Kate Clinton's Blog, page 2

Goodbye to Oughts That

were like being in an eight-year abusive relationship. George Bush was on crack. It was Iraq. He and his thug pals terrorized the neighborhood, especially the gay kids. He ran up the credit card bills. He left the place in shambles. He was always at the gym. And all our friends would pull us aside and whisper, "Why do you stay with him?"

In the ought years of this decade the Twin towers fell. We invaded Afghanistan. Then for reasons that should have been worked out in therapy...

Lightheaded

I've grown to hate the phrase, "I'm just sayin." The "cause I ain't doin,'" is understood. What phrase bugs you?

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Flashlight Under Chin

Not Up in the Air

Just returned from emceeing the 25th Annual Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference in San Francisco. The opening night reception was held in the gorgeous SF City Hall, with a welcome by the equally gorgeous Mayor Newsom. We toasted to the courage of SF's Harvey Milk who thirty years ago urged gays out of the closet, into the streets and then into the seats of power.

The next two days featured panels [life not death panels:] on the state of the movement, social networking; plenaries on...

Papardam for Peace

2010 Tour Name

KATE CLINTON: The Lady HaHa Tour

Start your new decade dance with Kate Clinton –comic without borders, wake-up artist, and the original reality gatecrasher. See Kate perform her world-famous burlesque Bubble Wrap Dance as she gleefully pops the air out of deniers and disruptors, birthers and dearthers, conservadems and bibliocrats, the -stans and the bans, spine flu and whine flu, ex-gays and A-gays, the audacity of nope and of course, the pope. All material fully digitalized and gorgeously s...

When you've got the blahs, what song do you play full blast to lift you out of your funk?

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Yesvember

Why do you think the show "Glee" is such a success?

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