Everything changed nothing
The children dressed in dreams
Culture craves corruption
Sunlight likes to scream


Adrienne Funk, Recycle, 2008

* Drag City has posted scans of David Berman's drawings/lyrics relating to Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. [via]

* From Harper's June 2008:

-- Minimum number of U.S. Army generals fired or replaced for cause during World War II: 23

-- Number during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined: 1

-- Pages of ads that a company must buy each year in Good Housekeeping in order to win its seal of approval: 1

-- Chance that a French man aged 18 to 24 is "uninterested in sex," according to a government study: 1 in 5

-- Percentage of Republicans and Democrats, respectively, who believe in Hell: 69, 52

-- Percentage of independents who do: 45

* Check out this fantastic short film by Blu: "an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden."

* On June 7 I will be running in the Kormen National Race for the Cure as part of Team Martha. Whether you know Martha or not, please consider donating to this excellent cause. You can donate here. Thanks.

* "I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." -- Andrew Wyeth