It’s still World AIDS Day. What used to be the day without art. The National Portrait Gallery has pulled a David Wojnarowicz piece it was showing. Not because they wanted to dramatise the loss of a generation of artists that AIDS caused, but because professional bigots and opportunistic politicians began complaining. As it was decades… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: anger
Fuck You, New York Times Real Estate Section
I watched this happen ten years ago to my old neighborhood, Fort Greene. It’s the beginning of the end for the neighborhood. Now will come the weekends of people wandering the streets “getting a feel for the area” and then the one of the big realtors will swoop in and then comes the pricing escalation… Continue Reading
Introducing the rantlet…
Listening to Grace singing “Bullshit”, if singing is really the right word for it. Doesn’t matter: I still love her. There’s a whole degree of “I’m bat-shit crazy, now and for eternity” in her whole career that I just have to admire. I’m suffering from the inverse of the usual web rhetoric inflation impulse; every… Continue Reading
New York to Kinksters: Don’t Be It, Damn It…
At last night’s TES meeting someone who has been around New York’s leather life for a long time talked about the “scene getting bland” in the midst of reminiscing about the Hellfire Club. Their observation was not dissimilar to those made many times in my circles, and for the most part everyone seems content to… Continue Reading
Fuck you, lock…
I curse you for locking me out of my house tonight. But I love you, iPhone: thanks to your Google talk app I was able to get a local locksmith out to the house. Unfortunately, I got charged a hundred bucks for him to do basically what I told him to do in with a… Continue Reading
Color me…
…crabby. First thing: This morning I heard Barney Frank on NPR explaining his support for the proposed auto industry bailout, which seemed to boil down to the argument that if the auto makers declare bankrupcy, it will allow them to stick it to their union employees. When asked what amount he would cap the federal… Continue Reading
Crossroads of the world…
Today at noon a number of groups including the Granny Peace Brigade held a protest action at the Time Square Recruiting Center. There was much media and a cordoned off group of about five counter-demonstrators. Pepsico chose to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by commandeering every video billboard in Times Square… Continue Reading