July 31, 2003
four giant transvestites in a gale
the faddish philistine fools at brighton council have of course chosen the over sized over pompous gehry for the redevelopment of the king alfred site. the rational being that it's more important to have an internationally named architect than to build something innovative that takes account of the site itself, unlike say the wilkinson designs.
next up daniel libeskind redesigns the pavilion.
July 30, 2003
inferno
i am damned to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge
Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.
gore vidal generator
i guess it's inevitable that all truly great iconoclasts end up sounding like random generator parodies of themselves.
its also a mark of how conformist current gay politics is that they ask gore vidal about gay adoption and marriage (have they read nothing he has ever written?).
essential reading: United States: Essays 1952-1992
Dean & Zulu
Dean & Zulu, well mostly dean, are brighton taggers. they appear to use the train lines up to haywards heath and along east towards hastings and west to worthing. i've always imagined that dean was the protégé of zulu, that dean as the result of some terrible discovery or confrontation turned against zulu; setting out to obliterate his or her name resulting in a state of war, that the roots of their enmity would somehow be discoverable by careful study of their relative deaness and zuluness. to this end ludicrous and myself offer the dean & zulu resource. we shall, over time (and with your help) map and study dean and zulu. we shall know their range, be cognisant of all their efforts. marvel at the subtle variations in their naive styles. we shall be monitoring for new appearances, though perhaps now dean and zulu have retired. and perhaps, encouraged by our hopeless devotion, there waits another to take up the mantel of dean (or zulu)
the three finest words in the english language
all day breakfast
July 29, 2003
two pictures
the cats in a funny mood
jacob, my new ersatz nephew, is delightful
fantasy terror
more from the war on nouns.
"The Pentagon is planning to set up an online trading market in which bets could be made about future terrorist attacks and other major political developments.
The idea is to try to improve the prediction and prevention of events by using the expertise of the open market instead of relying on government agencies which have often failed in the past. "
July 28, 2003
summer reading
the idea that there are reading seasons is a little strange and almost certainly an invention of the book trade, but it is summer and summer means middle weight fiction
books for trains & planes:
the summer book, tove jansson
collection of themed stories by the writer of moomintroll back in print after years; thank god as some bastard nicked my copy. a strange haunting book of fragments of summers spent on a small island in the bay of finland by a small girl and her artist grandmother. in all those copyless years when the book was out of print most of it stayed with me.
lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
him of fight club fame, for my money theres no better writer on the sheer horror and alienation of advanced capitalism, like bret easton ellis with moral fire.
ella minnow pea, mark dunn slender (in size only) swiftian fantasy about literalism and fundermentalism on an epistolary island.
more when i can be bothered.
the history hour
an introductory history of gay brighton.
the peoples history of the second world war
19th and 20th century pamflet library
July 25, 2003
July 16, 2003
July 01, 2003
modern drunkard
modern drunkard magazines' fine selection of inspirational posters.
A bar is a playground. And since there are no slides or seesaws to be had, you’re going to have to play with other people’s minds.