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Monthly Archives: June 2009
What I’ve Been Doing For the Last Month
Sorry for the lack of interesting content but for most of the last month or so I’ve been spending every spare moment prepping my book. Above is the final cover, and as you can see I’ve gone back to the … Continue reading
Goodbye, Mike
If you’re my age, plus or minus a couple years, then Michael Jackson’s music was part of your life. And yeah, later, he became a troll in his own life, poisoned by celebrity and the weird depredations that lifestyle brings, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Grim Spector
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And Away
On Saturday, Elvira and our friend Luke and I went to see Up[1] and were mightily impressed. It really is amazing, the attention to detail the Pixar gang puts into their story-telling. There’s a ten minute, mostly silent montage that … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Reviews
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What Books Would Jesus Burn?
Guardian UK: In a scene which appears to have been lifted straight out of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a group of Christians in Wisconsin has launched a legal claim demanding the right to publicly burn a copy of a book … Continue reading
Posted in Banned!, Books, Culture War, LGBT Rights, Religion
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Still Here, Just Busy
Been spending every spare moment trying to finalize the proof of my book and have it available by the end of the month. In the meantime, we’ve gotten a Roku, which is awesome and of which I will have more … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT Rights, Television
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New Hampshire Legalizes Gay Marriage!
And for real, not like California’s implicit, we’ll-have-to-go-the-whole-way-eventually-but-not-today kinda way. New Hampshire did it right and just laid it all out there, joining such bastions of saniy and modern living as Ohio Iowa* and the Sims 3 game. That’s right, … Continue reading