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Observatory
Sunday I went here.Now, I've walked up there, and been around it when it had been in chains, but not been on the grounds or the building. Holy Crap. How was this so close and I'm not there all the...
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Poetry 2
popebuck1 pointed out Whitman in my last post about poetry, and really, how could I leave out Whitman, the great and mostly likely gay king of American ecstasy? Fred Hersch has a great piece/song cycle...
View ArticleOscars!
Catch the Smackdown before the big show tonight. MÂ¥ thoughts are included. Yay for marketing tools!
View ArticleWatchmen
Okay, this might be a **SPOILER ALERT**, but maybe not. If you've read the novel, you'll get this.Isn't Ozymandias' entire character based on a misreading of the poem? So, he's the smartest man in the...
View ArticleNOM Iowand
The NOM people have a link where you can write to the Iowa senators. I'm not sure I'll send from their website, since you have to give your address, but I did draft a letter, since it's so fun that you...
View ArticlePSA
I can't go, but Lynda Barry and Matt Groenig are speaking for free at the Hammer on Thursday. deets here
View ArticleBox office mojo for Milk
Mojo, indeed.Per screen average of over 40K, while the number one movie had 9K. Love it.
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Today's pictures
I don't have many pictures of myself, so a guy at work took these with his eye phones (OMG--I meant iphone and just saw that I typed that, but it's too hysterical not to keep in). I figured it was a...
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Anita O'Day
I borrowed the Anita O'Day doc from moroccomole and I can't quit listening to her. This Georgia Brown rendition is amazing. I guess she says it's the biggest thing that happened in her career. It's a...
View Article1969
Check me out over at the Supporting Actress Smackdown for 1969. Goldie HawnSusannah YorkCatherine BurnsSylvia MilesDyan CannonAnd once I find the cable that connects my camera, I can post the photos of...
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The Quilt
So I made my first quilt from upholstery sample books for my amazing grandmother, and here it is. I gave it to her on Saturday.Before the tying:Full finished version:Close up:And the monkey fabric,...
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Go see this!
Yesterday, I went to see The Little Dog Laughed at the Kirk Douglas theatre. Go if you can before it closes next week. I'm not kidding. Go. The play is about an agent who is trying to get her main...
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Natalie Toaster
So, I did an event a while back at this great old theater in Santa Barbara that was recently renovated. Their innaugural show was Natalie Cole. And I guess there was no paper or poster around, so Nat...
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....And we're back
Just in NM to visit my friend Brian and his partner Michael. They have a great new mid-century sixties house/complex near the University. They both had work deadlines, so I had much time to read and...
View ArticleGnerd
Sadly, It looks like Gnerd is already taken, meaning a geek and a nerd. I was thinking it would be more apt as a gay nerd, as in "You just got HD so you could watch the re-release of Sleeping Beauty?...
View ArticleSmackdown 45
Check out the 1945 Supporting Actress SmackdownAnd to prime yourself, watch the hysterical Carol Burnett parody
View ArticleGraveyard Book
Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book that just won the Newberry Medal The excerpt is great. More!!!
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Article 10
I friggin love Maira Kalman, and this art blog post "Inauguration at Last" in the NYT is so great. If you haven't read her book "The Principles of Uncertainty", you should--it's really wonderful, and...
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