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Jessica Calvanico

Jessica Calvanico is a cosmic life partner of mine. We are both on this planet to do the same thing we just don't know what it is yet. She has a radio show in Chicago that is all-girls. Not in an anti-boy way. Never that. Just in a we-love-our-feminine side kind of way. I was lucky enough to be a call-in guest on the show last summer, right around my 23rd birthday. Because of the time difference I had to call in to the show at around 6 AM New York time and I had stayed up all night the night before jumping on a trampoline so I'm not my sharpest. Plus I got cut off after like 10 minutes. But the lightness of her soul is impossible to miss if you listen. That picture is her performing with her band Geffika. Download the radio show on which I'm featured:

This Is New Radio, June 2009, http://www.mediafire.com/?ijmmrjjmzak

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BRATTY LIVING 101: giant rainbow swirl lollipop

from Keri's blog:

Gay Outlawz

The third in a series of posts about Gay Outlaws because I'm bored with all these safe lameasses.



Wait, this is only the third week but I think we've found our champion insane Gay Outlaw. Emile Griffith is insane. He was one of the best boxers in the world in oldentimes, but wait here's what's so crazy. In 1962 he fought Benny Paret at Madison Square Garden and Griffith beat him so hard that Paret lost conciousness and died 10 days later. That is insane. But what is MOST insane about the whole thing is that it turns out Paret had called Griffith a "faggot" at the weigh-in. Wait, is this an early 60's case of Bashing Back? Dude I don't know because homicide is just crazy. Also the media at the time wouldn't even report that Paret called him a faggot because they didn't want to even publish anything gay, even a gay word. Griffith didn't kill him intentionally, he maintains, but he's been freaking out about it ever since. He came out later in life and told Sports Illustrated this: "I keep thinking how strange it is ... I kill a man and most people understand and forgive me. However, I love a man, and to so many people this is an unforgivable sin; this makes me an evil person. So, even though I never went to jail, I have been in prison almost all my life." Wait, that is insane and beautiful. Emile Griffith is one of my favorite gay outlaws ever even though the fact that he killed someone is insane.

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I'm like the biggest Tony Ward fan in the world and so it's really dope that on Wrangler's new web-site you can undress him and throw him around. Technology can be really gay.

iPhone Jackie O

honey ain't nothing free in this world we WORK

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Gay Outlawz

The second in a series of posts about Gay Outlaws because I'm bored with all these safe lameasses.



Bill Miner is sort of insane, and just like our last outlaw Roger Casement, was well-moustached. Just like Jean Genet, he's one of those dudes who will just not stop robbing people. Like on the way to the courthouse to answer charges he'll rob you. Dude is crazy. And he liked boys, according to the Pinkerton Guards who spent like a million dollars investigating him. And like any good gay, he had a way with words, inventing the now-necessary robbery phrase "Hands Up!" when shoving a gun in peoples faces. I like Miner because he knew how to make that money. He had a few really gay nicknames, too. "The Grey Fox" was one, and "The Gentleman Robber" is another. Supposedly he was really polite when robbing people of their shit.

omg this is major

bay ridge

found the insane birds

and this weird fearless rabbit, too

la da di la di dah SHE'S HOMELESS

the most beautiful screen shot i've ever taken

America

always on my mind

Yea that's me in the Dinosaurs t-shirt and the tevas

Faggotry

I mean I've put guys like this on shout a lot but today officially begins a series on gay outlaws because they are my favorite kind of homosexuals and I'm so fucking bored by contemporary fools.



Roger Casement is righteous as fuck. He put all of England's knickers in a twist, exposing Imperial abuses in Congo and Peru, and then later was accused of treason for inciting Irish revolutionaries and collaborating with the German government to aide the Irish revolution. That's insane. He was brought to trial, where the British government detailed his gayness and fucking of young men to prove his guilt. He was quickly executed. I like Casement because I wish more gay people pissed off their governments because America is so boring. Also, he's sort of a piece if you're into beards and all that.

ELLLLVISSSS

stoned love

(via The FADER by John Francis Peters)

bay ridge birdies

The park near where I work in Bay Ridge is famous in Brooklyn for having a weird assortment of birds. In addition to run of the mill pigeons, the park has ducks, geese, swans, and BEST OF ALL, chickens. Now that most of the lake is frozen, they all assemble around the only part of the water that isn't solid as a rock. No chickens or swans, alas, but I like these insane birds too.

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doin' some hard travelin

If I was you and I read my blog I would've quit a long time ago because it's nosedived into just pictures of me and my friends. You know, I used to tackle so much more, but perhaps my narcissism has gotten the best of me. You'll have to excuse my indulgence. Anyway, it seems to be the thing these days. I took this nice stroll today with Rebecca on a school's grounds in Bay Ridge and it was so damn lovely I had to post the pictures.

hulaing in heels