http://okaycity.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:20:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The year that I took Introduction to Film in college, only 40-something films were directed by women. Until tonight, no woman had ever won for Best Director, a point that you could still was stuck in Barbra Streisand's craw pretty hard by her almost neurotic inability to let go of ... http://okaycity.com/2010/03/07/oscar-post-game/ ...is this late-1960s ad for IHOP. It's trippy on a level that ... well, anyway. Just watch: [youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_OS54FFFE&feature=player_embedded] http://okaycity.com/2010/03/05/currently-making-my-day/ My boss thinks it's entirely likely that the following is some sort of Soviet-era KGB mind control. I'm not sure if that's true, but I'm hard-pressed to come up with a better explanation. At any rate, your day should get much more Dadaist once you've seen it: [youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM] UPDATE: Well, now I'm ... http://okaycity.com/2010/03/03/i-am-suddenly-possessed-with-the-insatiable-desire-to-assassinate-j-edgar-hoover/ Dani Shapiro, in the Los Angeles Times, gives some advice that I really, really needed to hear this week: ...my internal life as a writer has been a constant battle with the small, whispering voice (well, sometimes it shouts) that tells me I can't do it. This time, the voice taunts me, ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/25/endurability/ My latest piece is up over at OpenSalon. I like to call it my "origin story." Also, it features Treehouse of Horror. Let me be as clear as I know how to be: I.Am Not. Okay. And I LOVE being good at things. I may have accidentally, a long time ago, confused the accolades ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/24/on-being-safe-to-be-unsafe/ When I matriculated at Wake Forest University in the fall of 1998, they were one of the most "wired" campuses in America. The internet boom had yet to turn bust, and recently-graduated Sanskrit majors were leaping headlong into the information revolution and becoming overnight millionaires (then, it turns out, overnight thousandaires). ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/22/the-only-difference-being-that-i-dont-have-access-to-any-liquid-nitrogen-not-since-the-unpleasantness/ As a man, there are few things to me more upsetting than peeing in public. Ladies might have to endure the momentary, temporary pain of childbirth, but men? Men have to use urinals OUR WHOLE LIVES. You never feel so much like some kind of barnyard animal as when you're standing in a ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/22/a-little-pee-shy-miss-cocos-here-to-help/ My latest piece is up at Open Salon. Here's an excerpt: I want to put a seed in the ground, throw a little water down, and then have steamed zucchini on a plate. I don’t want to wait, and I certainly don’t want to tend. I’m hungry now! And no matter how ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/18/growing/ Some amazing video by Tanner Herriott from Saturday night's show. For the full-on awesome, click over to YouTube and watch them in 720p Hi-Def: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSDuUGNrqVk] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9pE6CaOoU] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bUp_Aj8tcE] In addition to being awesome, these videos make me covet a digital SLR that can do high-definition video. Canon just introduced its new ti2 digital SLR, capable ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/18/loud-and-clear/ Whoops - I posted this on OpenSalon late last week and forgot to tell you about it!  ...it seems to me that this nation’s parents have a lot more than homosexuality to worry about when it comes to what their kids are learning in school. After all, most of us spent ... http://okaycity.com/2010/02/17/a-proposition/