grace i was working on some theology of grace for the book when i heard robert creely died, and also thinking about hollywood blondes and 50s movies, for an essay i may right, and then i click over to metafilter and i hear about it. the thing with […]
Hank Williams Exploding Heart
I saw the footage of his funeral for the first time (kodachrome from the 50s) for the first time today, on a trashy cmt biodoc . The footage was edited badly and the voice over was distracting—but there were thou[…]
Book ’em Scrapbooking is the purview of sad old ladies with too much time on their hand. Its too cute, too chaotic, too colourful. The fonts are all wrong. They try to hard. There are too many accessories. They try to do things like make pompon[…]
Finch The problem with making words like boring, banal, decorative and pretty compliments, is that there is nothing left when a critic encounters awful spectacles like this: http://www.spencerfinch.com/[…]
Homeless. Diaspora, Refugee, Homeless–the ideas are abstractions, even the concept of palestine is an abstraction–so that to talk about them, it becomes a dystopian non oz. Reading it, one forgets the ironies, the complexities, and the ve[…]
Schorr Sheer (where i blather about the hi art potential of hair cuts) I bought the March Details for the interview w. Kevin Federline, b/c I love Britney and want her to be happy. Its a well designed magazine, but the best feature was a v. small fot[…]
Guy Cannon–You Didnt Even Know My Name. A still born fetus sings his own elegy to his grieving parents, reassuring them that everything will be ok. Its weirder then it seems.[…]
—there might be evil in the world, and human beings are destructive motherfuckers and there is not much we can do about that…But sometimes the dust settles, and even if it affects everything, even if it is in the dust and the air we breat[…]
Batman in Love So, I’m reading Pop Out: Queer Warhol, edited by Jennifer Doyle e al, –is a mostly useless academic wank job about Andy loving other men–there was a line here or a line there that might be useful, but I was disappoint[…]
Walls http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/fleeting/index.htmlMarshall Sokoloff’s fotos are large-scale c prints of graffiti that havebeen painted over by civil authorities in places like Toronto andPortland. The great thing is […]