haunting collection of photos from famous parisan taxidermist Deyrolle, which lost most of its inventory to fire, and had a recent fund raising auction to replace it.

estonian defense minister, and nato higher up may have passed on missile defense and cyber terrorism secrets from the russians to the americans.

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Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester (Anglican), suggests that the the anglican corpus lacks leadership on moral issues, which is correct, and that his reactionary movement against homosexuality is similar to the reformation, which i have some quibbles about (ie the reformation was a movement that decentralised power, and allowed for more resources to be in the hands of the lay, the anglican churches recent problems seem to stem from a desire to make powerful a central college of bishops, while still maintaining the fluidity and collegiatey of the current system, it seems to be a you cannot serve two masters situation to me)

bush appoints lee greenwood to the national endowment of the arts.


live basement preformance of up bondage up yours.



all image viven westwood heavey tumblr.

i suspect that the priest from Greenville who suggests that pennance for voting in favour of Obama is more moderated then he seems to be.

fantastic photos of iceland radio stations and towers, excellent use of colour, esp. greens.

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Laurel Canyon, Joni Mitchell, 1976

rachel wright makes clothes that use vintage fabric and appliques to suggest anotomical forms. if the embrodiery were not so strong, it would be a little womens studies 101.


Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Little Children, from the early 60s, seriously and profoundly creepy.

with the news that Palin's africa qoutes came both from Fox, and were a hoax, the suggestion that she is being used as a sacrificial lamb to appease the failed McCain campaign comes into stark relief.

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Ryan Renyolds, why won't you love me

Robert Irwin, Dan McClearly, Verija Clemins, and Uta Barth on the effects of Morandi on their work.

a gilmore digitizes and mechinacises the patterns and colours of people like vasserly, trippy, slightly kitschy, but enthralling.

Hinkley discusseda strategy to defeat same gender marriage in 1997.

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Barbara Kruger, 1981

little essay with youtube clips about van dyke parks.

unico, the cutest anime unicorn ever!

the problem with the solution based pragmatic, and genuinely centrist solutions that Obama is proposing, the dialouge of adults he talked about in the audicity of hope, is that it assumes that wing nuts who think he will impose a facist state in America do not have power. He might be a back bencher from Georgia, but he will have to get this guy to work for him, which will be a pain.

the lds continue to baptise holocaust victims.

Butler on Obama. money qoute:

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Cindy Crawford, Steve Misel, French Vogue, 2008

As the election approached, there has been an increased focus on the person of Obama: his gravity, his deliberateness, his ability not to lose his temper, his way of modeling a certain evenness in the face of hurtful attacks and vile political rhetoric, his promise to reinstate a version of the nation that will overcome its current shame. Of course, the promise is alluring, but what if the embrace of Obama leads to the belief that we might overcome all dissonance, that unity is actually possible? What is the chance that we may end up suffering a certain inevitable disappointment when this charismatic leader displays his fallibility, his willingness to compromise, even to sell out minorities? He has, in fact, already done this in certain ways, but many of us "set aside" our concerns in order to enjoy the extreme un-ambivalence of this moment, risking an uncritical exuberance even when we know better. Obama is, after all, hardly a leftist, regardless of the attributions of "socialism" proffered by his conservative opponents. In what ways will his actions be constrained by party politics, economic interests, and state power; in what ways have they been compromised already? If we seek through this presidency to overcome a sense of dissonance, then we will have jettisoned critical politics in favor of an exuberance whose phantasmatic dimensions will prove consequential. Maybe we cannot avoid this phantasmatic moment, but let us be mindful about how temporary it is. If there are avowed racists who have said, "I know that he is a Muslim and a terrorist, but I will vote for him anyway," there are surely also people on the left who say, "I know that he has sold out gay rights and Palestine, but he is still our redemption." I know very well, but still: this is the classic formulation of disavowal. Through what means do we sustain and mask conflicting beliefs of this sort? And at what political cost?

fascinating article on the origin of octupi.

the swiss return 4400 antiquites to Italy

the blueprints for Auschwitz have been found in Berlin, and it places the final solution to a much earlier date.

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Zach Ayoelette, Closed Wal-Mart, 2008, film (i want a print of this)

Obama is putting together an office of urban affairs.


Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979, Okkerville River (Bruce Wayne Campbell was Jobriath, openly gay, and flamboyant, who crashed and burnt in the 70s, even though his records were spending millions to birth him as a star)

gus powell takes excellent photographs of trees, and suburban spaces, including some beautiful tonal varrations.

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Priscilla Presley, 1965, photog unkown

herman chong black and white book covers, paper backs, more design then art, but elegant.

indie saddo cover of thin lizzy, featuring bonnie prince billy.

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