I watch quite a bit of TV. Good and bad, male and female oriented, above and below my intelligence level; I could say that you can't comment on pop culture without experiencing it but that would be only half true.
So I have a couple of questions for TV but go easy on me because I'm exposing my bad habits here. Here's the first edition:
Why can I always call who is going to sleep with whom based almost solely on race? A black woman makes a cameo on a connected show with only one black male = SEXUAL TENSION.
And why do women who are pains in the ass need to be brought down to earth by sex and can only be good at their jobs or relationships and not both? I actually think this is often true, but of both sexes.
Fuck You Private Practice.
Do you have questions for TV? Send them to me c/o TV and I'll make sure it gets them.
UPDATE: here is another question: Why was Tracie Thom on PP? BITCH WAS IN RENT.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
re: Nggrfg
I'm not being polite: that is the actual title, and yes, you are supposed to fill in the vowels when you say it.
This one man show played at the Vancouver Fringe Festival but I saw it on its second last night at the Firehall Arts Centre in East Vancouver. It's a cute but sparse theatre that lets you take your liquor from the in-house bar to your seat. Fittingly enough, the performance was cute, sparse and intoxicating.
Yes, that's right: a show called NggrFg was cute. The performer was a sculpted black gay man but he embodied every character from middle class white father (and mother) to his own 7year old self to his ignorant bully with near pitch and posture perfection.
With such a specific life experience - "nigger...fag" - to tell, I was actually three time distanced as a white, heterosexual woman. But the poignancy broke through that wall.
There was a little preaching at the end (I would have preferred to let the experiences stand for themselves) but it was an amazing performance and I was gripped. My viewing partner said, with brutal honesty, "I was expecting to be bored and I couldn't think one man could keep me interested, but it was really great."
So if you get a chance to see this nggrfg aka Berend McKenzie (though his play tells us it should be the other way around, or, of course, there should be no aka at all) in this performance or any other I highly recommend doing so.
This one man show played at the Vancouver Fringe Festival but I saw it on its second last night at the Firehall Arts Centre in East Vancouver. It's a cute but sparse theatre that lets you take your liquor from the in-house bar to your seat. Fittingly enough, the performance was cute, sparse and intoxicating.
Yes, that's right: a show called NggrFg was cute. The performer was a sculpted black gay man but he embodied every character from middle class white father (and mother) to his own 7year old self to his ignorant bully with near pitch and posture perfection.
With such a specific life experience - "nigger...fag" - to tell, I was actually three time distanced as a white, heterosexual woman. But the poignancy broke through that wall.
There was a little preaching at the end (I would have preferred to let the experiences stand for themselves) but it was an amazing performance and I was gripped. My viewing partner said, with brutal honesty, "I was expecting to be bored and I couldn't think one man could keep me interested, but it was really great."
So if you get a chance to see this nggrfg aka Berend McKenzie (though his play tells us it should be the other way around, or, of course, there should be no aka at all) in this performance or any other I highly recommend doing so.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
re: no girls on the internet and the Georgetown PA
Here's a couple of posts: the sexism of the internet and on that Georgetown kid who hired a personal assistant.
No girls allowed?
Jerk or Genius: student hires PA.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
re: viral videos, the brain and more Olympics
Hey you guys:
read all this and then read it again so I get PAID.
In with the old...combine with the new (some fun viral videos utilizing old techniques I've found).
Reverse Engineering the Brain (neural nets!).
While you're under my roof...(Olympic housing!)
read all this and then read it again so I get PAID.
In with the old...combine with the new (some fun viral videos utilizing old techniques I've found).
Reverse Engineering the Brain (neural nets!).
While you're under my roof...(Olympic housing!)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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