The Report Newsmagazine ( www.report.ca )
September 25, 2000
The equalizer
When it comes to dissenters against feminism in a Canadian college, one is too many
by Colby Cosh
At the age of 57, Jeffrey Asher is out of work. "I certainly don't have any false expectations about being successful at finding another teaching job,he says from his home in Montreal. "My credentials aren't the best. I am not a published author, I do not have a PhD. It would have to be a school that would be interested in offering a course about men. He lets out a sigh. I would be pleased to hear of one."
For nearly 30 years, Professor Asher was a humanities instructor at Dawson College, a Montreal CEGEP with over 10,000 students. (Quebecs distinctive network of colleges denseignement gralet professionel offers two-year general courses in the arts and sciences for university-bound students.
In 1994, bewildered by the 50-plus courses in the college calendar devoted to women, he began to teach mens studies courses. He rapidly became famous in some circles, and notorious in others, for courses such as
Mens Lives, in which the students attempt to understand the male
worldview...We will examine the cultural meanings for men of courage,
duty, fidelity, success, family protection, career, and sexuality. On May 31 of this year, about three months before his 2000-2001 classes were to begin, Prof. Asher was summarily informed by the Dawson College curriculum committee that he would no longer be allowed to teach on the subject of men. Attempting to accommodate him, the school reassigned him to courses on science and critical thinking. Mortified, Prof. Asher chose to retire instead, working with the teachers u_nion on a settlement which is now his sole source of income.
Prof. Asher charges that he was the victim of a feminist putsch in the academy. I was warned repeatedly along the way by friendly colleagues,
he says. "They would ask me, Are you sure your job is secure? Do you really want to do this?" The school has so far chosen not to comment on the dispute, but one of the members of the four-person curriculum committee is a feminist colleague who was caught on a security videotape in 1997 papering over notices on Prof. Ashers bulletin board. Prof. Ashers path of thorns began in the early 1990s when he was perusing AIDS mortality statistics and noticed something startling. "It wasn't generally known then, but I found that 94% of all deaths from AIDS were males, he says. I got interested in the subject of male epidemiology, and I found that in Canada women live, on average, six years longer than men. It is typical for such a gap to exist, but the gap is far greater here than in western European countries. In Britain it is three-and-a-half years."
He asked Statistics Canada whether they had ever researched the causes of the disparity. The demographers he spoke to reacted as if he had asked
them about the population of Mars.
Today Prof. Asher is a veritable fountain of such facts. In a fairly
brief conversation, he mentions that men suffer from heart disease twice as
often as women; that men represent 80% of all suicides and 97% of all deaths on the job; that the male suicide rate trebled in Canada from 1960 to 1990. He noticed that boys were falling behind girls in primary-school academic performance years before the subject found its way onto the cover of nearly every North American magazine. In the 1970s, Prof. Asher had been an early convert to the cause of equal rights for women; it seemed to him that there was now an obvious case to be made for the other side, and he set to it with a vigor that he now admits may have been naive.
Prof. Asher says his mens studies courses brought him three death threats, and a large sheaf of positive evaluations from male and female students- evaluations he is not slow to show the media, since the committee which switched courses on him accused him of belittling and marginalizing his students. Even if the accusation has any validity, it is hard to understand why he was given no chance to defend himself before being ordered to change his courses. The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship is currently conducting an inquiry into the colleges handling of the affair.
Although he regards his retirement as a setback for the cause of true
equal rights, Prof. Asher retains some optimism. "I cant be the last one to
raise these issues, he says. If I thought I would be, I really would give up. But I am committed to progress. I remember a time of anti-female prejudice in the academy, and that went away. Now we have to get
beyond this artificially caused sex antagonism."
Termination of CEGEP course on Men's Lives eliminated a challenge to
feminist domination
By Jeffrey Asher, The Ottawa Citizen
In autumn 1994, I offered students at Dawson College the only course
in Canada on Men's Lives. One young woman asked me, "Is this another man-hating course?" I assured her that we would examine men's and women's lives objectively and treat them with equal respect. She smiled and
chirped, "I'm in."
Father taught me to respect ladies and that human rights were indivisible.
In the 1970s, I lectured on sexual equality of opportunity and equality before the law. Like most men, my naivete about feminist politics was
sustained by raging hormones.
By 1980, the women's movement was increasingly co-opted by the lunatic
fringe. Germaine Greer pontificated, "Women have very little idea of
how much men hate them ... men do not themselves know the depth of their hatred." Further incitements to anti-male hatred and violence exuded
from Dworkin, McKinnon and others. They remain required reading in feminist courses, which exclude male faculty or authors, brainwash young women and ostracize young men. This paranoia remains unchallenged by human- rights commissions and is financed by governments. Sunera Thobani's recent "hate speech" is protected by her University of British Columbia women's- studies professorship.
Critics of their approach pay for their dissent with their careers.
I proposed Men's Lives because the three largest departments (humanities, English and the social sciences) offered more than 83 courses with feminist titles and content, but nothing objective about men. The sisterhood attempted to neuter the contents and then stalled registration for Men's Lives. I threatened to appeal to the Ministry of Education and the media. The few colleagues who still dared to speak to me (off campus) warned me that my career was in peril. I responded with righteous indignation about equality, fairness and academic freedom. Such naivete.
Two-thirds of Men's Lives students were women and, like the men, typically open-minded, morally brave and delightfully quick-witted. They welcomed my course as deliverance from years of classroom male-bashing. In feminist courses, young men were condemned before their classmates as stupid, patriarchal exploiters, batterers and rapists.
From my course outline: "We will examine men's values and experiences, and the cultural meanings for men of courage, duty, fidelity, success, family protection, career and sexuality. The intellectual, political, scientific and cultural achievements of men will be surveyed throughout history.
Reasoned and compassionate analysis will be used to search for reconciliation away from sexual confrontation, so that men, women and
families may live in harmony." Four universities regularly welcomed me
as a guest lecturer. The matriarchy went apoplectic.
Disrupt Classes
Students warned me about agent provocateurs incited by teachers to
disrupt my classes. One accused me of being paid by Playboy magazine (I wish) and my answering machine recorded anonymous accusations of sexual abuse and death threats. One night, the chairman of women's studies vandalized my bulletin board, in front of a surveillance camera. On the front page of The Gazette, she and my department chair defended her bullying. I
requested management terminate her supervision over my courses. A year later, she ordered that my course outline exclude the term "anti-male hysteria."
Management suspended me from teaching until I removed the politically
incorrect insight. I appealed and lost.
A Men's Lives assignment on sex bias in the media required students to
search the periodical indexes for article titles with the word "men" and "women." They were astounded to discover that the ratio of female to male articles is 10:1, and often 20:1. Students scoured StatsCan data; they learned that men comprise 68 per cent of homicide victims, 80 per cent
of suicides, 92 per cent of AIDS deaths, 97 per cent of deaths on the job, double the female rate of heart diseases and die six years prematurely.
They learned about sex differences in the brain, hormones, abilities,
perception and behaviour. My students delighted in the power of statistical research.
The sisterhood denounced scientific methodology and slandered my
reputation. Every semester, management incited the worst of students
to complain they "felt uncomfortable" and failed my excessively high
standards. They even passed a confessed cheater. Truthfully, I was not
demanding enough. Students failed who should never have graduated from
high school. To management complaints of excessive dropouts, I requested
their retention requirements. They indignantly denied quotas, and
reprimanded me yet again. According to u_nion grievance officers and lawyers, never before had a teacher been so relentlessly persecuted.
Feminist courses impel polarization and "dumbing down" of the
curriculum, to maintain their enrolment. Evidence is plentiful in their course
outlines, typically ungrammatical, illogical, filled with jargon and often incoherent. Since the mid-1990s, female students and competent
professors increasingly abandoned the sisterhood for the search for useful
knowledge and successful careers.
In May 2000, the head of women's studies, in collaboration with
management, convened a committee that announced "a significant number of students" in my classes felt "belittled and marginalized if they voiced their
opinions or try to substantiate any interpretation of data that may be
different."
They again refused to show me the complaints. They canceled Men's Lives and ordered me to prepare - within 12 days - three new courses on "critical thinking," technology and business ethics, for which they knew I had no training. I protested and demanded that Men's Lives be einstated.They threatened to fire me.
Shrewd Timing
Their timing was shrewd. My students were dispersed and unavailable for protest. Of all colleagues who postured in their classes on freedom of speech, only the president of the u_nion rallied to my defence. I refused to capitulate and retired early.
In six years of evaluations, students praised Men's Lives as among the
best courses in the college. More than 85 per cent reported that I treated
them fairly, with content and teaching that was "superior" and "outstanding."
One hundred per cent agreed I treated them with "courtesy and respect." For 30 years of evaluations, I ranked as one of the most popular, fair and interesting teachers. I rated highest in "enthusiasm, approachability,
tolerance, responsibility, availability, treating students with courtesy and respect and in a fair and non-discriminatory manner" and "motivating
students to do their best." How I miss my students' intellectual energy and
curiosity. Teaching was my life. The termination of Men's Lives eliminated the only rational opposition to political correctness and feminist domination at Dawson College.
Half of the human race remains unexamined, except for condemnation. In
2000, Canadian universities listed two courses on men, neither taught that year, and more than 1,617 feminist courses, offered in programs from
undergraduate to PhD degrees.
Throughout higher education, the matriarchy rules.
Radical feminists continue to win their government-subsidized war against men, heterosexuality, the family, religion, merit, objectivity, justice and reality. Long after the defeat of totalitarianism, radical feminism
indoctrinates students to discriminate by sex and race and enforces censorship and repression on what is acceptable to think and feel.
Citizens must demand reconstruction of the foundations of objective
education and liberty. Freedom of speech is essential to maintain the
ability to search for the truth. Students' minds must be trained to
challenge dogmas if democracy is to survive. The time is long overdue for universities and colleges to eradicate feminist intolerance and return to reason and objectivity. Dedicated teachers are eager to reconstruct an
educated and tolerant society. Give us the call.
Jeffrey Asher, formerly of Dawson College, taught on the statistical
merits of sexual politics.
Occult group linked to gay pride movement in Ottawa
"man is least himself when he speaks in his own face ;give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde"
Wilde's gay porn shop in Ottawa, the capital of Canada (note the two businesses 'Aziz & Company' and 'Wilde's', and the two figures above the sign in occult ceremonial masks)
Knowing how occultists love to play with names and symbols, I checked out the name 'Oscar Wilde' (noted 19th century homosexual author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray') and the name 'Aziz' together in a Google search:
Blavatsky’s teachings also influenced the establishment of a prominent secret society known as the Golden Dawn, which would emerge out of Afghani’s contacts with the leaders of Egyptian Rite Freemasonry. Having gone underground for some time, until 1848, the “Year of Revolutions”, the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry then revived its activity in Paris, and by 1856 had also established itself in Egypt, America, Romania, and other countries. In 1872, when the Egyptian Rite came to be known as the Antient and Primitive Rite, the Grand Mastership of the order was assumed by John Yarker, having been handed to him by Marconis de Negre. Yarker was also familiar with Blavatsky, having met her in England in 1878, and appears to have conferred on her a Masonic initiation, though there have been attempts to refute her involvement in Freemasonry.
Aia Aziz (aka Max Theon)
In Paris, Yarker met Pascal Beverly Randolph, an African-American occultist who had traveled to Egypt, where he was supposedly initiated by a secret priestess of the Ismaili Muslims. Paschal Randolph was a noted medium, healer, occultist and author of his day, and also counted among his personal friends Bulwer-Lytton. Randolph’s Brotherhood of Eulis claimed descent from the Rosicrucian Order, by charter of the “Supreme Grand Lodge of France”, and taught spiritual healing, western occultism and principals of race regeneration through forms of sex magic. Through Randolph, Yarker passed on the tradition of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, that was reborn as the Hermitic Brotherhood of Light, a continuation of the Frates Lucis, or Asiatic Brethren.
Max Theon
In 1873, Carl Kellner, an associate of Randolph, was another of the many occultists associated with Egyptian Freemasonry, who had traveled to Cairo in the time of al Afghani’s activity. There he met, for the first time, a mysterious young man, then going by the name of Aia Aziz, also known as Max Theon. Actually, this Max Theon was the son of the last leader of the Frankist sect, Rabbi Bimstein of Warsaw, Poland.
Max Theon traveled widely, and in Cairo worked with Blavatsky, and also became a student of Paulos Metamon, a “Coptic magician”. Paulos Metamon was also Blavatsky’s first “Master”, whom she had met in Asia Minor in 1848, and again in Cairo in 1870, and it was he who introduced her to the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Interestingly, the sevenfold cosmology of Ismailism was common to both Theon and Blavatsky. In 1873, Metamon passed the Grand Mastership to Aziz, who, adopting the name of Max Theon, moved to England to propagate the same order.
It was Carl Kellner and Thoedore Reuss, another member of Bulwer-Lyttons’ Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, who would put together the ritual of Egyptian Rite Freemasonry, chartered to Reuss by John Yarker, to convey the inner secret of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. Regarding Kellner, Reuss wrote:
In the course of his many and extensive travels in Europe, America and the Near East, Bro. Kellner came into contact with an organization which called itself The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. The stimulus which he received through his association with this body, as well as other circumstances which cannot be mentioned here, gave rise to Bro. Kellner’s wish to found a sort of Academia Masonica which would make it possible for questing brethren to become acquainted with all the existing Masonic degrees and systems. In the year 1895 Bro. Kellner had long discussions with Bro. Reuss in Berlin about how this idea of his could be realised. In the course of talks with Bro. Reuss he abandoned the proposed title Academia Masonica and produced reasons and documents for the adoption of the name Oriental Templars. At that time in 1895 these deliberations did not lead to any positive result because Bro. Reuss was then busy with his revived Order of the Illuminati and Bro. Kellner had no sympathy for this organisation or for the people who were active in it with Bro. Kellner.[23]
It was John Yarker who supposedly provided a charter for the founding of the Ordo Templi Orientis, or O.T.O., effected by Reuss, which attempted to revive the traditions of the Ancient Mysteries, the Knights Templars, the FreemasonsRosicruciansand the Illuminati. Ordo Templi Orientis meant “Order of Eastern Templars”, in reference to the Johannite myth of Sabian or Ismaili influence. The occult inner circle of the O.T.O. would be organized parallel to the highest degrees of Egyptian Rite Masonry, and the esoteric Rosicrucian doctrines of the H.B. of L.
Reuss was succeeded as head of the O.T.O. by the notorious Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowleya thirty-third degree Mason of the Scottish Rite, had also been a member of the Isis-Urania Temple of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. Known simply as The Golden Dawn, the order was founded in 1888, by Masons and members of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia of Bulwer-Lytton. This Isis Cult was organized around the 1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky. The Order of the Golden Dawn included, among others, William Butler Yeats, Maude Gonne, wife of Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Edward Waite. The Golden Dawn was led at the time by McGreggor Mathers, who traced the spiritual ancestry of the order to the Rosicrucians, and from there, through to the Kabbalah and to Ancient Egypt. And, it was while in Egypt, in 1904, that Crowley made contact with an entity by the name of Aiwass, which dictated to him the content of his Book of the Law, containing the famous dictum of modern occultism, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
So, very interesting that the building located at 367 Bank st. in Ottawa
contains two businesses [Wilde's and Aziz & Company] named after two occultists linked to the
Order of the Golden Dawn, Oscar Wilde and Aia Aziz.
Aia Aziz (Max Theon)
Maude Allan as Salomé with the head of John the Baptist in an early adaptation of Wilde's play
For the last half hour or more this woman was reading loudly from the Bible in front of Wilde's, a gay book and record store in Ottawa Ontario, April 24, 2008. In this photo she engages someone in an animated conversation. A moment later she went into the health food store and I didn't see her again.
the above photo is of Wilde's hard core gay bondage supplies and porn shop, one of the Bank St. businesses involved in the campaign to have the surrounding neighborhood officially declared 'the gay village' by the municipal government of Ottawa, Ontario. (someone's got money. notice the upper floor apparently is just boarded up & being used as a junk attic or warehouse. Pretty expensive real estate, right on Bank St. downtown, and whoever owns this building can afford to junk this valuable real estate that usually would be rented out for residential or commercial use). Look closely at the central part above 'Wildes', with ALL the windows boarded up, and the occult ritual mask figures boarding up what apparently may have been windows; it looks as though as many as six windows in the central part may be boarded up/bricked in. (wonder what goes on inthere on certain dates)
Gay village supporters told to move Wizard of Oz fundraiser
Brendan Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Quote:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...0-3dd36bb1533d
OTTAWA - The organization trying to have a six-block stretch of Bank Street designated as a gay village has been forced to move a fundraising event off of Bank Street, and they're blaming the local business improvement area.
"What we're most frustrated with is the symbolic shoving aside of us off the street," said Glenn Crawford, chair of the Bank Street Village Initiative, the organization pushing for the portion of Bank between Nepean and James streets to be officially designated as Ottawa's gay village.
The organization is hosting a barbecue and outdoor screening of The Wizard of Oz Tuesday, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., on Gilmour Street between Bank and O'Connor, but the group had originally planned to hold the event on Bank Street itself. Proceeds are to be used to purchase rainbow flags to adorn the streetscape.
Mr. Crawford and other organizers were informed at a meeting with city officials on Friday that their permit would only be approved if the event were moved off Bank.
"Symbolically, we wanted to be on the street given what we're trying to achieve on Bank Street," Mr. Crawford said, adding that he believes the event was forced off of Bank mainly because of pressure placed on the city by Gerry LePage, the executive director of the Bank Street Promenade Business Improvement Area.
Relations between the Village Initiative and the BIA have become strained since early last month, when the BIA's board of directors decided against supporting the gay-village designation, opting instead for a "bottom up" policy of branding for the neighbourhood, where individual businesses could choose whether to identify themselves as gay-oriented or gay-friendly.
But the city's special events coordinator Ainsley Shepherd said the event could not have been held on Bank because "there was not sufficient time and consensus to allow it."
Ms. Shepherd said the city received the application less than two weeks before the proposed date and added that there were several other factors that contributed to the decision, including the fact that Bank Street is already being disrupted by construction, there was insufficient time to notify transit users of detours and the event's projected attendance did not merit the closure of a main arterial road.
According to Marcus McCann, associate publisher of Capital Xtra and member of the Village Initiative, the initial application for the event was e-mailed and faxed to the city on Aug. 9, but got caught in "bureaucratic hell," and went unnoticed in the following weeks.
After not hearing anything from the city, Mr. McCann followed up and was told that the application he was originally told by staff to fill out was not the right one and that he needed to re-submit a different application. That second application was then sent in towards the end of August, he said.
The BIA's opposition to the event was significant, Ms. Shepherd said, but added that the city still would have been uncomfortable even if the BIA were in favour.
Gerry LePage said neither he nor the BIA is opposed to the event, and that the association's opposition was driven by concern from its members over the lack of notice given to local businesses.
"This has absolutely nothing to do with the nature of the event whatsoever," he said. "It's inappropriate to close a major street and have absolutely no notification to the BIA or its members."
Mr. LePage said he found out about the event last week when one of the BIA's members phoned him after seeing a poster.
But Mr. LePage said he did not fault Mr. Crawford's organization for the lack of notification.
"It was just a bureaucratic foul-up," he said, adding that what the Village Initiative is trying to do - raise its own money and drum up community support - is to be commended and is what the BIA's board had in mind in terms of "bottom up" branding.
"Why would we be averse to this? It's simply not consistent with our historical position," he said, citing the association's support of events during Gay Pride Week.
7:00pm - 10:00pm
"The Wizard of Oz" Film, Sing-a-long, Street Social
Because there's no place like home... have fun and support the Village Initiative. We're taking over a couple of blocks of Bank St for some food and a film screening of The Wizard of Oz. Sing along or cuddle up with a neighbour. Bring a blanket and camp out on the street. FREE event, with a suggested donation of $5 for the Village.
The Bank St BIA (business improvement area) won't commit to rainbow banners, but we're not giving up. Show the BIA how much the queer community loves Bank St.
Things you can do at a BBQ: * Eat a hot dog * Meet your neighbours * Singalong to the Wizard of Oz * Dress up like Dorothy (or a friend of Dorothy) * Sign the petition * Hug your neighbours
Village t-shirts, undies and wearable stickers will be available for sale at the screening. ALL proceeds go directly to the Village Initiative. T's and undies - $20 each; stickers in 26 different "types" - $2 each.
Location: Bank St (Somerset - Gilmour)
Posted by: Sysop, 28-Aug-08 8:10am ET
Last edited by Thunkerdrone on Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:01 pm; edited 1 time in total
The following event, as is evident in the accompanying video, was held just last week, right beside Aziz & Company/Wilde's hard core gay bdsm shop, at the corner of Bank and Gilmour St. in Ottawa:
you've got to see this video:
(unfortunately, I cannot embed it , you'll have to see it at the link provided)
Village Street Social a success
BBQ and screening of Wizard of Oz raises $1,500 for Gay Village project
LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY! Craig Hinman dressed in full Dorothy costume for the Street Social.
(screen capture)
Roughly 200 people turned out to the Village Street Social on Sep 9, despite the cold temperature and last-minute change in location. There was something magical about sitting on Gilmour Street at the corner of Bank, watching the Wizard of Oz on an outdoor movie screen.
Organizer Glenn Crawford says the event raised $1,500 for the Village initiative.
Check out our video report below:
Professor of history Dr. Richard Spence about his new book : Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult .Spence said Crowley was raised in a well-to-do, fundamentalist Christian home and received a Cambridge education. His most shocking revelation about the infamous occultist, however, involves Crowley's work as an operative for British naval intelligence.
Spence described Crowley as a daring mountain climber, looking for contact with the divine, and "not overly constrained by conventional morality." He mentioned the influential role Crowley's aunt played in his drift into secret service work, as well as an event that took place in Stockholm, Sweden. According to Spence, agent Crowley was there on his way to Czarist Russia.
Spence noted the relationship between politics and the occult during his discussion, and talked about Crowley's association with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult organization in Late Victorian Britain. It was the goal of certain dissident political (and occult) groups to bring about regime change in various European countries, including Britain. Crowley's role was as an undercover informant and provocateur, Spence noted.
Spence also discussed Crowley's secret mission to Canada under the pseudonym 'Clifford,' his association with the German Propaganda Cabinet in New York, as well as his possible involvement in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915). Spence theorized that the passenger ship was sunk as part of a British plot to get the U.S. into the war.
About this video:
This is GeNrE's first number at the Drag Idol III finals in Atlanta, Georgia on December 20, 2006. This set has an "Alice in Wonderland" theme. The crowd was louder than I have ever heard after a Drag performance. Drag Idol is the Atlanta gay drag version of American Idol. It is open to those of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) community. The finalists were GeNrE, Nicole Paige Brooks, Bianca Nicole, and Son!que.
The Mad Hatter is a flasher with a 9-inch schlong. Humpty Dumpty falls off his wall and needs Alice to "blow" him up again. The White Rabbit is a perv who likes spying on Alice as she plays with herself. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are incestuous twins who can't get enough of each other. They show Alice how to get it on. The King's knights are Gay. The King is a Bongo playing African who speaks in painfully tortured rhyme (70s rap?). The Queen is a leather clad Dominatrix who takes a liking to Alice. And enjoys having her eat at her box. Alice is finally deflowered by the Texaco pump attendant (her boyfriend). It is a total laugh riot.
It may be porn but it's not like any porn you've ever seen. With fully choreographed song and dance numbers. Broadway Style and performed with gusto. A constant stream of witty one-liners. And naked flesh galore
We proudly created the concept of Alice IS Wonderland in 2000 because we believe so strongly in the essence that Alice Springs is truly a wonderland of beauty, color, culture, creativity and fun. Our charter remains to highlight the many wonderful features that Alice Springs and Central Australia have to offer to broad cross-sections of the global gay and lesbian travel markets. We are delighted that you have chosen to visit our site - stay a while and see what's on offer!!
Throughout each year, we proudly host a number of gay, lesbian and friends events that either pre or post other premier gay events in Australia (eg.Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras) or are run on a 'stand alone' basis at times linked to the Alice Desert Festival program. These events are listed in the Program section of this site. We invite you to 'take a look before you book' and please check the Diary for associated events.
Nicolas Cage
Joaquin Phoenix
James Gandolfini
Peter Stormare
Anthony Heald
Chris Bauer
Catherine Keener
Plot summary for 8MM (1999)
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger.
She has found a reel of S8-film in a safe. On the film is a cruel slaughtering of a young girl, who obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles takes up investigation, which leads him to the girl's mother and from there to Hollywood, into the office of a porn flick producer.
The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the holidays with the classic film The Wizard of Oz. On the big screen above the orchestra, you'll follow the adventures of Dorothy, Toto and all their friends as they try to find their way back home. There will be a pre-concert lobby party with a sing-along, cash bar specialty drinks, costume contest and surprises. Thursday, Dec. 20 2007
Joined: Oct 25, 2003
Posts: 9648
Location: Miami, Florida 305!
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:21 am Post subject:
_________________ I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985
Noon emulates Carroll's crazy wordplay throughout, and even adds his own illustrations inspired by those of John Tenniel, the famous interpreter of Alice
From Publishers Weekly
If Lewis Carroll had sent Alice off on an adventure into the future, what might it have been like? Noon (Pollen, 1995) answers this question in his wild and farcical third novel. Puns, riddles, numerical puzzles and cockeyed literary references abound in this tale of Alice's trip through her Great Aunt Ermintrude's clock into an unlikely alternate-universe version of Manchester, England, circa 1998. Among the many strange characters Alice meets are her termite-driven, robot "twin twister," the Automated Alice of the title; Captain Ramshackle, a Badgerman and Randomologist; and a Crow-woman/scientist named Professor Gladys Chrowdingler who puts cats in boxes that may or may not render them invisible. Alice soon finds herself involved in the investigation of a series of murders. The victims are discovered with their body parts carefully rearranged and pieces from a jigsaw puzzle on their persons. Because the pieces come from her own jigsaw of the London Zoo, Alice soon finds herself under suspicion and on the run from the Civil Serpents, who themselves may be trying to cover up an even darker crime. Lewis Carroll's odd sense of humor doesn't appeal to all readers and neither will Noon's, but Noon does a fine job of imitating Carroll while adding more than a dash of his own postmodernist sensibility. Will Alice find all of her missing jigsaw pieces and return to the 19th century? Only the Radishes of Time will tell. Line drawings by Harry Trumbore.[/b]
Somewhere the shadow, by Jeff Noon
(notice similarity of title to 'Somewhere over the rainbow')
Sonny Bono retired from music and was elected Mayor of Palm Springs,
California on April 12th, 1988. He then successfully ran for Congress,
and became a California congressman in 1994.
In 1998, Congressman Bono was given information detailing CIA involvement in narcotics trafficking, vowed a full Congressional Intelligence Committee investigation just prior to his Christmas holiday, and ten days later was found dead on ski slope with his head caved in, with no witnesses to the ski accident'.
(40) - List of celebrities involved in the Kabbalah Centre; Roseanne Barr; David Beckham; Victoria Beckham; Karen Berg; Michael Berg (Kabbalah Centre); Philip Berg; Yehuda Berg; Naomi Campbell; Sasha Cohen; Laura Dern; Sarah Ferguson; David Geffen; Jeff Goldblum; David Graham; Linda Gray; Jerry Hall; Goldie Hawn; Paris Hilton; Hugh Jackman; Mick Jagger; Diane Keaton; Anthony Kiedis; Ashton Kutcher; Lindsay Lohan; Courtney Love; Madonna (entertainer); Monet Mazur; Stella McCartney; Heather McComb; Demi Moore; Alanis Morissette; Brittany Murphy; Gwyneth Paltrow; Guy Ritchie; Winona Ryder; Britney Spears; Barbra Streisand; Elizabeth Taylor; James Van Der Beek;
Naomi Campbell recently spoke to the Mirror where she talked about Kabbalah and, though indirectly, how Madonna shouldn’t be credited for telling the world about it. She said “I knew about Kabbalah before Madonna got involved. Kabbalah is not a religion, it’s a program."
Quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/king-operator.html
Sonny Bono recognized that Cher's behavior had changed dramatically from the moment she had connected with David Geffen. By January 1974, relations between Sonny and Cher on the set at CBS reached an all-time low.
The rehearsals were painful for everyone. A skit in one of their final shows had Cher playing Mother Nature standing atop a mountain. Sonny played a seeker of truth, struggling to climb to the peak. "Mother Nature, what is the secret of life?" Sonny asked.
"Go f**k yourself," Cher snarled, not missing a beat.
Nobody laughed. "Can we try it again?" the director asked.
"Not without lawyers," Bono muttered.
Geffen coached (programmed?)Cher on the speech that would destroy Bono. She delivered it in Sonny's dressing room one night after a taping. Cher walked in and told her husband that she no longer wanted to do The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. He had wanted her to sign a new contract with Cher Enterprises, but she had refused, and now she was walking out.
"What?" Bono gagged.
"I already gave notice to CBS," she said.
"We've got contracts," Bono said desperately. "I mean, you can't. We are signed to record deals, nightclubs."
Cher barbies
multiple images
Quote:
Angel Gown
The 700 personal items Cher put up for sale on the auction block have raised over $3.5 million for the singer and actress – more than double the pre-sale estimates. CNN reports that part of the proceeds will be donated to charity, while "some" of the proceeds will be used to redecorate Cher's Malibu mansion.
Last edited by Thunkerdrone on Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:00 am; edited 1 time in total
