Saturday in the dark

A video artist projected giant letters on the side of the new cathedral in Los Angeles: "YOUR AD HERE." Catholic officials not amused. But the best part of the story is that the artist is dissatisfied with his gig as a v.j. at raves:

It's a niche market. It's very subcultural, but it can be restricting. The audience is there to party and doesn't recognize what we're doing. There's a certain disconnect — a VJ is very much wallpaper."

Therefore:

"The only way to hit a lot of people is on the freeway."

The Guardian (U.K.) has an interview with Man Booker prize winner Kiran Desai. "If you spend that long working on one thing I think you become quite odd."

Badger: "Random thought on listening to music -- sparked a bit by Jam's talk about finding "poly appropriate music" i.e. anything with lyrics that don't ruin your polyamory mix tape by talking too much about jealousy or forever-fidelity. It's a hard task!"

Utterly hilarious piece in the Chronicle showing one of the new owners of the SF Armory -- a porn company bought the massive edifice -- walking around the new digs.

"I see tied-up girls, right here,'' Mogul said, standing in what was the soldiers' gymnasium. "You suspend them from these arches. This will be very cool."

In the boiler room: "You could put a girl right inside the boiler," he said. "Why not? It's a nice little chamber. You wouldn't have to change anything. It's already formidable looking. You don't have to build a fake dungeon; this building is already a dungeon."