Thursday, November 18, 2004

a Londra ormai non sei nessuno se....

1. non chiami le tue migliori amiche "la Grande Fica" (come Tracey Emin e Madonna alla premiazione dei UK Music Hall of Fame Awards

2. non bevi latte di soya da mane a sera

3. non sei ancora stato al Trash Palace

4. non hai seguito la disputa sulla fine della dance music tra Alexis Petridis del Guardian e Dave Swindells di Time Out (quest'ultimo non on line purtroppo...)

5. non partecipi all'Amnesty International fund-raising 21st Century Victorian Burlesque Extravaganza in supporto del nuovo Amnesty Human Rights Centre di Shoreditch, con possibilita' di vincere alla Supreme Tombola un bacio dal vivo da Jude Law o le scarpe gialle originali di Uma macchiate di sangue

6. non vai domani all'inaugurazione della mostra "Beware of God" all'ICA col fidanzato artista-irlandese-temporaneamente-occupato-nel-catering

7. non hai incontrato almeno una volta Sandra Hebron ad una esposizione di artisti underground in una warehouse di Hackney

Thursday, November 11, 2004

you simply the best

l'ennesima conferma che G2 -l'inserto tabloid del Guardian- e' al momento il migliore giornale del mondo .... grazie al suo fantastico direttore Ian Katz.

... dopo Operation Clark County, la fantastica serie di articoli di G2 su Singapore e la Cina.

Friday, November 05, 2004

il falo' della lussuria?

e se avesse davvero ragione Tom Wolfe e fosse tutta colpa della nostra ossessione per il sesso?

mmmmmmmm..........

naaaaaa!!!

Rome wasn't built in a day....

si parla molto degli 11 referendum contro i matrimoni gay. ma intanto sempre in Ohio, a Cincinnati, nello stesso Stato che consegna la vittoria a Bush e ai Repubblicani, in una citta' notoriamente gay unfriendly viene abolito dopo 11 anni - sempre grazie ad un referendum-l'odioso Articolo XII del City Charter che vietava legislazioni ad hoc per difendere gli omosessuali dalla discriminazione.

The Cincinnati victory illustrated a point that activists have been making about this year’s ballot initiatives. Cincinnati’s gay community has been preparing for years.“The community there has been working at this very diligently for over two years”. It became apparent that the wider community would face the November 2 ballot initiatives (sui matrimoni, ndb) in just the past few months. There was little time to prepare for those campaigns and limited resources to wage them.“The question was called too early,” Jacques said. “There is a lot more education, there is a lot more discussion that needs to take place. We can’t win at the ballot box until we win at the water cooler.” .... While it was a loss, Oregon (lo stato in cui il reverendum sull'emendamento costituzionale contro i matrimoni e' passato con lo scarto piu' basso: 57%, ndb) showed that it was possible to influence voters on the gay marriage issue, according to Foreman. The Oregon group that fought the initiative there spent $2.8 million, with just under $800,000 of that cash coming from NGLTF, while supporters spent $2.3 million. Both sides had volunteers going door-to-door or working in churches. The 14-point spread demonstrated the effectiveness of that work.“We actually showed that we moved the electorate,” Foreman said. “If we are able to talk to voters about why marriage matters we are able to move people.”As they did following the successful votes on gay marriage bans in Louisiana and Missouri earlier this year, activists said the campaigns had other benefits.The gay organizations in the 11 states identified “tens of thousands of new voters,” “thousands of new donors,” and formed “new alliances” with gay-friendly allies, according to Rea Carey, NGLTF’s deputy executive director. “The gay community really used these campaigns,” Carey said. “Even though these amendments passed, our community will be coming out stronger.”"the more conversations you have with people, the more you engage in dialogue, the more progress we can make.... We have just begun to have the conversation on gay marriage in this country. We took 11 years here in Cincinnati” to repeal the anti-gay law.

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

crying Sam

il Guardian ci va giu' duro sulla Taylor-Wood e la sua mostra alla White Cube...