Nowtopian

I spend more time than I used to perusing blogs. I just got an email from Brasscheck pointing me to an old friend, Susie Bright, and her blog, with its most excellent dissection of how we might best understand the Jeff Guckert/Gannon story. Susie has been thinking and writing about sex and its commodification, as well as the endless permutations of desire and identity, for a loooong time now. She’s a crisp writer and a clear thinker. If you want to go beyond the first blush obsessive coverage of the scandal, and now go deeper into how a blatant gay male escort can have penetrated the White House press corps so thoroughly, you can do no better than to check her brief essay out.

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I would like to blog more often, but last week I was really booked solid. In addition to several meetings for our upcoming opening at CounterPULSE, I drummed with the Committee for Full Enjoyment at the otherwise impotent and boring anti-war march last Saturday the 19th.

That night I shared a podium with Josh MacPhee of Stencil Pirates and Erick Lyle with a charming and funny slideshow of cement etchings in SF. My role, after the intermission, was to present some clips from the Greenpepper “Precarity” DVD, and to start a discussion on the theme of precariousness, the “Precariat” and the “Cognitariat”, all by way of setting the stage for a future launch of “HeadFirst!” (my planned next foray into magazine publishing, to appear in late 05 or early 06).

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