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Advice for biters. (Photo by otherthings.)

Yes, I’m still steamed at the Milli Vanillis at the L.A. Times: Super gracias to Time’s Richard Lacayo for the kind words. Also, many, many thanks to Freese, Small Drawings, Hrag Vartanian, ‘Bout What I Sees and Making a Mark for drawing attention to this ridiculosity. In the meantime, if anyone would like to help me help the Times come up with a new name for their blog, please leave your suggestions here. xox, C.

• Become an artist. Make money while doing nothing.
• Palin-palooza: The Sarah Palin baby name generator (via Marc John’s Twitter), Tina Fey as Palin and the AP reports that Palin got all sorts of freebies as Wasilla’s mayor. Juicy!!
• Related: Hatchets and Skewers has a post about right-wing art. And the Museum of the Moving Image has an online archive of presidential campaign commercials.
• 6 yellow bags. (Via Eyebeam.)
• “The umbrella of post-modernism is wearing thin.” (Via Hrag.)
• Lacayo on Francis Bacon at the Tate: “It brings almost five decades of Bacons together into a kind of collective cry, one that makes you realize how rare it is to see contemporary art that attempts, much less achieves, a genuine tragic dimension.”
• LACMA continues its architectural path towards fine art mall: they’re getting another pavilion. More here.
• The art industrial average is low.
• And what the world needs now is another hole in the head a new art fair: Art Asia will debut during Miami Basel.
• A round-up of those works-on-paper that Lehman CEO Dick Fuld and his wife are putting up for auction. Related: Yves Saint Laurent’s collection to go up for sale in Paris next year.
• Flop sweat: Urban art auction in London is a stinker, part of which may have had to do with the fact that Banksy refused to authenticate some of the works (via A.J.). Part of which may have had to do with people not wanting to buy overpriced art in this economy. More here. Plus: Stop the presses, Banksy is in SoHo.
• MoMA’s Glenn Lowry tops the pay list for nonprofit arts chiefs, with a salary that checks in at $1.7 million.
• Something strange is afoot in that show on terrorism that the Chelsea Museum cancelled. AFC reports in one and two parts.
• A gnarly slideshow of Tara Donovan’s sculptures.
• An interview with S.F. Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker in one and two parts.
• The Guardian has a round-up of damage suffered by art at the National Gallery, the Tate and the V&A. The best one: Someone upchucked on Carl Andre’s Venus Forge in 2007.
• Todays’ graff: Aorta and Banjaluka in Bosnia.
• NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ourosoff wants to tear down a bunch of stuff, including the newly revamped Lollipop Building.
• MoMA is getting into real estate: two of the homes from the pre-fab show are up for sale. (Via A.O.)
• Herzog & de Meuron unveil a design for a triangular tower in Paris, a schematic that bears an uncanny resemblance to North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom.” 
• R.I.P. Paul Newman.
• Your moment of…a little ditty for my colleagues at the L.A. Times, courtesy of the irrepressible Yvonne Conasse.