all shall be well all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well julian of norwich

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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1703 Thonas Bray's missions to the first nations John Wesley Born
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1727 oxford methodists
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1730 the next two decades is the first great awakening of british isles
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1733 sucession of church of scotland
1734
1735 John Wesley and Charles Wesley Georgia Mission
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1738 Moravian, strange warming of the heart
1739 founder of the fetter lane society a moravian church group that functioned as an earlier precuser to methodism, latter members include blake's parents
1740
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1742 Hanham Court Revival, by the Methodist founder George Whitfeild, open preaching (w.o a lisc?) brought 20k people, later cambuslung brought 30k, called the carlumburg walk, sort of a scottish burnt over district
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1774 Swedenborg visited the Fetter Lane Society
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1776 american constution 80 per cent of anglican priests at this time loyalists
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1784 Samuel Seabury first bishop of the episcopal church of the us by scottish bishops,first new church
1785 Wilberforce's conversion to evangelical church
1786
1787 William Wilbourforce, Comittee for the Abiltion of the Slave Trade founded
1788
1789 book of common prayer revised
1790

Thursday, February 18, 2010

five thots on the radner paper

how did proto and early anglican theologies reinforce not only the humanity of christ, but the copereal body itself

the word is preached as well as read

centrality of the wd as opposed to the eucharist

the move from trans to con

christ bound to scripture

text was made flesh

use:

kewe;; 8-==abonadon all bodily sense
andrews donne
sadys ==regenate christ
donne sermon
my sister is going to be married

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

had a long conversation with jeff today, basically about how ideological opposites, esp opposites w.i the realm of sexual ethics manage to maintain dialouge, or why they mantain dialouge, there were the usual reasons: convincing people, the general value of discourse, a basic communiation ethos, obligation to social or religious ties, et. al. but as we were talking, and he was lifting his head over his shoulder, as his shirt rode up, as i saw his belley, and the waistband of his briefs, i realised--an impt but unstated reason that i communicate with jeff, is that i want him to close that door, i want him to drop his dick out of his pants, all of the talk in the world reduced to the infitenselmey small chance that he will eventually fuck me.
This time, the anger lasts long enough for Ebert to write it down. He opens a new page in his text-to-speech program, a blank white sheet. He types in capital letters, stabbing at the keys with his delicate, trembling hands: MY TRIBUTE, appears behind the cursor in the top left corner. ON THE FIRST SHOW AFTER HIS DEATH. But Ebert doesn't press the button that fires up the speakers. He presses a different button, a button that makes the words bigger. He presses the button again and again and again, the words growing bigger and bigger and bigger until they become too big to fit the screen, now they're just letters, but he keeps hitting the button, bigger and bigger still, now just shapes and angles, just geometry filling the white screen with black like the three squares. Roger Ebert is shaking, his entire body is shaking, and he's still hitting the button, bang, bang, bang, and he's shouting now. He's standing outside on the street corner and he's arching his back and he's shouting at the top of his lungs.

from this month's esquire
for lent:

a) totally wearing socks.
b) keeping the room clean.
c) going to dinner minimum 3 days a week.
i wanted to write about mcqueen, i have mentioned him a couple of times, and we know that he killed himself last week. we could talk about the power of his spectacle, the strangenss, the poltiically complicated violence, the outrageous shows, the stories of pissing on tables, on sewing the word cunt on prince charles clothes. or we could talk about the tenderness, his rship with his mother, the long almost marriage with a partner, the dishabile of blow and that magnifiecent collection that he made for her, as an apology or as a requiem; we could talk about both of them, and how he included aimee mullins in his show in boots of hand carved ash, or how the big women in his shows did not seem to be a stunt, like gautier or gallino. i want to talk about his englishness, the love of the gothic, of the grotesque, the hatred of the french, the dandy in him....

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Spring 2006.

It could be Brian Ferry, or a mod or rocker, those colours, that fucking sheen, but also how tight and contained it is, how it has a rake's debauched elegance.

or how monstrous this is, from his collection inspired by hitch cock's the birds:

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it is hitchcock, with the bird eating the shoulder, and that colour, that draping, the material choices are pure regency, so it is the monster of nature eating the femminity, the social expectations of women. like grendel, or like hughe's crow, written about slyvia plath, at least obliquely, and does the model not look like sylvia, a little bit?





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Giant Anteater Float from Rio's Carnival.

long review of the jungen show at the musuem of the american indian. complicates, and refuses a lot of the narratives that contain his work, but celebratory.

100 million dollars for a giocemmeti bronze, one of an edition of 6.


Jeff Lang, House Carpenter, my favourite version since Buffy St Marie (my mom used to sing this to me asa kid, which most likely explains why i am so fucked up)

greg.org systematically blasts the racketering that seems to ground the warhol foundaiton.


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Print on Polyester/Silk Voile, based on the line from Suzanne, via sailor folur

an oakland stake has a meeting where they talk about queer lds experiences in light of prop 8, looks difficult but holy.

amazing collection of essays about reworking literary history, with a peice by Geoffe Parkes.

rainbow cake!!

vintage dinasour books

new dsm revisions, some major problems:
1. the sex stuff is problematic as it continues to pathologize common
expereinces.
2. it is v. v. eurocentric
3. it does a better job of splitting kid, teenage, and adult experiences,

but in this splitting, it tends to make kids access to the system
easier--there are good points to that, but you and i know that once a kid is
in the system the kid stays in the system
4. it does not split what seem like "brain broke" problems with what

seems like "other things caused brain to break"
5. it assumes science when i am not sure it should be able to do that
6. the sheer unadulterated power it has to move billions of dollars in
and out of systems
7. it is much less flexible than it could be.

Dave Preyde says this about the exclusion of the aspie from the list:

also, can you tell me yr objections to exluding aspergers from the nw dsm
12:38amDavid

12:40amDavid

I think that autism can really be divided into two categories: lower-functioning and higher-functioning. For lower-functioning autistics their main problem is people thinking, "How can it be a human if it can't communicate?" and all of the implications and related problems from that sentiment.

With higher-functioning autistics, their main problem is people thinking, "How can that genius be so fucking retarded?" and all the implications and related problems from that sentiment.
12:40amAnthony

can you expand the last bit
12:42amDavid

Basically, they can interact with the world in some way, but it will be erratic, problematic, awkward, and stilted to some degree. They have the potential to function in a way that approximates normal behaviourl, and their support needs to focus on that.

Basically it's two groups: the children of Kanner, and the children of Asperger. They have completely situations and completely different needs, and they're completely connected but still different.
12:44amAnthony

tell me more about kanner
12:46amDavid

Leo Kanner discovered autism at the same time as Hans Asperger. But Kanner's patients were lower-functioning than Asperger, and he tended to view them in a more cynical, clinical way, dehumanizing them. He held little hope for his patients and blamed their parents for their dysfunction.

Because Asperger's work was lost for decades, it was Kanner's view of autism that became widely accepted for decades.

It was eventually realized he was treating lower-functioning autistics who could never live independently, but his attitude was still barbaric.
12:53amAnthony

can i blog this?
12:54amDavid

Sure. Most of what I know about Asperger and Kanner's treatment of their patients came from Paul Collins' book 'Not Even Wrong' which I read a little over a year ago.
12:58amAnthony

i should read it
12:59amDavid

Yeah, it's brilliant. I can lend it to you on Saturday if you want.
1:01amAnthony

i would love that

or even friday
1:01amDavid

Yeah, I could bring it in then.


rowan williams may actually grow some balls and stop the schism that is in the middle of taking place.


Charo!


Ted Talk from Aimee Mullins, double amputee, athelete, and muse for McQueen and Matthew Barney, among others.

bluejake remains one of my favourite urban photographers.

south korea robot actors.

a couple of days late but cerebus valentine day cards.


this video orginated in an essay about sontag and new york, a refuting of terry castle's new book, but mostly i wanted to link it because there is nothing sexier then imagining sontag, at the back row of the angelika, staring at the screen, taking notes, while rosel rosch pretends to be marlene detrich. (i know that she never sat in the back row, i know that veronica voss is more complicated then real women doing drag, but imagine the continum of performative femminity there.)

alison yip has some great collages from the joy of sex hanging now at faria gallery in the distllery distrct.

cocaine being more fashionable in europe and the rise of security in the carribean and north america means that shipments are being delivered thru africa, esp. senegal.

roberta smith dismantles the complaency of the big four ny musuems a must read.


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For Lent, from a Portland Print maker with a strong worker/xian concentration.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

RIP: Alexander McQueen. We'll keep thinking of him in
happier times. Like when he got the job at Givenchy.
When meeting the starchy Parisian studio staff for the
first time, he got his cock out, peed on the cutting
table, and said "See the future!"

via pop bitch
anorexia is a structure of facades constructed to hidea central hole of non being
macsween, anorexic bodies
Rachel: u read Sándor Ferenczi?
me: nope
Sent at 2:02 AM on Thursday
Rachel: look at The “confusion of tongues” theory of trauma
i think that if we had a culture that was more sex positive, that truly ignored sexual behaviour, where sexual behaviour was not a reason to lose yr job, or even be out of the running for a job, if you had to lie because if you told the truth there would be no future, then it would different.

sex makes everyone crazy, fucking makes you lose yr brains, it destabilizes, it reorients, and there are other reasons for him not to be elected, but t hat should be a choice that we had as voters on election days, not one taken away from us because as an electorate we cannot view past other sexualities.

smitherman gets to be mayor, because hes a good fag, giambrone does not get to be mayor because he actually uses his dick. makes me fucking livid

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

audre lorde's essay on emily dickinson, which i read at 7 am in the tub, made me think about her in a new way. i think about whitman and dickinson in equal measures, every day almost--the same images, the same poems, the same lines--they are part of my firmament. but i have written about whitman, qouted whitman, thot outloud about whitman, made whitman part of my public discourse more than dickinson.

lorde made me sort of realise why. (whitman is expansive, and the horror, the blackness of dickinson is interior, it is about the soul, the body, the house) there is a page in lorde's essay, where she talks about her domestic tasks, her knitting, her sewing, her canning jellies--and then talks about the sewing of the books, and how those two tasks were of the same stripe, but then talks about how little critics treat dickinson--how the internal, the mysticism of inside work of loss, of grief, of desire, of sex, of the xtc and instability of the body are impossible to contain, how microcosmic is vital (this is me: the microcosm of dickinson mirrors the macrocosm of whitman)

because she is so interior, dickinson does not invite us in, does not let us be as discursive as other people as other writers (and not nessc. female writers--in that time and place there were sermons, instruction books,poems and novels that were exterior.)

look at this:
After great pain a formal feeling comes--
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
And yesterday--or centuries before?

The feet, mechanical, go round
A wooden way
Of ground, or air, or ought,
Regardless grown,
A quartz contentment, like a stone.

This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived,
As freezing persons recollect the snow--
First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.

that is not an invitaiton for discussions.

(it reminds me of plath:

he Arrival of the Bee Box

I ordered this, clean wood box
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
I would say it was the coffin of a midget
Or a square baby
Were there not such a din in it.

The box is locked, it is dangerous.
I have to live with it overnight
And I can't keep away from it.
There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there.
There is only a little grid, no exit.

I put my eye to the grid.
It is dark, dark,
With the swarmy feeling of African hands
Minute and shrunk for export,
Black on black, angrily clambering.

How can I let them out?
It is the noise that appalls me most of all,
The unintelligible syllables.
It is like a Roman mob,
Small, taken one by one, but my god, together!

I lay my ear to furious Latin.
I am not a Caesar.
I have simply ordered a box of maniacs.
They can be sent back.
They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner.

I wonder how hungry they are.
I wonder if they would forget me
If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree.
There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades,
And the petticoats of the cherry.

They might ignore me immediately
In my moon suit and funeral veil.
I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.

The box is only temporary.

Sylvia Plath



it's attachment to plath, and introducing this first as an audre lord, reminds us(me) of the real reason why i feel like i cannot talk about dickinson--there is so much work left be done there--work uncovering the mess of male writers, editors, bowlderizers, deniers of her religious and sexual power, deniers of her as a writer, and a creator of texts--starting with family and moving outward.

the uncovering of the complexity of whitman, of his faults and his virtues, of his role as a prophet and a poet, is my work, as queer, as a man, as someone who is interested in the embodiment of the universal, plath is not in the same capacity.

Monday, February 08, 2010

1628
1629 Charles 1 rules w/o parliment
1630 Laud establishes arabic chair at oxford
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1633 william laud as archbishop of canterbury
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1637 scottish invasion of england after charles i attempts ot reform pres church of scotland
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1642 first civil war
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1645 execution of laud
1646 end of first civile war
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1648 George Fox founds the quaker movement second civil war
1649 end of second civil war
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1651 publication of levithan
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1653 cromwell as lord protector
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1658 bunyan imprisoned for preaching w/o a lisc.
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1660 restoration of the stuart monarchy
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1662 act of uniformity
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1666 great fire of london
1667 Milton paradise lost
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1677 First Greek Orthodox Church, as an attempt towards ecumencial, breaks down as the bishop of london wishes to be in charge
1678 Titus Oates Hoax (an anglican attempt to frame catholics in a guy fawkes like plot), pilgrimis progress
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1680 parliment i under james ii
1681 parliment under james ii (ii)
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1685 James II (catholic) king. last execution for witchcraft. jii absoulate monarchy
1686
1687 doctorine of indlugences first document of religious tolerenace
1688 William and Mary (prodies), trial of the 7 bishops, connections to the protestant states of netherlands, seven bishops dissented and were charged with seditious libel against laws of tolerance, non juring schism
1689 act of toleration (dissenters and catholics)
1690 protesant wars against catholic france and louis xvi
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1693 Amman, Amish
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1695 locke, on the reaosnableness of xianity
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1698 founding of the Society of Promoting Christina Knowledge by baylor
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Friday, February 05, 2010

hi pop house in rural sweden plays with representaitons of nature and real nature.

homeland security loses americans billions a year, by those who longer want to go to america.

martin and alice prevenson's 50s illustrations of the oddeysey and the iliad.


This made me want to play mass effect


i'm revolting is a high end fashion, art, and design blog.


Fever Ray Outavant gardes the Avant Garde

?uestlove from the roots explains walk on music and the weirdness of big names and big money.

pokeman done edo style

Ted haggard is a heterosexual

BRian Palmer on Warren Beatty's Cock.

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Male Head, From Sargents Sketchbook, 1877.

Sailor JunkerS vintage porn blog.

pdf scans of LACMA catalogs, link goes to the section from the 60s and 70s, including Robert Irwin from 66, Billy Bengston from 68, and the 16 artists from the 60s show from 81, also dozens of others.


Charlie Brooker on the News


Atlanta Hardcore's Slamdance to Miley.

sarah palin's PAC bought 60k copies of her book.

LAncet restracts the one last study that sort of kind of suggested a correlation b/w autism and vaccines--so no peer reviews.

extreme fighting, xian ministry, nyt thinks its new, but wrestling and boxing have been used as evangelical tools since the 19th century

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Cohen, Live Songs,1972.

Colin Firth has some not stupid things to say about straight folks playing queer roles, and visisbility.

joe baird canadian foriegn minister is outed.

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Mary Henry, PRismacolour on Paper, 2000. (new show at greg kucea, of work on paper done in the last years of her life)

50 years of Gahan Wilson for Playboy.

four things about being raped:
a) though conceptually i understand the difference b/w sex and power, but it turned me on to be fucked by phil and sheppard, and not only did it turn me on, but it made me feel loved.
b) that being raped as being the first example of queer sexuality, my queer sexuality, meant that any attempts at seperating my idenity from that initial response is difficult
c) masturabting (and this year is the first time that i have given myself permission and not felt guilty about masturbating to phil and shep) is about restoring erotic memory, recalibrarting history, about giving myself permission for pleasure, allowing myself to control my desires and my bodies--one of the things that i keep thinking about and talking about is that i wanted them to fuck me, that i wanted phil or shep to do more.
d) aside from the shep and phil narratives, there were other narratives, some w/o sex, and some with sexuality that is such a mass of competing signals and narratives that it does not seem to be able to be finished.

ted's article about this sort of thing.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

so there is a (crosson derived) soultion to some of the more problematic passages in paul, namely they are intertextual additions as a way of stabilizing paul later on...that works, it allows me to engage with paul.

two problems:
a) what to do wiht the still cannonically problematic timothy
b) what to do w. the long tradition of work from the previously extant readings of paul?

ase

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

ideation fairly severe, no real plans at this point, bad week.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

My Oscar Pool Pix

Best Pic: Avatar
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actor: Chris Weltz (IB)
Best Leading Actress: Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actress: Monique
Best Animated Movie: Up
Art Direction: Sherlock Holmes
Cinematography: Inglorious Basterds
Costume Design: Young Victoria
Directing: Kathryn Bigelow
Documentary Feature: The Cove
Documentary Short: The Last Truck
Film Editing: The Hurt Locker
Foreign Language: White Ribbon
Makeup: Star Trek
Original Score: Fantastic Mr Fox
Song: The Weary Kind
Short Film: Logorama
Short Film (live action): The New Tennants
Sound Editing: Avatar
Sound Mixing: Avatar
Visual Effects: Avatar
Adapated Screenplay: Precious
Origonal Screenplay: Inglorious Basterds

Monday, February 01, 2010

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1603 James I (also the milineary position, that was claimed to have up to 1k signatures from the puritans, who thot that the directions of the anglican church were problematic at best)
1604 Revision of the Book of Common Prayer, little revision
1604 Hampton Court Conference that told the Purtians that he pereffered the status qou
1605 REmember Remember the 5th of November (catholics, and catholics whose families had been perscuted under Liz 1
1606 Popis Recurqasnt Act, which states that all Catholics who were not willing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the king could be proescuted (but not killed, asked to leave the country)
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1618 DEclaration of Sports, about which sports could be played on sundays, in consulation b/w the Chesire C of E bishop and (mostly catholic) landed gentry pissed off the puritans. Also, Articles of Perth, an attempt to anglicanise the scottish presbyterians
1619 Death of Anne of Denmark, his wife.
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1623 attempt to marry James son with the spanish infanta enoromously controversial.
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1625 Chuck I, bunch of counter reformation motherfuckers
1626 William Laud and Bishop of London
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