michael page paintings

Opening
this saturday at Varnish
77 natoma

7-11 pm

somehow

dreadful sorry about all that
cant be held responsible
for your lack of
centrifugal awareness

the unredeemed still
seek sustenance amongst
chimps with spears

moving back in time
with flourescent bars and coffee tables
cracked and written on

leaning toward the violin she was
not very clear about
what was going on
and the tv was still on

fighting with a latte and trying
to perceive fashions dormant
blow she wound
up wearing only
what she could steal

if we should argue
was our mantra
we didn't look for self portraits
but were them

somehow fortune cookies were
involved
and shwag

Switzerland accidentally invades Liechtenstein

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

''We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem,'' Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.

Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.

Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. ''It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something,'' he said.

Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.