>How thrilling and sad it was to hear someone say, driving by the Guild House recently, "You wonder now what all the fuss was about."

wisconsin death trip: "collection of late 19th C photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the town of Black River Falls. Emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, diseas

"If we’re not careful, we are going to lose the capacity for speech." wait, is it a magazine, or what? No info about how to go to an event. Still, looks fun.

the chamber pot story

I want to read this kind of writing about every city.

disposable cameras given to postal carriers, best pix published.

Protect culture || embalm culture (via tmonkey)

"Eternal September (also Great September, September that never ended, perpetual September, or endless September) is a Usenet slang expression for the period of time beginning September 1993."

Musing on subways and everyday life.

middle-aged woman turns her empty nest into a ("anarchist") coop, complete with freeganism, bulk food, and wireless internet.

art proj exploring the cultural & historical landscape of IL/ the USA. Focus on Amer. Indian histories & appropriation of. rilly great.

"provide new & challenging ideas & frameworks in which to display contemporary art & thought... & incorporate these works & ideas into the daily lives of the general public." [& i love the site design]

"wants to document and create from experiences through this over-stimulating, nauseating world of consumer culture" Credit card statement drawings are heartbreakingly great.

live ship locations in world.
This is me setting up a scrape of this image.

"If you read the history of Fred Hampton, you won't see anything that bad," Ald. Haithcock said. "All he said is he was going to defend himself against policemen, and evidently he didn't because they murdered him."

"color images taken by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photogs"
1-color images of this era=>valley of the unreal 2- What's w/ the title?

"that an entertainer from one half of the last century was more popular in his era than a well known entertainer from the other half was"

"But great men:- the word is injurious. Is there caste? Is there fate? What becomes of the promise to virtue?" ... "Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts. "

by ralph waldo emerson (a great man)

ignore previous. "myspace is the new geocities" lives in the myspace blog entry from 2004-09-21. "god damnit stop putting songs in your profiles"

#2 result for "Myspace is the new geocities" google search. ( livejournal entry written 2006-02-06). #1 result is a myspace page that doesn't include phrase anymore

three most tagged rad things: bikes, people with sunglasses, rims.

like overheard in ny but on the L

nomadic artist

The main aim of the project is to multiply the possibilities of making art by drawing attention to ordinary ways of living.