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The follies and follicles of Vee Levene
"My goal is to dominate people in their sleep."
1/14/06 
is Vee
"A queer fantasexual multiclassed feminist cynic with escapist tendencies, she loves her iPod Mini."
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11:45pm - more on carnivals from an "urban cultural anthropologist"
from "Inside The Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World Of The Carnival Midway" by Bruce Caron (text) & Jeff Brouws (photos)

"[Sideshow freaks'] lives were tracked with the same ardor that fans would later show for Hollywood's own freaks: its movie stars. For it takes a parellel heroic to live with either deformity or celebrity in an age of advanced conformity.[...] The freak show's spectacle of human diversity- from physical deformity to ethnographic titillation- fed a voyeuristic hunger in the assembled crowd[...] raised on a daily diet of God-fearing normality."

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