8/17/13

FRAN LEBOWITZ ON MAYOR BLOOMBERG



One of the worst things about Michael Bloomberg being the mayor is that because he was so rich, he didn’t have to appeal to what he kept calling the “special interest groups” — which, you know, I would call the “citizens.”
I don’t think public school teachers are a special interest group; I don’t think cops are a special interest group; I don’t think tenants are a special interest group. Billionaires are a special interest group. So when he says that anyone who is running for mayor is going to have to make concessions to these special interest groups — that is what democracy is. Not issuing bans and demands.
He thinks of himself as the public health mayor. How many hospitals closed under Bloomberg? Hospitals: that’s public health. Smoking, soda, salt? That’s private health. And what could be more minute? I mean, I’ve never heard anyone say, “ ‘Do you like New York?’ ‘Mmm, not really, too salty.’ ”
When he announced this soda thing, someone showed me the size soda that you couldn’t have. I didn’t know those existed. My first apartment was smaller than that. I think maybe in Abu Ghraib they make you drink that soda. It seems like a crazy amount of soda; it doesn’t mean I think it should be against the law.
Also, he’s the “green mayor”? He’s the green mayor who travels by private jet. There is nothing more polluting than jet fuel. One of his little trips on his private jet, to wherever he goes on the weekend — he doesn’t tell us, that’s his private life — that is every cigarette ever smoked in the history of New York City.
I don’t know how many of these bikes there are, but it seems like there are 80 million of them. I do not want to see 80 million ads for Citibank. When they first put them in, Bloomberg said, “Wasn’t that nice of Citibank? They gave us these bicycles.” Really? Let me put it this way: I would rather see Citibank give us back our money, and then I would buy them a bicycle. And also maybe a skateboard, if they’re really good.
The overturning of the term limits — when this happens in another country, we call this a coup. We, the citizens, voted — twice! — to have term limits, and then he overturned them. I saw him give some press conference about guns. He said something like, “I believe in democracy,” and I thought, No, you don’t. No, you certainly do not. Vladimir Putin has the same belief in democracy you do.
I really felt that during the election of the pope, Bloomberg was in a state of contained hysteria, trying to figure out, “How can I get this gig?” If I was in charge of electing the pope, I would elect him, because anything that would get him out of New York would be fine with me.

WILLY CARTIER LOOKING AS SEXY AS THEY COME!

model & photos courtesy~ willy cartier~ paris/antebellum correspondent

THE PANSY CRAZE @ ANTEBELLUM


~TONIGHT~
ANTEBELLUM
presents

THE PANSY CRAZE

chat by los angeles historian~
RICK MECHTLY
featuring random archival photos
 & contemporary location photos by 
RICK CASTRO

A "WALKING" VISUAL TOUR INSTILLATION

AUGUST 17TH
7PM
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please join us for this one~time~only salon
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pansy patio


The 1920s and 1930s saw the emergence of notable and visible gay & lesbian presence and subculture in various cities in the USA.
During the  early 1930s in Hollywood, gay clubs and performers, known as "pansy performers", experienced a surge in underground popularity~
a veritable Pansy Craze from 1930 until the repeal of prohibition in 1933. After the repeal of prohibition, this tolerance waned. 
Any sympathetic portrayal of gay characters (termed sexual perverts) was prohibited by the motion-picture production code from being included in Hollywood films.


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jean malin's club new yorker on hollywood blvd~ 1933

RANDOM THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

ON~ AUGUST 17TH~ 2013~ 8:50AM






















8/16/13

THE ALGAE OPERA



 The Algae Opera, artists Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton, along with mezzo-soprano Louise Ashcroft, intended to show how biotechnology can be used to transform organisms 


The Algae Opera, Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta with Gameshow Outpatient from Helen Penfold on Vimeo.
in a unique and creative way.
 An After Agri performance was showcased at the recently concluded Digital Design Weekend at the V&A. During the art-piece, the head-mounted, face-clinging device was worn by an opera singer  michiiko nitta who used her breath to feed algae with carbon dioxide. Later, the audience was encouraged to "taste her song."
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YUNG RAPUNXEL


Azealia Banks performing Yung Rapunxel.

21ST CENTURY COUPLE


TSUNAMI 2011



 video of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. just in case you forgot how intense it was.

VINTAGE S&M SCENE

CIRCA 1956