normaler Anus im Ruhemodus

That profound talent known the world over as Dynasty Handbag just sent me a Vimeo Link for her new film of her Weirdo Night in Los Angeles.

What can I say but this is a music hall delight as envisioned by the great classical Hollywood actress and director Ida Lupino with portions of The Lawrence Welk Show, “Hee Haw” and The New Zoo Review thrown in for good measuritis.

I kept expecting an appearance by Shields & Yarnell, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme’ or The Captain & Tennille. What was even better, the Mac Book jazz band of Patty Harrison with Vagabond and Sasami singing the modern Negro spiritual, “I am Not Gay” along with brilliantine acts Bibi Discoteca, Hedia Maron’s Another Movie About My Mother, Sara Squirm in No Respect, the enchanting Morgan Bassichis in Morgan in the Bathroom and Smiling Beth. Of course keeping it all woven together is the geniustrata of Ms. Handbag herselvis who is both Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows in PBS's historical talk show Meeting of Minds.

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That Bay area “starina” Brontez Purnell is writing something for ID Magazine and emugged me a google drive file with a video by a young Black artist named Christen Mooney who works under the moniker Thug Pop Reel asking me to contribute a blurb about the work. Watching it was iller then ill with or without license.

Below is what I sent to Mr. Purnell who I want to also congratulate on his new book 100 Boyfriends, his first on a major publishing house. No one deserves to be a literary sensation more than the beautiful Brontez.

Cafe Snobiety, high snobiety, crooning and cooning for cold hard $cash, when normally you couldn’t be bothered by filthy lucre. Thug pop post porn, thug op art roughnecks and longshoremen come cheaper by the dozen and ready to fight for right against wrong. New wave hookers, hustlers and super freaks that are really tasty, the kind you don’t bring home to mother, not because its déclassé but because you’ve read too much about them in new wave periodicals and magazines. lord love a duck.

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This from one of my students in Geneva, Switzerland:

This might be some kind of “friendly reminder": Not far from us, next to the European borders, human beings are still in big trouble. Living in tents and sleeping on the wet ground while temperatures are falling to minus degrees Celsius. Not even mentioning the global pandemic struggle on top of that. For our digital program we have curated live acts, DJ’s and performance artists all of whom are based in Switzerland. All content free of charge but accepting donations to #LeaveNoOneBehind, a campaign that aims at helping individuals living in inhuman condition. ACT NOW! Saturday February 20, 2021

www.friendlyreminder.ch

Ein Spaziergang am Strand und das Pflügen meines Carmel Bootyhole

Just found out that Ari Gold died age 47. I first met Ari in the mid 1990s when he was the boyfriend of NYU Performance Studies professor and theorist Jose Munoz. He was always very sweet to me and appeared in some of my performances in New York for Wigstock, Jackie 60 and Squeezebox. I remember vividly seeing him perform at a small club in the East Village with Dr. Munoz and Ari’s then mentor Kevin Aviance. At that time he was working an R&B influenced musical style. After his relationship with Munoz ended I didn’t see or hear from him but through others I got word that he had graduated to making dance/pop music and had gotten on the gay pride performance circuit, which was a scene I didn’t know that much about. By the time I left the USA and moved to Berlin I saw that Ari had re-invented himself into the image of a smooth, suave singing sex studkin. He was a very attractive young man, and I am sure that his many fans, family and friends are heartbroken with his death at such a young age.

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I’m not one to gossip so you didn’t hear it from me department:

Oh honey child that Christian Rosas/Raymond Pettibone scandal has got a lot of cow tongues wagging. I guess Mr. Rosas who was a cutie pie mentee of the kinky Mr. Pettibone had taken an unfinished painting that the Mexican snowboarding ex girlfriend of Pettibone Sara Galaxia had in Vienna and tried to sell it for boucoup bucksis$ on the open market. Well Eve Harringtons will always be Eve Harringtons until they themselves become a Margo Channing, but always beware of Phoebe’s.

Oz Perkins the actor and horror film director son of the late Psycho star Anthony Perkins and photog/actress Berry Berenson seems to be following in his father’s sugar in my tank footsteps. All i can say is that he has fab taste in eager beaver strident young puppies. His musician brother Elvis Perkins also has a knockout rotating collection of hirsute Brigham Youngs. I guess it's in the genes. The patriarch of the Perkins klan Osgood Perkins who was mainly a stage star and sometime silent film character actor had a rep for whiffing down on voluptuous asstrovar.


Anthony and his son Oz Perkins


model/actress and photographer the late Berry Berenson sister of Marisa

RIP Ari Gold

Twink Nerd saugt weißen Müll Teen

Working remotely on an installation is so odd. For the 13th Gwangju Biennale my exhibition consists of a recreation of my Hag Gallery from 2012 that served as my first solo visual art show at Participant Inc. in New York City. I also do a version of Club Sucker at the Garage the punk rock beer bust and performance space that I did with Frank Rodriguez and Dale Johnson for about five years in the 1990's. Club Sucker was founded by Frank, Paul Rossi of the hardcore band Wasted Youth, Jeffreyland Hilbert & Enrique Ongpin of the dance club Hai Karate. Because of the Rona Barrett pandemic I won't be traveling to South Korea but the curators Defne and Natasha and pavillion designer Davide Quadrio are there now in quarentine. The last part of the exhibition is a semi recreation of my Cheese Endique Trifecta, the nutty name I have given all my atelier's since living in Los Angeles. Frank, Dale and Jeffrey have contributed a playlist that will be the soundtrack for the installation in Koreatown. The opening was supposed to be February 26th but that has been pushed back to April.

Was thinking about the beautiful boxer turned actor Ken Norton. He was such a super hunk. In the 1976 film Mandigo he played the title character who is lusted after by his white antebellum slave master played by blonde juicemonger Perry King. I would have paid good $money to see Ken fudgepack Perry. Oh I got a fan letter from this young, beautiful actress named Zendaya. I don't really know anything about her other then she was in an American cable TV series called Euphoria which i did see and I thought she was good in but the show was very typical of modern cable TV trying too hard to be transgressive.

Oh here is the latest from la familia Bortolozzi:

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Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi


THE OBJECT TALK: SETH PRICE

An Interview between Seth Price and Emmanuel Olunkwa
for Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Now online

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My dearest big muscle daddy Ron Athey is in New York City at the moment where his big retrospectacle exhibition will open soon at Participant Inc. It promises to be the event of the new 2021 season. The events will include performances with Hermes Pitakkos and the black Jerry Lewis Elliot Reed.

Queer Communion: Ron Athey Curated by Amelia Jones Feb 14 – April 4, 2021 Wednesday–Sunday, noon–7pm Appointments are required Ron Athey, Performance at Participant in 3 Acts, with Hermes Pitakkos, Mecca, and Elliot Reed I. Opening solo word action by Elliot Reed; II. Pistol Poem: Brion Gysin’s 5 x 5 1960 sound piece choreographed for 4; III. Printing Press (1994 brought back for Biosphere 2 performance, cutting the Horns of Consecration) Tues, Feb 16, 8pm EST participantafterdark.art Queer Communion: Ron Athey, curated by art historian and performance studies scholar Amelia Jones, offers the first retrospective of the work of Los Angeles-based performance artist Ron Athey. The exhibition and related publication explore Athey’s practice as paradigmatic of a radically alternative mode of art-making as queer communion — the generous extension of self into the world through a mode of open embodiment that enacts creativity in the social sphere through collective engagement as art. Athey, through his significant and generative work as a performance artist, is a singular example of a lived creativity that is at complete odds with the art worlds and marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art over his largely undervalued career. Having been the focus of a homophobic, AIDS-phobic, and sensationalized political attack during the U.S. culture wars of the 1990s, in which a conservative leader denounced a partially government funded Athey troupe performance as depraved, Athey’s practice remains a challenge to the politics of today’s renewed culture wars. Athey’s work is organized in relation to thematic intensities and overlapping communities spanning religion, queer subcultures, music, literature, performance, film, and theater, and displayed via photographic, archival, and video documentation as well as artworks and props from the original performances and Athey’s personal collection. The exhibition will travel to ICA Los Angeles in summer 2021. Queer Communion presents Athey’s career and lifework through the lens of these communities that Athey has engaged and helped form throughout his career: each section (Religion/Family, Music/Clubs, Literature/Tattoo/BDSM, Art/Performance/ Politics, New Work/Community) is laid out with a range of artifacts, props, costumes, photographs, video, audio, writings, and sketches relating to his creative work, artistic development, and engagement of friends and colleagues across queer networks. The zones move forward in a roughly chronological but recursive and overlapping way, transporting the visitor from the 1970s to the present, laying out the interrelations among the communities and actively purveying a sense of each community’s mood, political energies, and creative ethos in relation to Athey’s practice. Visitors will ideally gain an active sense of what it was/is like participating in these communities rather than simply a sense of viewing relics from the past, while also gaining a strong understanding of the aesthetic and political trajectories within Athey’s own work. A catalogue is available which accompanies the exhibition and includes extensive original never-beforepublished writings by Athey as well as an illustrated checklist and essays by a range of contributors on Athey’s work and impact. Queer Communion: Ron Athey (Intellect Press, 2020), is co-edited by Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell; the catalogue was listed among “Best Art Books 2020” in the New York Times.

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If you are in the Pacific Northwest flock to my west coast gallery Adams & Ollman:


Vince Skelly: New Works
Feb 12-March 13, 2021


Mariel Capanna: Overlook
Feb 12-March 13, 2021


Adams & Ollman
418 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR

sexuelle Pflege für Dummies

So sad to relay the recent death of Goddess Bunny to the Rona Barrett contagion. Goddess was one unique individual, both saint and sinner. She never let anything get her down and was certainly the only real glamorous star left in Hollywood who understood glamour in all its many forms and manifestations. Her most acclaimed roles were in Penelope Spheeris' Hollywood Vice (1985) John Aes Nihil's The Drift (1999) a remake of the Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone where she played La Contessa and that films companion piece the over-to-top romp Goddess Bunny Channeling Shakespeare also by Aes Nihil (1999) Goddess was also the star of an underground blue movie called Taking It (1983) Directed by Rafael Santaraella and like the title says she takes it from both ends by two young virile hustlers plucked off the mean streets of Santa Monica Blvd. I have so many Goddess memories and stories that I could tell but I have to save them for my book. She will be missed. Here is her obit in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/obituaries/sandie-crisp-dead-coronavirus.html

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My lovely and super smart daughter Michelle Juliette Carr the founder of The Velvet Hammer Heritage Burlesque Review is back producing an extravaganza for Valentines Day. If you are in the LA area check it out:
your baby grrrl is producing a new show called THE WRINKLE ROOM! We premiere it next Sunday in a Zoom lounge. This is something that was well on its way to being on stage in a lounge in Palm Springs but the world had other plans, haaa! So we decided to launch our lounge in an abbreviated pandemia fashion just for fun! The line up is solid and I'm excited! It is a matinee show so if you are up late and would like to see some old friends I would love to see you in cyberspace! I'll include all the info. for your entertainment and delight. It feels so good to flex me old razz ma tazz muscle again!

THE WRINKLE ROOM: BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. STILL KICKING ASS.

LOS ANGELES - THE WRINKLE ROOM is a virtual event which will present works by Los Angeles artists, writers, creators, musicians and noisemakers. Developed by art and culture veterans Michelle Juliette Carr, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario and Liz Garo, THE WRINKLE ROOM exclusively presents works by artists 50 years of age and older; but everyone is welcomed!

THE WRINKLE ROOM premier broadcast will be Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 3pm via Zoom using both pre-recorded clips and live performances. The project will include short films from performance art icon Nao Bustamante and award winning magician Rob Zabrecky w/ comic Neil Hamburger, an interview with photographer Reynaldo Rivera discussing his documentation of late 20th Century East Side underground culture with Semiotex(e)'s Hedi el Kholti, musical guests The Great Sadness, filmmaker Tyler Hubby, “The Phantom Movie House'' show with film reviews from film composer, The Millionaire, plus DJ Senor Amore. Hosting this cavalcade of stars will be the one and only Andrew Ableson (aka Sir Dandy-Luxe exiled Crown Prince of Kaftanistan)

THE WRINKLE ROOM will have Dick Cavett intellect with Laugh In irreverence and Midnight Special style, with a dash of Dangerous Minds cooler-than-thou attitude (and if you don’t know those references, you're too young for THE WRINKLE ROOM!)

Attendees are encouraged to dress for the occasion which will have a 30 minute meet & greet in our virtual cocktail lounge before our host hits the screen. In addition to the ZOOM viewing, THE WRINKLE ROOM will have an active chat, merchandise for sale in our boutique and tip jars for the artists.

We hope to see you at THE WRINKLE ROOM - the place for sophisticates of a certain age and those who admire them.

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The late, Brad Davis just because he is so damn sexy and I was thinking about him.

Fünf Mann Bareback Brunch Sex

Joseph Morales. For some strange reason I couldn't stop thinking of Jo Morales aka JoJo. I have known him since the 3rd Grade. Back then he was a goofy looking light skinned Mexican boy with extremely pale skin, greyish eyes and curly dark brown mop top hair. JoJo was also very hairy. He was covered in thick hair on his arms, legs and even a bit of moustache growing above his lip. He was the Tom Selleck of grade school years before Mr. Selleck was a known celebrity figure.

At 13 in middle school JoJo had a full beard, hairy chest, back, pub ic bush garden, hair on his fingers and toes. He wore a size 17 shoe and even the P.E. teachers Mr. Howard, Mr. Busch and Mr. Staudenbaur had to give him special shower dispensation because of his mighty endowment that couldnt be contained in a jock strap. In Junior High JoJo was still a major goofy Gus like he had been in elementary school. He was blissfully unaware that he had matured faster than his peers.

By high school he had turned into a gorgeous super stud, hunkasaurus having made it through most of the female student body by Sophomore year, and about a third of the male population.  JoJo was an equal opportunity hornpig. I vividly remember when we were 13 JoJo use to playfully call me the ultimate sissy. We were never friends but always remained friendly towards each other, as I was quite close to his older sisters Annabelle and Zeidy who shared his complexion and hairyness. They were quite lovely girls with bushy eyebrows, way before that trend was made popular by Brooke Shields.

At 16 handsome JoJo was simply on a Rake's Progress. Since I was in the gifted program we had never shared any classtime with each other but we lived not far from each other. I lived on Hobart Blvd and he lived on Irolo Street. One day he approached me as I was leaving the Pio Pico Public Library on Oxford Street and told me that I was the only one he hadn't had,and he would like to rectify that situation ASAP. 

I was flattered, titillated and frightened by him.  He actually asked me if I thought he was cute, and did I like his body. I told him he was amazingly good looking, and had a perfect body and I would love nothing more to please him and give him whatever he desired but that I was still a boring virgin and that I wouldn't be able to provide him with the sensations that I was sure he had grown accustomed to. If the gossip in the school was to be believed JoJo was carrying on with two teachers at our high school, the glamorous Miss Ellis and the openly gay and lecherous Mr. Marcello who had bought JoJo his Ford Mustang muscle car that he was super proud of. Mr. Marcello didn't drive so one of JoJo's duties as his underage male concubine was ferreting him around town and picking him up and bringing him to school and back home. The last thing I heard about JoJo was that he was going to LACC (Los Angeles City College) when I was at UCLA and later he had transferred to Cal State Los Angeles. I am sure someone from my past will read this blog account and email me with an update on Jo Morales.

BLIND ITEM: Name the well endowed celebutante getting hot buttered fellatio performed on him by this eager and willing young man.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sons Brandon Jagger and Thomas all grown up.



lovesexy young blacktor Spence Moore II

Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's dull gay
son Jack Quaid



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The wonderous Lobster Lady-Rebecca Goyette is back!

Spring Online Courses and Workshops with Rebecca Goyette With Pratt Institute’s Continued and Professional Studies Department

Excited to be offering courses with Pratt this spring. Sharing some details and links. Stay inspired and keep that artistic magic fiery!

Brave New World: Daily Artmaking Ritual, February 2-April 6, 2021, Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:30 PM

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In this course, we will engage in multimedia daily artmaking rituals that will enhance our artistic processes. Art techniques we will practice include: drawing, collage, mixed media sculpture, costume/prop creation, performance art/improvisation and video production. Enjoy the support of a creative community while making art that addresses our times.

To enroll in Brave New World:
Brave New World: Daily Artmaking Ritual - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Transgressive DIY Video, February 10-April 14, 2021,
Wednesday evenings, 6:30-9:30 PM



Create your own DIY video from storyboarding to performance score, costumes, props, improvisation, music/sound, editing and credits. Tell your own story with all its grandeur and grit, using simple means. Draw inspiration from transgressive video art/Avant-garde films. Discuss content, symbolism, relationship to history/zeitgeist/social movements, visual strategies, including settings, costuming, lighting, natural elements, and special effects.
To enroll in Transgressive DIY VIdeo:

Transgressive DIY Video - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

I am also offering a monthly series of weekend workshops:



For information and to enroll in Goddess Power (February 13th and 14th):

Goddess Power - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

For information and to enroll in Drawing Marathon (March 6th and 7th):

Drawing Marathon - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

For information and to enroll in Drawing Games (April 3rd and 4th):

Drawing Games - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any further questions about these spring offerings at: rgoyett3@pratt.edu.

Happy Spring!
Rebecca Goyette

www.rebeccagoyette.com

Beschädigter Gruppensex der unteren Bande

My former Club Sucker at the Garage partner Frank Rodriguez sent a lot of pristine archival material to my gallerists to be used in the upcoming installation for the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Frank kept things in much better shape then i did. Here is a little preview of the kinds of things the sexy little tiny Papa Rodriguez contributed to the exhibition. Sending all my love and kisses to Frank and his super lovesexy musclebound and talented ginger artist lover Patrick Lee.





My darling young daughter Wu Tsang has an online event happening tomorrow featuring Big DaDDy Diaspora, the accomplished poet and scholar Fred Molten along with others. You may find it quite illuminating.

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Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
is pleased to announce

Fred Moten in conversation with Wu Tsang,
Mawena Yehouessi and Rosanna Puyol

On the occasion of Visionary Company at Lafayette Anticipations

About Fred Moten's poem 'Come on, get it!

Available online
Thursday 28 Jan 2021, from 7 to 7:45 pm (CET)







Its Raining Men, Amen!

I've been getting a lot of fan male from a young British man named Arthur Chatto who I now come to find out is the grandson of the late Princess Margaret and 26th in line to the throne of England. How Bridgerton of me is that?




Chatty Chatto

Der konkupiszente hirsute Professor

Had a lovely time being on the jury for the London Short Film Festival. The organizers of this very prestigious festival Phil Ilson, Akino Aquino and cute little Thomas Grimshaw were a delight as were my fellow jurist Jason Ryle and British/Nigerian director Ngozi Onwurah who lives in Santa Monica, California with her German husband.

Trying to finish my installation for the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Working in overdrive via Zoom with curatorial assistant Krisztina Hunya and Davide Quadrio who is designing the entire pavilion. Main curator Natasha Ginwala is already in Korea going through her mandatory 14 day quarantine. I won't be traveling for the exhibition but I am also getting so much wonderful support from my team at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. My installation is recreating The Hag Gallery from Participant Inc, in 2012 as well as a version of my studio The Cheese Endique Trifecta and Club Sucker at the Garage 1994-1999.

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My former NYU student Beatrice Glow is quite prolific. Here is her latest project:

Dear friends and colleagues,

I hope you are keeping well during these wild times. I’ve recently landed in Singapore as a visiting Artist-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College. I feel extremely grateful and lucky to be able to continue to travel and build new friendships in person. After spending Christmas and New Years in quarantine, I have been warmly welcomed into campus life, began teaching a Media Arts for Just Futures course, and set up shop in an enormous studio at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art at Gillman Barracks. This week, I will be participating in Singapore Art Week and will be introduced to larger college community through a Rector’s Tea event. Please find below the press release for my participation in the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme. I will be giving a public lecture in February that will be accessible online, so please stay tuned! Thank you for your continued support and sustained dialogues!

Warm wishes,

Beatrice

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Sherry Milner and Ernie Larson are the Comden & Green of the International Art Film Scene. Here is the latest missive from Sherry:




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My divine daughter Wu Tsang has something new and special that she has unleashed on the world. Check it Out Pulver:

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
is pleased to announce

Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter 2021 Show

With a new film by Virgil Abloh and Moved by the Motion
Directed by Wu Tsang

Now online


filmmaker Bros. Jake & Conor Allyn. They appreciate socially distanced, well planned and organized Bukake Parties.


My super gorgeous and mega talented daughter Wu Tsang

The World's Most beautiful boy Björn Andrésen from the 1973 film Death in Venice

Durchnässt in urinierter Grafschaft

 
Nancy Pelosi invited me to the inauguration but unfortunately I won't be able to go as I don't have a goddam thing to wear, unless I pull out my impeachment gown that is still stained from last year. Thrilled that instead of an inauguration ball there will be a socially distanced Bukake Gala where Lady Gaga, Bruce Springstein along with Marilyn Manson will be the featured performers.

Having a great time on the jury for the London Short Film Festival with my fellow jurists the British/Nigerian director Ngozi Onwurah and independent Canadian First Nations programmer Jason Ryle who use to be Executive Director of Imagine NATIVE an indigenous run arts organization. Jason is Ojibwe just like my best girlfriend and longtime collaborator Glen Meadmore who originally hails from Winnipeg, Canada. My grandmother was a Choctaw raised on the reservation so there was a lot of Native American energies flowing during our Zoom Jury Meetings.

Had a sweet reunion of sorts via the phone with my dear old friend Jose Montaño. Jose is a very cultured and prolific genius. Who has worked a varied and storied career as a Production Designer for Film and Commercials. He is probably best known for his work on the REM video Losing My Religion and the Elizabeth Taylor commercials for White Diamond directed by Herb Ritts and countless other projects that you've seen and weren't aware of. Jose's father was a famous Bolivian architect and his mother a Swedish actress whose family has far reaching international activist roots. Jose now works only for social justice causes with his very talented husband Ty in the Seattle area. They actually live in one of the incredible sculptural mid century homes his father had designed. It was so great to klatch with Jose after so many years apart. Jose, the late great Mrs. Michael Glass and I were quite the triumph errant back in the day in Los Angeles causing major havoc.

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The latest from Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi:

Bortolozzi Gazette

Now featuring a special contribution by
Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings

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A great fundraiser for an old movie palace in San Pedro, California with my old pal the great Janet Klein:

On January 20, 1931, Warner Brothers opened their magnificent San Pedro Theatre to a star-studded crowd with back-to-back sold out shows.
Kick off a year of celebration at the Warner Grand's 90th Birthday Party, a livestream event featuring music and old time style short film from Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys playing the vaudeville and ragtime hits of the 1920s & 1930s plus an onscreen cocktail/mocktail demo!

Tickets can be purchased with or without a Party Package. Packages include cocktail/mocktail ingredients, birthday cake and party favors. Follow along with our local mixologist to make delicious Prohibition-era refreshments.

Packages will be available for pickup. Flapper attire optional.

Fundraiser for Love the Lobby, Grand Vision’s Campaign to restore the Warner Grand Theatre’s historic lobbies.

Look out for other virtual (and maybe live) events throughout the year. More Concerts and Swanky Cocktails, Classic Films, Lindy Hop Lessons, Pub-style Trivia and more!

DATE: Saturday, January 23, 2021 / 7:00 PM --- TICKET ONLY

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DATE: Saturday, January 23, 2021 / 7:00PM --- TICKET & PARTY PACKAGES

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wettbewerbsfähige große Schwänze

wettbewerbsfähige große Schwänze-When I lived in Koreatown in a very large homo moderne flat on Edgemont Drive my downstairs neighbors were a very cute couple named Keythe Farley and Ann Close-Farley. They had moved into the building in the last five years or so that I lived there and were friends of Laurie Pike, the publisher and editor of Glue Magazine where I wrote a regular column called "Because I Said So". Laurie use to say that they were the "ultimate queers in that Keythe was a gay man and Ann a lesbian, Laurie Pike also compared their marriage to that of the great writer Dodie Bellamy and late poet Kevin Kellian, two personal heroes of mine in the queer literary scene of San Francisco and beyond.

I didnt know very much about Keythe and Ann when they moved in other then what Laurie told me, that Keythe was a theater actor and director with Tim Robbins' Actors Gang and Ann was a costume designer. They seemed pleasant enough with Ann favouring crazy colored hair and kooky outfits. My eyebrows were raised a bit when Laurie mentioned that they were religious, as I didn't know what to expect from that. They wound up being quite pleasant neighbors, we were never friends but we were friendly. I think they were a little scared of me, and since i had been living at the complex for the longest time I was Queen Bee, so they never complained about the noise that I made even after they started to have children. I was the top floor apartment and lets face it I don't think many people would want to live below Ms. Vaginal Davis.

Later I found out that Keythe had written a Broadway bound musical theater piece called BatBoy that became very well received. Shortly after that they bought a house somewhere in the suburbs I believe.

I don't know why I suddenly started to think about them but during this second lockdown in Berlin my feeble mind keeps trailing off to the not so distant past.

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My West Coast gallery is showing a fascinating exhibition. If you are in the Pacific Northwest and are able to you might want to check it out:

Adams and Ollman is pleased to present three works by William "Bill" Traylor (b. 1853, Benton, Alabama; d. 1949, Montgomery, Alabama) on view at the gallery January 9 through February 6, 2021. Traylor, a self-taught artist, born into slavery, began to draw at the age of 85 while living on the streets of Montgomery, Alabama. Using discarded cardboard and signs, pencil, and poster paint, Traylor recorded his memories of plantation life and later observations of the city—uniquely and distinctly describing animals, human figures, and abstract forms with a commanding use of line, color, and composition. Traylor's body of work speaks poignantly to the complexities, inequalities, and tensions that the artist experienced and witnessed during the Jim Crow Era in the United States.

adamsandollman.com

Keythe Farley, actor and director  looking quite distinguished with his salt and pepper hair.

Costume Designer Ann Close-Farley looking sweet and bubbly.

Costumes of Ann Close-Farley