increased_chatter

Fay we hardly knew ye...

2008-08-20T12:28:24Z

Some nice sunset pics and another youtube

Lessig on McCain on Technology

2008-08-20T12:09:26Z

longish video at his blog

worth watching

otterpop describes TS Fay

2008-08-19T15:03:50Z

Sam t00bd me

my sister went to Harvard*

2008-08-19T14:05:59Z

Occasionally I google my sister, and I just turned up this blog entry with a youtube of her talking about her experience at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program.

It's a long clip but worth listening to.

She's headed to Denver soon as a delegate to the Democratic Convention, attending a Stonewall Democrats meeting prior to the convention itself.

(* and all I got was this youtube)

TS Fay - the outer bands

2008-08-17T23:12:24Z

Posted directly from iPhoto/Mail...

it just gets better....

2008-08-17T00:33:15Z

from Queerty: McCain Snubs ManHunt Founder

fair and balanced? anyone? anyone?

2008-08-15T22:44:14Z

http://foxattacks.com/virus/

Hannity is an asshat...

2008-08-14T22:38:20Z

see Edwards, McCain, Adultery and watch the linked youtube...

McCain was tortured (and now supports torture) so his infidelity is OK.

yeah, right.

the latest...

2008-08-14T20:47:22Z

Manhunt Responds to Account Cancelation [sic] Over McCain Donation

In another article, I read that MH takes in in annual membership more money than HRC and The Task Force get in donations. grumble.

votefromabroad.org

2008-08-14T13:36:15Z

If you know Americans living abroad, please point them at this:

count me in/out

2008-08-14T13:06:43Z

I don't drink Coors.

As of this morning, I deleted my Manhunt profile. (Here's why.) I bet he drinks Coors.

As nakednsf said, it was fun :)

The Moth

2008-08-13T19:12:06Z

Thanks to a short mention on the latest This American Life, I discovered a great spoken word podcast and website: The Moth - Live Storytelling Performances.

It features a wide variety of (mostly short) stories and I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the ones available online.

It appears there are regular performance events in NYC and LA.

thought for the day...

2008-08-11T12:37:32Z

"We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change. "
-- Al Gore

I might ad: We're mortgaging our future, by borrowing money from China, to fight an oil war in the Persian Gulf, to protect "American Values", that this Republican administration has already squandered and dragged through the mud. Every bit of that's got to change too.

LHC rap

2008-08-10T12:01:48Z

O-tube

2008-08-10T12:00:17Z

This one made me laugh out loud...

Obama's Olympic Ad - positive change, not an attack ad - He rocks (twice!)

amazing Grace (Jones, that is)

2008-08-09T22:02:59Z

Submitted for your approval...

Back in the early 80s at the old Midnight Sun, I remember seeing a clip of Grace performing on the Merv Griffin show, practically chewing up the set. Can't find it online :(

saturday chores

2008-08-09T20:22:15Z

We decided to attack the laundry room and do some cleaning and organizing and discarding of accumulated stuff. This eventually led to an unplanned trip to the Broward County household hazardous waste disposal dropoff site (old paint cans left by previous owner and dipshit "designer", solvents, etc.), just ahead of a torrential downpour. The intert00bs are good for finding out when and where such dropoffs can happen!

We found lots of other stuff to discard, re-organized all the storage, and vacuumed and Scooba'd the floor.

It's pretty.

question 1: compare and contrast

2008-08-08T14:20:07Z

Old Man Yells At Cloud

vs.

The Law Exams of Professor Barack Obama

pretty cool, huh?

2008-08-08T14:11:09Z

I had the great pleasure of being at two Jobs product launches. The Apple LaserWriter in 1985 (almost the entire Adobe staff attended with great pride) and the NeXT rollout in 1988 (where I went up to H. Ross Perot and said hello, reminding him that I went to school with Ross Jr.). Both were insanely great.

creepy sex dolls*

2008-08-07T15:22:44Z

NSFW

I stumbled on this...
Real Life Like, Life Size Male Dolls Create/Order Yours Today

* I'd venture that there is no such thing as a non-creepy sex doll.

wham begets yawn

2008-08-04T23:40:11Z

Last night Sam and I went to see George Michael in concert here in Fort Lauderdale, the last US stop on his tour.

Our tickets said there would be no warm up act and that the show would start at "8pm prompt".

He took the stage at 8:50pm. It seems he was a bit "under the weather" though why that should delay the show (rather than make him want to get it over with) I'm not sure. BankAtlantic center was not sold out for the Sunday night show.

While his showmanship was good, his energy was clearly lacking. There were times that he held the mic out toward the crowd to sing the lyrics rather than doing them himself, and I had to wonder if he was running out of breath or knew he couldn't hit some particular note.

While I didn't track his set list it seemed short, and was definitely shorter than the one reported by JMG at the MSG show in NYC.

We paid good money for prime seating, and I felt he didn't deliver.

more contra calling...

2008-08-04T17:01:23Z

Saturday night I called the monthly 1st Saturday contra dance in Boynton Beach. There was a good-sized crowd with several newcomers. The band was Murphy's Law - a father, mother, daughter, son group - and they played wonderfully.

My program, which included several new dances (new for me), went well. I had one major brain fart where I screwed up well into one dance. We had one train wreck, on a dance with a progression that proved difficult for just enough people for it to be a problem. I think I already have a good idea of how to do a better walk through of that dance and I might try it again in the future.

The n00bs seemed to have fun. We had a couple come in an join us on the dance before the break, so I substituted in a simpler dance and got them dancing. I got some nice compliments from some of the regular crowd -- it's always nice to keep them happy too.

I'm calling the same dance next month as well.

Waiting

2008-08-04T00:43:21Z

George Michael is 35 minutes late. He's probably still at Slammers!

The X fags...

2008-07-26T17:30:56Z

We saw The X Files: I want to believe last night...

not central to the plot, there's this brief disclosure that the two bad guys "were married in Massachusetts"* and are presumed to be homosexual lovers. This seemed like stupid gay bashing homophobia to me. It doesn't serve the plot. It's kind of a throw away revelation. Does it somehow make them worse villains? I almost think that GLAAD should get on their case.

oh, and the movie pretty much sucked.

*MA doesn't allow non-resident same sex couples to marry, so unless they lived in MA then and moved, this is an inaccuracy anyway.

gimme a V...

2008-07-22T20:49:09Z

I had lunch today with an officer from The Victory Fund and he succeeded in soliciting a donation from me to support GLBT candidates nationwide. (It didn't take much convincing.)

The Victory Fund was quite supportive of my sister's candidacy and their Leadership Institute is partly paying her tuition this summer to attend a 3 week program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She's there right now and is enjoying the experience and learning alot!