:: The Freewheelin' Reader ::

:: 11.10.05 ::

Richard Branson sets out to make it all better.
Idiot.

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"earthquake diplomacy" proves our world is fucked up.

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This large retrospective of work by Alejandro Xul Solar (1887-1963), an Argentine modernist painter, brings together 120 pieces, mostly vivid watercolours on paper, that chronicle the artist's preoccupation with religion, symbolism and the esoteric. Born in 1887, Solar spent 12 years in Europe, where he was clearly influenced by Kandinsky and Klee, before returning to Buenos Aires in 1924. He became part of an intellectual group that included Jorge Luis Borges, a close friend.
Solar’s works are on a small scale and use, for the most part, intense colours to portray mythical beasts, Catholic symbols and characters from the zodiac. One section of the show draws comparisons with his Brazilian contemporaries, including Ismael Nery, Antonio Gomide and Lasar Segall. Solar's desire to create a pan-Latin American utopia led him to invent a language that mixes Spanish and Portuguese called “neocriollo”, words from which appear in his pictures

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One of the judges of the Nobel Prize for Literature resigns in protest at the choice of last year's winner.

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After the criticism of his disastrous handling the Katrina disaster, President George Bush promises a reconstruction programme of $200bn for areas destroyed by the hurricane. But the first and biggest beneficiaries will be businesses that specialise in profiting from disaster, and have already had lucrative contracts in Iraq; they will gentrify New Orleans at the expense of its poor, black citizens.

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Finally!
There is proof that someone reads this site.
I posted a picture from Maxim's Hometown Hotties contest w/o permission. The woman who's picture I had posted saw it and asked me to take it down. I bowed to the pressure.
*grin*
Actually, I was so amazed that anyone found this site that I gladly did it.

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