I have a fearful reaction when I hear the phrases “performance art” and “experimental theater.” I’ve spent many a conversation about my school days trying to gloss over my theater background–I don’t want to be outed. Not that I even earned that despicable title of Theater Person while in high school; I spent more time backstage listening to Tool with the techies than preening for my breakthrough appearance as a maid in A Tale of Two Cities. My brief career did, unfortunately, extend beyond school property. I starred as Alice in a community theater production of Through the Looking Glass. I remember pissing off my director when I buzzed off most of my hair immediately after getting cast. But it was one of those experimental productions, so we worked it in–I got to be a post-modern angsty Alice…and I shudder when I remember how in the opening scene they made me talk to a Tamagotchi instead of a kitty. Ah, late-90s technophilia. Read more »
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Russian cops are cruel, cruel masters
Russia is so infinitely big that there is infinite possibility within its endless tundra. Which means that, theoretically, anything you can imagine happening is happening there now. You want a baby that looks like a lorry combing its hair? It’ll be there. You want a shop that sells packets of chocolate wrinkles advertised by flaming midget harlequin pheasants? Just go east. You want a community which celebrates a policeman who tortures his daughters with darts, knives, broken glass and swords? Yup, they got it, and we actually found that one. Click beneath. Read more »
