Very busy getting together application documents and portfolio for low-residency graduate schools. Here's three photos of my small gallery showing that is up now at my school in Baltimore.
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Climate Change: On the Edge [link]

New Digital Brush Makes the World Your Palette [link]

Biocosm, The New Scientific Theory of Evolution [link]

Darwin's warm pond theory tested and found to be unlikely. [link] The seeds of life came from up there.

One of the most costly frauds (both in terms of money and human suffering) that has ever been perpetrated on the public. Politics and Suppression in the "War on Cancer" [link]

Iran Attack?! - Turning America Into A Straussian Totalitarian State [link]

As a prelude to this week's news summary is my 2.5 yr old poem"Rectal Requiem", analagous to its coinciding work "Narcy Goes to Qliphoth Land" (the image seems to have been erased? but I have just now replaced it with another copy) [link]

Dark clouds erupt and swirl as
you ignore the smoke signals
for the oncoming storm.
The old predatory structures panic
as their tumorous armor gives way to the revealing.
Found as a folded amassment,
lost in the glittering puddle.
Sealed and isolated in the rigid high tower
you locked the doors and escaped the windows into this
grand loft of a city built on shells and dust.
Lying like an intoxicated martyr on lead cement,
crowned by ravenous self-exaltedness.
You fear what lies outside the dogmatic encrustations,
paralyzed prisoner of these insecure delusions.
Refusing to shed the ego’s spiked blood,
it has been fermenting for far too long.
Diseased with the virus of inescapable paradox,
rapaciously justifying vanity’s denials.
Mocking enslaver of the innocent,
revengeful accuser,
defiler of the fallen.
You trampled the inborn love
now you are cold, cracked, atrophied and lifeless.
Sucked dry and choked of essence by the very forms
that supported the pompous pedestal.
Ignorant and blind behind your dearest mask,
caught behind the costume.
All that you gave of yourself to the cup
were heaps of shit
and you spewed your innards round
to blanket the precious,
broken shell of vampiric darkness.
The breaks have broken
and the tower’s remnants are pulled down
by the unrelenting undertow.
Collapsed, sunken and dispersed
to the bottom of the pool,
fertilizer for the roots,
at the bottom.


HARPER’S WEEKLY
March 7, 2006

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WEEKLY REVIEW
More than 100 people were killed in fighting in Iraq. “I think,” said the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, “the country came to the brink of civil war. But Iraqis decided that they didn’t want to go down that path.” In the Baghdad area, Sunni militants were evicting Shiites from their homes. “We want you out of here by 8 p.m. tomorrow,” one man was told. “If we find you here, we will kill you.” President George W. Bush said that Iraq’s choice was between “chaos or unity,” and it was reported that the White House had ignored repeated warnings about the growing capabilities of the Iraqi insurgency. “This was stuff,” said a former high-ranking intelligence official, “the White House and the Pentagon did not want to hear.” The U.S. State Department asked for $100 million for the reconstruction of Iraqi prisons. Saddam Hussein told a court that, after a 1982 attempt to assassinate him failed in Dujail, north of Baghdad, he ordered trials for 148 Iraqis and had the local orchards razed. Hussein insisted that his actions were lawful; all of those tried were later executed or tortured to death. Only 75 psychiatrists remained in Iraq. In Pakistan, four people, including a U.S. diplomat, were killed in a suicide bombing. The European Union approved a $140 million aid package for Palestine. In France far-right groups were criticized for serving pork soup to the poor with the intent of discriminating against observant Muslims and Jews. “We are all pig eaters!” chanted a crowd of soup activists. “We are all pig eaters!” An Italian commission found that the Soviet Union organized the shooting of Pope John Paul II in 1981. A videotape emerged showing President Bush being warned that Hurricane Katrina could flood New Orleans, and it was revealed that the Bush Administration had lowered the fines for mine safety violations and failed to collect nearly one half of the fines levied. President Bush’s approval rating fell to 34 percent, and Vice President Dick Cheney’s approval rating fell to 18 percent. Bush proposed legislation to give the President a line-item veto, even though the Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that a line-item veto was unconstitutional, and it was rumored that Cheney would retire in 2007.
A physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India, speculated that the “red rain” that fell in the Kerala district of western India in 2001 was filled with extraterrestrial, bacteria-like material from a passing comet. President Bush, after a brief stop in Afghanistan, visited India, where he was met by 100,000 protesters in New Delhi; he promised to provide India with nuclear fuel and expertise. At least 65 dogs in the President’s security detail were put up at a five-star hotel in New Delhi; hotel staff were told to address the dogs as “sergeant” or “major.” Laura Bush counted to five on Indian children’s TV. “She loved Boombah,” said an official from a television studio, “the giant, cuddly, Punjabi-rapping lion.” Condoleezza Rice appeared on television lifting weights and stretching at the gym. “You’d be surprised,” she said, “how many places around the world have gyms or exercise machines.” It was reported that U.S. prisons often shackle women prisoners during childbirth, and a study found that laws requiring minors to obtain parental consent before receiving an abortion have had almost no effect on the number of abortions performed. “I would have told my mother anyway,” said a 16-year-old abortionee in Pennsylvania. Wal-Mart announced that it would begin to sell the morning-after pill, but would not require pharmacists to fill prescriptions if the pill offends them. In Vietnam musician Paul Gadd, also known as Gary Glitter, was found guilty of sexually abusing two preteen girls. He will be jailed for three years and must pay the girls’ families 5 million dong.
AT&T announced that it would purchase Bell South for $67 billion and eliminate 10,000 jobs. A cat died of bird flu in Germany. Scientists, some funded by the U.S. military, continued their research into controlling the brains of monkeys and sharks. “We believe,” said a researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, “we are the first to record neural activity from a monkey doing a somersault.” Researchers in Chicago verified that a quantum computer does not have to perform any calculations in order to arrive at results. A Rhode Island man who attempted to pay down a large balance on his JCPenney charge card was told that the payment would be delayed because it first had to be approved by Homeland Security. The Senate renewed the Patriot Act and sent it to the House; the House is expected to pass the legislation soon. Former U.S. Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham was sentenced to eight years, four months in federal prison for accepting bribes, and the Pentagon released the names of the inmates at Guantanamo Bay as part of 5,000 pages of hearing transcripts; one man, Abdur Sayed Rahman, a Pakistani chicken farmer, was apparently held because his name was similar to that of Taliban deputy minister Abdur Zahid Rahman. The Kenyan government raided a newspaper that had been critical of government corruption, along with an affiliated TV station. “If you rattle a snake,” said Internal Security Minister John Michuki, “you must be prepared to be bitten by it.” In Columbus, Ohio, a 54-year-old man was in jail after being caught hiding in bathrooms to collect the urine of adolescent boys. “I’m drinking their youth,” he explained. The White House announced that it would step up its efforts to control leaks. Author Octavia Butler died, and a British astronomer named Gerry Gilmore predicted that ground-based telescopes would be useless within 40 years because of climate change and jet contrails. “You either give up your cheap trips to Majorca,” he said, “or you give up astronomy.” In Nassau County, New York, a newborn baby was run over by several different vehicles; its sex and race could not be determined. Global warming forced the organizers of Alaska’s Iditarod dogsled race to move the race 30 miles north, and investigators found that termites had survived the flooding of New Orleans.




It’s all in your head... you just have no idea how big your head is!

It is not their intention to destroy... Their intention is to feed for as long as possible on the tremendous energies generated by the evolutionary struggle. Their purpose, therefore, is to prevent man from discovering the worlds inside himself, to keep his attention directed outwards. What would man be like if he could destroy these vampires, or drive them away? The first result would certainly be a tremendous sense of mental relief, a vanishing oppression, a surge of energy and optimism. Then man's energies would turn inward. He would discover that he has many 'selves', and that his higher 'selves' are what his ancestors would have called gods.
Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

Exec #2: Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren't wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this "soul" does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

Exec #3: What was that about hats again?

Exec #2: Oh, Uh... people aren't wearing enough - Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life".

When a human imagines, he actually creates a form on the Astral or even on some higher plane; and this form is as real and objective to intelligent beings on that plane, as our earthly surroundings are to us.

"Time, space and knowledge are the most basic facets of human experience. They are the Being of our being as it manifests in this world. Space allows the world of objects to appear, time makes possible the sequence of events that gives order to our lives; knowledge gives meaning and significance to whatever appears or unfolds. Time and space are the ordinary stuff of existence, which ordinary knowledge aims to know."
(KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE - Tarthang Tulku)

"The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this."

The goal of art is to heal.
A man holds all the universe within him; and art is his view of it. But in the work of some artists spiral vast galaxies of meaning and imagination
What do you want? What do you want… You want to be an artist, you need to broke with money. Not to make that in order to make money. You need to work in order to have yourself, to find yourself. That is the problem. To find yourself.