Monthly Archives: December 2011

Spice Spice Baby: Kwakmas 2011

This post is dedicated to Spice Lee, the acclaimed director most famous for his film Do the Right Thing – a powerhouse movie about the spiracial/herbal tensions surrounding an Oregano-owned pizza shop in 1980s Brooklyn and which stars Rosemary Perez, an ice cube, and Spice Lee himself.  You see, Spice Lee commented on my last post, saying…:

 Waiting for your post on the KWAKMAS 2011 TV special. I heard the actual Liam Neeson showed up dressed as Liam Neeson the cat and there was a show stopping performance by Koyote in front of an audience of actual coyotes.

…so I thought I should, you know, step up to audience demand and talk to you about holiday festivities & about my TV special.

The Kwakmas 2011 TV special was livestreamed to an exclusive guest list — so exclusive, in fact,  that I can’t show you any footage without angering members of the guest list.  You will just have to my word for it that…

  • A competitive eating competition involving ten thousand sugar cookies over-coated with red and green sprinkles was held, and  I beat both Takeru Kobayashi and The Black Widow.  Kobayashi got so mad that he started running around the stage furiously, waving his hands around and screaming, and he dusted the floor with about a dozen pounds of sprinkles.
  • Liam Neeson the actor — who had heard about how I was pining for Liam Neeson the cat during my winter vacation – smothered himself with white and grey cotton balls, festooned his nose with pipe cleaners, and started meowing on stage.
  • Koyote performed.  At first I was miffed that an OLD kpop group was performing (and not a group like TVXQ), but once I realized actual coyotes were in the audience and howling with joy, I started to relax and showed off some of my bboy moves.  My parents danced the macarena.
At the end, I was presented a Ghadibalo hat as my Kwakmas gift.  This is a watercolor & brush pen interpretation of what I looked like in the hat:

This is what the I would look like to you if we met at a bar (with, like, a really tall ceiling), and you had one too many egg nog:

Overall, I rate Kwakmas a 10 out of a 10, and I hope that you all have had/are having very nice holiday festivities, too :)

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nerd glyph

biology nerd glyph skwak

“biology nerd glyph”; printer ink, brush pen, pen on watercolor paper; 9″ x 12″

Biology was one of my least favorite classes in high school, but I’m throwing biology nerd gang signals right now because word’s out on the street that it’s the cool thing to do.

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Pssst, DC! Part and Parcel opens December 10 @ The Fridge

I’m going to be in the Project Dispatch show, Part and Parcel, opening next week at DC’s The Fridge (^▼^). Please come and check it out!

PART AND PARCEL

OPENING: DECEMBER 10, 8-11 PM

Work by Frank Adams, Keli Anaya, Deborah Anzinger, Chris Chen, Rachel England, Jessica Ford, Elizabeth Graeber, Becca Kallem, Chandi Kelley, Regan Kireilis-Helms, Stephanie Kwak, Jon Lee, Dana Maier, and Kristoffer Tripplaar

The Fridge, 516 8th Street SE, REAR ALLEY

(More details here)

Here are some up close and personal shots of my work you might be able to see there.  You will have to go The Fridge yourself to see what I have lurking there in their full, possibly bodacious, entireties.

 

detail for part & parcel

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