Guess who’s back? Staggering up to the finish line just before 2021 ends is another episode of the languishing series Is It Funny? This time we turn to the Scots style icon Muriel Spark, whose books never fail to cheer me. She is both vicious and economical, as well as laugh out loud funny when…
Tag: women's history
A Fire Ritual for the Heart @ Library
The Claverack Library here in the Hudson Valley (NY) is hosting an exhibition Creativity Amid Chaos. My video ‘A Fire Ritual for the Heart’ will be featured in the Marilyn and Bob Laurie Gallery. There is an opening today from 5-7pm — and it’s Food Truck Day, too! Stop by the library to see all…
#WHM: Tove, Frida & Alice
Women’s History Month is fast evaporating and there are several things I ought to get to but haven’t. Time being short and my memory even shorter, here are some films I didn’t immediately write up and can’t access again to double check impressions so I will be vague but enthusiastic. TOVE (2020) Director: Zaida BergrothWriter:…
A Fire Ritual for the Heart
I was delighted to have my silent video included in the exhibit Silent Fire, a joint venture with Nasty Women Connecticut and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Thanks to Stephanie Johnson and Lys Guillorn for cheering me on. The short film is meant to accompany a performance of Barbara Strozzi’s Ardo in tacito foco,…
Is It Funny? Episode 13: Fran Lebowitz & Cool
Guess who’s back? I manage to get all the way through this episode referring only to ‘the Scorsese show’ which of course is Pretend It’s A City, which is on Netflix and has the director following around his pal Fran Lebowitz and chatting with her in various places, as a follow up to his HBO…
Is It Funny? Episode 11 – Anita Loos & Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
This episode is about the fabulously funny film THE WOMEN from the play by Clare Boothe Luce, scripted by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin.
Is It Funny? Episode 10 – The Women (1939)
This episode is about the fabulously funny film THE WOMEN from the play by Clare Boothe Luce, scripted by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin.
She Bop: 25th Anniversary Edition
Hop on over to WE ARE CULT to read my review of the new revised edition of She Bop, the history of women in rock-n-roll. This will inspire you to start your own band or write you own history of that great musician no one else has bothered to write about. Be inspired, get wired….
K. A. Laity 