Is \u201cweird\u201d the new sexy? This show explores the meaning of a brand new holiday whose time has come: \u201cWonderful Weirdos Day.\u201d It started in Austin, the brightest blue spot in big red Texas, a town that honors diversity, art, originality, openness, freakiness and just plain wonderful weirdness in a state known for its rather punitive enforcement of Deep Southern-style uniformity.
\nI start with an ode to the glories of weirdness by the wonderfully weird genius Frank Moore. Frank, in addition to being an award-winning artist, poet, rock star, filmmaker, happily married man, as well as my Presidential running mate in our 2008 campaign and the producer of The Dr. Susan Block Show on Berkeley public access TV, happens to be quadriplegic (relating to his cerebral palsy) and, well, a little weird. The poem, Mutation is Evolution, is about how weirdness\u2014whether physical \u201cdisabilities,\u201d psychological uniqueness or sexual \u201cdeviance\u201d\u2014is a form of mutation which, as every elementary science student knows, drives the vehicle of evolution. Therefore, society represses and tries to eradicate weirdness at its own risk. Without the mutating power of the weird, we\u2019d all still be single-celled organisms living in perfect, life-stultifying uniformity.
\nThis is one reason I wrote my Open Letter to Yale President Richard C. Levin (now garnering dozens of comments, pro and con, from Yalies and anti-Yalies), taking him to task for scapegoating, censoring and essentially castrating Sex Week at Yale. In Levin\u2019s uncouth determination to repress \u201cweirdness,\u201d the expression of erotic uniqueness and sexual diversity, he is essentially rolling back human evolution to a state of \u201csingle-celled\u201d sexual ignorance, bigotry and brutality\u2014at least, at our beloved alma mater, Yale.
\nBack to the show which, in keeping with the theme, gets pretty weird. A couple guests flake for unreasonable reasons, and the guests that are here \u201cexplore their weirdness\u201d in some mildly weird ways. Plans give way, but then, the best laid plans may not get you laid the way that you planned. So we make the best of it, enjoying some wonderfully weird moments, not least of which is my own orgasmic cowgirl Sybian ride.
\nEveryone feels a little weird and \u201cout of step\u201d sometimes, but a few of us do more than most, sometimes tragically \u201cgoing off the deep end\u201d of weirdness into mass murder and horrific destruction. That\u2019s another reason it\u2019s so important to allow for the positive expression of weirdness\u2014sexual or otherwise\u2014in ourselves and our neighbors.
\nVive la difference!<\/p>\n
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