Issue No. 20: Tavi Gevinson Halloween Apparel Available at Target

Target Advert

In the spirit of Tavi Gevinson's collaboration with Rodarte for Target stores, Target is now offering the Tavi Gevinson Halloween Look. Target is calling the ensembles "looks" rather than "costumes" in the hope that buyers will view their purchases as non-seasonal after the holiday and wear down-played, less accessorized versions throughout the year, incorporating the pieces into their daily wardrobes.   

Tavi herself says, 'The beauty of working with a retailer like Target is that their looks are so affordable. I recommend investing in both, premiering each separately and then interchanging the pieces. This is how two outfits can become twenty!' She continues, 'The more high-end consumer who wants to look like me can dress up the wig and mask with something like a fur coat by Karl Lagerfeld for Fendi or one of the many faux furs creations that have graced the Autumn/Winter 2010 runways. ...Underneath? Skin. Or, you can mix and match any of these pieces with that one-of-a-kind vintage piece. Clogs go with everything.'   ~EP  

The Tavi Halloween Looks are Multicultural

Tavi (photo pilfered from her blog)

Issue No. 19: SCOTT WATERS: Investigating Queerness in the Military.

The Ginch Camp

Depending on the nation and the army, the homoerotic element is pushed or pulled to varying degrees. It’s always there. But most often it’s something more than camaraderie but less than sexual. It’s just this intense closeness that is indescribable if you’re outside, and maybe even for some of us who were inside. I don’t want to say it transcends description, that’s probably blowing it out of proportion, but there is an unknowable relationship between men that occurs in the military.

I’m sure the people who make these decisions in the military are well aware of walking a very fine line between masculinity and eroticism. You see it more in movies than actually within the military. Specific to my own experience, I noticed that play was a common occurrence, but it didn’t usually cross the line. What develops is this fringe culture which dictates that the more comfortable you are displaying gay acts the straighter you are, because only a really straight guy would be comfortable flaunting his body like that.

The above is an excerpt from "Painter Scott Waters - Major Text & Photo Essay on His Work in Border Crossings, Nov 06"

For more: http://www.craigscottgallery.com

Repo Man vs. Screw: A Buddy Movie

He Was a Dick (But so Were We All)

Assume the Position

Splitting a 60

Songbook Redux

Issue No. 18: FEVER RAY

Issue No. 17: DIVINE: Today would have been her 65th. birthday.

Issue No. 16: OSCAR WILDE: Today would have been his 147th. birthday.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete; who, after writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.

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Oscar Wilde and his lover,  Lord Alfred Douglas

Issue No. 15: The FCK H8 Campaign.

     

        



I learned about this on Scooter LaForge's blog. I like it. I wish they played it on TV during the commercials for Denny's and Netflix. Wouldn't that be hot?

Issue No. 14: Vicissitudes of the Damned 2

I created an annex to this blog on tumblr.com called Vicissitudes of the Damned 2. The address is http://cissitude.tumblr.com. It's not quite as serious and more visual. Enjoy!