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It's back! Did you miss it? I know you did! Thanks to some kind words from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sigma7, I've discovered renewed enthusiasm for my Apartment 3-G do-overs. If you want to see the first nine parts, click here! (This is a blog, so, you know, start at the bottom and work up.) And if you want to see the originals, click the dates.
This week - trouble for Luann! Profit for Doctor Joe! And conflict for Margo and Gabriella!
( They're full-sized now, so click for cartoon goodness... )
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No, I've nothing to do with this show, but I know the writer, and he's great, and I know most of the cast, and they're great too. So if you're in New York, go see it. I'm going to.
Blue Coyote Theater Group Presents
GLEE CLUB
by Matthew Freeman
directed by Kyle Ancowitz
as a part of
The Antidepressant Festival
June 5th - July 4th at The Brick
The eight misfit members of Romeo, Vermont’s glee club are on the verge of meltdown after their soloist makes the disastrous decision to save his own life. Will they be ready in time for the big recital? And isn’t music the most important thing? GLEE CLUB is a comedy about singing. Singing makes people happy.
GLEE CLUB, written by Matthew Freeman. Music by Stephen Speights. Lyrics by Matthew Freeman and Stephen Speights. Directed by Kyle Ancowitz. Featuring: Bruce Barton*, Robert Buckwalter, David DelGrosso*, Michael Colby Jones*, Gary Shrader, Stephen Speights, Tom Staggs*,and Matthew Trumbull*. Produced by Blue Coyote Theater Group and The Brick Theater.
GLEE CLUB will play as part of The Antidepressant Festival, June 5-July 4 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer). Performances: Sunday June 7th, at 2pm, Friday June 12th at 10pm, Saturday June 20th at 5pm and Sunday June 28th at 3pm. Tickets ($15) are available through www.theatermania.com (212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111).
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I just read this op-ed piece on Yahoo News, in which the author states that he doesn't believe in bisexuality; that in his opinion, bi guys are just closeted gay guys. (He doesn't mention women, so I'm not sure what he thinks of them, if he thinks of them at all.)
This is a pretty common attitude in the gay community, and it bothers me. I'm not sure why - I don't know all that many self-identified bisexual men, and there certainly have been some whom I think were in denial. But I have known a small number who I honestly believe to be truly bisexual - whether they're a true "3" on the Kinsey scale, I don't know, but these are guys who are attracted enough to both sexes that neither "gay" nor "straight" accurately describe them.
I think what bothers me most about dismissing bi guys with, "Oh, he's really gay but won't admit it," is that it smacks of internalized homophobia to me. If a guy sleeps with both men and women, no one would ever say, "Oh, he's really straight but won't admit it", because being straight is still seen as the default. This guy sleeping with women isn't weird; him sleeping with men is weird, so that must be the part of him he's denying. I'm not ignoring societal pressure to be straight, but we're talking here about guys who are open enough to have sex with men, and open enough to admit it and identify as bisexual - so why wouldn't they be open enough to say they're gay?
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Here's a hugely popular internet meme that I just made up. It's essentially the same as the "(your name) likes" meme, but instead, I typed "Brian is made of" into Google. (Yes, I am bored at work.) Here's what came up...
1) Brian is made of bronze.
2) Standing about 7-inches tall, Brian is made of the finest materials and provides years of head bobbling fun!
3) Brian is made of lions.
4) Brian is made of chocolate.
5) Up to 30% of the eye and brian is made of these nutrients, which predominantly need to come from a dietary source.
6) Our Brian is made of stern stuff and it would take a bit more than that to dispose of him!!
7) I swear sometimes I think LSM's brian is made of stone.
Number two is completely true.
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Rules: Go to Google and type in quotation marks, your name and then "likes to" (eg. "Sue likes to"). Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own note.
1. Brian likes to skip.
2. Brian likes to fiesta.
3. Brian likes to climb things.
4. Brian likes to pretend to fly.
5. Brian likes to make a mess.
6. Brian likes to do dishes.
7. Brian likes to fall down.
8. Brian likes to rock climb, but doesn't have a regular partner to keep him going.
9. Brian likes to spend time with our family, go to movies, host summer parties, BBQ, and light fireworks.
10. Brian likes to explore all of what Madison has to offer.
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Wow, it's been over two months since I posted. Lots has happened in my life, but rather than talk about all of that, I'm going to post another Hostess Fruit Pie ad. It's probably more interesting anyway.
( Mera Meets the Manta Man )
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I was reading an old comic book - Batman Family issue number 3, cover dated February, 1976 - and I came across another one of those old Hostess ads (like I've posted about before). So here's a closer look at...
Batman and the Captive Commissioner
Once again, you can click for a bigger picture if you'd like to read it all at once, but a panel-by-panel breakdown follows...
( Click for bat-fruit-goodness... )
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Orange Hanky's second production, Mary Christmas, opens today and runs for four shows only as part of the 2008 Fresh Fruit Festival!
It's written by Kevin Podgorski, directed by me, and stars Kellie Arens and Harvey Johnson.
It's a great show, please come and check it out! And hurry! Because it's part of a festival, the shows are at odd times: today at 3, Sunday at 7, Monday at 9, and Tuesday at 6. More info at our website - www.orangehanky.com.
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F*CK ME, B*AT ME, L*VE ME, written by Kevin Podgorski and directed by me, opens tonight at the Kraine!
More info is at www.orangehanky.com. I'm really proud of it, so if you're anywhere near NYC between now and May 24, come and see it!
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By way of la_directora. I like this one. (I've added in "The Two Noble Kinsman", since that's pretty widely accepted as co-authored by Shakespeare.)
I'm declaring that scenework doesn't count. No class work, just full productions. (A full-cast reading, staged or not, does count, though.)
Bold the ones you've seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you've seen movies (including made-for-television) of, underline the ones you've read, and add a star* to any you've performed in, done readings of or otherwise theatrically participated in.
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It*
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline*
Hamlet*
Henry IV, Part I*
Henry IV, Part II*
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth*
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor*
A Midsummer Night's Dream*
Much Ado about Nothing*
Othello*
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest*
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night*
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
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My sister has one of those "invisible fences" for her dog. The dog wears a collar with a little device in it, and if she crosses the barrier, she gets a shock. After a couple of shocks, she got the point and doesn't try to leave the property anymore.
Batman does the same thing...
...only he doesn't believe in second chances.
From Detective Comics 318, August 1963.
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Supergirl is wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day!
On second thought, she seems to be attacking you. I guess even superheroes can be single and bitter.
Or maybe she's just swatting at all those little hearts. I don't know. I love the look, though. Very 80s.
"Here's my heart! And here's yours, crushed in my clenched fist!"
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My own website is up! I mean, it was already up, but now it should actually work, even with non-IE, non-PC browsers. Check it out at:
www.btolsen.com
I had mostly pushed this to the side to focus on the Orange Hanky site, but I've been working on it in bits and pieces whenever I had time, and I think it's ready. Still some content changes I want to make, but there's enough there to get started.
I had to teach myself some javascript to make the pictures in the portfolio section work properly, but it's much better than it was before. Before, clicking on a thumbnail loaded an entirely new page with the picture you wanted to see; now, all the photos load at once on one page and clicking shows you the new picture instantly. (Getting the pictures to change was easy; getting the captions to change too was the hard part.) (Oh, and pictures from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme are up, if you're curious.)
Once again, any feedback is greatly appreciated - particularly if something doesn't seem to be working for you.
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The website for Orange Hanky Productions is live! Please come and visit us at:
www.orangehanky.com
For more info on the show we're doing, you can see this previous post, but in short: we're putting on a really great play, called F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me, and we need help! Come and see.
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I just came across this ad in a comic book:
Every flavor of Big Mo was tested and approved by Dale Jr. personally.
Do you think they'll be selling these at Pride this summer?
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F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me
History
Since fall of 2006, I've been working on a new play with playwright Kevin Podgorski. We spent several months developing this play with the Actors Studio's Playwrights and Directors Workshop, and put up a very well-received one-off workshop performance of it last spring. Kevin and I have decided to mount a showcase production, in the hopes of getting some notice from the industry - for the play, for the actors and for us. It'll be going up in May - every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, from May 1 through May 24 - at the Kraine Theater in the East Village.
( Much more... )
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Wishing you a thoughtful World AIDS Day.
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Here's the Atom, in deadly peril. A villain has ironed his body out until he's paper-thin, and the energies released have given the villain the ability to see the future. (It's science!) The Atom has figured out that these energies are only released when the Atom is tired, and fatigue is caused by lactic acid, and adrenaline will counteract the lactic acid, removing the villain's precognitive abilities. Because the Atom is a scientist, and he knows these things. But how can he get his adrenaline pumping?
Sense memory to the rescue!
The villain comes back to investigate, the Atom escapes and beats him up, then un-irons himself. The end.
And that's how the Actors Studio saved the world.
Images from the black-and-white collection Showcase Presents the Atom. They originally appeared (in color) in The Atom issue 16, December 1964-January 1965.
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Beg
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Oct. 23rd, 2007 @ 08:18 pm
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I have a lot to write about - not the least of which is my awesome weekend with katedanley, which she is writing about herself and you should go to her site and read about it until I get around to writing about it myself.
But first - Kevin Podgorski and I have decided to self-produce the show we've been working on for the past year. It's called F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me. He wrote it, I directed it, and it's great. And I truly believe that this show is important, and that this show could get both Kevin and myself noticed, if we can just get people to see it. So we're self-producing it, with the goal of putting it up this spring.
And we need money.
Oh, this is not begging. I will beg, don't get me wrong. You haven't seen begging yet. But I haven't got all my proper begging accoutrements in place yet. So in the meantime, here's a button.
I've erased the button. Sorry. A better, tax-deductable way to donate is coming soon. -- 11/26/07
It's not pretty. It's just a button. But if you press this button, you can give me money. And I will use this money to put up this brilliant show.
More details to come. Many, many more details to come.
Also, more buttons.
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Ok, I'm a day late, so here's a panel from what may have been simultaneously the most important and the worst super-hero coming out story ever. This is Northstar, from Alpha Flight issue 106, March of 1992. He finds an AIDS baby in a trash can, adopts her, fights a retired super-hero named Major Mapleleaf (Alpha Flight was a Canadian super-team, eh?) who blames the baby for his dead gay son. Or he blames Northstar. Or he blames all gay people, or all people with AIDS. Or something. And Northstar feels the need to finally come out during all the fighting. Then the baby dies. From AIDS, not from Major Mapleleaf.
It's all terribly overblown, terribly melodramatic, and, being a comic book from the 1990s, just plain terrible. Northstar was a reasonably major character, part of the X-Men stable of books. So it was a pretty big deal at the time, and he was definitely the most prominent gay character from the big two publishers up to then. He was in comic-book limbo for a while, then he joined the X-Men and had a crush on Iceman. Then he died, got resurrected, and turned evil. Not sure what's going on with him now.
So Happy Belated National Coming Out Day from Northstar! May your own coming out be far, far less complicated than his.
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