Written: 04/24/2011
I have another video to share with you. Enjoy this eloquent (and short) argument from Dan Savage:
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 04/24/2011
The “I’m from Driftwood” series is wonderful. This latest movie, for whatever reason, really stuck with me. I think it’s the pure optimism at the end. Take a look:
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 04/24/2011
Note: I have a bunch of stuff to write about (I’ve been behind in my writing due to work and illness), so a bunch will show up as being written today, ignore the dates and enjoy the writing)
A few weeks ago I was at the bar, hanging out with some friends. The woman next to me mentioned something about diving, so I politely inquired about it, which led to a nice conversation about diving. As these things do, the conversation continued.
She was the manager at Mad Mex, where a good friend bartends and it seems they are never at a loss for customers. She was looking for two bartenders: both male, one of a racial minority and one gay. She had commented that she would like one person to fulfill both those needs, but wasn’t going to press her luck. Aside from the fact that legally I don’t think she can do that (but as long as she never says that in an interview or job posting, I think she’s okay), had I known anything at all about bartending I think I would have turned to her and offered my hand as her gay bartender.
But I’m content to stay on this side of the bar.
And besides, even though she isn’t there any more, I heard she was awful to work for.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Okay, big update for everyone, so here we go.
First up, this comes from Slog, and is fantastic:
Two weeks ago in his column, Dan Savage eviscerates Maggie Gallagher. It’s wonderful to read, check it out.
Video Games will now have their own category in the Grammy’s! Thank goodness. Baba Yetu won last year for best instrumental (I linked to it before, and it deserves it, it is such a good song, especially the duet version).
Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, is back! And now she’s addressing the masses:
Catholic Vandals in France destroyed “Piss Christ.” I’m not familiar with the work, but apparently it’s quite famous. They assaulted a guard and attacked the photo with an ice pick, which just sounds viscous. It always makes me sad to see art destroyed.
A few months ago, Gawker redesigned their family of sites, and they are horrible to try to navigate now. Here’s a graph of their traffic, can you guess when the redesign went live:
It’s nice to see the Democrats actually go on the offensive for once, and the ad is a lot of fun (if not sad):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ
Also in politics, remember the phrase that those who protest the loudest against [insert any cause] are usually actually personally involved in [cause]. See: Larry Craig, et al. Well, the Tea Party member of the state congress of Montana who tried to removed all equality for LGBT citizens? Yeah, she’s a lesbian. When will politicians learn that this pattern is clear?
Want to see something fun and cute? Check out Cute Roulette. It’s like Chat Roulette, but with (presumably) no penises, just lots of baby animals!
You’ll have to excuse me while I laugh. Considering he is the man who after a rant of anti-Semitic slurs called a cop “Sugar Tits,” Mel Gibson has the gall to say he has never treated anyone badly, and certainly not for their religion or gender!
That’s it for now, have a great one!
I’ll be back with more, hopefully later today, but maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy my yearly tradition:
He really is amazing:
Written: 04/10/2011
For Stockholm Pride, their organizing committee made this web app that goes through your Twitter feed and shows you where it lies on the sexuality spectrum. Aside from giggling like I was 12 (yes, I know, sometimes I’m very immature, but it keeps me young and happy, so leave me be), I enjoyed the description, I thought it was fitting.
All my best,
The King of Spades
I forgot to add earlier, I participated in a NCAA bracket challenge through the Y, and for a while, was in first place! I was so excited that I took a screenshot:
And as cool as that was, by the end, I dropped down to second (again, screenshot to follow, since I’m so excited). As shown by the name of my bracket, I still have no idea what’s going on with NCAA basketball, but it was fun while it lasted!
The Target shows us how Boyd came to the Dollhouse. Well, at least how we think he came to the Dollhouse. It’s interesting, knowing what happens in season 2, how he first interacts with Echo as he is set up as her handler.
The “shoulder to the wheel” is of course corny and over the top, but serves to show that Echo is remembering. Kind of dumb, yes, but these are the episodes when FOX was in charge, not Joss, so I guess we have to go with it.
And of course, more information comes forward about Alpha and his composite event. It’s nice to see a story arc being put together at least with Alpha and Echo, even if the rest of these first episodes are just “monster of the week” episodes.
We also are introduced to Mellie for the first time in this episode, again, I was smiling, knowing what I do. She’s one of my favorite characters, and her showing up with lasagna, waiting for Ballard, was always a highlight for me.
Smaller update today, but here’s what we got, hope you enjoy.
Huge news, URU is finally being released as open source! I don’t quite understand how it all works, but I’m very excited that the community will finally get to sink it’s teeth into Age Writing (and everything that comes with it).
I”m really afraid of public protests, but I think I could hold this sign up, it’s smart, witty and makes an good argument:
Have you been following all the trouble surrounding Spiderman: Turn off the Dark? George Takei is going to fix it all:
This is just amazing. I now kind of want to go bread shopping!
BuzzFeed has the link to a survey of GOP voters from Mississippi. I don’t think I can sigh enough:
A guy, for Lent, is doing a Monk-diet: only beer and water. Follow his adventure here.
The new “Kingdom Tower” will be one mile high, twice the height of the Burj Khalifa. A normal elevator would take 12 minutes to reach the top from the bottom. And it was just given the go ahead to begin construction. Crazy! Take a look:
That’s it for now, catch everyone later!
