February 2012
An Ann Arbor high school student’s online petition... →
ohrohin:
So awesome.
This is all so silly. The Weinsteins could have released this movie unrated and it could have, and probably would have, been screened in high schools all over the damn place, because they are the Weinsteins and they can afford to do that if that’s what they want to do. Instead they’re trying to turn publicity for their topically-timed documentary into a Really...
“Ultimately, the question comes down to whether one’s notion of free trade...”
– Do you ever have a ton of work to do and then stop for five minutes to read an article and then realize that you made a terrible, terrible mistake because there is something horrible going on in the world that you didn’t know about and which you are just going to dwell on for the rest of the...
The article I just turned in was 228% as long as...
I’ve never done anything like that before. Eek?
“Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE (born 7 March 1944),...”
– I think I have found the most stereotypically English person outside of fiction.
So this exists. →
Although the website is less amazingly crazy than I expected it to be, honestly.
“The Public Policy Polling survey found 26% of Americans have a favorable view of...”
– Rhode Island: as mysterious as Idaho to most Americans.
“The RI ACLU reported today that, after six months, “an embarrassingly small...”
– I still want to start a drive-through gay wedding chapel in Attleboro.
Friday morning I was on a panel...
…at Brown, called Queer Blogging Cultures. In it I talked about how I started blogging, and why and when and for whom. There was some good discussion with the other bloggers (Sarah Dopp and Krista Burton) and I talked about personal blogging as activism, about managing your various online personas, about having an image-driven Tumblr that’s way more popular than the blog where I...
“his prospects of finishing the season in New York were dim sum.”
– This “comedy” article about the Republican Party looking at New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin is really dumb (as in, even as a joke it easily could have been condensed into one sentence found in the ninth paragraph.)
But I still thought it was worth pointing out that the above...
I feel silly voting in the New England Art Awards,...
Since Boston and for that matter Portland are completely unfamiliar to me, artwise, with one or two exceptions, this was basically an excuse to just vote for things in Providence that I liked. (And even that just made me feel dumb about the shows I didn’t get to… Sorry, Brian and Jung!)
But, in case you were wondering what nominated things I actually liked:
Mothers News Arley-Rose...
Things At Brown I Might Want To Go To This...
1. Kate Fox, author of Watching The English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior, is giving a talk called “Writing Popular Anthropology” tomorrow at 4.
2. Neil LaBute is screening Your Friends and Neighbors and then doing a reading afterwards on Wednesday.
3. Nostalgia Machines at the Bell Gallery is coming down after this weekend. It’s really good, and I’d like to go...
Eleven Things About The Grammys That Probably The...
1. Adele’s nails!
2. At first I just assumed that the priest in the Nicki Minaj thing was either Brian Wilson or Glen Campbell.
3. Providence has a drag queen named Princess Pearl who looks more or less exactly like Joe Walsh.
4. While I appreciate popular culture acknowledging the existence of South Asians, I still do not get the appeal of Bruno Mars. He’s such a drama queen, and...
Songs I remember playing last night, more or less...
Grace Jones, She’s Lost Control Killing Joke, Love Like Blood Barracudas, Don’t Let Go Divinyls, Boys In Town Sisters of Mercy, Adrenochrome Friday Bridge, Eyes Without A Face Romeo Void, Myself to Myself Magnetic Fields, The Desperate Things You Made Me Do —This worked less well than I expected it to. The Flirts, Passion Beborn Beton, The Color of Love Coil, The...
Since last we spoke...
…we’ve sent Headmaster no. 3 off to the printer, okayed the proofs, and announced another five of the ten artists featured in this issue. (Alan Cumming, Chris Ironside, Ivan Lozano, Gabriel Martinez and Walker Mettling, if you were wondering.)
In the meantime, on my NSFW gay Tumblr I’m still counting down the 100 Hottest Men Ever—I’m in the mid-sixties...
My One-Volume Madonna Singles Best-Of
Chronologically:
Burning Up Material Girl Angel Dress You Up Papa Don’t Preach Open Your Heart Causing A Commotion Like A Prayer Cherish Deeper and Deeper Bad Girl Bedtime Story Human Nature Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Miami Mix) Ray of Light The Power of Good-bye Beautiful Stranger Don’t Tell Me Die Another Day Nothing Fails Sorry
“Outside of films produced by the small number of black filmmakers and the rare...”
– —George Lucas?!
Touré’s article about The Help and the role of the magical negro is pretty interesting.
“whatever the opposite of ’search engine optimization’ is, you’ve nailed it.”
– Please ProJo, Fix Your Website
“Granoff announced that, in addition to new retail spaces, the re-branded Arcade...”
– I just can’t help feeling that this plan to renovate America’s oldest shopping mall is the dumbest idea imaginable. I mean at least they gave up on the idea of turning it into a box store or whatever the hell the last plan was.
($550 a month for no kitchen plus god knows what in...