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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
STRESS AND STRAIN
Something is terribly wrong.
This holiday season, which I don't subscribe to anyway, seems to cause far to much pain and distress to far to many of my fellow human beings.
I know I have mostly figured out how to cope with this season, but so many others have not.
To all of them I say. Step back. Allow your own feelings to surface. Deal with those feelings as clearly (i.e. stay away from the egg nog and the sugar cookies) as you are able.
Find the things within that bring you the most happiness and the most peace.
As difficult as it is, smile at yourself for one minute in the mirror each morning.
Stay out of your car, which means saying NO, as much as possible.
Hold the thought of PEACE ON EARTH. What else really matters?
PEACEMAS (thanks to Nancy for that!)
STB
This holiday season, which I don't subscribe to anyway, seems to cause far to much pain and distress to far to many of my fellow human beings.
I know I have mostly figured out how to cope with this season, but so many others have not.
To all of them I say. Step back. Allow your own feelings to surface. Deal with those feelings as clearly (i.e. stay away from the egg nog and the sugar cookies) as you are able.
Find the things within that bring you the most happiness and the most peace.
As difficult as it is, smile at yourself for one minute in the mirror each morning.
Stay out of your car, which means saying NO, as much as possible.
Hold the thought of PEACE ON EARTH. What else really matters?
PEACEMAS (thanks to Nancy for that!)
STB
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
SOME DAYS PAGE SIX NAILS IT!
"WE came up with a new idea that we said we would get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married. The day that law is passed, we'll get married"
Charlize Theron, regarding her boyfriend Stuart Townsend on "Extra"
BILL lied/Hillary cried; GEORGE lied/THOUSANDS died
Bumper Sticker
"HE'S the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms" — Mamie van Doren on Warren Beatty
Celebrity Diss & Tell (Andrews McMeel) by Boze Hadleigh
Some days you have to crib from the columns!
Page Six
New York Post (yes really)
11-29-05
Charlize Theron, regarding her boyfriend Stuart Townsend on "Extra"
BILL lied/Hillary cried; GEORGE lied/THOUSANDS died
Bumper Sticker
"HE'S the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms" — Mamie van Doren on Warren Beatty
Celebrity Diss & Tell (Andrews McMeel) by Boze Hadleigh
Some days you have to crib from the columns!
Page Six
New York Post (yes really)
11-29-05
Sunday, November 27, 2005
THOUGHT WE'D HAVE A REVOLUTION
1968. Off to college.
I started my college career in Carbondale, IL. I lasted at SIU for nearly three years. In the Spring of my second year, 1970, SIU underwent a transformation. The war in Vietnam was out of control. Nixon was out of control. Four American citizens were murdered on a college campus. Kent State. Within a week SIU was closed for the rest of the school year. I came back for my junior year but found SIU a changed place or perhaps the one changed was myself. I could find no peace and certainly no learning in Carbondale.
My mother and father and siblings were now living in Malibu, CA. I had spent the previous summer in Malibu, against my wishes. I had always seen myself as an East Coast kind of guy. My dad told me that I didn't have to work if I wanted to spend the summer in CA.
I decided to leave SIU and transfer to UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. My life really started to change once this decision was made.
I moved to Malibu and stayed with my parents and siblings until I found my first apartment and my first boy friend. Both lasted about six months. I loved the apartment, the boy friend seemed to love everyone he could find!
After careful consideration or 15 minutes and only a semester and a half from graduation, I decided it was time to really set my life in motion.
I found a job, met Laura. She and I are still friends today!
I left UCLA and found a job working in a hip antique shop on Melrose Avenue. For those of you who know Los Angeles, this was before the Pacific Design Center was built. I worked on the corner of Melrose and La Cienega which would prove to be a vital intersection in my life.
I found another apartment and a room mate, John Neyman.
We both grew weary of Los Angeles around the same time and decided to move to San Francisco. We found a funky apartment on Austin Alley, which was on the lower lip of Pacific Heights! Well not really, but we were close enough to think that we were chic. In San Francisco I met Paula Stern who would prove to have a huge influence in my life.
It was because of Paula and because I was at a total loss as to what to do with my life that I decided to become a model.
I went from my wistful long haired above look to this below!
Next week, back to Los Angeles. A sojourn to New York (when I finally meet RQM) and my life with the Divine George.
I started my college career in Carbondale, IL. I lasted at SIU for nearly three years. In the Spring of my second year, 1970, SIU underwent a transformation. The war in Vietnam was out of control. Nixon was out of control. Four American citizens were murdered on a college campus. Kent State. Within a week SIU was closed for the rest of the school year. I came back for my junior year but found SIU a changed place or perhaps the one changed was myself. I could find no peace and certainly no learning in Carbondale.
My mother and father and siblings were now living in Malibu, CA. I had spent the previous summer in Malibu, against my wishes. I had always seen myself as an East Coast kind of guy. My dad told me that I didn't have to work if I wanted to spend the summer in CA.
I decided to leave SIU and transfer to UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. My life really started to change once this decision was made.
I moved to Malibu and stayed with my parents and siblings until I found my first apartment and my first boy friend. Both lasted about six months. I loved the apartment, the boy friend seemed to love everyone he could find!
After careful consideration or 15 minutes and only a semester and a half from graduation, I decided it was time to really set my life in motion.
I found a job, met Laura. She and I are still friends today!
I left UCLA and found a job working in a hip antique shop on Melrose Avenue. For those of you who know Los Angeles, this was before the Pacific Design Center was built. I worked on the corner of Melrose and La Cienega which would prove to be a vital intersection in my life.
I found another apartment and a room mate, John Neyman.
We both grew weary of Los Angeles around the same time and decided to move to San Francisco. We found a funky apartment on Austin Alley, which was on the lower lip of Pacific Heights! Well not really, but we were close enough to think that we were chic. In San Francisco I met Paula Stern who would prove to have a huge influence in my life.
It was because of Paula and because I was at a total loss as to what to do with my life that I decided to become a model.
I went from my wistful long haired above look to this below!
Next week, back to Los Angeles. A sojourn to New York (when I finally meet RQM) and my life with the Divine George.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
RAINING
Good day to figure out what to post for PHOTO SUNDAY!
See you tomorrow!
Thursday, November 24, 2005
THANKSGIVING 1975
This was Thanksgiving in 1975. I was living in California with the Divine George. We had invited Harley and Francis to join us. We did the traditional Thanksgiving meal. Two pies even. I did the bird, I believe Harley did the pies. It was loads of fun! I love the beach towel as table cloth!
HAPPY DAY ONE AND ALL!
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
MY DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
I think those people who know me and many of you who read my blog know that I am not a shopper. I am not a big consumer. But I have a secret.
I watch home shopping. Yes, I watch HSN and QVC and America's Store and Shop NBC and Shop at Home. Yes, I WATCH THEM.
I have my favorite hosts even. I love Lisa Robertson on QVC. I hate her makeup and her hair, but I love her sense of humor. She's an ex-beauty queen who apparently is the most stalked show host on QVC. She's camp and her customers don't even realize it!
I love Colleen Lopez and Shannon Smith on HSN. Colleen can sell anything. I've watched her work with a lot of celebs and she knows her stuff. She's funny but she's demanding. When she's warm she tells her producer. When she wants something she lets someone know! But she can push the product.
Shannon Smith may or may not be, if you get my drift. She's a riot too. She is the first to tell you why you must buy and why you must buy RIGHT NOW. If you believe her, her entire life is clothed, furnished, and fed by HSN.
Charla on ShopNBC is another one of my favorites. Her gimmick is that she screams and yells and her clients love her. She can sell too.
All of them can sell or they wouldn't be given the airtime. The other day, on QVC there was a product that was the "Today's Special Value," or as Joan Rivers calls it, the TSV. It wasn't a Joan Rivers product, but a makeup product. It sold for $49.99 and in the course of 24 hours, with a total amount of air time of approximately 2 hours, QVC sold 141,000 units. Can I do the math for you. That's sales of 6.9 million dollars! That's one product. Each channel sells lots of products 24/7!
OK, so I didn't buy the makeup, but I have purchased items from these networks. I currently sleep on 400 TC cotton sateen sheets that I purchased as a Today's Special from HSN (not to be mistaken for a TSV from QVC) for $79.99. This was for TWO complete sets of sheets. I bought them because they had free shipping! By ordering them online I didn't pay sales tax! Oddly this tax break is true for HSN online, but not QVC online. Go figure.
The first product I bought from TV were pots and pans from Ultrex. Yes, Ultrex with it's 75 year warranty. It was a 55 year warranty when I bought my first set! Great stuff and if purchased in a set, about 11 bucks a piece! Buy it as as a Today's Special and really save!
I had a fantasy for years that I'd make a great show host on one of the shopping channels. It was just a fantasy however. I also had a fantasy that I could find a product and end up on one of the channels as well. Had I pursued this dream 15 years ago when I first became aware of these channels I might be writing this blog from St. Petersburg, FL or West Chester, PA.
So my secret is out. When I'm not blogging, reading or watching a baseball game or an ice skating event or yes, CSPAN, I might just have flipped over to QVC to see what Lisa has to say to Joan or to HSN to see what Colleen has to say to Suzanne.
I marvel at how one can sell so much crap to anybody at anytime.
No wonder "they" were able to sell the war in Iraq.
America. Gotta love it.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
CASTRO LANE, WARWANA DRIVE, NORTH REGENCY DRIVE WEST
This was the last house in Ohio. Cincinnati to be exact. A split level as we traveled up the corporate ladder.
Here we are in Houston for the first time. Texas to be exact. Notice we are no longer split, but we have a two car garage.
We have arrived. Living in the two story house outside Chicago. Illinois that is. Aside from the second floor we have a two car garage and three cars. That's cause one of them was a company car! The red Mustang peeking out is a car my father bought in Houston when I dared him not to! It was the car I learned to drive in.
Finally, just like RQM, I graduated from high school. This of course was YEARS after RQM had graduated. I was on my way to college and to finding myself. It's funny. I don't have any pictures from my college days. I don't know why. After growing up with cameras I seem to have decided that documenting my life in college was not necessary.
Next week we'll move into my post college years where I did indeed discover the camera once again.
Ah vanity!
Friday, November 18, 2005
FLYING CAMELS AND OTHER ISSUES OF THE DAY
So somehow I pulled a muscle in my left leg. Not serious, but not something I can ignore. I hung upside down for 15 minutes yesterday thinking that maybe it was all tension, but hey, no such luck. The leg is feeling a bit better today but I still have the mild headache that appeared yesterday. Is it the cool weather?
I loved Congressman John Murtha yesterday. I especially loved this quote.
"I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."
My kind of man!
Aren't you happy that the Water Boys are voting to extend tax cuts. All the while cutting programs that actually do something to support the vast majority of Americans. Say good bye to student loans? Perhaps. No need for Medicaid and Foodstamps. Perhaps. School lunches? Let them eat ketchup.
But hey, we do have 300 billion for the war in Iraq. And by the way, how much is that war in Afghanistan costing?
But, let's talk about the real issue facing America and the World.
What is up with the new scoring system being used in figure skating? Has anyone but me noticed? Could the programs be more boring? While the old scoring system seemed to be all about who you knew, the new system seems to be about how they can all skate the same boring program. Something has to be done. Intervention is necessary.
Rosie was on Larry King last night. Larry King was not. Bob Costa was the host. Rosie was articulate and funny. She was really clear about why she is who she is. Her ability to walk away from millions because "she's a sprinter, not a marathon runner," really said it all to me. Brava Rosie. Keep doing what you do.
OK. Now I have to find some more photos. Sunday is around the corner!
I loved Congressman John Murtha yesterday. I especially loved this quote.
"I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."
My kind of man!
Aren't you happy that the Water Boys are voting to extend tax cuts. All the while cutting programs that actually do something to support the vast majority of Americans. Say good bye to student loans? Perhaps. No need for Medicaid and Foodstamps. Perhaps. School lunches? Let them eat ketchup.
But hey, we do have 300 billion for the war in Iraq. And by the way, how much is that war in Afghanistan costing?
But, let's talk about the real issue facing America and the World.
What is up with the new scoring system being used in figure skating? Has anyone but me noticed? Could the programs be more boring? While the old scoring system seemed to be all about who you knew, the new system seems to be about how they can all skate the same boring program. Something has to be done. Intervention is necessary.
Rosie was on Larry King last night. Larry King was not. Bob Costa was the host. Rosie was articulate and funny. She was really clear about why she is who she is. Her ability to walk away from millions because "she's a sprinter, not a marathon runner," really said it all to me. Brava Rosie. Keep doing what you do.
OK. Now I have to find some more photos. Sunday is around the corner!
Thursday, November 17, 2005
WHO'S A WATER BOY
So Bob Woodward is a Water Boy. Seems he knew a great deal, but then he had a great deal, another book, so he really couldn't be bothered to tell the truth. Must be nice to be one of the President's Men.
Headlines in the NY Times telling us that the Bridges to Nowhere have been cut by those Water Boys we call senators and representatives. Read the article however and find out that this really isn't the case at all. The money is still being sent to Alaska, only now it won't be specified as money to be used for the bridges. Sounds like someone called DeLay, "it's not the same money," for some creative ways to use accounting. The money goes to Alaska and the State can spend it any way it chooses. Wanna bet some bridges get built?
That doughboy/water boy, Dick Cheney, comes out swinging last night in a speech to a charming bunch of cheerleaders...Frontiers of Freedom a conservative research organization...saying it was time to throw back the criticism being leveled at the Bush administration to the Democrats who supported the "war." Okay Dick, go ahead and toss back the 51 LIES (counted and documented thus far by Henry Waxman) you gave to the Democrats and the American public to support this totally invalid war.
Bush's water boys in the Justice Department have ruled that a ridiculous new provision in the Georgia voting law may stand (it basically says that in order to vote you must have one of only 6 acceptable forms of identification in order to vote as opposed to the 17 that were accepted before.) The low ranking water boys agreed that this provision might cause discrimination (and oh by the way disenfranchise many poor people who tend to vote Democrat) but the chief water boy, John Taner, said oh no, this measure will protect us from voter fraud. What? The "no paper trail" voting machines aren't enough?
My favorite Water Boy, the Shrub, in yet another bid to appeal to those charming "ex" Cubans, who by the way, don't seem to have assimilated into the American way of life (notice the common language in Little Havana next time you go to Miami) but hey they do vote Republican so who cares! Opps, I digress. Chief Water Boy says he wants to veto a bill allowing American farmers to sell rice to Cuba. He wants to veto this because Cuba is a communist country. Now if I'm not mistaken, we currently have an enormous trade deficit with communist China. And aren't most of the currently seen Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa et. al. decorations made in communist China? That must be it. If you make the decorations we'll trade with you.
I say throw the bucket and the water on all these bozos.
Headlines in the NY Times telling us that the Bridges to Nowhere have been cut by those Water Boys we call senators and representatives. Read the article however and find out that this really isn't the case at all. The money is still being sent to Alaska, only now it won't be specified as money to be used for the bridges. Sounds like someone called DeLay, "it's not the same money," for some creative ways to use accounting. The money goes to Alaska and the State can spend it any way it chooses. Wanna bet some bridges get built?
That doughboy/water boy, Dick Cheney, comes out swinging last night in a speech to a charming bunch of cheerleaders...Frontiers of Freedom a conservative research organization...saying it was time to throw back the criticism being leveled at the Bush administration to the Democrats who supported the "war." Okay Dick, go ahead and toss back the 51 LIES (counted and documented thus far by Henry Waxman) you gave to the Democrats and the American public to support this totally invalid war.
Bush's water boys in the Justice Department have ruled that a ridiculous new provision in the Georgia voting law may stand (it basically says that in order to vote you must have one of only 6 acceptable forms of identification in order to vote as opposed to the 17 that were accepted before.) The low ranking water boys agreed that this provision might cause discrimination (and oh by the way disenfranchise many poor people who tend to vote Democrat) but the chief water boy, John Taner, said oh no, this measure will protect us from voter fraud. What? The "no paper trail" voting machines aren't enough?
My favorite Water Boy, the Shrub, in yet another bid to appeal to those charming "ex" Cubans, who by the way, don't seem to have assimilated into the American way of life (notice the common language in Little Havana next time you go to Miami) but hey they do vote Republican so who cares! Opps, I digress. Chief Water Boy says he wants to veto a bill allowing American farmers to sell rice to Cuba. He wants to veto this because Cuba is a communist country. Now if I'm not mistaken, we currently have an enormous trade deficit with communist China. And aren't most of the currently seen Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa et. al. decorations made in communist China? That must be it. If you make the decorations we'll trade with you.
I say throw the bucket and the water on all these bozos.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
IT'S A LOVELY DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
What was the first thing I read this morning when I open the NY Times (online edition of course.)
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq
Ah yes, another election cycle coming up. Time to jump the sinking ship.
Yesterday I posted a piece I had seen in the Times of London about a fellow who may or may not be one of the few, if any, human beings to test positive for HIV and then later test negative for HIV.
From what I had read this wasn't about false positives, but indeed a case where the virus had been detected and then was not. Upon further investigation I also discovered that the person involved is seeking to profit from this story. Hey it's the American Way, even if the guy is British, but it does add a level of skepticism to the entire story that was not there upon my first reading.
I hope this is not a hoax, that it is indeed a legit medical story and that what we learn from this will be applicable to all who are currently infected.
Is is me or do there just seem to be a lot more murders happening in the US of A these days? I don't know, seems like here in Texas (where one would maybe expect this kind of behaviour) there are far far far to many murders. But in reality it seems they are happening everywhere.
Don't like your 14 year old girlfriends parents? Shoot them. Don't like the vice principal at your school? Shoot him. Don't like the fact that your girlfriend is pregnant? Shoot her. Don't like the fact that your girlfriend (or boyfriend) is dating someone else after the two of you separated? Shoot her (him. )
Makes me wonder why I still leave my house.
I keep hearing that there is a holiday coming up. Peace on earth and all that stuff.
"What a crock," as Mary often said. How on earth do people continue to get sucked into the buy buy buy, spend spend spend story year after year.
Wouldn't be lovely if we just gave each other Peace On Earth?
Monday, November 14, 2005
WHAT'S THE NEWS ACROSS THE NATION
"I have admired and enjoyed your magazine since the beginning, but having a porn star on your cover was very disturbing to me. I had hoped your wonderful magazine was above this." Shirley Jones Letter to the editor regarding the October issue of Vanity Fair featuring Paris Hilton on the cover.
Never cared for Ms. Jones after Elmer Gantry, but she has a point.
Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.
The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of about $80 million from 2001 to 2004. The e-mail, along with about a dozen others, was released last week as part of the investigation. Statesman.com
This is the lovely and charming John Cornyn who is one of my senators from the State of Texas. Will we ever know the depth of this kind of condoned corruption?
TD 27 does have the potential to grow into a hurricane, and possibly a major hurricane, if it can survive the next two days and make it into the central Caribbean where the waters will be warmer and the wind shear lighter. Jeff Masters.
Could this hurricane season finally end please.
A young British man thought to be the first person to have shaken off HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is to undergo further clinical tests in the hope of a breakthrough in treating the condition.
Doctors believe that this first confirmed case of a spontaneous clearance of HIV could offer important insights into the behaviour of the virus, and possible means of defeating it. Times of London
If this is real, this could change the face of the world as we know it.
Off on my appointed rounds!
Never cared for Ms. Jones after Elmer Gantry, but she has a point.
Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.
The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of about $80 million from 2001 to 2004. The e-mail, along with about a dozen others, was released last week as part of the investigation. Statesman.com
This is the lovely and charming John Cornyn who is one of my senators from the State of Texas. Will we ever know the depth of this kind of condoned corruption?
TD 27 does have the potential to grow into a hurricane, and possibly a major hurricane, if it can survive the next two days and make it into the central Caribbean where the waters will be warmer and the wind shear lighter. Jeff Masters.
Could this hurricane season finally end please.
A young British man thought to be the first person to have shaken off HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is to undergo further clinical tests in the hope of a breakthrough in treating the condition.
Doctors believe that this first confirmed case of a spontaneous clearance of HIV could offer important insights into the behaviour of the virus, and possible means of defeating it. Times of London
If this is real, this could change the face of the world as we know it.
Off on my appointed rounds!
Sunday, November 13, 2005
ADA-MONTCLAIR-ADA-DAYTON-TOLEDO
Born in Toledo, moved to Ada. Starting out on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder. We were now four. Doug, Mary, Mary and Jay. My father was an elder in the Methodist Church until my sister came home in tears because she was terrified in Sunday School class. The Sunday School teacher blamed this class of 5 year olds for the death of Jesus on the cross. Doug left the church. 
Thanks to generous grandparents, and because we were the first, we were always well dressed as children. We even lived with my grandparents for nearly a year due to my sister Sarah's health issues. Sadly Sarah didn't survive. We came back to Ada until we moved to Dayton.
It wasn't all dress up however. This was post war Dayton. Me with my first camera. My mother was terribly depressed in Dayton. She cried all the time. I wonder if it had anything to do with having three kids and living in a gray house in a cookie cutter housing development. Doug was traveling, working his way up the corporate ladder.
I was growing up and developing my obvious abilities. Here I am in Toledo getting ready to run away and join the circus. This was after our house caught fire and I rescued my brother and sister. Wasn't nearly so dramatic in real life! Oh yes, we were now six!Friday, November 11, 2005
JOAN DIDION
Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Joan Didion.
Started reading THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING last eve. Joan Didion's latest.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM is another. Both were written by Joan Didion.
See you on on Photo Sunday.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Joan Didion.
Started reading THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING last eve. Joan Didion's latest.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM is another. Both were written by Joan Didion.
See you on on Photo Sunday.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
OH AND AN ORDER OF APATHY TO GO
We voted. We lost. But wait, did "we" vote.
Turnout in the elections Statewide yesterday was an astounding 17%. Yes indeed. 83% of my fellow Texans had just to much to do yesterday and couldn't find the time to vote.
Makes no never mind that one may vote early in Texas without filling in any forms, wasting no postage, facing no hassles. Makes no never mind that they have over a week to early vote. They had too much to do.
Yeah freedoms just another word and I guess that other word is careless.
AUSTIN - Voters overwhelmingly approved writing a ban on same-sex marriage into the Texas constitution Tuesday, giving social conservatives a key victory going into next year's state elections. Houston Chronicle 11/09/05
Turnout in the elections Statewide yesterday was an astounding 17%. Yes indeed. 83% of my fellow Texans had just to much to do yesterday and couldn't find the time to vote.
Makes no never mind that one may vote early in Texas without filling in any forms, wasting no postage, facing no hassles. Makes no never mind that they have over a week to early vote. They had too much to do.
Yeah freedoms just another word and I guess that other word is careless.
AUSTIN - Voters overwhelmingly approved writing a ban on same-sex marriage into the Texas constitution Tuesday, giving social conservatives a key victory going into next year's state elections. Houston Chronicle 11/09/05
1,703,833 Texans voted for Prop. 2. 533,963 voted against Prop. 2.
Prop 2 writes into the State Constitution that marriage is defined as the union between one man and one woman.
It's lovely being a second class citizen. Thanks Texans and all the others like you in 18 States that have now outlawed marriage between same sex couples.
Do unto others indeed....
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Monday, November 07, 2005
HATS OFF TO APRIL
Yes today I take my hat off to April. She has worked tirelessly for many many months to defeat Prop 2.
Prop 2 is an obvious political ploy to energize the those who find lesbians and gays second class citizens. It would add a constitutional amendment to the Texas State constitution banning marriages between same sex couples.
This is already against the law in Texas anyway. Is this necessary? I guess if you want to get your gang to the polls it must be.
April is one of the founders of HERA, the Houston Equal Rights Alliance. http://www.houstonera.org/
She is going to be a candidate for office one day and I want to be among the first in line to say she has my vote.
Thank you April for all the work you and others like you have done in the last months.
HATS OFF TO YOU!
VOTE
Sunday, November 06, 2005
WHERE IT ALL STARTED.....
The happy couple, my parents. Mary and Doug, an unlikely duo. Mary born in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn. Doug born in Hicksville, Ohio. They met in Toledo, Ohio when both were still in high school. The War Years. They married after high school and my father went to war. Years he never, ever talked about. My mother lived with her parents in the early years of their marriage and when my father returned from War, he went to college. GI bill and all. Then he took a job with the Corporation and they ended up back in Toledo. My older sister was born and then I. Three more children were to follow.
But enough about them.
Soon enough it was about me.
More to follow.
VOTE
Saturday, November 05, 2005
MAKES YOU WONDER
Makes you wonder how we ever thought we'd catch Bin Laden when we can't even keep a convicted murderer in jail:
A twice-condemned murderer continued eluding a huge manhunt overnight as Harris County officials began investigating how he talked his way past at least four deputies and walked free from the County Jail.
Houston Chronicle 11/05/05
Makes you wonder why someone didn't think of this before:
Zeno is the first FDA-cleared medical device designed for over-the-counter use on mild to moderate inflammatory acne. Combining revolutionary scientific, medical and electronic principles, Zeno uses proprietary ClearPoint™ technology to clear pimples quickly using the science of heat.
June 2005 Press Release WWW.MYZENO.COM
Makes you wonder why the calls for impeachment aren't loud and clear when:
Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday that there isn't "any doubt" the American people were misled about the war in Iraq and that President George Bush's policy on the war is a "radical departure from the policies of any president."
CNN 11/05/05
Makes you wonder why we all aren't in Austin this weekend:
The KKK is coming to Austin this week to rally support for Proposition 2, an amendment defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. They are billing this as a Christian Family Values rally, but we all know the KKK's history of families, values, and Christian behavior is abysmal.
You are invited to join in
the 2nd* Austin Mooning of the Klan
Saturday, November 5th
Austin City Hall (or nearby depending on where the police make us stand)
from 1-3PM
*The first mooning of the Klan was organized by Texas musician Steve Fromholz in 1993 and proved to be an effective means of making counter protesters smile and Klanspeople cringe.
the 2nd* Austin Mooning of the Klan
Saturday, November 5th
Austin City Hall (or nearby depending on where the police make us stand)
from 1-3PM
*The first mooning of the Klan was organized by Texas musician Steve Fromholz in 1993 and proved to be an effective means of making counter protesters smile and Klanspeople cringe.
Makes you wonder how we've waited all week for Picture Sunday:
See Above!
RQM AND THE DIVINE GEORGE
Thursday, November 03, 2005
ANDERSON MAKES THE BIG TIME and other news.
Shake up at CNN. Does anyone care? Does anyone watch the news anyway?
Bush Boy ignores reality and makes no changes at his Crack House.
Seen photos of Cheney's new man? Talk about Smug.
Interest rates rise.
Dems shut down the Senate. Frist slapped in the face. NOT HARD ENOUGH, he still has his teeth.
Summer nearly leaves Houston. Dew point of 22 yesterday!
Charles and the Big C breeze into the US of A. Charles refers to the Big C as his darling wife. Barf bag anyone.
Bette Mildew releases another tribute CD. This one honoring Peggy Lee.
Chastity Bono admits she has weight issues and goes on Celebrity Weight Club to deal with those issues. A simple call to Anna Nicole Smith might have been more effective.
Riots continue in the burbs of Paris. Paris is truly burning.
CIA has secret prisons in the former Soviet Union. Am I the only one seeing the irony here?
Flop sweat from Frogs may deter transmission of HIV in woman. Let's all kiss a frog, shall we.
Broccoli used topically many reduce skin cancer. Hey, where's the money in that?
DeLay gets his way in Texas. Next time you are on trail, remember to look into what political parties your judge gave money too. Have him recused if he isn't on your political team.
Don't forget to VOTE.
I still haven't seen Moonstruck.
Bush Boy ignores reality and makes no changes at his Crack House.
Seen photos of Cheney's new man? Talk about Smug.
Interest rates rise.
Dems shut down the Senate. Frist slapped in the face. NOT HARD ENOUGH, he still has his teeth.
Summer nearly leaves Houston. Dew point of 22 yesterday!
Charles and the Big C breeze into the US of A. Charles refers to the Big C as his darling wife. Barf bag anyone.
Bette Mildew releases another tribute CD. This one honoring Peggy Lee.
Chastity Bono admits she has weight issues and goes on Celebrity Weight Club to deal with those issues. A simple call to Anna Nicole Smith might have been more effective.
Riots continue in the burbs of Paris. Paris is truly burning.
CIA has secret prisons in the former Soviet Union. Am I the only one seeing the irony here?
Flop sweat from Frogs may deter transmission of HIV in woman. Let's all kiss a frog, shall we.
Broccoli used topically many reduce skin cancer. Hey, where's the money in that?
DeLay gets his way in Texas. Next time you are on trail, remember to look into what political parties your judge gave money too. Have him recused if he isn't on your political team.
Don't forget to VOTE.
I still haven't seen Moonstruck.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
FOUR FOR A DOLLAR
You gotta have a gimmick if your gonna be a star.I thought pouty would work!
Who was I kidding?
This is for you Nancy!
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