Anyone for John Waters?

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He's giving a talk on July 7. Well, they call it his "outrageous one-man show" and him "the always hilarious and provocative filmmaker" who will share his "skewed views on everything from movies to marriage to pop-culture" in "a notorious and wonderfully wild evening of entertainment with the baron of bad taste."

Hyperbole aside, the guy is no dim bulb. And any cattiness his style may smack of is more than balanced out by a kind of unusually staunch humanity he has.

My old pal E.J. turned me on to his essays years ago---like these. After that, when I'd see him around town, I had a different sort of regard for the fella. He's a thinker as well as a freak! One of my favorite combos.

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I love Crackpot. (Well, wasn't into the part about Pia Zadora, I guess.) Hadn't read any of it until I audited a drawing class at IU (Indiana), and the grad student/ instructor guy assigned us to read "100 Things I Hate (Puff Piece)" in order to get inspired to draw.

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Jewelz is going to see JW with me. Or I with her, actually: we were going to buy it for each other, but she got comped, what with all her ushering connections & all. Woo-hoo!!

you know, I kinda wanted to pull out that other painting in the spare room the other night & check it out, and query about your other recent or not-so-recent paintings, but I felt sheepish about it, for some reason. you still painting?