June 2011
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Love this interview with Tommy Krasker about an insane-sounding 1946 flop musical (Sweet Bye and Bye) with an even crazier backstage story but with gorgeous songs by Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash. Krasker is finally realizing a 25-year-old dream of releasing a studio cast recording of the score.
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Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
I’ve been obsessed with the brown butter cinnamon rolls at Baker & Banker, a bakery and restaurant that’s a few blocks off Fillmore. They are a combination of the best cinnamon rolls I’ve ever had, reminiscent of fresh yeasty sweet rolls from my youth in Illinois, with a brown butter frosting that makes me want to lick the waxed paper.
This morning, I decided I’d make...
Twitter Oddity
When I logged in to Twitter this morning, I noticed a new avatar thumbnail in the list of people that I follow. I clicked on it, and realized it belonged to someone who has been offline for years but who I’ve missed and worried about for a while.
The odd thing was: I wasn’t following him, and he wasn’t following me. It was a tiny glitch that let me know he’s back online...
May 2011
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List of songs written or produced by Stock Aitken... →
Best Wikipedia page?
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Just want to issue my congrats to Justin Hall for his well-deserved Lambda Literary Award nomination for Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny. I went to the crowded book launch at Mission Comics back in December.
Glamazonia is from Northwest Press, a relatively new publisher specializing in LGBT comics. Amazingly, two Northwest titles were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards: Jon Macy was...
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Wilde Stories 2011
One of my favorite Year’s Best anthology series is Wilde Stories, which focuses on gay speculative fiction. It’s edited by Steve Berman, the publisher of Lethe Press. Previous editions have introduced me to major authors that were under my radar, such as Richard Bowes and Laird Barron, as well as up-and-comers like Ben Francisco (whose story “Tio Gilberto and the 27 Ghosts”...
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John Brandon on the novella. I’m a big fan of the novella form, or the long short story, or the really short novel.
February 2011
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Dancing the Dance: An Interview with Richard Bowes
Introduction
Science fiction and fantasy short story writer Richard Bowes has been quietly carving out a reputation as one of the finest writers in the industry. His World Fantasy Award winning novella “Streetcar Dreams” became the heart of his 1999 novel-in-short-stories Minions of the Moon, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy novel. His next book,...
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Blame It on Vanity
I don’t care that she’s found religion and turned her back on music. Vanity lives in Fremont; maybe she’ll show up for the Prince concert tonight?
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Welcome 2 America
The shows were announced on Wednesday, the tickets went on sale yesterday, and on Monday we’re going to see Prince at the Oakland Arena. Sheila E has already tweeted that she will be performing with him.
AND… Apparently they’re putting together a new edition of the tourbook to sell at Monday’s show, and it will be called “Cali4nia”.
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Current obsession, old time radio: Candy Matson
Candy Matson was the best of all of the old time radio lady detectives. Luckily for us, the show was also funny, wry and set in San Francisco.
As OTR expert Jack French has written, Candy’s sidekick Rembrandt Watson was about as gay as you could be on radio in the 1940s: “[B]y the end of WW II, San Francisco had the largest gay population of any city in the US. While network radio...
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The death of Germanicus.
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Current obsession, history: the Julio-Claudians
Some works of art invite reappraisal over time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve re-read (and re-purchased) Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, or listened to the Sondheim shows of the 1970s and 1980s, or watched Auntie Mame, The Women, and Sunset Blvd..
Two weeks ago I ordered the new BBC radio adaptation of I, Claudius off of Amazon.co.uk (the US version isn’t due out...
January 2011
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Current obsession, fiction: Richard Bowes
Current obsession, fiction: Richard Bowes.
Since 2005, Rick Bowes has been publishing a short story series/novel-in-parts in venues like Fantasy and Science Fiction and anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. Called Dust Devil: My Life in Speculative Fiction, the series has been called a speculative memoir because it tells the stories of a gay writer named Rick Bowes who lives in a very real New...
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Some of Kirk Read’s activities at Sundance, via his Facebook feed.
December 2010
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October 2010
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Sometimes I forget if I’m a noun or a verb.
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Dancing With The Stars is the modern-day replacement for the 1970s-era variety show.
It has it all: c-list celebrities, incredibly cheesy renditions of “current” songs, glitzy costumes in the Bob Mackie tradition, cornball humor, the anything-can-happen thrill of live television, and incomprehensible dance routines. The only difference is that elements that would have been...
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September 2010
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August 2010
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Stephen Sondheim is silent over sitcom featuring hard-drinking composer
A forthcoming American television series written by [Sondheim’s] friend John Logan, The Miraculous Year, follows the life of a fictional Broadway composer, Terry Segal, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sondheim.
The original script for the pilot episode is understood to have portrayed Segal as a homosexual,...
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What Will Make You Happier: 40 Years of Therapy, Marriage, or a Vacation?. Apparently, it’s spending $20,000 on leisure.
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Here’s a slideshow of my photos from yesterday’s march for marriage equality in San Francisco.
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