a nice little article about Betjeman's thots on the Wilde arrest, his friendship with Bosie (!), and his general human decentness (Bethjeman's ballad of Wilde is excorating on the english hypcrosies that occur when they talk about public and private)

i am of the opinon that the director of the CIA should not be in the swimming pools of saudi princes, drunk or not. I am also suprised that the Bush director of the CIA cannot hold his liqour

the journalist who threw his shoe at Bush has been beaten and perhaps tortured in custody.

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50s Pulp Illustrtation, Author and date unknown.

a couple of dozen photos of riots in Greece, via the Boston Globe's big picture. I have no idea how I feel about the greek riot situation. though the greek police have run out of tear gas.



Beaker does ode to joy.

5 prreisdents who might be worse then bush.

i am wondering if the black and white in these photographs of Kotzebue Alaska, are as effective as Dennis Whitimer thinks they are, but it is nice that he actually lives in the town he shoots in.

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I love that the controversial mexican madonna playboy spread came out during advent.

we are in the middle of radical new understandings of how the brain works due to new imaging technologies.

christies is lowering prices, estimates, and cancelling garuenttes after their disasterous fall season.

this video about abuse, and genetic disorders in pedifgree dogs, is a scandolous must watch. (for example one third of king charles spaniels have a genetic disorder where there brain is too large for their skull, causing unendable pain) (the ridges on rodesian ridgebacks are a form of spinal bifidia and it was until this doc, ethical according to the ridgie standards to cull non ridgeback ridgies)) (german sheperads have such severe hip displayia they cannot walk properly) (bulldogs and pugs faces are so squished in that they cannot breathe, and the tail that curls means their spines do not grow properly) (and others)

fuck you penguin is an obscene parody of lolcats.

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Still from Speed Racer, Mathew Fox.

the vatican has approved its first cell phone app, a breviary for the jesus phone.

katamari bento!


Peggy Atwood Dances

a dozen videos of new york public library special collections workers.

it says a lot about the nessc. of regulation that a 50b ponzi scheme managed to surrive for most of the 90s.

i want this calendar

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This hotel used to be on Fisherman's Wharf, it is no longer.

great mp3 blog, all original compositon.

i want to move to NoDak.

dozens of idlewild photos, vintagey scans.

sweet drawings made in the snow, on mailboxes.

just to prove that bush has to be against all that is holy and good, he comes out against national wifi

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Catherine Denuve, 2008 (still from her new xmas movie)

7 free Ryan McGinness desktops.

dice monster scans dozens of different spinning tops, not all of them driedels, lovely photography, and design.

i think i like these paintings by Jonas Wood, the best of them look like they have spent alot of time looking at 40s era Braque as filtered thru a 70s pop culture/design sensiblity--lots more drawing then painting, it seems to be.


mark simpson argues in favour of civil unions as a radical solution to the untennable affliations b/w the state and queerdom that marriages provide. money qoute:

But not all gays agree. This one for instance sees gay marriage not so much as a touchstone as a fetish. A largely symbolic and emotional issue that in the US threatens to undermine real, non-symbolic same-sex couple protection: civil unions bestow in effect the same legal status as marriage in several US states - including California. As a result of the religious right’s mobilisation against gay marriage, civil unions have been rolled back in several US states.Perhaps the lesson of Proposition 8 is not that most straight people think gay people should sit at the back of the bus, but that if you take on religion and tradition on its hallowed turf - and that is what marriage effectively is - you’re highly likely to lose. Even in liberal California.

the thing that scares me, is that there do not seem to be any dissenting voices in public, that gay marriage might not be a good thing, that free speech or free sex or devotion to other more intangible freedoms are being thrown under the bus, in order to civilise us. (CF Rufus Wainwright or Elton John)

nice little defense of Anderson.

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Ellsworth KElly, Green and Orange, Lithograph, 1976

WANT


Norwegian PSA against bothering Seeing Eye Dogs when they are working.

Obama's VA cheif is critical enough of BUsh, that the Walter Reed scandal might work itself out under

this discussion of how Iowa worked to save it's collection against floods last winter is ripe with midwestern practicality

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Richard Estes, from Manhanttan, Lithographs, 1971

my favourite erotic calendar of the year. my second favourite erotic calendar of the year.

i keep forgetting how many break away lutheran and semi-lutheran sects the US holds, the lastest is the semi shaker, v. communal Schwenkfelders.

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This new still from Where the Wild Things ARe, gave me that lovely warm and excited/nostalgic feeling in my belly, the book is one of those magic things that gave kids power, autonomy, and saftey, and this still at least suggests that they are going to do the same thing with the film.

rob roy kelly library of wood type at the university of texas at austin.

mickey smith takes photos of bound perodicals in libraries, brilliantly formal.

Alos Want

these straight blades make me want to start shaving.

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Scott Caan Why Wont You Love ME