After two pretty intense films, I wanted to switch it up this
month. We'll be showing the classic conversion therapy comedy
romp, But I'm a Cheerleader, featuring early performances from
Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall. Hope to see you all there!
Where: The Beacon in Columbia City, 4405
Rainier Ave S. It's about a 15 minute walk from the Columbia
City station, and the 7, 9, and 50 stop right outside the
door.
RSVP:At this link! The theater seats 48, so we shouldn't run out of space,
but please RSVP nevertheless!
Price: If you can send $10 to
@nweiz on Venmo
to help keep these going, I'd appreciate it, but if you
can't afford it please come anyway.
COVID precautions: Please wear a mask (N95 or
better) and run an over-the-counter test day-of or the night
before. If you can't afford one,
Mask Bloc Seattle
can probably hook you up.
Outsider Comics in
Fremont usually sells them at-cost as well. The theater will
be selling concessions, but we ask that you eat them outdoors
rather than during the film. The theater itself is not a
masks-required space at other times, although we will be the
first event of the day and I'll ask the person running the
show to mask and test as well and I will be bringing a large
portable air filter.
Readers may recall
that at the Seattle Cohost wake, I helped establish a mailing
list—Emerald City Eggbugs—for local COVID-safe events to help
keep the local Cohost community intact and allow it to expand
into something new in its own right. To help kickstart that
process, I've scheduled the inaugural Emerald City Eggbugs
event, a showing of the Wachowskis' 1996 film
Bound
at the Beacon Cinema in
Columbia City.
If you're in Seattle and you want a fun, COVID-safe time with
cool friends, please come join us! Here's the critical
information:
When: 11AM on Sunday the 24th of November Where: The Beacon in Columbia City, 4405
Rainier Ave S. It's about a 15 minute walk from the Angle Lake
station, and the 7, 9, and 50 stop right outside the door RSVP:On Partiful Price: $10 suggested donation to
@nweiz on Venmo. I hope to make this a recurring event, but renting theaters
isn't cheap so this would help me keep it sustainable. But if
$10 is hard on your wallet please come anyway!
NOTAFLOF COVID: Please wear a mask (N95 or better) and
run an over-the-counter test day-of or the night before. If
you can't afford one,
Mask Bloc Seattle
can probably hook you up.
Outsider Comics in
Fremont usually sells them at-cost as well. The theater will
be selling concessions, but we ask that you eat them outdoors
rather than during the film. The theater itself is not a
masks-required space at other times, although we will be the
first event of the day and I've asked the person running the
show to mask and test as well. I'll also be bringing a CR box
to help filter the air while we're there
As soon as
it was announced
that Cohost was shutting down, I knew I at least needed some
way to grieve it in community. I'm not a particularly
observant Jew, but I do take to heart the idea that grief is a
community experience. Cohost was never an experience of any
individual in isolation, so its loss shouldn't be experienced
in isolation either.
I talked to
my wife
and
Xandra
who had also made some rumblings about some sort of meet-up,
we decided on a place and time, and I sent out
an open invitation[1]. We knew Seattle was a pretty big Cohost city, but based on
the
Philly
and
Boston
turnouts we expected maybe thirty to forty people.
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A large group of masked people in a park posing
together, many holding Eggbug plushes.
The last dedicated count we got was fifty-eight, but people
kept showing up after that so I believe in the end we had
more than sixty attendees.
Lydia
even came up from the Bay Area, shocking everyone there who
knew her! I was completely blown away by this incredible
outpouring of love for Cohost.
It was an intensely emotional mix of mourning and joy. We had
a moment of silence for the loss of Cohost, we came together
in a cheer of "Eggbug Forever!", but most of all people just
hung out and chatted. We even had our very own rainbow:
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A photo of me, wearing a brown, navy, and tan knit
dress, posing jauntily while standing on a concrete
rise in Capitol Hill. A rainbow is visible over my
shoulder. Photo by rilight.
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A blurry eggbug in the foreground gazes at a rainbow
as the sky darkens. Photo by Alyx.
Rose
and I also came up with an idea for a little
local mailing list
for COVID-safe events. To help spread the word, we made a
zine. I only printed fifty copies, which I thought would be
plenty, so for anyone who showed up after all the
zines were gone or who couldn't make it at all, I've
reproduced it below:
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emerald city eggbugs
A community mailing list for local events.
(Between the text is a drawing of Eggbug resting
happily in the shade of a fern.)
