Political Satire, Palin and Nostalgia

gail williams

Location: san francisco, California, usa
Birthday: January 01

Title: Director of Communities
Company: Salon

Bio: Gail works at Salon. She's a full-time online community junky with a strong affection for Salon's gathering places, Open Salon, the main Salon article Comments, and her first love, The WELL. So mostly her attention goes to conversation. Gail also plays with photography, video, craft brewing, satire, politics and hiking.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008 10:26AM

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My video, wherein Mrs. Theodore William Banks addresses Palin & style.

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(What was that, anyway?

In the 1980s I was part of the Plutoium Players, a political satire group that started out with street theater and parades, and created a comedy stage show that toured the US and Canada. Our most enduring set of characters were Ladies Against Women, our take on Phyllis Schlaffly, Nancy Reagan, right wing partisans and political fundamentalists. This year's events motivated two of us to get back in touch and to look at out old material in light of the Palin candidacy.

Much of what we used to do makes less sense in the wake of the careers of Condi Rice and Sarah Palin, but quite a bit endures. My pal Selma Spector revised her Fashion Show monologue and we did a reprise of it in a single take. What do you think... does this make any silly sense today?)

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election, wildlife, ladiesagainstwomen, fashion, politics, feminism, comedy, palin

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That was very cute (but scary true), Gail. Thanks for making me a friend. If not, I would have never seen this and my style (currently farmer in ojamas) would have suffered.

(rated for simultaneous laughs/shivers)

pretend_farmer

October 10, 2008 10:28 AM

Oh goddess. That dead animal...

sbpoet

October 13, 2008 08:20 PM

This is outrageously funny in a very dry dusty way! I've met women like this. Someone at a goodwill remarked to her friend while eyeing a dead animal wrap of some sort, "maybe that alaska girl will bring back wearing pelts . I've got so many but don't wear them after those nasty PETA people started throwing paint on people!" It was the exact same voice!!