G O D C L U B

So Hilary Duff and Wanda Sykes are in these ads put out by GLSEN that encourage teens to not use "gay" as a derogatory term. Is it bad that I kind of like them? I can't think of any really worthwhile reason to be annoyed by them. I mean, I guess GLSEN could be using money for other things (that is if they actually put money into them because they are also sponsored by the AD Council), but I think that it is interesting that there is a relatively large media attempt to change public discourse surrounding the word "gay." At the very least, even if it actually doesn't change the mind of any teenagers (which it probably really won't), it reaffirms gay teenage identity. (And the Wanda Sykes one is actually really funny).

The only real problem I have with the commercials is that it compares using the word gay derogatorily as equal to making fun of a teenage girl with an ugly top or a fugly boy with a post-pubescent mustache. NOT THE SAME THING. But, whatevs.

Okay some of you may not know about the cult of Eternal Values and you probably should.
It was a cult formed by the man in the picture below named Frederick Von Mieres (a former male model). He told people he was an alien from the star Arcturus and he was here to basically save Earth and form the perfect cult of people. Everyone in the cult was rich and beautiful, and they had their own TV show talking about what they believed in, and basically about being aliens.

I think this is all really funny. I don't know a lot about cults, but cults that are about beautiful aliens who want to save Earth seems pretty great. Also all the articles I found about Fred Von Mieres said he lied about being from royalty and he just did a bunch of drugs and was out of his mind.

So in conclusion: maybe you didn't learn anything from this, but basing your life on a lie that you are/were an alien sent to Earth is really funny, and I wish it would happen more often

HERE'S THE FIRST bit of evidence from Construction / Constriction, GOD CLUB's first group installation and performance that took place on Saturday 7 March 2009. More photos, videos, etc. will be available soon!

Thanks again to all attendees, supporters, and contributors.

This is a great 30 minute program taken from Archive.org of a collaboration between Deep Dish T.V. and Act Up! The video is now free domain, and there are a bunch of other programs from Deep Dish available elsewhere on archive.org's collection of free downloadable media.

You can only say funky if it's about re-mixes of great songs.
2005 bitches!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who attended Saturday's exhibition! The over all reception was fantastic and was greatly appreciated after a very strenuous and involved 24 hours of creative and discursive laboring. We are currently working on a website that will provide an adequately interactive presentation to match the feeling of the installation as we realize that the art was incredibly temporal and not everyone had the time to come and witness it. Sooner than later we will at least have the accompanying text WITHIN/BEYOND/NEITHER written by David K. Geer and Jesalyn Blount up in PDF format.

Thanks again!

So Wowzers Meowzers cat toys will now be sold at The Detroit Artist Market. Go get your pizza, sunny side up egg, pyramid, etc. etc.


Also:

Two words that need to be eliminated from any sort of dialogue dealing with art, or just in general: Funky, and whimsical. I never want to hear these words again. Ok thanks.

G.O.D. Club's YouTube

WOAH ANOTHER SECRET CLUB WITH THE SAME NAME!!!

Check out the Good Old Days Club on YouTube, filmed by someone's super rad mom, somewhere cooler than here, talking about Eiffel 65's hit BLUE and maybe saying fag as a que for something?