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True Blood: A Werepanther Rape is Not a "Sex Scene"
Last night’s episode of True Blood contained the usual outrageous plot twists and soap opera-levels of drama, which is great and which is why I (and probably you if you’re reading this) look forward to summer Sunday nights. However, it also contained a totally fucked-up gang... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Prime Suspect
Are there any explicitly feminist crime TV shows? Prime Suspect, which ran on UK television channel ITV from 1991 to 2006, is surely a contender, starring Helen Mirren as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Barbara MacEwen & the Haters of New York
Still thrilled about New York’s victory for marriage equality? Yep, me too. I wish I could have finished off Pride month in the Big Apple amongst millions of ecstatic fellow QUILTBAGs.
You know who’s not as happy, though? Douchebaggery all-stars like... Read more »
Stage Left: You Gotta Get A...Black Girl?
Musical theatre black women are often minor characters who show up to enlighten the main (white) ones with a Big Gospel Number, and then sink once more into the background. In spring 2006, not one but two shows premiered containing songs specifically lampooning this trope. And these are... Read more »
Stage Left: Here He is, World!
This series is about me finding a way to make musical theatre accessible to people who haven’t trusted it before—and to do so in a way that demonstrates how thought-provoking it can be.
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Takin
Having recently returned to New York from Detroit’s Allied Media Conference and two stops in the Midwest on my nationwide book tour, I am feeling reinvigorated by the... Read more »
BitchTapes: Slowin' it Down
Lots of songs are slow, but to recall the awkward, needlessly dramatic tradition of the junior or senior high school “slow dance,” tunes need to have several additional qualities for me:
They must speak of a love most intense and cinematic.
They must have a late-'90s sensibility,... Read more »
Esquire Gets Patriotic About... George Wallace?!
Charles P. Pierce’s already obnoxious “36 Reasons it’s (Still) Good to be an American Man” slide show for Esquire (Steak... Read more »
Political InQueery: The Week in Absurdifensiveness
This week pushed the upper limits of absurd and offensive: two incorrect stories hit the wire, although they can’t both be called “news” per se; Glenn Beck went off the air, only to reappear thirty minutes later; and a fake candidate for President got real Federal Elections Commission... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Douche Round-Up
Three douche-tastic nominees landed on our radar this week! Read on if you’re ready for an onslaught of unspeakable behavior. First up is Abercrombie & Fitch who I suspect is in a private war with American Apparel to be the douchiest popular clothing line. A&F has an illustrious... Read more »
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