Bear Soup #21

Ron Suresha | March 30, 2006

BSP 21 Didn't get the final audio for Bear Soup #21 uploaded until after 6am today. Hate getting it in so late, but my voice has been for crap since my head cold last week, and it's been too noisy during the days. Also, it's clear that I need better equipment or a more isolated [...]

Bear Soup No. 21

Ron Suresha | March 30, 2006

More entries to the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” and an interview with artist Tobias Waterman from Cute Little Blokes (personal caricatures).

Talk at U-Conn Storrs Rainbow Center

Ron Suresha | March 29, 2006

Quite a reception at the Rainbow Center. I arrived a bit breathless but I enjoyed the crowd of about two dozen folks, and think the feeling was mutual. Stephanie is the trans faculty advisor, and Bill is the Rainbow Center director, and they were very welcoming. Lunch of seif-made sandwiches and chips and veggie stix [...]

Declaration of Notwar

Ron Suresha | March 28, 2006

We Declare That Bush's War on Terror Is Not a War. Isn't that rather the thrust and point of an antiwar movement? Why isn't the debate framed about whether or not we, as a country, want to engage in war? It seems that would certainly determine how to redeploy the current troops in Iraq, whose [...]

Coming March 30, 2006 ~ Bear Soup #21

Ron Suresha | March 27, 2006

A brand spanking new episode this Thursday, March 30, 2006 ~ Bear Soup #21 2 & 10 pm Eastern & Pacific Times http://www.BearRadio.Net A lovely visit with talented and woofy Tobias of http://www.cutelittleblokes.com More of your lame-ass answers to the Bear Lightbulb joke Bear statistics Brokeback Mtn ~ shoppin list for Ennis & Jack Beards [...]

Publishers Weekly queer lit roundup

Ron Suresha | March 24, 2006

Eight top names in queer letters discuss glbtq publishing today. Straight Eye on the Queer Spine The Fab Eight dish the dirt about today's gay and lesbian publishing scene by Staff — 8/25/2003 Publishers Weekly http://tinyurl.com/pfjfq A subgenre that seems not to sell terribly well is nonfiction geared to the gay and lesbian readership. “The [...]

Huston Smith on Fundamentalism

Ron Suresha | March 24, 2006

From “Why Fundamentalism Matters,” an interview with Huston Smith, by Phil Cousineau in Parabola, Winter 2005. HS: The underlying cause of fundamentalism…is fear, the fear that derives from the sense of insecurity, of being threatened. People are scared; the world is scary…. The first instance of a suicide bomber is Samson. Chained between pillars of [...]