Category: ‘The Great Appropriation’

Unabashed Casting Recall: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg

June 13th, 2010

Thumbing through my LA Gay and Lezzie Film festival guide, I was forlorn to see a too-attractive wasp sitting at a typewriter wearing a white tee and Buddy Holly glasses with the word “HOWL” next to it and, moreover, the name “James Franco” under that.  I say Goddamn!  Put a hot guy in anything and gays will eat it up.  Shit.  Ginsberg wasn’t a hot Aryan, he was a handsome Jew.  James Franco is a mere showpiece, a tart.  Where’s Jeff Goldblum when you need him?

It's fun to be a gay beat poet!

Unabashed Shocker: J’Hate Sex and the City (and GLEE for that matter)

May 27th, 2010

I hate Sex and the City

I hate the entire SATC franchise

I hate the acronym SATC

I hate the slutty one who was in Mannequin

I hate Carrie’s voice-overs

I hate New York City

I hate rich white bitches

I hate alleged fashionistas

Not all of us queens like this shit, okay ladies?  Oh and while I’m on the topic: FUCK GLEE, TOO.

Now listen to Sandra B. explain why she turned down the role of Miranda:

THIS JUST IN from the New York Times re: Liza Minelli performing “All The Single Ladies” in SATC 2.

“Her version is in no way superior to the one in ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,’ and it is somehow both the high point of ‘Sex and the City 2′ and a grim harbinger of what is to come.”

Unabashed Queer Manifesto

May 5th, 2010

Unabashed Schooling: Sandra B. READS Kathy G.

February 25th, 2010

I came across audio from the Howard Stern Show with guest Sandra Bernhard waxing poetic on fake, phony, and one shtick pony, Kathy Griffin.

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Stern: We had Kathy Griffin here yesterday.

SB: Oh God.  Jesus Christ.

Stern: Tell me your feelings.  I want to know because you are an elder statesman of comedy.

SB: Well she’s no spring chicken but listen…she came to success late in life.  She loves my ass and she’s come to see many times and she’s taken my basic premise which is to disseminate pop culture.  However, when you’re somebody of my level and intellectual ability, I take it and I layer it.  I don’t just throw a cake.  I  give you a seven-layer sacre torte.  She came and took the base elements of what I did and–who can’t put on a Kate Gosselin wig and go “Gahgaghgahgahgah!”  I mean that’s all she does, “Gahgahgahgahgah,” like a shrieking harpy freak.  Every time she has a special on Bravo it’s the same fucking special every goddamn time.  I’ve written fifteen shows in the past ten years and every one of them touches on something new and interesting that is really revealing where we’re headed as a culture.  I don’t just jump into the waters of present culture.  I’m on the precipice of what is happening.

Unabashedly Fashionly: Yours Truly

February 17th, 2010

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Can’t a bitch get her low-fat cappuccino without flashbulbs popping?

Unabashed Sign o’ the Times: “Hipster Yard Sale”

January 9th, 2010

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Unabashed Before & After: Abs

December 18th, 2009

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I prefer BEFORE.

Unabashed RIP: The Ghost of NMH Past

December 17th, 2009

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Upon receiving the news that the Northfield campus of Northfield Mount Hermon School would be sold, NMH alums (which includes me) were promised that the Northfield campus would go to something GOOD…NOT GOD.

I came to terms with the sale of the Northfield campus a few years ago.  But to pound another nail in the cross, the campus has been sold to a crazy fanatical right-wing Christian company named fuckin’ Hobby Lobby.  The campus is going to be turned into the home of  C.S. Lewis College, a school named for the author of the Lion, Witch and whatever novels.  Read their mission statement:

The College will be rooted in the historic Christian faith and so structured as to ensure its fidelity to that profession. It will be characterized by a firm commitment to “Mere Christianity,” and therefore be inclusive of Christians of all traditions. In the spirit of C.S. Lewis, the envisioned college will actively encourage opportunities to discover the vitality and profound relevance of the Christian faith as it is lived openly within the larger pluralistic setting of mainstream colleges and universities (more…)

Unabashedly Ashaka: A Mission Statement

November 19th, 2009

Ashaka is a character searching for identity, and subsequently, performing her idea of what black is based on television and media portrayals of black women.

Is Ashaka ignorant? Yes. Ashaka has a lot of learning to do. But bear in mind that she believes her transracial identity is every bit as valid as her transgender identity.

My goal was to depict a person who is haphazardly appropriating identities in an attempt to find herself.  It’s about identity politics and identity performance.

But most of all, it’s fucking funny.

Unabashed Grassroot Effort: Share “Business Before Pleasure?”

August 25th, 2009

Take Part by sending my article to anyone who might be interested. 

SF Gate (added 8/27)

Queerty

Mediaite

Tiny Nibbles

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