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This eccentric group of traveling artists will be visiting Harvard April 28th (drat, one day earlier and we could have had prefroshs and trannies here together!). The group describes itself as "a multimedia performance art extravaganza. It is composed of an eclectic group of artists, each one self-identified as transgender, and includes poets, rappers, filmmakers, storytellers, breakdancers, rock bands comedians, actors, folk singers, photographers, zinesters, and more...
...extra for an onboard supercomputer able to sense a parking spot 10 blocks away and beam an electronic force field there to save it until I arrived. Whoops, this just in: experts now forecast that by the year 2025 there won't be any parking spots. Drat! There goes the age-old dream of a handheld, Star Wars-based, in-car parking-meter jamming device...
...work runs from the hornbook-inspired Eclectic Abecedarium through the Jazz Age-naughtiness of The Curious Sofa but will budge no further. An enthusiasm for the obsolete furnishes his rooms with daguerreotypes, gramophones and bell-pulls, and his diction matches the furniture-- his characters say things like "Mercy!" and "Drat!." Gorey's nonsense verse is the direct descendant of Edward Lear's and Lewis Carroll's, and, as it would be impossible to transplant Lear or Carroll to another era, Gorey inherits their Victorian world along with their spirit...
...began imagining how this historical material might generate a work of fiction, Morrison bumped into one of the banes of creative artists everywhere: the intrusion of the outside world into the space of private concentration. Drat the luck, in October 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...little beaver you are, with the Moon's nodes crossing the Pisces-Virgo axis, you're sure to be plotting moments of escape from drudgery (thank goodness for study breaks and the phone). But in the end, work will turn out to be your salvation (midterms after break). Drat (and have a good break...