Comfort, comfort ye my people; speak ye peace: thus says your God. Comfort those who sit in darkness bowed beneath oppression’s load; speak ye to Jerusalem of the peace that waits for them tell her that her sins I cover, and her warfare no is over. Make ye straight what logn was crooked; make the rougher places plain. Let your heart be true and humble as befit Messiah’s reign. For the glory of the Lord now o’er earth is she abroad, and all flesh shall see the token that God’s Word is never broken. – Book of Common Praise, 100:1-3.

kos releases the sql code for the sequia voting systems.


Robert Lee is the hardest mobile home salesman in the world.

the sexiest goat in the world.


Collection of David Wojnarowicz Prints

paul higgis resigns from scientology in a spectacular fashion.

a russian historian who has been researching arctic gulags and germans in the 2nd world war has been arrested on trumped up charges last week. Russian security services has also confiscated his entire personal archives.

i have no idea why but there was also a range of explotation cannibal films in italy in the 70s and 80s.

cutest tarot ever


Lyke Wake Dirge, PEntagle.

Ameila Hill a novelist and critic, talks about the misogyny in crime novels.

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Update of Phyisque Pictorial Aesthetic, Photo Unknown.

when the lights went out: britian in the 70s Bennett.

wired has been doing some really impt fairly traditional reportage of late, this article about vaccines is among them, and i would award it the pu litizer.


Burke and Hare, some Hammer cheese from the 70s.

a useful chart of john irvings recurring themes.

some asshole in columbus, ohio is sharpying all of the nasty words out of library books.

schwarzenegger uses an obsecene acrostic to tell the california house how he really feels.

women, sexual violence and PTSD in american combat situtaitons.

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O Keefe as shot by Steiglietz.

more info on the really weird raids that shut down one of the largest halal butchers in michigan, and the sect that ran it. No real information yet but some more details.

North CArolina's supreme court cannot tell the difference b/w fantasy and reality when it comes to rape victims and rape sheiled laws.


John Cale covers LCD Soundsytem.

nyt obit on Claude Levi STrauss who died last week.

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Schiaprelli Gloves, 1938, leather and lame.


the only female beefeater has been the victim of systematic harrassment due to her gender, hoping to make her quit

Justin Bourne writes in USA today about homophobia and hockey.

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via regretsy.

photo essay on the marijuna harvest in medincino.

absoutely fucking gorgeous posters for the internaitonal year of astronomy.


Joni Mitchell, My Old Man, 1970 (for Maine)

sweden ordains a lesbian bishop.

Roberta Smith on Roni Horn.

praying with someone i think is so intimate, and i have been called to pray of late, and not sure quite how to do it. what it means to pray, what it means to speak to a god that might not be there, or a god you construct as a miasma of free floating signifiers. asking yhwh to intergrate yrself makes me lose all sorts of post modern points, but i need it, and so i get on my knees for the first time since child hood, and we hold hands, and he prays over me, and i pray for myself, and thanksgiving, grace, desire, joy, hope, and also a violation, a backsliding of all the hard work of instability and destabilizing i have done.

Townes Van Zandt Lungs.

Primordial landscapes, incorruptible bodies. New York: Peter Lang 2008.Immortal bodies, Before Christ. Bodily continuity in ancient Greece and 1 Corinthians». Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30, 2008: 417-36.
Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
Dag Øistein Endsjø

http://cbi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/7/2/179
http://books.google.ca/books?id=wfNBQP2UaMEC&pg=PA748&lpg=PA748&dq=paul+hellenic+sexual+ethics+first+corinthians&source=bl&ots=sUeGpx1re7&sig=wDgv9UoBboOQ0zTfHDYDOqT17-g&hl=en&ei=y0f3Svr1EI_sMfP28egF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=paul%20hellenic%20sexual%20ethics%20first%20corinthians&f=false
http://books.google.ca/books?id=sclZnr2SUIgC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=paul+hellenic+sexual+ethics+first+corinthians&source=bl&ots=wZOXnhSicw&sig=QeqwrJGKUq5rlnJ9Iy27W_gk6fA&hl=en&ei=y0f3Svr1EI_sMfP28egF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

http://www.theandros.com/bantekastemp.html

Yesterday I was in Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum. On Level 3 there is a display which includes an exhibit about kakapo conservation.

There is a marvellous artifact there, which appears to be a roughly head-shaped globe made of ridged, soft plastic. The accompanying notes tell us that people had noticed the propensity for certain birds to try and mate with conservation workers' heads, and had designed a special piece of headgear to try and capture kakapo sperm for artificial insemination.

Sadly, it turns out that the item in question was a complete failure.

But anyway, there is a neat label telling you what the thing is called. My 14 year old daughter called out with some excitement: "Dad! It's an ejaculation helmet!"

mefi qoute

Desolate, outside of London, From the Train

Desolate, outside of London, From the Train
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long and productive lecture from hal foster about dada today. two take aways:

1. ball went back to the church, duchamp moved away from the old provactions, picaba retreated back to kitsch, schwitters and arp went back to an abstracted naturalism, hoch painted pretty flowers, heartfield went back to east berlin and did communist theatre, grosz went to the states and painted landscapes and conventional nudes, tzara became a stalinist, ernst moved to beverly hills, dix became a nazi and moved onto painting religious allegories
   
2. "you take on the dissonce of yr age until self disintegrates"
   

23. For if there be as many contrary natures as there are conflicting wills, there will not now be two natures only, but many. If any one deliberate whether he should go to their conventicle, or to the theatre, those men at once cry out, Behold, here are two natures—one good, drawing this way, another bad, drawing back that way; for whence else is this indecision between conflicting wills? But I reply that both are bad— that which draws to them, and that which draws back to the theatre. But they believe not that will to be other than good which draws to them. Supposing, then, one of us should deliberate, and through the conflict of his two wills should waver whether he should go to the theatre or to our church, would not these also waver what to answer? For either they must confess, which they are not willing to do, that the will which leads to our church is good, as well as that of those who have received and are held by the mysteries of theirs, or they must imagine that there are two evil natures and two evil minds in one man, at war one with the other; and that will not be true which they say, that there is one good and another bad; or they must be converted to the truth, and no longer deny that where any one deliberates, there is one soul fluctuating between conflicting wills.

8.10.23

8. Behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, in whose filth I was rolled, as if in cinnamon and precious ointments. And that I might cleave the more tenaciously to its very centre, my invisible enemy trod me down, and seduced me, I being easily seduced. Nor did the mother of my flesh, although she herself had ere this fled out of the midst of Babylon, Jeremiah 51:6 — progressing, however, but slowly in the skirts of it—in counselling me to chastity, so bear in mind what she had been told about me by her husband as to restrain in the limits of conjugal affection (if it could not be cut away to the quick) what she knew to be destructive in the present and dangerous in the future. But she took no heed of this, for she was afraid lest a wife should prove a hindrance and a clog to my hopes. Not those hopes of the future world, which my mother had in You; but the hope of learning, which both my parents were too anxious that I should acquire—he, because he had little or no thought of You, and but vain thoughts for me— she, because she calculated that those usual courses of learning would not only be nodrawback, but rather a furtherance towards my attaining You. For thus I conjecture, recalling as well as I can the dispositions of my parents. The reins, meantime, were slackened towards me beyond the restraint of due severity, that I might play, yea, even to dissoluteness, in whatsoever I fancied. And in all there was a mist, shutting out from my sight the brightness of Your truth, O my God; and my iniquity displayed itself as from very fatness.

2.3.8

21. For what can be more wretched than the wretch who pities not himself shedding tears over the death of Dido for love of Æneas, but shedding no tears over his own death in not loving You, O God, light of my heart, and bread of the inner mouth of my soul, and the power that weddest my mind with my innermost thoughts? I did not love You, and committed fornication against You; and those around me thus sinning cried, Well done! Well done! For the friendship of this world is fornication against You; James 4:4 and Well done! Well done! is cried until one feels ashamed not to be such a man. And for this I shed no tears, though I wept for Dido, who sought death at the sword's point, myself the while seeking the lowest of Your creatures— having forsaken You— earth tending to the earth; and if forbidden to read these things, how grieved would I feel that I was not permitted to read what grieved me. This sort of madness is considered a more honourable and more fruitful learning than that by which I learned to read and write.

Augustine, Confessions, 1:21

Geoff

it's not supposed to - no self is purely autonomous, no voice purely its own creation

2:31amAnthony

yeah

i would like them to take a deli number

2:31amGeof

exactly - being able to put them in a queue - your neurosis is important to us and we endeavour to respond in the quickest amount of time possible. in the mean time, please feel free to peruse our selection of highly eroticised incidents from our past

i like being around a table with film geeks and philsophers, and horror nerds, metalheads

rhetoricans

english freaks

19th century american obsessives

and saying what are you doing,

having all of this clusterfuck of multidiscipniary otherness

spent a few hours with horror fans and metal heads from kingston, plus a bunch of other people, the metal heads were queer but monogomous, but were cool when i asked if they were hitting on me

also a glen lingon peice, where a wooden shipping crate, locked heavily from the outside, leaking a billie holiday recording of strange fruit--haunting, trans-historical, and angirly deconstructive of the white's audience tendency to get off on black suffering/black narratives of redemption

twenty things about the detroit art gallery

1. they are renovating the asian art collection, so had a small amount in an out of the way corridor, but in that corridor, they had a korean moon jar, so i have seen two this year (an excellent example, but slightly off centre, and not nearly as gleamingly white as the one in the met)
   
2. john terronao's glittery pink and grey canvas, with an affixed pattern of rhinestones and crystals, a queered, decorative remake of modernism
   
3. a good frankenthaler, a great lewis, a fairly unique still, a medicore kline, and one of the best newmans ive seen
   
4. two chardin's, a v. tight, v. small still life of eggs and copper pots, in the midst of a display of contemprous severes pottery; and a large dead hare painting, with purple flowers. the face of the rabbit was mournful, and suffering, i have this thesis that the dutch and french game paintings of esp rabbits and foxes have a cultural heritage of the descended christ, this is the only one that i saw that had the suffering.
   
5. a room with a big andre cedar peice, a great irwin perspelx disk, and a kelly from the early 60s was too crowded
   
6. a huge early stella in lemon yellow and rasberry proved how strong a coulourist and a composer her was, a bigger, ugly stella from teh 80s proved how throughly he lost his shit
   
7. small room of fluxusm, late 70s conceptualism sort of does not workin the musuem
   
8. the canvas underneath lichenteins ben days is an off linen, resembling news prints.
   
9. one of the best rberg combines ive seen, from the early 60s, the flattening of the gestural instinct
10. fontanna's gaps and rips become holes because of the black backing, and have an element of scuptural energy
    
11. landseer are so fucking big
12. a great, brilliant rachel reyer, so much visual energy, so much colour, with flowers thick but distinct, and then bees, spiders, ants and the like climbing thru them
13. some great english paintings, including a landseer, a holman hunt, and some others
    
14. my favourite whistler, fireworks, all greens, and blacks with a bright yellow and crimson splashes
    
15. a gaugin self portrait, with a colour field of gold and pine green
    
16. half a dozen of the best late matisses i have seen, including some persian portraits, and coffe from 36
17. riveria's murals are better paintings and worse propganda then i imagined
    
18. imewood polychrome christs and madonnas, including one palm sunday peice that has an almost 1-1 scale donkey,
    
19. a german oak carving based on weydons discension, almost real time interperation
    
20. a bunch of dutch paintings, some nice church interirors from the 18th century, one of carrot selling, some caruousing tavern scenes, brughels wedding feast, and the like
    
21. a 1532 Holebin Tempera portrait with a bright blue background, a oaken lectern, and a woman with an elabroate linen wimple, no more then 8x11
22. a version of the toronto arts centre cranach, with the snake, the two nudes, and the stag. i do not know what the stag symbolizes
23. they do this great thing where the decorative objects, including furntiure, serving dishes, and the like are in wiht the traditional art
    
24. yorubhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3101723a terra cotta portraits
    
25. assionbane sheilds and drums
    
26. byzantine drawings on slip pottery
27. avedon fashion fotos, he loved his models, his realtionship to tree, lake and davima like man rays rship to kiki
28. mike nichols and suzy lake meta contextual papparazzi shot from 61, really early, really clever
    
29. 
    

i am on a train, just past brandon, and typing this on a laptop. via wi fi is horribly slow, but im excited about the universe.

it is ironic that the side effects for drugs that are supposed to work against depression mirror the symptoms of depression so exactly. (esp. but not limited to a variety of kinds of torpor)

me looking sad and slightly terrorfied

me looking sad and slightly terrorfied
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