It was a bit warm, so rather than wear something fabulous as my hero would have done, I attended a few openings dressed in my art uniform of shorts and an MTA shirt.

Our first visit was to see Ann Craven [images] at Klemens Gasser, which apparently doesn’t have a web site. She makes beautiful, not quite real, paintings of birds and flowers — like greeting cards only better. We had to go check it out since we acquired a watercolor of hers at Bellwether’s party. Oh — here’s a page that shows a photo that was in the back, and gives the gallery address.

The second opening was Andrew Guenther at Silverstein Gallery — great show! There’s a wall of beautiful-and-political-at-the-same-time drawings and watercolors, some of his paintings, some works by guest artists (indicated by big stars on the wall above), and most fun of all, a (moving) sculpture that "is made up of a custom made coffin, built by the artist to fit his individual proportions, mounted on top of a mechanical rodeo bull. " Not surprisingly, the crowd at this opening was much more cool. The gay boys were skinny and geeky, not the posey-muscley kind I saw at the other opening.

As we left, people were getting ice cream (to go with their beer) from the truck outside — playing that damn “Turkey in the Straw” rendition.

I’m so glad the summer art lull is over!

My Palm V just fell over and died – lost everything that hadn’t been sync-ed recently!

I think I’m going to go out tomorrow and buy a Sony Clié tomorrow. I don’t feel like buying anything too expensive, since I’m hoping to get something like this eventually.

Do any of the four people who read me have one? Are you using it with a Mac (OS X)?

I’m think of this or that.

Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. — Hermann Goering

Found here.

Today’s quote is courtesy of James Ridgeway.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people." —Eugene Debs, Socialist candidate for president, June 16, 1918.

The speech led to Debs’s being stripped of his citizenship and sent to jail for 10 years.

Get Fuzzy rocks.

This is very cool, and came out of my alma mater!

In honor of all of the people at Sunday’s gathering who were discussing their current and future tattoos, I present this article.

As the date approaches for my 3 weeks in Europe (leaving Sept. 9), I’m getting dull here on the blog because I’m rushing to finish stuff for my clients before I go. I realize I am all the way over at the blog end of the blog/journal continuum at the moment.

I will have a computer with me in Germany/Austria/etc., but I don’t intend to spend much time online while I’m there. I will probably keep notes on the trip, but whether I will actually post them during that time is, as yet, undecided. Andy was sweet to suggest that I should post regularly while I’m there, and that he would like to read my “on the road” entries. I almost always take notes on trips, so we’ll see.

I just love this story. His drag name is “Alexis Love”.

Ken Bereskin, Apple’s Product Manager for OS X, now has a weblog.

The Australian National Library is adding internet porn to its collection.

The project is aimed at providing material for future social historians, not patrons with bad Google skills.

“The examination of society and culture of a period by necessity involves the study of its sexual life,” he wrote in the library’s newsletter.

“With this in mind, it is clear that there is no merit in being coy today and therefore delivering an incomplete picture to future researchers.”

He cited the usefulness to historians of Victorian pornographic diaries and novels as proof of the importance of collecting contemporary erotica.