Reason number 25 I"m glad I'm Gay

I went to dinner and a movie with my non sexual friend boy Doug last night. We went to dinner at Luna De Noche at Northpark. As we were sitting there having dinner a straight couple with their really cute daughter came in. Actually they didn't just come in, they made an entrance. First they had to greet everyone...Then they had to rearrange all the furniture around the table to find a place for the kid to sit, they had to unload all of their bags and accoutrements that seem to follow people with kids, diaper bags, toys, car seats, etc. Gay people travel light, that's why I'm glad I'm gay.

The Week in Review 3-12-10

A new word joined the political sexual lexicon this week. Joining "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" and "Client 9" is "The Massa Massage" which seems to involve tickling, rubbing on ones head, and something they call a "snorkel" in the Navy caused Congressional Nut Job Eric Massa to resign. On a brighter note for Glenn Beck, there was finally someone on his show that was more of a nutcase than he is.

Howard Stern is at it again...Stern and his sidekick Robin Quivers said Gabourey Sidibe was too fat and too black to ever be cast in another Hollywood film. Drilling down through all the self righteous indignation this has elicited from people, what they said is unkind, but it's true. How many big beautiful black women do you see in movies (Oprah and Tyler Perry don't count). Hey, I'm not a casting agent but I watch movies and unless you've thrown everything you've eaten up in the last 10 years you're not going to be cast opposite Taylor Lautner anytime soon. Of course, Stern and Quivers could have said it a more dignified way...or maybe they couldn't have.

This just in, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent 40 minutes tearing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for announcing new settlements this week while Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel for a visit. Bibi, you might want to watch yourself. Hillary has spent 40 years with Bill Clinton she's not about to take any of your bullshit.

Followers

Conan O'Brien adding a girl to his "twitter" account and helping her get like thousands of followers has made me want more followers on my Blog. SOOO

Help me get 500 followers by the end of March and...well, I don't have anything to offer you but pithy observations...

xo

Massa Mess

Let me get this straight, the Obama administration forced you to drink too much at a wedding, forced you to hang out with people half your age, forced you to tell a guy you would like to eff him, and it's all a plot to keep you from voting against healthcare? Who needs Republicans when you have Democrats like this yahoo.

Eric Massa: Sexual Harassment Allegations Explained, Claims Administration Plotted Against Him For Health Care Vote

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/eric-massa-ethics-probe-e_n_489804.html

The Week in Review

The first week in March saw Dr. Strangelove's Daughter take to the airwaves again, not only to lambast the Obama Justice department as some sort of fifth column intent on destroying American values (the values Cheney and his ilk support presumably) but also to pressure the justice department into giving names of attorneys who had previously represented detainees. To their credit, some conservatives said Liz Cheney's actions were a bit over the top...Of course that seems too little too late. If this woman's last name wasn't Cheney (and if she hadn't had her father get her a job in the Bush State Department) she would be a mid level manager at some second rate corporation just about now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/conservatives-turn-agains_n_487410.html

Rick Perry cruised to a win in the Texas Republican Primary, defeating Kay Bailey Hutchison and Tea Party Candidate and 9-11 truther Debra Medina. Just goes to show that the good ol' boy mentality is alive and well in Texas, despite the urbanization of the state in the last 20 years. The only hope for Democratic nominee for Governor Bill White...Clayton Williams Redux...

Obama promises an "up or down vote" on healthcare reform, a vote which should have been taken about 5 months ago had the Dems had any balls. The whole bill this point has become so confusing that most of the old white men in Congress don't even know what they're voting for or against. The whole thing has been so mishandled from the beginning by Peolsi, Reid and Obama that, if they lose, they only have themselves to blame.

"Spring Breakers get Mexico Warning" The US State Department has warned Spring Breakers headed to South Padre Island not to go to Mexico, and if they do not to be caught there after dark. As someone who went to South Padre over Spring Break in 1988, one year before a UT student was kidnapped and murdered over there, I can tell you this warning is about 20 years past due.

Wingnut John Patrick Beddell shot two police officers at the Pentagon this week, just a few weeks after another wingnut flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin. When is the media going to take Fox News and the other right wing mouthpieces that encourage this type of behavior to task for drumming up this sort of thing?

Understatement of the week: From Apollo Ono who described Pam Anderson, one of the contestants on Dancing with the Stars, as "Top Heavy" Ya think?

Dreams

I've never been much of one to analyze my dreams. I'm not that into navel gazing despite my weekly therapy appointments. Last night, though, I had some intense dreams. Maybe it was because I had therapy late last night, and we've been talking a lot about my childhood...specifically 3rd grade and my teacher (Mrs. H.) Maybe thoughts were swirling around in my head about my childhood, and some of the things my therapist said about how I am better to other people than I am to myself. Maybe it's because a friend of mine's father died this week, and anytime that happens it brings back thoughts of my Dad. But I've been dreaming about him a lot lately. In most of the dreams he doesn't talk, he is just there and I know that he's dead and that he won't be staying, but it's comforting to know he's there. In these dreams he's also the Dad from 20 years ago, without the aging and limp that haunted him in his last few years. But in the dream last night he said, two or three times, "I love you" which, if you knew my Dad, was something he felt and showed, but not something he said very much. It was so comforting to have that dream, because I know my Dad loved me, and I always felt it, but it was comforting to be reminded of it even if it was in a dream. Some people might say it was him visiting me from somewhere else. I'm not sure I believe that necessarily, but I do believe it was God reminding me of that.