Look everyone! It’s a cryptozoo!
Cabaret
According to Jerry Pinto, author of Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb [yes, Gary and I tend to read the same books],
[C]abaret was born on 18 November 1881, when Rudolphe Salis opened his ‘Chat Noir’, a cabaret artistique, on Montmartre, Paris. His intention: “We will satirize political events, enlighten mankind, confront it with its stupidity, cure those creeps of their ill-temper..’ The original purpose of cabaret, therefore, was to shock the middle class (epater les bourgeois[sic]). It was more than a bunch of ladies showing off their frilly pantalettes or lack thereof.”(103)
According to Helen, quoted on the same page, “cabaret doesn’t mean just wriggling your body as people think — it’s narration in dance.”
So?
What do you think of the new design? I realize there’s more decoration than content here, but what can I say.
War, Erotics, and Felines
The press release for Carolee Schneemann’s new exhibition, “Remains to Be Seen”, at CEPA gallery in Buffalo, states that it “features three central issues; War, Erotics, and Felines.” War, Erotics, and Felines!
Sigh
Sighted this morning (in the sleet): snowdrops.
Sighted last night: an albino cockroach!
Mood: irascible, nearly violent, full of schadenfreude (PMS!)
Frenching a severed head.
Symptoms of chromophobia:
Your fear of colors can result in the following symptoms:
breathlessness, dizziness, dry mouth, excessive sweating, nausea, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control or a full blown anxiety attack.
You are not the only one to suffer from chromophobia. Most sufferers are surprised to learn that they are far from alone in this surprisingly common, although often unspoken, phobia.
I swear I’m such a seven-year-old crossdresser.
Yes, craft does matter: sequins, archive-quality glue, tiny crepe-paper sakura, scissors, tracing paper, needle-nose pliers, craypas, etc.
**A DAZZLING DISPLAY OF HETEROGENEOUS SPLENDOR**
Roof Books invites you
to celebrate the publication of
Folly
by Nada Gordon
on Sunday, April 1, 2007
from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
at 300 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker)
HEAR SONGS, SKETCHES, & RECITATIONS
DESIGNED TO EDUCATE, EDIFY, AMAZE, AND UPLIFT
but more importantly
H’ORS D’OEUVRES will be served
as well as a variety of BEVERAGES
festive and/or foolish attire encouraged
