i'm not sure easter is worth the down i experience once i've finished my cadbury egg.

i picked up a copy of social anarchism issue 37 today (my first) & have been reading it in my spare time today (very little). so far, however, i am impressed with the publication. i picked it up to read it & send to my friend amber, who is very much into emma goldman. i quickly turned to an article titled anarchism and the question of human nature, which looked interesting. you can check it out here.
let me know what you think, i would love to discuss.

so ian's show opened up on friday & it went very well. people seem to be immediately drawn to his work, sweet water (see photo above). the photographs are of desolate west coast landscapes,
many that are eerily inviting. i am in the gallery on fridays if anyone wants to come by & see me/the show.

because today marked four thousand american soldiers dead in iraq, & because we have all heard about it A L L D A Y L O N G, i would like to point out how small that number is. im not saying that to be an asshole; a life is a life, and four thousand is too many. too many unnecessary deaths. but four thousand is an incredibly small number compared to the amount of american soldiers who have been wounded (nina berman has documented some of their stories here) and who will never live a normal life again; in a very real sense, they have given up their lives for this cause. and four thousand is a tiiiiny number compared to the amount of iraqi civilians who have been killed in the last five years. the fact that after thirty minutes of trying to pinpoint that number, i gave up because it is so apparently insignificant in the press, is gut-wrenching to me.

i was searching for statistics on censorship here in the u s of a & came upon this blog, which (before it was censored) wrote about a new (still unreleased) de palma film. im sure there will be a blog or three about that later, if i can track down the film.......

and now for something completely different:

i found a bar in the bk with shuffle board. ok, i didnt find it, but i am going to go ahead and take credit, since my friend who really did find it doesnt read this blog. not only do they have shuffleboard, but they have ommegang witte. mmmmmm.

i am off to study german!