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July 24, 2007
Now that the big Live Earth Concerts are over, and the non-biodegradable post-concert trash has been put in separate bins - what is that you actually do to save the earth?
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Now that the big Live Earth Concerts are over, and the non-biodegradable post-concert trash has been put in separate bins - what is that you actually do to save the earth?
July 20, 2007
Hairspray
Bear Week is over in Ptown. So if you go down to the woods today, you’re going to be on your own. I am one sad Lesbruin.
I took to my bed and that’s how I happened to watch Rene Zellweger in one of those Bridget Jones Diarrheas, in her real-life, form-fitting fat suit pre-dating Edna Turnblatt in Hairspray and Eddie Murphy in his Norbit suit, so offensive it lost him the Oscar. Hey, it was raining, Netflix doesn’t come out this far and our one movie theater in town has been turned into a Crepe Place which I attacked on Bastille Day just because. And since when did weight gain mean acting? Thanks a lotta, Mr. Lamotta.
Since it was so excruciating to watch Zellweger/Jones desperately seeking suitors, I flicked between her and Tom Cruise, the sofa-hopping Scientologist, in The Minority Report, a sci fi flick in which Tom plays a DC cop in a pre-crime unit. Based on intel from pre-cogs floating in a sensory deprivation tank, Tom arrests people before they commit a crime. How to try them if they didn’t commit a crime? Now you know where Gonzo got the idea for Guantanamo.
That filmic afternoon gave me the idea to write a review of the trans-genre Hairspray, the-movie- based-on-the-Broadway-play-based-on-the-movie, [Dramamine drip, please] before I leave the country for ten days. . But I refuse to watch it on a blueberry crepe, so I decided I would pre-review it. Pre-reviewing is a time honored tradition among right wing conservatives. They write reviews without the inconvenience of actually having to see the movie. Think pre-crime.
I could hardly get across the huge picket line. Kidding. The Washington Blade has called for a movie boycott because of John Travolta’s membership in the “Church” of Scientology. The Blade said that because of L Ron Hubbard’s rhubarbs of opposing homosexuality and of funding reparative therapies for gays, that we should boycott the movie. I remember no call to boycott The Minority Report, or I never would have watched. From what I remember of the play, the KKK, not gays, should boycott based on Tracey Turnblatt’s passion for integration. She would be undeterred by the Supreme Court’s back to segregation decision.
In most press junkets interviews, Travolta has said that he is not playing a gay character and Scientology is not homophobic. Therefore it is so. He said he wanted the challenge of playing Edna so that the audience would just see Edna, a vulnerable, voluptuous housewife gone to flesh, not John Travolta being amazing. And unlike Rene Bridget, you wouldn’t have to worry about the long term effects of yo-yo dieting. She ate so many yo-yos. And Travolta pointed out that he was not like Robin “he’s such a bear” Williams playing a guy playing Mrs. Doubtfire who actually looked like Glenn Close in the Greta Cammemeyer story. Nor Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. You could tell Hoffman, Williams and Travolta think they make better women than women ever do. Mary Martin in Peter Pan was my first butch role model.
The whole pre-pre-review process made me have one of those trans-anxiety attacks where you practically have to get out a chalk board and diagram: Okay FTM, that’s female to male, Mary Martin, flies out long, and MTF that’s male to female, Travolta, does a quick in and out pattern. I hate my pronoun slurring embarrassment despite the patient, amused reassurance of my trans friends. That and my ursine grief or the fact that I have to go pack for India, made me so tired, I just decided to watch Napoleon Dynamite for the nth time. I’m learning his “Vote for Pedro” dance. FYI: you can’t do that Saturday Night Fever disco thing in moonboots.
July 18, 2007
L.A. Archdiocese
Oh, please, please.....
Your thoughts on the $660 million settlement from the L.A. archdiocese
today?
I eagerly await them...
Kim
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The Widow Ratzinger is going to have to sell some papal bling.
The settlement from the LA archdiocese - $660 M.
The long term cost to victims - priceless.
The LA diocese actually had 'abuse insurance" so they must have known something.
And we all know how compassionate insurance adjustors are.
It was an absolutely graceless press conference.
What was I expecting?
Now I'm off to read the Pope's new driving commandments.
Best,
Kate
Telepathic Messages
Hey Kate!
Happy summer!
I have often wondered, if you were to send a telepathic message to someone
who was having an out-of-body experience..would they get it?
-Leigh
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Dear Leigh,
Not if they use Verizon.
By the way, I knew you were going to ask that.
Best,
Kate
July 16, 2007
CNN and YouTube
Hi Kate -
I'm Ruth, in MD, and I chatted online with your during your first 2 internet
chats. I was wondering if you were planning on another one anytime soon. I
know your summers are very busy, but maybe this fall we can chat again.
Also I was curious about one other thing. CNN and Youtube are inviting
people to submit videos with their questions for the presidential
candidates.
Would you consider sending in any questions -- if so, what would you ask??
Thanks for keeping us all laughing!
Ruth
Dear Ruth,
My webmistress, Michele, has not scheduled another chat yet. Meantime this Q&A will have to do!
I would ask them if they really know how to access YouTube themselves! I know they are trying to involve the younger generation in the political process and I think that's great.
I would ask each of them what the diplomatic plan is for cleaning up Iraq.
Best,
Kate
July 12, 2007
Health Insurance
We wanted to thank K8t's girlfriend for
recommending Amy Winehouse,we are enjoying it,esp.the second
song....Thanks..I have a ? How is it that people that bust their ass and
have health ins..have an aweful capoff on prescription drugs and end up
having to pay out of pocket...and others can receive medicare and dont
have to worry about it?????? - Beth
Dear Beth,
Amy Winehouse will give you more relief. Ugh, I don't know answer to your question. Perhaps it was rhetorical? See Sicko if you want to get some deep/funny answers.
Hopefully President Clinton will be able to finish the work she began on Healthcare 16 years ago.
I'm in a single prayer plan, myself.
"Please god don't let me get sick."
Best,
Kate
Would you consider doing some video blogs? I think it would be tons o' fun- Erin
Is that you Michele, my dear publicist? Disguising yourself as Erin ? All right all right.
I just purchased a tape recorder designed for podcasting. We're getting closer.
What to wear is what I worry about when I think of vlogging.
Thanks Michele/Erin for your prod casting.
Best,
Kate
July 10, 2007
Coming Out In The Workplace
What advice would you give to a person that is only out to her very close friends
and her immediate family...and not out at her workplace?? I would like to come out
at work and include my partner in my health plan, but am afraid to come out to them
after working for them for nine years.?
PS:? They are a good company, but very, very conservative.
Alicia
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Alicia,
Take heart - you're not the only one in this sitch! I'd recommend you go online and check out the organization Out and Equal, they work in workplace equality. For the big picture.
Also check out work and books by Brian McNaught, he's been advising about being out at work for years and he's really sensible. For the more personal picture.
You'll figure out what's best for you - but to quote Nike - 'just do it'.
And gather your friends around!!
Do you work for Nike?
Best,
Kate
"If you go down to the woods today. . ."
Let’s review: if it’s three let it be. I just had to pull up a few sprouting milkweeds by the side of the house, didn’t I? Gloveless, of course. It’s not a rip-roaring case of poison ivy. It’s more slow-moving, popping up along the veins of my right hand, like it’s on a lazy summer rafting trip. Who knew I rested my face on my hand so much? I’m working the Caladryl, getting everyone’s trusted remedies, and bandaging where appropriate. Comparatively, it’s a lovely first world problem.
If, however, those three are one, as in triune, as in God, well, I can’t let that be. God’s Prod, the Widow Ratzinger, that old Prada-wearing Devil, can’t let it be either. He is bringing back the Latin Mass. And not a moment too soon. No more hootenanny masses with guitar strumming “Let it Be.” I for one could not be happier. When we were little, while my dear brothers were all trying to learn their few altarboy Latin lines, I learned to say the whole Mass in Latin, do the hand signals, light incense and swing a censerium. I am so ready. Oh wait, I forgot. I’m a woman. Never mind.
Pope Ed “Good Driver” Rimer, also issued the top ten commandments of driving: Thou shalt not use thy cellphone whilst driving. Thou shalt not flip thy bird. Thou shalt not make assumptions about a fellow driver’s mother’s genetic lineage. At least I think that’s what they said. Again the Latin. What’s next? Bringing back s/m martyr worship and second degree relic fetishizing? I personally am looking forward to buying a couple of indulgences. Although I guess I could just buy some carbon offsetting points and go right to heaven.
It’s Bear Week here in PTown! They’re lots of fun, hairier, larger, and way less tweaked than the Circuit Party boys. The only downside of the week is that it’s hell on the drains. Upside: their pool parties are a blast. They run water down a turquoise waterslide, send salmon up the slide and the bears bat them away. I hope this year they will make me an honorary She-bear. Remember, don’t keep any foodstuffs in your tent.
Speaking of She-Bears, I’ve decided to throw my support to Hillary Clinton. I actually notified the LGBT for Hillary people and was told that I needed to get security clearance and I haven’t heard anything back. It’s taking so long, I’m a little worried. The problem is that there is way too much tape on me in the public record. I can’t just refuse to turn over information. Who do you think I am? Dick Cheney?
I’m just the kind of support Hillary needs. I support her despite the flak I am taking for it at home and at dinner parties. I support her despite her despites. That she voted for the war. That she took three days to clearly rebut Peter “homosexuality is immoral” Pace. That she is mush mouthed on gay marriage. That it will once again be a woman’s job to do clean-up after the boys.
Perhaps her people have heard that so far I only have seven “Top Ten Reasons I Support Hillary Clinton.” She has the most experience. Yes, she’s a hawk, but she’s our hawk. And she comes with a pale male. She will cause Bill O’Really and Maureen Dowd to blow up. Only women bleed. At this point I’d rather be screwed over by a woman. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, (sorry) “You go to the polls with the candidate you have, not the one you wish you had.”
If I don’t get clearance, I will be the head of the distaff “She-Bears for Hillary 2008” We’ll have great pool parties. I’ll let you know when it’s safe to shake my paw.
July 06, 2007
K8T Asks: What would you say to someone who doesn't think her vote counts?
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July 05, 2007
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July 02, 2007
Curb Your Mitt!
It’s a known fact that there is nothing more difficult than trying to do political organizing in a resort town. You call for an evening meeting and the response ranges from “And miss the sunset?” to “Sorry, low tide, goin’ clamming.” In that spirit, it’s hard to get oneself, i.e. me, organized to answer the blog gotta make the donuts imperative. Especially when the day lilies are giving it their orange- alert all one day at a time. I just don’t want to miss it.
Dear blog-reader, stuck at your computer, I’m sure you are hearing blah blog blah, the dog ate my homework. But then, speaking of dogs, along comes Mitt Romney, and I practically broke a nail getting to the keyboard. Seems the terminally handsome Mormon, [that’s two Ms] was driving the family to a summer vacay, and the car was packed to the gills. It’s a new fuel economy thing. The family dog was apparently treated as a Monty Python after dinner mint. Mitt couldn’t possibly fit it in the car.
So Mitt, who is making a bid to be chief caregiver of our nation, had the bright idea to put the beloved Irish setter in a car tote and put the tote on top of the car for the ten hour ride. Neither the dog nor Mitt was wearing an astronaut diaper. The terrified dog terrified got car sick, or it could have been unrecalled dog food from a certain large soon to be Olympic host country. Mitt’s best friend let go a stream of dog poop so voluminous, they had to pull over to a car wash, hose down and resume their trip. The dog was still up top.
The story has been in the local Cape Cod papers and I can tell you that Mitt has lost the dog-owner vote. The incident has even cut into the man-on-dog sex homophobe theorist vote. The car wash bloc is also a bit swayed. The story does not have as many comedy possibilities as Old Number Two shooting his friend in the face, but good enough on a slow summer news day.
It’s circuit party week here in Ptown – when guys from all over the country come to town to party on down for four days. The testosterone levels have totally cancelled out the estro-swarm of Memorial Day weekend when all the young college girl grads from all over the Northeast come to town. But I swear to god, I think I saw Vlad and George drive George’s Dad’s cigarette boat up to the pier and hop on the all night orgy party boat before it left for a night of carousing on the very high seas. I’ll let you know what I find out.
I’m off to help the talented people at my summer place of employ – The Crown and Anchor – get our float ready for the Independence Day parade. Each summer we have a Co-Dependency Float. There’s nothing on it. We pull it ourselves. And en route we ask caring questions of parade watchers. “Do you need a sweater? You look cold. Here take my sweater.” Maybe this summer we’ll wear Co-Depends and ask Mitt to join us. Once a Gland Marshall, always a gland marshal. Don’t forget to pack the dog.
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