I just stepped in a big pile of sassy!

Fruit Platter: An Evening with Award-Winning GLBT Writers!

Quatrefoil Library hosts a reading and reception with award-winning GLBT writers Jane Levin, Barrie Jean Borich, Chris Pommier, and William Reichard on June 11 at 7:30 pm. The library is located at 1619 Dayton Ave. in St Paul, MN. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. For more information about the authors, please see details below.

Jane Levin’s poems have appeared in over two dozen publications and the forthcoming anthologies Drash: Northwest Mosaic and Best Lesbian Poetry 2008. She is the recipient of a Howard B. Brin Jewish Arts Endowment grant and a Jerome Foundation/Intermedia Arts Mentorship in Poetry.

Barrie Jean Borich is the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review, author of My Lesbian Husband, winner of an American Library Association GLBT Nonfiction Book Award, and a member of the MFA faculty of Hamline University.

Chris Pommier is a poet, freelance writer, editor and recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Intermedia Arts Mentorship in Poetry. His poems have been published in Kingfisher, the Big Q, Right Hand Pointing, and Silent Actor. Currently, he is writing for the grassroots citizen journalism portal, Twin Cities Daily Planet.

William Reichard’s first collection of poetry, An Alchemy in the Bones, won a Minnesota Voices Project Prize, and his novella, Harmony, was the recipient of an Evergreen Chronicles National Novella Prize. He is City Arts Program Director and faculty member of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs.

The MC for the evening will be Linnea Stenson, Academic Dean at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 2004 Grand Marshal of Twin Cities Pride, and former Director of the U of M Schochet Center for GLBT Studies.

Questions? Please call (651-641-0969) or email (info@qlibrary.org).

I am 99% sure that I saw Tay Zonday today.
Who, you say?
The Chocolate Rain guy!

I was out biking in NE Mpls/St. Anthony Village. First I stopped at Urban Harvest for a sandwich (which, by the way, is right next to Rosackers which I LOVE love LOVE). Then, I went to Caribou for a cold tasty beverage.
Sidenote: NE Mpls needs more bike corrals. Especially in business that aren’t right on the street. There was nowhere to lock my bike. Uncool!

Anyway, I was sitting outside drinking my vanilla cooler when I saw a white Lincoln/Mercury drive up.
The following was my thought process at the time:
“Oh wow. That old lady looks just like Tay Zonday.”
“Hey wait a second - that’s a 12 year old boy.”
“No, that’s Tay Zonday.”
(he goes in to GNC)
“I’m losing it! I saw the new Weezer video yesterday. I must be mistaken.”
(he comes out of GNC)
“OMG That *is* Tay Zonday! Should I say something?”
(he drives off)

At the risk of looking/sounding creepy, I said nothing.
I wonder how I can find out if it was, in fact, Tay Zonday.
Curious.

If you are going to produce a movie about deafness, Deaf Culture, and cochlear implants, please include all of the signing with the frame!

It’s so frustrating to be following along with the signing and then have it cut to someone’s reaction while the other person is still signing. Especially during a conversation involving all deaf people.

Once again, deaf and hard of hearing folks will have to watch a movie about their culture, filmed by hearing people, without respect for their culture. They have to access it through written English (closed captioning).
What a disappointment.

The play is better, anyway (I saw it at Mixed Blood a few years ago).

Thanks, Jason.

KARE11 is so gay these days - first Sven, now Jana (myspace).

Score!

*I’ve yet to see Jana on t.v. Actually, I hadn’t heard of her until I read the above mentioned blog post 20 minutes ago. Interesting.

In somewhat related news (as Sven is their spokesperson), please Dine Out For Life on Thursday! I’ve been going for years now. It’s for a good cause and it’s all kinds of crazy delicious.

Calhoun Square sucks < -- (not worth linking to - the website is outdated and very few of the shops listed on there are still open).
There, I said it.
There's nothing there!
Ever since Beeswax left, the place just hasn't been the same.
I did manage to score a bracelet at ZRS Fossils (http://www.zrsfossils.com), for what it's worth. Looks like most shops are closing there within the month.

The Lotus - closed (http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/dining/16594551.html). (NOOOO!)
Gelato place - closed.
Cigar shop - closed.
Luggage place - closed.
Upstairs? - Not much!

There is a cool magnet shop (http://www.houseofgauss.com/), Magnetic Originals, on the second level. I talked to the owner, Jeff, for quite a while. Great guy. He has some nice art work up there. I'm really interested in one of his smaller paintings. Unfortunately, it's not for sale.

Thank goodness (http://magersandquinn.com/) Magers & Quinn across the street is still open. I still can't manage to leave that place without buying a book. :)

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