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Tummelvision Pilot Video – Our Show Premiere's Tomorrow Night 7pm PST TWiT.tv

Tomorrow night join me, Kevin MarksDeb Schultz and our guest game designer Nicole Lazzaro for Tummelvision.
Tummelvision explores the art of social engagement, ever more important in post social-media life in tech, business and culture.

Please join us tomorrow night, and every Thursday night on TWiT.tv from 7-8:30pm PST / 10-11:30 EST

Tweet links and topics and questions you’d like to discuss with #tummelvision.

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Why, oh why can't I? Video of a beautiful moment in song pre-Prop8 trial.

Melanie DeMore sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow early morning Jan 11th before the start of the Prop 8 Trial in San Francisco. 
I love the gentle threading of Judy Garland into this hopeful moment. She was a social force in connecting the GLBT community. Some say heartache after her funeral emboldened the harassed to fight back that night when the Stonewall Riots happened the next day giving birth to the movement that has led to this trial. 

This trial is being led by Ted Olson, a lawyer with impeccable conservative credentials. The man who helped put George Bush in office. A man who had his own tragedy when his wife died in the 9/11 attacks. 

This story has quite an arc.

Thanks for the song Melanie. I’m happy to feel the melancholy and the community and the hope of the moment. Yes, “why oh why can’t I?” 

(via Elyse Singer, Michael Winn)

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Fabulous groove break – let's go back to the 70s shall we?

I challenge you to not have this in your head for the next 3 days.

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Stephen Hawking: Evolution? You're soaking in it..Info 'R Us.

We are evolving through “self-defined evolution.”
“I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race.”

-Stephen Hawking
This top 2009 post of Daily Galaxy is worth reading. I especially like this comment from Ionut: “We should be carefull because if this technology will be very efficient we will have humans that act like machines before we manage to create machines that act “human-like.” Sadly, I think we’ve already made a lot of progress toward making humans more machine-like and that we’re in a moment of negotiating a return to our human-ness.

(via AndrewSullivan)

Jay Smooth intercepts a twitter fagbashing and skools a pro football player on strength



I already loved Jay from his tweets and videoblog. But wow on this one, just wow.

This is incredibly heartwarming and inspiring to see from anyone, a straight guy no less, a straight black guy no less (because when’s the last time you saw a white guy trying to engage a black man on his misunderstanding of masculinity without sounding like a douchebag?)


1. Recognize when someone’s fagbashing and call them on it (in this case a The Kansas Chief’s Larry Johnson).

2. Know the story of Stonewall and the beginning of the LGBT rights movement.
3. Tell the story in such a way that makes you feel the strength and power of the queer folk who fought back at Stonewall.
4. Do it all with style.

Jay, when you hear that gay or queer means weak and lame and not a real man (or woman or the right gender etc) over and over again, it can be tough to 100% disbelieve it even when it you know from your leaders (those at Stonewall) yourself, your friends and family that it isn’t true. 

I am so honoured that Jay will be a guest on this year’s Heather Gold Show at SXSW. Details coming very soon.

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fabulous mini-break: Sylvester Makes Me Feel Mighty Real

 

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Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic 3 – Request Line

Before the Internet, before Kutiman when hair was its own country

(via TNC)

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Comedy playlist: Madeline Kahn and Gilda Radner

 

70s SNL clip. Madeleine does a baby eating ice cream for the first time. Gilda does a parrot.

People often ask me about who i like comedically and what influenced me. I’m going to occasionally post favourite comedy bits. Here’s two of my all-time favourites together. Both brilliant. Both “heart over head” as I’ve read Judy Toll liked to say about comedy she liked and the brilliant comedy she did. Judy was the closest thing I’ve seen to Gilda and Madeleine and cancer took them all. Fuck you cancer. You’re not as big as this what they did.

Baby Vera's first art installation

The shoe is mine.

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