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Tally of Terror
I'm trying to figure out how many terrorist attacks have taken place since the attack on Paris last November. I'm now counting back to the day before the Paris attack, when a Shia neighborhood was attacked in a Beirut suburb.
"Terrorist attack" here means attack by non-state or pseudo-state actor (not an organized internationally recognized ( Read more... ) -
Roll call! 1997 SF Bay Guardian list of performance art spaces
I am trying to cull papers in my apartment in preparation for my 42nd birthday party and I have been predictably sidetracked by a bag of ephemera from 1997.
A clipping from the SF Bay Guardian, dated April 2, 1997, lists the hottest venues for "underground" performance art in SF at the time.
I couldn't resist. All cleaning stopped while I hit the ( Read more... ) -
My Pride cultural schedule
As I did last year, here's the guide to running into me -- or avoiding me -- for the rest of this Pride season:
9 June - 9 PM - NQAF - Brouhaha, trans women of color stand-up comedy, at a new to me downtown Oakland venue - OACC
11 June - 8 PM - my friend Sonja Franeta is reading from her new book about traveling amongst queer communities in Russia ( Read more... ) -
My schedule for the next two weeks- Pride 2014
OK people, if you are looking to run into me or to avoid running into me, here is my plan for Pride 2014:
Thurs. June 19:
8 PM Fresh Meat cabaret's 13th! year
10 PM the Frameline opening night party - if I have steam
Fri. June 20
9:30 PM Dvojina ("Dual") @Roxie - BTW there's something lost in translation here-- the title refers not to the English ( Read more... ) -
Funktown kittens need your help to save their sight!
A couple of feral kittens were born in my commuity garden-- the Funktown Farm Community Garden (219 15th St., Oakland)-- on February 28, 2014, with congenital eye defects (eyelid agenesis).
I'm spearheading the effort to raise money for them to get the corrective surgery they need to save their sight.
Please take a look at the Funktown kittens' ( Read more... ) -
Judith Butler at Counterpulse
Just got back from my first time hearing Judith Butler speak. It was at Counterpulse in the context of their "Dance Discourse Project." There was a Counterpulse staff member asking questions of JB, then a performance by Xandra Ibarra and Hentyle Yapp! (she's a burlesque performer, he's a contemporary dancer, both people of color, doing a dance ( Read more... ) -
Job news
Well, my Sonoma State University job is set to end in a month, at which point I'm planning on going back on unemployment. There's been all kinds of activity outside my awareness toward soliciting more funds to continue the project. Today I was in a two-hour meeting with some of the funder-advisors (they are advising the main funder), and the long ( Read more... ) -
Lake Merritt Pagans! 7 PM Sunday July 29 at the Sacred Well
Lake Merritt Pagans is a new group for Pagans of all stripes who live near Lake Merritt to socialize and touch base about life on the lake in all its aspects, practical and spiritual.
Come to our first meeting: Sun. July 29, 2012, 7:00 PM, The Sacred Well, 536 Grand Ave., Oakland.
Possible LaMP activities: full moon lake walks, altar building, ( Read more... ) -
Very Important Bay Area Linguistics Question (now that I'm riding near Muir Beach)
Poll Myooir? Mwir? Mer?
