Thursday, July 01, 2004

Josh's secret identity.

Who knew that Josh was such a Bubba fan that he would show up in LA, in drag just to get his copy of My Life autographed? That he rechristened himself Tutankhamen... well, that's to be expected. I also get the feeling that Josh-- er, Tutankhamen was the one who yelled "move your white ass." Read on.

Oh and Eso Won is a bookstore.

From the LA Weekly:

A woman who called herself Tutankhamen said she had been calling Eso Won since midnight trying to score a ticket, with no luck. She was willing to buy one off a scalper for up to $100, explaining that she had turned her house into something called a museum of mentors, and was determined to get an autographed book for her collection. “I want to talk to Clinton about my place,” she said, somewhat irately.

Rampant confusion about how and where to buy the 1,500 tickets allotted by Eso Won made for short tempers; two women in a notably unshaded stretch of line argued so fiercely about who had the right to be in front of whom, they nearly came to blows. “You oughta move your white ass!” one hissed at the other — odd, considering both were African-American, albeit different shades of brown. If anybody needed proof that race is still the most compelling metaphor for privilege around, here it was.

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