The height of International Bear Rendezvous was watching Grizzly Man with ÜberBears BC and Philip. The movie is a prophetic film about a man who wants to be a bear but ends up getting eaten by them. We also watched Barbarella and ooohed and aaahed over Jane Fonda’s countless and bizarrely convenient costume changes, and experienced extreme Spaceship envy after viewing her fur-lined transport.
Is there an online venue for chatting with bears who say more than, “Hi,” “Yeah,” and “Woof?” I get dumped as soon as I start chatting about Georges Batailles, Titian, or Maggie Cheung. I yearn for an intellectually stimulating bear chat community, where, in addition to bellies and hair, we can talk about the exhibitions we just saw, the counter-tenor we just heard, the dish on Shelley Winters, raw-milk cheese… I do indeed get a lot of stimulation from my friends here on Live Journal–you’re all so interesting, and engaged with so many diverse topics! I’m talking about the Instant Message, Quick Message, etc. communities. I started talking with an Italian guy the other night (there are like, a million of them on iSpQ), named after an obscure Orson Welles film character. I thought “cool,” and following the mutual introductions, started blabbing about Welles’ self-destructive genius, the last film that’s been held up in litigation for decades, etc… and then, nothing. Click. Hairy bodies that are attached to interesting minds are far more appealing to me than plain old physical perfection, but I don’t seem to meet any Jewish intellectual truck drivers online.
Where are they? If you have a lead, please let me know.
So Big Chris and I are in transition again, still, but we both feel it best to work things out on our end rather than dragging you all into it, and driving you all crazy in the process, too. Now don’t you worry your little heads off, we’ll be fine. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy this brief break from the The Big Chris/Little Chris Show. And now a word from our sponsor…