sundries, supersized

Tomorrow at 6am EST Patty and I have our last vid date before she is home on Tuesday. Then, I crawl out of bed for 2 Day Film School! Then ladyofthelog comes over for apartment cleaning and Sherlock obsessing.

If you haven't heard Erica and I screaming with joy on other social media (or generally just from various upper reaches of Manhattan), last night Dogboy & Justine crossed the funding threshold.

So first, thank you. We can't say it enough, and I hope to be able to say it more poetically soon.

As of now, we've raised $6,045 for our workshop production. So what happens next? ( a lot of information for those who have donated, those that still want to, and people who are otherwise interested )

Yesterday was also a productive Friends of the Text meeting and there will be stuff of awesome for you soon. We are doing our best to fight the academic pace of things, and I think we're on target to make stuff happen.

I also can't make enough noise about Kali and I having solved the book. Which, hilariously has a shitty working title we hate and a title we know an eventual publisher will call it, but not actually a title we like and would advocate for yet. I'm hoping that we'll have some sort of summary or excerpt we can share with at least a selected audience sometime in the next few months.

For fuck's sake, yes, I am still working on ConSweet. And yeah, still listening to that shit Kevin Rudolf song on repeat to do it.

Have I mentioned that Bazmark Inq is actually using the Internet lately? I know, right? Anyway, I alert you to this because today a list of research materials they've been looking at for Gatsby was posted. For those wanting to follow along at home (and also scholars), this is super cool.

When I got home last night, after midnight, I turned on the news and saw footage of the rioting in London and promptly burst into tears. First, there is an easy to understand brutality to the footage. It's just pushing and shouting and people being beaten with truncheons and frightened animals (and, btw, you should also Google "kettling" and get an understand of what's being done to even peaceful protesters). ( I lived in DC during the first Gulf War )

Meanwhile, who's surprised by this one? Not me: some Wikileaks team members are breaking away to form a competing organization, Openleaks, in response to differences with Assange. The money quote comes from a chat log Wired obtained in which a Wikileaks staffer says to Assange, "You are not anyone's king or god, And you're not even fulfilling your role as a leader right now. A leader communicates and cultivates trust in himself. You are doing the exact opposite. You behave like some kind of emperor or slave trader."

I am, honestly, sincerely, actually freaked out by the state of the world right now. It's not that the world is so much more fragile or dangerous than at any other time in my life. In some ways, it's less so. But we are on the cusp and in the middle of fistfulls of changes in a way I've never seen before.

In other news, this is the most useless article about Polari ever, but it's facing extinction and you should know about it.

Let me show you my continuing love for the Disunion blog: Today, Visualizing Slavery, focusing on the 1860 census of the population of people enslaved in the US at the time.

My Last Play: the thing about gimmicks is that they can work. Sometimes, they can also be sincere.

The New York Times writes an article which contains some interesting content yet actually has a thesis that's far, far, FAR more all over the map (so perhaps no thesis) than it realizes, declaring this "the year of the transsexual." The piece is also, unsurprisingly, so full of fail it's jaw dropping.

Randomly: join me in staring at Benedict Cumberbatch's beautiful cat-like face.