#missamerica
Starting when I was seven, I watched the guy
living across the street from me become a
beautiful woman. Yogi looked like he could've
played for the Jets, but he went away to college
& came back different somehow. He'd gone
from tight jeans & great man'ass to leather
miniskirts & stilettos; years later, she was best
friends with my buddy Monica, a former surfer
boy who was now a flirty blonde fond of demure
sun dresses, peasant skirts & espadrilles. Her
name wasn't Yogi anymore & Monica had once
been Mark, she told me. Watching [ ] as
I & she grew, she into a statuesque Latina that
could have been a model. Every ****** I've ever
known has been beautiful, very unlike the media's
jokey rendition of a man in a dress, or buxom
woman posing as a he, unlike the ***** drag
sometimes seen in the mainstream or the over-the-top
drag queen professional like a one-man circus
like RuPaul or Lady Bunny. Recently I had the
supreme pleasure of attending the retrograde Miss
America pageant, part of a mass movement of
debutante-like ingénue on literal parade in various
garments to be discarded. Heterosexual women
prancing like trained horses for money & influence.
Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 8:45 PM UTC
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Cubism brought the
omniscient narrator
into the visual arts &
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traveling far enough
from the center of the
universe makes the universe
seem actually tiny &
finally, imperceptible,
all that is time-travel, god &
ordinary life: is relativity,
the math of the diameter;
quantum mechanics, that
of the circumference
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the Russian avant-garde
of the 'teens & 20's
applied these principles
to typography to serve
the supposedly omniscient
Soviet State;
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an early cold war
project of the NSA
was to fund the arts
as propaganda
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1950's & early 60's
America saw unbridled
expressions of mass,
individual, artistic &
intellectual
creativity:
facilitated in large
part by the invention
of LSD by the CIA
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so far the greatest mind
of recent times has been
essentially a disembodied
brain; RIP Stephen Hawking
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the future points to our brain
being salvageable from the
polluted mess of the body;
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Under Gretchen Carlson
Miss America is to be judged
on brains alone
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_That's Avante-Garde, *****
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 8:45 PM UTC
Margaret Gorman (August 18, 1905 –
October 1, 1995)
was the first Miss America,
from the year 1921.
Born August 18, 1905
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died October 1, 1995 (aged 90)
Bowie, Maryland, U.S.
Title Miss Washington, D.C.
Golden Mermaid Award
Miss America 1921
Successor Mary Campbell
Spouse(s) Victor Cahill
Margaret Gorman wins first prize at
Atlantic City; Gorman was a junior at
Western High School in Washington, D.C.
when her photo was entered into a
popularity contest at the Washington Herald.
She was chosen "Miss District of Columbia"
in 1921 at 16 on account of her athletic
ability, scholastic accomplishments and
outgoing personality. As a result of that victory,
she was invited to join the Second Annual
Atlantic City Pageant held on September 8, 1921,
as an honored guest; There she was invited
to join a new event: the "Inter-City Beauty"
Contest. She won the titles "Inter-City Beauty,
Amateur" and "The Most Beautiful Bathing
Girl in America" after competing in the Bather's
***** She won the grand prize, the Golden
Mermaid trophy. She was expected to defend
her positions the next year but someone else
[who?] had attained the title of "Miss Washington, D.C.",
so instead Margaret was crowned "Miss America."
She still owned the sea green chiffon and
sequined dress that she wore in the 1922 competition.
Gorman continued to compete in 1922
and was a favorite of the crowds. A few years later,
she married Victor Cahill and was happily married
until he died in 1957. She lived all her life in D.C.,
became somewhat of a socialite and enjoyed traveling.
She died on October 1, 1995, age 90.
Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 3:16 PM UTC