Tonight, Sunday evening March 30th, one of my favorite less-well-known-than-he-ought-to-be performers is playing a no-cover live gig up in Evanston.
If you aren’t familiar with him — and most people I know aren’t — the best way I can describe Andy White is to say that if Jonathan Richman had been born an Irishman, he might […]
Entries from March 2008
Andy White at the Celtic Knot
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Tags: News · Culture · Music · Performance · Ireland · Folk-Rock · Crowded House · Tim Finn
Death by Flirting
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
From Friday’s AP story on Lawrence King:
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Larry King was a gay eighth-grader who used to come to school in makeup, high heels and earrings. And when the other boys made fun of him, he would boldly tease them right back by flirting with them.
That may have been what got him killed.
No, […]
Tags: News · Culture · LGBT · Media · Comedy · TV · Human Rights · Hate Crimes · Education · Journalism · Homophobia
Bookshelves vs. Blogging: Cage Match
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
So, on the one hand, I feel just awforrible that Ocelopotamus has gone so quiet … the latest two-week outage being just one bead on a five-month string of periods of woeful neglect. Poor kittyderm.
And I have all these wonderful links and jottings and things I’d like to post, if I can just find the […]
