Happy Monday Magically Real enthusiasts -- Yesterday saw a couple of magical experiences. One being the Female Surrealists exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The other being a foray into e-book best seller 50 Shades of Grey. There's a connection. Artists like the now famous Frida Kahlo and the lesser known Dorothea … Continue reading Why we need erotica — and NaPoWriMo Day #2: Write a poem based on the #1 hit single on the date of your birth
Category: Art and Literature
Day #1 of NaPoWriMo @ Magically Real — Silly Sunday
Dear Friends and Fans of the Unreal: April is NOT the cruelest month, it's the most poetic month! Welcome to NaPoWriMo -- and the month of April madness that writing a poem a day will surely engender. Find out about the April Poetry movement here. Try it out and if you wish, post your poem … Continue reading Day #1 of NaPoWriMo @ Magically Real — Silly Sunday
How Hungry For Change Are You? Tell YOUR (activist) story about the HUNGER GAMES @Story Time Sunday 03/25 12
Greetings Friends and Fans of the Unreal! Magically Real HQ (consisting primarily of me, myself, and I) has been observing the HUNGER GAMES movie phenom with increasing interest. As of today, the movie has shattered box office receipts, and while that’s interesting, what is equally interesting and certainly more inspiring is the anti-hunger project launched … Continue reading How Hungry For Change Are You? Tell YOUR (activist) story about the HUNGER GAMES @Story Time Sunday 03/25 12
Annie Proulx’s queer wyomingans and the non-realistic
Hello Friends! It’s easy to link author Annie Proulx with quintessential American Realism. She’s writing about Wyoming for Pete’s sake, and regular, if not downright poor people. You can’t get much realistic-er than that. Or can you? Proulx’s writing is dense, elegiac, funny, perverse, and strange. I've discussed the notion of the queer in my … Continue reading Annie Proulx’s queer wyomingans and the non-realistic
Storytime Sunday, 03/04/12 —
A little story about a gorilla. Appropriate for children of all ages. One slightly bad word towards the end. The adventures of Johannes Once upon a time there was a Mexican gorilla. He was kind and fierce and loyal to his adopted mother who had found him in a steamer trunk that had washed up … Continue reading Storytime Sunday, 03/04/12 —
Got dystopia? The history of our hunger for the nightmare society
Dear Magically Real: I have some questions for you. What’s a dystopia and where does the first one show up? What do you think of the Hunger Games? Are you excited about the movie? I love the way those people look in the trailer they are showing! They remind me a little of the Marie … Continue reading Got dystopia? The history of our hunger for the nightmare society
Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real 02/19/12
Maccabee and Maccabee Maccabee and Maccabee are a father and daughter team that make and wear magical masks. Monsters and mermaids. The sun. The moon. Animals and objects that have never been. Philosophical concepts like phenomena and noumena. The categorical imperative and the will to power. Maccabee masks give faces to the impossible. It started … Continue reading Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real 02/19/12
Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real, 02/12/12
Somehow the death of Whitney Houston makes me want to share this story, that I wrote originally for my mother in law, Charlotte Behrendt. The story appeared in Square Lake, and is one of my favorites. Enjoy. Small Stars A woman who lived in a beautiful suburb became very sick. Your lungs, said the doctors … Continue reading Storytime Sunday @ Magically Real, 02/12/12
Unreal Valentine: Revisiting Carnations #1: Pina Bausch and the dance of words
In the 1990's, I was invited at the last moment to see a performance of a dance called "Carnations" to be performed by Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal. I hesitated. I had seen the company's brutal peat-moss strewn interpretation of the RITES OF SPRING in the 80's in Brooklyn, and was still recovering from the experience. … Continue reading Unreal Valentine: Revisiting Carnations #1: Pina Bausch and the dance of words
Magnificent Monday Story @ Magically Real (make-up for Super Bowl Snow Day), 02/06/12
A story about 3 beings beginning with the letter "M." Appropriate for silly people of all ages. Never before appearing in public..... it's: Mongolian, Mongrel, and Mongoose Together they are the three. The holy hot heads of Monterey forest, Woodland Hills, the Schwarzwald, the Bois de Boulogne, the Cedars of Lebanon, Zambesi National Park or … Continue reading Magnificent Monday Story @ Magically Real (make-up for Super Bowl Snow Day), 02/06/12
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 