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All things related to the “Toast of the Tip” speaker series, where we engage in “Private conversations with people we think are cool” for the edification of invited friends.
Posted in News, Toast | 28 September 2011 | by D/C
Medical anthropologist and cyber sexpert Laura G. Duncan brought her rollicking, yet thoroughly educational, “Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” multimedia show to the Tip on Friday night, accompanied by the dulcet electronica of Chel C. Faith and the ritual rooftop sacrifice of 600 Hog Island oysters. Any androids that showed up were well-disguised, but the joint was packed with meatware, who giggled nervously, ogled admiringly or drowned rampant feelings of inadequacy in custom cocktails like “Robot Sex on the Beach.” Photos, video and more at the-tip.org.
Posted in News, Toast | 19 September 2011 | by D/C
Brooklyn-based medical anthropologist/Trekkie Laura Duncan (no relation) presents the first officially NSFW Toast of the Tip, “Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend? – An Exploration of Sexual Robotics, Teledildonics and Carnal Technology.” So you get our drift. But beyond the titillating (no pun) headline, it’s a fascinating picture of what’s really going on in sci-fi and in a real-life subculture that has discovered a deeper engagement with machines. It seems all too appropriately inappropriate that on September 30 she will find her way to the Tip.
Book your seat at the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll show-and-tell, as Jeff Nolan, the King of Rock History, offers an up-close and exclusive encounter with items from Hard Rock’s 40th anniversary memorabilia tour.
What girl didn’t want to have a stylish bracelet that just happened to deflect bullets? Or a magic lariat? Or the ability to change outfits just by spinning? She’s the original Queen of Girl Power, the Amazonian Riot Grrrl who came to America to save the late seventies. She could kick-ass on any man, woman or mad scientist and look fabulous in her stars-and-stripes superhero ensemble doing it. She was the pop embodiment of feminism, and you could argue that every heroine since — real or imagined — owes her. The embodiment of Wonder Woman, in turn, was Lynda Carter. An azure-eyed singer from Arizona who won the 1972 Miss World USA pageant, Lynda went on to Hollywood in 1976 to win the role of Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman, which would run on TV for three indelible years (and for eternity on cable and web). But she never gave up her first love, singing, and pursued it in four network specials, alongside the likes of Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Tom Jones, and Merle Haggard, and beyond. Her 2009 CD, At Last, made it to the Billboard top ten. Now, en route to performing her acclaimed cabaret show at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko, she has graciously deigned to bring her enduring beauty, truth and superpowers to the first lunchtime Toast of the Tip, this Thursday, April 21 at 1:00 pm. To attend the Tip lunch and/or Rrazz Room show, click here or spin real fast.
As one of the first real rock critics, for Crawdaddy, the first real rock magazine, he invented heavy metal — or was the first to apply that phrase to music. As producer and manager of the Blue Öyster Cult — a band he helped assemble and that was named for one of his poems — he put the umlaut into rock and then put the cowbell into “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” satirized by Christopher Walken on SNL. As producer, he oversaw the recording of the first Clash album released in the US, Give ’em Enough Rope. As manager, he guided Black Sabbath in the Dio years, putting them together with BÖC for “Black & Blue,” the first double-headliner rock tour. As both producer and manager of the Dictators, whose first album preceded the Ramones by more than a year, he pioneered punk. As producer of Dream Syndicate, he pioneered LA’s Paisley Underground. As a lyricist, he contributed dozens of songs to Blue Öyster Cult records, including the epic poem-cycle that became their Imaginos album. He was president of 415 Records, home to Romeo Void and Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, among others, and founding vice-president of the alt rock website, e-music.com. Today he is a professor at McGill University in Montreal and a sometime visiting lecturer on the future of music at Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, SXSW and, on February 25, 2011, at Duncan/Channon’s own insitute of higher learning, the Tip.
The once and future welterweight champion of the boxing world, Paul Nave, aka The Marin County Assassin, regaled a rapt crowd with tales of rails, jails and cornerman’s pails last week at the first Toast of the Tip of 2010. Paul, who retired from boxing almost a decade ago, hopes later this year to make good on his promise to become, at 49, not just the oldest boxer licensed in California, but the oldest champ ever.
He has been to the top, as boxing’s World Welterweight Champion. And the bottom, as a convicted felon serving three years in San Quentin. Somewhere in the middle, he has run for governor, started several businesses, seen his daughter become a famous model in Paris, and partnered with a former Survivor producer to develop his own reality series. Above all, at the age of 49 — the oldest boxer ever licensed in California — after a decade away from the ring, Paul Nave says he is headed to the top again, having scored three improbable wins last year as part of a near-impossible bid to reclaim his championship belt. Needless to say, Paul has stories. And, odds are, they’re better than yours and mine. And he’s going to tell them as part of a knockout appearance at Duncan/Channon’s Toast of the Tip.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres at 5:00
Interview at 6:00
More drinks at 7:00
Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Friday, 12 February to Marie Kerr.
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