November 10, 2010

Collaboration and totality (1)

I started this blog in the second week of a three week pause in the mural workshop I’ve been running with Project WOW! at NJCRI in Newark, New Jersey.  I intend to use this space as a true log of the progress of that collaboration and others.  A reader might have missed that fact given the posts so far.  I explain it this way:  I also hope to present, to the best of my ability (and in my own way if you don’t mind), the context in which these collaborations occur and the new contexts which these collaborations create out of themselves.  As I already wrote in the “about” section: “we are none of us the sole proprietors of discovery.”  I may not share the readers’ assumptions and my premises may not be their’s.   A sensible conversation is very difficult to have under those conditions.  So slowly, one post a day and occasionally interrupted by a log of the actual business at hand, I will try to sketch my horizons so readers can see where we cross.

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November 9, 2010

What are the odds?

Now it’s often enough that I get a message in a fortune cookie that isn’t — strictly speaking — a fortune but this time it was actually a Proverb.

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November 8, 2010

super funny cartoon

For today, a very funny cartoon.

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November 7, 2010

window

It's something you can see through but you have to look out for it too.

Today I had the pleasure of collaborating with happenstance.   I was working on another post for today when the opportunity to take this photograph presented itself.  Bonk! “Oh no!” But it all turned out okay.

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November 6, 2010

Queer Spirit Camp and Kicked Out

Everyday in October 2010 Sassafrass Lowery posted someone’s personal narrative of homelessness or encouraging words in support of the anthology KICKED OUT and of homeless LGBTIQ Youth. I sent in my two bits.  My first appeared on the ninth.  Go check it out and buy the book!

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November 5, 2010

For Discussion (01): Nacho Libre

Sister Encarnacion (played by Ana de la Requera) poses a fundamental theological problem here.  In this moment the whole spirit of Jared and Jerusha Hess’s work is wondrously contained.   I realize it may take time for people interested in this topic to find this post.   Please know your comments are welcome at any date.

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November 4, 2010

Lady Bug in Boots Retired

I had to break down and retire my “Lady Bug in Boots” t-shirt yesterday. It’s twenty years old.  It’d gotten to the point where I couldn’t pull it over my head without tearing holes in it. I’ll miss wearing it.  It’s nicely gendered and wearing it reminded me of great times in Toronto with Maya, Mitzi and Yasmine.   Yasmine is a wonderful artist. Several of her pieces, including our beloved Little Prince pillow, decorate the new place.  I’d ask Yasmine for another Ladybug t-shirt but I believe she’s moved on from that style. Though retired, my favorite all time t-shirt will not be lost entirely. The image will be cut out (to ensure that I do in fact retire it) framed and put on the wall.

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