alex keller - after six

I have been working on drawings combining my favorite Mexican deities with Sanrio-style art for quite a while. Now not only can you see the drawings but you can purchase crap with them on it, at https://www.cafepress.com/helloahpuch. Enjoy!

"...this segment, from (of all places) Sean Hannity & Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News, with Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith reporting from the NOLA convention center and the encampment on I-10. Shepard Smith reported that there were thousands of people still stuck on freeways and bridges, with no food or water, ignored there for days. Back in the studio, O’Reilly said that what they needed was a strong leader like Rudy Giuliani. Smith shot back that what they needed “on the first day was food and water and what they needed on the second day was food and water and what they needed on the third day was food and water.”

hello friends,

It is my pleasure to invite you to listen to another broadcast on Commercial Suicide, Austin's weekly experimental/art/new/noise/weird show. This week I will be doing a special 9/11 show with works by artists including Christopher DeLaurenti, Richard Lerman, Negativland, Krystov Penderecki, Bob Ostertag, and Steve Reich, among others.

Commercial Suicide can be heard on Austin's KOOP Radio 91.7 FM, on Sunday July 31 2005, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM central time.

If you are out of the Austin listening area you can check it out at http://www.koop.org/?page=streaming. You will need the free real audio player; if you do not have it instructions are available on the KOOP site.

Happy listening!

Alex

http://www.alexkeller.net

The new Panda Attack site is up. Along with two new songs (which haven't been mastered and may still just be early mixes) there are links to the MySpace page and the CafePress page, where you can now purchase Panda Attack shirts and other branded crap. Expect more merch offerings soon. I am working on a lunch box...!

so I spent last Sunday volunteering for the Red Cross at the Astrodome. It was overwhelming. Seeing the Dome packed full of people was just... there's no way to describe it.

We were trying to connect evacuees with people who were willing to house them; the overwhelming majority of evacuees wanted to stay in the Dome. It made sense: after losing everything they needed some space and time to plan the next move, and more transition wasn't welcome. Of course many of them were trying to connect with their families too and figured the Dome was probably the best place.

I have some photos on my phone that I will post when I get to it.

am writing from the astrodome, where i am helping place displaced families with hosts in houston. more details later.

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."




Q. How did this get so political so quickly?

A. Because it's been so badly mishandled.