tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112468332024-03-18T20:19:50.043-07:00Captive Wild WomanFiltered through the brain cells of Lisa McElroyMiss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-65134353945023243282020-03-12T15:02:00.000-07:002020-03-12T15:02:44.437-07:00To Eastern Canada and Back, Part 2: Ottawa and Montreal - two great cities we had no clue aboutAt long last, the post no one has asked for but is getting anyway. I haven't been idle on le internet, I've simply been working on other things, such as art and more art and I started a blog on that process as well and it is HERE.
But in the back of my mind, I was always thinking: I never finished writing about our Canada trip, entitled To Eastern Canada and Back (Part 1, covering Niagra Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-85635417883146479102020-03-12T13:36:00.000-07:002020-03-12T13:48:45.141-07:00Apologies for the late reply...I have been so busy working on art the past few years, I have truly let this poor blog slide into Internet oblivion. Don't think it hasn't weighed heavily on my brain cells, dear readers. It has haunted me vaguely for a long while now. All my energies are pouring out in the art world here for the most part, and also here, due to political unrest in the U.S. And in this blog here.
Just on a whim,Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-22970972898070802252018-12-28T18:41:00.000-08:002019-01-02T20:46:49.055-08:00Political Monsters Coloring PagesOh, I've been so busy this year, drawing and painting and sculpting. Something happened when I turned 50--like an LED bulb went *blink, blink, blink, ON!* and I realized it was time to get back to art. The thing about art is that it's very time-consuming, and therefore the writing has lagged a lot. Sorry!
Not that huge droves of readers were waiting breathlessly for my every thought, but I do Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-59087531499234608422018-10-23T18:03:00.001-07:002020-09-28T15:17:01.931-07:00To Eastern Canada and Back, Part 1: Niagra Falls and TorontoGreetings! It's been too long over here in this blogspot. I'm going to lay out our last big journey here, in case anyone is looking for an enriching cultural road trip in the northern regions of the North American continent. Let's go!
Back at the tail end of summer, we landed late at night in Buffalo, NY, and drove the 25 minutes or so to cross the border--on the other side of the poetically Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-40790685288798133862018-10-16T19:17:00.003-07:002018-10-16T19:18:25.261-07:00She Mob Plays Live at The Octopus Literary Salon
She Mob opens for The Rabbles and poet Julien Poirier at Oakland's Octopus Literary Salon on Saturday, October 20th. Show starts at 7 p.m. -- a very humane time for a live-music/poetry show. Rock out, poets!Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-22342670411906165072018-06-14T23:10:00.002-07:002018-06-14T23:10:59.846-07:00Families Belong Together March - Concord, CaliforniaThe U.S. immigration policy of family separation, instigated by Jeff Sessions and Donald J. Trump, is egregious, horrifying and evil. Tearing families apart at the southern U.S. border as punishment for attempting to immigrate, and many of these families are trying to immigrate here legally due to deadly violence at home, is fascism, pure and simple. And that is not the law. Neither is the mass Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-67752845556769940712018-05-14T17:24:00.004-07:002020-02-24T16:01:02.567-08:00Movies You May Have Missed - Clockwatchers (1997)I don't know why it took me more than 20 years to see Jill Sprecher's Clockwatchers in full, but life is full of mysteries and this is only one of many. Sprecher, working from a spare and quietly lacerating screenplay co-written with her sister Karen, created the temporary-employee office-noir two years before the much more lauded white-collar satire Office Space. Her stylish study on the Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-26466597467400223082018-05-12T14:52:00.000-07:002018-05-17T17:34:20.069-07:00She Mob LIVE at Up the Creek Records
She Mob is playing a dinner show, 6 - 7:30 PM! There will be no dinner, but plenty of records and art and tchockes for sale at Up the Creek in Walnut Creek (California).
Note: there's an actual Walnut Creek in Walnut Creek, so quit making fun of its bucolic-suburb fake-sounding name! It's a former orcharding enclave with a hundred-year-old downtown that used to be a railway stop during the Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-5715802563625496892018-04-30T21:42:00.000-07:002019-11-26T15:57:37.538-08:00Best of 2017 - a super-late list, part 1"Best of" lists are unnecessary but they lend themselves to the Internet so well—platform of scroll-worthy material. Keeping track of creative output within a span of 365 days is an arbitrary measure of quality control but because my brain tends to work in intuitive—not analytical for the most part—ways and I can't remember dates or time-frames well at all, I tried keeping a year-long list Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-22750742124799097292018-03-26T10:52:00.000-07:002018-03-26T18:28:55.566-07:00March For Our Lives 2018 - Walnut Creek, representIt's been noted that the SF Chronicle has failed to report that an estimated 8,000 people marched in Walnut Creek, California for #MarchForOurLives on March 24, 2018. So I will be a citizen reporter and document the event here. March For Our Lives Walnut Creek was organized by a small group of high school students and co-sponsored by Book Clubs 4 Change—it was the students' first time putting Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-4456264974387253732018-01-23T18:32:00.000-08:002018-01-23T18:32:32.138-08:00Women's March 2018 Oakland - we came, we marched, we had clever signsIt was a good Women's March, the massive sequel to last year's worldwide record-breaking demonstration. I hope we can do it again, but in celebration of a better government going forward. Here's to hope. Some photos and video and many good vibes to follow. Thank you, peaceful protesters. Now call and write your Members of Congress and tell them to impeach and/or 25th Amendment the Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-8022486870919700812017-12-22T14:04:00.000-08:002020-02-24T16:13:58.579-08:00The heightened cartoon-brilliant art direction of "Dick" (1999)Has anyone checked in with Dick lately? Directed by Andrew Fleming from a script by Fleming and Sheryl Longin, starring young Michelle Williams and even younger Kirsten Dunst as endearingly dumb best friends, Dick came and went in 1999.
Mashing together the teen comedy with political satire is a challenging task and Dick struggles with its premise, especially attempting to answer the Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-90646604721383887302017-12-03T17:10:00.001-08:002022-03-08T11:02:01.852-08:00Songs About Treating Women RightEveryone coming forward with your testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment, I honor your courage and thank you for helping all of us to make a better world for women (and men) going forward. Speaking out is so hard, but as painful as it is, it seems to be having more of an affect than at any other time in our history.
This is a story that happened when I was 16 years old in 1980. I was bussingMiss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-33395267554406197602017-11-14T13:03:00.000-08:002017-11-14T13:03:31.700-08:00From Hell It Came - Hieronymus Bosch Butt MusicIn 2014, a major milestone in music and art history was reached when a music student named Amelia Hamrick attending Oklahoma Christian University took precious time out of her study schedule to transcribe the musical notation written across the butt of one of Hieronymus Bosch's hell-dwellers in his Medieval triptych and master work, "The Garden of Earthly Delights." Hamrick plinked out the tune Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-6199929345811629232017-11-09T08:55:00.000-08:002017-11-09T08:55:03.283-08:00Heavy Metal Moments - Congratulations to Danica Roem on Your WinCongratulations to Danica Roem, journalist and first openly transgender candidate to be elected as a state official in Virginia, U.S. of A. She beat Robert Marshall, a 26-year incumbent who once referred to himself as the "Homophobe in Chief" and who introduced a bathroom bill that would have forced people to use the bathroom based on the gender listed on their birth certificate. What poetic Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-44338162874599226122017-10-24T14:19:00.001-07:002017-10-24T14:21:55.183-07:00I'm a Little Trump-bot - illustrated poemHi all, including the hundreds of Russian bots who swarm this little blog whenever I Trump it up. I'm offering you this poem with a delightful illustration. Please feel free to *right-click save* and share on social media or wherever Trump poetry is needed. Poetry is underrated in the U.S. as a political tool, but I'm here to remedy the situation. And you can act it out too, with hand gestures—Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-75443697098859507812017-10-20T16:11:00.000-07:002017-11-05T11:21:19.048-08:00The old stuff of Omaha, Nebraska - Plus the incredible kinetic art of John Buck at KANEKOI ended up in Nebraska last month, technically my first visit to the Midwestern United States. A family wedding brought my extended family together in Omaha and it was good.
What is Omaha like, I wondered. I figured at the least it would be:
1.) old
2.) authentic
3.) American
But it's all those things and so much more! Case in point: downtown. Every old American City has a downtown, some shiny,Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-47101160676536022422017-10-09T13:12:00.002-07:002017-12-05T12:54:34.583-08:00Get Ready for Impeachment (postcard to download and send)Hi, everyone. A message to our majority-House GOP: It's beyond time to impeach our horrible so-called president—the corrupt, inept, insulting, racist, misogynist, conman and sexual predator Donald J. Trump. It's not just an opinion, it's a point of law.
Here's a postcard listing a few of his impeachable offenses. I feel confident that special counsel Robert Mueller and his crack investigative Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-25941037168376554592017-10-04T17:53:00.000-07:002017-12-05T16:34:15.672-08:00She Mob LIVESShe Mob is the house band for the art opening of Bride of Monster at Creativity Explored Gallery tomorrow night, October 5th. It's not a typical She Mob eardrum blowout, but a more ambient weird-ass affair. Come see some magnificent monster-inspired artworks while we sit on the floor nearby, making bizarre noises. It's a happening.
Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-11315621973049817272017-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:002017-09-06T18:06:46.817-07:00Nick Cave - "Until" at MASS MoCA 2016-2017It's almost time for Nick Cave's Until to be dismantled from football-field-sized Building 5 at Massive MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. The installation and dismantling of this incredible exhibit are as impressive to me as the actual piece itself.
And here it is:
A gentleman is visible in the lower-right, for scale.
According to The Boston Globe, Cave's installation features 16,000 wind Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-71670551453568348092017-08-28T20:23:00.002-07:002017-08-28T20:29:47.845-07:00San Francisco Rise and Resist! Counter-Rally and LovedUp Mobile Dance Party - August 26, 2017
Rise and Resist! with MC Cleve Jones on bullhorn, ready to rally
After a white-supremacy rally at Crissy Field was called off for August 26th, San Francisco went ahead and held numerous counter-rallies as scheduled. This included the stylish Come Together rally of LGBTQ-rights activists in the Castro who were met up by a group of equally stylish dancing activists from the LovedUp Mobile DanceMiss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-83445384557453502822017-08-14T14:05:00.001-07:002018-01-03T11:31:44.447-08:00Anti-Nazi Protesters: Say it with SousaphonesAre you pro-humanity and for civil rights? Tired of KKK/Nazi sympathizers marching down the streets of the United States, home of the free? Get your message across the humorous, nonviolent musical way — with a sousaphone. If you don't have a sousaphone on hand, a tuba will do. Remember, practice makes perfect, so be sure not to practice too much for that raw, galumphing, nonsensical sound. The Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-46672255391067939392017-06-29T11:39:00.001-07:002017-07-21T22:21:27.783-07:00Art is FunWorking on my legacy, one ink blot and doodle at a time—maybe not a Legacy legacy, but every experiment tends to lead to something else entirely as we plod forth toward our oblivion. During the dog days of summer, which came early in California with a record-breaking heat wave that felt like an oven had been turned on full blast for 19 hours a day, art is refreshing. Like a cool minty glass of Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-87574701087274835792017-06-08T14:50:00.000-07:002017-06-08T14:55:17.862-07:00March for Truth San Francisco featuring Trump Russian Nesting Dolls and JazzYes, it's true the March for Truth set for San Francisco on June 3, 2017 was cancelled to the chagrin of marchers throughout the Bay Area. But the problem of getting a permit together in time for the event, did not curtail the march in full because luckily the hard-working and cheeky folks at Indivisible SF planned a Flash Mob for Truth, and you don't need a permit to host a flash mob.
Still, Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11246833.post-90775667877563194522017-06-01T16:46:00.000-07:002017-12-05T16:44:41.966-08:00A four-hour visit to LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)We made a super-quick journey to Southern California's urban environs in March and there wasn't enough time to visit Los Angeles' multiple contemporary-art museums, but I did spend the day at LACMA. And it was a day well spent. Journalistic device in action now:
Who: Me alone. My family's not as interested in art as I am. I'm used to this. Although my parents both draw very well and my mom is Miss Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07939895933517000667noreply@blogger.com0