Mark Allen

My hurricane survival kit: 200 helium-filled balloons and a lawn chair.

— Mark Allen (@_MarkAllen) October 28, 2012

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Last week I had the honor of joining drag legend Linda Simpson on stage at ISA in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she was giving a preview of her new website EveryNightInDrag.com, which will archive personal photos from her years in the 80’s/90’s NYC art and nightlife scene. I offered a “male” take on the evening, bringing a bag of artifacts from my years as a go-go boy in NYC in the 90’s, and telling stories about each item. (pic: Pseu Braun)
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Victor Mendolia, me and Jay Blotcher at a screening of How to Survive a Plague in Hudson, NY. The turn out and the Q&A afterward were amazing… but most of all it was wonderful to see everyone again! Have you seen How to Survive a Plague yet?
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I was shocked by news that Big Tex, the animatronic giant that waves and greets visitors at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, perished by fire today. It’s macabre to see an icon from my childhood engulfed in flames, simultaneously stirring emotions left over from 9/11 and seeing the film The Wicker Man. A lot of national and even local media treated the story humorously. It is a little funny. They’ll obviously rebuild him, better, stronger… faster. He’s had many “re-boots” during his long existence, and his original parts from 1952 have long since been replaced (he’s mostly a giant metal shell covered in thick fabric, only his hand and head are mechanical). And no doubt someone will enter a new item in the fair’s annual weird-fried-food-contest next year called “Deep Fried Big Tex.” Still… *shudder*. His death is cartoonish I guess (check out this shot of his headless, charred shell being removed from the grounds in a shroud). Cherish all your animatronic dummies and tell them you love them daily. You never know when they’ll be snatched away. Anthropomorphic life is fleeting!

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via my Twitter feed…

- Did Romney pocket the coin from the coin toss as part of his tax plan? #debate

- Mitt Romney promises to overturn Roe v. Wade because terrorists might be hiding under it. #debate

- Did Romney say “binders full of women?” Huh? #debate

- Romney promises not to outsource dish washing jobs to China, that one goes to Paul Ryan. #debate

- Birds again? Romney really suffers from ornithophobia! #debate

- I nodded off there for a second… had a brief dream Karl Marx was debating Adam Sandler. #debate

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(graphic by David Kawena)

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More info on the film here.

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