From May 18, 2011

the problems with perserving the watts tower and how it is ignored by LA cultural elites.

about the ongoing problems with archiving video games

cnet used one of my photos so did LAist anda this american life

Guernica a new political journal, interviews ARundhati Roy, mostly about Indian politics, but with a couple of really smart meta questions.

95 thesis on art and class, by ben davis including such thoughts as

2.5 One role for art, therefore, is as a luxury good, whose superior craftsmanship or intellectual prestige indicates superior social status

2.6 Another role for art is to serve as financial instrument or tradable repository of value

2.7 Another role for art is as sign of “giving back” to the community, to whitewash ill-gotten gains

2.8 Another role for art is symbolic escape valve for radical impulses, to serve as a place to isolate and contain social energy that runs counter to the dominant ideology

9 pages of hand written dungeon maps and notes, from D and D campaigns from the 1980s.

fox found amongst the construction of a London Skyscraper.

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Anna D Fall Collection, this year, fuck look at those gloves.

Steven DAvis a national cricketter for England has come out.

idioms aboult colour, sorted by language.

langauge education, and native culture as n extension of genecodial practice.

solid profile on Denueve.

Melville's marginallia.

elizabethan blackwork


My Little Pony does I Am Telling You I am Not Going.

Notes and Photos from LACMA about the installing of a Bruce Nauman show.

Florence Lowery 26 abandoned gas stations.

astonishing review of the Bill Cunningham movie.

two ppghs and 200 words about American Soliders killing civillians, is the best i have read about it.

LDS mother talks about the ethical implications of autism and baptizing her child at 8.


Alamanc Singers, I Don't Want Yr Millions Mister.

China Melville might have done swamp things, which would have been awesome.

Sai Baba's estate might have been worth 5.5b.

We WEi tortured and confesses tax crimes under duress

Tina Fey's prayer for her daughter.

susannah breslin on the war in iraq.

Gilbert and George's drinks bill in 1974 is a more interesting story than one would have anctipated.

south carolina forbids any book for priosners, but the bible.

46 per cent of Chicago homes are finically underwater.


John Waters on Craig Ferguson.

James Meek writes a blistering article on privitazing the post office in Germany, Holland and England, and about the nessecity of public/social services. Must read

Companion Cube Sweater.


Sleater Kinney, Is This Love.

the awl has some of the best cultural writing today, this article on Chris Canyon and queerness in the WWE is well worth reading.

photo references to classic pinup photos. here is some for Harry Bush I always thought that the cocks on the men in Harry Bush's men were a pornogrpahic exaggeration, but the photos make it seem that they are a fairly accurate depection, which must mean something about signifed and signifer.

David Foster Wallace syllabus for his creative writing courses, excellent use of the vernacular, with some solid respect for writers who are not usually rspected.

Pius and the Nazis, or JPII and ignoring the child raping both would indicate that sainthood should be limited to those who do not use their offices to ignore great evil.

Louisville Kentucky, and the blvd community church there refuses to sign marriages for anyone unless all are married--the congreationlist aspect of community churches can be used as well across the political spectrum, just as anarchism joins conserative and progressive thoughts, this is an interesting example of that. here is the churches offical site.

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From May 18, 2011

Two Works by Wong Kari, Digital Photos, 2010

really love the colour and the compostion of these photos of japan by wong paki.


King Cudi's 50 Ways To Make A Record, a riff on the Simon song.

Audre Lorde on the erotic": "During World War II, we bought sealed plastic packets of white, uncolored margarine, with a tiny, intense pellet of yellow coloring perched like a topaz just inside the clear skin of the bag. We would leave the margarine out for a while to soften, and then we would pinch the little pellet to break it inside the bag, releasing the rich yellowness into the soft pale mass of margarine. Then taking it carefully between our fingers, we would knead it gently back and forth, over and over, until the color had spread throughout the whole pound bag of margarine, thoroughly coloring it. I find the erotic such a kernel within myself. When released from its intense and constrained pellet, it flows through and colors my life with a kind of energy that heightens and sensitizes and strengthens all my experience."

Mamet as a conserative excellent writing, but nothing as shocking, or as much of a charachter arc, as the writers think, plus some cliches.

alabama toronado footage as much jesus and guns as one expects in cliched depctions of the american south.

good to know lizzie is capable of the odd offensive colonial gesture.

anne powers fantastic article on women, violence, and popular music, hidden in an reivew/profile of ruth gerson--the country singer. has an mp3 of her version of Deliah's Gone.


DAvid Byrne, Butt Naked, 1992.

Lady Freda Harris's original watercolorus of the Thoth Deck, is now avaible for sale. Wonder where they have been all this time.

Greer on the slutwalks.

Graham Warrington Mural, Basement of City Hall, Vancouver, 1972.

first person account of extreme solitary confinement

NY Times infogrpahic on debt in Europe.

Hilary Clinton is conserned about food security.

Roberta Smith/ ny times on Ai WEi Wei's major new work in NYC.

jim mcnulty smirking the tumblr

Chicago Musuem STore the only place to get the Baltz Prototype catalog--his preview to the masterpeice New Industrial Parks. great review of the baltz show

Literal New Yorker cartoons.


Amusing and Effective Campaign to allow skilled immigrants in CAnada to work in their fields.

i like this idea of atheist chaplins in the military

African American Unemployment is rising heavily, in urban areas, almost as bad as the 30s depression.

Ebert reveiws the new Herzong

Laura Logan's explicit acknowldgement of her sexual assulat is intensely brave and should be commended.

robin givhan on the new designer for Balhmain.


This patrotic budwieser ad collapses the homoscial into the homoerotic, but in a safe, domestic, and patrotic way.

Tories backbencers in the UK are looking to dismantle the NHS, Harper in 5 years?

great review of the baltz show


High School Talent Show Milk Chug.

From May 18, 2011