bitch you ain't no barbie, i see you work at arby's, #2, supersize, hurry up i'm starving, darling, radical, on the block i'm magical, see me at your college campus baggie full of adderall, call me if you need a fix, call me if you need a boost, see them other chickenheads? they don't ever leave the coop. i'm in the coop cruisin, i got the stolen plates, serving all the feeds over there by the golden gate BRIDGE, i'm colder than the fridge and the freezer, i'm snatchin all your bitches at my leisuuuuure

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bridesmaid is further proof of three things

a) produceer has replaced actor, which replaced director, as site of auter.
b) apatow is reactionary, and doesn't like women, and his movies are too long
c) women as actors is less impt than woman as directors.

(but i laughed, frequently, and loudly)

freaks and geeks as a comedy of social mobilty

two things about emily dickinson

a) esp in a 19th century literary context, correspondance is a form of publishing.
b) the editing, the creation of fasciles, the sending work out to a correspondance, and sending some works to editors, for me, at least betrays this idea of her as non publishing.

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.

From May 18, 2011

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.

From May 18, 2011

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.

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Letter to N.Y.

by Elizabeth Bishop

For Louise Crane

In your next letter I wish you’d say
where you are going and what you are doing;
how are the plays, and after the plays
what other pleasures you’re pursuing:

taking cabs in the middle of the night,
driving as if to save your soul
where the road goes round and round the park
and the meter glares like a moral owl,

and the trees look so queer and green
standing alone in big black caves
and suddenly you’re in a different place
where everything seems to happen in waves,

and most of the jokes you just can’t catch,
like dirty words rubbed off a slate,
and the songs are loud but somehow dim
and it gets so terribly late,

and coming out of the brownstone house
to the gray sidewalk, the watered street,
one side of the buildings rises with the sun
like a glistening field of wheat.

—Wheat, not oats, dear. I’m afraid
if it’s wheat it’s none of your sowing,
nevertheless I’d like to know
what you are doing and where you are going.

than 50% of the vote, just so I could see the vote breakdowns.

Labrador, South Shore-St. Margaret's, Madawaska-Restigouche, Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, Montmagny-L'islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup, Ottawa-Orleans, Ottawa-West-Nepean, Nipissing-Timiskaming, Sault Ste. Marie, Ajax-Pickering, Pickering-Scarborough East, Scarborough Centre, Don Valley East, Don Valley West, Eglinton-Lawrence, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Missisauga East-Cooksville, Richmond Hill, Bramalea-Gore-Malton, Mississauga-Brampton South, Brampton West, Mississauga-Streetsville, Mississauga-Erindale, Kitchener-Waterloo, Kitchener Centre, London North Centre, London West, Winnipeg South Centre, Vancouver South, Vancouver Island North, and Yukon.
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11 people will be deaconed today, including 4 that i am fairly close to. it seems profoundly, poetically appropriate that this will occur on mayday, both in the sense of fertile new life, and in the sense of this ceremony being about work, and this being a day about labour.

hooray, hooray, the first of may
outdoor fucking begins today.

liz magor and rachel and i's convo about it.

that last peice, really affected me today
its huge, unusally big
maybe 30 feet long
and 5 feet high
Rachel: (pst, type.. im going pee but will read when I come back)
me: and each of the moth holes
(done)
have been repatred with polymerized gypsum
and then had the wall
pinned out
sorry, the holes reasserted, with a pin o r something like it
the rest of the work, is minimal--a label resewn, or something refolded, or a large seam resewn in a white cross pattern
but the big central work
its a lot like domestic reclaiming of minimal instincts00the navy on blakc like a reinhardt
and its a lot like the modifed readymade
and its an epic epic work
but an epic epic work
made by small gestures repeated intensely
Sent at 12:34 AM on Friday
Rachel: ooh, i like that... but my only problem is, and this might be a kind of weird internalization... I get worried with mending, with small gestures, and with them being misconstrued as feminine
but that might have more to do with a residual hang up from childhood
me: its not domestic at all
because domestic hides seams
and hides repairs
and makes pure
and so this
repairing in obvious ways
and refusing the clean fix
plus she hangs them on drycleaner hangers
so its got this hired labour aspect
its these eye candy peices
that retain and exaggerate flaws
Rachel: You're absolutely right
me: and i think that you do that a lot of the time
so thats my answer to the epic problem
Rachel: Hrm. Im about 45% there with you
I still prefer the big lampooning itself through contrast
thats the only part where I differ.
I prefer to play the ladette...
me: i mean the guy ive been obsessed with lately is
Baltz and his prototype photos
so i keep trying to figure out how to do the v. least
so this might be an aesthetic difference
Rachel: I think so. I also think that there is still a problem, even now, with women and scale
Biggness.
Unrulyness.
And that is also something I want to inhabit.
The role of the hero.
and its not about a drag entirely.
me: i agree with you
which is why those handful of female american calssical sculptors working in rome in the 1890s is so impt
for me, its also why dickinson's reading and reconstructing of herbet is vital
because dickinson takes herberts themes--and herbert is small and personal
and blows them up with great violence
Sent at 12:41 AM on Friday
Rachel: But, and maybe this is my problem with those sculptures... they were still contained and polite,
Large,
but contained.
composed.
Maybe Im viewing them with too much of a contemporarian view..
but the hero, the flawed hero, is both nobel and filthy.
me: yeah
Rachel: Im talking about the stinking Fitzcarraldo
me: i think they may be contained
Rachel: but with tits
me: a little too much
but Dickinson isn't
Rachel: I'll go with you there
me: Fitzcarraldo with Tits
!
Rachel: Yeah, Fitzcarraldo with tits.
Cest Moi.

there is a scene in the new bill cunningham doc that is perhaps one of the holiest things ive seen on screen this year.

we spend the year with the extravagant luxury of his subjects, and the monastic life of cunningham--and we see him be fun, garrulous, even at 80, having this charming good time...no grief, just transient unherichal pleasure.

and then he is asked two questions. one about sex, which he bats away (and the follow up about friendship and intimacy, which he assumes to be code, adn then is charming when he realised it is not) then, he is asked about his religious practice, and for 30 seconds his body falls into itself, he is not present, and the absence stops the movie.

the intimacy of that moment, and the intensity of it, makes everything else so serious.

best line in the sai baba doc: why would god want you to put his penis in yr mouth.
second best line in the sai baba doc: the worship of the linga does not include, what you call the blow job, if that is what you are reffering to.

My mother, when I grew up, did hysterically funny impressions of Kitty Wells until we asked for it a little too much, and she stopped doing it, because she was worried about being cruel to Ms. Wells. Not because of any respect for Ms Wells, but because she spent most of her life being essentially kind to people.

My mother is very smart, and very plain, and very kind. Essentially kind, in the best Christan way, and I learnt about all sort of things about her Kitty Wells impression. I learned not to be cruel for the sake of being cruel, and I learned that making fun of someone for their god earned talent was excessive, and I learnt to sing in church, loud and pure, because G-d didn't really care about quality as much as enthausim.

I was thinking all of this a few weeks ago, when my friend Sholem talked about me having this urbane gay wit, and this old weird America side--and my momma in all of her earnestness, had a wicked wit and righteous anger. She moved on to sarcastically decimating those who deserved it.

All of this sounds cloying, but one of the reasongs why I love country music, deeply, is that it allows for earnestness and sentimentality to be legitmate. I learned to love country music, when my mom sang it to me, as a kid, when I heard my dad's copy of folsolm prison blues, and when the radio played on the way to school, to scouts, on trips to southern alberta for easter or Christmas.

I still listen to Country radio, when I travel more then a few hours. Nostalgia may be toxic, but like any opiate, it makes me feel better in the midst of pain. I am sitting here, in the middle of the biggest city of Canada, on the morning of Easter Sunday, and I yearn to go back home for a couple of weeks. I am tired and frustrated, and worn out and all I wanna do is go home and visit my mother and listen to the radio and play cards, and eat ham and scalloped potatoes for dinner.

The song is pretty much the embodiment of Cole Porter's sharp line about the power of a cheap tune, except my Mother and Ms Well, and Ms Cash were never cheap, and I would never be as thrifty, or virtuous or holy as they are.

so exhausted it is physically painful, but quite happy.

community/parks and recreation are about working thru issues of social
cohesion and family, devolping a communitarian ethos--almost
literally, on the edge of being didadtci, in an age that is almost
post biological family.

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I understood most of those words.
What I'm really curious about is that NBC has managed to create a string of really fantastic shows in the last six years, but they always have these frustrating gaps in their schedule where they plug in complete shit. Perfect Couples? Outsourced? Paul Reiser? And why did they cancel Pushing Daisies?
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thats the thing with outsourced--Mindy Kalig is a fucking genius--a
show about Indian culture clash with Mindy Kallig, an office spin off
with Mindy Kalig--amazing, and they made outsourced.

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That, as well as really interesting characters like Abed, and Tom Haverford. And the same network that has shows with these characters decided Outsourced was a good idea?
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also, about parks and rec--

its a really conserative show, a horribly cheesy, frank capra type
show, with the swears and the sex and everything else, it wouldn't be
out of place in american agit-prop for small town life, and i should
hate that, but for some reason, after the first hour or so, i loved
the characters, and i loved the writing, and for some reason, the
capra shit worked on me.

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Exactly--and Haverford is a strangely vulnerable, weirdly well
constructed, round character.

Piss Christ
—————–
If we did not know it was cow’s blood and urine,
if we did not know that Serrano had for weeks
hoarded his urine in a plastic vat,
if we did not know the cross was gimcrack plastic,
we would assume it was too beautiful.
We would assume it was the resurrection,
glory, Christ transformed to light by light
because the blood and urine burn like a halo,
and light, as always, light makes it beautiful.

We are born between the urine and the feces,
Augustine says, and so was Christ, if there was a Christ,
skidding into this world as we do
on a tide of blood and urine. Blood, feces, urine?
what the fallen world is made of, and what we make.
He peed, ejaculated, shat, wept, bled?
bled under Pontius Pilate, and I assume
the mutilated god, the criminal,
humiliated god, voided himself
on the cross and the blood and urine smeared his legs
and he ascended bodily unto heaven,
and on the third day he rose into glory, which
is what we see here, the Piss Christ in glowing blood:
the whole irreducible point of the faith,
God thrown in human waste, submerged and shining.

We have grown used to beauty without horror.

We have grown used to useless beauty.

– Andrew Hudgins, 2000

The story of the monk from Tan-hsia burning a wooden image of the Buddha, an incident in the life of the Ch'an master T'ien-jan Ch'an-shih (738-824), is told in The Record of the Transmission of the Lamp: "Later, when he was staying at the Hui-lin-ssu in very cold weather, the Master took a wooden statue of the Buddha and burned it. When someone criticized him for doing so, the Master said: 'I burned it in order to get the sarira [i.e., the ashes of the Buddha, which were venerated as relics].' The man said: 'But how can you get sarira from an ordinary piece of wood?' The Master replied: 'If it is nothing more than a piece of wood, why should you upbraid me [for burning it]?"

via mefi

The Muppets do Dance Yrself Clean

a devotional poem about the jewish double month of alaph alaph, or as the poet explains:

This poem reflects on Adar Aleph, the "first" Adar (Feb.-March). This year is a leap year in the Jewish calendar, and so two months of Adar occur instead of one. According to some mystical traditions, the twelve months of the year relate to the twelve tribes, while the leap month of Adar is connected to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. In Jewish tradition, a leap year is called "me'uberet," meaning "pregnant."

mark delong makes this small, , purposefully ugly, but elegant, woodrufessque cermaics.

tangletree chinese dragon wall paper is sort of kitsch, and sort of take away, and sort of painted wall paper old school glamour, and just so fucking gorgeous.

great update of DAvid Jamesons 1961 REcord House.

181 photos of Daytona from the 70s and 80s.

nazis graphic standard manual

See more funny videos and TBT at Todays Big Thing.

The Most Illegal Move in Wrestling


the weird thing about these Stasi photos is that they would not be out of place in a conceptual art show somewhere near LA about the same time.

neil gaiman speaks wisdom on internet "piracy"

amanda baggs the autsitic writer and editor, has the best faq like evah.

Paul Thomas Anderson's two new films one on the founding of scinetology, and one an adaptation of Inherent Vice, might have found funding.

Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.

Almost as good a spoof as All Things Dull and Ugly.

VAtholic Bishops in Wisconsin seem to be in favour of labour.

15 pdf copies, of the gorgeously deisgned, full colour, catalogs of the Chianti foundaiton.

first person q and a of a young med student learning how to do abortions.

water, oil and the difficulties of contiuanl growth in NoDak.


Greg Laswell's cover of Girls Just Want to Have fun does the mopey indie kills fun, but his voice is gorgeous, and the gender switch is insteresting.


seiu expalins in a useful infogrpahic what changed with the traingle shirtwaste fire.

its good to know that heretics still exist, even in methodism.

george tooker painted like an anexity attack feels, esp, an urban crushed by beurocratic ennui panic attack, he also was one of the more important, and last major allegorical painter of the 20th century, and he and William Bailey kept Egg Tempera alive as a medium. Didn't know but not suprised that he was queer, and was in the circle of CAdmus.

Brian SChutmatt is a great landscape photographer.


the ndps also blocked the auditor generals report.

one of the best explaniations of the Ai Wei Wei mess right now, they are charging him with Bigamy and Pornography, as well as the political stuff, and claiming that he has pled guilty.



a thwack of capybara videos.

the QUAIA calls Ford and Sue Anne LEvy out for using them as an excuse to shut down any pride that is not heavily corpretizsed.


I dont watch OLTL, or AMC, but it was the first trash text that was written seriously about in academic circles, and it was popular among working class women, and they always had queer stories before anyone in mainstream media, and melodrama is profoundly in the hearts of certain kinds of gay men, and i will deeply miss scenes like the one above.