Tuesday afternoon
June 21st, 2006 | Uncategorized
This is a view out the window from the Sirius Satellite Radio studio in midtown, where I went for an interview on the Michelangelo Signorile show. It’s weird doing radio interviews. A sort of out-of-body experience. I have no idea what I said. Their offices were terribly fancy. See my name on the screen?
Then for something completely different, we drove way over practically into the Hudson to the cable access station.
I was on Ann Northrop’s and Andy Humm’s delightful news show Gay USA. I love those guys! I get their show at home in the hinterlands on satellite tv, and it makes me feel like I actually know what’s going on. We had a really nice conversation about Fun Home. I’m not sure when it airs, but I’ll try and figure it out.
7 Responses to “Tuesday afternoon”
Alison: I just wanted to thank you again for signing four copies of Fun Home for me at your Chelsea reading. (You also signed a DTWOF for my dad and me). My girlfriend Karen, who previously alleged to dislike comics, is totally addicted to Fun Home and can’t put it down; our straight friend Felicia, who came along with us simply because we were going out to dinner after, is now also similarly engrossed and our friend Marty, who is already a fan and couldn’t make the reading, loved getting a signed copy. Thanks for creating a new genre, the memoir comic. Dorothy
Dorothy: not to be too a-r about things, but Alison’s memoir is not really the first memoir comic.
The good news for you is, there are more of them. Look for “Persepolis” and “Epileptic” for some fine examples of a rather new genre.
Awesome skyscraper pix. You can get a really cool visual “thing” if you move your mouse up and down just a little…….*ahem* What else does a counselor do on her days off………? So nice to see more of NYC, especially Stonewall Inn. I have never been there but if I get to NYC again, I will pay my respects.
not that this has much to do about your post, but I just purchased fun home.
Its amazing. I dont ever want to read a book with out it being a comic narrative, I got so completely into it I was having trouble putting it down to go to sleep.
-Jenn
I also was there at The Center. Your reading was very moving. I finished Fun House and I would like to say I was so disturbed by several sections, that I had to put it down and take a break (and I mean that as a complement). The part about the pointed-mountain-shaped marks brought back the moment I found my early-teen-year diary with the words, “I think I like (insert fellow androgynous girl here). I want to… (section obscured by red pen scribbles)”. I had erased her name, then rewrote it and erased it, and eventually, angered my diary with my denial so much, the page ripped. Your honesty made me remember what a freak kids can be and how much love they need.
[…] A few weeks ago, Maureen and I caught an installment of “Gay USA”. It’s a thought-provoking show, and I encourage everyone to watch it on occasion — it will open your mind. The show we caught included an interview with Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic. Alison strikes me as a funny, smart, interesting woman. What’s not to like? And her comic is funny, too. […]
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