what i would give for ..

    think i'm feeling a bit out of synch..with most things and people today; i had a kwel sunday, in that my friend, took me to Point reyes for a picnic__a bit cold but fun and the ride was nice..esp., since my friend kind'a wanders when he drives.

we went tomales point and had tomalies.
 

 
Tule Elk Herd on Tomales Point; TOMALES POINT (2,781 acres) - This unit encompasses all of the land on Tomales Point north of a fence from Tomales Bay to the Pacific Ocean (in place to create a Tule elk reserve.) It supports grassland, mixed coyote brush scrub, and dense bush lupine stands at the northern tip of the peninsula. In 1978, tule elk were reintroduced to Tomales Point, and in 2006 herd size was approximately 430 animals.

the art of john bankston; 

It was not Mapplethorpe’s original intention to be a photographer, and from 1970 to 1974, he mainly made assemblage constructions that incorporate images of men from pornographic magazines with found objects and painting. In order to create his own images for these collages, Mapplethorpe turned to photography, initially using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. Interested in portraiture, Mapplethorpe worked as a staff photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. He also produced album covers for Smith and the group Television, and at the same time photographed socialites and celebrities such as John Paul Getty III and Carolina Herrera.

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 Sometimes My Feet Go Numb

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Qcc Web Commission (2000)

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Ned Rorem first met Paul Frederic Bowles (1910–99) in the summer of
1941. Bowles at thirty was living in Taxco, Mexico, and the seventeen-year-
old Rorem was traveling there with his father. Two years later, when Rorem
and Bowles were both living in New York, they struck up a friendship.
Rorem recounts vividly his first visit to Bowles's apartment of 1944, a small
penthouse with a “spectacular view of downtown Manhattan”: “The larger
of the two rooms was all in white, ” Rorem writes, “white sofas, a white
piano, with long white curtains moving slightly in April's first warm
breezes, and a white fur rug wall to wall. A white telephone with the num-
ber removed. ” The account continues:

Like his room at the Chelsea a year ago, this one reeked of perfume, as
indeed did Paul himself, wherever he went. He had spent the better part
of his Guggenheim fellowship on raw ambergris which he combined
with other basic essences to confect heavy oils that imbued the furni-
ture, never to disappear. A luscious cage of scent for him to hide behind.

Rorem reports further details attesting Bowles's creation of an esoteric
and, at points, dark, worldly mystique, and then writes, “All of this would
be chitchat were it not relevant to another aspect of the man which grew
clear in the next half hour, and which changed my life as [Satie's] Socrate
and [Stravinsky's] Sacre had. ” ¹ Bowles played a recording of an arietta
from his zarzuela (operetta)The Wind Remains(1942). “I was bewitched
and remain bewitched after five decades, ” Rorem wrote in 1994. He con-
fesses to having appropriated then, and retained thereafter, what he per-
ceives to be Bowles's signature (albeit unconscious) musical mannerism: an
expressive “dying fall” by minor third. The same gesture was favored by
Mahler in his late-Romantic Weltschmerz, but it is used to opposite effect  ..

remember the journey, the journey..

 Frameline : African American/Black Studies

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Billy Turner's Secret 
A comedy about a young black man coming out to his homophobic roomate

Different Kind Of Black Man, A 
A powerful look at the ideas and feelings of successful, black gay men

No Regret (Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien) 
Five sero-positive black gay men speak of their individual confrontation with AIDS

O Happy Day 
imagines the early days of gay liberation for black gay men

Two Encounters 
Armed with hidden buttonhole cameras two gay men, one black and one white, go to two gay bars in New York, one predominantly black and one predominantly white. . .

...tings u can do (in the city of SF) if your queer is transgender- (or) 26 & under 

Community Events

but if you are (in the city of SF) and your queer is not transgender or 26 and under, u know like  30 and over (like way over), nontransgendered,

Queer things to do in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Tuesday, March 27, 2007: 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. "Queer in the Middle East, a Public Conversation" Jessica Stern of Human Rights Watch, Suha Dabbouseh of Amnesty International and Al-Fatiha, Maher Sabry who was a filmmaker in Egypt and left in the wake of the Cairo-52 incident in 2001, and a representative of the Palestinian Gay Women's organization ASWAT. Main Library Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. (at Grove)

    Tuesday March 27, 6-8 pm: "Queer Neighborhoods of the Future" - Finale Roundtable in Popular Series "Queer in the City: GLBT Neighborhoods and Urban Planning." Co-Sponsored by GLBT Historical Society and Castro Coalition.

  Tuesday March 27, 10 pm Suicide Tuesdays: Hold Yr Horses with Rchrd Oh?! electro, rnb indie hip hop 80s punk. With Rchrd Oh?!, of the mp3 blog http://this.bigstereo.net spins indie, electro, and discopunk. Cover is $3. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. At Aunt Charlie's, 133 Turk by Taylor. http://www.myspace.com/recordzombie http://www.suicidetuesdays.com/

  Wednesday March 28, 10:30pm: PYT has a new name... STAY GOLD. $3 gay dollars. 3 gay dj's (Pink Lightning, Four Cheese, devon.devine) hella queer dance jams. At Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia

    Thursday, March 29th, 8pm: KFC Collective Guerrilla Outdoor Screening: 2007 seems to be about a perpetual summer, so it's the year of free outdoor screenings! Our roving collective has scoped locations around SF and found a primo parking lot (next to the Lucca deli!) to bring endless viewing pleasures of radical and experimental shorts to your feet. Films By: Veronica Majano, Wuli Leung and Hannah Lew, Christian Bruno and Natalija Vedic, Brian Boyce, Ilona Berger, Jennifer Worley, Thad Povey, Sabrina Alonso. So come along, bring a date, a friend, a dog, a beer, hot cider, some popcorn, or any other DIY goodies you'd like to share with your fellow parking lot squatters. All are welcome! Come reclaim the mission for DIY...one film and one parking lot at a time! In the Lucca parking lot between 22nd and 23rd on Valencia street in the Mission

    Tuesday April 3, 10 pm The Hop! (a night-time social) 1st Tuesday of every month. DJed by Brontez. Garage, R&B, B-sdies, Girl Groups, bubblegum. $3. At Aunt Charlie's, 133 Turk by Taylor. http://profile.myspace.com/1256201

    Wednesday April 4, 9pm-2am: Fist: Monthly Queer Porn Dance Night at El Rio on Mission St at Precita. DJ's Chelsea Starr (Hot Pants) DJ Campbell (So Emo, Hot Pants) Jenna Riot (hot, duh). El Rio: 3158 Mission @ Cesar Chavez http://www.elriosf.com

    SPRING 2007 QUEER STUDIES LECTURE SERIES AT SONOMA STATE ...

        Black Eye for The Queer Guy

    and from his (keith's) page..Thug Wire 

Uncover links of the military presence,

prison expansion, labor and immigrant exploitation

embedded in the Bay Area landscape through a

popular education bike tour.

Come with stories to tell.

Meeting Time: 10am

Date: Saturday, May 5th

Duration: 3 to 4 hours

$25 per person

Start at Crissy Field

Sites: Presidio, Fort Baker, Nike Missile Site, (near) San Quentin

End at GG Bridge

CONTACTS:

1904 Franklin Street, Ste 504

Oakland, CA (510) 444-0484

croakland@criticalresistance.org

 corey spears................................................................................................................

Drub-Punk Rock Porno Illustrator__ I've always enjoyed drawing. I started drawing when I was two. My working class parents saw something in me and fostered my love of cartoons and drawing in general. I drew a great deal as a kid, when I wasn't playing in the woods, building treeforts, pouring over maps of places I wanted to visit, and people watching.