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MUSIC Piano man Kenny Davidsen BOOKS Devil Does Care About Betsy Andrews POETRY Baseball poetry from Anne Waldman BOOG CITY THEATER Butch McCloud: Lesbian Superhero A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY’S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 15 APRIL 2004 FREE Peace, Love, and Understanding 70,000 March on Anniversary of Iraq War to Tell George No More On Saturday, March 20, 2004, approximately 70,000 people attended the New York City March for the Global Day of Action. In addition to questioning the intelligence failures that instigated the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq one year ago, there was a strong secondary strain demanding investigation of the intelligence failures that caused 9-11. The event was a joint effort of United for Peace and Justice and A.N.S.W.E.R. It began with speakers at a noon rally in Madison Park. It preceded through midtown Manhattan to return to another round of speakers at Madison Park. The New York City event was part of events nation- and worldwide held on the same day to call for an end to the U.S. government’s militaristic foreign policy.—Ian S. Wilder The author is co-chair of the N.Y.S. Green Party NICOLAUS CZARNECKI PHOTOS BOOG CITY Michael Vernon Oakland, Calif. Issue 15, April 2004, free POETRY Dr. ________ ____________ editor/publisher David A. Kirschenbaum speaking at the dedication of [email protected] Rosemary Griggs San Francisco the new children’s play structure copy editor “The Birth of A-pu” * Debrah Morkun Poem for Cecil Pointing to the blow hole the professor remarked,“It is here, where the skin of He keeps a journal in the backseat which passengers write in. memory stretched tight across the echo of what is above and what is below, that He gets jokes and phone numbers, graphics editor movement and sound become one.” Cecil likes to flirt. Brenda Iijima But he thinks the windshield is a magnifying glass * “The Birth of A-pu” is a carved granite sculpture set into the hill of the open on all the assholes in the city. music editor space outside the Seattle Aquarium. It’s serpentine and multi leveled path creates a Sometimes he doesn’t like how he’s treated terraced play area for children, while at the same time depicts with great care the Jon Berger but then sometimes he gets head so it all evens out. birth of Seattle’s newest Killer Whale, A-pu. poetry editor Cecil has his ex-wife’s name Stephanie Young mixed with the colorful snakes and drums that cover his arms and chest. Michael Farrell It’s like having sex with a painted sculpture or a reptile. printed matter editor I am in love with Cecil. Melbourne, Australia Joanna Sondheim We haven’t spoken for two months and I try not to notice cabs. before poems small press editor Sarah doesn’t know what I see in him but the buff transvestite does. were songs Jane Sprague the poet in lifemask Cecil wants to be an actor. down with his rocks he’s done columnist-at-large Cecil was in a play. for the day for the night Greg Fuchs the hand was like a living hand it could feel the flakes touch This is our poetry the page was like a read page counsel editor Stephanie at the point of its formation Ian S. Wilder Young’s last issue, too poor to affect or effect its states changing as before First printing, 2,250 copies. Additional as she leaves to the sun rose losing percentage copies of this issue may be obtained focus on Bay Area of the day of the night by sending a $3 ppd. check or money Projects. Thanks to the breathing space order payable to Boog City, to the Steph, you’ll be he was no living corpse address below. Paper is copyright missed. xo dak in the space or without folded or alone Boog City, all rights revert to Alan Sondheim art contributors upon publication. Boog City is published monthly. Boog always the nutrients the previous night had in sesame sauce ($11.75). Thinly sliced though reads work for Boog City or other sapped from me. Usually I crave extremely rare for my squeamish palate, I was consideration. (Send SASE with no NANCY SEEWALD massive amounts of fried food and relieved that the appetizers had filled me up. The more than 5 poems or pages of any cheese when I have a hangover, beef came with broccoli and string beans, and I type of art or writing. Email subs i s but I felt so depleted of vitamins, could feel the vitamin A seep in to my weakened also accepted. Please put Boog City I suspected that Japanese cuisine body. My friend loved the beef, being the more submission in subject line and email would be the most beneficial to enlightened rare-meat loving soul that she is. I could to [email protected]) Eating Well on a Lousy my health. only eat the outer layers, which were the darkest. My friend and I decided to start I drained the last of my ice-cold sake and kept Send SASE or email for Boog catalog with a few appetizers—pork gyoza, picking at the leftover tofu, the only appetizer But Steady Income fried bean curd, and tatsuta age we couldn’t finish. There are six different varieties (a.k.a. fried chicken nuggets with thick, of sake to choose from, ranging from dry to BOOG CITY tangy dipping sauce). All appetizers fruity sweet. The kind wait staff will explain 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H This Month: Ginger range in price from $3.50-$6.00. the differences between each. I opted for the The gyoza were slightly crispy on smallest size, which is about one and a half New York, NY 10001-4754 emerged starving into a cold, rainy night the outside, not chewy at all, and glasses, because my friend was drinking a T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) after spending a day in bed sleeping off a delicious. The bean curd was just so-so, rendered Sapporo and I was on my own. F: (212) 842-2429 I hangover. I wanted vegetables and meat, below average because of its fishy after taste and Ginger’s ambience warrants mention. and plenty of both—and I did not want to wait lack of greasy fried skin. The chicken nuggets, while The lighting is comfortingly dim and there on line for a table. Those being my basic certainly not exotic, satisfied my hangover in a is, thankfully, no blaring techno, seemingly www.boogcity.com requirements, I decided it would be best to meet way that I had not expected from Japanese food, a contemporary mainstay of so many East publication and events info: my friend at a quiet bar and pass the 7:30-9:30 and they came with that great sauce, similar to but Village restaurants. restaurant rush in relative peace. Thankfully the more flavorful than good old-fashioned barbeque Our bill came to only $30 before drinks, and www.boogcity.blog-city.com Tile Bar, where we went, had a bowl of those sauce. Even before our appetizers arrived, we we had way more food than we needed. I don’t assorted Asian crackers out on the bar, leftover were served a complimentary order of string beans think any of the dishes we ordered would have from happy hour I presumed. with sesame dressing, which came at the same made good leftovers, however. Letters to the Editor: Prime dining time now being over, and feeling time as our house salad with carrot-ginger dressing, Disclaimer: neither my friend nor I eat sushi, refreshed and temporarily sated from the vodka a freebie with purchase of an entrée. Both were but that should never deter anyone from eating and seaweed chips, we walked down the street to simple and fresh. Japanese. For the record, other diners past and [email protected] Ginger (109 First Ave.) for a replenishment of all Amply full at this point, our entrée arrived—beef present raved about the raw fish offerings. Episode eight, “Dykes are from Mars, Dykes and proving lesbians have a sense a humor, are From Venus,” stars Stacey Whitmire as Our too, we can laugh and get over our own Lesbian Superhero Hero, Butch McCloud of Misstropolis. Nancy’s stereotypes together.” cousin DJ recruits Butch and her merry band Butch McCloud Episode eight, “Dykes are of butches—who also run a local bakery—to from Mars, Dykes are from Venus,” opens t’s a bird, it’s a plane … No, it’s your Friendly theater festival, and directed by Maggie Burkle rescue DJ’s ex-girlfriend, a Danish astronaut, Thurs., April 8 at 8:00 p.m. and runs Fri. April 9 Neighborhood Lesbian Superhero! Butch from On the Verge Theatre Lesbian Pulp-O- lost in space. The batter thickens when Tabitha, at 10:00 p.m., Sat. April 10 at 8:00 p.m., and McCloud is a one-hour live-action lesbian Rama. Butch has become a work in progress I Butch’s ex, and the evil femmes of Vulvatronics. Sun. April 11 at 3:00 p.m., at The Clemente musical comic with a new episode every month. challenge our hero. Soto Velez Center at 107 Suffolk St. Tickets book theatrical Leger has always wanted to do a live soap. “We have a great production that has built are $10/$8 students/$5 for seniors, and they extravaganza.

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