((tags: #Christmas
#Chineserestaurant
#Jews
#comedians ))

Looking forward to returning to play Moo Jew this Dec 23rd in West Hartford CT with the super fun Jewy hip hop comic MC Mr. Napkins Zach Sherwin. Can't wait to dig into my memories of Jewing up the Whiffenpoof's appearance at the Greenwich Country Club.

New York, NY

My #<3trip is rounding the curve to NY and into darkness with the very strong light. Soon I will change countries. I will steer by light.

We lit the 4th candle last night at Sandi Dubowski's (http://tremblingbeforeg-d.com)
wonderful annual Hannukah bordello. He and Amichai Lau-Lavie (http://storahtelling.org) gave a wonderful performative blessing.

"the Maccabees were Jewish freedom fighters with anger management issues with their oppressive with their otherwise hot Hellenistic oppressors."

((tags: Jewish, Hannukah, road trip, LGBT, Amichai Lau-Lavie, storahtelling, light, freedom, darkness, USA, Canada, border))

impromptu Hourglass SoloLab moment at filmmaker @SandiDubowski's (Trembling Before G-d) Hannukah Bordello downtown heather gold, elyse singer, yolanda shoshana, christen clifford

Marilyn in my hometown, Bernard of Hollywood at the Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA

"An actress is not a machine.
But they treat her like a machine.
A money machine."
-Marilyn Monroe

"I make work this way
because I want to be a machine."
-Andy Warhol

I grew up in Niagara Falls where Marilyn filmed one of her first, if not her first leading role.

Niagara powered machines.
Cyanamid. The GM plant.
The water was full of dioxin.
Love Canal was next door.

Machines were jobs for most. Money.
It's where people went.

It was blue collar like Pittsburgh was.
Who could a slight, aspirational, fey boy be here?

He could be the camera.

Many at the #BeingHuman conference at Bard I spoke at a month ago were aghast and serious when someone shared this quote of Andy's.

How horrific to want to be the machine. To turn others into one.

Marilyn did it and struggled to find self. Andy seemed to pine to lose his.

It doesn't seem horrific to me at all.
It makes sense in his life. In him.
He aimed to have no emotion at all.

"Film is the best medium because it has two-dimensional images. Two dimensional emotion." - Andy Warhol

How else to be him, be noticed, be with everyone? Avoid the pain that must have been too enormous to feel.
That's my guess.

How else could Marilyn be seen, desired? Never alone.

Each was not alone if they could help it.

I wrote my first school report on Marilyn in grade 5. I held the book with these photos, some naked, on my lap.

People came by.

How else to be noticed? Be with everyone? Show nothing? Just like Andy.

Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh

Nearing the final stages of #or perhaps it will never end