**** A Gayscape Four-Star Site, Gay Bay Award Winner and Badpuppy Fine Arts Site of the Week
Now in its 8th year on the 'net!
Latest update: April 6th, 2007.
My name is D.L. Polonsky. I'm
an author/artist/filmmaker from Allston, Massachusetts. This website has a collection of my original art, a reproduction of a children's book that I wrote and illustrated and had published in 1992 called The Letter Bandits, and a lot of other stuff. I grew up in Newtonville, Massachusetts. On April 3rd, 2000 I moved to an apartment in Allston, Mass. and have been there for the last seven years.
I think it would be a waste of time and effort to have a blog, but I'll just briefly write about the stuff I've been doing. As of this writing, 4-6-07, I've had thirty-one political portraits published in The Boston Herald! I've had a picture in 6 out of 7 Sundays in a row! The latest was a portrait of Rudy Giuliani, printed in the 4-2-07 edition. About eight months ago, I sold ten paintings at the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge! Three and a half years ago, I finished a book, an 567-page (single-spaced) novel for adults, tentatively titled Special Ed. I'm currently looking for an agent and/or publisher. I've also had a part-time job since September 7th, 2005, doing promotion and organizing inventory for a thrift shop in Allston. About a year and a half ago, I completed 36 illustrations for a Haitian/Creole language book. It will be published by Educavision Press in the summer or fall of this year. Six months ago I finished a movie, 39 minutes long, titled To Mock a Killing Bird, set from 1972-74 about a mailman who dodges the draft and escapes to Canada with a subplot about a soldier who has an altercation in a Viet Namese bar. It's kind of a satirical comedy with lots of wordplay. I wrote the screenplay and I also shot it, edited it and acted in nine parts (five men and four women, in different wigs, glasses, dresses etc.). It stars Patrick Brennan, me and Jeff Ransom. Rex Trailer, former host of the Boston kid's show Boomtown, has a cameo. I'm getting good feedback about the film; somebody told me it was really funny and the best movie I've ever done. I used the equipment at CCTV, the Cambridge Public Access Station, where I'm a member. I showed the film twice at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. A trailer and and excerpt from this film and my surreal short film Urban Fairy are all on YouTube! I don't know how to create a hyperlink so I guess you have to go to www.YouTube.com and then go to their search engine and put in "Polonsky".
A couple years ago I learned Final Cut Pro digital editing at CCTV, Cambridge's public access station, of which I'm now a member. I also read excerpts of The Letter Bandits and Special Ed at Out of the Blue on most Monday, Friday and Saturday nights. I have 14 pictures on exhibit at The Grecian Yearning Diner on Harvard Ave. in Allston. A while back, I had two articles about me and my artwork in Bay Windows.
I've been volunteering at a dinner for the homeless called The Friday Night Supper at the Arlington Street Church in Boston for the past eight years and seven months. I'm gay, single and 46 years old. Scroll down this page and click on the green signs to go to the various sections of my site. If you have any comments about my site, either positive or negative, if you're a publisher or literary agent who wants to see a sample chapter of my book or you just want to contact me for whatever reason, email me at d.l.polonsky@hotmail.com I'll write back, I promise.
I TAUGHT FILMMAKING TO HORROR MOVIE DIRECTOR ELI ROTH (Grindhouse, Hostel, Cabin Fever, etc.)! When he was about 12. No joke. He was in a class I taught along with his brother and two of his friends. We even made a Super-8 horror film where he's a scientist who drinks a potion and turns into a werewolf.
I recently got an award from CCTV for directing and editing. They're presenting it to me on April 25th.
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DEDICATED TO JUSTIN MICHAEL KIVER, 1970-2007
This website is dedicated to the memory of my friend Justin Michael Kiver. He was an amazing, extraordinarily determined and unusually creative man who had Muscular Dystrophy since late childhood and was in a wheelchair from then up until his death. He was, among other professions, a singer, songwriter and web designer. While we worked on creative projects, we became friends. He starred in one of my films and created websites for me and his other friends, including the one you're looking at now. He died from M.D. in early March of this year. I'll miss him a lot.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT JUSTIN: For some reason, Justin's name wasn't listed in the obituaries and, according to a friend of mine, no one was invited to his funeral. It seems like his caretakers and friends are acting like he never existed. I admit I don't know the whole situation of the last few years of his life, but still, I don't see any reason for this. This really sucks, because he was an extraordinary person who should be remembered. There's a still of him from my movie "The Big Wall" in the "Addional" section if you want to see what he looked like, and a drawing I made of him from that still in the Art Gallery.
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It amazes me that people who walk around in public talking on cell phones seem to have no idea how rude, annoying, inconsiderate and obnoxious they are! I fucking hate it!!! It also looks ugly; it sort of spoils the landscape. Computers are more trouble than they're worth. They're good for some things, like video-editing and making websites, but they have too many things to click on and for the most part they don't work. Also people walking around with ear buds are really annoying. A lot of time you can't see the wire so they look like mental patients talking to themselves. Cell phones and computers are fucking ruining everything!
It's hard to believe the majority of a whole country was dumb enough to vote for Bush again!
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The following paragraph is a PALINDROME I wrote: It reads THE SAME BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS!:
Elba, I'm Asian. In regal shorts, reviled, I won't sin. On a cadet are billionaire bidet-lovers. Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz. Rats revolted. Iberian oil liberated a canonist. Now I deliver Stroh's Lager. Nina is amiable.
(C) 2001 by D.L. Polonsky
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If the groups The Cars, The Doors and Styx got together and formed a band, they'd be The Car Door Styx.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Another palindrome: Tulsa nightlife: filth, gin, a slut.
Why is "disabled" the politically correct term for a crippled person? It obviously means "not able". That's pretty negative, isn't it? Why is "lame" or "crippled" worse? We're conditioned to think certain words are more offensive than others when there's no actual reality to it in their definitions.
Another palindrome: Warsaw's sensuousness was raw.
The world sucks. And you thought it was just gravity.
Did you hear about the newlyweds who were so stupid they couldn't tell the difference between Vaseline and Crazy Glue? Their vase fell apart.
Van Gogh gave himself a lobotomy to get rid of an aural fixation.
If P. Diddy married Elliot Ness, he'd be P. Ness.
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Favorite films: Midnight Cowboy, Brokeback Mountain, Grindhouse, Jeffrey, Quiz Show, Like It Is, Johnny Got His Gun and Sling Blade - Favorite books: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown and 1984 by George Orwell. - Favorite T.V. show: reruns of Married with Children; everything else totally sucks! I hate the unreality of reality T.V., all those stupid, unfunny, watered-down sitcoms and I hate all those stupid, pointless countdowns of pop culture crap on VH1. - Favorite artists: Norman Rockwell, Chagal, M. C. Escher and Tom of Finland. - Favorite songs: Abraham, Martin and John by Dion, Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum, and I Ain't Marchin' by Phil Ochs.
All the artwork on this website
is done by hand, by the way, NOT computer-generated.
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I don't know how to put these in the proper sections of my website yet, but here's some artwork, stills from my latest movie and a self-photo. Click on these ART LINK LETTERS:
