Happy Holidays To You

Note: A.A.(P.) will resume publishing in the New Year.

Sincerely,

"Allan Smithee"

postscript: And Thanks Again for reading Automotive Acne (Productions)

Holiday Recipes

Jalepeno Rice with Cheese

Saute' in oil: 1 cup white rice, until clear. Do not brown. Add 2 cups cold water, salt, wedges of 1 onion, 1 clove garlic, sliced. Cook until fluffy. In oiled Pyrex (I use a 2 qt round) but probably any will do, put one layer of rice, one layer of sour cream and top with shredded Monterry Jack cheese. Bake at 350 until hot and cheese is bubbly.

mix the sour cream with a small can of sliced chili peppers for some good zip!!!

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Cheese Straws

2 jars of Olde English sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 lb butter
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp red pepper (cayenne) I usually add more

Mix cheese with softened butter. To this, add dry ingredients and mix together well Put into cheese gun (I use the disk)
and squirt out onto oiled cookie sheet. Bake in oven (300 degree?) until they look dry. DO NOT BROWN!!!


Note: Requested Recipes from my Mother. Not known where they were originally published.

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Friday - 3 Link Digest

Charles Krauthammer: On Left, The Agony Of Victory

"Most Democrats aren't smart enough to understand the political coup Obama pulled off with the tax-cut deal."


Dana Milbank: Obama Finds His Backbone

"Even though the President is fighting them right now, Liberals should be relieved. His next battle may be on their behalf."


Leonard Boasberg: Tax Deal A Defeat For Obama And The Public

"Once again, the President gives away a lot for a little."


Previously:

Tom Tomorrow Editorial


Another Round: Heard in the (Local) Hall

She's Not Used To Pulling Punches

Monday's Meal

Dec. 13th

12 oz. can of beer
16 oz. can of Yuengling Premium
2 pints of Rolling Rock (*)
liverwurst on toasted rye bread with mustard/onion/cheese
pickles on the side
16 oz. can of Yuengling Premium

(*) plus one additional pint

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Studio Visit With Alex Da Corte

In Collaboration with Fleisher/Ollman Gallery



Brideshead 2010 - Plastic china, ribbon, silicon, flowers, flock, flies, basket, beads

Just visited Alex Da Corte's studio with about 15 other people. There were about 20 assemblages (sculptures) in various stages of completion. Very strong work.

Was there for about 45 minutes. Had a cup of coffee and lots of laughs. His work has a wonderful sense of humor... left the studio with a very positive feeling.


Addendum/Postscript: After thinking about the Sat. studio visit, kept trying to remember where I had met Alex Da Corte and seen his artwork before. Just remembered, saw his one-day Pinata Piece at ICA a few years back and had a short conversation with him just before this video was taken.

Note:

Alex Da Corte will be in group show opening Dec. 16th at Jolie Laide Gallery (Philadelphia)

Manifesto for a Margin of Utility

The dearth of critical voices in the current aesthetico-political matrix serves as a silent imperative to all of those who strive to articulate an alternative set of aesthetic, political and theoretical practices. The silence of this imperative resounds with increased urgency in times of a consensual progressivism intent on meager reformism, which is nothing short of a brief distraction in the obdurate apology for the systems in place. It is the explicit goal of the Machete Group to give voice to the resounding silence of this imperative by breaking with the dominant social and political imaginary through the creation of public forums for articulating alternative collective discourses and practices. We hold these truths to be the most worthy of being put to the test of collective actualization:

- theory without practice is empty and practice without theory is blind

- the present is only a myopic mirage if it is not inscribed in history, and it is devoid of interest if it is not interrogated from the point of view of possible futures

- the facile opposition between an absolute revolution and acquiescence to the present state of affairs is a mere subterfuge that plays into the hands of revolutionary nostalgics and the corporate executors of the present

- aesthetic practice is inseparable from political stakes, and politics constructs regimes of perception that shape the world and frame its possibilities

- works of art are not autonomous instances of creativity originating in a subjective void but are decisive modes of intervention into the shared fabric of our world

- artistic and theoretical practices are not exempt from incisive critique and must not be protected by the superficial niceties of good taste or the debilitating accoutrements of socially refined behavior

- education is a collective and dynamic process unrestricted to the formal hierarchies and bureaucracies of academic corporations

- it is imperative to jettison quietism and indifference in the name of cutting into the present and assuming the consequences of one’s position, with all of the requisite exclusions that such a commitment entails

- there is a margin of utility that can and must be made use of!


The Machete Group

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