Monthly Archives: May 2004

What’s Up Portland: Tonight, Dennis Kucinich and SEAN “most depressing movie ever” PENN will appear on the corner of 37th and HAwthorne, campaigning and JUST HANGING OUT, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. The last time I was on 37th and … Continue reading →

You know how irony as trendy M.O. is cooked-er than turnovers-for-change at Popeye’s? How it went the way of the MIA Fannypack gal—who knows where, who knows when, but we prolly won’t be seeing it ’til the 2032 reunion tour? … Continue reading →

In the context of Spanish and Anglo-American conquest of Mexico, a passage from Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican American Women (Jeanette Rodriguez, 1994): “It is true that within Mexican-American culture the Mexican-American woman is burdened by … Continue reading →

I’m co-teaching a class with my indomitable housemate Ms. Connie Wohn, at the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls this summer. [On media / PR, and how to handle/ become us.] The Rock Camp always needs donations, so if you … Continue reading →

I have now seen New York Minute, one of many psychic blows I’ve collected for Team Mercury in my four years of servitude; I haven’t felt this traumatized since that rave documentary in ’00, the one with DJ Keoki blathering … Continue reading →

Spotty French. The talented lady Shannon Wright, whose whorls of drama and unraveled piano-grappling mysteries are close to what I’d be making if I had time, has relayed to a C’n’P representative (aka ME) that, after she releases Over the … Continue reading →

Mary J. Blige: “more affirming than a chick flick.” More “liberating and empowering than your favorite episode of Oprah.” But wait!! Live, she is “more cathartic than a week of Oprah… like Oprah, Blige does this girlfriend-to-girlfriend thing.” (INCREDULOUS ITALICS … Continue reading →

Only 15 more days ’til Theo Parrish reissues!

Mean Girls also depicts the inevitable, unenviable strata of alpha malehood, and how it finds home in even the least culturally “masculine” of worlds: the Mathletes. It’s worth seeing just for the aggro Mathletes captain, identified by his business card … Continue reading →

Now for the real update. Mean Girls is an imperfect work, but god how I felt the distant ulcer of teen girlhood revisiting uncomfortably like a birth mom. So nasty, we ladies can be to one another, typecasting ourselves, forming … Continue reading →