December 2006

Link Dump – That’s So Gay Version

GLBT /

Time flies and there’s nothing I can do to change that. Which ROTS because it means I have all sorts of fun gay topics that I’ve just not had time to blog about. So, I’m doing a gay link dump. Click and enjoy and I couldn’t pass up just a brief comment about each one of these.



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A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

2 Comments / 2006, Books in Bed, Young Adult /

Well I guess A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl, maybe. If you learn your lesson and don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. Tough lessons to learn and it drives me insane to think that girls (and young women and old women) keep having these same types of issues with men. You’d think, by now, the female species would have evolved and created some better defense mechanisms or something. But no, we keep letting boys (and men) do these things.

It’s the patriarchy.

Nice book, the notes inside of “Forever” were a really nice touch. And as sassymonkey says, if it hasn’t been challenged yet, it’s only a matter of time. So if you like banned/challenged books, beat the rush and read this one now.

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Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

1 Comment / 2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction /

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters was one of the oddest books I have ever read. It was also one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It was also one of the LONG-WINDEDEST books I have ever read (Long-windedest is a great word, I know! It should totally be in the dictionary!).

I finished the book last night and I have absolutely no idea how to describe it to you. Or what it all meant. In that way, it reminds me of House of Leaves which holds a special place in our lives, even though we have no idea what it was about, or what it meant. I believe Glass Books/Dream Eaters is going to be that kind of book for us.

I wandered over to Amazon and read the reviews, to see if those would help. They don’t. The one I agree with most can be para-phrased like this “Somewhere in this 750 page, over-written, novel was an amazing 400 page novel.” That is very, very truet. The writing, was dense. The story-telling, just a little convoluted.

The three heroes, wonderful. The bad guys, ummm there were so many. Too many, I think. The premise, the glass books – excellent idea! Really fabulous. The sex, wonderful! The alchemy and religion, very good too.

Sigh. Someone speak to the author please. Don’t let him do this again. Really, a great story is in there and that’s why I’ve plopped it into my “favorites” category. It’s just too bad it was such a struggle, such a painful struggle. If I could have looked into the blue glass, it might have helped clear the fog a bit. But since I couldn’t, sigh… reading should just not be that painful.

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I like this country, she’s like a whore

Melissa Ferrick /

If you haven’t bought Melissa’s newest cd, In the Eyes of Strangers,  then you probably haven’t heard her version of Miss Liberty.  And that’s a shame.  Because it’s my new favorite Ferrick song.  You are in luck though, because you can hear it on Black Sheep Management’s myspace music player.  (Does this mean it is also Bryna’s favorite Ferrick song, at the moment?  She’s got good taste, I’ll give her that… she also takes a pretty darn good photo of Melissa. But that’s another blog post, isn’t it?)

Anyway, click that link, stop the Rachael Cantu song (which is good) and click Miss Liberty.  And feel free to listen to it over and over and over again.  Because I am.

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World AIDS Day 2006

1 Comment / Friends & Family, GLBT, Health and Wellness /

Support World AIDS Day

From the World AIDS Campaign: Efforts to halt AIDS are falling far short of their targets. Over 25 million people have been lost to AIDS so far, and 4.3 million people were infected with HIV this year. The spread of HIV is quickening – with more people infected in 2006 than in any previous year. This is despite the number of promises by world leaders to provide services to curb the rates of infection and to bring down deaths.

Go and visit my friend skeeter…

    Michael Edward B.
    September 28, 1949 – December 2, 1998

    I’ll be watching And the Band Played On again soon, Eddie. I’ll be thinking of you, and then of so many others. I’ll cry and hurt and then become enraged, for you and for them. And Eddie, you were wrong one last time. They still haven’t found a cure.

And then, go visit Karen Walrond at Chookooloonks.  Leave a comment – she’s donating $1 for every comment to the Cyril Ross Nursery.  Karen is awesome, and this is just more proof. 

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