CulturePulp 023: Shopping with Daria


Words and pix by M.E. Russell; colors by Chad Essley.

High-rez PDF: CulturePulp23.pdf

Bonus Daria O'Neill interview: Click here



Endnotes and Digressions:

1. This comic has online bonus features! As mentioned, I did conduct a lengthy interview with O’Neill -- about radio, comics, writing, scandal, family, fans, theater and the aforementioned sexual mythologizing. You can read it (and see a couple of my better reference photos) by clicking here.

2. Daria pointed out a fun little quirk of both Green Noise Records and Xtabay: The proprietors of both stores tend to affix tags and stickers with handwritten commentary to their merchandise. One frock at Xtabay sported a tag that read, “One must seriously try this on to realize the magnitude of this dress.”

(Jeffrey of Glamour Gallery struck me as being sort of the living incarnation of these sorts of stickers.)

3. “Bad Dates” continues through this Saturday at Theater! Theater! (3430 S.E. Belmont St.). Ms. O’Neill plays a lonely, thirtysomething restaurateur and single mother who riffs on her horrible encounters with men -- all while sorting shoes and changing outfits in her boudoir for an hour and 20 minutes. It’s a surprisingly intimate show, punctuated by some extremely funny gapes of horror, and it’s well worth a look. For tickets or more information visit www.TriPro.org.

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Posted: Fri - March 4, 2005 at 03:18 AM        

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