Someone at Dark Odyssey reminded me that Pearl was a woman who did the wooing.
Smooching Sims
For those of you who haven’t ever seen The Sims in action, here’s a video of a New Pornographers song made entirely with Sims.
Week 7: Buster Film Fest
Today at Film Fest, Buster Keaton in The Cameraman and Spite Marriage. The Cameraman is one of the few Buster films shot in NYC, and is great for anyone interested in vintage footage of 1920s New York – it’s also one of the last best Buster Keaton performances of this era. Spite Marriage has one singularly brilliant scene, of newlywed Buster putting a very, very drunk wife to bed.
Queer Carnival
Last month I discovered something called The Carnival of Bent Attractions, which was hosted this past month at A Delicate Boy’s blog, and I’m a part of it.
Do check out some of the other posts that were highlighted as part of this month’s Carnival, because there’s a lot of interesting stuff there, like Jay Sennett’s stuff on MWMF, the woman who reports on why her gay friends thinks it would suck to be straight, Nina Smith on the economics of lesbian motherhood, and those lovely feminists in Wales on the intersection of queer & feminist politics.
Half-Empty: Helen Gets Cable, Pt. 1
Betty finally talked me into getting cable, so expect more cranky blogging than usual for a while, at least until I figure out how to turn off the tv.
Just now, on VH-1’s “I Love the 90s, Part Deux” (hey, was this what I was missing? how nutty of me not to have wanted cable before now! what quality!!) they mentioned that Demi Moore was “gender bendering” in that GI Jane movie.
Genderbendering? Hello? How much do those people get paid that they couldn’t work out the verb form of genderbender?! Oy.
Hey, VH-1, the verb form is “genderbending.” Kinda simple now that you see it, isn’t it? I tell you what: you can pay me half whatever you paid the numbnut who wrote that bit and I won’t fuck it up.
Macho Homosexuals
I came across an old article in Salon about Tom of Finland and I thought perhaps some of you didn’t know how it came to be that (male) homosexuals are sometimes assumed to be macho. I came to know Tom of Finland‘s art because the infamous Sex boutique sold (amongst other things) a t-shirt of his gay cowboys drawing, which was worn by Johnny Rotten and of course by Adam Ant.
WIMN Radio
Greenstone Launches All-Women Radio Talk Network
(I’ve always wanted to be a DJ.)
Week 6: Buster Film Fest
Today at Film Forum, Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality, with Cops, The Playhouse, and Convict 13.
Our Hospitality is required for anyone interested in the Hatfield-McCoy feud – comically done. Cops is good for anyone who likes the Keystones, of course, and so is Convict 13. But The Playhouse is a bit of film-making genius – and yet another instance of Buster in drag.
Literary Menstrual Hut
This recent article by Michelle Tea in the SF Bay Guardian made me laugh, since I’m being published by Seal Press as well – and I can’t say the words “menstrual hut” ever crossed my mind.
But “literary” did. As did “trans friendly.” My experience with Seal so far has been stellar, to be honest, and I feel much as I did when I decided not to work for most straight male clients when I do my freelance bookkeeping (which I should write more about one of these days): it’s just such a pleasure to work with a bunch of kick-ass women.
Moreso, I just wanted to point out how hip Seal has been about publishing interesting trans books, like The Testosterone Files, Nobody Passes (edited by Mattilda), She’s Such a Geek (edited by Charlie Anders & her partner), Julia Serano‘s upcoming manifesto, and my book. In a nutshell, Seal’s trans titles are becoming a Who’s Who of the 30-something trans generation, no? And you’ll notice, too, that these feminists include both FTM and MTF narratives in their trans collection, just as they should.
Week 5: Buster Film Fest
Today at Film Fest, Buster Keaton’s College, The Love Nest, The Goat, & The Scarecrow.
A very happy Labor Day to everyone.