| Reposted from Savage Love |
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| 11:25am 22/03/2006 |
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Straight Rights Update: Earlier this month, Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family-planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women," one Republican state rep told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying promiscuity is okay." On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine—a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year—from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child-support payments, gentlemen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.
What's it going to take to get a straight-rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back! |
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| 04:01pm 08/03/2006 |
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One year anniversary today! I love you Enzo!
How the fuck did a year fly by that fast? |
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| 10:45am 01/03/2006 |
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this cat weighs 33 lbs. It's waistline is larger than mine. |
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| 01:19am 27/02/2006 |
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Don Knotts died, I have a huge fucking headache and MSN has another stupid article about black being back. But, I had an awesome weekend!
Saturday Enzo and I stayed in bed until 3 p.m. Seriously. We woke at about 11 and then just cuddled and chatted and watched Project Runway on DVD. Eventually we got our asses out of bed. We hopped over to the Tyrolean Inn to have a rather early first anniversary supper (the rest of the anniversary celebration is in 2 weeks). Tyrolean is where we had our first date and so it's got some sentimental value to it. They serve good, heavy German food and Enzo loves that they serve beer by the half-liters. After the Inn, we headed off to Montera in the wrong direction. Enzo had a nutty idea about going through Big Basin to get to Highway 1. However, as we learned from a friendly park ranger, the road we were going to take hasn't been in use for the last 50 years. The road now goes through private property and so was not usable. We had to drive way out of the way to make it to the 1 but we eventually did. I kept freakin gout because we were supposed to get to the hostel where we were staying that night before 10. After 10 they wouldn't let us check in. However, we did make it in time. The hostel was very clean and cozy. We had a private room (no cots full of dirty hippies for us!).
In the morning we got to look around Montera in the daylight. It was gorgeous. The hostel is at a lighthouse and our room was right at the foot of the lighthouse. The hostel is also on beautiful ocean cliffs covered in ice plant. We wondered around for a bit, looking at sea gulls and seals. At one point we hit on the bright idea of visiting Patrick in SF since we were so close. We went up and had lots of fun hanging out. We went to In-N-Out, Enzo bought a sword in Chinatown, I went vintage shopping and found some cool scarves. Eventually, we had to come back home. More than ever, I'm filled with love and appreciation for the natural beauty of the Bay Area. |
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| 03:10pm 24/02/2006 |
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I just spent way too much time on Something Awful. I need to spend a lot less time in the Weekend Web section and stick to the relatively safer Fashion SWAT and Your Band Sucks. The things I've read in WW are just terrible. It's mainly clips gleaned from various forums but people online are so fucking stupid, disturbed, degenerate (fill in whatever negative adjective). I mean why would you want to be eaten by a dragon's nipples?? I'm not joking, that fetish is seriously out there on the internet.
And really it's got me thinking about trying to help people out with their sexuality. What if a patient's kinks turn out completely abhorrent? What if they're a furry? How can I keep a straight face?
I'm feeling both bemused and depressed at the state of affairs. I'm thinking about Elliot's roomie being pregnant and how she represents a group of people I hate but that I should be helping (namely people too stupid to have kids but, because of that stupidity are against abortion or, evidently, giving their kids up for adoption). I should be thinking "She probably hasn't had the amount of sex education that I have and isn't mature enough to understand the situation fully. I will be condescending and yet sympathetic." Instead I think of her as a symbol of what's wrong with everyone.
I'm actually thinking a lot about Elliot's roomies because I can't believe her roomie Alex. We had a wonderful presentation in Bio of AIDS the other day about harm reduction from women who represent the Santa Cruz AIDS Project and the Clean Needle Exchange. Alex summed it up as a waste of time, listening to the ramblings of an ex-junkie (Chloe from Needle Exchange is very upfront about her experience with IV drugs). All Alex cares about is virology so he can eventually become a doctor and make money. I don't understand why someone like Alex, who clearly thinks only of himself would want to dedicate his life to helping people he hates).
Ugh, I'm feeling rather pessimistic.
I'm going to watch Project Runway and feel better. |
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| 03:16pm 13/02/2006 |
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Dear Ms. Margaret Wynne:
Thank you for your e-mail. Our customers have made In-N-Out Burger® the Company it is today, and we sincerely appreciate hearing from you.
We would also like to thank you for your suggestion to open a location in Santa Cruz. We plan on expanding as far as we can, and particularly into areas in which our customers have expressed interest. As such, we are happy to let our Real Estate Department know that you are anxious to have an In-N-Out Burger® in Santa Cruz!
Thank you again for contacting us.
Sincerely,
Katherine Davis
Customer Service Representative |
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| 01:22pm 31/01/2006 |
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I've been thinking a lot about what exactly I want in this life. And, I've come to realize that, judging from my wants, I'm going to end up your standard yuppie with a sensible car, who goes to the gym and shops at the Gap but only when she's not at CostCo buying fruit snacks for the kids. And that's scary. I don't want to end up a soccer mom, even if I'm a cool sex therapist soccer mom. I see two ways out of this. Either I become a career criminal, ripping off large companies and living in the lap of luxury (though in a nation that won't extradite me to the U.S.) or I move to east Africa and train become an apprentice to Youseff, one of the world's last living hyena men (they stay outside the gates of the city at night feeding the hyenas raw meat [sometimes from their own mouths] so that the hyenas won't people any livestock of townspeople). Any opinions on this guys? |
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| 03:01pm 25/01/2006 |
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The website for Brokeback Mountain has a link where you can share your story about seeing Brokeback. You can also view other peoples' stories. This one is from Kevin in Illinois:
"This movie reminds me of the time I went to the deli to pick up my order which consisted of lunchmeat and a spicy chorizo. As the butcher was handing me my items, we each had one end of the chorizo and each of us held on to it for what seemed like an eternity. Our eyes met over the chorizo, and I said "This is quite a specimen" to which he agreed and smiled. I didn't ask him for his number, for which I was kicking myself all the way home. When I unpacked my order, to my sheer delight, was the butcher's name and phone number. To this day, Bruce and I have been happily married (in our minds anyway) and have 4 cats and a dog. I loved this movie!"
In conclusion, I love the internet. |
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| 11:37am 13/01/2006 |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10823343/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10834294/
I found the two above articles positively chilling. Why are the homeless treated like predators? They have nothing. Why do people think they choose their lives? What sane person would choose to live unprotected, to sleep in the cold, to go hungry, to go for days without the comfort of clean clothes or a shower? Fuck you, people who believe in some make-believe gracious poverty. You clearly have no idea. I hate it when people casually mention how they "totally knew some homeless guy" who "raked in like $20 an hour". I'm not trying to say that there is no one like that, merely that, like Reagan's mythical "Welfare Queen", these extremes must be endured in order to help the majority of people.
Maybe I should work as an advocate for the homeless. The more I think about it, the more useless my chosen profession seems to be. Can I spend the rest of my life telling women that it's alright if they don't orgasm and men that it's alright that they can't get it up? Aren't there bigger issues out there? |
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| 11:38am 13/12/2005 |
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I was going to write an entry about Stan "Tookie" Williams; about how capital punishment is wrong; and how, if the governor somehow thinks he does not have blood on his hands, then he's even more delusional than I thought. However, instead here's a photo of a goat on a trampoline:
Oh, and if you need more bullshit here's a Year in Review
( Read more... ) |
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| 02:02pm 08/12/2005 |
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O MY FRIGGIN GOD I GOT MY FUCKING LICENSE!!!!
watch out world |
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| 04:31pm 30/11/2005 |
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Hmmm... so I'm 20 now. Not particularly eventful. Though I did get to drink shitty mimosas last night. Oh, and got to go to an awesome (if awkward) dinner with my friends.
and eat ice cream
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Oh, that's right! Birthday party at my house on Saturday at about 8. It's a dual birthday: my 20th and Enzo's 25th. Take a break from studying and come over. |
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| 09:39am 23/11/2005 |
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This would be better if it didn't list passivity as my weakness. I don't think that's correct. Sometimes I wish I were more passive and a little less agressive |
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| Taken from Savage Love |
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| 11:55am 09/11/2005 |
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STRAIGHT RIGHTS UPDATE: As I mentioned a few months ago, a vaccine for two of the most common strains of HPV, the virus that causes genital warts, is currently moving through the federal approval process. HPV can also cause cervical cancer in women, and the cancers caused by the virus kill 4,000 American women every year. Who could possibly be against the introduction of a vaccine—one that has proven 100 percent effective in clinical tests!—that will save thousands of women's lives every year? Those "culture of life" assfucks, that's who.
"A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates [and] social conservatives who say immunizing teenagers could encourage sexual activity," the Washington Post reported last week. Doctors want teenage girls to receive the vaccine as a matter of routine when they hit puberty, something the religious right opposes. "Because the vaccine protects against a sexually transmitted virus, many conservatives oppose making it mandatory, citing fears that it could send a subtle message condoning sexual activity before marriage... 'I've talked to some who have said, "This is going to sabotage our abstinence message,"' said Gene Rudd, associate executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations." (To his credit, Rudd said he would want his daughters vaccinated.)
The right's abstinence message has bigger problems than this vaccine. Studies have shown that young men and women are still having premarital sex—no shit—despite the billions of dollars the Bush administration has poured into abstinence education. A study conducted at Texas A&M University found that kids who've been subjected to abstinence-only sex education, the right's preferred brand, have more sex than kids who aren't subjected to abstinence-only sex education. So what the right is saying is this: We're willing to kill American women in order to avoid "sabotaging" our ineffectual abstinence-only message. Nice.
Who ultimately gets to determine the government's position on the HPV vaccine? Thanks to George W. Bush, the Christian fundies do. From the Washington Post: "The jockeying [around the HPV vaccine] reflects the growing influence social conservatives, who had long felt overlooked by Washington, have gained on a broad spectrum of policy issues under the Bush administration. In this case, a former member of the conservative group Focus On The Family serves on the federal panel that is playing a pivotal role in deciding how the vaccine is used." W stands for women—that's what he told us when he ran for president. But, hey, it wasn't a lie. George W. Bush never said anything about standing for live women.
I've said it before, straight folks, and I'll say it again: The right-wingers and the fundies and the sex-phobes don't just have it in for the queers. They're coming for your asses too.
--Dan Savage |
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| 09:27pm 01/11/2005 |
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Jesus, haven't updated in a while. It's odd that you update constantly when nothing is happening and neglect to when important stuff is going on. I guess LJ's real point is to record unimportant everyday stuff.
So a month ago, I adopted kittens! Two four-month old short-haired sisters. Their names are Atemi and Aiki. Amber named them after some term she learned in jujutsu. Atemi means strike and Aiki means harmonious spirit. The whole household takes care of the cats, but I officially adopted them. So I'm now responsible for two other life forms for the next 10-15 years. I'd be more apprehensive if they weren't so darn cute. Here's a link to some pix:
KITTIES
Saturday we had a crazy-go-nuts Halloween party. I went as Marlene Dietrich/a drag queen. I managed to drink 1 1/2 bottles of champagne. I played a mix-n-match of good champagne and got a Veuve-Clicquot, Moet-Chandon White Star and Laurent-Perrier. I spent a lot of the evening in the bathroom with Elliot, chatting, eating carrots and not throwing up. This was only after I grabbed Leigh with one arm and Elliot with the other and screamed, "I'm bisexual!" Here are some awesome pix from the party:
Crazy Fun Time
After all the fun, I spent Sunday with the worst hangover ever. I need to learn my limits at some point. With any luck there will be more champagne at my upcoming birthday fun. And this time I won't have to spend a day trying not to die. |
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| 11:40am 24/10/2005 |
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Ok, has anyone else noticed that they primarily use facebook to keep up on who's gay/in a relationship? Or is it just me? |
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