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THE ONE WITH TWO PARTS: PART 2 dir. Michael Lembeck (1995)

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Jonathan's speech last night at Pride and Pages. Cara Gigliotti Ditzler Kevin L. Ditzler Stacia R. Smith Nick Smith Denise Large Young Edwar

Jonathan's speech last night at Pride and Pages. Cara Gigliotti Ditzler Kevin L. Ditzler Stacia R. Smith Nick Smith Denise Large Young Edwar

The link above from Niki Boyer Swatski on Facebook includes Jonathan’s full speech at the Lancaster Pride event - the video posted by Lancaster Online on YouTube included some cuts.

In the video Jonathan talks more about the early gay mentors in his life and his first love Cody Smith, who remains a friend and was at the Gala. A short clip from the video is below, and also a photo with Jonathan and Cody, posted by Meghan McLane.

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This moments was... *chef's kiss*

The incessant chanting of my imps in the background: put them in more moments like this together!

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knockoff weezer+an insect

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

PETER FORSTER

British wood engraver Peter Forster died earlier this year; he was 86. On first encountering his engravings, English printer Michael Mitchell wrote:

His engravings were assured, covering a wide range of subjects, wittily observed and based on excellent draughtsmanship, not surprisingly when I learned he had been working as a professional designer (albeit with increasing distaste and paranoia).

Mitchell observed that Forster had a self-deprecating attitude toward his work, with a wry, even surreal sense of humor. To commemorate his life and work, we present a few of Forster’s engravings as printed in Matrix 6, Winter 1986, to accompany his own article “Portrait of the Wood-engraver in Middle Age,” pp. 72-75. The engravings from top to bottom are:

1.) H. M. Britannic Majesty, Duke, and Merman originally printed in Britannic Majesty (Libanus Press). 2.) The Miller's Tale from Canterbury Tales (Folio Society). 3.) Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. 4.) Stranger on a train. 5.) From The Symposium (Libanus Press). 6.) Oscar Wilde. 7.) From The Press (Fleece Press). 8.) Magna Carta from Malaprop Chronicle (Malaprop Press). 9.) The Whitehall Venus (Malaprop Press). 10.) Green Man.

Of his medium, Forster wrote:

Is wood-engraving an Art or a Craft -- or a Therapy -- or is it, like having sex, or knitting, or reading a newspaper, simply a method of amusing cats? It is difficult to engrave if a cat is sitting on the block or has his nose two inches from the sharp end. . . . Cats take the most active interest in the actual practice of wood-engraving, the manipulation of the block on the bag, the exact angle of the anglepoise, the orderly disposition of tools. They take as much interest in the finished result as do most publishers, most galleries and most people. Cats are unique in that they would never call a wood-engraving a ‘woodcut,’ though it would be as pointless explaining the difference . . . to them as to anyone else. . . .

Wood-engraving must be the most long-winded method of making a rather small picture ever devised. Wood-engraving is just as about as spontaneous a means of self-expression as making a soufflé.

Matrix was printed by John and Rosalind Randle at the Whittington Press in England, and is a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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“I watched the show again, and I feel that Bronson was really good for Mac.”

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Jonathan’s speech at the Lancaster Pride Gala posted by Lancaster Online.