Words & Tricks

8 random things about me - A meme

Recently, Crystal at Big Bright Bulb, a blog chock full of great advice and insight for small business owners and entrepreneurs, tagged me with a blog meme that’s been making the rounds. I was flattered because it makes me feel a bit more like I’m part of the blogging community. The ideas is that someone comes up with a post, writes it, and “tags” a few other people to write a similar post. Everybody reads the others’ posts, and comments on them. Links are exchanged in a friendly way, everybody has fun, and then we move on with our lives.

So, this one is simply a list post of eight random things about me that you may, or mat not, know. I’m supposed to tag 8 other people at the end, but I don’t know 8 people who blog. So, I tagged three people at the end. I guess I really need to stop lurking on all those great blogs I read. I hereby resolve to comment more.

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WT Update: Selection of Chris Pommier’s freelance clips online

I wrote for Lavender Magazine, a local gay/lesbian/queer focused print magazine in 2006-2007. However, in February 2007, they rolled out a new draconian contract for freelancers that would have forced me to give up all future rights to my work, and would have held me liable for future litigation against the magazine.  I refused to sign it because of that, so they couldn’t give me any more work.

I really enjoyed working for them, and their wonderful editor at that time, Michael Moeglin. Though the magazine is rightfully critiqued as a glorified advertising pamphlet within the community, it does support good work, and some wonderful talent. Unfortunately, for some reason the publisher of Lavender has never archived the magazine’s content online. So, for about a year now, I’ve had physical clips sitting in my file drawer waiting to be released online to prospective editors and employers.

I finally made the time to scan, and place, those clips as pdfs on this blog. It took most of Saturday morning, but it was worth it.

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• Deep Thoughts, by Jonah Lenetsky
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Deep Thoughts, by Jonah Lenetsky
Or, How He Spent his Summer Vacation

Congratulations are in order. Actually, they’re long overdue. My partner, after several years in the MA/PhD track at his University, has published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal. He’s been attending conferences and presenting papers galore, but this marks a new stage of recognition from his peers. Huzzah!

Jonah wrote “Gay Pride and its Adverse: EuroPride 2006 and the Counter Performance of EuroShame” after a research trip to London during which he planned to attend EuroShame 2006 at Duckei nightclub. He planned to examine, through the lenses of performance and spectacle, the commodification of gay pride and the necessary backlash of the Gay Shame movement. Little did he know that violence would erupt that same day.

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Further Reading on Words & Tricks

• Freelance Clips (0)
• About Chris Pommier (1)
• WT Update: Selection of Chris Pommier’s freelance clips online (0)
• New German monument to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust (0)
• Poetry Press Release: SASE at Intermedia Arts (1)

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