today almost couldn't be worse (okay, okay, i know it could be, but...).  first, i woke up at a quarter to 3 and never got back to sleep. during the first 45 minutes that i tried to nurse myself back to slumber i noticed the snow falling.  i was surprised how slushy it still was on some of my main roads in to work even at 7:30, and i felt my car ( Read more... )

From Digby ( Read more... )

From the Times this morning:

"The letter sent to bars quoted the poem "A Display of Mackerel" by gay writer Mark Doty, leading many to speculate the letters were written by someone who is gay or lesbian. The poem was recently published in his book "Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems," which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008."

A ha, i ( Read more... )

last Friday, amid much jubilation, a UPS truck idled outside my apartment signaling my long awaited replacement RAZR had arrived.  hooray!  now i can take pictures of my cock again!  oops, that just slipped out.  but really, who doesn't... right? *nervous smile ( Read more... )

"You might think that an organization that for most of the first of its not yet two centuries of existence was the world’s most notorious proponent of startlingly unconventional forms of wedded bliss would be a little reticent about issuing orders to the rest of humanity specifying exactly who should be legally entitled to marry whom. But no. The ( Read more... )

so, it's official.  my mom has breast cancer.  wow.  it's hard to believe.  i just got off the phone with my grandmother so i could get less, well, filtered information.  she's having a masectomy.  they'll also check out the other breast and the lymph nodes.  then she'll have to do chemo.  the last part is where i really get upset.  chemo is one of ( Read more... )

Just so everyone knows, on Saturday at noon there will be protests of Prop 8 that was just passed in California, and in support of marriage equality, all across the country.  If you can get yourself to Volunteer Park by noon on the 15th, please come.  We need numbers to show that this is the beginning of a serious movement to stop discrimination ( Read more... )

I'll be brief with this...  this morning Obama's victory for me is bittersweet.  we got him in (by a wider margin than i ever could have imagined a few short weeks ago), but here's a brief look at what else our country did last night ( Read more... )

Kitty survives 22 miles trapped under car's hood

http://www.komonews.com/news/33475004.html

look, i know it's been a difficult 8 years.   most of us were rudely awakened from complacency and then slapped in the face again when Kerry lost.  but there is no point to all this hand wringing and looking for signs of failure and disaster.  ooh a mistake here, and one there... Mccain, Palin, big bad scary with big bad scary troglodyte supporters ( Read more... )