, where he stated his support for womens reproductive support, that is much more damaging then this nonesense--its not that hes a flipflopper, its that hes a whore.)

Maraget Bourke White, Oil Refinery near Houston, 1950s

Nasa Illustration about Mars Exploration, early 60s

tracey lind, from the american midwest, is a lesbian and perhaps a new epsicopal bishop--i like her much better then Robinson, she at least seems humble:

“I am honored and humbled to be named a nominee for Bishop of Chicago and to be included in the company of my fellow nominees, all of whom are faithful, accomplished leaders in God's church. Since the day last winter when I was asked to make myself available to this nominating process, my discernment prayer has been that God would continue to lead me to serve God's new creation in the church. I believe that accepting this nomination is what God is asking of me, and I will strive to respond to that call faithfully and with grace.”

northop grunman the weapons manufacturer sells guns and bombs with mediocre comic books.

anthony burill is sort of a hipster patrick caufield, but better.

One of his landscapes, from 2006

the isrealie army uses situationist and post structuralist urban theory, esp. the work of both Deluze and Debord:

There is a considerable overlap among the theoretical texts considered essential by military academies and architectural schools. Indeed, the reading lists of contemporary military institutions include works from around 1968 (with a special emphasis on the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Guy Debord), as well as more contemporary writings on urbanism, psychology, cybernetics, post-colonial and post-Structuralist theory. If, as some writers claim, the space for criticality has withered away in late 20th-century capitalist culture, it seems now to have found a place to flourish in the military.

I asked...why Deleuze and Guattari were so popular with the Israeli military. (Naveh, a retired Brigadier-General) replied that ‘several of the concepts in A Thousand Plateaux became instrumental for us […] allowing us to explain contemporary situations in a way that we could not have otherwise. It problematized our own paradigms. Most important was the distinction they have pointed out between the concepts of “smooth” and “striated” space [which accordingly reflect] the organizational concepts of the “war machine” and the “state apparatus”. In the IDF we now often use the term “to smooth out space” when we want to refer to operation in a space as if it had no borders. […] Palestinian areas could indeed be thought of as “striated” in the sense that they are enclosed by fences, walls, ditches, roads blocks and so on.’5 When I asked him if moving through walls was part of it, he explained that, ‘In Nablus the IDF understood urban fighting as a spatial problem. [...] Travelling through walls is a simple mechanical solution that connects theory and practice.’

a larger essay on the topic

Xian mudwrestling, near Louisville.

concern about excellent actresses being more known for their bodies then their roles, centering on the maggie gyllenhall for agent provateour shoot.

(the thing about this article, is esp the AP shots, is that she is obv acting here--they are erotic, carefully controlled, v. much about her body, and how she uses it. I think that the article forgets that actors use their bodies, and one of the ways that those bodies are usd is for seduction--and considering how varied Maggie Gyllenhall's career has been, the sophisticated use of self created imagery is present. And as for nicole kidman, i am not sure she isnt vacant, (and her best roles are roles that are about how she uses her body---kidman was a better actor in too die for, moulin rouge, or a portrait of a lady, then she was in the interperter, dogville or the hours)

This interview b/w Ellen Degeneres and Hilary Clinton, the second half taking place at a diner, is so smooth, so well constructed, so normal, reminds us that Clinton is excellent at pretending to be smooth and normal.

nerve article on the sexual underground of the middle east, and what it means when jewish poronography is popular in arabic circles.

a story about stalags, a kind of pulp fiction, written by isrealis, for isrealis, pretending to be anglos, in the mid 1960s.The pulp were supposed first person sexual narratives about the death camps. There is a documentary about them now at the Jersulem film festival, and the popularity of the texts, and its realtionship to the Eichman trial, and the pyschosexual devolpment of Isreal as a nation is fascinating.

Here where a reserve soilder talks about the books in his own sexual devolpement.