Margaret Cho=punk rock and "The Sensuous Woman"
Women artists are just figuring out, as a group, how to survive in our careers now that a career is an option. It's the beginning of an epoch, and it's so interesting to see how people mix up their venues from big corporate publishing to the punk rock down home endeavor of putting on a little show. Margaret Cho had another book out last year and of course she had her brief, early fling with network television with All American Girl which famously thrashed her health and spirit beyond recognition. But she's built a grass roots community following that keeps her going as an artist. (It's the kind of thing Tori Amos has, and Neil Gaiman, and a lot of the other comics artists whose work is so vibrant compared to a lot of what's going on in mainstream plain old literary publishing).
Now, Margaret Cho's new thang is going on in LA, a bellydancing-burlesque kind of review thang--I just realized I haven't been to LA in ten years but this could actually get me there.
I am so jealous of Margaret's hair in those photos! And she looks so fabulous with her big ass snake tattoos and her little bellydancing outfit. Maybe we will get up the gumption to try this at Grace (but I'm not even gonna think about it until 2007 so don't nudge me honey). Emberly might get out her tassels, however, if you ask nicely.