Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
The new season starts now! & Yes, I’m a fan of the show. You can’t really beat an IRA trained ex-girlfriend and an ex-spy. At least not if that ex-spy is Michael West.
Sheer entertainment, but I think it takes the spy thing to a whole new level. & Yes, I know I’ve been watching way too much TV lately. There’s a reason I didn’t want cable.
This is the singularly funniest dumb news story I think I’ve ever read.
I’m trying to figure out how significantly distanced from your own body you have to be to not notice a living animal in your bra.
Secondarily, what it would be like to have 34FF boobs.
Her consideration of the sleeping critter was kind of heart-warming, though. Or bra-warming. Whichever.
Another trans ally has been attacked defending a few trans teenagers, and right here in Queens, NY.
People often wonder why, as an ally, I get so upset about violence against trans people, but I know that as much as I’d prefer to be the type of person who would run & save myself, I’d be the idiot who got in the transphobic asshole’s way.
But more than that: sometimes people assume New York is some trans mecca. In some ways, it is. But the reality is, it only takes one transphobic asshole to ruin someone’s day.
I hope the folks at Carmen’s Place all recover okay, & that they find somewhere they feel safe.
The National Stonewall Democrats are doing a cool thing: trying to track transpeople’s donations to Barack Obama. The letter they sent out not along ago is reprinted below the break in full, but the basic idea is that, if you’re trans, & you want to donate to Obama’s campaign, you donate through their website, so that the donations can be “counted” as a bloc.
Excellent idea. Go do it.
Courtesy of Veronica, I found a great new blog by a woman who is too damned funny. Between her & some of Calpernia Addams’ recent gigs, we seem to have discovered a sense of humor here on Planet Trans. & Just in time, too.
Dubya & Co. have been in power long enough to pretty much devastate the economy, and in response, women are reporting that they had abortions in the past year precisely because of the bad economy. Women, being imminently practical, and carrying the burden of most childcare, and being the first and hardest hit by dropping wages, can’t afford to have their babies.
An interesting dilemma for Republicans, no? So if you want to prevent abortions, maybe it would be a good idea to quit funding tax cuts for the rich.
Anyone else catch any of the July 4th Twilight Zone marathon? Great stuff. I just saw Of Late I Think of Cliffordville which is particularly cruel, and stars Albert Salmi, who also played Smerdjakov in The Brothers Karamazov in 1958.
I also caught the only Jack Klugman TZ I’d never seen – Death Ship. & I love Jack Klugman, yes, because of The Odd Couple, but mostly because of Quincy, which, imho, gave birth to all of the forensic shows on TV now (most of which I watch). But I have to go to sleep, despite the next one up being Printer’s Devil with Burgess Meredith. (It’s a good one.) I used to tape these when the marathons were on WPIX here in New York, but now they’re all on DVD, which makes it a bit easier. (& It took me borrowing the DVD collection to finally see the Buster Keaton TZ, which they never, ever show during these marathons.)
I really do love this series, and love Rod Serling – not just for The Twilight Zone, but because he fought and fought and fought the censorship that came with advertisers’ sponsorship of television, and during an era when they almost didn’t win. As he put it:
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.â€
Now there was a fine tilt at an inexorable windmill, but at least he got a few stunning seasons of work done, which we’ll have forever.
Tea drinkers unite! You have nothing to lose but your taxes!
A very happy 4th, all. Please don’t drink and drive.
Thomas Beattie gave birth to his daughter today.
Our best wishes for the happy family. Thomas, you rock.
Comedian Sarah Haskins has these short video clips about marketing that targets women, and her completely matter of fact, dry style is hysterically funny.
The new one’s on Botox. “I’m a form of punctuation that signifies an aside.”
There’s one on women voters: “Stick yourself in the middle of enough women, & you practically are one.”
Another on wedding shows: “They put the WE in wedding, and the End in feminism.”
And my favorite is about yogurt:Â “I’m gonna shit my pants.”
Just go watch.