Are you afraid of studying? Living in darkness? Fearful of pencils? Too exhausted to turn on the light?

Once I take this test on Saturday, I can teach you or your child to read. I'm not too worried except when I look at the website, which makes me want to check into a soothing facility.

The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale’s neck and shoulder blade, was probably made in New Bedford

Cetacean citation , courtesy of LB.

These are my real friends. They are people with jobs in their fields of interest.

When I couldn't sleep I was thinking about Miranda July's book No one belongs here more than you, which has a fabulous website created with a dry erase marker, a stove and a refrigerator. I was thinking what I love about the book is 1) a lot of the people in the book are alone; 2) characters are deeply affected by common phrases/normative speech; they say cheesy things with sincerity; they say exactly what they think they mean; often they say amazing things 3) characters seek out companionship in strange ways, seek out strange sex; nearly all of it feels real; 4) humor: we're screwed up; it's sad but funny. I was thinking, Mop the kitchen floor.

Kansas City

Steven Holl's addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City opened yesterday. I grew up a few blocks away. In April, I made a video of the Walter De Maria pool lighting the parking lot below.