john waters on bad taste

alan helen peterson is a fantastic academic from flordia. writing mostly about popular culture and the meta-contexts of Hollywood, though she is great on scandal, i think this might be her best essay--on how the ideal work of brad pitt is brad pitt playing a variety of brad pitt.

<,a href="http://www.eipcp.net/transversal/1011/butler/en">butler on private and public spaces, bodies, and the aesthetics of protest.

APTN is perhaps the best reporting on the state of emergency in Nothern Ontario.

8 photos of the Polin House, an early one by Lautner in the Hollywood Hills--look esp. for the brick work.

bloomberg reveals more details on the lacernous bank bail outs.



I have been writing about public and private discourse for my god and abuse course, and one of the things i have been thinking pretty hard, is the rhetorical power of not speaking--the eerie strangness of this video, sort of like mourning, something like disgust, nothing like the protest work you have heard--about the Chancellor of Davis going ot her car the day after violent police protest will be part of that essay.


http://www.trade-silver.net/reproductions.htm">Trade Silver was like Wampum for some Prarie nations. These affordable reproductions continue first nations craft, and history.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/what-makes-music-boring,65075/">great essay riffing on Nitsuh's New York Magazine column on Fiest and Wilco as new adult contempary artsits.

http://www.hebrewtypography.com/">hebrew font blog

this might be the smoothest thing you have ever heard.

http://www.heatherrasmussen.com/index.php?/ongoing/destructconstruct-photographs/">Heather Rasmussen destructconstruction, is a set of photographs of cardboard models made of photographs of marine disasters featuring shipping containers. Hyper smart, well made, and just gorgeous--but also about the disaster of capitalism, in a round about way.

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/new-acquisition-ruscha-sees-la/">7 Ruscha photos from 1977.

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/?p=1692">David Housley's difficult, episodic discussion of what is happening on the ground at State college in Penn after the sex abuse scandals, is just heavy and sad, must read but heavy and sad.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/OWSLibrary">ows library pre police destruction.

http://www.good.is/post/what-women-want">James Deen as a sexual personae is kind of the opposite of James Dean as a sexual personae, even up to the point that Deen's fucking on film is less erotic than Dean's flirting on film--maybe because I don't find the women in mainstream straight porn hot--but his working on a kind of post-celeb, sex positive, female led fandom, and it's connection to some pretty severe SM has some interesting discussions about what porn means as a text. This profile in Good presents some of the issues.

http://www.joehoganbaskets.com/Contempory.aspx">Joe Hogan makes traditional irish willow baskets, but updates them--they are gorge.

From November 28, 2011

From November 28, 2011

Pan reprints of Highsmith Pulp, 1950s.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/2011/11/source-mlb-adds-sexual-orientation-wording-to-cba">mlb adds sexual orinetation as a protected class--i think this would mean more to back end workers than players, but i wonder if it would help someone come out

http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=370172">oxaca animals remade by kids.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1123">smithonsian folkways recordings of office noises from the 60s.

http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/oct/14/real-and-unreal-professional-wrestling/">surpisingly in depth and fascnating history of the WWE and labour, starting with some current story lines about management and ending wiht a discussion about what it would mean for wrestlers to be uninozed as actors.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Cops+watched+porn+skipped+work+instead+investigating+missing+women+Galliford/5752470/story.html#ixzz1eZ9Iom5w">sexual harrassment cases against officers who worked the trailer of tears cases, keeps bringing up pretty fucked up shit, this time it's a discussion of how some officers would look at porn on duty

From November 28, 2011

Martin, Gratitude, 2001.

The most colourful of Martin's work.

Mastadon, Curl the Burl. Mostly, because i love the phrase Curl the Burl, thought the video is kind of amazing.

two sets of problems given to Moscow university students, about math. One for Jews and one for gentiles. The problems were easy, but how they were constructed in the jewish councils made the soultions nigh on impossible.

excellent article on Der Speigel about the problems of corruption in Vienna.

the national trust for historical perservation in the states makes a smart, and quite important arguement for the persevation of the modernist masterpeice phyllis wheately school in NoLA.

From November 9, 2011

From November 9, 2011

From November 9, 2011

Takuro Kuwata, Striped Cups, 2011, Cermaic. more of his work hereincluding some great crackling.

cops force sex workers to perform sexual ats, in Vancouver. Glad that the commission on missing women is happening, really realyl not suprised.

eric mcsaveney is a young vancouver painter, the seires inland, of smokey/foggy landscapes in vancouver--all green hills and grey outbuildings, takes the romantic long view about what is seen in contempaary architechture. Not sure if they are obvious or quite moving.


The FBI changed it's deft of Rape To: "“penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” which widens the previous deftion, from 1921, (the prev. deft excluded anything but stranger vaginal rape)

fantastic review of attack the block.

plainly dressed for all yr amish clothing needs.

a history of the log flume (ie the industrial site to get logs down river, not the amusement park ride that was inspired by it)

From November 9, 2011

From the Dublin Tweed Ride.