This blog is a kind of a part two to both my studio visit with Michelle Handelman and “Thinking in Pictures.” I went to visit Michelle Handelman on location last night at Bloomingdale’s as she began shooting her adaptation of “Dorian Grey.”

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I was humored by an article in The Metro Section of the New York Times this morning. “Columbia Still Reeling Over Visit.” Apparently some people are up in arms because the Jewish president of the university, Lee C. Bollinger, introduced Iran’s president as a “cruel and petty dictator” whose denial of the Holocaust was “either [...]

Iran’s antisemitic theocratic leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York this week to speak at the UN, as well doing a kind of press junket. He was on 60 minutes last night and today he will make an appearance at Columbia University on an invitation from the School of International and Public Affairs.
There has been [...]

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Headline news in The New York Times Today: “U.S Rule Limits Emergency Care For Immigrants.” This immediately caught my attention and as I read further I realized this was yet another fascist ploy orchestrated by the Bush Administration. The feds have informed New York State health officials that chemotherapy, which has been covered for illegal [...]

Vanessa Craig’s home is embarrassingly difficult to find. Ms. Craig has to come out onto the sidewalk and wave me down and even though she doesn’t know me from Adam, she greets me with a hug so warm I feel like I’m being welcomed home for dinner. I’m instantly a fan. A fan who quickly [...]

I had the pleasure of hitting the Chelsea art scene for the opening of Deborah Kass’s Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times; you can see the paintings for yourself on the video blog that we shot for Ourchart (that would be me in the pigtails).
In the press release for the show, this new work [...]

Are the African Americans who pledge that O.J. is innocent finally going to admit that the guy is a murderer? Does the fact that O.J. was arrested for armed robbery shed light on the glaring truth that he is criminal through and through?

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It restored my opinion of humanity this morning (a little bit at least) when I read that San Francisco is offering health care to all uninsured adults in the city. The care is only offered in the city. This is certainly better than having no insurance at all and it appears that is happening without [...]

Velvetpark *hearts* Jill Sobule for so many reasons we can’t even begin to count the ways.
If you heart Sobule so much that you can’t stand it, then enter our contest to win tickets to see Jill, next Wed the 19th at the Delecort Theater in NYC. (Must live in the New York metro area to [...]

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Yesterday’s New York Times featured an intriguing article on how polygamists
in Utah and members of the Mormon Church are intermingling more and more these days. In the article, “In Polygamy Country, Old Divisions Are Fading”, A Mormon woman named Amber Clark was quoted on her liberal attitude towards the legalization of polygamy.

The Bloomberg Administration in New York City has cooked up a brand new scheme to measure performance in the notoriously flawed New York City school system.
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In a nutshell, schools in New York City will now be given report card grades ranging from A to F that will be posted on the World Wide Web for [...]

Sappho’s Return co-founders Natasha Dyer and Laura Luna Placencia threw together yet another She/Ze Sex this year at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza. And you need to get down on your lovely dyke knees and thank them, kids. Here’s why.
She/Ze Sex: the varying degrees of gender identity and [...]

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Leona Helmsley was one of the most dismal products of capitalism. She truly epitomized how money could strip a person’s humanity and breed a narcissism of the most nefarious sort. I am sickened by the fact that she left twelve million dollars to her dog, even if she did also give billions to charities.