Monthly Archives: August 2013

August 11

Bocas del Toro, Panama

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August 08

Hollywood Legend Ed Asner Has Outraged Republicans Over This Animated Short

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Hollywood Legend Ed Asner Has Outraged Republicans Over This Animated Short Ed Asner did a great job. Another way to look at all this: too many people in business and politicians, and the legal profession, have forgotten that money was invented to serve people – by acting as the medium for the exchange of goods […]

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August 08

African Proverb

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The radical option between individualism and communitarianism. There is something appealing about Africa with its collectivist cultures – cultures in which the group takes precedence over the individual. One of my mentors at work introduced me to the proverb today. I am taking some time to consider this proverb and its significance in my life. Any […]

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August 07

Crazy Days According to “Queer as Folk”

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It was an insane day at work today. The kind that makes you guzzle a root beer float, eat some Mac ‘N Cheese, and pop in your favorite British TV series. Which got me thinking… Who said it best about crazy situations and bad days?! “Queer as Folk” UK did. Below is how Vince Tyler […]

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August 07

HBO “Girls” – My Favorite Scene So Far

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I couldn’t get over the genius of this scene. They captured so many emotions (yes, girls do feel a wide range of emotions at once) into a stupid dance sequence that was too familiar. I can’t tell you how many times I have been at my wit’s end just to turn on Robyn or the […]

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August 07

Maude Visits A Gay Bar – Back in the Gays

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZTPA9JNi0 Classic episode from the final season. Maude is fed up with Arthur’s conservative bigotry and she especially gets fed up when she learns the Harmons are moving in with them while their house is being fumigated. Meanwhile, Arthur becomes obsessed when he learns that a gay bar has opened up in the neighborhood and […]

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August 06

Seattle Author’s Powerful Self-Written Obituary Goes Viral

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via Huffington Post. Seattle-based author and editor Jane Catherine Lotter had many accomplishments in her life — notably, a weekly humor column called “Jane Explains” and a recently published comic novel, The Bette Davis Club — but at the end of her life, she didn’t define success in terms of her career achievements. Lotter passed away of […]

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August 05

A Look Back on the Origins of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

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via The Age. Mardis Gras still marching for social change 35 years on In the 35 years since the 1978 march for gay rights, Steve Warren has never missed a Mardi Gras parade. Mr Warren was among the hundreds of young gay men and lesbians who came out of the Oxford Street gay bars that […]

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August 05

The Castro: The Rise of a Gay Community

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via KQED. The History of the Castro  Eureka Valley Eureka Valley, named for one of the Twin Peaks (the other was called Noe), began as sparsely populated ranchos that belonged to Mexican land barons like Jose Castro and Jose de Jesus Noe. In the 1880s when Irish, German and Scandinavian families homesteaded on the slopes […]

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August 05

Rapper Macklemore discusses gay marriage and his new song – Same Love

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“Same Love” was written in support of legalizing same-sex marriage particularly in reference to Washington Referendum 74 (R-74 or Ref 74), a Washington state referendum to approve or reject the February 2012 bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Macklemore explained that the song also came out of his own frustration with hip […]

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