Party Barbie colette at Régine, Paris, and Shara’s engagement at avec in Chicago
March 12, 2009 on 11:10 pm | In Music, Family and Friends, Collette through Time and Space, Video | Leave a CommentThe Barbie Doll’s 50th birthday is being celebrated around the world!
Party Barbie colette
March 12th, 2009, at The Régine.
Come celebrate Barbie’s 50th anniversary at Régine this Thursday, March 12th, starting at 10pm, with Lady Bunny, Mister Rabbit, a live by Steed Lord, a warm-up by Olympia Le Tana & a dance performance by Dangerkat. The House of Dangerkat is a Canadian-based collective of arts professionals synthesizing fashion and styling with music and dance, further enhanced by video, photography and design. The House’s laissez-faire style of performance art has wowed the fashion, dance and music communities with their progressive approach to art making and rule breaking. Check out performances from Paris, New York and Canada at Dangerkat.
A very special thanks for providing champagne to Nicolas Feuillatte, for vodka to Girl By Necker and for lemonade by Lorina.
My friend Jason Williscroft saved me from getting too wrapped up in the trappings of this non-holiday by sending me the video of his evening at avec in Chicago last weekend, where he proposed to his girlfriend Shara with a self-described Barbie Diamond.** Congratulations to Jason and Shara! May you have a long and happy life together!
** It’s a Barbie Diamond because it’s pink, not because it’s tiny. The diamond, I mean, not the ring. Watch the video.
Happy New Year! (Lunar calendar)
January 25, 2009 on 9:12 am | In Dogma meets Karma, Video | 1 CommentIn honor of the Chinese Year of the Ox, I share the story of Ferdinand the Pacifist Bull, whose mother just let him smell flowers under the cork tree and be happy. An accident caused Ferdinand to be judged the fiercest bull in his herd and so he was sent to a bullfight.
A Spanish Bullfight is a barbaric game inevitably leading to the bull’s death. It’s a glamorous spectacle meant to emphasize Man’s domination over animals. Ferdinand’s happy refusal to fight thwarts the Matador’s aggression, defeating him, and saving his own life.
Like Ferdinand, may you who read this save the day by sitting on your ass, when asked to facilitate violence and oppression. I wish you all the happiness and joy of peace in the coming year. You can have it, if you want it. I want it now.
There’s noone as Irish as Barack Obama
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