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Think your ride is badass? No, this is badass.+++

It seems the US government is screwed. Read the CNN article about the forged CIA documents. Did Iraq ever have weapons of mass destruction?

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“If you have a racist friend

Now is the time, now is the time for your friendship to end”

Wise lyrics from The Specials. This one goes out to the stamp-boycott-email-sender.

Let’s try this again…something’s wrong with the blog.

Today I received the most disturbing email from an old high school friend. I can’t believe people are actually boycotting the new stamp (which isn’t even that new) honoring a Muslim holiday.

Today I received the most disturbing email from an old high school friend. I can’t believe people are boycotting the new stamp (which isn’t even that new) honoring a Muslim Holiday.

You’ve seen this, right? Well, if you haven’t – go get lost in the depths of quondam. It’s endless and full of delicious vector line drawings reminiscent of early 80’s arcade graphics (though, I dont know if that’s on purpose). quondam “an exhibition of one thousand three hundred thirty-one architectural drawings and sentences of which seven hundred seventy four are so far available”

New, very very ugly Taipei 101 tower to replace very ugly Petronas towers as world’s tallest building. Luckily, I don’t care at all how tall your building is – its all in how you balance your mixed uses, eh? Plus, the Q-Bert-esque Sears Tower still rules the mid-west. That thing looks liked it was plucked off the skin of the Death Star before it blew up. World’s 10 Tallest Buildings, traditional – SkyscraperPage.com

New, very very ugly Taipei 101 tower to replace very ugly Petronas towers as world’s tallest building. Luckily, I don’t care at all how tall your building is – its all in how you balance your mixed uses, eh? Plus, the Q-Bert-esque Sears Tower still rules the mid-west. That thing looks liked it was plucked off the skin of the Death Star before it blew up. World’s 10 Tallest Buildings, traditional – SkyscraperPage.com

Also we will head to Mario’s Furniture to check out two video installations by Annetta Kapon and Jacob Melchi.

Well, due to work schedule, Big Sur is a bust for this weekend. Sorry Amy n Sarah. Instead, I will complete some gallery review postings from the past month, and if you’re lucky, some photos of clouds and light posts above LA. Exciting!

Also, to attend tonight:

Udo Nöger at Lowe Gallery – info

at Broadway arts complex in Santa Monica. 6-9pm I think.

Group show at Sixteen:One Gallery – info

Max Presneill (of Raid Projects fame) has a show at Kontainer on Wilshire – info

And see the post about Gallery 727 show of Civic Park Competition entries.