December 2011
57 posts
Fred Savage has always freaked me out. I dunno.
“Men, heterosexual men, don’t tend to make excuses for women and find reasons to...”
– Emily Gould
“You think ONE of my MANY transvestite friends would have told me...”
– Lance Bass (I can’t even.)
NEEDING IT:
PERFORMANCE IN THE QUEER COMMUNITY TRADITION
with Dan Fishback
Tuesdays | February 28 – April 10
BAX/BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE (421 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn, NY)
no class on March 20, additional class on Wednesday, March 14
7:00 – 9:00 pm
FREE
Class will be capped at eight participants. By application only | see below for application instructions applications are due January...
I have a lot of very passionate Obama apologists in my life, with whom I am always arguing. Some of them are probably reading this. And to you, I ask, how am I supposed to feel about my community-organizer president when he obliterates our civil rights? Like: really? I’m not saying I won’t vote against a Republican. But come freaking on. Please don’t give me any...
I’m on the hunt for a FEROCIOUSLY TALENTED AND PRO-ACTIVE INTERN for the coming semester. Know anyone spritely and young and looking to learn? Someone who knows how to use computers way better than me? Then please pass this along:
Performance Artist Seeks Intern: I’m looking for a zesty intern to help with various projects in the upcoming season. In the Winter/Spring of 2012, I...
WatchI don’t trust Hillary Clinton for a second, but I am very impressed by her speech-writing team, and this frank, practical, and long-overdue speech about international queer rights.
I liked the way she talked about queer people in the U.S.:
I speak about this subject knowing that my own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Until 2003, it was still...
From today’s New York Times:
Specifically, Mr. Obama said in the memorandum that the State Department would lead other federal agencies to help ensure that the government provides a “swift and meaningful response to serious incidents that threaten the human rights” of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people abroad.
It was not immediately clear whether that would mean a cut-off...
"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught"
My old, old, old, old, old, old friend César Alvarez (of The Lisps) just posted an essay called “In Defense of The Musical.”
One of his main ideas is: “The Musical is a FORM, not a GENRE.”
He smartly points out that people conflate the STYLE of classic musicals with the EXISTENCE of musicals, shutting themselves off to the wide-open possibilities of the form. He...
WatchI think this is aces.
Clap Your Hands
I found a copy of a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album at the Cheese On Bread compound, and I put it on while I was doing computer work, cause I’d never listened to them before, even though people used to talk about this band like nonstop… when was that, 2007? I cannot believe this was popular. I don’t know if I think it’s bad? I just can’t believe so many people heard...
While I’m flying to Los Angeles tomorrow (Today? Today. Saturday, December 3rd), a DVD of the final performance of “thirtynothing,” shot by Laura Terruso and edited by Buzz Slutzky, will be screened at The New School, as part of this amazing symposium about literature and AIDS. Max will be there as well, in person, as well as some other people. Oh I don’t know if...
“Erin is female, so she has this body you spin around poles for cash, but she’s...”
– Michelle Tea, writing about Erin Markey (YES!)