the official regan on rushmore website. with giftshop.

images for the new dave mckean tarot.


Earth and Moon, From Mars, via A NASA Robot.

i am glad homophobic bullying has been taken seriously, i just wish it happened earlier, decades earlier.

five great prints from daniel stolle, with excellent use of spot colour.

peggy orenstein in the new york times, moves around, and then thru, the narrative of culture mixing, and purity that dogs the subtext of criticism of obama.

thomas beatle who is with child, after his wife had a hysterectomy, i think is heroic for the settling of narratives--the work a day, i did this, but then i want this, so i can do that, that marks the most practical narratives of transgression. he is a man, having a baby, something that we have been waiting for (and some of us have been fearing) for decades.

giant sea creatures on the ross ice shelf.

chicagoist used one of my photos.

1000 stolen ancient artifacts found in a private residence, in italy.


Lichtenstien, Mirror 10, Arcylic and Magna, 1971

What one misses in a large proportion of the work on view in St. Louis is, simply, the sense of necessity—an engagement deeper than style.

robert hughes, reviewing lichtenstein in 1981 found here

They are also more plainly invented than the works derived from print sources. We do not think of mirror reflections as having a style, and in that sense Lichtenstein's mirror paintings sidle closer to unmediated experience, and so indirectly to nature, than his other work. They also gather poignancy from the fact that they are empty. One gazes at them frontally, as at a real mirror, but nothing shows up in their superficial depths. The spectator is a phantom. These icy, imperturbable tondos and ovals may say more about the nature of Lichtenstein's imagination than anything he has painted since. What could convey better than a blank mirror his belief that exhibitions of the self are hateful in painting?

ibid.

he totally does not know how to read these, i am reminded of what sarah ruhl said to john lahr in last week's new yorker: "lightness isn't stupidity", its actually a philosophical and aesthetic viewpoint, deeply serious, and has a kind of wisdom--stepping back to be able to laugh at horrible things even as you're experiencing them"--the looking into a mirror, the mirror looking back netzicheian abyss thing isn't here at all, but the self is only present in oblique quotes to previous work. it is a cold and analytical fuck you, to the critics who claim that pop was surfaces, machinery, self obsessed, and narcissistic. they are not empty, they nimbly avoid the narratives created for them. & anyone who can use tondo in a sentence should know that.


Mirror 6, LithoGraph, 1976

dave hickey interview on the market. including a brief foray dissing the incestous circle jerk of christies and sothebys.

the american national library of medicein on pysch pre 1900.

Full text of A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf from 1901 is here worth reading for a discusion of the foundational folk antisemitisms that grounded western culture for most of european history, and also, for placing recent wahbisit discourses in context.


Hacked Sign, Berkes County, PA, 2007, via the new shelton wet and dry go read it now

annotation of Graham Rowe's colalge novel, a womans world.

17 pages of cartoon vitirol, from Dan Clowers in 1987, hand drawn text and illustrations.

design with in reach is now selling teepees.





Four Educational Videos about Alzheimers--well writen, well done visually, and they actively encourage people to download to them, they are cc liscensed. info here

moving from depressing to depressing, mugabe's sunday election in zimbobwae, looks same old same old

mary behrs mash ups of harlequin covers and craigs list ads are like those war at home collages taht combine life with better homes and gardens.

clinton in 1994 told women in fayetteville arkansas, that she thought of joining the marines.





mating llamas, alpacas and camels.

joe queenan on the worst movies ever.


Warhol, Oxidazation Painting. 1977 or 78.

Warhol, Cum Painting, 1978


farm riot in argentina, the globe and mail today, had al ogn artilce that it will be the next great crisis.

a dozen typewriter typefaces

minnesota is giving up on morgatge fraud cases.

taschen is doing a giant penis book


1950s Excercise Maunals that look like Balderssei's Vol. 1.

truck spills, a website that documents, trucks spilling shit.

the spitzer whore thing seems more and more to be a dirty trick like smear job, Roger Stone, A GOP Consultant (speakign of whores), has said that he released memos as early as november---why isnt this the story? (i know why this isnt the story, 20 something nymphos with huge tits and pop ambitions are always the story)

great little story interview about a art dealer working as a fence.

stephen miller's queer photos and peformances, are so over the top, so normalizing of queer abhereance, that they slip into self parody. esp. milky.




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