Shark
Apparently Damien Hirst’s shark is falling apart in his tank, and it is almost impossible for conservators to fix it–he got bad advice in he beginning, and now the New York museum of Modern Art has hired the curator of fish from the[…]

DC Comics’ marketing department are really giving it some at the moment. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the Guardian this morning to see a great big piece (with large 3-panel excerpt) on Grant Morrison’s new Vinamarama miniseries! Y[…]

War on pants!
“That’s why they’re called undergarments…they’re supposed to be worn under something else.”
Superman was unavailable for comment.[…]

Plowing The Dark by Richard Powers
I was discussing spoilers yesterday with Anthony Easton. This was in the context of movie reviews, but it had been on my mind thinking about this novel that I had just finished. The main strand is of a bunch of hots[…]

DACHAU 29 APRIL 1945
ed. Sam Dunn
Frankly, I hated the slew of ‘greatest generation’ books and movies and stuff that came out in the late nineties in America. It struck me as a convulsive reaction on the part of baby boomers seeming to s[…]

Takako Araki

I still get very frustrated by the web sometimes. I guess if I weren’t the kind of person who desperately wants to know more about a particular modern Japanese ceramic artist, and would stick with porn and Lord Of The Rings, I&#82[…]

In 1969 Ed Ruscha attached a camera to his car and drove down Sunset Strip, automatically taking a foto of every building on the street. These fotos noted the anthropology of place, the nature of photography, the implications of autonomous creation, […]

Translated Accounts by James Kelman
I’m not entirely sure what to make of this. It’s a bunch of short pieces, fragments, from a handful of narrators (three or four, the back cover says, and I’ll take its word for it), about living u[…]

QUOTE OF THE DAY!!
“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves” ? dave q August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish vagabond (?) playwright
haha sometimes i totally heart fact-ch[…]

The Politics Of The Future II: From ultra-market, to communism: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. Written in the eighties, when the idea of China’s economic plan was only just taking shape, a world dominated by China’s communism was[…]