Aretha Franklin: Queen of Nature

By David K. / Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 / (11) Comments

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Still Twirling — The Gold Dust Woman Rocks On…

By David K. / Sunday, April 8th, 2007 / (7) Comments

To feature a woman on Nightcharm’s front page she must be a creature who mirrors the pagan, crystal vision that inspires our staff to conjure all of the high quality juju we offer up to you, dear reader, week after week.
And who better to feature this week than the earth and moon-inspired blond witchy woman herself: Stevie Nicks.
When I caught Camille Paglia on tour recently she mentioned how the entirety of her new book Break, Blow, Burn was written with Nicks’ Trouble in Shangri-La spinning in the background.

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Jazz Hands & Damaged Hair: The End of Men

By Shawn Baker / Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Proof positive that the leering and juvenile objectification our culture puts women through becomes totally hilarious when applied to men with Fabio hair dressed up in cutesy outfits.
This is what Jessie Spano branded “reverse macho pigism.”

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The Voluptuous Horror of Cats

By John Calendo / Monday, July 31st, 2006 / (13) Comments

 
The slinky, silky, secretive nature of cats is very seductive, I admit.
Many gay men love them, seem to have a psychic link to them, are like cats in their own ability to intuit every subtle wrinkle in the matrix.
In this, cats and the men who love them resemble women with PMS. Nothing is too small to set off their high- maintenance wiring.

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Camille Paglia: Madonna Goes Too Far!

By David K. / Friday, September 2nd, 2005 / (4) Comments

Italian strega Camille Paglia — author of my favorite book of the summer: the electric hot-pink Break, Blow, Burn (a poetry primer for brainy imbeciles) — has finally assumed the role I always knew, always hoped, she would: Pagan High Priestess transmitting spooky Pop Icon Prophecies that she channels from magazine photos and Access Hollywood.
Case in point: Kabbalah kibitzer Madonna and her recent tweedy romp through the August issue of Vogue:
Camille, like myself, didn’t want to miss that issue, but unlike the rest of us who casually scanned its series of staged Grand Lady Madonna photos, Paglia saw misfortune in the photos.

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