Hello brave new world

No, I never read that book.  I'm just never sure what to title these and I don't really feel like leaving it blank.  I'm not going to be searching the entry for themes and then writing a title for it afterward, like "The Hazards of Titling and Other Things That I'm Thinking of Today"  But that's all I have to say about that.  

I got a e-mail (which I get most weekdays) from PlanetOut.com detailing the news of the day.  Some disturbing stuff - a bunch of lesbians beat up some straight street vendor for making unwanted advances toward one of them.  Yelling back, okay, punching the guy in the nose, a step toward the line, but still understandable, stabbing him and beating him with belts bad enough to put him in the hospital, a bit ridiculous.  There's always some folk that spoil the party for the rest of us.  As if we didn't have to deal with the impressions of perversity and woefully misdirected accusations of pedophilia from the narrow minded in the world, now we face perceptions of thuggery from anyone who would see this on the news (queer-friendly folks included).  Maybe for us, it'll be buried in the middle of the local section in Jersey and not really make news anywhere else.   One can hope, but it does put a blight on the community which really also makes me wonder why I'm spending so much time writing about it - look, mom, hate crimes are universal - it's not just them against us, it can be us against them as well.  Stupid, stupid people.

That's enough of that.  PlanetOut had some really exciting news as well, at least for me.  Apparently HRC is starting a spiritual community where they'll have weekly scripture readings and analysis posted.  All the scripture readings have a queer bent to them.  They do not, however, use inclusive language which I find a bit disheartening - I mean, for goodness sake, the Human Rights Campaign can't make the scripture inclusive.  I also got a bit of a giggle since the first reading for the week was the Song of Songs one that was used at my brother's wedding - you just have to say the phrase "like a gazelle" in a way that'd be a good impersonation of my brother and I crack up.  In fact, I can't read it without hearing his voice saying that, so it kind of blows the whole reverent quality of it.  It might be too churchy for me.  I like my church with it's one reading and out way about it.  Five readings, you only get that at the Easter Vigil for Catholics.  Crazy.  But it's a bible study and like many Catholics, I don't know much about the Bible.

New topic - spent most of my free time today, working on the longer story.  It's becoming a novella or something.  Seriously out of hand, but given the AU I've chosen, I have a lot of characters that I could play with.  I wrote quite a bit on it today and it's getting into shape.  I also managed to have a little bit too much fun writing on the train this morning.  I had to stop before the pair got carried away.  Boy, oh, boy.   I haven't devoted this much time to a pair since the days of "Closure" aka "The Great Queer Casablanca"   (more detail on that can be found in my previous post - you figure out which one it is).  I love writing.  This week at least.  I may put an excerpt up tomorrow.

BTW, there is a big billboard in WeHo for the new FOX drama "Justice" - does Eamonn Walker ever smile?  I've no idea who the women are - with my eyesight and the way it's shot, it's impossible - I probably wouldn't have recognized Eamonn if I hadn't known that he was in it.

Time for bed.  I got checks today, guess I'll pay bills tomorrow.  

I lead such an exciting life.

Hello brave new world

No, I never read that book.  I'm just never sure what to title these and I don't really feel like leaving it blank.  I'm not going to be searching the entry for themes and then writing a title for it afterward, like "The Hazards of Titling and Other Things That I'm Thinking of Today"  But that's all I have to say about that.  

I got a e-mail (which I get most weekdays) from PlanetOut.com detailing the news of the day.  Some disturbing stuff - a bunch of lesbians beat up some straight street vendor for making unwanted advances toward one of them.  Yelling back, okay, punching the guy in the nose, a step toward the line, but still understandable, stabbing him and beating him with belts bad enough to put him in the hospital, a bit ridiculous.  There's always some folk that spoil the party for the rest of us.  As if we didn't have to deal with the impressions of perversity and woefully misdirected accusations of pedophilia from the narrow minded in the world, now we face perceptions of thuggery from anyone who would see this on the news (queer-friendly folks included).  Maybe for us, it'll be buried in the middle of the local section in Jersey and not really make news anywhere else.   One can hope, but it does put a blight on the community which really also makes me wonder why I'm spending so much time writing about it - look, mom, hate crimes are universal - it's not just them against us, it can be us against them as well.  Stupid, stupid people.

That's enough of that.  PlanetOut had some really exciting news as well, at least for me.  Apparently HRC is starting a spiritual community where they'll have weekly scripture readings and analysis posted.  All the scripture readings have a queer bent to them.  They do not, however, use inclusive language which I find a bit disheartening - I mean, for goodness sake, the Human Rights Campaign can't make the scripture inclusive.  I also got a bit of a giggle since the first reading for the week was the Song of Songs one that was used at my brother's wedding - you just have to say the phrase "like a gazelle" in a way that'd be a good impersonation of my brother and I crack up.  In fact, I can't read it without hearing his voice saying that, so it kind of blows the whole reverent quality of it.  It might be too churchy for me.  I like my church with it's one reading and out way about it.  Five readings, you only get that at the Easter Vigil for Catholics.  Crazy.  But it's a bible study and like many Catholics, I don't know much about the Bible.

New topic - spent most of my free time today, working on the longer story.  It's becoming a novella or something.  Seriously out of hand, but given the AU I've chosen, I have a lot of characters that I could play with.  I wrote quite a bit on it today and it's getting into shape.  I also managed to have a little bit too much fun writing on the train this morning.  I had to stop before the pair got carried away.  Boy, oh, boy.   I haven't devoted this much time to a pair since the days of "Closure" aka "The Great Queer Casablanca"   (more detail on that can be found in my previous post - you figure out which one it is).  I love writing.  This week at least.  I may put an excerpt up tomorrow.

BTW, there is a big billboard in WeHo for the new FOX drama "Justice" - does Eamonn Walker ever smile?  I've no idea who the women are - with my eyesight and the way it's shot, it's impossible - I probably wouldn't have recognized Eamonn if I hadn't known that he was in it.

Time for bed.  I got checks today, guess I'll pay bills tomorrow.  

I lead such an exciting life.