South African-born comedian Urzila Carlson is giving the world some badly-needed laughs at a time when general ...
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Dazzler of the Day: Urzila Carlson
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Fuzziness is usually the state of my head these days, which doesn’t make it a welcome state ...
One day I may try to make better sense of this 50th summer I’ve spent here on ...
Musings Over Matcha
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Postings may be lighter of late as I work on the upcoming fall theme of this website ...
About Alan Ilagan
Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.

