Friday, April 18th

Chris Gaffney, 1950 - 2008

04.18.08 @ 23:34PDT

Thursday, April 17th

the utterer


"I'm unqualified in the ways visible to them,
and overqualified in the ways invisible to them."


Josephus the Utterer

04.17.08 @ 18:06PDT

Sunday, March 30th

Blaise Pascal


Our senses can grasp nothing that is extreme:
too much noise deafens us; too much light
blinds us; too far or too near prevents us seeing;
too long or too short is beyond understanding;
too much truth stuns us.


Blaise Pascal, 1670

03.30.08 @ 19:26PDT

Wednesday, March 19th

A.C.


"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."

03.19.08 @ 03:56PDT

Tuesday, March 18th

Great Gatsby


"They were careless people...they smashed up things
and creatures and then retreated back into their money
or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept
them together, and let other people clean up the mess
they had made...."

03.18.08 @ 13:01PDT

Thursday, March 13th

Oh and by the way....



According to mandatory disclosure forms filed by every presidential candidate,
Ralph Nader holds personal stock in both Wal-Mart and Halliburton.

03.13.08 @ 03:10PDT

Sunday, February 24th

just because....

02.24.08 @ 14:10PDT

Monday, February 4th

books!

"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them. "

-- Joseph A. Brodsky, 1991,
Russian-American poet, exiled 1972

02.04.08 @ 04:42PDT

Friday, February 1st

Machiavelli

All courses of action are risky, so prudence
is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk
and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition
and not mistakes of sloth.
Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

02.01.08 @ 02:11PDT

Friday, January 25th

more Tom Kelley


“If you’re looking for new ideas that don’t yet exist,
don’t talk to normal people because they’re just
consuming what is available today - find the weirdos
and see what they’re doing, what they’re making on
their own and say 'gee - is there something I can
mainstream from this'?”

01.25.08 @ 01:40PDT

Sunday, January 20th

A moment of respite

For those of you who are not completely sick of seeing my
art photography....I have been chosen as one of the "favorite
artists" of the month on the myartspace site.

You can see the portfolio here:

beth's new stuff

It is set up as a nice slideshow.

Cheers!

01.20.08 @ 11:24PDT

Thursday, January 17th

Jeanne Moreau

"To me the word 'pleasure' is more important than
the word "happiness'. It's easier to achieve than happiness.
It is specific."

01.17.08 @ 12:14PDT

Tuesday, January 8th

Gotcha!


A CONFUSED CONSUMER
IS A PROFITABLE CONSUMER

01.08.08 @ 02:54PDT

Monday, January 7th

Keep this in mind


"Some will rob you with a six-gun.
Some with a fountain pen."


Woodie Guthrie

01.07.08 @ 20:36PDT

Europe 1974



When you think about it objectively, it has so much more personality
than the serious mid-century stuff. Oh, the tryanny of "good taste"....

01.07.08 @ 01:00PDT

Wednesday, January 2nd

New Year in Amerika


Went to a swanky new year's day party, where everyone
complained about their / their friends jobs being outsourced.

I will never understand how big corporations think they can
fire and / or under-employ everyone and THEN EXPECT PEOPLE
TO HAVE MONEY TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS.

It is like heating your house with beams from its foundation.

01.02.08 @ 13:44PDT

Monday, December 31st

Blackwater hearts U


(this is a copy of the Christmas card that the psychopaths
at Blackwater sent out this year)

12.31.07 @ 00:14PDT

Thursday, December 13th

Carnival outside shopping mall, near Berlin

12.13.07 @ 16:36PDT

Monday, December 10th

back in the USA

12.10.07 @ 00:02PDT

Friday, December 7th

this is COMPLETELY FANTASTIC


I just saw a GREAT site called "Catalog Choice".
Its mission is to reduce the number of repeat / unsolicited
catalog (snail) mailings, and to promote the adoption of
sustainable industry best practices. Consumers indicate
which catalogs they no longer wish to receive, and businesses
receive a list of consumers no longer wanting to receive
their catalogs.


http://www.catalogchoice.org

12.07.07 @ 01:18PDT

Friday, November 30th

News from Oral Roberts University....


and NO this is NOT from the Onion,
though it really seems like it must be....


Roberts says God forced his resignation

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS,
Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 28, 6:50 PM ET

TULSA, Okla. -
Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University
Wednesday that he did not want to resign as president
of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but he did so
because God insisted.

God told him on Thanksgiving that he should resign the
next day, Roberts told students in the university's chapel.

"Every ounce of my flesh said 'no'" to the idea, Roberts said,
but he prayed over the decision with his wife and his father,
Oral Roberts, and decided to step down.

Roberts said he wanted to "strike out" against the people
who were persecuting him, and considered countersuing,
but "the Lord said, 'don't do that,'" he said.

After submitting his resignation, he said, for "first time in
60 days peace came into my heart."

Roberts spoke only for a few minutes and was applauded
and cheered by students. He wiped away tears with a
white handkerchief and his hands.

"This has nearly destroyed my family, and it's nearly
destroyed ORU," Roberts said.

A lawsuit accuses Roberts of lavish spending at a time when
the university faced more than $50 million in debt, including
taking shopping sprees, buying a stable of horses and paying
for a daughter to travel to the Bahamas aboard the university jet.

Roberts has previously said that God told him to deny the allegations.
The week the lawsuit was filed, Richard Roberts said that God told him:
"We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit
against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not.
This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."

On Wednesday, Roberts said God told him he would "do something
supernatural for the university," if he stepped down from the job
he held at the 5,700-student school since 1993.

On Tuesday, the founder of a Christian office and education supply
store chain pledged $70 million to help the university, provided it
passed a 90-day review of the school's finances. Oklahoma City
businessman Mart Green, founder of the Mardel chain, offered to
donate $8 million immediately.

Roberts said he would return to the full-time evangelistic healing
ministry, "which is where my heart has always been," and told
students and faculty that he will be praying for them every day of his life.

"I believe with all my heart the best is yet to come for ORU," he said.

Roberts walked out of the chapel through a side door to more cheers.
Regents Chairman George Pearsons followed, telling students the ORU
administration is "endeavoring to do the right thing" during a very difficult time.

"This is a good university," Pearsons said. "ORU is a place where love is king."

Roberts remains the CEO of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and
remains a "spiritual regent" who cannot vote on university matters.

On Tuesday, Pearsons announced a plan to separate the finances and
leadership of the university from the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association,
a move welcomed by many students and faculty members.

The university has been under the ministry since its inception in 1963,
an arrangement that critics say led to co-mingling of funds and a blurring
of leadership roles.

11.30.07 @ 14:10PDT

Thursday, November 29th

Yes, this IS what they are obsessed with in Germany....


Berlin, 11/07

11.29.07 @ 15:05PDT

Monday, November 26th

Perished in WW2

11.26.07 @ 16:15PDT

Monday, November 19th

AP 22
Two of my images have been accepted into the upcoming
American Photography annual.

The competition was juried by Kathy Ryan, Peter Buchanan-Smith,
James Danziger,and Jason Fulford.

That doesn't suck!

11.19.07 @ 22:35PDT

Wednesday, November 14th

Translation:


The newly popular term "Animal Friendly" seems
to be a cute excuse to sell shit to consumers.
Such clothing items are hot in the summer, cold in
the winter, AND DO NOT DISINTEGRATE IN LANDFILLS.

Think.

11.14.07 @ 07:02PDT

Tuesday, November 13th

Avedon


Avedon wrote that "a photographic portrait
is a picture of someone who knows he's being
photographed, and what he does with this
knowledge is as much a part of the photograph
as what he is wearing or how he looks."

11.13.07 @ 10:22PDT