Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Mr. Thomas Beatie is F2M, meaning he was born a woman but is currently transitioning into a man. And frankly, I don't see how this is anymore shocking than a lesbian couple choosing to have a child, except one chooses to express his gender as a man. I'm sure that his wife Nancy would have had the ch...

I'm certainly no expert, but if it were my dream, I would probably take it as the following: You have to do what you got to do, even if it means abandoning a community and feeling like you're potentially causing disservice to others, and experience struggles and risk danger. But at the end of the da...

Lightning Rod wrote greek mythology certainly talks about life, but references to it in contemporary poetry are limp I would think that would be more of a reflection on the poet more so than references to Greek mythology in general. Ani DiFranco's Icarus . . . it's just like Icarus ascending never i...

Ted Nugent to speak at Miller Auditorium March 24, 2008 KALAMAZOO--Rock musician and outspoken political conservative Ted Nugent will give a free, public talk at 7 p.m. Monday, March 31, in Miller Auditorium at Western Michigan University. Nugent's speech is titled "God, Guns and Rock n Roll," whic...

I love Google's special holiday logos. There's a permanent black Google (well, its powered by Google) at http://www.blackle.com/. I prefer the white myself, even if it is ultimately worse for the environment. I suppose if I really cared, I'd stop using a computer all together.

Debt free. That's more than most (American) people can say.
Good luck!

I haven't gotten a chance to watch a bunch, but I saw the Jean Genet, and half of the David Wojnarowicz. The Jean Genet was Un Chant d'Amour from 1950. Its a love story set in a men's prison, and originally intended to be a porn film. Banned due to explicit homosexual content, though the genitalia p...

I agree about Wilson. I consider him to be one of the worst presidents ever. Seriously, I would go so far as to say he is worst than Bush. No one ever believes me though.

I haven't got a chance to read the article, but I won't brush it off due to his inclusion of Wilson.

http://www.ubu.com/film/

avant-garde and underground galore
or close to it.

Yeah, I was there about two weeks ago. They had a display of the evolution, if you will, of beat to beatnik. I always find it disheartening when the mainstream appropriates a counter-culture or sub-culture, but only the superficial appearance of it. The beats or the hippies, now, are a kitsch item, ...

I remember Bush announcing his ultimatum. My dog had relieved himself on the floor (scared shitless, no doubt). I was cleaning up during the speech. Neither did much to improve my day. Had to put my dog down three years later. He was a rescued dog, remained scared of men his entire life. There's an ...

I didn't know exactly where to post this, but eventually decided that since it dealt with literature more than anything, this was the best place. The University of Texas-Austin is currently have an exhibit on the Beat Generation, including the On the Road scroll. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...

I don't know about amazon.com, but here's how to get on Barnes and Noble's site. It seems pretty easy, but I didn't look too closely at it.

(p.s. I haven't finished it yet, but I really like page 29)

Not entirely. I graduated from high school when I was 17, and I have a friend who graduated when he was 16. So it could be possible that he was still a juvenile after high school. Do you know the Boomtown Rats' song 'Don't Like Mondays' from 1979? This is about Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old San Dieg...

When you don't want to feel, death can seem like a dream. But seeing death, really seeing it, makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous. - Girl, Interrupted (1999) I was really into Sylvia Plath at that time. When I read The Bell Jar it just made so much sense. I haven't read it in four or five yea...