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Starzology Astrology204. February 2026 Astro Overarch đ Forecasting AstrologyIn this episode Alison and Arwynne discuss the FEBRUARY 2026.âď¸ EPISODE RESOURCESRead my full February 2026 OverarchRead Saturn conjunct NeptuneCintra WilsonSynodic Cycles #astrology #february2026 #horoscopeYOUR HOSTSâ â Find Alison at StarzologyFind Arwynne at MsPinkInvest in yourself, get STARZLIFE Astrology Newsletter  â â â â âď¸Â ALISON'S ASTROLOGICAL SERVICES âď¸Â More on Astrological COACHING and CONSULTATIONS with Alison.â â
2026-01-2536 min
Starzology Astrology185. Mercury Aspects: â¤ď¸ Basic Natal AstrologyIn this audio-only episode, Alison and Arwynne explore MERCURY aspects and what they reveal about the way you communicate, connect with others, and handle exchanges like buying, selling, or bartering. This discussion is part of our Basic Natal Astrology series, designed to give you the essential tools for reading a natal chart.#howtoreadabirthchart #mercury #aspects YOUR HOSTSâ â Find Alison at StarzologyFind Arwynne at MsPinkâ âď¸ EPISODE RESOURCESRead the full blog postCint...
2025-09-1443 min
Gen X at MidlifeThe gnarly midlife passageIn this first episode I talk to popular Substack writer Cintra Wilson. Cintra grew up in the Bay Area, was producing plays in the San Francisco theater scene by 19, wrote a million articles for every great magazine and newspaper when journalism was still a viable profession, and is now garnering a ton of fans with her Substack audio recordings of brilliant commentary on pop culture at Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain.
2025-06-0125 min
Dark City: Revealing History Hiding in the Shadows2. OCCULT: The Double Life of Rocketeer Jack Parsons Pt 2Pasadena, CA | In Part 1, we introduced you to Jack Parsons, pioneering rocket scientist by day, occultist by night. This week, we will detail the downright bizarre rituals he engages in as his occult obsession drives him to near madness. From getting caught up in a destructive love triangle with the founder of Scientology to losing his hard earned professional credibility, Jackâs life could not be filled with more drama. Even the abrupt and tragic end to his life will leave us asking the question - would a rocket scientist really do that?Follow us for episode phot...
2024-04-0340 minDark City: Revealing History Hiding in the Shadows1. OCCULT: The Double Life of Rocketeer Jack Parsons Pt 1Pasadena, CA | Can a black arts occultist by night also be a pioneering rocket scientist by day? Sure can. We are kicking off Season 1: Los Angeles (and the Dark City series!) with the unlikely but true life story and accomplishments of Jack Parsons, one of the principal founders of NASAâs Jet Propulsion Lab. Coming of age in the 1920s and early 1930s, Jack lived in a world that believed a trip to the moon would never be possible. Always one to push the boundaries of convention, what started as Jackâs scrappy experiments with homemade explosives in the Arroyo...
2024-03-2744 min
Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events#317 MEGA RECAP Fight Pass Invitational 5 and 2023 IBJJF NoGI WorldsThis week on the show Maine and Miranda recap the Fight Pass Invitational 5 FPI 5, and the 2023 IBJJF No-GI Worlds. Plus preview the teams for AIGA Championship.In news we talk about the ONE FC apprentice Season 2 launching in Asia. the 50k belt match proposal between Nicky Rod and Gordon Ryan. Gutenberg leaving GFT to go to AOJ, and Talita Alencar winning her UFC debut. In the recap of the Fight Pass Invitational 5 we recap Felipe Pena vs. Nicholas Meregali that saw Meregali submit Pena with a RNC. In Yuri Simþes vs. Nicky Rod...
2023-12-122h 27
Scare UWitching and Bitching (2013) with Cintra WilsonDetermined to make better lives for themselves, Madrid town square "mascots" Tony and Jose, in their guises as a silver-hued Jesus and a green-skinned toy soldier, rob a shop specializing in the exchange and purchase of gold. Joined by Joseâs son Sergio, who has forsaken his homework for a day with dad, the men make off with countless rings and other gold trinkets, commandeering a taxi driven by Manuel, and containing a passenger who just wants to get to Badajoz. Their goal: make it to France, safety, and prosperity. Just one problem: Sergio left his backpack in the store...
2023-01-091h 23
Words That Move Me with Dana Wilson154. Question of the Year (feat. every podcast guest from 2022!)Itâs a Words That Move Me tradition! All of my guests from 2022 will answer the same question.. What is the tool you use the most often? Want to know whoâs talking? Follow along with our guide below! I would also love to hear from you. What is the tool you use the most often? Enjoy this conversation with all my guests from 2022.Â
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13:34 Cat Rendic
14:09 Poppinâ Pete
15:40 Michelle Dorrance
16:17 Kara Mack
18:12 Gary ImhofÂ
19:43 Brian Shutters
20:38 Jeff MortensenÂ
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2022-12-2144 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainFASHION IN MUSIC 2010 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cintra.substack.com
2022-10-1909 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainAn EMBARRASSMENT OF GHOSTSThere are few things more intellectually embarrassing than having a rich history of paranormal experiences. âOh really?â Your friends ask snarkily when ghosts pop into the conversation, because they already think youâre half-crazy. âWhat drugs were you on?â  Some people really sink their teeth into it and insist that there would be forms of âscientific proofâ if such things existed, and cite the countless debunkings of spiritualism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Houdini did people like me no favors.  Some of the most outspoken anti-ghost jerks are people who have seen ghosts themselves and chalk up even their...
2022-10-1210 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainRUTHLESSWhen I was about sixteen, I had already had a fake ID for two years. The first one I made myself with the kind of rub-off press type that architects used to use, and a Carte Orange â a monthly pass for the Paris metro, that had my photo on it.  I laid out all of the pertinent information â like date of birth â in French. It worked, and my club life in San Francisco began. By the time I was 15, my parents had given up trying to impose any control on me whatsoever; I had a 6AM curfew for school n...
2022-10-0508 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainYOU EARN IT THE HARD WAYI used to write an advice column for the San Francisco Examiner in the nineties, called Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain (hence the title of the Substack.) The photograph of my head next to the byline featured my hair on fire. The conceit was that I was a Psychic Psupergenius, here to solve your various earthly woes. I was the Oracle. Sometimes I gave terrible advice. Sometimes the advice was good. Sometimes I waxed philosophical about relationships, since I was usually failing at them. I was usually an emotional wreck, and unintentionally wrote about depression a lot, without calling it wha...
2022-09-2806 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainBOUGIE BITCHâDid you see the email I sent you? That houseboat listing? Itâs only $85,000,â said my uncle, who happens to be my current landlord, a few weeks ago. He became the gilded landowner that he is now by first rebuilding and flipping houseboats for a few decades. He knows houseboats. âAlso, Iâve been thinking about you for this dock for a while. Itâs called Waldo Dock (not its real name.) Itâs a commune of people made up entirely of low-income artists and maritime workers. Thatâs it. They wonât let anyone else take residency. Youâre one...
2022-09-2107 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI WORE MELANIA'S DRESS AND IT WAS TERRIFYING(I apologize in advance for these links not working. I was thinking this article was interesting because of fashionâs ability to predict the future.) In the spring of 2011, toward the end of my stint as a New York Times Critical Shopper, I was assigned to review the then-new Dior flagship in uptown Manhattan. It was a palatial monument to the ability to spare no expense: All was silver, white, and mirrors, some reflecting giant videos of models on the catwalk showcasing that seasonâs collection. The offerings were so snickeringly retro-sexual as to verge on parod...
2022-09-1406 minWords That Move Me with Dana Wilson140. Making Statements with Culture Critic Cintra WilsonFashion icon and writer of âFear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Styleâ, Cintra Wilson, joins me on the pod today. Cintra is constantly making statements both as a writer and fashion connoisseur, and youâll get to hear a few of those fabulous statements on style, fashion, femininity, counter culture, and more on the pod today. Youâll learn about the life and work of Cintra as well as where âhipâ comes from and where it is now. Please enjoy this conversation with my long lost sister, Cintra Wilson.
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2022-09-0749 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE 1 MINUTE 56 SECOND ORGASMWhen I was 18, I got my first professional writing job, writing pornography for 976-lines (a phone number you could call, enter your credit card information, and hear a pre-recorded 2 minute porn script âperformed.â) A lot of the cute actress girls in my drama class at San Francisco State were reading the scripts for extra money. I was a pothead, mostly making my way through college doing afro-Haitian dancing and selling joints I rolled badly from a Hefty bag of âshakeâ (the worldâs weakest marijuana - no buds, mostly just crushed leaves). I used to keep jo...
2022-09-0706 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainGALLIANO GALLIANO(This piece previously appeared in Salon.com in 2011. I think itâs still relevant.) "I'm tired of pretending I'm not special anymore."-- Charlie SheenIt has been an incredible, red-letter week for the epic grand-mal celebrity meltdown. Charlie Sheen has proven himself to be the poet laureate of all once and future megalomaniac sex-addicted crackheads, and John Galliano's once brilliant design mind unraveled like a cheap acrylic Christmas sweater in a bar in Marais and dressed down French patrons in a torrent of Nazi jackbooted verbal abuse, prompting exco...
2022-08-3113 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTSIâve lost a lot of fake friends on my walk through life. It hurts the same way as losing real friends â losing that investment of time, the building of shared experience, the history, and ultimately, my belief in them as genuine people.  I donât get that close to many people, and my loyalty is so absolute, I tend to be disappointed in others who donât share my friendship vision. Which is why making a real, true-blue friend is such a blessed event. During the beginning of Covid, I stumbled upon an entirely new kind of friendshi...
2022-08-2409 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainRIP, ELIZABETH TAYLORThis article previously appeared on Salon.com. (I think.) Last week, in Miami, I stayed at a self-described "gay hotel," mostly for the kicky interior: every room featured, over the bed, an enormous photo-portrait of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. She was, after all, the ultimate queen.A friend of mine in his sixties once told me the story of his accidentally running into Elizabeth Taylor with her entourage in an alley in New York, one night. He was a successful model and Princeton architect -- no stranger among beautiful people. But the...
2022-08-1709 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHOW I THINK REPUBLICANS LIVEThis is a completely unhinged piece that happened because I was thinking of Doug Kenneyâs âMy First Blow Jobâ and imagining I was working for National Lampoon circa 1981. This will probably get me taken out of context and cancelled again, but fuck it. Itâs satire. In a gated residential community stands the family McMansion. A giant American flag billows above the front porch next to a yellow âDonât Tread on Meâ flag. The long driveway is filled with trucks, jet-skis. The clean two-car garage is full of refrigerators, teeming with meat, and enough ca...
2022-08-1007 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainSTOMP IT OUTSome iteration of this piece previously appeared in Elle magazine. You threw a lemon at me and hit me in the foreheadThatâs what love does to you/makes you cheekyAy, I love you so much that I just canât punish you- A bulerias from Carlos Sauraâs âFlamencoâWhen I first met Glenda Koeraus, the dancer who would later be known by flamenco audiences as Sol la Argentinita  (and later known by me, only half-jokingly, as my guru)-- I was a basket...
2022-08-0326 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainJOHN, IâM ONLY DANCINGEver since the craven Nazi fuckheads in the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, Iâve been thinking about feminism. I was expecting a lot more of a production, frankly, from the feminists of my country. Where were the thousands of bra-burning, barricade-mooning teams of badass valkyries on motorcycles with shaved heads, pussy hats, ski masks and combat boots, brawling in the streets and in the halls of justice? Where are the rock star voices? Who is our Gloria Steinem right now? I guess I thought I could call 1-800-WYMMINS and hook up with my local chap...
2022-07-2708 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA FILM TOUR OF THE SARTORIAL SEVENTIESBefore the 1990s, the era when the power centers of fashion began to be much more numerous and dispersed, decades could be easily identified by the most prominent looks and cuts of their pervasive styles. The closet of the sixties in no way resembled the closet of the seventies; the clothing of the seventies was considered so outrĂŠ it would practically get you beaten up in the eighties. Style was a singular and perishable flowering every ten years, and movies offered a fabulous glimpse at the aesthetic gardens of their time.The seventies were a thrillingly specific period for n...
2022-07-2016 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainKICK-ASS CHICK(I apologize to all photographers whose work I am using to illustrate this article. I was unable to find names to attribute the photos. But if you send me your names I will add photo credits!) There is something about the combination of ADHD and OCD in me that makes me binge on specific TV shows. My guiltiest pleasure for several months now has been the tattoo reality show âInk Master,â starring your master-of-ceremonies, delicately preserved rock star Dave Navarro (a perfect game show host, and prettyboy for the Death Rock matrons in the audience to swoon...
2022-07-1307 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainPRADA MEINHOFFThis piece was written when OWS was actually occupying Wall Street. "People should not be afraid of their governments. Government should be afraid of their people." â Alan MooreWeeks ago, I saw a photo on the internet that really stuck in my gag reflex: A piggy-faced group of Wall Street insiders -- men in pinstripe suits and ties, women in silk dresses and big ass, fuck-you, 11mm Barbara Bush pearls -- were sitting on balcony overlooking Zucotti Park, smugly looking down on the protestors, drinking champagne.  Two thoughts occurred to me:1. This...
2022-07-0609 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI, GODLESS BABYKILLERI didnât want to write about the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, because it disgusts me to the point of compulsive rock-kicking, and makes my stomach undulate like it is full of angry sand worms, but my mother said I had to. I never listen to her, but I suppose sheâs right. Itâs the kind of thing I am supposed to comment on, but when the wind gets knocked out of you because the Boot of Tyranny is standing on your face, it leaves you somewhatâŚ.speechless. I feel like a stun...
2022-06-2907 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA PROGRESSIVE ANALYSIS OF DEMI MOOREâS âSTRIPTEASEâEvery seven years, it seems, Demi Moore is expensively chopped, dropped, shaved, airbrushed and hydraulically re-sexualized for a new demographic of boner-attention.  The X-Box contingent is discovering, today, what the Gen-X boys witnessed before them: Despite Repeated Motherhood, Demi (through a vigorous combination of rude will and 6-digit surgeries) Is Still Fuckable! (see Kutcher, Ashton; Dude, Whereâs My Mom?)In 1996, La Moore was paid $12.5m -- the highest fee any actress had ever been paid, at that point â to unveil her Demispheres in the movie Striptease, to the delight of several sweaty, jism-clogged fans worldwid...
2022-06-2206 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainMOTORCYCLE DIARIESAll names have been changed to protect the stupid (except mine, because fully I admit how stupid I was.) I recently sold what I think will probably be my last motorcycle. I canât tell yet.  Every few years, a tremendous, lusty feeling will grip me, and it ends up with me buying a motorcycle. Last time, I found myself compulsively buying body armor on eBay. I told myself I was buying it to participate in Occupy Wall Street riots, but then I ended up buying a gorgeous black Ducati Monster 695 named Donna, by her previo...
2022-06-1507 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainMEN WHO HURT THEMSELVES FOR A LIVINGThis article previously appeared on salon.com in 2002. Before Sept. 11, in those long-lost days when America's bravest young men had no war, famine, saber-toothed tigers or any other actual challenges to pit themselves against, they were forced to prove their manliness through inventive forms of public masochism: the more gratuitous, idiotically conceived and potentially harmful, the better.Spearheading the ranks of bescabbed professional skateboarders, fractured BMX riders, dead BASE jumpers, no-necked backyard rasslers and hundreds of jacked-up halfwits that make up the puncture casualties at Pamplona's annual running of the bulls are two c...
2022-06-0811 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA REMEMBRANCE OF HOUSEBOATS PASTGrowing up as a grade-school kid on the Sausalito houseboats in the 1970âs was interesting, particularly since nowadays the environment would probably be deemed unsuitable for children and the entire community probably would come under indictments for Conduct Unbecoming of Adults, mopery, or light hooliganism. Our houseboats were, at least, at Gate 6 ½, and not at Gate 5 a quarter mile down the road, where the residents (a much grittier, more hardcore group of hippies than on my dock â filthy men on rusty bicycles, kids running around the splintering, nail-filled docks in bare feet, everyone poaching electricity from a street...
2022-06-0107 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCABELAS: THE VATICAN OF GUN WORSHIPThis piece previously appeared in The Guardian as an excerpt from my book, âFear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style.â There are large areas of Kansas that are indistinguishable, in that painfully homogenous way, from too many other flat, strip-mall-and-large-box-store commercial real estate eyesores around other American interstates. Walmart and other ubiquitous beige squares, franchises, and fast food chains have successfully obliterated an enormous percentage of American regional character. Long stretches of Kansas may as well be in northern Virginia, or the Gulf Coast of Florida, or Merced, California. I found it striking, on my wa...
2022-05-2509 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainGIDGET DOES HOLLYWOODBack in the late 1990âs, I had a truly fabulous opportunity. After commissioning me to write a short story for his great magazine (Zoetrope All Story) and a screenplay based on that short story (which never got made), Francis Ford Coppola made me an offer I could not refuse: to collaborate one-on-one with him writing a screenplay.  This was obviously a big, big, fucking deal for me, Francis Ford Coppola being one of my all-time heroes and an immortal titan in the film industry.I was beside myself with anticipation. What kind of hard...
2022-05-1809 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainITS ABOUT VALUE, AUTONOMY, AGENCY, and COMMUNITY.(written in 2011) I was very grateful and glad when hardcore activists began to Occupy Wall Street, but not optimistic about their success. I attended the demonstration at Timesâ Square and was thrilled by the number and diversity of people who turned out â still, I wasnât convinced that even such an impressive demonstration would lead to real change. The only war there has ever been has always been the war of the rich against the underclass they wish to continue to control and exploit. Divisive social engineering mechanisms have always obstructed non-super-wealthy people from realizing any las...
2022-05-1110 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainDRISTAN RANT: THE SCOTUS WANTS SLAVERY BACKShots fired! Welcome to the Culture War! Itâs been gestating a mighty long time, but the beast is now with us.  The invertebrate, hyper-Catholic ghouls on the Supreme Court launched their biggest harpoon straight at the golden womb of Kim Kardashian herself last night, and all she represents on her fanciest night out.( And what does she represent exactly? The idea that money makes motherhood conveniently invisible? The sexual conquering of Pete Davidson? Does she see herself as some incarnation of Marilyn Monroe, or just the icon who is entrusted to wea...
2022-05-0407 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCHINA'S CULTURAL WEAPON OF CHOICE: GUO PEIThis piece previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, and was edited by the glorious Tamara Strauss. If youâve ever had doubts about whether fashion could be considered art, this is the show that will convince you. The Legion of Honor is hosting a lavish retrospective of the couture designer Guo Pei â more than 75 pieces selected from the runways of Paris and Beijing over the past two decades. The work is otherworldly and dazzling â each piece represents literally thousands of hours of painstaking, expert sartorial artistry. These treasures are featured in the surprisingly ideal settings...
2022-04-2707 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION: IN PRAISE OF LETTERKENNYThis article previously appeared in the New York Review of Books. During strange times when a body is well advised to stay indoors, television can take on important new dimensions. A truly great sitcom can go beyond merely providing confectionary yuksâit can become background music for your life. 30 Rock fans, for example, tend to agree that the overall geist created by the showâs fusion of zippy orchestrals and whip-bang verbal syncopation can be an all-over mood-enhancer during the drudgeries of your day that can make your life feel quick, tuxedoed and screwbally, as thou...
2022-04-2014 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainGOD SAVE THAT GRACIOUS QUEENFor all of the high profile energy, action and celebrity attention surrounding AIDS (and the quilt is nice, of course, I donât mean to dis the quilt) there is not enough of a variety of memorials to really evoke the exuberant lifestyles and wild personalities of many of the fallen, especially in a hotbed of eccentricity like 1980âs San Francisco. I still remember the joyous men who danced with enormous mylar fans at the Trocadero Transfer. I remember the Golden Shower leather Daddies with their chaps and yellow bandannas hanging around The Stud and The Eagle. Mostly, I remembe...
2022-04-1309 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainREVIEW: BLADERUNNER 2049This article previously appeared in Garage/Vice magazine. Spoiler Alert: Plot points are discussed in this review. My cousin Roscoe, a film-student, taught me a valuable lesson about movie remakes. I was tooth-gnashing for days after seeing the remake of Mad Max: âWhy do they suddenly have fucking 3D printer-based, ultra-rococo, Balmain-esque costume design capabilities in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback?!ââTry watching it again,â he counseled. âPretend that youâve never seen the original.â I did. Viewing it as a film unrelated to Mad Max, I enjoyed the remake 40% more.I em...
2022-04-0613 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTO LOVE A Q-TARD I can be breathtakingly delusional when it comes to my personal life. My brainâs ability to lie to itself in order to see and hear only what I want to see and hear â to ignore all mounting evidence and perceive what I want to perceive, instead of what actually is â has always been completely confounding.I only know I am making this mistake later, in retrospect. While I am in thrall to this kind of self-hypnosis, my brain winds around fantastic scenic roads of Dr. Seussian loopiness to make long-winded excuses for people I...
2022-03-3015 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainLEAVING IT TO THE BEAVER CLEAVERSThis article previously appeared in Aesthete magazine.A few months ago, one of my best friends - a captain of industry type - was listening to me harp on one of my recurrent themes (since the myth of corporate personhood made corporations into people, people are now compulsively embracing personal corporatehood and becoming Enron-like sociopaths), and he asked me, âDo you know what you really want?âNo, what.âYouâre not going to like it,â he said, with the impish tang and half-smile he usually employs when he is about to unveil som...
2022-03-2308 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainWET RECKLESSI used to trust in cops â the general idea of cops, anyway. Now I think at least half of them should probably be in jail, being embuggered by their fellow criminals. Theyâre allegedly there to âprotect and serveâ; now they are paramilitary and predatory. The mandate of law enforcement now seems to be more like âhunt and persecute,â at least in my relatively posh white suburban neighborhood, where the fuckers are lurking on virtually every corner, waiting to pounce. I can almost laugh about my DUI experience now â it was over 2 years ago â but it still rattles me b...
2022-03-1610 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainAMONG THE ELVES: NEW YORK COMICONI accepted an assignment to go to New York COMICON, because the editors had come up with an irresistible conceit: I would be dressed in haute couture designer clothing , trying to blend in with the Superheroes and Otherkin. High fashion and Cosplay were strange bedfellows that obviously needed to end up in a public restroom together at the Javits Center. I loved the cognitive dissonance/recontextualization of the idea: One of my all-time fashion heroes is a guy I saw years ago at the Renaissance Faire dressed in a yellow plastic biohazard suit with a tinfoil helmet, ru...
2022-03-0907 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCONSUMPTIONAll the names have been changed to ensure some relative anonymity. I was married, briefly - six years - to a nice mamaâs boy from Arizona named Clem who was terribly attached to his family in the Southwest. His mother, Annette was a frightening matriarch â an ex-stewardess (a breed of human I find to be made of molten, unspeakable evil â any woman who has had to consent to a weigh-in before being allowed to serve drinks to businessmen harbors a special kind of hatred for women who havenât) on her third marriage to Andy, a ma...
2022-03-0209 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainIN THE BEGINNING...1901, the year that Bergdorf Goodman first opened its doors, was, like most fins de siecle a time of upheaval, confusion, and progress. Technology revealed such playthings-for-the-wealthy as the first Oldsmobile (a steal at $650). âPax 1901,â the Buffalo Pan-American Exhibition, was a celebration of Americaâs international dominance over Mexico, Hawaii and the Philippines, the future of space travel, and fabulous re-enactments of disasters like the Johnstown Flood and the Chicago Fire. âAmericans, it seemed, already had an appetite for sensational misfortune reworked as entertainment,â wrote popular historian Charles Panati. Fair-goers were also able to witness a real-time misfortune when Presiden...
2022-02-2306 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI CRIED IN RICK RUBINâS SHOWERSometime in the early 2000s, a famous photographer commissioned me to write a screenplay, ostensibly for him to eventually direct. He had been making bundles of Yankee dollars directing shampoo commercials, and felt it was his time to stretch out and be creative. The screenplay, according to the photographer (Iâll call him Halston), was supposed to be an homage to Sunset Boulevard, only gay. Instead of Gloria Swanson, he imagined a glamorous older gentleman and former rock star â an infirm David Bowie type, if you will. The young guy was supposed to be a straight, wannabe rock sta...
2022-02-1607 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainEAT PRAY SUFFER: THE AGONY OF WELLNESS-CHICBefore reading: breathe in. Breathe out. Notice the clothing on your body. It is not nourishing you. Grieve, but not to excess. Release into your pants. Now more than ever before, the problems of leisure present grueling challenges for the superbly wealthy.  Youâve recognized that life in the higher echelons of society is a zero-sum game reserved exclusively for apex predators. The competition to remain at the top of the social food-chain is greater than ever before. It has been decades since one could rely on eugenics...
2022-02-0911 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION / KIDNAPPED BY GYPSIESMany Americans donât realize it, but the United States is home to some 1 million Gypsies, spread throughout the nation. It is believed that Columbus arrived in the States with Romani slaves in 1498, and that Oliver Cromwell shipped Romanichals (often known as English Gypsies, or English Travelers) to the US to be slaves on Southern plantations in the 17th century. The Romanichal also immigrated to America from the UK in the middle of the 1800âs, coinciding with the weakening of the Ottoman Empire. Large families of Romanichal took up residence in West Virginia, particularly in Martin...
2022-02-0210 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainJESUS CHRIST, PERSONAL FRIEND OF SURFINGI wrote a longer version of this piece in 1999 for Salon.com. The professional surfing world went ape for it, and I got to fly to Hawaii to meet a bunch of my surf heroes. It was one of the best experiences of my writing life. This particular edit came from a shortened version that appeared in SURFER in 2015. Since I wrote it, the great Andy Irons has passed away, but not before eventually gaining my total respect. I went to France to write about the 1999 Lacanau Pro, a professional surfing event. I donât kno...
2022-01-2615 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainSAVE THE LITTLE MAGIC FOREST PEOPLEFew things that I learned about in my childhood were more endearing to the idea of the wonders of planet earth and the diversity of life than the Pygmies. They have lived the same way for millennia, in harmony with nature in equatorial rainforests extending from Cameroon, through the Congo Basin to Uganda. Beautiful music and singing is a major part of their daily lives. ( French-Israeli ethno-musicologist Simha Arom says that the level of polyphonic complexity of pygmy music was reached in Europe only in the 14th century â but Pygmy music is unwritten and ancient.) The average Pygmy...
2022-01-1908 min
TG Geeks WebcastTG Geeks Webcast Episode 361The Two Gay Geeks đłď¸âđ have a chat with each other about a series we are very late to the party on; We just finished The Witcher Season 1 and Oh My Gosh! what a wild ride and confusing at the same time. We discuss what we liked about it and some of the interesting plot points and the apparent discarding of characters. All in all, we liked it and are on to Season 2 and can't wait, at the moment, for Season 3. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
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About The Two Gay Geeks
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2022-01-1751 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainFOR THE LIBERACE IN YOULas Vegas is one of the handful of places on earth that a stylish-yet- morbidly rich gentleman may go, peruse extensive libraries of finger-thrilling fabric swatches, be measured in 52 places, and obtain the highest qualities and most unctuously luxurious labels in bespoke suits â and all the monstrously pricey man-accessories to go with it.For prices ranging from the merely slap-in-the-face extravagant to the âthis is why Archduke Ferdinand was assassinatedâ-range â the fullest conceivable spectrum of made-to-order sartorial tastes is made to please the full gamut of gentlemen; from the conservative Captain of Industry to the gari...
2022-01-1214 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE ENDURING VOODOO OF THE STANLEY CUPWhile I abhor sports and couldnât give a tinkerâs foot about hockey, let alone its trivia, I am always suitably impressed when an object accumulates enough strange, eldritch energy around it to develop pagan superpowers. The Stanley Cup is an object that apparently foments an uncontrollable Dionysian mania around all those who touch it. It is, unto itself, a strange vortex â a gateway to louche and insouciant behaviors, behind which people have historically lost all sense of propriety, and often their clothing.âNo trophy in the world can create the party or the type of a...
2022-01-0508 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainEVEN LEADING MEN GET THE SHAFTThe day Tom Cruise sock-slid into his parentsâ living room in his Ray Bans and white underpants, America didnât realize it, but its male archetype had just been castrated. Hollywood had begun a long-game brainwash that would result in American men choosing lifestyles that would render them eternally adolescent...and for all intents and purposes, essentially gay.  During the golden era of the silver screen, post-depression-era leading men like Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck were cast as leaders, decent, right and true, who blazed trails westward and sacrificed their own comfor...
2021-12-2912 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHOLIDAY SPECIAL: NIGHTMARES AND TATTOOSHappy Holidays, here in the looming shadow of the Omicron variant. I hope this weekâs installation brings you deep spiritual joy. Since I still rarely leave the apartment, two items of media have been my source of contemplation this week, because both are emblematic of the behaviors of late-model capitalism. Edmund Gouldingâs Nightmare Alley (1947), starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, (which was recently remade by Guillermo del Toro) is a fabulous movie with more dark psychological twists and voracious gaslighting than a marriage counseling session with David Mamet. Based on the be...
2021-12-2208 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainWELCOME TO YOUR VIRTUAL-REALITY VACATION PARADISE, EARLY-ADOPTER FASHIONISTAS OF THE 2020s!ÂWe always knew that VR would transform the landscape of sex. But now that we've explored and abused every imaginable earthly perversion ad nauseam, and sex has become so gruesomely boring and retardataire, many of you have been hitting dead ends trying to imagine what virtual transgressive acts could possibly feel fun anymore.Fortunately, the limitless frontiers of VR have once again solved your problems of leisure. Through meticulous research in motivational analysis, our engineers have found even deeper, more personalized satisfactions for nearly every human appetite and archetypeâfrom the eating of Siberian huskies on...
2021-12-1517 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION/ BLACK INK CREW (NY)âIâm sitting there in jail, and Iâm watching you get a new ass, a new pussy, new titties, and you canât pick up a phone and call me for fifteen years?â This is 19-year old Genesis talking about his birth mother, Sky, who gave him up for adoption 15 years ago.  âI was living in shelters selling ***** and I gave him up to give him a better life!â Sky cries, to a different camera. I started watching VH1âs Black Ink Crew because I like tattoo shows. I like to see good tattoos...
2021-12-0809 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHECK UP IN HARLEMThis piece was originally written for The Cut, but they cut it instead of running it. It was hot as hell up in Harlem the opening day of the new Target store in the East River Plaza mall, in March 2011. From the nearest subway station on 116th street, it was like walking five avenues through a pizza oven. The residents of Harlem were undeterred, and they all seemed to be there, packing the 174,000 square foot space shoulder-to-shoulder like the D train after a Yankees game. At 1PM, the 26 checkout lines were already motionless in cart-to-stroller gridlock. Target, a...
2021-12-0105 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI-HOP, THE ETERNAL FLAMEAge seventeen was my annus horribilis.  After going full-throttle on an extended drug binge with my friends in the Haight-Ashbury for a few months, I was finally kidnapped by my father and uncle and taken to rehab. After a month in rehab, I was transferred to a mental health facility for another month. Then, once I got out, since my parents had set me up to be urine-tested once a week, I ended up in juvenile hall after testing positive for marijuana, which I didnât even consider to be a drug at that point. Once ou...
2021-11-2406 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainYOU BET YOUR SWEET ASSES AMERICA IS GOING TO BE AS GREAT AGAIN AS THE SWEET ASSES ON THE OTHER PAGES OF THIS MAGAZINEDear Readers: I realize this piece is quite dated, since it first appeared in Penthouse at the beginning of the Trump administration, but I felt like it was an interesting document of the time, and that youâd get a few yuks out of it. I mean, itâs not like anyone actually read it in Penthouse. I felt it deserved another trip around the flagpole â and itâs not like the Republicans are in any way improving. âCW(WARNING: Â The following is a piece of blistering socio-political satire, that is guaranteed...
2021-11-1722 min
The Chatting ComedianChatting With Cintra WilsonHello everybody my name is Dustin Pueschel, and in todayâs episode of âThe Chatting Comedianâ I chat with the amazing Cintra Wilson! Cintra is a writer, cultural critic, and artist! Cintra is one of the 50 most influential people working in New York fashion industry. Cintra wrote for The New York Times Critical Shopper Series, Cintra also served as a New York Times fashion critic. Cintra has written articles for The Atlantic, The Guardian, GQ, Yahoo!Life, VICE, New York Magazine, among many other magazines. Cintra also has a column in the very popular magazine âHartford Advocateâ for her column âThe C Wordâ...
2021-11-1544 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCALLING PLANET CLAYTARWhen I was the horrible age of 13, I attended an after-school program with a batch of fellow 6th-grade girls held at a local theater that had once been a church, but was now entirely painted bubble-gum pink. âSING * DANCE * ACT said the star-shaped sign in front, and that is what we did - a dance class, a theater class, and a singing class, back to back, every day. There are few things more miserable than a 13-year-old girl after school. They are surly, sarcastic, hungry and prickly. But the theater had a secret weapon in the pi...
2021-11-1007 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainALIEN SOFT-JAMSI got riled up watching a conspiracy-theory TV show about aliens that presupposes that alien interference with human history is a fact, and goes on to retrofit conclusions based on this contention with flimsy historical data and the rantings of pseudo-scientists with crazy hair and orange spray-tans.  The showâs creators seem to frame their content in the knowledge that their viewing audience is far removed from the natural world, and so lacking in contact with organic matter that stuff like chopping firewood or plucking chickens probably seems harrowingly exotic. Organized craftsmanship by groups of peopl...
2021-11-0310 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTO DUNE OR NOT TO DUNEThe other day my friend Tania drove me to a residential district in San Francisco to see a home that had been transformed into a walk-through haunted house. I got exponentially more than I bargained for. The Gregangelo Museum (gregangelomuseum.com) âSan Franciscoâs Immersive Art Experience,â is a labor of wild love and unchained artistry - a folly assembled over years by various dedicated artists, including my friend Tania. While the walk-through adventure was was favoring a Halloween theme for the season, the house itself was the real spectacle: every inch has been lovingly packed floor to ceiling with jewe...
2021-10-2708 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHermès VS. HOTDOG"Sign becomes the arena of the class struggle" -- Volosinov, 1973Long before the black arts of advertising dominated and deformed human consciousness via the media, the eternal war between the ruling class and everyone else articulated itself in the arena of sign with the foundation of luxury brands. The Hermès brand, established by Thierry Hermès in 1837, was recognized by the aristocracy for its quality equestrian harnesses and bridles. Proximity to nobility conferred prestige to the Hermès name; the brand gained status and won awards. By 1915 it had branched out i...
2021-10-2005 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCLOSE SHAVECLOSE SHAVEAfter 2007, the New York publishing industry began to violently collapse. The proposed fee for articles I normally wrote for various magazines and newspapers was slashed, in many cases, by up to 90%. Nobody was reading books anymore. I realized writing was dying as a profession when I went to the going-out-of-business sale at the Borders bookstore near the library and saw a giant shelf filled with boxes of half-price Elvis Yahtzee. So, for reasons of financial distress, I opted to rent out my Brooklyn condo and live in a smaller apartment.  A photog...
2021-10-1307 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainThe Politics of FashionâIt's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.."â Dialogue from âEasy Riderâ There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about what happens to fashion during times of political turmoil. That old âhemline indexâ chestnut, for starters, is apocryphal - skirt lengths donât rise and fall over time in any discernible fealty with the stock market (and this is disappointing.) However: after watching politics and fashion evolve through several drastically different presidencies, and studying fashions around America the last several years, I believe there may be a discernible l...
2021-10-0615 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainSUPERFLY VS. SUPERFLYIt is impossible to talk about the Superfly movies â the original from 1972, and the 2018 remake â without addressing the controversy aroused by both. I have been a fan of the original SuperFly since I was a teenager, mostly because of the incredible Curtis Mayfield soundtrack (which I listened to repeatedly on cassette in my VW Beetle), but also because I also thought (for good or ill) that SuperFly was incredibly cool. Around that time, I made the mistake of telling my jazz dance teacher in a summer class at SF City Collegeâ a beautiful young bla...
2021-09-2914 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainJUNGIAN TYPE-KEY PARTY !As a student of fashion and its ability to psychologically transform, I have become mildly obsessed with âdepthâ level of advertising -- motivational analysis and other black-art hoodoo that corporate witch-doctors deploy at consumers. Humans have an awesomely predictable inability to resist handbags, footwear and watches when sold with provocative images -- usually involving Sex or Death or both. In the last few years, there has been a bit of a sea-change in the subliminal motivation racket, as it pertains to branding and advertising. Mad Men and other corporate land-sharks that feed in the oceans of your...
2021-09-2210 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION/ RICKY IS A FUCKING LEGENDJust because he plays a character that smokes bales of marijuana, is functionally illiterate, hurls patio furniture, shoots at squirrels with handguns and goes to jail all the time doesnât mean that Robb Wells, the actor who created the role of miscreant Ricky LaFleur in the Canadian comedy series âTrailer Park Boys,â shouldnât be lauded with the same quantities of critical respect, artistic appreciation, and golden statuettes as Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts-type British dramatic twits like Benedict Cumberbatch or Eddie Redmayne. Nobody really realizes how tremendous and nuanced a performer Robb Wells truly is...
2021-09-1512 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHOW MUCH I HATED "THE LAST JEDI" Multiplex movie theaters should be a designated dumping ground for all animal waste. This would be a somewhat redundant form of vandalism, since most movies are already shit, but I believe that contaminating movie chains in this way would be a powerful means of protesting the fact that blockbusters arenât just bad art anymoreâthey have become toxic, filthy, and dangerous to public health. In particular, 2017 and 2018 hailed a new form of âGirl Powerâ through the fantasy universe: new heroines that encourage young women to join the military and blow themselves up in martyr-style suicide missions. It isnâ...
2021-09-0809 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION/ HOARDING HOARDERSWhereas I find the suffering of mentally ill people to be inappropriate as entertainment, I recently got into binging Hoarders (what my TV-buddy Julian calls a âGoth-liteâ TV show), because it is like watching open-heart surgery in a medical theater â only the theater is the mind of the hoarder, and the surgery is performed by removing unstable mounds of filthy thrift-store items. âCompulsive Hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary,â says the show, at the outset. Another way of saying it...
2021-09-0111 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainWHY I GOT FIRED FROM A DESIGN MAGAZINEIt started out innocently enough.  In 1962, a plucky young couple in their early twenties, Gordon and Carole Segal, using their keen eyes for design, got the idea to sell inexpensive but attractive European housewares out of a disused elevator factory in Chicago. The charming, bohemian presentation the Segals pioneered â housewares displayed on their actual shipping-crates-with-spilling-excelsior in a post-industrial-setting â has long been replaced with the recognizable Crate&Barrel âvignetteâ style, to wit: a lot of square footage, with all of the narrowly customizable furniture and safely humorless, non-ethnic tchotchkes staged in little home arrangements, like decor âserving sugge...
2021-08-2511 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA GUIDE TO INSTAGRAM INFLUENCERS FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY DONâT CARELast week I posted the first part of this article about the special breed of over-photographed, hysterically-stylized, privacy-bereft human advertisements for late-model capitalism known as Instagram influencers. After covering several celebrity makeup artists and K-Pop phenomenons, two more categories became blindingly apparent to me as being part of the larger Instagram influencer problem, which is the fact that influencers present absurdly commercialized, blow-dried, de-clawed, hot-waxed, jet-polished, ultra-hydrated and patently unrealistic versions of human life as we know it, because they are full-time walking, talking shills of the major corporate entities who endorse them. S...
2021-08-1815 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA GUIDE TO INSTAGRAM INFLUENCERS FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY DON'T CAREWhile YouTube was being taken over by makeup artists with complex gender pronouns, pre-pubescent gamer millionaires and Q-Anon trolls, Instagram grew like a second, attention-starved head on the Facebook monster, creating a new breed of internet celebrity which has dovetailed a merged into, and in some cases surpassed the old conventional celebrities of television and film.  Influencers â people with millions of online followers â are highly commercialized, fully branded human beings whose mates become props and whose private lives are backdrops for a firehose-level output of stylized selfies. They have transformed body and spirit into attention-sucking flytraps, attracting absurdl...
2021-08-1111 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainSYMBOL CLASH!SYMBOL CLASH / cintra wilsonThereâs a subtle cultural proxy-war that unfolds endlessly on our bodies, and those of our friends, neighbors and countrymen. The battlefield is symbolism and the weapons are prints. My first inkling of the importance of imagery in textiles was as a small child in the late 1970âs. I was at a play date at the home of affluent friends, when I was suddenly seized with an absorbing interest by their bold, op-art designer bath towels. (I was so impressed I lorded their label over my rube mother and her inferior linens...
2021-08-0306 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainAPE SEXSeveral years ago, when I was still working for the New York Times, a friend of mine Iâll call Marsha, who was the artist-in-residence at the New York Museum of Sex, asked me for a favor: she wanted me to be the opening act of the big show she had spent the last year putting together, and introduce her to the crowd. Marsha, a small but incredibly strong, wiry lesbian woman in her late forties, had just been on an amazing trip to the heart of Africa, to the Congo basin, where she had been...
2021-07-2706 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHOW I OFFENDED A SUPERMODELSeveral years ago, I was assigned by a major menâs magazine to interview a supermodel who was being photographed to appear on its cover. During the course of the interview, the model became so totally offended by me and my line of questioning, she pulled out of the deal entirely, and wouldnât even allow the photos of her from the shoot to be published. Needless to say, this article died an ignominious death without ever being put into print. All the names have been changed.  ...For beauty is nothing but the beginn...
2021-07-2013 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainCLOWN LOVECLOWN LOVE On the night before July 4, my friend Big Betty (not her real name) informed me, via a series of 27 texted photographs at 5AM, that she was âDown to Clownâ on Independence Day. The photos featured her in a large velveteen Uncle Sam hat and various beards crafted from cotton balls that she had somehow adhered to her face.Big Betty, ever the anti-authoritarian prop comic, had shown me one of her âclowningâ props earlier in the week: a grabber, of the trigger-and-claw variety used to obtain things from high shelves; taped to the end was a g...
2021-07-1311 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainBURNING CARS and EVIL TWINS: WHO WAS THAT DOPPELGANGER I SAW YOU WITH LAST NIGHTâThe beast in me is caged by fragile barsâ â Johnny CashIt is probably not news to anyone that they are psychologically manipulated by advertising. To capture real attention in this ADD-afflicted, info-drowning society is so difficult, that when some image in the worlds of fashion and/or pop culture actually gets and keeps my attention -- I find it deeply unsettling, because I know that I am being manipulated successfully.  Not that advertising is necessarily evil -- it's just that we've gotten way too good at it. Ad imagery seems opaque, abstract and meaningless, but that is...
2021-07-0709 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainBREAKING A $250,000 PIECE OF ART WITH YOUR ASS: A GUIDEA few years ago I was asked by a museum to deliver a two hour lecture on fashion, as part of an exhibit featuring a famous designer. I was very excited. I had never been to this major American city before. (Iâd be more forthcoming about specifics, but I made promises never to reveal the details of this catastrophe to the various people Iâve harmed.)  There was a lavish dinner held in my honor the night before my lecture.  Driving up to the venue with my friend Joey (not his real name) I thought I...
2021-06-3010 min
StyleZeitgeist PodcastCritical Shopping with Cintra WilsonFor this episode we caught up with Cintra Wilson, one of our absolute favorite writers, the former Critical Shopper for the New York Times, the author of several books of cultural criticism, a one-time StyleZeitgeist magazine contributor, the mother of our most favorite phrase that keyboard ever put onto computer screen, "If Marni is post-sex, Comme des Garcons is post reason," and an all around brilliant punk. We talk about her tenure at the New York Times, her breathtaking metaphors and inimitable sense of humor, and touch a bit on fashion semiotics. This one is a must for any a...
2021-02-251h 25
Empty Seats Film ReviewsThe Witcher Ep. 7 and 8 Review
Witcher Ep. 7-8
This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix
The Witcher timeline:
https://thewitcher.tv/the-witcher-deconstructed-timeline
Starring:
Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher
Freya Allan as Ciri
Anya Chalotra as Yennefer
Eamon Farren as Cahir
MyAnna Buring as Tissala
Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara
Adam...
2020-01-261h 01Empty Seats Film ReviewsThe Witcher Eps 4, 5, and 6 Reviewhttps://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Emty Seats is a weekly podcast where we review science fiction, fantasy, horror, and super hero shows and movies. Sometimes weâll discuss video games and comic books
This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix
The Witcher ti...
2020-01-181h 10
Porchlight Storytelling SeriesPorchlight's 15-Year Anniversary Show-tacular!It's our 15th birthday and we're putting on a killer storytelling show to celebrate! BACK IN THE DAY will feature true tales from a stellar assortment of humans including: Muni Diaries founder Eugenia Chien Lawyer, activist, and artist Matt Gonzalez Bartender and writer Ginger Murray Master bookbinder Dominic Riley Writer and contributor to The New Yorker, Vice, and The Guardian, Carvell Wallace Writer, performer Cintra Wilson Musical Guest Sonny Smith with your emcees Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick
2018-10-131h 12
ONCE PODCASTING14 The Revolution will be Aesthetic: Interview with Cintra WilsonWhat is the true cost of conformity? How does fashion influence political change? Learn how to know yourself through aesthetics in my fascinating interview with Cintra Wilson, performer, cultural critic and influential fashion author and contributor for the New York Times and Salon.com. âBe the costume change you want to see,â says Wilson. In this powerful interview we discuss cultural norms, capitalism, political movements and personal introspection as seen through the lens of fashion and aesthetics. Understand what it means to avoid surrendering your agency to trends. Cultivate pride by making decisions about your presentation to the world.
2017-05-1153 min
Litquake's Lit CastCintra Wilson and Gary Kamiya: Litquake's Lit Cast Episode 68
Lit Cast presents this live recording which features writer/critic CIntra Wilson and journalist/editor Gary Kamiya at Litquake's Epicenter series. This conversation discusses Wilson's most recent collection, "Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style," a hilarious road trip across the landscape of American fashion. Co-presented by Green Apple Books, and recorded live at Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/litquake/  https://twitter.com/Litquake
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2016-04-191h 01
2016-03-0337 min
Programa do webEpisode 674 - Cintra Wilson / Zach GalifianakisCultural critic and writer Cintra Wilson has always made Marcâs head spin. She takes him back to her wild and woolly days in San Francisco and gets him up to speed on her most recent project, a cross-country exploration of American fashion. Plus, Zach Galifianakis stops by to talk about his new series Baskets, which he co-created with Louis CK. Zach and Marc also compare notes on their respective interviews with President Obama. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See ac...
2016-01-211h 35