While I am beyond words that Barrack Obama is President Elect, I am deeply saddened by the fact that Proposition 8 passed in California. I know that not everyone who voted for Proposition 8 really wants to do harm to homosexual individuals. But they will say things. They will say really (in my mind) stupid hypocritical things like "Marriage is and ( Read more... )

Skippy's List is a wonderful list compiled by SPC Schwarz some time ago of the things he was told by the army he could not do. He was in the army and psychological operations specialist ( Read more... )

It is wonderful events like this that help convince that radical republicans are well informed thoughtful individuals, who should be give their due consideration ( Read more... )

Taken from hereDear Red States ( Read more... )

Art is more than just a bunch of pretty pictures, paintings, sculptures or videos. Art is another language which dwells beyond words and still within. Art is another way of knowing. Art is conveying experiences particular to any given person/artist. Art is a dialogue of ideas and concepts which have been around, and inserting a new point of view ( Read more... )

I have been dwelling more and more on the serendipitous line between being a veteran, artist, and queer. I’m just thinking about what a truly marginal position that is, and what the implications of that intersection are. I don’t really tout my queer or my veteran status for all to see. I also feel, I have been a marginal artist at best since I have ( Read more... )

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I found this both a musing, wonderful, and depressing.
Is there a dream which you have that you are willing to die for?

Edit: I am not suicidal or sad. This video just made me think, that is all.

I am dumbfounded that something like this is circulating, and the fact that people are so bound by a religious outlook which requires one to check their brain at the door. Pretty much every attack listed has had some sort of political motivation. Also, the average Muslim looks at what these "Male Muslims" have been doing and are utterly disgusted. ( Read more... )

I want to say about two years ago, in 2006, during a gallery viewing trip near school, I cam across a series of collage images which simply enthralled me. They combined colorful floral prints as accents, attractive scantly clad young men of a definitive 'punk aesthetic' with occult, and mystical associations akin to a 17th century Victorian ( Read more... )