Thursday night, I sat in my parents' front yard just outside Memphis and looked at the house where I spent my teenage years. I wasn't intending to have either Poignant Thoughts or A Moment, I just wanted to smoke a cigarette. (SHUT UP, I AM QUITTING.) I looked at the windows of my old bedroom and suddenly remembered, "Oh, tomorrow might be the day." And then, surprisingly but not out of nowhere, I remembered the early '90s, when I started to realize I was "different." Well, I already knew THAT. I was a weird kid: I'd been playing piano since the age of four and reading since two; I was not all that athletic (I'm being generous); and I was just generally WEIRD. Suddenly, as I hit puberty, I realized that all those sexxxy thoughts I was having were about the boys in my class, not the girls.
Once Cuba opens offices in Miami, DC and NYC , I would contact one of them with that question. South American countries have lots of auto manufacturing plants for Japanese and European cars, and probably US current brands, but likely diesel only. Gasoline, except in Venezuela, is not cheap, Europen priced at @$7.00 a gallon.
I went to the West Village last night to inhale some of the celebration. Huge party in front of the Stonewall Inn, which just happened to receive landmark status last Monday. (It's also on the National Register of Historic Places.) Much rainbow bunting and dancing in the street. But I have to give top marks to the World Trade Center, which produced a gargantuan dildo-shaped rainbow. Take that, White House!
Better wait a couple weeks til that vindictive little shit Jindal hits the deadline for compliance and finally instructs county clerks to issue licenses. Right now LA and MS are the only states refusing to grant licenses immediately.
Here's a little bit of extra Happy Nice Time. There have been great comments all over social media today from straight people commenting that they found the SCOTUS decision strongly affirmative of their own marriages. To those who would claim that same-sex marriage threatens heterosexual marriage, I offer the following letter, posted to the NY Times by a certain Dogbury in the UK:
"I'm a middle aged, straight British man who is too often beset with the cynicism of our age. I shouldn't care that same sex marriage is now legal across the US. It's been legal in Britain for over a year. My initial response upon reading about the ruling made by your Supreme Court, was a little of that polite, but ever so slightly superior applause, that I and my countrymen are so good at.
But...
This morning, not long after I rolled out of bed, and while I was waiting for the kettle to boil, I read an excerpt of the ruling that an Americanfriend had posted on social media. It's the section of the ruling that begins, 'No union is more profound than marriage...' and ends with, 'The Constitution grants them that right'.
I read it. I read it again. I wiped a few tears away. I then woke up my wife and read it to her. I gave my wife a hug and told how her how proud am I to be her husband and how much I love her.
You chaps should be proud today as well. You've made a just and fair ruling, and framed it in beautiful rhetoric. Anthony Kennedy's words will echo down the years.
Thinking on what you wrote above, I can appreciate it all the more. I, too, grew up and currently live in a small Southern town. I, too, never particularly experienced serious persecution because of my sexuality, mostly because of my family, esp. my ferocious older brother. But I certainly know others that have. Yet, despite that hatefulness and fear and ignorance, this is my homeland, I love it dearly, and I will never live elsewhere voluntarily. What I will do, like you Tennesseans, is work to make this state a better place for *all* its citizens.
I, too, never thought, esp. in the 25 years I've been on this planet, that I would live to see the day when I - like any other American - might proudly, legally, and publicly marry the person I love, though he is a man. I don't know who-all of the many, many people who worked so hard to thank for this, but I can at least ask you to thank your buds, Mr. Kostura and Mr. DeKoe, for having the courage to do what REAL Americans do - challenge injustice. That photo of them walking into the Supreme Court is not just a photo of two handsome men, it is a photo of two American heroes determined to do the Right Thing, whatever the consequence.
It's good men like you and Mr. Kostura and Mr. DeKoe who make salt sweet and darkness light. And I thank you, sir, for it.
Reminds me of that Molly Ivins quote (paraphrased from memory): Once you find out they've been lying to you about race, you start wondering what else they were lying to you about.
For now I am celebrating. Later on when we all get tired of the endless 'slippery slope' and 'my divorce is because of THEM' etc. arguments, maybe the fun will wear off. But for now, congratulations to America's newest citizens.I'm totally straight, but this decision has moved me so deeply that I'm making love to a burly gentleman even as I type this. HEY WAIT A MINUTE
Vaping is (finally) working for me. Had my last cigarette on Low Sunday. Haven't gone this long without a cigarette since the Carter Administration.
Don't get the junky ones at the gas station; go to a vape store and get a couple of batteries and a tank. They'll try to upsell you to death, but the little eGo batteries work just fine for me. Saw a guy at a bar recently with two Heeeuuuge vape rigs, and I'm like, "Dude, sorry ’bout your penis."
Also make sure you get vape juice with enough nicotine in it. Using the low level stuff killed my first attempt. Kept smoking. Now when I go to the store for more juice, it goes a little like this:
Gotdammit, Evan. If I bust out crying again, after yesterday's Joyful News, my bf is gonna call a doctor to come look at me.
No pizza, though. NO PIZZA11!!1!!!!
"Bullshit?" Excuse me?? That's "applesauce" to you, you young *splutter* person!
Once Cuba opens offices in Miami, DC and NYC , I would contact one of them with that question. South American countries have lots of auto manufacturing plants for Japanese and European cars, and probably US current brands, but likely diesel only. Gasoline, except in Venezuela, is not cheap, Europen priced at @$7.00 a gallon.
I went to the West Village last night to inhale some of the celebration. Huge party in front of the Stonewall Inn, which just happened to receive landmark status last Monday. (It's also on the National Register of Historic Places.) Much rainbow bunting and dancing in the street. But I have to give top marks to the World Trade Center, which produced a gargantuan dildo-shaped rainbow. Take that, White House!
Better wait a couple weeks til that vindictive little shit Jindal hits the deadline for compliance and finally instructs county clerks to issue licenses. Right now LA and MS are the only states refusing to grant licenses immediately.
As you can imagine, New Orleans is Not. Pleased.
So this is what Ilgattomorte meant about "...a cross between Obamacare and Grindr" yesterday? Wonkette is now a dating service with health benefits!
Hah! I knew it!
Here's a little bit of extra Happy Nice Time. There have been great comments all over social media today from straight people commenting that they found the SCOTUS decision strongly affirmative of their own marriages. To those who would claim that same-sex marriage threatens heterosexual marriage, I offer the following letter, posted to the NY Times by a certain Dogbury in the UK:
"I'm a middle aged, straight British man who is too often beset with the cynicism of our age. I shouldn't care that same sex marriage is now legal across the US. It's been legal in Britain for over a year. My initial response upon reading about the ruling made by your Supreme Court, was a little of that polite, but ever so slightly superior applause, that I and my countrymen are so good at.
But...
This morning, not long after I rolled out of bed, and while I was waiting for the kettle to boil, I read an excerpt of the ruling that an Americanfriend had posted on social media. It's the section of the ruling that begins, 'No union is more profound than marriage...' and ends with, 'The Constitution grants them that right'.
I read it. I read it again. I wiped a few tears away. I then woke up my wife and read it to her. I gave my wife a hug and told how her how proud am I to be her husband and how much I love her.
You chaps should be proud today as well. You've made a just and fair ruling, and framed it in beautiful rhetoric. Anthony Kennedy's words will echo down the years.
Good work!"
Dear Evan,
Thinking on what you wrote above, I can appreciate it all the more. I, too, grew up and currently live in a small Southern town. I, too, never particularly experienced serious persecution because of my sexuality, mostly because of my family, esp. my ferocious older brother. But I certainly know others that have. Yet, despite that hatefulness and fear and ignorance, this is my homeland, I love it dearly, and I will never live elsewhere voluntarily. What I will do, like you Tennesseans, is work to make this state a better place for *all* its citizens.
I, too, never thought, esp. in the 25 years I've been on this planet, that I would live to see the day when I - like any other American - might proudly, legally, and publicly marry the person I love, though he is a man. I don't know who-all of the many, many people who worked so hard to thank for this, but I can at least ask you to thank your buds, Mr. Kostura and Mr. DeKoe, for having the courage to do what REAL Americans do - challenge injustice. That photo of them walking into the Supreme Court is not just a photo of two handsome men, it is a photo of two American heroes determined to do the Right Thing, whatever the consequence.
It's good men like you and Mr. Kostura and Mr. DeKoe who make salt sweet and darkness light. And I thank you, sir, for it.
Your friend,
Carter
*swoon*
Yeah, that's some straight-up unconstitutional bullshit. Get to work!
Reminds me of that Molly Ivins quote (paraphrased from memory): Once you find out they've been lying to you about race, you start wondering what else they were lying to you about.
For now I am celebrating. Later on when we all get tired of the endless 'slippery slope' and 'my divorce is because of THEM' etc. arguments, maybe the fun will wear off. But for now, congratulations to America's newest citizens.I'm totally straight, but this decision has moved me so deeply that I'm making love to a burly gentleman even as I type this. HEY WAIT A MINUTE
Off thread. did you happen to see this? http://firstwefeast.com/eat...
Vaping is (finally) working for me. Had my last cigarette on Low Sunday. Haven't gone this long without a cigarette since the Carter Administration.
Don't get the junky ones at the gas station; go to a vape store and get a couple of batteries and a tank. They'll try to upsell you to death, but the little eGo batteries work just fine for me. Saw a guy at a bar recently with two Heeeuuuge vape rigs, and I'm like, "Dude, sorry ’bout your penis."
Also make sure you get vape juice with enough nicotine in it. Using the low level stuff killed my first attempt. Kept smoking. Now when I go to the store for more juice, it goes a little like this:
Vape Store Guy: What nicotine level?
Me: GIVE ME ALL THE MOTHERFUCKING NICOTINE!!1!1!!
Here endeth the lesson.
He's the main source!