Today I took some time and did a little bit of writing and a lot of cleanup on my portfolio here on the site. I still need to go through and add quite a bit, but at least what I had (months ago) migrated over from my old Joomla site, are now in working order.
The catalyst for finally doing some work on this is that I’d like to do some volunteer work with an amazing organization called Get Her Elected. They team up with progressive, female candidates around the country and help find pro bono work for them: everything from simple data entry and using online text banking tools, to policy analysis, graphic and web design and coaching on fundraising and volunteer recruitment.
I figured I’d like to throw my hat in the ring in the future, so I better get my online presence a little bit beefed up, plus, it’s something I’ve been neglecting for a while, so this is a great excuse to get things where I’d rather they be.
There’s new Firefly comics coming out! This time, a new studio, Boom!, who did the Munchkin comics, will be publishing them.
I’ll be writing at length about the MasterpieceSCOTUS decision, but of course, a member of the South Dakota GOP has said that because of that case, businesses can discriminate based on race.
Students from Majory Stoneman Douglas performed a song from RENT at the Tony’s:
I’ve been a local volunteer (municipal liaison) for National Novel Writing Month for a few years now. It’s so amazing and I love helping participants and kids (through the Young Writers Program) unlock their creative potential and write for 30 days with literary abandon. NaNoWriMo also runs two camp sessions: participants get to choose what they work on and how they measure success. This year, I”m jumping in with a great group with the goal to write each day.
A lot of that writing will be here, some of it will not, but getting back into that discipline is something I’d like to practice a bit, and what better way than with an amazing team of writers (all of whom identify as Slytherin but they’ve adopted this Hufflepuff to create the ‘Drunkest Slytherpuff” cabin once again)!
Today’s writing (and many of them, I do have a big backlog) is a ‘normal’ blog post for me, so here we go!
Nerdist asks if George Lucas’ idea for the sequels is what you imagined. No. No it is not. But, in retrospect, it gives more credence to some of the things I hated about the prequels (and again, Star Wars is his creation, he can tell whatever story he likes, we get to choose if we like it or not. Well…Disney does now).
I’ll be talking about the Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cake in a later post, but this executive order from May is also really, really dangerous. We’re quickly moving into a world where the few rights I have are being superseded by the ability for people to use their bigoted “religious views” to discriminate against me. And yes, even if you’re using religion, it’s still bigoted.
Alright, that’s it for now, sorry for all the depressing things, but sometimes, that’s just what the world deals you. I’ll be back with more soon!
Thank you, to Garfunkle and Oates for hitting it out of the park with this song:
This makes me laugh, but it’s what we deal with all the time. A person makes some bigoted remark about how he thinks gay people are going to hell and then gets all upset when the pushback happens. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Let’s talk about gun control. Thankfully, America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers is here to have the conversation:
In case you forgot, PA state Rep (from north of Pittsburgh, so not my elected official) Daryl Metcalfe is a bigoted, misogynistic,, racist waste of oxygen. He’s also been single handedly holding up the bills that would give me some equal rights in the Commonwealth.
NBC straight-washed the opening ceremony, and it’s a problem. Gus Kenworthy was with Adam Rippon and Shawn White almost the entire time, and never once was the fact that Gus or Adam are gay came up, although both were some of the highest profile athletes of the games.
Also, on a stupid note, Republicans in South Carolina want non-straight marriages to be called ‘parody marriage.’ Because apparently not only are they evil, bigoted, heartless bastards, they’re also children.
But, it’s not all doom and gloom, I promise. As always, children will save us:
Speaking of Pittsburgh, there is going to be a Mr. Rogers biopic! I am so, so excited about this!
My favorite Super Bowl ads were from Tide:
Philadelphia Eagles flocked to a bar called ‘The Eagle’ due to its name. Here’s a hint, if there’s a bar named ‘The Eagle,’ chances are it’s a gay leather bar.
The Olympics may be over, but this video will be with us forever:
I’m calling bullshit on the ‘gay Porgs’ in Star Wars. The fact that this is a multibillion dollar franchise so embedded into our culture and we get gay background animals if we squint and know some obscure fact, instead of actual representation is humiliating. LucasFilm and Disney can do better.
Trulia now shows you the rights you’ll have as a queer person when looking at homes on the market. Our rights are a patchwork and it can be really confusing remembering what rights I have where, so this is a really nice feature, but so sad that it’s needed.
A California court has sided with an anti-gay baker. I will remind you that this is not really about cake. It’s about basic human dignity. And the fact that I have to worry about what hospital and doctors I see, because they can turn me away. It’s about the fact that funeral homes can turn loved ones away all by citing religious freedom. It’s about bigotry.
