The Daily Kirk

Boycott Town

Oh Internet, you give voice to the craziest of us. We appreciate that people are upset about Proposition 8, the recently passed ban on gay marriage in California. We also appreciate that people are upset with Mormons for donating upwards of 19 million dollars to help support the divisive proposition. Not cool, Mormons. Not cool.

But to have John Aravosis of AmericaBlog suggest that we boycott the Sundance Film Festival (and worse to have people take him as seriously as they have) because it is held in a state that has a high percentage of people contributed to the opposite side of his opinion, well that's just crazy-town.

 It is understandable to be outraged at the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. It’s only been 120 some odd years since they were denied the right to marry the way they wanted. Now the oppressed has become the oppressor. That’s some pretty high-grade irony.

Like most Christian churches, Mormons purport to be really into this guy named Jesus who was constantly hanging out with people he didn’t agree with, hooking them up with free wine and telling them stories about rocks and sheep and such. He sure didn’t spend his time collecting donations to exert control over people he considered sinners.

So Mormons are in a bit of hot water popularly speaking. There are protests in front of their temples and churches. There are ridiculous caricatures of them as marauding rights thieves on TV, and people in the new real world house keep eating Chet’s peanut butter when he’s not looking. And frankly Mormons, you kind of deserve it.

But this dingle berry, Aravosis, trying to connect the Sundance Film Festival, a festival started by non-Mormons and which takes place in the city with the lowest Mormon population in all of Utah, and which movies Mormons are not really allowed to see (no R movies for the Mormos) in order to get back at Mormons is about as misguided and closed minded as you can get. Sundance has a long history with Gay Cinema.

In 1992 a panel entitled “Barbed Wire Kisses”, featuring new artists like Tom Kalin, Isaac Julien, Todd Haynes, Sadie Benning, Gregg Araki, Ruby Rich and Derek Jarman was later pinpointed as the birth of “the New Queer Cinema”  Since that time Sundance has showcased many of the leading Queer films in the world. Last year Sundance had 44 films with either LGBT themes or directors.

I hesitate to even write about this because I know that just responding to the idea gives it energy even if I disagree with it (thank you The Secret), but in reality, if you don’t like what the Mormons did, go to Sundance and tell them. Or at least go and watch some movies about happily married gay couples, or go be a happy gay couple all up in the Mormons’ collective grill.

Drawing lines in the sand is never a pro-active answer to a problem. It’s childish, stupid and destructive. I’m pretty sure that Jesus guy would back me up.

 

Kirk Faulkner is a film critic, screenwriter, web-guy and Mormon.

The Bees Knees

I don't like how well insects organize. I wouldn't be surprised they had something to do with the current economic crisis.

Goodbye infinite jester

Where has this guy been

I've been writing a blog called NoyesAnnoys.

Go check it out.

Utah Revisited

So when I said I would change the quote right when I got home, I meant a few days after. It’s hard to hit the ground running from a red eye.

It was sad to see John drive off with the scooter he had lent me a few days earlier. Truth be told, I was always a little terrified on that thing, but SLC can be a terrifying city.

 

Utah! You were a gem! And to each of you who were able to share a sacred or profane moment or two with me, well golly darn, thanks for the life juice.

A special shout out to my beautiful sister and her distinguished husband, and congrats on their recent nuptials.  Stand up pair those two. No joke.

And to all the ladies who I bumped into while a-wonderin’, you’re welcome.

PS i forgot to take many pictures besides this beauty so send me a few if you have em.

Never Slow Down. YOU HEAR ME SLC! I'LL DRIVE THIS SCOOTER RIGHT UP YOUR ASS!

I am on the road, so TDK is gonna be erratic for a while. I know, it is screwing your life up and I am sorry for that.

I am roaming around SLC, loving, learning, and riding a gay little scooter. I look fluggin sweet on this scooter. (There is also this weird phenom happening whenever I get on the scooter it starts snowing WITHOUT FAIL so far!) Scooters. They are the future.

I want to change that quote at the top of the new greeny TDK layout (does anyone like this by the way? i was going to ask, but realized I didn't really care) every now and again and as soon as I get back to my computer in BK I am going to put this quote up there:

"Stop in one place too long, you freeze up. Freeze up, you're done for."
-- Arthur Winston, the employee of the century, died 2 years and 4 days ago.

Don't worry Arthur, I aint slowing down. I am rolling my little scooter of love up and down the blvd.s ln.s and st.s passing out love like hits of brown acid at woodstock. Take it while the gettin's good SLC, cause I aint slowin' down.

Hey animals! Cool it Ok? We're sooooooo impressed.

Hey animals, so you got all these sweet talents like you can fly and swim and shoot fetid liquids out of your various glands to ward off predators. Why don't you lay off the human talents for a while? Are you trying to get on the next reality show and get an agent and possibly marry Rebecca Usedtobe Stamos? FRAG! Oh and by the way, way to take it easy on your ass in that painting you delusional self obsessed pack-i-dick, Imean derm (I really meant dick).

PS If that video turns out to be fake, which i give it like a 50 percent chance of doing so, I still hate animals.

I think it should be illegal

I think it should illegal for people who can speak and hear normally to use sign language without saying what it is they are signing. I know this prig-stick siting across the row from me is signing about me and I am about to break his loudmouth fingers.

PS How do you like the phrase "prig-stick" as a substitute for the already weary "douche-bag"?

Other ideas:
Scrote-wrangler
Dock-master
Sargeant Filch
Dick York

Oh crap my plane is boarding. See you in SLC suckers!

A pocket full of horses

Brad Neely!
Washington!
Here! Now!
Screw you Spike and Mike!

George Washington
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Wiki-poll-ia

Interesting little diddy I picked up today:

There seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of time it takes a scurulous statement to be taken off a candidates Wikipedia page and the level of support for that candidate.

I heard this on On The Media, one of my drier podcast indulgences. It was reported that as Gulianni's campaign declined in popularity so did the time biting and untrue comments could hang out on his wiki.

Right now the average time for such a comment on Hilary's page is 4 hours. For Obama? 3 minutes.

EVE FAIRBANKS: Schilling, the guy who watches the Hillary page, he noted that right when Rudy Giuliani's candidacy started to go into decline, so did his Wikipedia page.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: In fact, you tried a little experiment, didn't you? You introduced material into each of those pages.

EVE FAIRBANKS: I said that Hillary, even with superdelegates, didn't have much of a chance any more, and I wrote that Obama was starting to lose some white support in recent primaries, like Mississippi.

And on Hillary's page it sat there for something like four hours, but somebody came onto the Obama page, I think, in under three minutes, protested my edit and just removed it – you know, not relevant.

I wonder if some sort of system could be developed that used wiki-lurker veracity to potential for winning an election.

Either way, Hillary, you're done son.