the rejewvenation movement has a TEE

okay, maybe there's no rejewvenation movement just yet but if it does end up being something I want people to harken bag and remember when I named it. Loyal reader of this blog, you may or may not remember this symbol I imagineered for t-shirts for a play at my son's school. Meri o' verymeri t-shirts has made a bunch of them just in time for your gift giving season. And for your newly awoken Jewish pride.

So go to her website and buy one for you, plus all the jews in your life, adults n' babies alike. YUMMY JEW BABIES IN THEIR SUPERJEW ONESIES!!!! Just think about it and kvell. A perecentage of the proceeds to go Temple Israel of Hollywood, where the shirts were born, so that's all good too.





plus... look! Elliot Yamin o' American Idol wearing the shirt at their LA concert....

vodka, latka and me

I will be doing something like stand-up comedy at the vodka latka event linked to somewhere in this post. I don't even remember how to make links because I haven't blogged in so long. I wonder how many blogs there are where people get all excited and blog every day and then there isn't anything since March 2005. For awhile I was using this space to pour out my most rant-riffic thoughts, then my friend Becky and I got in a huge fight in the comments section of some stuff I wrote about working moms vs. stay at home moms. She accused me of calling all stay-at-home moms whores which I vehemently denied but now sounds like something I wish I would have said.

Why did I take her criticism so seriously? Why did it make me stop blogging? It's probably better to not blog than to blog, right? Anyway, since that time I have only been using my blog to advertise my jewy events, so I don't think anyone even reads it anymore. Which leads me to wanting to spew out my innermost thoughts in this outermost forum.

Mood today: sluggish, extreme hatred of kendra, extreme love for bridget and holly

Anyway, please note that if you come to see me perform I will be very inappropriately calling out Isla Fisher. Isla Fisher, if you're masturgoogling, I suggest you prepare yourself. Then come to Vodka Latka on December 13th ready to fight. Also, as of this writing, it is somewhat possible elliot yamin will be joining me onstage...


PJA, JDub Records, & Reboot
invite you to the 10th annual

Vodka Latka: Festival of Rights
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Celebrate the holiday in a night of revelry featuring folk –punk rockers
Golem

Local social justice activists share a “right” they fight for during
PJA’s Social Justice Menorah-Lighting

Hanukah’s tale is spun through the minds of
comedians in Heaping Hanukkah
hosted by Ronna and Bev
featuring Jill Soloway, Eric Schwartz aka Smooth E, Craig Wright and Julie Hermelin

Vodka Latka: A Festival of Rights
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
El Rey Theater
5515 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA. 90036
$12 if you buy now at

vodka latka tickets


$15 Day of Show

8PM Cocktails & Latkas
9PM Festival of Rights Menorah Lighting
9:30PM Heaping Hanukkah
10:30PM Golem

heaping portion 4

so you're finally ready to make sukkot a more important part of your life- but HOW? try it the heaping portion way! the latest installment happens during the day as part of temple israel of hollywood's shabbat under one roof. have your coffee and then scoot over for an amazing
chill-inducing, inspiring performance/happening at 10:45am. with jill soloway, julie hermelin, wayne federman, ronna and bev, christopher noxon, jessi klein, jamie denbo and jessia chaffin, plus music by rachel stolte and solon bixler of great northern. no rezzies necessary but get there nice and early to find your way to our performance space in the foyer of the big sanctuary. saturday, october 7th at 7300 hollywood boulevard, la ca 90046.

saturday august 26th i will be

co-hosting this show... and you will get a rare chance to go INSIDE the magic castle without knowing any magicians personally nor having a membership! i think this one will be verrrry fun. for tickets go here. for info, read the above poster. well actually, it's hard to read, just note that we will have comedy and magic and music and the new jewish hipsterism from me, jessica chaffin, jeff garlin, jeffrey ross, gregor erlich, andrew goldernhersh, adam dorn on the dee jay booth and jessi klein. special dress code! men must wear suits, women in dresses or pantsuits. or military grab or kimonos. i plan to be in a pantsuit, of course! and so ye know, it's all to celebrate the super cool magazine guilt and pleasure.

what are you doing tuesday?

july 25th

come to the borders in westwood, 1360 westwood blvd at 7:30. i will read, melanie hutsell will read and my mom, all the way from chicago, will read from her new memoir, the division street princess! it will be wonderful, i just know it....

things to come to...

check out both of these wonderful shows... laugh out loud funny, yet cry inside beautiful....

the first is my dear dear friend Maxine Lapidus' variety show at M-Bar...



and the other is my dear dear friend Paula Killen's show at UCB...



Fully Loaded: a show about the serious nature of nothing in particular but will include discourse on drugs, feminism, alcohol and sex with a single mom. We will take questions from the audience and prove that it's hot to drive a minivan.

written/performed by
paula killen & lisa orkin
directed by
shira piven

friday, august 18th and 25th
8pm / 8bucks

Upright Citizen's Brigade (UCB)
5919 Franklin Ave (between Birds and La Poubelle)

reservations/information 323 908 8702
or on-line at www.ucbtheatre.com/la

every show is different, but every show is loaded

come out come out saturday night

that be the poster but maybe it's hard to read. Ronna and Bev host Morgan Murphy, Jeff Garlin and me. Go to the ucb theatre, click on the show on saturday night and get onto the list right now!

it's finally here....

that's right people, the third installment of heaping portion. this time we're trying something different by incorporating shabbat dinner right into the show. free admission with a $10 food minimum. you sit down, a waiter will take your order and we'll provide the entertainment. the torah portion is naso (or nasoh) or numbers for you christians out there. yours truly will be there, along with heather gold, gary shapiro, neal pollack, julie hermelin, bev and ronna, and music by rachel stolte and solon bixler of great northern. once again reboot will provide a complimentary copy of their magazine, guilt and pleasure quarterly, for you to love and enjoy. so see you june 9 at the m bar. doors open at 6:30, the show starts at 7!

Did You Know I was the Daughter of a Princess?

I am! My mom, Elaine Soloway, just published her new book, The Division Street Princess. It is available for purchase on Amazon TODAY!!!!
Right here!

The Division Street Princess is set on Division Street in Chicago, long before it was trendy and smack in the middle of when it was a post-shtetl urban jew 'hood. My mama's book takes you right there, to the center of it all. Her book is so beautifully written, with every little detail perfectly captured... the cigar smoke, the chicken fat, the scratchy radio, the uncles named Hy and Nate, the various Minnies and Roses and front stoops and dangerous Italian boys...

Speaking of mamas, have you ever thought, I wish I could get my mom a book like Jill's, except for the fact that my mom thinks it's very, very rude to discuss bowel movements in public? Worry not. Forget that last minute phone call the Friday before mom's day to your sister saying HAVE YOU GOTTEN ANYTHING YET???!!!! You are but
One-Click away from successfully completing all of your Mother's Day obligations. And most importantly, at the moment, my mother's Amazon ranking is nearly 100,000 better than mine, so, in the spirit of Mother Love, let's keep it that way.

I loved her book, and I can't wait to hear what you think of it.

mosiach now!

could you imagine a jewish american idol? It's the first step to a jewish president, which is the first step to a woman president, which is the only way to worldwide peace, in short!

Anyone--- either tell EVERY JEW YOU KNOW or keep it to yourself and don't tell a soul, still not sure what would work best. I have it on authority (his mom) that Elliot Yamin is indeed a Jew. I was at the results show and we asked her and she said that yes, yes, yes, they are o' le tribe.



He almost got kicked off last week so next Tuesday start your Pesach season right by voting voting voting for Elliot Elliot Elliot.

jesus it's fun to be jewish again

the evidence: today's NY Times. I'm riding the Zeitgeist, baby, as proven by heaping portions. Plus, this coming Thursday night, April 6th, at 9:30 Ronna and Bev host the Passover themed Kosher Comedy and I do some stand up that's way too Jewy for the goyim. JEWS ONLY!!!!!

For non-Jews, or people who wanna see something else first, there's Sit n' Spin at the Comedy Central Stage at 8pm, with the usual Bungalow after, which I plan to get to late after the UCB show. This show features the particularly insane Davis McHenry in a rare performance, plus other guests: rick overton, bill rutkoski, vance degeneres and tom saunders. See the boys at sit n spin, the girls at UCB. For sns rezzies-- the show is incredibly free-- call 323-960-5519.

PRO-ANA ONLY!!!

From now on this blog will be pro-ana only. No normals or pro-mias will be tolerated.

So far today I've eaten three skittles, a bowl of Good Friends cereal, leftover cornbread and 1/4 of a cantelopue, balled.

Come to think of it, I'll start being pro-ana tomorrow and stay like I am for the rest of the day.

Maybe I'll put this obsessive energy towards something worthwhile. Like a pilot idea! Pilot season's not over yet! It's called Pro-Ana Frank and it's about a girl in Nazi germany who escapes from her attic and time travels to modern Westlake Village where she starves herself before Spring Break Aruba so she can be the very first one of all of her friends to get raped and murdered this year! Then when she gets to heaven she's reunited with her Bubbie who was killed in the camps, so it's actually a happy story. If any network execs are reading this I know it's just a start but I'm about to take a bong hit so I should have the rest by mid-day.

I just am not sure

how to post both photos and text. I use to know how, but now Blogger is stymie-ing my efforts.

The below artwork is for Heaping Portion 2, a verrrry irreverent take on the torah portion o' the week, which is called Vayikra. Heaping Portion is for anyone who has found the bible tedious but who wishes to see brilliant, funny and interesting people interpret it. If you've been to sit and spin, it's sort of like shabbat n' spin. Sit n' spin, only jewier. Will a theme emerge? will you feel the presence of god herself? Probably not. But you will be wildly entertained and there will be a food-centered gathering afterwards. At the Improv Olympic this time instead of the UCB, due to the fracas of last time....

COME AND SEE...

rose of no man's land

is the name of a book by michelle tea. I just finished reading Chelsea Whistle. Just go to Amazon and buy every single thing by her, ever.

an artist i like

is seonna hong. this is her stuff.

to all 2 people who read my blog, I am sorry I have been gone and quite busy lately consulting on Sarah Silverman's new show for Comedy Central. The world will be forever changed when it comes out of your television boxes. that much I know.

to all people who live in Los Angeles, I will be performing Saturday, March 4th at Afterbirth at M-Bar. It's produced by Dani Klein and the info is thusly:


AFTERBIRTH...
stories you won't read in Parents magazine

starring:

Greg Fitzsimmons
Emmy winning writer/producer "The Ellen Show"

Jill Soloway
writer "Six Feet Under", author "Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants"

Hutch Foster
"Love! Valour! Compassion!"

Stephanie Wilder
author "Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay"

Kathryn Grody
Law & Order:Criminal Intent

and

RENO
"Kinsey", "The Manchurian Candidate"

Saturday, March 4, 06
Mbar, 1235 N. Vine
(crnr of Vine and Fountain nr El Floridita)
Doors open at 6:30
Show starts 7:30ish
$10 with dinner reservation, $15 at the door
323-856-0036 to guarantee a seat

so come to it....

more stuff that doesn't work

like my indian guys below. I wanted you to go there and I wanted you to link there but I couldn't. So just go to www.video.google.com and type in curry-n-rice girl and then you can see the thing i wanted you to see. okee doke.

i like these crazy indians

this is the link to it...

lesbian hairstyles

This is a photograph of a lesbian. This is not a picture of my sister Faith. But this is a link to something my sis, rock opera creator Faith Soloway, did on stage in Boston a few years ago. I love it so much. It makes me laugh, yes it do. When I was writing this post the link wouldn't work so if it doesn't, go to www.faithsoloway.com and go to the Jesus Has Two Mommies thingy, then click on media, then pick mp3 files, and choose a song called Lesbian Hairstyles. As long as that takes, it's still better than going out and seeing Failure to Launch. Plus maybe, after you have done all that, you can come back here and I will have figured out how to link right.

MAN COUGHS UP 40-YEAR OLD NAIL

That has nothing to do with this but I found it particularly eye-catching as one of the revolving headlines when I turned on my AOL this morning. Hopefully it caught your eye as well.

Art is ready. Link is ready. Let's all buy our tickets to: The Soloway Sisters Do Joe's Pub (I guess it has another name but I forget what it is) in NY on March 16th! Me and my sis! Together again, hosting even. Make it a March 16th to remember.

remember when we all had blogs?

I think that's what we're gonna be saying in about 2008.

Now comes the time for more shameless self-promotion and show-shilling. This one is a bit like a dream come true show, hosted by my sister Faith and me, with special guests including Jessi Klein who I love love love and Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo as Beverly and Ronna, who you saw if you came to Heaping Portion.

Jews Who Fight is a performance to showcase Reboot's magazine Guilt and Pleasure, a literary journal of sorts put together by the brilliant and beautiful Canadian, Mirelle Silicoff.

It's goin' down at 7pm on Thursday March 16th at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in NY, so if you have friends out there, direct them to this
link immediately so that they might purchase tickets.

how did the world get along before I blogged?

I love this man more than he knows. I will go to see him wednesday night at skylight. maybe you will too. he will be at a few other places while he is here in LA as well

Feb. 15- 7:30 – LOS ANGELES, CA, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Ave., Los Feliz

Feb. 16, 7:00 – PASADENA, CA, Vroman’s Bookstores, 695 East Colorado Blvd.

Feb. 21, 7:30 – LOS ANGELES, CA, 826LA, Sparc Building, 685 Venice Blvd., Venice, $20 (all proceeds go to 826LA the tutoring center started by Dave Eggers). For more details to: http://www.826la.com/

we like girls like us part two

today's post is a whoopeee wahoo yessiree yay go to a woman I love who is working with another woman i love. the first lady of whom I speak is sera gamble.

she is a friend from forever ago who clearly has fantastic eyebrows. She currently writes on the WB(nee CW) show Supernatural, but has a whole other career as a writer-writer. She has written a dirty short story about a girl making a golem. sSusie bright went and found it and put it in her latest book, Best American Erotica, which is now OUT and available to buy.

As you know we love susie, and we love sera (she and her writing partner raelle tucker who I also looove were in the very first box and blow shows-- which were the precoursers to sit and spin), and o' course we love BAE (it published Courtney Cox's Asshole lo so many years ago). So share the love and buy the book.

And then, when you're done looking at susie's interview with Sera and buying the book, go and see The Sera's website.

nothing

much to say, just getting ready for le heaping portion show tonight. berry excited. tomorrow night the writing staff of six feet under is nominated for a writer's guild award so there's that coming up too. maybe we will win. probably we will not. we usually don't win. in the meantime here is a photo I just love. it's of my mom, my cousin and my grandpa. i feel that it sums up some very essential emotion from my childhood.

also, funniest thing ever

not to take anything away from anyone who wants to take a cross country flight of fancy as you've been instructed in my previous post, but I just got this in my email and it must be shared because it is so gosh darn adorable...

there is a boy in bosnia

whose name is alexander, which you would know if you were one of the ten people who've been reading the comment section since I started blogging. alexander has written a tribute story to courtney cox's asshole which is much, much better than my original. he has secretly and stealthily linked to it for your reading pleasure in one of said comment sections, but i will hereby openly link to it so that everyone can catch a whiff of a little alexander for themselves...

the show appears to

be sold out-- heaping portion that is-- so now I will permanently move on. Today I wax poetic about a performer I saw last week at UCB. I really can't say enough about how blown away I was by the brilliance of this lauren weedman girl. A lot of it is said in her website. The show I saw, Wreckage, just closed, but there will be more of her. Anytime, anywhere this girl is performing go and see her and love her up. She rocks like crazy.

as a lady who is

obsessed with whatever I am into at the moment, I will continue to use this space to promote the Heaping Portion show until it's all sold out. This is why you must go to the website and make a rezzie. Then I will stop and blog about Project Runway again.

Anyway, today's update is about one monique powell, the talented and beautiful lady who will be singing and making music at the show. That's a picture of her. And this is her website.

Also, some exciting news: it appears that Silver Lake Wine is going to give us free red booze to pour for the blessings. Remember, you don't have to be Jewish, or even like Jews, to come. Just free wine. And free magazines. The folks at reboot (who inspired the event) are sending a bunch of their new magazine called Guilt and Pleasure for us to hand out as special gifts. So that's two free things. I won't make the free and Jewish connexion, I'll leave it up to your sweet minds.

Also, also, just below you shall find a nice clean fresh flyer that Jen made with clean, easy to read type, one that you can download to your home 'puter, or, if you are a nice caring Aunt from out of town and you have a nice young nephew who needs to meet a nice girl, you can send it along. Did you happen to notice it's at 7 and not 8? Get to the Franklin neighborhood early, shop along the little shoppies, hey have a nosh. Just want you to help you to beat Friday traffic. Love, Jill T Barnum...

o glory in it, the time has come

UCB has put up the reservations page for Heapin' Portion. Over the past few weeks, the excitement over this production was only something you could feel gurgling in your lowers, but now that you can actually put your name on the list, the revolution in hilarious, meaningful absurdly profane yet deep Jewish worship can begin. Just shut me up and go make a rezzie, that's all.

god is a moog

The tireless promotion of all things cool and jewy continues as I introduce you to God is a Moog. It's by this brilliant jewish fellow named gershon kingsley who wrote that song popcorn that you would know if you heard. He basically pioneered the "moog" sound that you have in your head from your childhood. Also, if you've ever heard the music at the electronic parade at Disneyland and it's gotten stuck in your head in a really sick way, it's because Gershon wrote that too!

This new cd I speak of is him doing all kinds of cool jewy music in his inimitable Gershon style. Here is info from Josh Kun, one of the producers of the project:

Synthesizer pioneer Gershon Kingsley's 2-CD collection, GOD IS A MOOG-- which moves from Moog versions of Yiddish chestnuts to a wild 60s Shabbat rock opera--was released today, after weeks of great press attention from the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Black Book, Urb, Time Out NY, and Fader. He also appeared on wnyc's soundcheck program, and was interviewed on the notorious suicide girls site. More info is of course always available at reboot stereophonic. We hope you love Gershon's music and his singular attempts at merging electronics with Jewish ritual, liturgy, folk song, and progressive politics.

trapped at UCB

I am so tired cause I stayed up so late last night which you very well know is not me. Maybe when Amanda Scheer Demme comes a calling I will be ready now. Last night was Melanie Hutsell's one woman show Party Mom which ya'll should come see on Jan 26th. She was beautiful and hilarious and got a standing O. People laughed and cried and laughed and then cried again.

Mel and I hung around and watched the UCB show Trapped in the Closet which is highlarious. One of the guys who hosts it is Paul Scheer, unrelated to Amanda I have to believe unless the lord is playing tricks on me. The other is this guy Aziz who I fell deeply in love with. They took apart the Trapped in the Closet videos between chapters that were played for the audience. David Cross also played the closet. Everyone was great, it kinda reminded me of old Annoyance Theater days. Packed in like sardines and lines around the block. Go and see it if you can.

look at it look at it

here's the real new flyer for the show I have coming up. note the brisket.

I cain't quit you, Chris and Cody

Those who thought The Bachelor Paris was the thing of the week are wrong wrong wrong, especially beacuse i forgot to Tivo it so I cain't comment. But upon this I can comment: Country Boys. It's so dang good. I just want to run into a holler and holler about it all day. You can pick up anywhere in it, so watch the last installment tonight. Or maybe there'll be re-runs.

I like fat guys and hot girls

At least that's what Amanda says if you keep on reading. I know, it's fashionable to hate Amanda Scheer Demme these days becuase she's the club owner person who kept all of the regular people out of her Tropicana bar at the Roosevelt. And now she's hated even more because she just started an even more exclusive bar called Teddy's and no one can get in except Jessica Simpson. They say it has a Matrushka-like VIP room inside a VIP room inside a VIP room, and that the very very insidiest room is actually Amanda's vagina.

But I love Amanda Scheer Demme, and not becuase I want in her VIPagina. I can't stay up that late. I watched Country Boys on Frontline (TIVO IT NOW IF YOU DIDN'T!) until 10:55pm last night and it practically did me in. No, the reason, I love Amanda because she's a poster child for my feminist revolution.

Much like self-aggrandizing me and Trans Boi below from Transgeneration, she has the no make-up Jewfro thing going. But unlike me, she's friends with Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan. What I say, people, is that she represents a look that is appropriate for clubbing that does not involve a thong nor a french manicure. She's also bisexual in that really cool way, where she just falls in love with people instead of genders. Plus she's a mom of two. Bisexual moms rule!

That's right, that's my thought for the day: Thongs Off to Amanda Scheer Demme! Much like my deep Santino love, I think this is more proof that I veer towards the villains. Also, if anyone knows her and she wants to do a movie of her life, please contact me, I would like to write it. And of course, the question that is so dang obvious but hasn't been asked yet, is she or isn't she a Jewess. Must know soon.



Anyway, if you want to get to know Amanda Scheer Demme, here are some of her answers from an interview she did on the Radar wesbite. The Teddy she refers to is her husband Ted Demme, who passed away a few tears ago.

Q: Was it hard to start dating again?
A: At first I went searching for someone like Teddy. I think every widow or widower looks around for their dead spouse, so I looked for guys who looked just like him. I’m a chubby chaser. I fucking love chubby guys. I don’t like skinny men — guys whose dicks I feel like I’m going to break if I spin on top of them. I guess I like fat guys and hot girls.

Q: You happen to be dating a woman now. What would Teddy think about that?
A: He’d be happy for me. He’d definitely be happier seeing me with a woman than seeing me with a man. When I lived on the East Coast I was one of the biggest dykes in New York. I worked as a doorgirl at a lot of the girl clubs there, and I really loved it. I think it’s much more common for women to hook up with women and then go back to guys.

Q: Is it hard to go back and forth?
A: Not really. It all depends on who I fall for. If I fall for a man, I fall for a man. If I fall for a woman, I fall for a woman. I wish every woman could experience what I experience. It can sometimes be confusing, but I’m never lonely.



Okay, now it's me, Jill again. Oh, that picture to the left. That's her, not me. It doesn't get more Jewy than that, does it?

hot partyin' mama

Melanie Hutsell is one of my besty-bestest friends from way back in Chicago when we did the Real Live Brady Bunch at the Annoyance Theater. She went on to be on SNL and get famous with her impressions of Jan Brady, Tori Spelling and the Tri-Delt girl.

This coming Thursday night, the 12th, as well as on Jan 26th, she's going to be performing her show over at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. It's crankin' hilarious, and I know because I directed it. So come and see it and see why Melanie is still one of the most gifted comediennes about town, about the entire land, in fact.

trans boy, goddess/ goddess, trans boy

Which one is it? Heck if I know. All I can say is that as I tap tap tap out screenplays and pilots all day, I also find the time to create newfangled attempts to synthesize religion and day-to-day los angeles life.

I am barely a Jew yet I am obsessed with Judaism, as evidenced by 9 out of 10 of these last posts. That's why I'm doing a show called Heaping Portion on February 3rd at the
UCB theater in Hollywood. You can go reserve tickets now, or reserve judgment until closer to the date.

For those who have seen
sit n spin, this show will be just like that (essays, music, even a comedy sketch here and there) except these things will be held together with the theme of the Torah Portion for that week.

For those who don't know what a torah portion is (I didn't a year ago) it's the chapters of the Old Testament (actually, Jews don't use the word Old because we consider it the Only) that we are "up to" at that point in the calendar. On Friday, February 3rd, temples all over the globe- as part of their shabbat service-- will be interpreting a Torah Portion called Bo.


And at 7pm, on Friday Feb 3rd me and a few friends will take the stage at the UCB as the sun drops and shabbat rises to figure out if we can make anything resonant/meaningful/funny/sad/deep/sacred/profane out of what's in that section of the bible.

The headlines: God told the Israelites to base their calendar around the moon. I find that pretty interesting. Plus it's the beginning of the passover story, the last 3 of the ten plagues (locusts darkness and killing of the first born). Could be something there. Who knows. If anyone reading this wants to comment in the comment section about anything related it would help me because right now it's all a bunch of hibberdy-dash to me.

It's Exodus 10-13 ish if you're playing along in your home bible. Why do we even read these stories in the first place? That's the depth of the ignorance from whence I write this post and take on this experiment in theater.

Also here is the artwork for the thing. Please come and see it.

I don't know how to love him

he scares me so.... I love him soooooo
(go santino! all the way!)

check out that big jew below from jesus christ superstar to see who santino reminds me of

we like people like us

Is it that simple? I love girls who seem like they're like me. I think it's because it implies safe-keeping during the coming armageddeon. If it's anything like Burning Man, we can have a camp called Funny Jew Girls who Can't Stop.

When I first went to Natasha Levinger's website it had the same joke, the why-am-I-talking-about-myself-in-the-third-person thing. We struck up an e-friendship, she and her wonderful band Stickerbook played at my New York Tiny Ladies event, we had a lovely meal, and I go to her blog all the time. (I tried to link to her blog there and it didn't work, so the link is to her website, which I would like to eat). Click on journal when you get there. Or get the details about her new play, which opens January 13th at the Eclectic Theater in North Hollywood. I can't WAIT to see her play! I'm jealous and impressed and happily passing the info on to everyone I know.

i know the problem!

I am a man trapped in a woman's body. That's probably why it appears that I hate men so much. I have so much maleness in me that I know exactly how men feel about women. It's like I'm a double agent. I relate to this trans boy- the one on the left in the pic on the right. He's on Transgeneration, one of the best shows I've seen in awhile. He isn't actually a lead in the show, but both are F to M.


I've been trying not to wear make up because I feel like it undermines my current political position. Finally took a picture where I feel like I like the way I look-- a little like trans boy up there: