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Friday, April 15, 2011

Beth Lisick, Frazer Bradshaw Collaboration Featured at S.F. Underground Short Film Festival

Posted By on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM


Peaches Christ doesn't show movies -- she stages events. Peaches is the longtime force behind Midnight Mass and director of last year's horror comedy All About Evil. Her spring salute to taboo-smashing local filmmakers, the San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival, is tonight at the Victoria Theatre. It's packed with stimulation, titillation, and naughty laughs. Among the films is Everything Strange and New, a collaboration between Frazer Bradshaw and Beth Lisick, a trailer for which is in the clip above.

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Noted Recluse Dave Chappelle Pops Up for Second Night at Cobb's

Posted on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM


He's at it again. Comedian Dave Chappelle, having made impromptu appearances at Bay Area comedy clubs on two consecutive nights, will do the same tonight at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco. In the video clip above, he describes an unbearably funny experience on public transit that may as well have happened in San Francisco -- we're sure you'll recognize some of the attitudes and characters.

The shows are scheduled for 8 and 10:30 p.m., according to club spokeswoman Alicia Albarran. The $55 tickets will be available via the LiveNation website, Albarran wrote in an e-mail.

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Delaware Advances Civil Unions; HIV Study Sees Hope; the Eagle Leathers Up the Skylark

Posted By on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM

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Each week, Easy Target alerts you of potential advances or threats to gaykind from the forces of the news media, politics, and popular culture -- the front lines of the culture wars -- in San Francisco and beyond. This week, Delaware moves closer to approving civil unions. HIV study sees a better future. There are no powerful black men. The Eagle plucks at the Skylark's plumage. Bret Easton Ellis tweets too much. And a college student fakes his own hate crime.

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Organist David Hegarty Celebrates 33 Years Playing the Castro Theatre's Mighty Wurlitzer

Posted on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:55 AM


We remember David Hegarty from the late 1980s. We didn't know his name. We just knew him as "the guy who plays the Mighty Wurlitzer at the Castro on Friday nights." We (okay, I) lived a couple of blocks away from the Castro Theatre, and getting to hear Hegarty play the Wurlitzer before a movie started made it worth showing up 20 or 30 minutes early. The organ was elevated on a hydraulic platform, its sound as powerful and omnipresent as any pipe organ in any cathedral. Whenever we saw Hegarty, we knew the movie was about to start because he'd play "San Francisco." As the song ended, the platform would descend, Hegarty would take on the passion of a symphony conductor in his movements, the lights would dim, the crowd would cheer, the curtains would open and Mildred Pierce (or whatever) would begin.

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1980s Stroke Book Computer Sex Input Is More About Sex and Input than Computers

Posted By on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM

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Each Friday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State basements, thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets.

Computer Sex Input

Author: Deena Cross

Date: None listed, but it looks like the eighties-est day of the eighties-est year of the eighties-est '80s. Or Brooklyn today.

Publisher: TWN, Cleveland

Discovered at: Goodwill, San Jose


The Cover Promises: The most efficient technology for the distribution of computer-related sex is the book.

Representative Quotes:

  • "Her right hand was wet clear up to the wrist." (page 26)
  • "He tasted her vigorous juices and knew that they flowed because of his ministrations." (page 58)

  • "Jack hired Tat to sell desk top computers." (page 63)


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