EDUCATE!

…with my soytado.

holding broken glass

in the sun

as a boy

just for fun’

I didn’t write that— I wish I know who did— It haunts me sometimes.

We don’t make anything in this country anymore. We provide services and consume, consume, consume.

How?

Well, we used to make things. In fact, we used to make nearly everything. Now China does that. China and other nations full of desperate people who (willingly or not) work for unjust wages as cogs in a consumption machine.

Some of the last tangible things still made in this conutry were cars.

Congress is hostile toward the carmakers, but has opened their our wallets to the international banks.

I keep hearing that the solution presented to us will be a new currency – to replace the current United States Dollar (USD).

My rich uncle said that would never happen. He said that paper currency could be entirely replaced by intangible digital currency. He said ‘they’ would ‘illuminate’ currency. He meant to say ‘eliminate’. Maybe this was a Freudian slip?

…at the start of 2009

Come out to see art, dance and support a good cause.

Lethal Poetry is throwing its ongoing visual and musical art exhibition.

January 9 at Debonair Social Club (1575 N Milwaukee AVE, Chicago) 6:30 p.m. – 3 a.m.

A night of visual, sonic, live art, music, and film awaits. Stay for dancing and DJs including Adam Jake.

Artists include: Laura Pawson, Danielle Colbeck, Danielle Martin, Lidoska Guietti.

Curators include: Danielle Martin, S. M. Stoakley , Lauren Herrman.

Bands include: The Mojdeh Project, Agents of Change

Door cover is $8 OR email lethalpoetryco A T gmail.com with your first and last name and say you’re coming to see Adam Jake and you will be on a list to get in for $5

Proceeds support GR!C Chicago.

Bucktown Chicago, Summer 2008

This is a documentary I’ve been working on for the past four months as an intern (production assistant). The film chronicles the history of gay life/rights in Chicago from the Civil War to the modern era. Hosted by actress Jane Lynch.

For those in the Chicago market, please tune in to WTTW-Channel 11 tonight @ 7:30 p.m. for the premiere.

For those not in Chicago, click here to buy the DVD from the official site. At the official site you can pledge and see real coming out stories told by Chicagoans themselves.

Click through to read the official synopsis and rebroadcast schedule.

The story of one city and one human family…

From a retired schoolteacher, to a successful businessman, to a community activist, to a bar owner, a lawyer and a social service worker, the history of Chicago’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender life is the story of everyday Chicagoans with extraordinary stories.

From challenging the military’s shunning of its lesbian and gay soldiers and helping to repeal discriminatory laws, to taking gay activism to the streets and building a museum that houses a gay and lesbian archive, to becoming a driving force in Chicago’s earliest ongoing gay rights organization and defying the indifference of the federal government towards People With AIDS, this is the story of Chicago’s LGBT citizens that helped shape the face of a city.

Out & Proud in Chicago
Tuesday, June 3, 7:30 and 9:30 pm
Thursday, June 5, 11:30 pm
Monday, June 9, 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 15, 6:00 pm

-George Orwell