Mr. SICHA, of whom I am a longtime proponent, even defender, offers the year’s strongest writing on animals. I am confident of this claim. Tearful, yes, but confident.
— Since I’m very young, critics tend to think I’m not capable of having every idea myself. Every choice is a mistake. “And it’s style over substance.” I don’t see why this is a flaw. And I don’t totally agree. I wouldn’t say the film is lacking any depth. It’s stylish and campy, but so what? It’s what I wanted to do. It’s about two people infatuated with a perfect stranger who’s beautiful but banal and uninteresting.
My esteemed colleague was in town from Perth. For some reason he evinced a strong need to trek up to Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton.
Actually, there was a reason: To locate a copy of Cabbagetown, an echt-Toronto novel, at the used bookstore there. What used bookstore? Shouldn’t we Google this first, and at least call them? Nonsense!
Eventually we found ourselves at the end of a sidestreet well north of Eg. Away from this sidestreet fell another street, straight into and backing up against an echt-Toronto ravine. We talked to a neighbour, and from her clues we figured out we had actually portaged ourselves to the house of the owner of the now-shuttered used bookstore.
Seriously, couldn’t you Amazon it?
We gave up.
“Let me ask you a question,” my esteemed colleague said.
“What is your question?”
“Would what we’re doing now be called trudging?”
I thought about this while we humped down this North Toronto street, many of whose mansions were under renovation and around which many domestics were seen. “No. We’d need more snow for that. At least up to our ankles.”
“We’re trudging. When it’s this cold, we’re trudging.”
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.02.27 13:33. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/02/27/trudging/
Insufferable design intellectual Steven Heller again snuffs the life out of the room, here (in record time) in a brief post about chop-suey signage type that never musters the guts to call them what Margaret Cho does: REALLY CHINKY FONTS. Too genteel for the critic emeritus whom editors hire to write one-third of all design critiques, or an aperçu he won’t acknowledge because somebody else came up with it first?
To save you the trouble of flipping through a pageview-inflating “slideshow,” here are the “50” essential gay films as nomimated by gay celebrities in the March 2011 Out:
John Cameron Mitchell: Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Christopher Landon: Rope
Gregg Araki: Mala Noche
Simon Doonan: X, Y & Zee
Chris Benz: The House of Yes
Michael Kors: The Last of Sheila
Lee Daniels: Shaft
Michael Sucsy: Midnight Cowboy
Amanda Palmer: The Hotel New Hampshire
Neil Bartlett: The Angelic Conversation
Our Lady J (no relation): Torch Song Trilogy
Tony Kushner: Happy Together
Matt Tyrnauer: The Killing of Sister George
Tim Gunn: Another Country
Dustin Lance Black: Pink Narcissus
Catherine Opie: Personal Best
Kate Bornstein: The Ballad of Little Jo
Christine Vachon: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
John Waters: Two Moon Junction
Jack Pierson: The Laziest Girl in Town
Dale Peck: Parting Glances (yes)
Margaret Cho: Velvet Goldmine
Edmund White: Strangers on a Train
Five other thematic groups of five are listed, none of interest.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.02.27 11:07. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/02/27/50gayfilms/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.02.26 16:04. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2011/02/26/filth-encrusted/
