1. ENTERTAINMENT
Saw two fantastic new documentaries as part of the Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival: Derek, about filmmaker Derek Jarman, and A Jihad For Love, about gay and lesbian observant Muslims. Spontaneously purchased the entire Indiana Jones series to date, simply because the new movie is coming out and our friend Patrick had never ( Read more... )

Many businesses buy and sell your name for marketing lists all the time.  This company seems to be cutting out the middle man.  Get $25 just for giving them your info, and have no further obligation.  Yeah, you might have to deal with more spam, but that's what free Yahoo accounts are for.  My friend
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After two trips since mid-April, I'm ready to stay home for a while and enjoy some routine. I love sleeping in our own bed, being in our home, hangin' with my girl and our cats. My charge seems to be happy to see me back again. I like my life. I think I'll stay here a while.

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1. LIFE'S LITTLE INCONVENIENCES
Oh my fucking G-d keys just cannot stay put this week. We both manage to go into panic mode over losing our keys in two separate incidents in one twenty-four hour period. Is that a new record? realsupergirl's turn up under kaphine's laptop case, while kaphine's turn up at the CVS in South End. Mind you, both places had been checked in those ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning, on the first anniversary of my father's death, my spouse and I are meeting my sister and her partner in Boothbay Harbor, Maine to scatter the third of his ashes I brought back with me after his funeral. It's time to let go. I'm ready, and I'm not ready.

Mark Daniel Woodward

August 31, 1949 - April 16, 2007


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1. LIFE'S LITTLE INCONVENIENCESOn Friday we discovered that our joint checking account was overdrawn, because our lovely, fabulous gym had erroneously charged us $761. They actually charged it earlier in the week, but we didn't discover it till Friday, when our mortgage went through and caused our account to overdraw. They've since credited us ( Read more... )

If you don't have enough reasons to despise the Bush administration already, check out the March 28 This American Life (http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=353). I can't believe what they've gotten away with.