Crud Crud (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Edith Massey Big Girls Don't Cry b/w Punks, Get Off the Grass 45 (Egg, 1982) If Divine was The Star in John Waters' celluloid universe, Edith Massey was the Cosmic Egg. Both ladies were outrageous but with Massey there was always something real, the sense that you could meet Edith Massey on the street or at a bus stop or working behind the counter of a junk shop, Fans of Waters' movies took an instant...
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
John Waters has been asked to write a sequel for the 2007 movie musical version based on the Broadway musical that was based on his 1988 movie Hairspray with Divine and Ricki Lake. Not much more is kmnow about the sequel like which actors will return or the plot line, but the movie is set [...]
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
It looks like John Waters has a new muse. In an interview with Pop Candy’s Whitney Matheson , the filmmaker discusses his upcoming Christmas movie Fruitcake–– “imagine The Little Rascals if John Waters had directed it”––and has nothing but effusive praise for the film’s star, Johnny Knoxville: Yeah, I love Johnny. He really personifies every male character that’s a good guy that I could write that...
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Teaser for Roisin's Movie Star (see a painted Roisin peeking out behind these two queens). An homage to John Waters, Divine and maybe a bit of Leigh Bowery. Cannot. Wait. he says breathlessly. Thank u Hopeless Optimist .
Mack the Hackistan (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
If you pretend Divine, the drag queen singing the tune, is a stand-in for working folk, and the topic of his/her tune is Boss Hargrove, then this seems strangely apropos.
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Cry-Baby's success as a Broadway musical can't cover the fact that, without his glamorous muse, John Waters' films tend to fall flat
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Logo, a television mecca for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender viewers, is producing an one hour, six episode reality series starring divine drag queen RuPaul.
So Quoted (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Wherein he's suckatastic A week ago, ALOTT5MA wrote of "Hairspray, The Musical". Which is fine. It's ok, it's just a far, far inferior copy of the original. Two things made the John Waters' movie a classic: Divine and the music. So what does the broadway version give us? Harvey Fierstein in the Divine role singing. This can never be a good thing. But others disagreed: but my biggest concern has always...
Grandgood (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Visit them at divineforces.org Hosted by Divine Forces Radio’s Fidel Rodriguez, various artists drop some knowledge on issues the community is facing. Appearances by KRS-One, Supernatural, Brother J, M1 of Dead Prez, Psycho Realm, Dilated Peoples, Asia One, Jurassic 5 & Immortal Technique.
FIDE-O (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
The correct use of contextualization is discussed by: (click on their names) Mark Dever David Wells Ligon Duncan C J Mahaney A few good quotes: "All preaching can be improved. In fact, preaching needs to be constantly adapting itself to the changing face of culture. The message will never change, but the way we deliver it will change -- yes, must change -- or we will cease to be a bridge between two...
Father Joe (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Love wants the entire person — body, heart, mind, and soul. The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber would speak of the “I-Thou” relationship in reference to ourselves and the divine as in opposition to the “I-It”. The first speaks of love, the second merely of utility (lust). It is the same for human relationships. It is [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Many paid their respects to Baird Jones, a man of early intellectual promise who chose to celebrate and participate in the glamorous life in Manhattan in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Irish-Catholic and Dangerous (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
"Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you." -1 Peter 3:15Saturday, March 08, 2008What Does Grace Do? “Grace joins the creature so closely to God that the soul, while it is in the state of grace, cannot be separated from God by any barrier of guilt. Grace, which bridges the infinite gap yawning between the creature and the divine nature, spans...
Irish-Catholic and Dangerous (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
“The mystery of the original state leads us on to the mystery of the state of grace characteristic of Christianity. But for that very reason Christian justification must be considered in terms of its opposition of the mystery of sin. However, the sin that Christian justification is meant to destroy cannot be regarded simply according to its natural side, as the derangement of the natural order. Sin...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Jane has kindly given the OK for me to use this space to shill for EschaCon '08, the liberal blog extravaganza taking place in Philadelphia, March 28-30 of this very year. It's a weekend of politics, music, conversation, organizing, and frequent unapologetic swearing. Come on down!
