Gloss

There’s nothing special about the chicken itself — schematic linear outline, on a yellow background. (Yellow is the standard chicken eatery color.) It’s the eggs she’s laying, dollar bill eggs, in solid green no less, that makes her a lucky chicken.

George McGovern gets all op-ed ad hominem on Dick Cheney:

“On second thought, maybe it’s wise to keep Cheney off the battlefield — he might end up shooting his comrades rather than the enemy.”

Snap!

Has everybody read Calvin Tomkins’s profile of Jeff Koons in this week’s New Yorker by now? I love that Michael Govan is going to get that giant steam engine built at LACMA—it’ll be an Eiffel Tower (Govan’s words) for the LA skyline. This has to be the greatest waste of $20 million dollars ever that wasn’t connected to a war or an executive pay package. (It can even go over budget by $4.9 million and still come in under the Citigroup Chief Executive Charles O “Jobcuts” Prince III’s pay for just last year.) As if the artist needed it, this steam engine confirms, to misquote Jack Donaghy, that “[Jeff Koons] is the greatest [artist] since the Pharoahs.” Read the rest of this entry »

I am probably one of the last people to come across the new Miranda July web site, no one belongs here more than you, that she put up for her new book.

Related: July also has a dead blog, about her movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know.