Tuesday Links: Things We are Grateful For Edition
by Whitney Kimball on November 20, 2012 ·
- This season, I give thanks for the new chapters of R. Kelly’s opera “Trapped in the Closet,” which will be released on Black Friday. IFC has just finished filming twenty new ones. [Pitchfork]
- I also give tremendous thanks for R. Kelly’s announcement that he has 85 additional chapters waiting in the studio. [CBS]
- AND (eee!) “Trapped” is coming to Broadway. Let us now pray really really hard that they release the audition tapes. [Artsbeat]
- We actually are going to give thanks for Occupy Sandy. [Hyperallergic]
- NYCHA chairman John Rhea recently made an announcement that New York residents without utilities would still be required to pay full rent, but that they’d get a credit in January. For some reason he seems to think this is “a nice little Christmas present.” The Yes Men, a well-known activist group beg to differ. “If you give someone something you stole from them, it’s not a gift,” they countered in a public letter. BUT, “If a city’s administration launches a coordinated attack on your movement, and then you come back to help save that city’s ass when its underfunded agencies find themselves helpless in the face of disaster — that’s a gift.” Take note Rhea. [Huffpo]
- The benefit party is the new runway. [Artinfo]
- TV shows are tailoring scenes to GIF-happy fans. [Rhizome] That makes sense. [pajiba]
- Hamas and Israel may stop firing rockets at each other today. Good. [CNN]
- Oddly enough, CultureGrrl Lee Rosenbaum has a firsthand report. [CultureGrrl]
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