October 12th, 2007
1. How ’bout that Doris Lessing?
2. Has anyone seen Amy Goodman lately? She seems to have Bell’s palsy. God, I worry about her. She works too hard. Though I once knew someone who developed this condition from riding her motorcycle without a helmet, so who knows?
3. Disappointed with my foliage time-lapse project, and unwilling to put in the necessary effort to do it properly, I undertook another leaf-related film yesterday. I shot the footage just at dusk in a rather melancholy light. Then set it to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem Spring and Fall: to a Young Child.
4. If you’re in NYC, there’s a release party for Juicy Mother 2 (Comix for Gender Pirates and Sexual Outlaws) at Bluestockings on Saturday night. Here’s more info.
October 8th, 2007
Here’s another nature movie, but it’s not finished yet. I’ve been shooting footage every day of a certain patch of trees, to show how the colors are changing. But it’s not very dramatic. I think to do it properly, I’d have to keep the camera locked in position and shoot at the precise same time each day. Plus find a way to keep the exposure the same. As it is now, the camera automatically adjusts to the changing light.
Oh well. I’ll show it to you again in a couple weeks when all the leaves are down and maybe it’ll seem more impressive.
September 7th, 2007
(Click the bat photo and it’ll take you to YouTube.) I’ve been slogging away on my next memoir, which I keep telling people is about my relationship history, and it is, but it’s also about something much more vague that I can’t quite pin down yet. Something to do with subjectivity and the nature of consciousness. I’ve been doing a lot of psychoanalytic and philosophical research which yesterday led me to Read the rest of this entry »
August 20th, 2007
You people–male, female, et al.–crack me up. I was totally kidding about Sydney being pregnant. Someone had made a joke about the possibility in a comment on Episode 511 and I was just following up on it. However, some of you made rather persuasive arguments for how and why she might be….jeez, now that I think of it, maybe she is pregnant. What the hell do I know, especially now that I’m only writing one episode a month? God knows what these people get up to when I’m not looking.
Anyhow. I’m sorry I’ve been AWOL. I’ve been off defragging. But here, I made a new Wild Kingdom installment. Castor Canadensis Slapping its Tail. My friend the Queer Theory Professor and I visited the beaver pond yesterday. She was telling me about a game she plays with another academic called Theorize This! where you have to spontaneously generate a queer theory of whatever–tennis, was the example she used. I didn’t think to ask her to formulate a theory of lesbians visiting a beaver pond. You can have a go, though, if you like.
P.S. There’s no beaver in that photo, that’s just their lodge.
June 19th, 2007
Pretty deer will come do it for you. I found this one browsing on my jewel weed this morning.
June 16th, 2007
The phoebes’ nest is boiling with babies. They’re much further along than they were yesterday.
June 16th, 2007
Time for Wild Kingdom again. The phoebes’ babies have hatched. Remember the phoebes? The birds who were late returning to their nest in April?
Hm. While I was messing around on YouTube, my attention was directed to this interesting video challenge by a young gay man.
May 23rd, 2007
It was such a lovely evening here I had to make another installment of my Wild Kingdom documentary series.
Oh, and here’s something I keep meaning to mention. The Comics Curmudgeon made a nice passing reference to my work recently. He began a post about “amusing ancillary details” in various recent editorial cartoons with the comment, “Dykes To Watch Out For creator Alison Bechdel once described her urge to put little, almost invisible details in her comics as arising from horror vacui, which must be a common cartoonist affliction.” You can read the whole thing here on Wonkette. I couldn’t find it on the Comics Curmudgeon’s own site for some reason. I don’t understand how all this stuff works. But that’s okay because I’m not a blogger. If you don’t know the Comics Curmudgeon, you should. I have particular respect for his insights into my favorite daily strip, Mark Trail.
