Double Reading

After all the discussion about being gay in Iran following Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment about there being no gay people in Iran, I found this Newsweek interview with a gay Iranian (who left Iran for the U.S.) interesting and thought it was worth sharing.
One part of the interview especially struck me. The man says:

It’s [...]

I tend to dislike films that fall into the “Gay and Lesbian” genre. They are usually either really unrealistic a la (straight) romantic comedies or overly dramatic or too simple and straightforward (thus not really investigating deeper themes that “straight” movies might delve into [and I think part of this is because the "Gay and [...]

Strange that in season 2 of both Dynasty and Smallville someone is blinded by some traumatic event only to have their sight return but keeps it secret and continues pretending to be blind to see the true intentions of those around them. Both Lionel Luther and Blake Carrington fake their blindness.
I’m not saying that the [...]

I went to the Experience Music Project for the third time yesterday. The first time I loved the exhibit about the history of alternative music (or so I recall that’s what it was about — in particular I remember a special mini-section about the Minnesota music scene which I found awesome and validated my love [...]

My trendspotting regarding Frankie Valli doesn’t seem to be as random as I hoped. Apparently there was recently (2005) Broadway play called Jersey Boys about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. That would explain all of the recent interest.

Recently I’ve noticed that masks are the new cool thing to wear. Animal masks, in particular.
Exhibit A:
Fox N’ Wolf performing “In Yr Underwear”:

and

Exhibit B:
The Bat For Lashes video “What’s A Girl To Do”:

Exhibit C (my favorite):
Last night at the ridiculously awesome Institubes Paris Terror Club show a bunch of the DJs were wearing animal [...]

It never occured to me that the US bombing of Japan during World War II probably resulted in the most people dying simultaneously (or within a rather short amount of time) in the history of humanity.
I just watched the documentary White Light, Black Rain. Despite knowing “about the bomb” and “about the situation,” I never [...]

The television show Heroes got me to thinking about the evolution of humans. At one point in the unaired poilot, Mohinder talks about constant minute changes in the human genome and suggest that teleportation, etc. might not be that far off.
But really, so far as I know, the “biological” aspect of a living organism doesn’t [...]