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| Come see me in The Wiz this Saturday! |
[15 Jun 2009|11:15am] |
The Wiz: A Queer Multicultural Tribute, is the inaugural show produced by Miz Ginger Snapz. Starring local favorites: Sahara Dunes, Jacqueline Hyde, EmpeROAR Fabulous, Charlotte Truse, Femnomena, and Miz Ginger Snapz, as well as a bevy of up-and-coming talent and hosted by the fiercest of the fierce, Aleksa Manila, the Wiz is *the* burlesque show of the summer.
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
Street: 104 17th Ave. S
City/Town: Seattle, WA
Oh Snapz! Productions is committed to creating art and entertainment which values the contributions of all performers regardless of race, gender identity, sexuality, age, class, or body size AND we put on a damn good show!
NOTE: No one under 18 years old will be admitted.
Email: ohsnapz.productions@gmail.com
Website: http://www.myspace.com/mizgngersnapz
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LGBT/104462432000#/event.php?eid=96143023857
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| Contact Info... |
[02 Feb 2009|09:26am] |
My cell phone was officially DOA when I arrived in San Francisco this weekend. I lost all my contacts as the f'ing thing will not turn on. Please comment with your info so I can re-add it to my address book.
Thankie!
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| Awesome. |
[02 Feb 2009|09:09am] |
Olympics for Hipsters: The Indy 500 It’s Not
"Nobody was supposed to show up for the Idiotarod, the annual absurdist shopping cart race, until 1 p.m. last Saturday. The race’s starting point was a closely guarded secret until the day before, and the Carts of Brooklyn Racing Association, its sponsor, had urged people gathering for the 1:30 start time to keep a low profile.
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Meanwhile, the five-member teams kept arriving: one team dressed as the Village People, another as five versions of the 1980s Domino’s Pizza mascot, the Noid. One team wore ugly sweaters and Bill Cosby masks; another group was dressed as librarians and pushed a cart full of books. The eventual winner was a team called Colonel Angus."
Oh hell yeah!
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| Snow + Laptop = Work from home. *woe* |
[19 Dec 2008|01:27pm] |
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While I loves me some geektoys, having a work laptop means I can't not-work when it snows because I "can't make it into the office due to weather" doesn't fly when the office is virtual. Or when I live an 'exercise-enthusiasts' walk from work and my boss knows it. Sure, it's only 2.5 miles and getting there is all down hill, but given the snow and my predisposition towards falling when it's a clear 90 degrees out, taking the trip mostly on my ass isn't appealing.
Don't get me wrong, I REALLY HATE snow and cold-wetness, in that order. Especially when I have meetings at *$$#$%@ 7:15am. Getting home would be all up hill. While I could use this as an opportunity to generate stories for the-children-I-won't-have stories about how rough it was back in the day, it's worth the necessary yoga it will take from contortioning a laptop-useful position either on the couch or from under a pile of covers on the bed to experience the snow through the window and no closer.
But I still have to work. And write my year end review. *woe*
It sorta makes me feel like my ass is corporate-owned. And not in a good way.
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| Ohh, that made my brain hurt a little bit |
[18 Nov 2008|04:48pm] |
My Ipod just went through the following shuffle:
ABBA - Thank you for the music
Then...
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
I have no idea how any of these songs ended up there. They are NOT in any playlist I setup. Weird.
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| Is this pronounced 'oh hell yeah'? |
[18 Nov 2008|02:38pm] |
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In times of economic downturn and career instability, I start to plan escapes. Whilst looking at Rough Guide World Party I found this.
Up-Helly Aa in Lerwick, Scotland
Around a thousand people, many of them costumed Vikings, complete with winged helmets, axes and shields and flaming torches, take to the streets of Lerwick in the Shetlands on the last Tuesday of January to drag a Viking galley through the town. It’s set up on the seafront, and then everyone hurls their torches on board and it’s razed to the ground, at which point everyone disappears off to the pub.
Cajun, why did this make me think of you?
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| Further forays into dating websites... |
[12 Nov 2008|08:20am] |
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This was an actual question from an online dating website:
Would you ever have sex in a graveyard?
a) Yes, anything goes!
b) Yes, but only with the living.
c) No
This amused me way more than it should have.
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| Random. |
[10 Nov 2008|10:22pm] |
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What is it about post-apocalyptic dystopian zombie movies that invokes the desire to have an decent disaster kit and a really big machete? Is it just me? Have I been spending too much time by myself lately?
... I'm guessing that's a 'yes'.
I just have that creeping feeling that if the world were to go to shit, the cute, cubby, clumsy girls might have difficutly transforming into the lithe ass-kicking babes of celluloid galmour. Then again, I do have personal-space issues, which probably extend to zombies and other forms of civil unrest (though aparently not to middle-eastern countries, subways, or particularly sketchy parts of town after dark, go figure), so maybe I would survive past the first 12 minutes of world-wide disaster. Do they allow fat chicks into totalitarian or barbarian societies? Are there short, squatty evil hench-heroines with a predisposition towards survival in the grand scheme of the new world order?
I think I need to stop falling asleep with the TV on...
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| It's all heroin and shotgun flashbacks |
[05 May 2008|05:48pm] |
I am getting old. This proves it: Growing Up Grunge...
The sad thing is, this guy is from New Jersey. The sadder thing? He likely purchased his clothes new from Wal-Mart as opposed to Value Pillage, La Sal, or Goodwill.
Ah, to recall back in the day when 6000 people showed up to see Mudhoney at Pain in the Grass at the Seattle Center and The trEnd actually played "Alternative" music.
Now all I need is see Seaweed in a dive bar in Tacoma, try to sneak into 'The Underground', or grab coffee at The OK Hotel and my life will make one big full grunge circle (oh, add Lollipalooza too). Then, a few years later, I could hit AJ's apartment on 19th and East Thomas where they filmed Singles.
Don't I sound all trite and trendier-than-thou or rather more authentically grunge. Groan.
In all actuality, while going to college (though still technically in high school) grunge was a slight speed bump in my musical ramblings somewhere between transitioning from The Teardrop Explodes to discovering Bad Religion.
Whilst I'm marching mopey down memory lane, here are a few firsts cirra 1993...
( Read 'Em and weep here... )
Be amused. Be very, very amused.
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| Zingy in thought and motion... |
[16 May 2007|10:44am] |
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You all know that 99.9995% of my post are friends-only, right?
It seems as though my trip to Naw'lins hath flipped my internal switch from anti-socially-angsty-at-the-world to 'satisfy me with adventurous amusement and wanderlust'. I'll be in NYC in August, so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated... Who's going to Convergence?
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| Insert internal, er, *eternal* damnation of choice here. |
[25 Oct 2006|11:06pm] |
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Give me one reason I'm going to hell.
Then post this request in your LJ, and I will tell you why YOU are doomed to eternal damnation.
All I gotta say is, only one?
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| Keep forgetting to post this.... |
[22 Sep 2006|05:15pm] |
BENT MENTOR SHOWCASE 2006 :: FEATURING DOROTHY ALLISON
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Bent Writing Institute & Dorothy Allison
Seattle First United Methodist Church, 811 Fifth Avenue
Friday October 13 & Saturday October 14
Doors 7:30pm / Curtain 8:00pm
Dorothy Allison Mentor Writing Workshop
Seattle First United Methodist Church
Saturday October 14
1pm-3pm
Tickets :: brownpapertickets.com
More info :: bentwriting.com and press@bentwriting.com
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Bent, the nation¹s only 'little queer writing institute that could,' is proud to bring to the Seattle stage an incomparable queer artist who can and who has: Dorothy Allison. Heralded as 'One of the finest writers of her generation' by the Boston Globe and 'Simply stunning!' by the New York Times Book Review, Allison will again electrify and transform audiences. Over two nights at the First United Methodist Church, more than 30 Bent students will share the stage with Allison for Bent¹s fifth annual mentor and student showcase and award show.
( More details here )
I will be reading on Friday. You can buy tickets directly from me (pretty please).
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| A few choice words... TONIGHT |
[07 Sep 2006|11:52am] |
A Few Choice Words
A fundraiser celebrating the power of WORDS to incite action and social change.
Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: The BalMar
5449 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107
*Please note, this is not an all-ages event, you must be 21 or older to attend*
Two levels of support, one great event!
$40 VIP Tickets - Purchase a seat and guarantee your up-close and personal view of our fantastic performers. There are a VERY LIMITED number of VIP tickets available so get yours NOW!
$20 General Admission Tickets – While these standing room tickets do not guarantee a prime view of the action, sound will be piped throughout the bar so you can still hear the jokes, songs and poetry as you play pool, enjoy beverages or socialize for reproductive rights.
Featuring:
Master of Ceremonies, comedian Meghan Hounshell
Christa Bell, poet and spoken word performance artist brings us a sneak preview of her one-woman show "Coochie Magic: A SpokenWord Musical Comedy
The political, sensual, and intelligent music of Cristina Orbe
The sensational Queen Bees will cause a buzz with their unique brand of "Draglesque"
DJ B-Girl will be keeping the party hoppin' with her fierce hip-hop mixes
***All proceeds from this event will support NARAL Pro-Choice Washington's grassroots efforts to turn out the Pro-Choice vote this fall***
Tickets can be purchased on-line at
www.ProChoiceWashington.org
or by calling (206)624-1990.
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| No, nothing's wrong, it's just an observation... |
[09 Aug 2006|06:20pm] |
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August: The month the Universe (insert preferred diety here) picks up lifes snowglobe, turns it upside down, shakes it around a bit, looks to see what gets stirred up/subjected to random synchronicity/omgwtfbbq..!?, laughs, turns it back over, sets it back on the window sill watch the glittler bits settle, and looks forward to spending the winter amused at our attempts to figure out what the fuck just happened.
I know it's not just me.
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| The Queen Bees will help raise money to support cancer survivors! |
[08 Aug 2006|04:26pm] |
When: Tonight 8/8 10Pm
Where: Neighbor's, 1509 Broadway
What: Red Door Gala pre-party for Gilda’s Club, Seattle.
Cost: $5
Come see Miss Ginger Snaps, Cherrypop Crush and Kitten Extreme in a brand new very groovy, very pink number!
Also, the Queen Bees are recruiting new members!
We’re a group of glittering draglesque performers looking for folks to join us. No experience necessary but you must have a sense of humor, enjoy collaboration and value creatively and imagination as essential political principles (and be comfy with queers, and shiny stuff, and probably a large heap of nakedness). Musicians, karaoke stars, crafty people, burlesque stars, drag kings/queens, we want you (all genders welcom)!
New member orientation will be Saturday, August 19th at 6 pm. For more info, contact Seattlequeenbees@yahoo.com www.queenbees.org
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| baa-a-a-a-aaa, oh, I mean birthday... |
[07 Apr 2006|11:16pm] |
The meme: Go to wikipedia.org. Type in your birth month and day, then copy three events, two births, and one death listed.
1872 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy for having 25 wives.
1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
1959 - The first artificial satellite to orbit the sun, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
1979 - Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.
1991 - Linus Torvalds buys the computer which got Linux started.
Born:
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
1939 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
Died:
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
Holiday:
Catholicism and Anglicanism — Feast day of St. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen.
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| Cohorts needed. |
[24 Mar 2006|11:14am] |
Who is going and/or wants to go with me. I really, really, really want to see Massive Attack, and want someone to go with me. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, so let me know asap. Maybe to the Gorge in May too, but I dunno about that whole 'sunlight' thing. My car does have air-conditioning thou (so helpful in a place where it mostly rains).
Massive Attack
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 08:00 PM
Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
Sasquatch! Festival
May 26, 27, 28, 2006
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Reply and say which one you're interested in.
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| Loopy and TMI |
[23 Mar 2006|12:01pm] |
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Hmmm, I should have something thoughtful to say.
...nah.
(NOTE: Do not read further if you do not want a graphic description of gross. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)
I came down with food poisoning on Monday. Isn't that charming? There is nothing like blowing chunks exorcist style all over the floor of the bathroom whilst diving for a deposit to the porcelain gods. Oh yeah, oh baby, did I mention that I was at work? Did I mention the sheer velocity sprayed it up the walls and down the front of my work clothes (including my socks)? Ah, there is nothing like washing your shirt in the sink at 10:30am at work after cleaning up said bathroom stall, in hopes of getting myself presentable enough to walk back through cubeland to retrieve keys and purse-like-object, so I can go home to puke in one’s own sink located conveniently next to the toilet. Did I mention I felt fine when I got to work at 8am that very morning?
Even better, did I mention the said object of internal combustive explosion and said forward prolusion was corned beef and cabbage? The likes of which took 3 days to excavate pink and frothy from my internal organ configuration at the expense of countless bottles of vitamin water because shooting applesauce violently through my nose, while less vile, is much more acidic and therefore searing? Yay! Did I mention I don’t get paid for sick time? Happy Dance. That’s just the way to make a lady free Teh Sex-hay. Yeah, baby! Bow-chick-bow-bow. :D
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