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April 29, 2005
TGIF
I love taking the bus to work. I really do. It gives me time to read the paper, do the crossword, I can relax and wake up.
Howeveer, this morning there was a crackhead on the bus. By crackhead I do not mean just an average crazy guy, I mean CRACKHEAD, he stunk of crack and sadly enough I do know what crack smells like. Of course since he was high on crack he was talking to anyone who would listen, and to a whole bunch of people trying to not listen. Gave me a bit of early morning gratitude that today I don't need to get high.
My weekend is to full. I need to open up some blocks of time where I am not committed, or I will end up committed in a different way, if you know what I am saying. Right now half of my downstairs has the panelling ripped off, my house is a mess and I am having people over next saturday. The theme will most likely end up being early decunstruction, at least it is a theme.
If you are the type that prays, say a prayer for my old friend Cody, he is out there somewhere putting a bunch of drugs into himself and making really bad choices.
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April 28, 2005
Uncharacteristacally Serious Post
Taken from the Outfront Minnesota Website:
House health bill targets funding for Minnesota AIDS Project
As the Minnesota House of Representatives works to complete this session's omnibus health and human services bill (HF 1422), a controversial amendment has been added that would prohibit state funds from going to our ally, the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP). This unwise effort stems from offense taken by Rep. Tom Emmer to what he deemed "sexually explicit" information provided by MAP's Pride Alive initiative, directed at young gay and bisexual men. (Rep. Emmer, at the House hearing in Grand Rapids on March 18, provoked outbursts by suggesting that permitting same-sex couples to marry would lead to people marrying their pets.) According to MAP Executive Director Lorraine Teel, no state funds are used in producing the Pride Alive materials in question, and experience shows that frank talk about sexual activities is an effective way to communicate with young gay and bisexual men, who continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. The loss of some $425,000 in State funds would represent a loss of approximately 10% of MAP's annual revenue, and would result in cuts to or elimination of critical HIV-related services. Administration officials have been skeptical of this provision, noting that MAP is a vital part of Minnesota's efforts to combat HIV and AIDS. For more information, visit the website of the Minnesota AIDS Project.
OutFront Minnesota opposes this provision of HF 1422, and encourages you to contact your Senator to urge that a similar provision not be included in the Senate companion bill (SF 1313). If you do not know who your Senator is, use our website to identify your Senator, as well as his or her office address, phone number, and email address.
This is important. I lost so many friends due to the bigotry and inaction of Presidents Reagan and Bush, there are new generations becoming sexually active who feel invulnerable to HIV. It is only responsible to give access to educational material so that people can make proper choices. Let your voices be heard.
Silence=Death
ACT UP
Fight AIDS
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WHY IS IT SO COLD!!!!!!
It is 36 degrees here. That is completely unacceptable. How am I supposed to continue with my beach lifestyle when the hair on my legs is freezing off? It needs to be in the 70's at least. I would like all of you to do something about this today.
Thank you.
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April 27, 2005
will this week EVER end?
I am experience undue stress and anxiety this week. I need a vacation.
At least I have the ability to deal with stress and the means to take a vacation, some thing to have some gratitude about.
I keep a personal journal, handwritten, have since middle school, and am coming to the end of my most recent one, after 2 years. I went to Borders to buy a new journal the pther day and was annoyed that they no longer carry the one I like. Yet another thing to adjust to.
A friend gave me a passel of art yesterday, very cool.
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April 26, 2005
one of those days
I truly did not want to get out of bed this morning. There I was all snuggled in bed with the cats trying to convince myself that a mild headache, having no coffee in the house and needing to get my haircut were reason enough to call in sick. Then responsibility, accountabiliy and debt reminded me that I needed to get out of bed and drag my ass into the office. It does make it easier that I love my job, but it does not eliminate those feelings.
I don't really like the show Medium, and yet I find myself watching it every week. Patricia Arquette annoys me, ok ALL the Arquettes annoy me. Damn, that woman has some thick ankles on her!
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April 25, 2005
Good morning Monday
Well, the weekend is over, and it was a good one. Very relaxing. I saw the Interpreter and was rather disappointed. It is not that the movie was bad, it is just that it was not as good as I had hoped it would be. Damned expectations ruining yet another experience!
I do want to say that Nicole Kidman has never looked better. It was also nice to see how frigging HOTSean Penn is. He is really a handsome man.
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April 22, 2005
Would you let this man eat you?
Armin Meiwes, dubbed the 'Cannibal from Rotenburg' smiles during his trial in Kassel, Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2004 file photo. The German federal court on Friday, April 22, 2005 ordered a retrial for the German who was convicted last year of killing and eating another man, giving prosecutors a chance to secure a tougher sentence. Prosecutors had appealed last year's ruling by a court in the city of Kassel, which sentenced Armin Meiwes to 8 1/2 years in prison for manslaughter. They argued that he should be given a life sentence for murder. The Federal Court of Justice overturned the original conviction and sent the case to a state court in Frankfurt for retrial.
oh dear.
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It would explain the purse
Honey, Denial ain't just a river in Eygpt!
Associated Press
Don't mistake Paula Abdul's "American Idol" niceties or silliness for drug addiction. Despite a neuropathic disorder and 12 operations, Abdul says she's "not addicted to pills of any kind."
"If people only knew what I've gone through with pain and pills," Abdul, 42, tells the May 2 issue of People magazine. "I'm dancing for joy at the fact that not even a year ago I was in so much pain I could barely get up."
Last November, the "Idol" judge was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, a chronic neurological disorder that causes severe pain.
"I get a shot (of an anti-inflammatory drug) once a week," she said. "I give it to myself."
Abdul remarked that her 25 years of pain have been long and arduous, beginning with a cheerleading accident at 17 that injured a disc in her neck. The pain was punctuated with "a couple of car accidents" in the 1980s, her battle with bulimia, an emergency plane landing in 1992, paralysis in 1998 and years of failed treatments including prescription drugs, acupuncture and live leech therapy.
"By 1999, everywhere I went, I'd look for something sharp to lean up against and jam a corner into my neck — something to fight the pain," Abdul said.
The choreographer and former Laker girl is talking about her chronic pain after reading messages posted on the Fox talent show's Web site that attributed her odd antics to drug addiction.
"From where I was to where I am is a miracle," she said. "It's beyond a miracle."
Last month, Abdul was fined and sentenced to two years' probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of hit-and-run driving. The charge stemmed from an accident last December in which her car clipped another vehicle on a San Fernando Valley freeway.
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Dining Out for Life
Eating is good, Fight AIDS is good.
Doing both at the same time- Fabulous!
Find it in your city.
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Back from the Desert
I just had a whirlwind two day business trip to Arizona. I tried to post while I was there, but the wireless connection at the Hampton Inn on Oracle Road in Tucson, Arizona sucks ass, and not in the good way.
I have not been to the Southwest, outside of Texas, since I was a teenager. So much has changed in those few years. I was really struck by how beautiful it is there, i have a bunch of pictures, but they are on my laptop, and I am posting from work(SHH).
As a Catholic I was psyched to see this today-
Benedict XVI is a deeply conservative pope who has taken a strong line in the past on gays, calling homosexual orientation a tendency toward "intrinsic moral evil."
His handling of the latest controversy will be scrutinised for clues as to how he intends to drive forward his papacy in a Church also divided over other hot-button issues such as contraception, abortion, divorce and the ordination of women.
The Spanish bill, which is expected to be passed by the Senate upper house after its approval Thursday by lower house deputies, would allow gays to marry as well as adopt children.
Trujillo said that anyone asked to conduct such a ceremony should exercise the same right to conscientious objection as doctors asked to perform abort a foetus.
That is awesome. Fortunately my relationship with God is not dictated by a former member of the Nazi Party.
I want to send best wishes out to my friend Linus, who on his journey to manhood just spent a week in San Francisco "getting something off his chest". Good for you my friend, good for you! Have a speedy recovery.
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April 19, 2005
New Pope
Don't look in his eyes, he will hypnotize you!
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What can you do!
I am talking to my friend Mike, who not pictured above, about ife and how it doesn't always go the way you (and by you I mean me)want it to go. Things are good, just not to my plan. His advice to me, "Sometimes you just have to put your boots on and wade through it".
Of course I wore sandals to work today, so this should be interesting.
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April 18, 2005
Well that weekend is over.
I have just made it through one of the most annoying weekends of my life. Not bad, not traumatic, nothing I am not already over, or at least getting over. It was just one of those weekends where I did not get to do anything I had planned. I ended up dealing with people, places and things which I had no desire to deal with. But it is over and a new week of challenges lays ahead.
I am off to Tucson Arizona for a couple of days this week, work related, but I should have a few minutes free, any suggestions?
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April 15, 2005
I AM A WINNER!!!!!
How exciting was I to recieve this e-mail. Should I quit my job today?
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Do any people actually respond to these things? LOL
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Life's a Beach
I have made a decision.
I am going to live this summer as if I were on a holiday and living at the beach. Shorts, sandals, loose fitting pants and linen shirts, somehow, whether by tanning or exposure to the actual sun I will do my damnedest to maintain an always lightlt painful sunburn. And I will laugh at every chance I get.
I am considering putting piles of sand by every entrance to my house, so that it is always tracked in, perhaps dumping a cup into the final spin cycle of each wash. The feigning annoyance at having to brush everything off.
It will be a summer of homemade lemonade and freshly brewed iced tea, with mint! I will read paperback novels, filling their pages with sand and damping them so that the covers warp and curl.
I will leave beach bags around the house with huge towels and baggies of clean cold green grapes at the ready, the fridge filled with bottles of cold water.
And I will fall in love with someone, passionately, if just for the summer.
This sounds like a plan.
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April 14, 2005
What Is He Thinking
Robin Williams looking as if he has had a lot, and I mean a lot of plastic surgery. What is with this? I cannot imagine paying someone to do this to yourself. I am so against plastic surgery!
Well, maybe a tummy tuck, or my eyes, if they got really bad.
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gays in the news
This whole Minnesota political thing, what with gay republican senator(wtf?) and the Michelle Bachman Comedy Hour is a making for great theater. I think this woman has totally fucked herself.
and it delights me.
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April 13, 2005
I am a very bad parent
I forgot to buy cat food last night. I remembered this at 6 am this morning while I was making coffee(daybreak, french pressed)and Frank and Henry were meowing at my feet. S I did what any loving father would do, I made the kitties bacon and eggs!
Now Henry would have no problem surviving in the wild, I have seriously seen this cat grab a dropped potato chip in three seconds, he will eat anything. Frank however, has a more delicate stomach. Unless it is his familiar fare he turns his nose up at it(he is his fathers son).
So, I left my hungry kitties with a plate of bacon and eggs, tonight they will have IAMS, but for today they need to fend for themselves a bit.
Is that really horrible?
I was thrilled to see Michelle Bachman made a fool of in the Star Tribune today.
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April 12, 2005
Remember Have Your Pets Spayed and Neutered
The time has come to have Henry's tiny little testes clipped off. I feel a bit uncomfortable with this, each time I think about it my own "junk" pulls protectively closer to my body, but I know it is the right thing to do.
Plus my barcelona chairs are begging me to have him declawed.
When I went through all of this with Frank it was horribly traumatic, for me. I even arranged to have someone else take him to the vets, so that he would not somehow connect me with this awful experience. I picked him up, acting all appalled over what had been done to him. It really was a moment.
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April 11, 2005
amazing weekend
What a great weekend, sunny and warm here in Minnesota. Thankfully there was an overcast period on Sunday, I had some work to do inside the house and there was no going inside while the sun was shining.
Friday night I went to see "The Upside of Anger" with Joan Allen and Kevin Costner. Wonderful film, Joan Allen is always amazing and I actually enjoyed Kevin Costner. If you have not seen this movie, go! right now! If you have seen it, don't spoil it for anyone, I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the other shoe to drop for 2 hours, did not see that one coming.
Saturday I was at the gym in the morning, then spent the day working outside and talking to friends. It is such a gift to be live in Uptown, just 2 blocks from Lake Calhoun. The sun, the water, the half naked men. Yup.
Sunday, for some horrible reason I found myself in spin class at 8:30 with my friend Isabella. Which we followed with a carb rich brunch.
It was one of those weekends that I can look back on and smile, just to be pleased with how full my life is.
Hope you had a good one too.
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April 08, 2005
It is too nice to be at work today.
It is beautiful outside. I was at a seminar this morning on co-occurring disorders in adolescents at the hazelden center for youth and family this morning. It was very interesting, but it is hard to come back to work when you know how fabulous the day is.
Well at least the weekend is here and it is going to be beautiful out.
Yeah! It is summer!(or at least spring.)
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April 07, 2005
Marry Me a Little, Love Me Just Enough
When I was a freshman in college I met a guy named Bob, he was a little guy, about 5'7" curly brown hair and he made me very happy. Within a couple of months we were living together, taking road trips to Toronto and his family's house on Long Island.
Times were not always great, there were days when we didn't have money(an evening of eating Halls cherry cough drops as candy is a great memory), I drank too much, he forgave me, most of the time.
We loved each other, very much and if we could have we would have been married.
The spring we both turned 25, following a root canal Bobby had a anuerism and died. I was working for a caterer and got home to find the answering machine filled with messages from his friend Michelle about how he had started to ramble incoherently and that she was taking him to the emergency room. By the time I got to the er he was being put on life support where he would stay fopr three more days until his parents agreed to have the machines turned off.
I was not allowed to be in the room when the man I had spent the previous 7 years loving died, because I was not related to him. My father, who has always had difficulties with my sexuality, dismissed my grief by telling me that Bob was just a sex partner, what was I so upset about. I had to pray for this man I love separated from him, at the will of his parents, who did have a change of heart by the time the funeral happened.
This event is was made me realize the political significance of my life. That indeed being gay was about much more than sex. This is when I "got involved"
And today I will be at the Minnesota State Capitol protesting against our state governments drive to constitutionally ban same sex marriage. I will be there for Bobby, I will be there for myself and if you can't be there I will be there for you.
But you should be there, for me.
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A bit of skin before I get all serious on your ass
nice
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April 06, 2005
The day the crush ended
In the mid eighties I had a thing for Kirk Cameron, this is before he became the voice of Christianity.
From this outfit it is hard to believe that he would ever marry, but he has had a long successful marriage to Chelsea somebody from Cheektowaga a shithole,I am sorry I mean suburb of Buffalo, New York, my hometown. Due to his "celebrity" Kirk would be invited to many Buffalo celebrations. I bumped into him in the men's room at Curtain Up, the opening of the Buffalo theater season(you can imagine what a star studded event this is).
Let's just say yes, I checked him out and that was the day the crush ended.
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I love Spring!
Living by Lake Calhoun is the only place to live in Minneapolis in the warm weather. Hundreds of men, men like Brendan pictured above, swarm the lakes, delighted to have any excuse to show some skin. And I am delighted for them, and for me.
Tragic day yesterday, Prince Ranier died, Peter Jennings has cancer and the rumor of the Spears Reality show were all confirmed. Bad things certainlt do come in threes.
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April 05, 2005
Opps, I am pretending to do it again!
Spears, Husband to Star in Reality Series
NEW YORK - Pop singer Britney Spears and hubby Kevin Federline have said "I do" to star in a UPN reality series that documents their courtship, engagement and wedding.
Featuring what UPN bills as "exclusive, never-before-seen private home videos" of their "personal love story," the six-episode series is scheduled to premiere later this season. It picks up shortly after the pair met in Los Angeles and headed to Europe on tour, where Federline performed as a backup dancer for Spears.
UPN is also shooting new footage and commentary with the couple.
They were married last fall, amid much speculation and publicity. More recently, the 23-year-old Spears has lashed out at tabloid magazines for reporting that she is pregnant and that the marriage is on the rocks. (This is her second marriage, following her mere hours-long wedlock in January 2004 to childhood friend Jason Alexander.)
"I feel that last year the tabloids ran my life," said the Grammy Award-winning singer in commenting on her new series, "and I am really excited about showing my fans what really happened rather than all the stories, which have been misconstrued by journalists in the past."
OK, first, how annoying and trashy will this be, not to mention pathetic. Secondly and more importantly, how can they do a "reality" show "documenting" their courtship, engagement and wedding if they are already married. Instead of "reality" isn't this a "re-enactment" like the crimes on America's Most Wanted?
Although this is a much bigger crime.
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Ridiculous Television
That is Alan, he has nothing to do with this mornings post and that is just fine.
For some reason I tortured myself last night and watched "Mork and Mindy Behind the Scenes". Now I am of the generation that grew up on Mork and Mindy. When I was in fifth gradeI wanted a pair of rainbow suspenders, because that is what Mork wore. I can remember throwing a fit because the ones my mother found me didn't have the pointing finger closure that Morks did.
How did they not know I was gay?
Anyway, I hated the show last night. I want the two hours I pissed away back.
On to happier things, it is beautiful in Minnesota in Spring. Thanks to my short term memory loss or my ADD I have already forgotten how friggin' cold and miserable it gets here. 70 degrees yesterday! As I was crossing the Mississippi on my way to work this morning I noticed that there is still some snow on the bluffs, since there is rain forcasted today ( I LOVE thunderstorms!) all the remaining rain should have washed away by morning. Tomorrow the air will smell clean and it will really be Spring.
Shout out to my friend Matt N. who was accepted to the law school he wanted to go to yesterday. It is always good to have a lawyer for a friend.
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April 04, 2005
early monday mornng
what a weekend, the pope is dead, camilla will be the princess of wales, it is 70 degrees here today, lindsay is bitching about how her ears hurt.
life is good
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April 01, 2005
Damn, that is hot!
I would love to tap this!
What could be hotter than a couple of stacked blond twins?
April Fool.
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