That's all she wraught; wrote

I was recently invited to join the multi-editor blog GayMenRule and have decided to move the blog over to WordPress so that I only have to edit from one location. I hope to see you all over at my new location.

Lexx's Nexxus 2nd's please

and as the new year approaches

Some of the things I'm grateful for;

Great friends, who've remained
Family that's stuck by me
Disloyal friends who've stayed away
The best Doctor's my impatience could buy
Democrats and Republicans who've woken up, for now
Bloggers with great big hearts (Joe, David, Michael, Paul, Alex & Ryan T.)
My Brother's Unconditional Love
Steven P. who wasn't recalled & who I salute every morning

A Happy & A Healthy New Years to you all.

See ya in '07

Whoever you are, whatever your faith...

Cultures the world over participate in festivals each winter. Some celebrate the winter solstice, some the start of a new year, and others find unique causes for commemoration. We now take time to celebrate with our families, to re-new friendships, to forgive transgressions and say in our own ways,

Christmas, Christian ~ Hanukkah, Jewish ~ Kwanzaa, African American

Winter Solstice. Celtic ~ Imbolc, Celtic/Neopagan

Las Posadas, Mexican ~ Yule, Germanic ~ Soyal, Hopi

Diwali, Hindu ~ Dong Zhi, Chinese ~ Rohatsu, Buddhist ~ Yalda, Persian

Seasons Greetings

For a Sister Lost

I'd made the decision about a month ago not to participate to loudly today. The loss of my own light- my sista girl- the women who could set me straight with a glance and lift me to the rafters with a wicked thought;After living with HIV for 13 years; to lose her so senselessly after the Towers fell is still too fresh in my mind. Today is a quiet reflection on what was promised, what's been accomplished and what's left to get done.

I'm great, your son's are becoming the men you always wanted them to be, and we still continue to fight for everyone.

Great peace and restless sleep are what we still wish for you, until we meet again, Leslie Noel.

Bringing back Saturday Mornings

Do you recall with any glee the simplicity of waking on a Saturday morning with nothing to do but catching your favorite toons? Tom & Jerry, Donald and the whole quacking crew, Robots; I'm talking Gigantor here kids, not the eighties versions.

Adult Swim, seen late weeknights on the Cartoon network has some great stuff, but the high note is Seth Green's "Robot Chicken".
The animation is rudimentary at best, but the content is pure genius. He's using topical subjects played against our best loved toons with some current references thrown in to boost the screams and howls the shows produce. That and he's got some of the very best voice over talent and a cadre of Hollywood's Gen Ex up and comers adding their own acting skills to the mix. The U-Tube below is a great mix of the season so far. At 15min per episode you've just gotta record a few to watch. And the opening sequence of how the title came about is pure "Clockwork Orange"

Friday Nite Funstuff - These Boots are Made for Walking

The clip says so much about our lives. From walking timidly out on our own into the world where it's all too easy to be chewed up and left for dead as nothing more than roadkill. That is until our big sisters come along and bring us back into the fold that supports and nurtures our off-kilter independence.

I've given up on films when some random reviewer says 'I must see it'. Truth be told, I've never followed the crowd in these matters and I haven't trusted a written film review since the Times 'retired' Janet Maslin and Elvis Mitchell.

However, after seeing this clip, I definitely missed out by not catching Kinky Boots in theatres. Not that I can't or won't go out and get the DVD; but I do love sitting in a large theatre, alone, and enjoying the big screen and I'm sorry I let this one slip buy. This film is not to be missed.

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A great overview

Like the great mind(s), over at BlogActive, I've become a big fan of Deb Price of the Detroit News. This week, Deb writes a great analysis of the elections and what it means for gays. In this overview, Deb doesn't forget about the gains we made outside of Congress, in state legislatures and Governors' mansions.

The whole article is great, but I'm partial to the part where Deb reminds us of the homophobes who lost.Pelosi signals fresh start on gay rights - The Detroit News Online:

Republican mudslingers digging deep into their anti-gay mud buckets to try to use Pelosi's gay friendliness to scare voters got a very clear message back: What really would have been spooky was leaving the current crop of Republicans in charge of Congress. Two of the most anti-gay Republicans -- Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who compared gay sex to 'man-on-dog' sex, and Rep. John Hostettler of Indiana, who tried to strip federal courts of authority over gay marriage -- got the voters' boot.

You can see her column linked every week from their news service, PageOneQ.

By: Michael Rogers

THURSDAY NITE SPOOF FOR THE B.S.C.'s

I've come to terms with something a friend said to me recently.

Why do conservative x-tians hate us so?
"because they do Blanche, because they do" They can't deal with us on any level. We've got the status; the power; the integrity; the purpose and through surrogacy and adoption- the ability to populate the earth!

Having been a fan of slash for some time now - these new posts on U-tube have forced me to realize that as right as BFF was, the real fear is the following becoming an un-filtered reality in their very homes.

Enjoy.

Ignorant, Tight-Assed Club... Come to order.

These are some of the simple truths that most people miss when arguing the bible's intent. It's also Bartlett's watershed presidential moment. When he moves from "Centrist" to pissed-off, protective Daddy Bear. Yeah Jed. Yeah Aaron Sorkin. PEOPLE - Get the message already.

and today's lesson is-

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE,VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE. do it for all of those who cannot!!!!

find your polling place here, https://electionimpact.votenet.com/pfawf/pollboothlocator/index.cfm

VOTE.

O.K. Maybe just one more

The tune is titled Meth & Man-Ass. It's incredibly funny and just the thing we need the day before election day.

You can give a listen the Huffington Post link here: METH AND MAN-ASS

Enjoy. And don't forget to vote. This is how we show our strength.

I BEEN PREACHIFYING MORALIZING EVERY DAYTRYING TO GET ALL LOST SOULS TO COME MY WAYCAUSE I KNOW WHAT YOU SINNERS LACKAND I KNOW WHAT YOU NEEDA BACK RUB FROM A MUSCLE MAN AND GODSPEED
(CHORUS)
GIVE ME METH AND MAN ASS ON A SUNDAY MORNINGMETH AND MAN ASS SURE AS I AM BORN AGAINMETH AND MAN ASS I DON'T NEED NOTHING MOREJUST METH AND MAN ASS AND WE'LL PRAISE THE LORD
(CHORUS)
THIS TRAIN DON'T TAKE NO SINNERSNO MURDERERS, NO THEIVES, NO GAYSYOU ASK ME WHAT KEEPS THIS TRAIN RUNNING SMOOTHWELL, I'LL BOW MY HEAD AND SOFTLY SAY
(CHORUS)
IF A MAN LAYS WITH A MAN AS WITH A WOMANTHE BIBLE SAYS SO SHALL HE BE KILLEDIF A MAN SNORTS A GRAM WITH A MALE PROSTITUTESOMEONE'S COLLECTION BASKET'S GETTING FILLED
(CHORUS)
I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEKI'LL GO ON LARRY KING AND TELL HIM "LARRY, I WAS WEAK"DELIVER ME FROM EVIL AND DELIVER ME FROM GREEDDELIVER ME A HOT STUD AND A COUPLE GRAMS OF SPEED
(CHORUS)
Copyright Paul Hipp 2006

Please visit Paul's Myspace page, or e-mail him at decider.koo.koo.ka.choo@gmail.com.

Ann Coulter to be Investigated for Voting Fraud

This day just keep's on getting better.

As previously reported by Andy Towle in his award winning blog. Ann Coulter had used an address that wasn't her own when voting in Palm Beach county in Florida. Now it appears to be catching up with her.

Allegations that Ann Coulter voted knowingly in the wrong South Florida precinct February 7 will be referred to the state attorney "within 48 hours," Palm Beach election supervisor Arthur Anderson said yesterday.

Coulter's registration showed an address that wasn't hers. Coulter listed the address of her realtor, though the realtor, Suzanne Frisbie, says she wasn't living there.

According to Anderson, since the charges of fraud arose, Coulter has made "efforts to distract and divert focus on the process regarding this complaint."

What will her piehole have to say about this?

via Towleroad

THURSDAY NITE MAC SPOOF FOR THE B.S.C.'s

Enjoy it guys!!!

It's Thursday. Why the hell not?

An exceptional short vid by way of Beautiful.com. Check it out.

Party Spoof - 'a la Mac Ads

what's your party affiliation?

Rosie, David, and Wolf: Why Don't They Want Us to Win?

After failing to gain traction with its "a vote for Democrats is a vote for Osama" ad campaign, the Republicans' message machine has adopted an even more irrational strategy: Go after the talk show hosts!

That's right. Painting Jim Webb as a pornographer, Harold Ford as a playah, and Michael J. Fox as a Parkinson's poseur fizzled.

So now it's Wolf Blitzer, David Letterman, and Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of The View crew in the crosshairs, being sleazed as part of the Hate America First Coalition.

"Do you want the United States to win in Iraq?" thundered Bill O'Reilly to David Letterman. "Do you right now? Do you want the United States to win?"

He had the same question for Rosie, Joy Behar, and Barbara Walters: "Do you want America to win in Iraq?" When a yes or no answer wasn't immediately forthcoming, O'Reilly leapt to the conclusion: "So you don't want America to win in Iraq..."

And it isn't just O'Reilly. GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter also played the guilt-by-insinuation card, asking Wolf Blitzer: "Does CNN want America to win this thing? You can't be on both sides of the war."

If he'd had time for a follow up, Hunter no doubt would have asked, "And have you stopped beating your wife?"

Clearly indicating that the Vice President's residence had also gotten the kill-the-messenger-memo, Lynne Cheney took time out from denying her past endeavors as a salacious scribe to pose the same loaded query to Blitzer: "Do you want us to win?"

For the record, Blitzer replied: "The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There's no doubt about that." But it didn't really matter; the sleazy implication had already been slung, the subconscious connection made: these TV folk must not want us to win! Just like the Democrats.

That's clearly the lizard brain synapse Karl Rove is hoping to activate. Stumping in Georgia yesterday, President Bush connected the dots: "The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses."

There you have it: pull the lever for anyone with a (D) next to their name and it's as good as handing the Stanley Cup, the Super Bowl trophy, the Masters green jacket, and the keys to Baghdad to al Qaeda.

Can you think of anything more absurd than that? Other than accusing Michael J. Fox of faking his symptoms or trying to score political points by implying that Joy Behar is an al Qaeda appeaser.

Indeed, it was actually Behar who provided the most cogent response to the "Do you want America to win?" nonsense -- one that all Democratic candidates should pick up -- when she turned the tables on O'Reilly and asked: "What does it mean to win?"

That should be the defining question of the next 7 days.

Let's just stipulate that everyone in America not in a straight jacket or part of a terrorist sleeper cell wants America to "win" -- and center the debate on what, exactly, the president and the GOP mean by victory.

And please, Mr. President, don't give us the usual bromides about stable democracy or Iraq security forces standing up so we can stand down. It's become all-to-clear that those are benchmarks that won't be met in the foreseeable future.

On Monday Bush said, "The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq."

Hmm, I know what Democrats reaching their supposed goal would look like -- but can't say the same for the Republican goal.

What does it mean to win? Republicans clearly don't have an answer. That's why they are throwing the trash-the-media Hail Mary. And why the rest of us should keep demanding an answer to the question of what winning is.

via: Huffington Post

Happy Halloween

blogACTIVE's response to Ken Mehlman and his race-baiting of Harold Ford

What a political season it's been. In addition to watching the Democrats finally getting some traction in the national political debate, it appears we are headed for a big victory in one week.


Here it is...
Raw Story has a story about the ad. I am really proud of this... I hope you can help me push it out there. From Raw Story:
A new ad, set to debut at 3:30 today will parody an ad accused of race-baiting Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford by gay-baiting Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.

The ad, produced by Proud of Who We Are and BlogActive, is a parody mocking the the RNC's now-infamous 'call me' ad. That spot, which the RNC eventually pulled this month, showed a scantily clad white actress saying she met Ford at 'the Playboy party.' It ended with her asking the congressman to call her. Many analysts believe it was produced to play on racist fears of interracial relationships.

Gay Cowardice

Too many gay activists do stellar work fighting against anti-gay marriage amendments and laws. But they are too often crippled by self-censorship and, well, politics. Evan Wolfson, one of the heroes of today's civil rights movement, expains why this is counter-productive here:

So far, too many of our state campaigns—both the short-term election efforts and the longer-term public education work—fail to offer the voting public real content and an authentic engagement. Too often they have not used the airtime of an election battle to talk about gay people and marriage — the two things these ballot measures are most about — instead relying on generic appeals to fairness. Too many of our side's campaigns have chosen to emphasize collateral effects on non-gay families, as if voters will really be persuaded that what the media will always refer to as "the marriage amendment" is somehow not about gay people's freedom to marry. Worst of all, many campaigns and activists have gone with the message that people should vote the measure down simply because it is "unnecessary" or "goes too far." That subliminally suggests — unintentionally, but in a way that is still damaging to our long-term movement — that some discrimination is okay and that it would indeed be a problem if we really did have gay couples marrying.

We will not win until we are unafraid. I believe civil marriage for gay couples is moral, it is right, it is good for society - and anything less is immoral, wrong and bad for society as a whole. (My fundamental case is made in my 1995 book, "Virtually Normal.") Let us make this case - calmly, honestly, openly. And we will win - for one reason only. Because we are right.

via: Andrew Sullivan

You go Pvt. Dumphy

Never mind that it was truly, one of the most honest, heartfelt and touching moments in network TVs recent history. Never mind that TR Knight may be receiving the real life version. Just as he did in Kinsey and Over There- Luke MacFarlane continues to amaze as Scotty in Brothers & Sisters.


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