We have some open file directories here at blog central and in the spirit of the '90s web don't mind having a few images circulating around. This isn't a license for some lazy web designer to hotlink an animation for a heavily-trafficked commercial site. Our research team has discovered one such malfeasor and the .gif URL has been changed twice. Do it again, Mr. or Ms. Highly Unoriginal, and your clients will have an amusing surprise the next time that image is loaded. (This appears to be a legit business, not your run of the mill bandwidth scarfer.)
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site bugs
Apologies if you are seeing strange code at the top of the page or experiencing any other site difficulties. I am attempting to upgrade to a higher version of Word Press and it may take a few days to get things straightened out.
Update: It appears my RSS feeds aren't valid, either.
Update 2: I think the feeds are fixed.
zinger
from a review by J. E. Barnes of Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head:
Pinchbeck's trials and tribulations while under the influence of a variety of hallucinogens in both familiar and isolated parts of the world are often unintentionally hilarious, even as they suggest a fatally careless tendency in his nature. During one session in the East Village "organized by a couple from California," the author and several others ingest yagé after being provided with "Adult Depends diapers" and "plastic buckets for vomiting." In fact, so many people vomit in Breaking Open the Head that readers will expect to find Vomiting listed in the index.
New York Conversation
Dealer: "Do you think being young and good looking has anything to do with the success of an artist?"
Artist: "It shouldn't. For an actor or ballet dancer, maybe, but a painter isn't always going to be standing next to his work while it's being evaluated."
Dealer: "You're not a bad looking man. Are you saying this because deep in your heart you wonder if you could have been just a little better looking, you could have made it?"
Artist: "I'm saying it because it's true, unless you've found a way to graft an artist to a canvas as a permanent sex object."