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YES! i am completely with you on this…obviously.

This is alot of the reason I am not for getting married – until same sex marriages are also legal. I am glad that there are actually other people who feel that it is wrong to use witholding the benefits of marriage as a method to marginalize same sex couples.

The Farnsworth House, by Mies Van Der Rohe, has been purchased at auction by the National Trust for 7.5 million dollars. So now it will be preserved on its site until the next (inevitable) flood takes its toll. Actually, I was kind of hoping someone would purchase it and do something a little more interesting – but then, I have a weird desire to violate its purity – see here.

For more about the purchase, go . here

Fannypack, I love them. What I want to know is, if they werent born yet in the 80’s, how come they do it so perfectly? L’Trimm got nothin on them, cept for Miami of course.

I forgot to mention, ziboy tells me, for some reason, he is unable to get to RISE. Are we being censored in Beijing?

Found an interseting project: 1000journals part mail art, part exquisite corpse, part freshman art therory journal at HAS (you remember…)

This reminds me of my time working with the kids at Long Lane School in CT, and why I make and teach art in the first place. I just heard about an interesting PBS dcoumentary “What I Want My Words To Do To You” which tells about women in prison who participated in Eve Ensler’s writing workshops. +++ Unfortunately, LA’s PBS stations don’t seem to have it scheduled.

While you are out there doind yer holiday shopping, run all those CD titles through the RIAA Radar, so you can avoid putting any of your hard earned money into their pockets till they wise up and stop suing file sharers – RIAA Radar

A little while ago Tim Devin let me in on a little secret – he has posted The Street-Hieroglyph Documentation Project to the world wide web. He would have told you all this himself, except that he cannot get his Rise blog account to work yet, and I have no idea why. Anyway – go see this important document here ++++

“Questions about the nature of art have remained unanswered for millennia, making it difficult for us to know if the things we see, make, exhibit, sell or collect are real art or something else. But the uncertainty is finally over and the results are in…”

Take the test to see if YOU are a REAL ARTIST.