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I'm a writer, filmmaker, and performer in Oakland. My wife is better at tumbling than me. channing@channingkennedy.com
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It’s my intern Nia’s last full week! She got me the world’s best mug as a reverse going-away present.
Mr. Tusks made a self portrait today. Pretty good for someone with no hands. I’m going to steal it and use it as an illustration for a zine I’m working on. He tried to make a portrait of Yonathan, but she is very hard to capture.
OH MY BABY
RIP Maria Tallchief. I embedded some videos at Colorlines. Thanks to Emily for introducing me to her. Did you know she was one of five Native American prima ballerinas born in Oklahoma in the late ’20s? #suppressednarratives
Also I kinda love this:
HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE
im so sorry
And here’s Porpentine’s game that she made specifically for/about last night’s Oakland Nights… Live!, and made the audience play through with her. It was really really beautiful seeing 200 strangers yelling PLANT ARMOR! NO! CRYSTAL ARMOR! at the screen. I honestly almost teared up. And the applause when she talked at the end about wanting to destroy ‘Games’ with a capital G… it really felt like another world is possible, not to be too sappy about things. Definitely one of my absolute top ONL experiences, and I’m so proud to have been a part of it.
Here are some photos of me telling “jokes” shot by audience members at last night’s Oakland Nights… Live! (thanks Forrest Philips and OuterBody Labs) The first image is me introducing the Hacker WWW Anthem, which was just me leading the audience in a group recitation of Keanu Reeves’ “I want room service” scene from Johnny Mnemonic, and the second is me making fun of a guy who made fun of me on Twitter at last month’s ONL. (Sample diss of mine: “You mock ‘hipsters,’ but let’s see where you work… you work at Instagram! You know where you’d be working if it weren’t for hipsters? … Probably basically anywhere else in Silicon Valley, because you made some good career decisions early on, unlike me!” Tough stuff.)
And the last image is a screengrab of the live Stickies collage that I assemble and disassemble throughout the show on the big projection screen. Anyway, it was a great episode, especially considering all the technical issues and the fact that Jeremy, the host, was running a fever throughout the show. Thanks to Jeremy and Julie, our guests Phil, Porpentine, Lauren and Jonathan’s live Turing Test, the Hats, everyone from the Sudo Room, and our excellent excellent audience.
“Guilford County Animal Control Officer E. Afari carries a loose pig to his truck after catching it Thursday in the 3700 block of Dawson Avenue.
The pig belted out a horrific, loud squeal until Afari released it in the cage of the truck.”
- “Officers Corral Loose Pig in Greensboro,” News & Record
Man buys toy poodles, turn out to be ferrets on steroids
http://geekologie.com/2013/04/man-buys-toy-poodles-turn-out-to-be-ferr.php
I took this exact same screenshot, for posterity. Get this fucking Youtube video the Criterion Collection treatment it deserves #masterworks
How to Get a Black Woman Fired
A handy six-step guide guide brought to you by Channing Kennedy, Colorlines.com’s self-appointed white male correspondent. (Seriously though, it’s brilliant. Read it.)
hey The Nation, thanks for tumbling this!
Whoa, the Associated Press just announced they’re dropping the term “illegal immigrant”! It’s been a long time coming — here’s a Drop The I-Word campaign video I produced (as one small part of a fantastic team) way back in 2010.
“Biology has returned to the nation’s highest court. It’s not Darwin’s theory of evolution on the docket this time, but the nature of sex. Defenders of Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage, base their case on what they call the “objective biological fact” that procreation is an exclusively heterosexual process. Citing the 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, they argue that marriage should be “founded in nature.”
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Nature’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage - NYTimes.com (By way of Wildcat2030)
Begetting offspring is certainly not an exclusively heterosexual process “founded in nature.” One simply needs to look at instances of parthenogenesis in nature to dismantle this “objective biological fact.”
For example, bdelloid rotifers have not had sex for over 40 million years and yet they continue to generate offspring. This is because they “multiply by producing eggs that are genetic clones of the mother.” In fact, that there are no males in this procreation process.
Unless the position of the defenders of Proposition 8 has been misrepresented in the opinion piece, the bdelloid rotifer clearly illustrates that nature is actually not exclusive when it comes to procreation processes, and that the bdelloid rotifer is clearly a misandrist.
Image source: Buel P. Colton, Zoology: Descriptive and Practical (Boston:D.C. Heath & Co., 1903) 353
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I wrote today’s morning feature at Colorlines on “HR-by-mob,” i.e. the mechanisms by which the internet gets black women fired (and other folks who aren’t white men). I also made this gif to accompany it, which ended up not getting used, so enjoy it here!
Garibaldi Rous was really not happy about having to wear bunny ears for his Easter photo shoot.
THE EASTER BUNNY
