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Do you know meee?
I am so famous!
(…says Daniel Stern, a Vancouver-based automotive lighting expert who sits on several technical standards development boards in North America and worldwide…) -
Something old, something new…
About thirty days ago our newest friend Dan died shortly after being sent home too early from some fairly major operations (score another one for American best-in-the-world "healthcare"). We'd clicked immediately and got to know him for all of three whole, entire months. »blink« Gone. Everything I should have been able to write here never got a ( Read more... ) -
NCOD
1980, I'm 4 years old: John Lennon shot. Mother says he was a fag, then defines the term crudely in response to my query.
~1983, 7 years old: first memorable incidents of mother's nonspecifically directed venomous anti-gay screeds and fag jokes.
~1987, 11 years old: first inkling my perception of girls was nonstandard. At a synagogue function of ( Read more... ) -
Movies revisited
Just recently I downloaded and watched a couple movies I haven't seen in a long time.
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Delayed reaction
I have been keeping my thoughts in re the US Supreme Court mostly to myself because immediately following a big win I might tend to sound like rain on a well-justified parade. But today's America Day (land of the freeHEEEEE, home of the brayeeyayeeyayeeyave, etc.), so ( Read more... ) -
2012 (late)
This 2012 retrospective was "due" the end of December. Or the beginning of January, or not later than the 2nd week of February, or…well, here we are at the end of May-how-time-flies. But that's okeh, really, because the salient features I meant to write about in re 2012 continued strongly enough to make this ~16 month period pretty contiguous: 2012 ( Read more... )
