Rhianna knows how to pose like a lady.

i dont like the genre title americana, but i like this band.

the vernon collection 3500 photos, mostly vintage prints, mostly iconic, and almost exculisvlety american, were sold/given to LACMA. LACMA has a v. small photo collection, and this increases its prestige.

the new american embassy in bejing has a large collection of current in vogue artists, including koons tulips, for v. little money. conde nast discussses how this is possible.

ruscha's outdoor studio, in venice california is under attack.


No context for this photo at all, if anyone knows anything about it, please tell.

smarmy article on the intersection b/w homosocial and assumed queerness vis a vis kenny chesney and the new orleans saints.

ohara and madmen

gerogia/russia 19th century war using 21st century tactics.


John Hamm, for a photoshoot in this months Advocate (article mostly worthless, but this shot by Greg Endries, is almost perfect, in its nostalgia for hidden desire, and its asborbotion and then aesthetizing mid 50s gay male desire more work here

Pieter Hugo, who did the hyenas in lagos last year photographs nollywood (fun fact: the nigerian film industry is about 20 years old, and is the first national film industry to exist post video--to put that another way, it went from making no films, to making the most films in the world, in the peroid of 2 decades)

more scandal in the american department of immigration, detainee facilities.


KArl Hammer Haurfer, my new crush (german news anchor)

it gives me hope that a 93 yr old's debut is basically porn, and that it sells a fortune.

fantastic article from the band holy fuck, about how they are not to blame for the Tories small minded art cuts (ie get a grant, 6 gigs in the uk, the 6 gigs result in a full european tour, paid for w/o government cash)

i cannot describe the full weirdness of this story, but it does feature a 30 yr old french man pretending to be a 15 yr old american in a shit kicking texas trailer park.

these 6 elizabeth soule photos are decorative and pretty, in the best ways.

plush kali


The Virgins, Rich Girls, fantastic hook, great vocals, sort of common peopley, but less snide.

berlin houseboat (lust in my heart)

buy me this now bitches

the lds offical peice on the california same gendered marriage dessecion. money qoute, which is basically an inside justifaciton for interferring with the state, something the church rarely does (last time on record was the knight desc. i think)

The focus of the Church’s involvement is specifically same-sex marriage and its consequences. The Church does not object to rights (already established in California) regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the family or the constitutional rights of churches and their adherents to administer and practice their religion free from government interference.

The Church has a single, undeviating standard of sexual morality: intimate relations are proper only between a husband and a wife united in the bonds of matrimony. The Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage neither constitutes nor condones any kind of hostility towards homosexual men and women. Protecting marriage between a man and a woman does not affect Church members’ Christian obligations of love, kindness and humanity toward all people.

slideshow of DDR bunkers.

k punk on ripley and glam

this is what defenders of brutalism have to fight against.

ralph reed fundraises for mccain.


Funny and Sexy Basic Chemistry Ed Video (European)

the iranian foreign minsiter, in fact does not have a degree from Oxford.

hip hop and the economics of ghost writing.

critical investigation on why swimming records are falling so quickly.

manhattan, sky scrapers and sheets of falling glass.

(photo accompyning the story)

gold medal speed skater, and leader of Team DArfur, a group of atheletes working against the genocide there, has had his visa revoked on his trip to Bejing.

Longtime readers know my fascination with debunking of the absurd myth that Ronald Reagan ascended because of his "sunny optimism." I'm reading a forthcoming book about Patty Hearst, and I'd somehow missed this example. The Hearst family, responding to the demands of their daughter's kidnappers, began a program to distribute food to the poor. Reagan's response? "It's too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism." Rick Pearlstein, Morning in America.

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