HAPPY HORROR FEST: LOOKING FOR BLOOD IN SAN FRANCISCO???

Are you feeling lost and horny and unsure about where to find that perfect someone in San Francisco this Friday????

BROOKLYN HALLOWEEN 08 : TODD P THROWS DANBRO STUDIOS WAREHOUSE PARTY W/ MATT & KIM, PONYTAIL, DMBQ AND MORE!!!

Halloween is always a difficult holiday to account for.  Doing the day justice usually requires a bit of planning, something lots people have a hard time with. Even when facing mundane and simple routines, such as hygiene maintenance and sleeping, we seem to always find excuses to postpone.  Often, this results in people making last [...]

JOAN DIDION AND THE STATE OF AMERICA

In light of the election next week, I give you Joan Didion’s latest essay on the state of America. The essay comes from the New York Review of Books and their website offers more essays on the state of America.

SWIM POETRY: ARA SHIRINYAN “HANDSOME FISH OFFICES”

Recently at 21 Grand in Oakland, I heard Ara Shirinyan implement the cut-up literary convention popularized by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, into a tank full of tropical fish and chopped up catalogs – the result is a hilarious portrayal of 21st Century Cichlid lovers entitled “Handsome Fish Offices” published by Insert Press.

HOT AND SWEATY: Hello Kate!!

Brazil is one of the hottest/sweatiest places on Earth and has been known to create some of the best porn (ass is really cheap in Brazil, similar to Eastern European countries, so wealthy countries often go to Brazil and bring back XXX footage that often makes the most devout among us proud) and dance music [...]

Atomic Waste (of time) : Doctor Atomic At The Metropolitan Opera, a review

I must begin by stating that I had never been to The Metropolitan Opera before seeing Doctor Atomic, however, the amount of theatre (especially of the musical sort) that I have attended in my life is pretty vast considering my age and heterosexuality. I was a theatre major in high school and again in college [...]

Blooper Conneseurism

Let’s face it: youtube is astoundingly more vast than all reality television combined. We all know you can easily find such wonderful tid-bits as ‘girlfights,’ , skate-boarding clips , long lost music videos from the 80s to put on your myspace ‘about me,’ and episodes of shows from Ab Fab to X-men (the animated series). [...]

GIVING VOICE TO QUEER BODIES: TIM MILLER

Currently the United States of America is one of the last Western Countries to refuse universal health care, refuse rights to GLBT citizens, continually invade other countries, has the largest prison system in the world plus many more examples of using atrocities to try and maintain economic security. Unfortunately many Americans are caught on a [...]

Teen Witch Revisited: “Broadway Bound” Musical and Disney Channel Remake In The Works

Earlier this week when I posted my previous Teen Witch post, I had absolutely no idea that there were plans for not one, but two different Teen Witch related projects actually in the works. 

LOST IN AMERICA: SCOTT HEIM’S “WE DISAPPEAR”

“We Disappear” is Scott Heim’s latest new book. In case you are not familiar with Scott Heim, he is best known for his novel “Mysterious Skin” which was made into a movie with the help of director Gregg Araki.