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• In parts of the new Gursky show, fashion plates are stuck in the middle of Formula One scenes. The photos are, as always, so shiny. (at Matthew Marks)
  
  
• "I'd like to unintend her consequences." (Citizen Truth)
  
  
• Miranda July + Blonde Redhead video. (via Ed, via another Ed, apparently.)
  
  
• "Mayor Plans an All-Hybrid Taxi Fleet." (NYT)
  
  
• Tord Boontje talks, lights my living room. (Artkrush)
  
  
• Oregon Trail online?! I can't get it to work, but I hope you can. (via Zach Klein)

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Vik Muniz + David Byrne = two components of a dream dinner party even before I read this post.

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Concept cabs. (NYT)

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• LA art? Not my scene. (NYT)


• Today, little appeals to me less. (NYM)


• I love this vase. And this. Because sometimes other people's dishes are dirty. (Fred)


• This is sad. And a little confusing. But it's tangentially about Levittown, so I'm in. (NYM)


• Hey, hot shot, you should apply. (Jen Bekman Gallery)


• I'm about to buy a pair of glasses. This method, a new low. (Ebay)

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- Sufjan Stevens defines Friend Rock. (Finally. And from a performer, yet.) Speaking of the genre, I'd be a bad friend if I didn't tell you that on Sunday night, you should be here. (AK)

- Jonathan Lethem's You Don't Love Me Yet is out. There was a party at Bookcourt Tuesday (mid)night. The crowd, community-based, which is sort of cheesy, in a really sweet, supportive way. The Night Time (another fine example of Friend Rock) played an acoustic version of an appropriately cheesy/sweet rock-out song they recorded at Lethem's request. We got mix cds made by a character in the book. (Echoing his Promiscuous Materials Project is Lethem's generous offer -- titled "freelove" on his website -- of the rights to adapt this story too. I'd love to ask him to sit on a panel on art and copyright. With David Byrne? Who else?)

- Rachel Sklar sends a message to snark-for-the-sake-of snark, stands up for girls. Admirable move, Ombudsblogger. (ETP)

-"People can consciously suppress laughs, but few can make themselves laugh convincingly." (NYT)

- The World, Explained. (826NYC)

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• THINGS WE DON’T UNDERSTAND AND DEFINITELY ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT is "a tale of heartbreak and obsession that is so familiar you could tell it yourself." And Miranda July is, as always, spot-on and gorgeous. (The Kitchen)


• On Wednesday night, at Union Hall, I saw Changing Your Life One Song At A Time, a super bill made up of: Tim Fite (uh, who knew there was more talent in Little-T than the magic that created Shaniqua?), Will Kidman/Woolly Leaves (such sweet strum-y songs), and Marla Hansen (who turns the viola on its side, literally, and to beautiful effect, and who was backed on two songs by "Steve Stevens." If she wasn't so great, her joke and her giggle about that allonym -- and her own: Marla Maples -- might have stolen the show).


• Not a short trip: SA goes to Iraq, tomorrow. (THFTNR)


• The Vegas Diner is closed by the Board of Health on the same day that it was featured in The Village Voice (in a story by CZ and beneath a photo by me). CZ closed a chapter with the VV this week too. We're proud of her. (VV)


• I like Libertine. I like the copies I've made (with stamps and lots of newspaper spread on top of my kitchen table) of Libertine clothing even more. And now, a Target line. (I doubt there will be a down-market version of the Libertine/Goyard collaboration, though.) (RADAR)


• Ceci n'est pas un cab part two. (NYT)

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• I'm not finding any of this to be "a hoot." A fascinating indicator of some odd need to pretend to integrate fashion-speak/standards into security-wear, but not a hoot. (TNR)
• Marc Jacobs mulls Marc3, makes me a happy girl. (IHT)
• Don't be sad; we didn't discover Sunny's either. Here's to bluegrass society meetings in the backroom. (NYT)
• The new New York Ghost features Toni Schlesinger and a mail-in offer from a seamstress! Sign up! Sign up! (NYG)