Moulin Rouge Meets The X-Men? Hell Yeah!!!

A truly great side note to promoting my zine was getting an email from body artist and longlost pal Vonetta Berry last week. We met as undergrads at an over- priced art school. We soon discovered that we'd each spent unsettling periods of our adolescence sharing a zip code with a chemical weapons facility run by the U.S. army in northeast Alabama. Now there's a bond that makes me feel positively ooey- gooey inside- though it could just be the radiation poisoning kicking in. Back then, Ms. B introduced my lilly white self to the joys of the Wiz and the X- Men- cultural icons that serve as influences in her work to this day.

Anyhoo, I can't wait to take in one of Vonetta's painterly burlesque "mutasias" the next time I'm in Houston.