dykeumentary

It seems like I’ve been concentrating on chickens wearing shoes and hats lately, so here is a link to one of the most awful “flash animation splash pages” I’ve seen in years. Did someone get paid to make this? Who? Will they be at this party?
http://www.edeninthebay.com/
Quick review of “gay graphic design features”: outer glow and inner glow (often on the same design element, go figure), a rainbow flag, People of Color on the ad to look “diverse”, multiple fonts (shamlessly mixing serif and sans serif), a cherry (!) and what the heck is that orange-y thing on the right side?

It’s been a while since i posted much, so here are some snapshots of what’s been going on lately -

“Notice her Islamic gear!”

Continuing the chicken theme…
You just got to wonder what marketing wizard thought up this: “Hey Fellas! Let’s stuff a helpless bird until its liver bursts, poach the liver in mold, cut it into slices or make some goop, then throw a rakish hat on it! Who doesn’t want to eat THAT!?”

“I’m fresh, good and fast” — sounds hot (haha, pun!), but not coming from a chicken. And an apparently “angelic” on, to boot.

Read this article about changes the Texas State Board of Education made this spring.

And this one broke my heart: The board removed the concepts of “justice” and “responsibility for the common good” from a list of characteristics of good citizenship for Grades 1-3. (The proposal to remove “equality” failed.) (1/14/10)

It is clear why right-wing christians would be afraid of justice and “the common good,” but it makes me sad. Today I have to lean on one of my favorite guiding principles: “It is not incumbent on you to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist therefrom…”(Talmud, Avot 2:21).

Since my special effects/CGI budget is…ummmm… $0 — I appreciate seeing how other moviemakers tell surreal tales with pictures. And yay! that a woman finally won a best film oscar.

Waiting for the right moment

Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones gives 6 rules for allies (cross race/gender/sexuality/nationality/religion etc) in her keynote speech given 2/19/10 at a luncheon sponsored by Abriendo Brecha Vll Conference and The Seventeenth Annual Emerging Scholarship In Women’s and Gender Studies Conference UT Austin.