For those of you who cast not an eye at my blogroll, you are seriously missing out on Gallery Girls. Created by my friend Mary and starring many friends, Gallery Girls follows the trials and tribulations of Cecelia West Gallery’s put-upon receptionist, Bridget Thomas, and the various other characters of the Gallery. It’s updated biweekly and is pretty much the best web comic. Ever.

While I always find Gallery Girls totally hilarious, smart, entertaining, cheeky, and original, I thought everyone would get a kick out of yesterday’s post since its particularly relevant to this site. Definitely check it out at www.ceceliawestgallery.com every Tuesday and Thursday for new comics.

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So that one-woman show I saw last Tuesday sadly didn’t do much for me, and did nothing for Nancy since she was fresh off of seeing Jude Law in Hamlet (a Broadway double-header, impressive). However, there was a glimmer of hope in the program. In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy set in the 19^th century based on the (true) history of doctors using vibrators to treat hysteria and release “pent up emotions in the womb”.. I guess this was fairly common and not considered a sexual practice. Vibrators didn’t appear in porn films until the 1920s so no one really had any idea about them. The playwright, Sarah Ruhl, sums it up perfectly: “The Victorian bedroom could have been a very radical, experimental place, because who knew what they were doing?”

This sounds hilarious and is something I can definitely sign up for. I love/studied Victorian literature and early feminist American texts; The Awakening, The Clever Woman, The Yellow Wallpaper, and Wild Sargasso Sea (among countless others) are texts I have on memory speed-dial. All my theater-loving friends are living in other countries at the moment (all three of them) so I may have to fend for myself, but I’m excited to go see it!

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She was glad of presents, however, and when I gave her, perhaps, a new little purse of red lacquered leather there might be two or three gold pieces inside it. As a matter of fact, she laughed at me over the red purse. It was charming, but a bargain, and no longer in fashion. In these matters, about which up to that time I was as little learned as in any language of the Eskimos, I learned a great deal from Maria. Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of gain. They were, on the contrary, a little or, rather, a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many sided, containing a multiplicity of things all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it in a magical way with new instruments of love, from powder and scent to the dancing show, from ring to cigarette case, from waist-buckle to handbag. This bag was no bag, this purse no purse, flowers no flowers, the fan no fan. All were the plastic material of love, of magic and delight. Each was a messenger, a smuggler, a weapon, a battle cry.

Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

Glenda Bailey tonight 6-8 PM at the Museum at FIT. There may still be space and it’s free to the public, just RSVP at museuminfo@fitnyc.edu.

Then, Housing Works’ annual benefit, Fashion For Action, chaired this year by Derek Lam. Event is closed to the public but more than 150 designers donated $1M worth of merchandise to be sold at 50-70% off, with all proceeds going to Housing Works. I’m proud to say my company is in the list of contributors.

Tommorow night I am seeing an off-Broadway show with one of my life’s many inspirational women, Nancy Rappaport. We are seeing Nightingale, a one-woman show starring and written by Lynn Regrave — sister of Vanessa, aunt of the late Natasha — that imagines her grandmother Beatrice’s Victorian life. I am excited for the play, it has been months since I have seen one, but more excited to hang out with Nancy. She is full-force on her book tour for In Her Wake, her memoirs of her mother’s suicide and sort of a handbook for coping with the grief. I can’t really talk about the book without diminishing how powerful it is; all the language I can use to describe it seems kind of trite. It’s a combination of juicy drama (her family is a pretty powerful/well-known New England family), touching/funny/awkward childhood memories, and her own insights as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Anyway, she is one of those people who brings me back to earth when my head gets stuck in a cloud and reminds me to feed my brain.