I don't mind being in Mineral Wells.

It's the 5-hour, 200-mile drive I mind.

We're at their Best Western now, watching bad tv and digesting Granma Field's dinner. This Texan holiday is proving relaxing, if perhaps too idle.

I hope to return with resolve... unless reading these texan newspapers completely demoralizes me. Time will tell!

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Flying on Xmas isn't that bad. The family greeted us, fed us, and made us to feel welcome. Gifts were exchanged and we took an episode of Rome to bed.

Tomorrow: Grandma's!

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(the comic, not the problem)

Following my particular attraction to Robin (the Boy Wonder), I read the Identity Crisis) mini, over 2 days. Good.

It's mostly for the fan boys (but anything w/ Superman & Wonder Woman usually is). Specifically the exposition on ironies of power. (How do you stop an invincible man? Shoot his wife.) it's a bit dated now, ( Read more... )

Premise: Bobby Kennedy, avoiding assassination, presides over America's shift to democratic-soocialism. Epilogue covers the 2nd US Civil War (1986-7).

Grade: B+

A leftist dream, this frictionless thought experiment, whisked me away...then dropped me back at square one. No precient insight into Obama's first term, the tale sidesteps the needles of " ( Read more... )

Straight From out in the cornfields, circa 1982, they boast decades of cafeteria-quality food and entertainment touching 10 million lives. Ten million. Really?

It's ... a sermon, in the accent of irony. I cringe at the fairy character, lisping and calling out "put it in me". The Juan character, too.

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Jesse extolls in the kitchen on jade carving and politics and more. Tex is in his element, sort of.

We're with family, sorta. Long time spent with a cat, waiting for the food. Not lonely. Nor alone.

(I hope this couple stays together. It's so hard to find a good man.)

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We already know that it ends with a bang, so no worry about spoilers. The film was the Van Sant psychological study, but of a movement and it's posterboys. Hopeful and passionate mobs are recruited. They vote. (Twice they win; many times they lose.)

The whole community is turned out, or at least a major chunk. It's always surprising to find the ( Read more... )

"With celebrity fly by night marriages & 50% divorce rate, marriage needs an infusion of good gay love." -Jeremy Hanson

(Dan Savage was on Colbert Report?)

At this, the "largest protest in the history of the glbt movement," across the states and across the world, "We call upon the Supreme Court of California turn back the tyranny of the majority." - ( Read more... )

I'm off soon to join the impact, the nationwide set of protest/rallies versus proposition 8.

And I'm nervous as all hell.

Nothing specific worries me, but I'm bubbling over with nervous gases. My mind is alive with visions of angry mobs and RNC head-busting. Did I mention that socialists are organizing it?

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The mercury was in the 20s when I flew back and it hasn't risen since.

The late morning bus carries me to work and gives the mumbling lady her forum. Sh's draped in a light blue blanket and murmurs continuously of sign language, spiders, her husband and "Living in total darkness..."

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