—–Original Message—– From: Jim Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:04 PM To: margaretcho Subject: Great Article From the New York Times, today. When I read this, I kept on saying to myself, “This is what Margaret has been talking about all this while.” “Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian,” By Lawrence Downes Published: November […]
Tomorrow will be a National Day of Action to save Tookie. There will be a press conference and march in Los Angeles at 9am. Arnold has agreed to consider clemency for Tookie in a meeting on December 8th. You can write to him here to support clemency. “The Moral Importance of Clemency,” by Earl Ofari […]
Last night in suburbia, at the 7:45 showing of “Walk the Line,” the “Brokeback Mountain” trailer got booed, which is typical and depressing. Even though I might have my own issues with that movie (since Hollywood can only tell stories about queer life as long as they are talking about beautiful white men, and the […]
The Kansas School Board recently voted to teach ‘Intelligent Design’ in science classes. With a few other school boards debating the same thing, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is now petitioning to get into the science curriculum as well.
I attended a big awards dinner honoring the incredible Ilene Chaiken, creator of “The L Word.” Normally, I hate those Hollywood industry functions. The gift bags are never any good, the chicken is really dry, the night drags on and on, there are always people there you don’t want to see, they never give you […]
I have done a great many bad things in my life, yet some of them I believe are so terrible that they sting with incredible regret, and strike me dumb with shame, whenever I am compelled to think of them. Once, when I was about 9, which is a terrible age, I knew a boy […]
I like wet dog noses resting on my skin, and feeling the fine, downy soft hairs of a sweet muzzle underneath. I love dogs, mostly all dogs. Possibly one or two I have met in my lifetime rubbed me the wrong way, but of the many thousands I have petted and cuddled, that isn’t too […]
Great big thanks to everyone who attended the “Bam Bam and Celeste” screening last night, and if you missed it, there are two more LA screenings on Saturday and Sunday. It was a wonderful audience, filled with lots of people who worked on the film and many friends and family, and the film plays well, […]
Everyone is freaking out over the JT Leroy hoax. I really love JT Leroy, the writer of “Sarah,” “The Heat is Deceitful Above All Things,” and creator of the myth of the beautiful boy hustler turned literary genius. The stories weave a grubby tapestry of lot lizard life, the perilous misadventures of teenage prostitutes working […]
People ask me why, since I myself am married to a man, why would I work so hard to make gay marriage a reality? I answer that today, no one questions the white students who went to Mississippi to march with Martin Luther King. That will set them straight, as it were, pretty fast. Still, […]
Yesterday Democrats forced a special session, to discuss an investigation into the administration’s prewar intelligence. And then today Republicans agree to speed up an investigation.
