Rosie Rebel's Dream

OK now Rosie has me working nights, videotaping her dreams.
"James. You're not supposed to be here James."
"You know I do my banking here in my dreams, James."
"Give me my check, James."


"All right, James. That's enough, James."

Rosie Rebel's Arabian Xmas

Purty xmas tree-- Horus cat outdid himself this year!

Rosie says nobody ever caught her third eye in a photo before.

Above Rosie is negotiating with an Arabian shopkeeper, totally giving the guy a hard time.

Rosie asked me if I wanted to go for a walk and I said yes.
She took me all around various neighborhoods in Brooklyn
and told me stories about historical events that had happened
in each place. She explained who the statues were of and why.
I'm just finally beginning to get a sense of how the neighborhoods
connect out there again. At one point, I told Rosie how
happy I was to be there with her right then.
She told me I had to find myself a girl that had a personality
like Rosie, but the looks of this other girl she thinks I like.
I don't want anyone that looks like that other girl,
but I do wish Rosie had a sister.
Rosie's boyfriend Phil kindly told me she DOES have a lot of brothers,
in case I wanted to go gay.

Rosie says from now on I should only be involved with women
who have a good relationship with their father OR
who grew up with a lot of brothers and no sisters.
Rosie seems to think she has me figured out,
and I have no reason to doubt her.

Eating Arabian food can make you start to look Arabian

Rosie showed me the place her grandparents lived when
they came back from WWII, then took me to an Arabian restaurant
diagonally across the street from it.
She told me she's always bringing different guys in there,
so the owner probably think she has a million boyfriends.
The waiter came over very happily and asked Rosie if she would be
having her usual. She said yes my good man, and in addition
she ordered for me, and told me we would be sharing everything
in case there was stuff I didn't like.
But I liked everything!
Even the lamb sausage-- isn't lamb the most evil thing to eat?
Isn't that torture food or something?
It was really good though, especially after the long walk.
We also got Turkish coffee, which I hadn't had before
and Rosie taught me about the history of coffee.

It was a really peaceful day.

NEXT: Rosie Rebel Bank Porno!

Xmas Day

In New York City today, we're having a white Christmas, as you can see above.

Well, okay, it's a white with grey and soot and cigarette butts xmas. But that's the way we like it here! You got a problem with that???!?

Coming Later:
Rosie Rebel's Arabian Xmas

Rosie Rebel Needs Attention

Cinnabon is drugs

OK I had read that the smell of Cinnamon made people spend more money, and I noticed the prices at Cinnabon seemed over-priced. Today I was cold and stopped in there to get a coffee. She told me I liked it sweet and told me she would make it special for me so I would like it more. I was going to ask for it plain, no milk or sugar, but her offer sounded good. Then I ended up spending $3 on something I shouldn't eat. So I went in there for coffee and ended up spending over $5. The coffee was AMAZING, like nothing I ever tasted before. It had the strangest psychoactive effect. While I sat tehre eating and drinking, the music went from loud angry shouted spanish music to loud post-grunge sung in English then to something that sounded like Andean music. A family sat next to me, telling the girl working there that they would be coming back every day for the rest of the week, which is a strange thing to sit and tell someone working at a fast food place. I never heard anyone say taht in Burger King.

I walked out dizzy and feeling drugged, almost tripping on my feet twice on the way home. When I got inside, Kitka started mewling weirdly and smelling me all over. If I get up and walk, she meows in a high-pitched weird way and runs in circles, extremely excited.

To atone for my sins, on the way home, I stopped at the outdoor food thing and bought 3 pounds of bananas for a dollar-- they have to be eaten in the next day so I'm on an all banana diet again ha.

stuffing and pumpkin pie

Last night, Michele made me post-Thanksgiving dinner with homemade stuffing! She put in ingredients like mushrooms, it was awesome. Michele is a really good cook, she told me it was a result of having been married. This surprised me because no matter how long my mom was married, she never learned how to cook hahaha. When I grew up, my father would make elaborate meals on Sundays and my mother would boil macaroni and cheese the rest of the week.

Also, Michele was telling me she wanted to make sure I got Thanksgiving dinner. I'm not sure what she meant exactly but it was nice that someone was thinking of me-- sort of bizarre, actually, in a way. During the night, we were discussing other people's motivations-- people we know. Why does so and so do such and such? My guesses were always cynical and involved people having ulterior motives and plans to pull mean tricks. Michele would guess that maybe someone was motivated to do something because they liked me or her. "LIKE?" Doesn't she know that nobody likes ME, haha. Or so I've been told.

Michele and I are both really into the mini-series of documentaries running on Ovation right now about Warhol. She went to art school and has been an admirer of Warhol for years. I actually was never a fan and was pretty uninformed about him (AM pretty uninformed, I should say). I think I saw the Valerie Solanas movie and that was most of what I knew. The new documentaries though go into the Silver Factory period, and I was surprised by how many weird things about Warhol corresponded with weird things in my own life. Warhol is such a god to people that I want it clear I'm not trying to flatter myself comparing myself to him. It was some of the weirder aspects of him that I see relating to my life. He was an artist doing well in painting and advertising, then suddenly one day he decided he was making "films" and therefore he needed "stars." All of a sudden, he's deciding who is a star or not. I had been a cartoonist working in animation then suddenly I was doing public access with Amy Poehler and Jake Fogelnest. Why? I never met Edie Sedgewick but I've known a FEW Edie Sedgewicks, if you catch my drift. It felt like every character in Warhol's "films" corresponded to a character from my own history, haha. Well, except for Taylor Meade. And his "screen test" series of films-- that's my show! In the docs, Mary Woronov or somebody comments that while the rest of them found the screen tests boring, Warhol was fascinated by them. The theory was that he had so few real conversations and made eye contact so infrequently that these films were his one chance to really study a person while conversing with them. That has always been a major function of my show in my life. If you talk to someone on camera, you can study their reactions, you can go back and check it later. I wonder if public access tv had been available to Warhol if he might not have done his "films" as a "tv series" instead.

It got me to thinking about maybe doing things differently. Either maybe I should find a way to make money off of this as Warhol did, or else maybe I should stop having "stars" altogether and go back to just doing projects I can do myself or with Jacques. Because after all, this tv show has gotten me death threats, and Warhol's "film" culture ended up getting him shot by one of the very women he was trying to help!

If I had to guess which of the women I work with might be most likely to shoot me, I would place Michele far down the list. She has one of the most comfortable apartments in the world and two of the best cats-- Romeo and Jubilee. In fact, we shot some catnip footage with the kitties last night. The two of them fight and hiss but after having some catnip, they got all lovey-dovey!!

We also shot a new Carmen Mofongo clip of her explaining how to make Carmen's Coquito, which is the single most delicious alcoholic beverage of all time. Perhaps the most shocking part is that Carmen prefers to NOT use Puerto Rican rum!!! You'll have to wait for the video to come out to learn WHY.

I had gotten there early and was calling people to see if anyone had time to talk to me while I was waiting for Michele, and so I ended up talking on the phone with Checker Phil for a few minutes. He had spent Thanksgiving with the Trachtenburgs and he said Tina kept talking to him about me or something-- it sounded like it was a good thing? not sure haha. I guess it's better to be talked about than not! Anyway, it would be fun I think to have the TBurgs on for a sit down interview with a few interviewers and multiple cameras. Rosie just told me yesterday that in 2 weeks she's off from school so I want to see who is in town in the time Rosie is off. Of course that is the holiday season so it remains to be seen if ANYone will be in town then.

Haha I didn't know that Edie Sedgewick left Warhol to be Bob Dylan's love slave, or that Dylan and Warhol were rivals. People are all crazy. I waste so much time trying to understand everyone's motivations in my life when I should just realize-- people are CRAZY. Don't expect them to make any sense, and then you'll rarely be disappointed in life.

Thanksgiving

One year ago today I was standing on Broadway hugging Lisa while her brother sat in the window of some food place laughing at the two of us.

A year can be a long time.

Anna Copa Cabanna's Top 5 High School Moments

Rosie Rebel Beat Up a Man!

Cute little Rosie thinks she's manly and we humor her to a point.

3 New Trachtenburg Family Videos Today

It's a Trachtenburgucopia!

Carmen Mofongo: "HOW TO SPANK"

Thank God for education.

Mermaids and Trachtenburgs and Rebel, oh my!

Me Betraying the White Race

No amount of CIA operatives or psychological torture could prevent me from selling out my own people to help bring about the new Socialist Islamo-Liberal Worldwide Elitist Terrorist State of the Anti-Christ!

I voted for That One on the Working Families party line cuz it sounded more commie pinko. Now all white women by law will have to give up the goods for Snoop Dogg! Death to Whitey!

Free Coffee if you vote!

Rosie and Rachel and Rosie and Congressman Weiner and Betsy Gotbaum and Jason and Tina and Term Limits

The important part of it is that if you come down to City Hall this Monday morning at 9:30 am, you can hang out with cool people and talk directly to Mayor Bloomberg himself. You can tell him to his face what you think about this term limits idea.