Friday, December 30, 2005

As a society there has to come a day when we realize that keeping people in boxes and forcing them to live in a way that is not true only continues to hurt everyone involved, it's not limited to a select few. As seen in this movie, these two men were forced to live in the way that society wanted them to live and it tortured them. The hurt and anguish also extended to their families creating more unhappiness.

my dear fam walter has started a weblog of his own. and seeing from this great posting about 'brokeback mountain' i can tell he'll be a fascinating read as well. welcome walter!

Thursday, December 29, 2005

kitties get to celebrate the holidays too! thanks to grandmas who always give new toys for christmas:

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

I'M HOME!

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

not posting cuz i've been in kansas city. i'm flying home to san francisco tomorrow so i'll be back up and find out what's been going on in the world then too.
no g-news is good g-news

Friday, December 23, 2005

i have to travel in the morning
i hate to travel!
it's not that i don't like to be other places, although i am more and more of a home-city-body, but it's just that i hate the hassel of traveling by plane
if only i could travel by train home, then i'd be happy

Thursday, December 22, 2005

wow, the priorities of the bush administration in the 'war on terror':

a gay kiss-in is considered a 'credible threat' of terrorism to the u.s. just makes you feel so much safer that our country is really working to protect us against future attacks... (link via americablog which i must start reading more often)

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

how much would my dearest blog-reading fans pay for a mug or t-shirt with reesesworld.com on it? or how about a calendar with me in various poses? who else is ready to sell out? seriously, how much would you pay? i'm ready to sell out...

has evolution gone too far? have dogs taken over?

omg, is that the statue of liberty in the background? you maniacs! you blew it up! oh, damn you, god damn you all to hell!

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

today's debate, or is it 1776?

“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” from republican senator cornyn from texas

Give me liberty or give me death” responded democratic senator feingold

Monday, December 19, 2005

again from must-read Josh:

From perusing a few headlines it seems the White House and some editors are taking to arguing that surveillance or domestic wiretapping is necessary for national security, that it saves lives.
Of course, it does. What a stupid thing to say, or for the White House, what a disingenuous thing to say.
Wiretaps are conducted around the country every day. The FISA Court alone approves something like a half a dozen a day in highly classified national security or espionage related cases.
The only issue here is why [bush] decided to go around the normal rules that govern such surveillance, why he chose to make himself above the law.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

this is perfect, via the always-must-read Josh:

... Bush says Congress saw the same intelligence he did in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. So Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) asked the non-partisan Congressional Research Service to look into the matter and report back whether or not what the president said is true.

They reported back today. The verdict: not true.

Read it yourself.

so let me get this straight. this woman claims to be a pro-choice lesbian democrat, and yet took on a position with arnold as his chief of staff, even after he endorsed prop. 73 and vetoed marriage equality. she voted for all of his initiatives that democrats around the state were fighting. she says she agrees with him in his veto of marriage equality, even if she's had her own wedding with her partner in hawaii. and she wants him to win reelection next fall. i'm all for people calling themselves whatever they like, but this is living beyond reality even in politics. is she vying to become our pro-choice/lgbt/democratic 'uncle tom'?

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

jessie, dear sweet friend that he is, gave me his laptop this week. how is it that i have such wonderful friends who take such good care of me? martin did the same for me a few years ago, and while the computer ended up dying a quick death from my own hands, he still was so kind to think of helping me in this way.
anyway, i digress. the point is that jessie got a new laptop and so he set me up with his top-of-the-line apple laptop. it's amazing to use this machine and feel connected to the 21st century in this way. i'm sitting here in an internet coffeeshop known as jumpin' java and i'm actually blogging from it right now. this coffeeshop is one of those that's totally an internet one where everyone is on their laptops and no one is talking. i've been here before but never fit in very well because i haven't had a laptop. now i do and i feel like i'm part of the scene. it's such a quiet scene and i wonder how many of my fellow participants are actually online trying to connect with others out in space when we're all a literal seat away from each other. but then, life is intimidating that way. side thought: intimi-date and elimi-date are awfully similar...

ok, back to the point. i have a laptop now and i'm using it and i'm actually doing tech things i didn't understand 5 minutes ago

wonderful news
Fairness and equality wins out in corporate America... The statement released today is representative of the Ford Motor Co. that we've known and respected for years, not the company that was alleged to exist over the last two weeks

who would have thought that san francisco has the highest rents in the country? i mean, wow, i never would have known...

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

for anyone curious about the new movie brokeback mountain the new yorker has published the original short-story that inspired the movie onto their website (thanks to Matt for the link; err, correction, his bf for the link)

Monday, December 12, 2005

...three listener groups would tune into a dance station: gay men, Caucasian females, and the Asian community.

Gay men, White Women, and Asians: are we really all that much different afterall?

Sunday, December 11, 2005

i've been letting my hair grow out lately. it just seems appropriate.
anyhow, jessie decided to make some drawings the other night of me in various hairstyles. the jesus/shaggy hairstyle is where i'm headed for the moment.
but it's your turn to choose which one you like the most!

Saturday, December 10, 2005

i think i might want a tattoo of a cricket

or maybe a ladybug or a leaf or a vine or another frog

or definitely a cricket

i'm thinking...

am i the only one who finds this magazine cover hilarious?


oh, and they're incredibly hot too...

Thursday, December 08, 2005

"There's a certain class of roles where they say, 'Oh yeah, we'll see anybody.' Then, as the stakes get higher, as the roles get bigger, you hear, 'Well, we're not going ethnic on this role.' That's a phrase I hear a lot."

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

a Big happy Birthday to J-Boy, Babycakes, JJJ, um, Just Jessie

i canceled my gym membership at the y yesterday. y? good question. i've been a member there since i moved here in '99. six years of being a member and six years of having the same locker and same connection and same home away from home. i love that gym.

well, three reasons:
1) i haven't been going in any way regularly in nearly a year. it's not that big a deal since i have periods of interest and then i have slow periods, but my slow period of late has been incredibly long and i just can't seem to have the interest in going. i've just lost most of my interest to go.
2) i can't afford it anymore. i have just been underemployed for too long and can't justify the expense especially since i'm not going.
3) they're moving the building. one of the main reasons i've stayed a member and that i love my gym is because of the building. it's around 100 years old and so ancient and feels historic. i love going to a gym like that. it's so anti-commercialism unlike most gyms. it's also a strong community place and regular people, not gym-bunnies, go there and there's a strong youth center and community feel. i love being a part of that. but since they're moving the building and building a whole new, new, new mega-gym, ugh, i'm just sad and i feel like my home-away-from-home is dying. and one of the other reasons i've always stayed is because i love my locker (locker 341) and it's placement in the gym-- right by the sinks and near the front-- so i never wanted to lose that placement. but since the whole building's moving, that's a moot justification now too.

so i have until the end of january to still be a member and i could always change my mind. and perhaps if things change in my life financially, i might. but right now, the end of my y era is coming close to an end. and it's sadly nostalgic.

Monday, December 05, 2005


i'm so sick of the mass-commercialization, mass-consumerism, mass-marketing of the mass-holiday season

So here's the kicker: Just because all these holiday cliches of joy and togetherness and hope don't really hold, just because they're a little more bogus than we might want to admit, must we give in so desperately, so fundamentally to the real engine of the holidays, the all-devouring retail sector? Truly, every holiday-related news story from now till January focuses almost exclusively on the holy grail that is holiday shopping, on the health of the nation as it relates to how many people are signing their paychecks over to Wal-Mart -- and doesn't that seem horribly wrong and sad? Countless stories regurgitate sales data as if the only factor that mattered to the overall well-being of the human soul was how many Xboxes and iPods and cell phones and digital cameras and plasma TVs were moved this season, and whether you acted like a good American and added to your average of $8,500 of personal credit-card debt ($1.7 trillion total, nationally) from which most of you will never, ever recover...

Given all this unholy consumerist-PR madness, you might think we are headed for some sort of breakthrough, some sort of crack or explosion or huge karmic breach, our ridiculous habits of overabundance and excess finally resulting in a terrible/wonderful sociocultural implosion that will lead us all to less gluttony and refined spiritual appreciation and better cookware. You might think.

Because here's the thing: Every year it seems as though we inch just that much closer to the edge, that much closer to the karmic realization that we long ago passed saturation, passed the point where all our needs have been met and we now merely create endless mountains of new stuff for needs we don't even really have, and you cannot help but feel we are caught in a mad downward spiral, spinning toward something that smells like apocalypse but tastes like chicken and feels very much like a revolution of spirit. Maybe that's it. Maybe this idea, much like being grateful to BushCo for proving that lies and pseudo-Christianity and warmongering and fiscal irresponsibility cannot last as a national agenda, is something to be cherished. All the mad marketing and all the product gluttony, they're all merely further indicators that we are just about ready to burst, to grow up, to snap out of it.

Sunday, December 04, 2005






i like crickets








Thursday, December 01, 2005

new newsletter's up, and don't miss my extra column at the end where i write about my trip to the creating change conference