drag
February 20th, 2008 | Uncategorized
I just have to show you the costume I wore to the Winter is a Drag Ball the other night. The theme was the Rocky Horror Picture Show. So of course I was Brad.
The Queer Theory Professor whipped me up that plaid tie and cummerbund Saturday afternoon in a mere five hours. It was extraordinarily generous of her because she had to set aside the paper she was writing on cross-dressing in As You Like It.
Most people chose to ignore the designated theme and did their own freeform drag. However, I couldn’t persuade my girlfriend, who’s rather shy and introverted, to dress up at all. So she just went like herself.
Isn’t she something?
78 Responses to “drag”
just speechless….
Oh yippy! Isn’t it fun to have a girlfriend who will play dress-up AND who has a stronger inclination towards extroversion than one’s self? My new gf is similarly inclined and it’s a blast.
You make a wonderful Brad.
( Now I’m off to do the Timewarp… again ! )
I can tell from that dresser that somebody has cats.
god theres just something about nerds that gets my heart a-pumping.
the very first time I ever made out with a girl was in the back row at Rocky Horror.
You make a fine Brad; but who are you dating, Pamela Anderson?
Ssssssmokin’!
It’s as if some lucky poindexter freshman won a date with Pamela Anderson. You can just see your chest swelling with pride. Oh, wait…riiight.
Shadocat! Jinx! Double jinx! King jinx!
where can I get a polyester bodysuit like that?
Oh, Brad!
Ginjoint, you owe me a coke!
Janet!
If ever we meet, are you sure you wouldn’t want something a little more potent than a coke?
Doctor Scott!
Maybe a little shot of rum with it….
love the pants. they seem so…you. 😀
Rocky!
Damn it, Alison! 😉
Ginjoint, I kinda feel like a poindexter freshman who won a date with Pamela Anderson.
Bullwinkle!
So f-n cute. This was BOLD of you, A, posting this. Right on!
The two of you would be right at home as witnesses in this Phoenix Wright game for the DS that I’m playing… ^_^
Alison…
who hemmed your pants? the length is perfect.
Your girlfriend is a cutie…shame she’s no fun and wouldn’t dress up.
I see she’s a trend setter…those glasses, very avant garde!
Mouseketeer Roll Call!
(I love the drag, deeply, and alla y’all – – but mostly that first shot, which looks like a still life for Alison to sketch. The hand drawing is the hand that cradles the rock, and rocks.)
Who’s the Queer Theory Professor? Is that her girlfriend?
I see baseboards!
On another, very different topic: FUN HOME / EINE FAMILIE VON GEZEICHNETEN arrived. Finished in a day. So much more… translucent than the American original.
And again, when I looked at the last page, where AB jumps, my eyes were overflowing.
huh, rocky horror is everywhere (again) all of a sudden! here in sydney it just opened with (kickarse musician) iota as frank n furter… hooray 🙂
The two of you are just too cool! Shy or not, I can just picture her catching that bouquet!
What adorable photos!
Your gal looks (in drag) like Ann-Margret, or Joanna Lumley as a Bond girl! Hahahaha!
I like the Brad drag too. Nice.
that’s brilliant! i love.
I wish I were Frank N. Furter so I could ravish you both!
I have no words. *swoon*
Y’know, that wig is reminiscent of antlers. Headgear designed to awe and overwhelm.
Nice pose in the last pic.
Yeah, that first blush of lust/affection/whatever…is there a sweeter feeling in life?
In comics news, today my local paper ran an article on Lynn Johnston’s plans with “For Better or For Worse.” She’s going to wrap up all current story lines, then start from the beginning, tinkering with old strips, “aumenting” them. It sounds kind of confusing to me, but it’s her world:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0221johnstonfeb21,
Dammit, I hit “submit” too fast. Here’s the link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0221johnstonfeb21,1,3089449.story
way to go, AB! you know i’m a sucker for an accurately re-created film costume. you’re just missing the white boutonniere, so i hope paris was thoughtful enough to take some time from her “hottie and the nottie” publicity to make it to the florist.
Aaaaaaahmigawwwddd, that’s so cool!
Long-time reader, first-time commenter. As a teenage queer girl living in the Deep South, I’d just like to say that you’ve been not only a great inspiration to me, but I also LOVE your writing (I read Fun Home over and over!) and that you look so AWESOME as Brad!
You make an eerily good Brad, Alison.
This photo makes me particularly happy because (to be a GIANT GEEK for a moment):
When I was in high school, my friends and I used to pass your comics and Susie Bright’s books around while *planning our outfits* for the next Rocky Horror Picture Show. I also had your comics tacked up on my pale pink walls, alongside the Team Dresch and Bikini Kill posters.
Thanks for being part of the background of my very queer youth. 🙂
Alison, you didnt just dream it your were IT! I think I can hear your lovely lady shouting ‘toucha toucha toucha touch me!’ where I’m at!!!
So she’s officially your girlfriend now?
so the guitar…
hope you rocked the Time Warp before you left.
I wore a man’s suit the other day. I was told that I “clean up nice”. Seriously, Alison, you look like a male geologist. Women geologist dress so they can go out to a rock outcrop at a moment’s notice. Plaid shirts over a t-shirt, jeans and hiking boots. Doc Marten’s are the best, if you can afford them. My first visit to San Francisco, I was sitting at an open-air cafe looking at the women walking by and thinking, “There are a LOT of women geologists here in San Francisco”. Really, I did. I smiled and waived to everyone; they seemed perplexed at first, but smiled and waved back to me. I guess they could tell that I was from out of town…
Queer Theory prof? …so you’re dating Sydney???
Thanx for sharing these pix with us. Five hours to sew your costume? Wow, that’s a gracious gf (or a procrastinating prof, take your pick).
ps Ginjoint, thx for the FBOFW update. Alison, don’t ever do that to us, OK?
White socks? WHITE SOCKS????? Aaaaarrrggghhh, they are an abomination!!! Mind you, a Rocky Horror themed party is not exactly the place where you expect to find good taste …
Hope ya had a great time at the party! Am liking the girlf – she looks fun!
What kind of Brad fans are you people??
Not a single cry of “*ssh*le!!!”??
*throws rice*
The socks coudl be worse. Mr Gator was best man at a wedding once, and wore a rented grey suit. I stopped him just in time form wearing olive green socks with it.
Ever since LizGig has kindly provided us with a link to Talking Head’s “Once in a Lifetime” clip (cf comments to #522) I’ve alternately been time warped and nursing my own private midlife-crisis. But dear alls, I wonder, isn’t it — apart from painstakingly sewn fly and kummerbund and white socks — rather Alison in David Byrne drag we get to see here?
Go have a look for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbUCvz1LYE&feature=related
You look TOO awesome.
I am commenting to share a link which I am sure a million people will mail you. But apparently the homosexual agenda now involves geology:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255657.stm
Thumbs UP
Is Alison’s girlfriend that plumber from a few episodes ago? 😉
OMG the Talking Heads video – wow that’s a flashback! MTV had only just come out, I was down in the “recreation room” in my family home, a zoned out high school senior I think.
Lois may be too busy being the man to go dragkinging, but at least her mama is having a blast. 🙂
Oh Brad! 😀
Yeah, ready2agitate, back when MTV still played music videos.
Ooooh cool!
ITA, Cynthia-Symp, and lord help me I think that’s the first time I’ve ever wanted to drag-femme up, even in fantasy where my legs are as good as Tim Curry’s. 😛
Wow Alison, I didn’t realize how much a STUD you were!! 😀
hey…is the photo of AB giving herself the sideburn doctored in anyway…i think something may have been painted over on the right side of image……hmmmm
Translator interactions — AB, to what extent do you, or your publisher / agents, monitor what your translators are up to?
Detail / example: The English class with your father; not STOLZ UND VORURTEIL, “Pride and Prejudice”, on the cover of the book, but HOLZ UND VORURTEIL. Wood and prejudice? An echo of “Dummheit und Stolz / Wachsen am selben Holz”? Even as an hommage (femmage?) to the punning in D2WO4, it seems… misplaced.
So: How long a leash have you given them?
Hey Now –
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003714414
Alison’s cartoons were discussed Friday night.
Oooops – I mean Saturday (last) night.
AB, was it a drag doing drag?
AB, you make a stunning Ira Glass!
http://www.freeheld.com/
Just wanted to share this good news. This story unfolded locally and the folks who made a documentary about it won an academy award for their film on Sunday!
Thanks, Aunt Soozie.
Powerful.
Aunt Soozie, I saw them win on TV – they were so happy! I love documentaries, and I’ll rent this when it comes out on DVD.
Thanks Soozie—I’m looking forward to watching that one.
On another note; Don’t know if I’m going for Hilary or Barack yet, but thought this was pretty good—anyone else see this last Saturday?:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=221773
I love you as brad!!! However I want to see a pic of your new gf without the glasses and wig!
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I loved the Tina Fey commentary.
This is a link to the blog of a friend of mine who is the real thing, an old school feminist supporting Hillary. (Despite the fact that Tina says it’s so passe!)
Entirely off the subject, but you are all such a smart, informed group that I thought you might be able to help.
A friend just had a mastectomy and was told at Johns Hopkins that she doesn’t need radiation or chemo, but must take Tamoxifen for five years. She doesn’t want to do it, but Hopkins won’t follow her if she doesn’t. All her doctors are male and don’t like being argued with.
If anyone has experience or knows anyone who had slow-growing tumors and did not take the drug, please contact me directly. My email address is VirginiaHBurton(at)aol.com
Thank you for any help you can give.
Bitch is the new black! Awesome. Shadocat, thanks for the tina fey link.
Hey Virginia.
I’m gonna put a new post up imminently, and I think you should repeat your Tamoxifen question there. More people will see it than they will way down at the end of this one.
Fabuloso outfits. You rock!
WOW!!! You make one hell of a Brad, Alison! Your girlfriend rocks!
Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome!
Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome!
Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome!
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