South

A traditional pig slaughter in the Appalachians, staged by the photographer Shelby Lee Adams. Adams was heavily criticized for his stereotyping art work by Southern intellectuals, although the people on his pictures say they like working with him and choose to be represented in this way.
Shelby Lee Adams gallery


Seasonal greetings

habit has turned you into a smoked sausage
(in a beautiful Flemish dialect)


Religion in the public domain

Today the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) will present a publication entitled Geloven in het publieke domein: Verkenningen van een dubbele transformatie, about the current situation of religion in the Dutch public domain.
download this book (in Dutch - with some contributions in English)
more about religious transformation in the Netherlands: see the research program Between […]


Extreme Metal

Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
a book by Keith Kahn-Harris

see also his blog Metal Jew


me and Beavis

Beavis says he’s 17 years old and he wants to sell me Christmas cactus poison (what is that?!) and other fake things (crapadol anyone?). Beavis must be fake himself - but how can he possibly know that I’m that desperate?!
*Opens a can of smack and breaks a food taboo*


Chinese earphones

If our products have quality problem indeed, protection time for 6 months
(We make good trade)