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ALT and model, NY

boy scouts have a video game button

why don't we just tatoo numbers on their arms

world bank releases a metric fuckton of data.


A circus slide over homeplate

joe brainard 29 small essays.

fascinating important essay nominally about Hinkley, but mostly about how it means to be in the justice system after being not guilty by reason.


aucoustic demo of PAcific Coast Highway, Courtney's new single.

add prisons to the places where tampons are impossible to get

blizzard makes 2 million dollars in hours, over a not v. special horse.

3 photos from Griffin Park, by Bluejake. .

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Crosshatch, Johns, Intalgio Print, 1975

kurt d holloman does vintage map illustrations, really really charming.

cocunts filled with hair gel and qaurtz, among other vageuly tropical work, installlation means trader vic kitsch.


Lamb Races!

Eames 10 PArt Folding SCreen.

metaanaylsis of ratzingers failures in media strategy.

digby and iona woodgrain ring

pears rot in the fields in califronia, because immigrant labour forces are refused entry into the country.

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who is the cutest goat ever?

belgian bishop resigns over his own sex abuse scandals.

baby capybaras superfucking cute.

mexico allows people to pay their taxes in art, the link goes to the colleciton.

i'm gonna need to see Lace the miniseres, entirely for the line "which one of you bitches is my mother"

Hand of Gold Jordan Crane's cowboy comic, in its entirity.


Malcolm McLaren's Funeral Cortege.

npr on bail and keeping poverty perptualism.

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Cakes and Steak, St Petersberg Flordia.

so i go to queen and beaver about midnight, they are about to close up, but lisa tells me to come in, i order a double bourban we talk about baseball, and politics, and food, she pours herself a pint, my drink is finished, she pours me another v. generous one, gratis, and after that is done, walks me down stairs.

now thats a local (oh and im called cocktail guy)

half victory for peter; no jail time, still felony conviction. much of the people there had to pay thousands of dollars in fines and fees, money that everyone knew they did not have, money that perputated poverty and the obligation of debt...

pete is lucky that he can transfer cultural captial to capital capital.

NC139 .B58 A4 2004

the drawing from 62 is ugly, its the colour of off hummus, with an undergrid that is overdrawn with five smaller grids, there is one white sqaure the colour and charm of an office ai in the top left--its a clumsy work, but it is a clumsy work on purpose, and a clumsy work that is a drawing, not a drawing about drawing, not a painting about the effects of looking, not a sloe eyed look at the history of supports and frames, but a declaration of what works where...and its brave to be this ugly, and to be so endlessly unconceptual; just like the silence of duchamp is over rated, the conceptualism of ryman is.

a 1962 Ryman "grey drawing" at Sothebys (who flashed out their catalog to prevent image theft) makes the arguement for me, that it is not white on white that maks him interesting, and not even his ravenous all consuming appetite for material intervention, but his formal qualities--i think the most interesting work then, is when a creamy impasto collapases onto a smooth sheen, or the greyish linen supports a thin wash, or even how the grain of wood peeks out from the big wall sized peices.

for the longest time, i thot i liked ryman because he sold the paratext instead of the text, the supporters, or the frames, or the interventions into the history of painting, but know i wonder if i like him because hes a sexy little minx, whose formalism is less interesting then the after effects....

1) William Demarest or Broderick Crawford?
Broderick Crawford in the secret files of j edgar hoover

2) What movies improve when seen in a state of altered consciousness? (Patrick Robbins)
trying to drink along with any of taylors prodigous drunks is aways fun (cf maggie, gloria, martha, and the like)

3) Favorite studio or production company logo?
the 70s/early 80s warner brothers one.

4) Celeste Holm or Joan Blondell?
I really don't have any opinon on either.

5) What is the most overrated "classic" film? (Tony Dayoub)
CAsablanca.

6) What movie do you know for sure you saw, but have no memory of seeing? (Patricia Yokoe Cozzalio)

Apparently I have seen Princess Bride like 5 times.

7) Favorite Hammer Film?

She, mostly because I have a semi weird hard on for the books, because i read them at an english style boys boarding school whose english circula was mostly boys adventure stories, and so the fear of womens bodies, the joy of mens bodies were entwined in all of these texts--and that got imprinted into the juicy, euro-goodness of Andress body (and it got me attached to head dresses: esp. this one

8) Gregory Itzin or Joe Pantoliano?

I like the weird colleciton of DA's and cops, a total noir resume, that Itzin has.

9) Create a double feature with two different movies with the same title. No remakes. (Peter Nellhaus)

The double silent Samson, the one made in 1915, and the one made in 1919

10) Akiko Wakabayashi or Mie Hama? (Ray Young)

Mie Hama

11) Can you think of a (non-porn) movie that informed you of the existence of a sexual act you had not known of prior? (Bob Westal)

Much of my learning about sex b/w men and women happened thanks to showcase after dark.

12) Can you think of a black & white movie that might actually improve if it was in color? (Patrick Robbins)

sunset bvld, i want to know the exact colour of the pool she drowns in, green like algae and money.

13) Favorite Pedro Almodovar Film?

i saw women on the verge of a nervous breakdown last weekend, and was impressed by the use of red tones, everything i see one of his movies, i am impressed by something else.

14) Kurt Raab or Udo Kier?

Kurt Raab

15) Worst main title song (Peter Nellhaus)

any number of bond themes, including but not limited to the PAul McCartney one

16) Last movie you saw in a theater? On DVD, Blu-ray or other interesting location/format?

Kick Ass, then Women on the Verge, then a slew of vhs home made porn.

17) Favorite movie reference within a Woddy Allen movie? (Larry Aydlette)

all of purple rose of cairo

18) Mary Astor or Claudette Colbert?

people keep trying to convince me of the glory of astor, and mostly i am bored, it seems so out of date, out of my time and expereince. but Colbert, Colbert haunts me, her look may be flapper, but her presence has a powerfully seductive smoothness that is unrepeatable.

19) Favorite trailer (provide YouTube link if possible)?

any number of Hixplotation ones, maybe Six Pack Annie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92-sLnM9mo

20) Oddest double bill you either saw or saw listed in a theater

I am Curious Yellow, and the DEvils

21) Favoite Phil Karlson film?

Walking Tall

22) Favorite “social problem” picture?

I like the remakes of social problem pictures that occured in the 90s, that used formal discussions of melodrama to aestheticise/historicise while still reminding us the issues are current (i am thinking of Far From Heaven by Hayes, and Vera Drake)

23) Your favourite Harryhausen film/monster? (Ali Arikan)

the cyclopse

24) What was the first movie you saw with your significant other? (Patrick Robbins)

the last one was 500 days of summer

25) John Payne or Ronald Reagan?

Reagon, if only for the infamous cassevetes scene

26) Movie you feel a certain pressure or obligation to see that you have not yet actually seen

Rambo

27) Favorite “psychedelic” movie (Hey, man, like, define it however you want, man…)

The Trip or Wild in the Streets

28) Thelma Ritter or Eve Arden?

Thelma Ritter

29) Favorite iconic shot or image from a film?

Denuve in the black mercedes, at the esso, as snow falls, during the last few minutes of cherbourg

30) What is the movie that inspired the most memorable argument you ever had about a movie?

any number of ones i have had about bigood--most people find him really boring.

31) Raquel Torres or Lupe Velez?

Lupe Velez, for the anniversary party

32) Favorite adaptation of Shakespeare to a film?

Polanski's Macbeth, Kurasawa;s Ran and Midsummer Night Sex Comedy

33) Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (in 3D)-- yes or no?
yes

34) Favorite movie rating?
NC 17

35) Olivia Barash or Joyce Hyser?

don;t know

36) What was the movie that convinced you your favorite movie genre was your favorite movie genre?

Olphus and Sirk in the same weekend convinced me of the joys of the womens weepie

37) Favorite Blake Edwards movie?
SOB, for Dame Andrew's tits.

and a bunch of videos:


so few songs about glbtq voices sung with a twang, and that they make it a domestic melodrama, suggests a profound understanding of both the genres of country, and the working of isolation in certain places--doesnt play to the suburbs, of course, the dixie chicks cannot, and the court yard dogs, 3/4s of the chicks are playing moorer, and company, but it moves me. (and considering the youtube comments, it does cause some anger)


gambler by kenny rogers on the muppet show


muppet screen test one


part two

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1958 CBC doc on RCMP recuriting


Lawerence Welk Kitsch


LCD Soundsytem new video

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for all yr catholic subjection of the body needs.


part of this makes me happy, part of me thinks that homosexuality should not be safe enough for high schools in campuses

socialists can no longer get health care at a small urology clinic in flordia

walton satrizes the last decade of history as a book review of a third volume of dangerous visions, fucking brilliant

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rick's custom squirrells

google map of fires in flint michigan since the cutting of public services

beautiful essay on the liturgical importance of holy saturday.

sec is formally investigating goldman sachs.


the dancing around the 38 second mark is full on butch drag pimp stroll, and its beautiful

19th century anti slavery alphabet book, interesting use of vernacular xianity.

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le sigh

how to build a home made target

< ahref="http://www.botanicalbakery.com/default.aspx">in the napa valley they have made caromom short bread cookies.

siglo reissues spero's art/politics notebook, the torture of women.

four covers of the new glenn beck novel, refienstastque. (for someone so obsessed with the visual rhetoric of fascism, he does seem to love american pulp kitsch that revels in fascist iconography)

thurston moore's sassy advice columinst

stingels new carpet for the mies neuegallerie in berlin has some really fuck you things to say about decorative culture and purity, vis a vis race/immigrant culture, beautiful and sort of edgy.

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Franz West (title and date unknown)

catholic bishop robert williamson is convicted by german courts of denying the holocouast.

community of christ (ie the rlds) has a prophetic revelation for queer rights including marriage and full membership.. as well all baptisms are considered legit.

charles burns on herge

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First shots of Kate Winslet as Mildred Peirce

33 book logos by clarence horning.

tea tags a collection

womens rugby is pushing huge numbers.

xian music superstar Jennifer Knapp comes out as a lesbian, refuses queer activism.

beatuful mark doty essay about demonic glamour. and another about whitman

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Delay Board at DeGaulle, via Boing Boing

In Fribourg, we spent months studying the Trinity. The idea was, there are two processions: the Father generates the Son, and he generates the Son by thinking of himself, but his thought is so perfect that it is himself, it is identical with himself, so they're consubstantial. Of course there's no time in this, because it's eternally happening. And so the Father generates the Son, and in the second spiration the Father and the Son love each other -- of course they do, because they're the same guy masturbating --

-Mary Daly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/4516957528/

there are about 12

from that one

including one of me

but it was at the chapel at the illinois instuite of technology

and the building itself started extremely pure

with huge windows and expanses of marble and empty rooms 40 feet by 40 feet, and maple panelling

just intensely absent

but in the last 40 years,

both the chapel and the other buildings on the campus

filled up

with computers, and furniture, and art, and people

and signage, and unofficial material

and the same thing is with the chapel

the chapel began as singular and absent

with just this sqaure room

and a communion rail and a big cross

and a travertine altar

but it filled up

with cheap chairs, and card tables, and hymn books and a piano

and i sat in the chapel and thought that this was metaphor

i was moved almost to tears

but im not sure that the metaphor was about

Rachel: should it be looked at in this way: migrant population assimilating dominant cultural opinions regarding their former middle american home -> is it a form of passing within the "out", is it a violent rejection of undesirable roots (class ascention within subcultural boundaries based upon a model adopted from hetero-white opressors...) da da da?

is that what we're talking about?

I need more tea, my throat hurts

Sent at 1:47 AM on Saturday

me: all of those thing might be on the table

Sent at 1:48 AM on Saturday

Rachel: what are you thinking? How is the writing going to work?

I mean, the angle/approach.

me: i think my thesis is correct

its the geographica self identity that works differently in the states i think

then canadian

maybe im having trouble reading america

Rachel is busy. You may be interrupting.

there is a bunch of midwest issues

a) that people from the midwest moved to chicago or sf or ny and wanted to forget their identites

b) that the swex writing about the midwest is written by people who view them as savages, and t he like

c) that when a midwestern kink or queer centre rose up in the 80s it was more about being kinky or queer and less about being part of a geographical centre

d) much of the work written about the midwest from a queer perspective then is highly speicalised, or highly persoanl, and it is diffuclt making general statements about it

a) that much of the people who identify with queer and kink communities do not identify with geography

b) that there is a lot of sexually violent work that features cowboys,

work that is basically rape

and i keep thinking its a way of erotizing trauma, but is that too obvious a freudian sublimation

c) much of the king work made for mid/.westerners by mid/westerners

is not explict in its ruralty

d)

so the coasts getting images from the cowboys in the midwest is working out okay, there is not much porn made outside of new york/sf so there is not much work about self represntation in porn at that time, and the queer/kink work that was done by midwestern communities does not focus on geographic issues, but focuses on kink queerness, etc...still have some work to do, still have some work made for queer folks in those places, but do people from the midwest thinnk of themselves as geographic others in the same way?

george w bush, rove and cheney have been accused of knowingly improsinging innocents in gitmo, thanks to a signed declaration frmo one of Colin Powell's assitants

best themes of honcho

hockey
sheep farming
toy bikes riding up someones hard cock
ken dolls doing the same
someone fucking a life sized cut out of super man
cfl
santa
kramer vs kramer
the one with hte snake

5045 n clark street

hey have all sorts of relics,

everything form books and magainze,s to scrap books,to photo albums in wal mart bought albums, to hand made gear, to pins and buttons and patches

plus vests and jackets that have all this history in them

the ephmebaility of it

that was what shocked and amzed me

31 notes about the art gallery of chicago

1. in the vernacular show, baltz work that i had never seen before, silverpoint prints that look like plantinum, busier compositons
2. a couple of great le trecs, a large dancing scene with a woman in the middle that looks german in her grotesqurie, and a tall, thin portrait of jean west, where the colour and composition are startling whistlerian
3. gustave callibote, who did a few of my favourite big french 19th century painting, still life of tounge and pigs head, the fleshiness and texture of the work was the same skill set as renoir's fat nudes and complacent children, making it delightfully gory, esp since it was hung as the introduction to a room of renoir
4. john martin's mezzotints of biblical relief post apocolypses, including a dark and intiminadting noah after the flood, the least hopeful rainbow ever
   
5. twombly, border gaurds from 1952 from his time at black mountain, thick black lines and splatter on a red ground, could be kline or motherwell from the same time--good reminder that twombly was a doctoronaire modernist, and that modernism itself was doctonarie
6. two great queer works on paper a demuth of two sailors and a buisnessmen waiting outside a bar, called that kind of place, and a study for a cadmus
   
7. (cadmus/balthus c and c)
   
8. biggest chardin ive seen, not dense at all, domainted by a white linen table cloth 5 or 6 items
   
9. two chardin pastel portraits from the end of his life, for someone going blind via lead painting, these are so detail oritented
   
10. a johns cross hatch painintg, two 4x4 grids, not quite an all over pattern, because of the inclusion of some kelly green underpainting--
11. a catenary from two years ago--visible door hinges and cherry wood add to the trompe d oiel, three painted hanging elements, and one made from string--a v. smart set of implications of the realness of depictions--still convinced that it is a portrait of aging and decay--literally a limp dick paintnig
12. a whole room of 60s gustons, big an painterly with large abstract sections, in pinks, reds, whites and greens--made me wonder if the late gustons are a synthesis of the social realism and the ab ex w ork.
    
13. a cambodian linga of three distinct sections, the bottom a perfect cube, the middle curved with the edges chopped off, and the top an elliptical sphere--so the linga had a narrative of materialst refinement, reminded me of a beautiful martin puyer in the collection, which had a box of milled wood balanced on two long sticks, leaned agianst a wall
14. big shaped stella
15. 6 rymans from 82-87, manufactured, with large sections of visible steel, buckled against the wall, fastners really obvious, missed his delicate touch, these are as far away from paintings that they could go and still bne called that
    
16. big artschwager pink triangle table, out of formica, the pink secitons had gold threads
    
17. a david w, mostly about the pulp represntations of mascluine violence in a culture where queer men do not have the access to traditional tropes of maculinity, the big silk screen of a grocery store sign selling steak was a big suprising, because i thot those elements were collaged
    
18. an agnes grid of washed graphite on a grey field, not really that exciting,
    
19. mondrian is not holding up well, yellow faded, white greying, but the reds still pop
20. other great work from that school, including a bold black and white van doesberg, and a geometric vantellego sculpture
    
21. a bunch of matisse work from the 30s made me realise how much he qoutes himself,
    
22. some great german work, better german collection then detroit, sf, or ny (maybe not the nueue gallerie--an epic beckmann, a great nolde)
23. tinterreto's rape of lucreation, 6 perfect pearls fall from necklace one cathcing on her barely there drapery
    
24. 4 terra cotta evangelists from the 15th cnetury
    
25. a great cranch adam and eve, a decent van dyck, some beutiful durer drawings, a couple of not bad rembrandts,
    

eggleston note:
a) the warhol parodox (ie is he depicting or is he paradoying) is in full effect here,
b) i was a little dissaopinted by them, i keep wondering if he holds up past the half a dozen really famous, really brillant work
c) his still lives, his work w/o people are much better then his work with people
d) i wonder if the formal arguements that surround his work are a way of mainstreaming colour photography, and also a way of not talking about some of the more difficult elements of his practice (including but not limited to some weirdness about race)

more notes when the photos are up

400 north morgan douglas dawson
118 north peioria rhona hoffman
130 North Jefferson primitive
210 west chicago ave
224 s michigan ave
561 West Diversey Parkway

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1. little bar named moodys, dark, divey, best sloppy joe i have ever had
2. edgewater public libray motherfucking swoon worthy
3. this neighbourhood, edgewater, nice mix of working class, and new professionals, inexpensive rent and not too awfully gentrified, a little far out but really could imagine living here
4. grocery stores have full bars
5. tomorrow white castle

in the porter lounge, waiting for my trip to chicago, horribly horribly excited, and still cannot believe that i am being paid for this shit.

fear my mad skillz bitches.

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harper's position on nunavat language laws betrays the subtext of his arctic sabre rattling.

go daddy stops registering domains in the summer.

dudes with beards eating cupcakes.

Aubery LEvin, the weird apartheid era fay curing moved to calgary, albertan forensic shrink, has been charged for sexually abusing male patients.

Sinead O Connor's severe moral exhorations of the pope.

beautiful vintge fotos of downtown la.


Awesome Dog is Awesome

the problem with the bees continues apace.

humping robot keychain

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Interior of the Mies' Chapel, ITT Campus. WANT

south korean navy ship sinks near north korea.


Christ, these Betty Grable numbers are just bizzare.

photos of extra-judicial killing by cops in bangladesh, shown there, have been censored by the same cops that were the subject.

beautiful wood and ornamental type blog

james murphy is recording the new lcd soundsystem album in an abdaonded house in LA, so he shot four small, elegant clips about the process, the house, and the like, and released them on the web.

cowboy movies and television in the 50s features a large amount of rope bondage, asking richard about it, he responsed thusly: "because the audience was made up of men who came back from WWII, men who missed their homosocial world, and bondage is a quick metaphor for being trapped in a barracks or a submarine or on a boat, in a tiny bunk, with a bunch of guys"

* The Netherlands: “The tomato soup is overcooked”
* Brazil: “I’m with Chico”
* China: “Little Sister has come”
* many parts of Latin America: “Jenny has a red dress on”
* Australia: “I’ve got the flags out”
* Denmark: “There are Communists in the funhouse”
* Ireland: “I’m wearing a jam rag”
* England: “I’m flying the Japanese flag”
* Japan: “Little Miss Strawberry”
* France: “The English have arrived”
* Germany: “The cranberry woman is coming”
* Puerto Rico: “Did the rooster already sing?”
* South Africa: “Granny’s stuck in traffic”

synomns for mensutation

rachels new work is v. dark, v. funny, and lingustically, radically sophistcated work--and is being shown at katharine mulherin.

i am linking to this report about the archbiop of new york's sermon on palm sunday, because it is indiciative of the culture of silence that is found in the midst of this culture.

importance of ricky martin as an out gay man vis a vis the latin american community.


Court Yard Hounds, 2/3rds of the Dixie Chicks, have a new song that domesticises the homophobia, makes it about motherhood, in a profoundly haunting way...sort of obsessed w. it.