I’ve been trying to remember all the childish songs from my youth so I can teach them to my nephews. Aside from having extra dessert at lunch time, the easiest way for a kid to make new friends is to teach them an inappropriate song or two. Some of the songs I’ve remembered, though, might…
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Why is Pink a Girly Color?
Speaking of reddit (I mentioned reddit in my last post – we’re getting episodic up in here!), one of my favorite subreddits is Explain Like I’m Five. /r/explainlikeimfive is the subreddit in which people ask questions that are meant to be answered in simple terms that a five-year-old would understand. Like so: /u/Kezumi asks: Why is…
Holocaust Clowns and Stealthy Sex Toys
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made a movie about a washed-up circus clown sent to a prison camp during WWII. The clown’s camp is adjacent to a Jewish camp, and when a group of Jewish children gather at the fence to laugh at his antics, it restores his confidence in his abilities as a performer (plus,…
My Raw Vid of NATO Protest March
If you wanted to come down to the march but couldn’t make it, here’s what it looked like. Sorry it’s not more exciting. I have additional video of me running around among the protesters, including shots of the barricades and the massive police presence; I’ll upload it to my YouTube account but likely won’t post…
Seventies Porn and Breakfast Sandwiches
Huh. Here’s a post from deep in my past, which I wrote and forgot about, never publishing it. Let us venture back, through the ages, to March of this year… Last Saturday, I got out of bed at 7am so I could make it to the Bijou, which is a gay porn theater in Old…
Reading at Rockefeller
I got a new video camera this spring. One of the first things I recorded was a reading by Neil Gaiman at the University of Chicago campus. I hadn’t been down there since I was a kid, when I wanted to go to the U of Chicago because it’s where Indiana Jones went.Anyway, Gaiman’s book…
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