The Secret? Soy Milk.

Saturday night was another great video slam.  NALIP does these things quarterly, and they never disappoint.  This was one of the best yet, and I've been going to them for at least three years.  I learned early on that is was a good venue to get a guaranteed second local screening of the short films [...]

The Grubs and the Earwigs

A very unproductive day.  I'm waiting on pieces of info for two paid projects I'm currently working on.  So mainly I did laundry and transfered a couple of video projects to DVD (the San Miguel de Allende documentary as well as the short experimental piece I did with some of the stray just-for-fun footage I [...]

Not Gonna Learn To Type With My Thumb

Another night at the Esperanza for Cine Mujer.
The evening's fare opened with a hour long documentary called “Mom's Apple Pie,” which chronicled the Lesbian Mothers National Defense Fund (LMNDF).  As   the history of a grassroots activist organization, it was very well done.  But I agreed with Alston when she wished they'd done more interviews with [...]

No Excuses, Mofos!

This week the Esperanza Center is running its annual Cine Mujer film festival.  I'd missed it the last two years.  It's a week of films by and about women, with an emphasis on the global peace and justice movements.  And it's free.  Monday, March 26th through Sunday, April 1st.  Over thirty films: shorts, features, documentaries, [...]

My Lone Expletive Rises Heavenward

I started riding mountain bikes about ten years ago when a touring cycle I had back then was ripped off from a garage apartment I called home during my Fort Worth years.  I decided to make the move to the studier frame and the fatter tires so I wasn't constantly judging whether the pothole or [...]