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Diagonals Across The Grid: Blogues/Blagues des Berdaches Urbaine !
Arts and Lettres, Cultural and Intellectual life, Theater, Cinema, Design and Architecture, and even that ever so ultimate form of drama called "Urban Planning."
Includes Matters political and social AND EVEN (GASP!) EXISTENTIAL!

Through a filter of a decidedly QUEER expierience.(Gay,Lesbian,Bi,Trans,etc)

From the persective of just one more urban sophisticate homo in the heart of the USA's biggest urban legend---i.e. NYC...

The point of departure for this blog is best summarized in the cultural artifact below:

In Tony Kushner's epic play Angels in America, Belize, describes his vision of heaven:

"A big city, overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew, and something new and crooked going up catty-cornered to that. Gusts of gritty wind, and a gray, high sky alive with ravens. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian. Diamond-colored streamers. Voting booths. Dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. All the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers..."