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 | for current monkey biz go HERE 2.21: ouch, that was painful... el lobo getting back on his feet, may be a little too sensitive to things these daze... but we had to take note of the passing of Balthus N.Y. Times' obituary here, L.A. Times' here I daresay he painted more than portrayals of "adolescent girls & their sexual awakening" but that sells papers I suppose. Yours truly invites you to see for yourself, & will include a number of links for your perusal below: from Mark Harden's Artchive, Balthus on the web; from Artcyclopedia, Balthus; Balthus from Le Monde du Arts (French); from Italy's Net-Art, Balthus, La reincarnazione della pittura; NYT, again, review & excerpt from '99 biography, Balthus; an appreciation from The New Criterion; a letter, from Rilke to Balthus; some miscellaneous images: nude with cat; the street, (from this group of images); Therese; nude with arms raised la leçon de guitare ; lastly, this self portrait 
~ ~ ~ 2.20: remember a w is an m upside down, & m stands for moron & now for something a little big different... 
~ ~ ~ 2.19: fighting off a case of the blues/blahs... mil gracias a mi amiga, la reina del sur, para esta cosa aqui; (mr. jensen's heart & mind in the right place...) & while we at it for this briefest of moments, this item (which yours truly initially read about in Liz Smith's gossip column), from The American Prospect, where you'll find more great stuff like this ciao, amici mio...
~ ~ ~ 2.18: Sunday Shakespearean Sonnet Smorgasbord  on friday, a dear friend posited the following to me: Because J., this is something I wonder about all the time, and I must be truthful with you, sometimes I sit and cry to think that the depth others feel is a depth I have never reached and often think I won't ever. But then I think there really isn't a depth that deep, it's all either A) in my head, or B) in that silly romance novel...or in movie... but then I follow that up with a wonder about why, if there ISN'T that sort of thing, how did they ever know about it to write about it? amiga mia, yours truly would be dishonest in attempting to have you believe I have any more insight on this matter than yourself, & each of us, having such vastly differing histories & experiences, would relate some individual "truth" in attempting to respond. my canon, intellectually & educationally speaking, is best described as western, so likely i'll begin there, to seek a place to begin a small examination of the beguiling mystery of love. I'll begin this little tour w/an item taken from the N.Y.T., May '98, "the Aspects of Love" next, simply & without embellishment or any interpretation, the Sonnets by W. Shakespeare now, for those of you desiring to examine Shakespeare's sonnets more closely, the Sonnets, from allshakespere.com; Shake-Spears Sonnets from sirbacon.org; an introductory course to the Sonnets, originally available through the Open University of B.C. & University of Victoria; un petit rappel: sonnets are simply a poetic form & written by many others, we include a few examples here, here, & here. yes, I know, we're no closer to an answer than we were before, but stay near, we'll together examine again the inquiry, seek out some hard won nugget of truth, if one's there to be found. I leave you w/this little folly, so you can write us a sonnet... and this special little reward for those who've patiently waded thru all this... Venus + Adonis
~ ~ ~ 2.16: hmmmmm, do these pants make my butt look fat? Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.  ahhhhhhh, the weekend approacheth, & a slightly longer one for many of us, this does, unfortunately exclude some dear friends, relegated to life in the hinterlands where even federally mandated holidaze are ignored, & we feel awful about that, just awful... Yours truly intends to focus a little today on the issue of male vanity but we ask your indulgence for a brief moment or two, while we include news of a more pressing & important nature: First, this news re concerns about el presidente's initial political decision, this from the SF Chron, and this related item comes from Reuters, via the NYT. Speak up now, let them know we are paying attention, and drop a line to your congressman & senator, their addresses may be found here Next up on this morning's agenda, a laundry list of items: Sorry Rudy G- You have no right, so keep your goddam opinion to yourself; In Peru, a very interesting anthropological discovery; two items on Steven Soderbergh: watching movies w/Steve from the NYT; & as he's nominated as Best Director for two films, this opinion from Slate; and we take this moment to state that opinions expressed in linkage posted here are NOT those of the furry mammal responsible for all the other crapola you have to wade thru... okayokayokay, nearly done w/the laundry list, we get to vanity shortly: Too Much Soda Pop!!!! from the NYT, ms NBC & CNN; & FYI, The Lancet has the study published on line, altho you do have to register, but it is free  
yours truly doesn't consider himself terribly vain,but we indulge in long hair (hasn't been cut in 3+ years), wear a "soul patch" and have a penchant for one-of-a-kind shirts, singular prints, unusual "hawaiian" kinda things, so you might say I possess some degree of vanity... on that subject then, this Fortune piece from '96, a couple of book reviews, this from Slate & this from the NYT re hair, men's in particular, the long and the short of it (oh, & incidentally, that long hair link comes from this site) jessferdahalibut, we include this brief history of Saville Row and by no means have we exhausted the subject, go, do yr own google search on "male vanity" wear yourself out... one last item today, in the spirit of "lighten up Dude", Nick Park & the gang at Aardman Animation have long been faves of ours, and we were literally overjoyed to find Creature Comforts online @ Atom Films IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE WHEN YOU VISIT HERE, Watch Creature Comforts! essspacce...., I need esspacce....
2.14: i'm not in love, so don't forget it, it's just a silly phase i'm goin' thru...  for those of us spending the day alone...Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine; Elvis Costello, My Funny Valentine; Paul Desmond Quartet, My Funny Valentine & a fistful of v-day miscellanea cuz yours truly luvz ya... S.F. valentine's day zoology lesson valentine's day in a darwinian world Cintra on romance & reality break-up girl to the rescue women against men folks on fray on valentine's day valentine's day can bite me alt.suicide.holiday V-day survival kit b r u u u u u c e ! apologies to those of you w/bandwidth limitations...
~ ~ ~ 2.13: why show business is like politics... from the L.A. Times; Lies, Lying, and Liars and No, yours truly has not overlooked stated intent to needle el presidente & provide reminders to all & sundry of the buffoon/ary extant in la casablanca: Hitchens on why dubya can't read & for good measure, short attention span, dyslexia & blessed ignorance el presidente's idea of a work day
for the chocoholics amidst us... courtesy Slate, a chocolate tasting test and in re another kind of pleasure altogether, (& because tomorrow's u-know-what day): Blindside, erotica for the visually impaired altho am not at all sure what you can do about those hairy palms...
and the nominees are... announced this morning, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; & here are some related links for your pleasure: Variety's Academy Central; Oscarwatch.com; there's a whiff of the mercenary at hsx.com; Inside.com no doubt every cinema site out there will have something related, and that will include our very own movielover, as soon as we can get him distracted enough that he'll leave that poor gal's butt alone & get to work... pssssst.... i am winking right back at ya...
~ ~ ~ 2.12: itzacoldannawettaouttaheah yah, boye.... a largely wet weekend, some occasional showers on Sat & Sun, but rainy from the get-go this Am. Fine Fun All-star stuff on display yesterday afternoon, w/the Eastern Conference All-Stars coming back from 21 points down to win by 1. (the dunk-a-thon stunk up the house tho, B O R I N G !) and this reminder for y'all: it isn't about money or the number of hits you getting and knowing that, am feeling pretty damn good about myowndamnself... couldn't sleep, up early & messing w/stuff... hoping yours truly has not inadverdently 'caused very forgiving pal of ours any grief, 'cuz we know she got enough to deal w/out there... will be back later w/more quality linky-goodness, but for now you can enjoy a little conversation w/Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi (actually the symbol for Pi should go there but i canna find one to use) & Requiem for a Dream official sites here: Pi; Requiem for a Dream Oscar nominations being announced tomorrow, yours truly not overly excited by this but you're likely to find something soon at the movielover page commenting about the nominations, Nicholson in The Pledge, & some other cinema related stuff... fair warning now, we'll be back later...
~ ~ ~  2.11: 'da wizard iz buzy behinda scenes... come back later, we hope you find it worthwhile... (big howdy out there to the queen of the southland!) OOOH! wolfishness of 2.1 thru 2.6 is HERE first time here? then please go visit old lobo & old monkey-biz, & see what you been missin'
~ ~ ~ 2.9: damn... yours truly only worked two days this week but am still VERY GLAD it is friday... & in celebration, we offer up: Monkey Machine; certainly one of the burning issues of our time: Pop or Soda; more cartoony goodness: Space Moose; great heaping amounts of silliness abound at the comedy lab & then this last little odd item, something that showed up in the lobomail box: the mystic pixel forgive us, we cannot help ourselves sometimes, j. buckley & his guitar, live, from some years ago
~ ~ ~ 2.8: allowing myowndamnself brief respite from Bush watch... allow us to introduce the Rev. Al Green Strong As Death, Sweet As Love oh hell, i canna resist... el presidente's palm helper w/a hearty "Domo arigato" to GMT + 9
~ ~ ~ 2.6: yours truly is asking you to pay careful attention now,  particularly to this bullshit re Tax Cut proposed by el presidente... I wrote about my intentions to put together a great rant/hissyfit that'd be posted here but have reconsidered somewhat, a large part of the intended diatribe had to do w/ourselves as energy hogs, particularly those amongst us w/penchant for owning/driving the latest & shiniest in Behemoth technology, no matter that the farthest off-road they would ever get is likely to be that spot of dirt in the unpaved portion of the new shopping mall out on Rte 69. Oh, but that was only part of it, I had the intention of going on about this wasteful consumer culture, the crap we are being force-fed via the tv we watch, the newspapers and magazines we read, the advertising that is corrupting us w/desire for crap, crap, crap & MORE CRAP. TURN IT OFF, I intended to shout, STOP BUYING THE CRAP I wanted to scream..... & then sometime over the weekend yours truly realized how hopeless my endeavor is but instead of spinning downward descending into the bluefunk of unhappiness where i have already spent way too much time of late, thankyewvurrymuch I was allowed the company of a couple of friends whose support buoyed my spirits enough that the need to vent & rant passed, at least for the moment, & via this particular venue... SO- pardon the digression, but here we get back to the subject we originally intended to address: first a bit of backround from The Financial Times; this item from a little while back, but scarily prescient; something fairly recent from Citizens for Tax Justice; a Mr. S. Burns weighs in w/his opinion; something of an overview on recent broadcast media reporting on the tax cut issue; numbers, numbers, numbers: an economist's look at numbers juggling. yesss, agreed, yours truly is going on too long about this for some of our more attention-span impaired perusers so we wrap this Am's howl session w/these last couple of items (by the way, be sure to click on el presidente up there) first, you gotta remember that so far, they are a little better organized so we point you (once again) to these links: Write your Senator; Write your Congressperson; Write to el presidente (tho he'll not listen); & tell your friends, family, co-workers, all the various & sundry folk in your lives to pay attention... just a couple of leftover links, for good measure (jp always gives good count....): Tax Planet in re to another very scary plan of el presidente's Behemoth owner in your neighborhood driving you crazy??? FYI and to those truly optimistic ones out there, those of you raising kinder don't let your babies grow up to be g.w. bush
~ ~ ~ 2.5: later that same morning, & still in the mood... the problem w/being a moron & a dunderhead i'd be wishing someone'd type up a resignation to put in front of him but then we'd have a dangerous asshole in his spot instead... in the mood for a quickie, are you? yah, right, getouttaheah... the esteemed Molly Ivins, courtesy the fine minds at Backup Brain; saludos a mi hermanito K! followed thru on some linkage we posted here recently and came right back at me to point out this site & these items in particular; this to show we no johnny-come-lately (s'matter o'fact, we more like a johnnycomelastly...) and as reminder to make regular visits to MBRlinux for quality linky goodness like el presidente's weblog & (dammmn, we REALLY like this one) the supreme court bitchslap we leave you (for now) w/humorous bit sent along from our popz: When George W. Bush was asked whether he knew what Roe vs. Wade was, he replied it was the decision that George Washington needed to make when he planned for his army to cross the Delaware.
~ ~ ~ 2.4: sunday smorgasbord..  hoops related; Lupica on Spreewell, yours truly would have choked Carlesimo as well, sumbuddy please get that sucker offa nbc's nba coverage, & Yessssssss! the commish was payink attention...; it's fucking haunting me right now, & somewhat related, The Times on Bush's America; there's a certain inevitability 'bout this, s'only a matter of time & someone's money; okayokayokay, so now Sister Comosellama's no longer a prune-faced ol' hag & in the "oh No, not again" category, the forces of tiny-minds take another small victory enough of this for now, it's off to brekkie on a lovely sunday morn...
~ ~ ~ 2.3: oooohLaLa... college hoops at it's finest! UCLA beats Stanford (previously undefeated), 79-73 March Madness is comink! yours truly is still seeking... my depraved lifestyle occasionally leaves me adrift & longing... so this seems of some interest, possibly of some value & if i was a truly generous man, i'd send a copy to el presidente but i'm afraid the dolt wouldn't bother to read it, let alone comprehend it... oh yeah, while i'm at it, go read this  seven sites to start your saturday cabinet surprise subterranean notes diary of a slut scherzi & sospiri more like this no surrender yours truly was a very happy fella yesterday... when upon arriving home from long day on the killing floor at the SFChron we discovered an email message containing this link which, if you are a recent visitor, relates to lobo loco of 1.26 re that memo My thanks to BG for providing the link. It's up to the rest of us to keep paying attention...
~ ~ ~ 2.2: the weekend approacheth, & some sense of spring in the air... Late Breaking Addition: Why I love John Carroll & to get your weekend off to a nice start, here's Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette, from "Tokyo '96" Never Let Me Go put alongside the 2 versions we posted 1.29 thanks to pal Betsey C for letting me know 'bout the bad link... inspired by inquiry put to yours truly this AM by forgetful old gal in NC, we present you with another site to bookmark in your cinema list from dayz of yore, a salute to Friday Follies, from when the artist formerly known as dumbmonkey did his thing.. keenspot.com chickenhead mea maxima culpa
~ ~ ~ 2.1: be back to clean up this mess later, but for now, jp's in love w/a shiny blue grasshopper.. por quoi? you may be asking, well, there's this: Presidents' Day is coming up on February 19. In honor of our current President, please make a donation (however small) to a pro-choice organization, like Planned Parenthood. Then send a card to Bush saying: "President Bush, a donation has been made in your name to Planned Parenthood." And please forward this to your friends, family, co-workers, etc.so hie thyselves to the shiny blue grasshopper for all the details and the relevant addresses, and join in, because Yours Truly will be doing it....
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