Q & A with GERRY VISCO

January 11, 2010

by Max

I first met Gerry Visco at QxBxRx, NYC’s infamous queer punk dance party, where she showed up with out mutual friend Joseph Keckler. Joseph told me that she was there to cover the evening for NY Press. I was go-go dancing that night, and was immediately charmed by the platinum blond bombshell that was scurrying around the dance floor, alternately shaking her booty and snapping photos. She definitely seemed to be on the wrong side of the camera. I was immediately charmed. Over the last few months, I’ve been lucky enough to catch some of Gerry’s performances, and have been keeping up with her written output. I am so thrilled that a real life Style Icon such as Gerry Visco sat down to answer some of my questions. Let’s get to it!

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Really Jezebel?

April 16, 2009

By Laurenesss
What’s wrong with this picture?
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First, notice the post at the top of the screen-cap titled “Is The History Of Women A History Of Hate?” Then, look just below it at the sponsored ad for the book “Why He Didn’t Call You Back.”

Here’s an excerpt from this gem of an advice book published by the same author who also wrote “Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School.”

“It’s the riddle of the Sphinx: “Why didn’t he call me back?” You have a great date with a promising guy. You think it went well and expect to see him again…but then poof! He vanishes inexplicably.”

I’m going to save you the time of reading through the 1st chapter by summarizing it all too briefly below:

IT’S BECAUSE HE HATES YOU.

I know advertising isn’t as easy to come by in this recession, but really Jezebel? Are you that desperate?

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The 50 day moving flavel index at all time blerk

March 23, 2009

by Tatyana

I was talking to a friend a few weekends about the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer smackdown, and while I had not at that point actually seen it, what my buddy said really resonated. It was something along the lines of, isn’t it strange that satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and even certain segments of The Onion are the only media outlets/figures that seems to be addressing some version of the truth?

Obviously, ye olde satire as cultural commentary is nothing new, but doesn’t this recent revelation and the fall out on both sides of the Stewart-Cramer debate say something about the place of media and punditry?

Criticism in favor of Cramer assigns Stewart the position of a schoolyard bully, claiming that he used his fairly benign position of cable news comedian to alight his soap box and preach to the choir. But would these critics be saying the same thing if Cramer was able to engage in debate with Stewart and was anything besides guilty and downtrodden? Cramer’s appearance on the Daily Show was an embarrassment to CNBC, one that I’ve seen repeated ad nauseam with various liberal pundits on an array of Fox News programs.

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