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CONRAD BAKKER UNTITLED PROJECT: MUSCLECAR
"1969 PONTIAC GTO JUDGE"
Fully loaded, Great condition, only $21,480!
oil on carved wood, 10'4"x4'6"x3'

"There are two ways to traverse the thrilling survey of Willem de Kooning's paintings at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea: forward and backward. Both are rewarding, but backward is encouraged.".

lately i get so bombarded with pop ups while i'm online. it's annoying to the point that i'm not using the web as much as i normally would. it seems like its gotten way out of control in the last month or so. is anyone else noticing this?

mickey hart does a yahoo tv ad. did anyone else catch that?

food blogs that we are not.

developing brooklyn

An anonymous tipster just sent me this picture which is purported to be the new sustenance food critic...

"Creative life may be flourishing in widely different ways across Europe, but the most common cultural link across the region now is a devotion to American popular culture in the form of movies, television and music." This is what Alan Riding has to say, I am not sure I agree (or do I fear what if he is right?)
Also, see his list of "leading living artists" per country (top of page 2) Nytimes, April 26.

From the “now we’ve got them where we want them” department.
Just wait ‘til September…

article in the guardian about blog fiction.

This is silly, but since I used to be a voracious Risk player when I was a kid I thought it was funny: AN OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM KRISTOL, RICHARD PERLE, AND PRESIDENT BUSH'S OTHER NEOCONSERVATIVE PUPPETMASTERS.

from the CNN Crawl:
"Poets die younger than writers and playwrites. reason is unclear."
I swear I'm not making this up.

"Blogs Over Baghdad".

Blue Hill at Stone Barns

WHAT
The opening of Sonic Forest ’04 by artist Christopher Janney: an enticing grove of 16 aluminum “electronic trees” that rustle, sing, whisper and sometimes “dance” in response to people’s movements. To celebrate the opening, legendary dancer-choreographer Sara Rudner will perform in the grove with colleagues to set Sonic Forest ’04 into action.

WHEN
Friday, April 23, 2004
6 p.m.

WHERE
Union Square Park
Union Square West near 14th Street

This guy,
http://events.thing.net/Boeskov_text.html
is having an exhibition at THE THING
He's infiltrating a chinese weapons fair with an imaginary gun!

Opening Talk: April 23 2004, 6 –7 pm
Opening Reception: April 23 2004, 7-10 pm
601 West 26th Street, Floor 4 New York, NY 10001
t: (212) 937-0444
http://bbs.thing.net
events@thing.net

Yesterday afternoon in Central Park I was crossing the North Meadow with birding friend Tom Fiore when we saw a police helicopter coming down very low. We were approaching the Reservoir, and Tom wondered, half jokingly, whether someone might have fallen in. Sure enough, today’s Post has the story of two young women from Canada who decided to take an unauthorized swim. The new fence was installed over the winter. It’s modeled after the original design, which was replaced years ago by a high cyclone fence. The new/old barrier offers much better views of the skyline, not to mention the birds on the water. I sometimes find the “improvements” in the Park to be dubious, but this one is much appreciated. One hopes they won’t add razor wire after this, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see some “no swimming under penalty of law” signs go up.

Speaking of the Reservoir, it was the site of an exciting birding moment on Sunday, when I discovered a Tundra Swan, a great rarity for the Park. You can read my report by scrolling down on this page. The birding was terrific over the weekend, but on Monday more birds seemed to have moved on than had come in. I’d have done better to take the day off; three days in a row is enough to fry me, and it’s not even May yet, when migration reaches its height. Regardless, these have been beautiful days. The warm weather has got the flowers blooming and the leaf buds bursting. It really looks like Spring. Those who complain of a too-swift transition from winter to summer would be well advised to get out there now.

df squeal of approval

i havent tried it yet but this might be a good tool for the memory holer in you.

raging slab back in the sadle at don hills 4/30/04

"P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces the launch of the world’s first internet art radio station."
www.wps1.org

Matrix Revolutions (the third one, rented the second one by mistake last week due to not being able to distinguish between the titles) was a lot better than I thought it would be. The costumes were still appalling. That neo- (get it, Neo?) -nazi dress jacket thing that everybody wears is dorky beyond belief, and all the stylish ripped sweaters worn on spaceships is very Gap. However, the tedium-induced prayer we collectively incanted during Matrix Reloaded, "Less Talk, More Action," was well answered. The big sci-fi effects were pretty impressive, the long, massive battle with the machines was well-rendered and cool-looking, poor emasculated Lawrence Fishburn hardly said a word, and they let go of the pompous, ponderous philosophical plot crap and got busy with the excellent robots and kung fu. I still think Keanu is unwatchable, but I liked his iconic presesnce in the empty, white-tiled subway station scenes. I'm glad I didn't see it in the theatre, cause I strongly resented the feeling of inevitability when it was released, that I, and millions of others, would see it despite knowing it was going to suck. Enough time has now gone by that I was able to be pleasantly surprised.

kill bill 2 was better than the first one.