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Homies. Photo by Vidalia.

• The Day in Misguided Priorities: “At present there are more American border patrol agents than soldiers in Afghanistan.”
• Just what the world needs: more advertising, less art.
• Just what my brain needs: psycho-killer trivia.
• From the Department of It-Seemed-Like-A-Good-Idea- at-the-Time: The cave paintings at Lascaux are being endangered by a ventilation system that was installed seven years ago.
• Art Criticism Quote of the Day: “It’s less a true nightmare than a bad dream after chili.”
• New Year’s pix by Bruce Gilden.
• Anaba has an informal survey on who moved merch during Art Basel in Miami.
• Where advertising, art and post-holiday sales intersect: Barbara Kruger, now on view at Selfridges department store.
• Guerrilla knitting.
• Ekosystem’s top street art flicks of 2007.
• New books: Street World, a 400-page tome documenting street art on five continents, and New York Noise, a photographic diary of the city and its artists in the days when you could still buy edible underwear in Times Square.
• At the Hayward Gallery, in London: More one-line gags than a Richard Prince exhibit.
• Hirst’s diamond skull to go on display in St. Petersburg.
• NYC museums are itching for a slice of the disputed Astor inheritance.
• On Sale Now: A historic modernist home by Jørn Utzon in Harpenden, England and a penthouse in Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein in Paris.
• Marion Mahony: The woman behind Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wasmuth Portfolio.
• Dork porn: The women of Star Trek.
• And speaking of places no man has gone before, a Trekkie is suing Christie’s for selling him a fake Star Trek prop.
• How to make your own laser cutter. (Via Ekosystem.)
• There’s nothing like a good North Korean march to get the day off to a good start.
• In Pasadena: David Gonzales, the creator of Homies, will speak at the Pasadena Museum of California Art on Sunday, January 6th.
• In Berlin: Made in Tehran at the Cicero Gallery.
• In Seoul: The Ann Demeulmeester boutique by Mass Studies.
• In NYC: Chuck Close at Film Forum and Lee Friedlander at the Met. (See a photo essay of the latter.)
• In Paris: Germany, the Dark Years, at the Musée Maillol.
• In Seattle: Ries Nemi at the Bellevue Arts Museum, in the final week.
• ¡Muchas gracias, compañeros! Thanks for the links, Regina Hackett at Art to Go, Paddy Johnson at AFC and Richard Lacayo at Looking Around (who also has the hunkiest headshot in the art blogosphere). What will I do with this newfound fame and respectability? Squander it senselessly, of course.
• Your moment of far-out 1960’s Swedish space rock.