| My Movie & BBQ Birthday Party Invite |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:02 pm] |
I was astonished at how many people guessed my birthday movie based on the most obscure still I could find of it, one without any of its stars.
Speaking of stars, Ryan O’Neal was better in both Paper Moon and Nickelodeon, and the only Barbra Steisand comedy I’ve liked was The Owl and the Pussycat. They’re certainly no Cary Grant or Katherine Hepburn, but who really makes this screwball comedy so much fun, stealing every scene she’s in, is the sublime Madeline Kahn (who would just a year later once again play opposite Ryan O’Neal in Paper Moon as the scheming Trixie Delight). Madeline was a comic genius gracing our screens, she actually got Academy Award nominations for her performances in Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, and the Academy rarely recognizes performances in comedies, especially vulgar ones!
So here’s the formal invite to come and join me for a silly movie for my birthday:
7:00 pm Thursday, July 30 – Chelsea Classics at Chelsea Cinema, 23rd St off Eighth Avenue
There’s a preshow hosted by drag queen Brini Maxwell with door prizes, and tickets are only $7.50! This screening may sell out (since it’s not the usual Bette/Joan stuff they screen over and over) so you might want to get your tickets in advance at their website here later this month.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wonderboynj and lolitasir and jazzbearny and sirpupnyc are planning on being there! And I’ll smuggle in goodie bags for everyone so you don’t have to buy an expensive box of stale gummi bears! Please RSVP so I’ll be sure to have one for you & we can save you a seat so we can all sit together.
Dinner will follow at Righteous Urban BBQ (RUB) down the street, which would likely run around $20+ per person, tax and tip included.
ATTENTION FOODIES!!!!!
RUB BBQ now features
Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies (along with Deep Fried Oreos)
on their dessert menu!!!!! Squeeeee!!!
Now you have to come!
Everything is dutch treat, so please, no gifts – all I want is your presence there!
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| Make a wish |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|04:09 pm] |
M A K E A W I S H
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| What NOT to get me for my birthday |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|12:05 pm] |
 I’ve featured some pretty craptastic products under the LJ tag “overconsumption,” but this has to be the craptastiest.
It’s a “Money Clip CZ Diamonds of Gay Certified Bear Bar Code”, or in English, it’s the colors of the bear pride flag reconceived as a Universal Price Code, put on a money clip adorned with “24pcs shiny Cubic Zirconia CZ stones.” It’s on sale at Amazon for only $24. Its advertised features include:
● Will hold money tightly
Someone’s found suppliers that do single-order printing on demand on a variety of products, so he (or she?) has designed 14,451 of them and put them up for sale on Amazon. Many of these use trademarked images and logos, but the products are so hideously ugly and cheap looking no one’s even bothered to complain to Amazon and had those items removed.
The manufacturers are apparently all in China given the many, many feedback complaints about how long the items took to arrive. Out of Amazon’s tens of millions of browsing customers, they’ve managed to sell a few items, and it’s amusing to read the feedback (reminiscent of The Unbearable Sadness of Toaster Product Reviews observed at LJ long ago):
- “shirt fell apart”
- “the watch was ON when it was delivered. And it does not work properly.. it constantly stops and starts.”
- “What a joke! Clock is a piece of cardboard covered by cheap plastic.”
- “It did not help to see the $2.00 value of the watch on the customs declarations.”
- “Great decorative item for people who will use occasionally and not constantly checking time.”
While I may not want this money clip, if you know any certified bears, there are over a hundred other products with this design on them, too!:
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code 1 Inch Button Earrings
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code 3-In-1 Golf Divot
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Car Window Sign
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Floral Tote Bag
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Framed Tile
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Jigsaw Puzzle Heart
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Nintendo DS Lite Black Carrying Case
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Porcelain Plate
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Star Ornament
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code Cosmetic Bag
Gay Certified Bear Bar Code White Thong
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| Friday in the Parks With mudcub |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|09:34 am] |
After we took in the "1969: The Year of Gay Liberation" show at the New York Public Library, we went for a walk in Bryant Park.
Bryant Park takes up almost two city blocks (minus where the library sits) smack dab in the middle of bustling midtown, just a block east of Times Square and a couple blocks west of Grand Central Station. It's one of the most popular and heavily-used places in the city -- it's where they erect the tents for the Fashion Week shows, and during the summer they show free movies for thousands sitting on the lawn. There's a stage for concerts and other special events. It was the first city park to provide free wi-fi*, and it's so popular that there are now thousands of chairs and tables for lunching and communing and reading and working and surfing on. It reminds me of Hyde Park in London.
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* Starting today, Rockefeller Center and Union Square get free wi-fi, 24/7/365, underwritten by the Syfy Channel, with Times Square to be added soon.
Here's mudcub looking very much already like the busy Noo Yawker. He's trying to get his agent on the phone!
The park is surrounded by tall office buildings.
Man oh man.
From there we hopped on the subway to save 20 minutes (still so much to see and do!) to get from 42nd to 59th Streets, where we continued our stroll, now through a good deal of Central Park.
I was beside myself with pleasure because it was the first sunny weather we had had in the city in nearly three weeks of gray overcast and daily rain!
This is Bethesda Fountain, which stood still and empty for many years in disrepair, and now has been beautifully restored. The huge fountain always so moves me because it was featured in the play Angels in America, where the sick and dying but hopeful Prior gives the closing lines, a benediction, to the epic play:
The fountain's not flowing now, they turn it off in the winter, ice in the pipes. But in the summer it's a sight to see. I want to be around to see it. I plan to be. I hope to be.
This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
Bye now.
You are fabulous creatures, each and every one.
And I bless you: More Life. |
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