10 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

April 10 2009 www.GrußennlesChronicle.com

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Pansy Division

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Also newly released on Alternative Tentacles is Pansy Division's latest album, That's So Gay. Still with their 8,322nd drummer, Luis Illades, and relatively new but lamentably straight guitarist Joel Reader, the beginning of the album marks the end of the documentary film.

Parenthetically, a band whose name was made on in-your-face gay imagery and puns having now been on Alternative Tentacles for half a decade really makes it difficult to not refer to the label as Alternative Testicles. Hopefully, Biafra, the former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, won't be angry.

Of course, the difficulty with reviewing any Pansy Division album lies in the fact that there are two types of people in the world: those who get Pansy Division, and those who don't.

Either you've got the sense of humor or you don't. Either you like the light-hearted

pop-punk they put out, or you don't.

If you do have a sense of humor and like their brand of pop-punk, this is a great album. If you answered no to either option, however, hang your head in shame and go back to your life of unceasing mediocrity.

It's amazing how a group of people can get older, grow up, and yet still keep their childlike joy while meditating on their advancing age. Just listen to "20 Years of Cock." It's cute, it's light-hearted, it's charming, and it's smutty as hell, everything anyone could love about Pansy Division.

Well, except for Luis Illades. If by some off chance he ever reads this, I'm very available!

Jon Ginoli will be screening the documentary, reading from his book and doing an acoustic set on April 10 at B Side Lounge under the Grog Shop at the corner of Euclid Heights Boulevard and Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights. For more information, go to www.bside liquorlounge.com or www.pansydivision.com.

Jon Ginoli, Chris Freeman, Luis Illades, and Joel Reader of Pansy Division.

TWIST

TWIST BACK SATURDAY

SATURDAY AFTERNOON until ????

April 11, 2009 Twist Social Club

th hack in the past zu walk bug the future!"

Fund Raiser for Sheila and Tara who are walking together in the 3 day Walk for Breast Cancer!

Please join us! Come in and listen to Michael spin the "old songs" of the past to help raise funds for the future. Sing along, relax. get the "4-11" and enjoy and help donate!

Show your support of Sheila and Tara and donate your change to Make a Change!

Now we know what that old nursery rhyme really means

Presented by

KOMEN CURE

Energizer

EVERYONE DESERVES A LIFETIME

50 50 raffle and jello shots all proceeds will be donated to Sheila and Tara to show our support of this walk!

Christ is Risen!

Good Friday

7pm The Seven Last Words

Easter Sunday

11am

Resurrection Worship Open Communion

Archwood United Church of Christ

2800 Archwood Avenue Cleveland

(Pearl Rd/W 25th; just south of 1-71) The Rev. Stephen C. Adams, Interim Pastor

ASL interpreted

216/351-1060 www.archwooducc.org

by Anthony Glassman

Hey diddle diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon.

The little dog laughed to see such fun,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

That certainly seems like a familiar nursery rhyme, one whose derivations are lost

to antiquity-although some sources claim it's tied to an. Elizabethan scandal, or Richard III's rise to power.

Thanks to cartoonist and author Marie Davis, however, that little childhood gem is forever altered, tainted in the best possible way, warped into something sexy and funny and just a little bit askew.

When one's imagination is allowed to wander into far-off fields, you see, it's impossible to predict what will happen. It all, however, is contained in Hey Diddle Diddle, out now from Motebooks Audio.

Diddle, for instance, is not simply a little rhyming word, but the nickname of Lil, a lesbian handywomyn with a crush on Veronica, the hot dish of a redhead wearing gingham panties and on a mission to bring gourmet ice cream to the world.

The spoon is a remnant from Lil's last relationship, the one good thing to emerge from that disaster. The spoon has very specific tastes, and Veronica is most definitely not on the menu, as far as it is concerned.

Possibility, the cat, fiddles both with its violin and with reality, granting wishes... at a cost.

Bitty, meanwhile, is a dog who takes the concept of schadenfreude just a wee bit too far.

Wrapping up the dramatis personae is Else, the cow, whose love for Neil Armstrong is exceeded only by her love for dairy products. It really is a shame, then, that she is so lactose intolerant.

Broken into easy-to-digest chapters, the audiobook provides laughs aplenty, although the author most definitely has a dark sense of humor. One almost wishes Davis would release an actual physical book, looking just like a children's book gone horribly, terribly awry. Her skill as an artist is comparable to her skill as a writer, so it would truly be something to see.

Topping off the experience, of course, is Davis' Kentucky drawl, pouring like warm butterscotch over the story.

For more information, or to purchase Hey Diddle Diddle, go to www.motesbooks.com.