Best Song About Thin Ice Since Yoko Ono Took on the Issue

The vocorder makes me think of Imogen Heap, and I'm really smitten by Andrew Gregory, who is featured in the duet with Katie Couric. Apparently his main gig is as a folk singer in Brooklyn, but he does well as someone terrorized by global melting.

Some Questions are Timeless

Pinky Says: Apartheid Is So Gay

This Was My Weekend

Every few years I come back to this book which makes me ask if I made a mistake by not making a commitment with my own collector of Americana instead of holding out hope for what was vaguely waiting around the edges but gone by the time I had moved to the edge.

Though I am fond of hats, I don't plan to meet a bitter end by swallowing mercury at a millinery shop, but someone lurking around the edges doesn't even seem possible at this stage. However, like Miss Bart's Aunt Julia, I can become very upset when the front blinds are lowered at unequal lengths.

And just my luck to become a trust fund kid just when trust funds are so unworthy of trust. Other than that, life is perfection. Thanks for asking.

5:40 p.m. - 7 November, 2008 - Civic Center

Ironic?

Has it been mentioned and I missed it or has no one brought up the irony that Proposition 8 was funded by a religion with a history of making non-traditional marriage one of its core values and some of its radical offshoots still embrace? Many people get very upset or nervous when polygamy and same sex marriage are mentioned in the same breath, but it seems that members of a religion whose ancestors suffered through abuse and murder for their embracing of a form of marriage in stark defiance of Proposition 8 would have some shred empathy for those against whom it will discriminate.

My 'Hood and Building Defy Prop. 8

The two nice women who live on the top floor of my building got married this weekend, with these rose petals on our steps serving as a nice remnant of the milestone. For those not from California or not following the news, Proposition 8 is the "definition of marriage" or, more accurately, "let's make sure we continue to make same sex couples second class citizens" initiative.

I sure hope the car parked across the street is not their honeymoon vehicle. On second thought, I sort of hope that it is since it sort of screams out defiance and celebration.

Will, Grace & a Donkey

Like Jackie Broyles, I can't stand having bats or gay people getting in my face, so I've avoided talking about this whole gay marriage thang. So I thought I'd leave my thoughts to the always spot on Red State Update boys. And, remember, don't sue the Bible 'cause you don't want to take on a book full of Jews.