The other day a read a blog post by someone who has a movie buddy. Every once in a while they get together for a daylong marathon of the indie gay romances that they both love. Can I just say, this sounds completely AWESOME?!?! Living with my parents, I pretty much limit my watching of anything with significant gay characters to after they've gone to bed or while they're out of the house. It isn't worth the hassle I'd have to put up with, even for something I really enjoy.
So I'm putting it out to the Universe right now. I want to find a local friend to get together with occasionally, who enjoys those kinds of movies, and maybe even some of the same books I do, and won't think I'm a total weirdo or spout a bunch of homophobic crap. (Also, if they like the occasionally other girlie movie, that would be good. I had plans with my SIL to see Magic Mike that got cancelled- twice- before it came out that my brother wouldn't "let" her see it. That pisses me off and skeeves me out in about equal measure.)
It would be really nice to have someplace I felt like I could be myself in real life, and not just on the internet.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Bridegroom- It's Important, Y'all
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (you might recognize her name as the producer of the TV show Designing Women) has turned to Kickstarter to try to finance a documentary on a pretty damn important subject.
Tom Bridegroom died in an accident last year. His family, who greeted his coming out with guns and violence, took his body and his things from his home in California and disappeared with them, back to Indiana. His partner, Shane, who he shared a mortgage and a business with, had no legal right to any information about what happened after the accident or the disposition of his property. He flew to Indiana for the funeral and was told that Tom's father and uncle planned to attack him if he showed up.
This is what can happen when the law prevents consenting adults in committed relationships from legally marrying each other. It's devastating. It's wrong. And it needs to stop. If you've got a couple extra bucks to donate toward getting this documentary made about Tom and Shane and the harm that these homophobic laws do, please consider it. Right now they have another $150,000 to raise, and 14 days to do it in. And please spread the word. This is a story that needs to be told.
Tom Bridegroom died in an accident last year. His family, who greeted his coming out with guns and violence, took his body and his things from his home in California and disappeared with them, back to Indiana. His partner, Shane, who he shared a mortgage and a business with, had no legal right to any information about what happened after the accident or the disposition of his property. He flew to Indiana for the funeral and was told that Tom's father and uncle planned to attack him if he showed up.
This is what can happen when the law prevents consenting adults in committed relationships from legally marrying each other. It's devastating. It's wrong. And it needs to stop. If you've got a couple extra bucks to donate toward getting this documentary made about Tom and Shane and the harm that these homophobic laws do, please consider it. Right now they have another $150,000 to raise, and 14 days to do it in. And please spread the word. This is a story that needs to be told.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Halloween Pizza
Here in Indiana we have a take-and-bake pizza place called Papa Murphy's. An Irish pizza joint. This delights me. In the last few days they've been running ads for a special Jack-o-Lantern pizza.
Isn't that the goofiest thing ever? I love it. I'm going to push for a Jack-o-Pizza for dinner on Friday night. I know Halloween isn't Friday, but Friday is Pizza Night. I'm thinking this and one of the Ghostbusters movies that my brother lent us (he has both I and II on DVD, but who in their right mind wants to watch Ghostbusters II?) would make for a very satisfying Halloween celebration. Maybe with the Charlie Brown Halloween special while the pizza is baking. Because what's a holiday without a Charlie Brown special?
I may be about 25 years too old for trick-or-treating, but never let it be said that I don't know how to have a good time.
Lip Balm of the Day: Lavender Lemonade
Isn't that the goofiest thing ever? I love it. I'm going to push for a Jack-o-Pizza for dinner on Friday night. I know Halloween isn't Friday, but Friday is Pizza Night. I'm thinking this and one of the Ghostbusters movies that my brother lent us (he has both I and II on DVD, but who in their right mind wants to watch Ghostbusters II?) would make for a very satisfying Halloween celebration. Maybe with the Charlie Brown Halloween special while the pizza is baking. Because what's a holiday without a Charlie Brown special?
I may be about 25 years too old for trick-or-treating, but never let it be said that I don't know how to have a good time.
Lip Balm of the Day: Lavender Lemonade
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Goals
Hello! I'm not dead! I'm just up to my eyeballs right now. (How anyone who doesn't work or take care of a family or do anything really can be up to her eyeballs I don't know. But whatever.)
Anyway, I'm here to set a few goals for myself. First (and I can't believe I'm making this my first goal, but that should tell you just how much it's annoying me), I need to clean. I have not one, but two laundry baskets full of clean clothes that need to be folded and put away. There's precious little floor space in this room. I don't need to take it up with laundry. There's about an inch of dust covering everything in the room, and what's not covered in dust is covered in cat hair. Or my hair, because I'm shedding like mad again. At this rate I should be completely bald by next Tuesday. And there are piles of junk mail and general crap everywhere. I can't take it any more. The room must be cleaned.
My second goal for the month is to get my Goodreads "books to read in 2011" list under 100. That's really not all the books I intend or expect to read this year. It grows constantly. But most of the books on that list are things that I've already bought and are languishing in the TBR of Doom. (Sorry, I just read Shannon Stacey's Undeniably Yours, and now everything gets an "of Doom" tacked onto the end. Plus, it really is the TBR of Doom. It's where books I want to read go to be smothered to death under the stack of all the other books I want to read. Scary, scary place, my TBR file.) There are 107 books on the list right now, so if I can read 8 of them, without adding any others (Ha!), I'll meet that goal.
My third goal is to blog more than once a week. That's really kind of pathetic. Even I, who go nowhere and have no life, can usually come up with something to say more often than that.
My fourth goal is to remember to return Scott Pilgrim vs. The World to Netflix. I've only had it for a month now. I've watched some of it, and it's only meh, plus it keeps acting weird and skipping.
So, those are my goals for the month. I think I'll start out strong by sticking the Scott Pilgrim disc back in its envelope (if I can find it) and putting it on the table with the rest of the outgoing mail.
Lip Balm Flavor of the Day: Gummy Bear
Anyway, I'm here to set a few goals for myself. First (and I can't believe I'm making this my first goal, but that should tell you just how much it's annoying me), I need to clean. I have not one, but two laundry baskets full of clean clothes that need to be folded and put away. There's precious little floor space in this room. I don't need to take it up with laundry. There's about an inch of dust covering everything in the room, and what's not covered in dust is covered in cat hair. Or my hair, because I'm shedding like mad again. At this rate I should be completely bald by next Tuesday. And there are piles of junk mail and general crap everywhere. I can't take it any more. The room must be cleaned.
My second goal for the month is to get my Goodreads "books to read in 2011" list under 100. That's really not all the books I intend or expect to read this year. It grows constantly. But most of the books on that list are things that I've already bought and are languishing in the TBR of Doom. (Sorry, I just read Shannon Stacey's Undeniably Yours, and now everything gets an "of Doom" tacked onto the end. Plus, it really is the TBR of Doom. It's where books I want to read go to be smothered to death under the stack of all the other books I want to read. Scary, scary place, my TBR file.) There are 107 books on the list right now, so if I can read 8 of them, without adding any others (Ha!), I'll meet that goal.
My third goal is to blog more than once a week. That's really kind of pathetic. Even I, who go nowhere and have no life, can usually come up with something to say more often than that.
My fourth goal is to remember to return Scott Pilgrim vs. The World to Netflix. I've only had it for a month now. I've watched some of it, and it's only meh, plus it keeps acting weird and skipping.
So, those are my goals for the month. I think I'll start out strong by sticking the Scott Pilgrim disc back in its envelope (if I can find it) and putting it on the table with the rest of the outgoing mail.
Lip Balm Flavor of the Day: Gummy Bear
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Playing Nice
Mom was pretty cranky today, so in an effort to pacify and play nice, I spent the evening in the living room with them instead of in my room. I picked a movie off my Netflix queue, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and we watched it. Or I watched it, Dad slept through the whole thing, and Mom slept through a good chunk of the middle. That's not really a comment on the quality of the movie. Dad's got pneumonia right now, so he spends a lot of most evenings sleeping in the chair. And Mom falls asleep in front of any movie that isn't overtly Christian or produced by the Hallmark channel.
Other than Harry's Law, there are no TV shows that we both enjoy. And I've pretty much exhausted my supply of Instant Netflix movies in the Family category. So if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. They don't have to be animated, and they don't have to be kiddish. They just need to be low on cursing and adult material. And for my sanity if they could be low on the religious references and cheese factor, that would be good, too.
Even though Mom was snitty today (she is totally freaking out about all the ice outside our front door and getting the cars and driveway cleared out, even though we have no where to go and no way to get there, since the roads are just as bad), I had a pretty good day. I read a book I enjoyed by a new-to-me author. If Dad listened to Rush Limbaugh I never caught him at it. And I, surprisingly, got a good night's sleep last night after my 3 hour nap. I think I'm almost caught up. Or as caught up as I ever get.
So that was my day. How was yours?
Other than Harry's Law, there are no TV shows that we both enjoy. And I've pretty much exhausted my supply of Instant Netflix movies in the Family category. So if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. They don't have to be animated, and they don't have to be kiddish. They just need to be low on cursing and adult material. And for my sanity if they could be low on the religious references and cheese factor, that would be good, too.
Even though Mom was snitty today (she is totally freaking out about all the ice outside our front door and getting the cars and driveway cleared out, even though we have no where to go and no way to get there, since the roads are just as bad), I had a pretty good day. I read a book I enjoyed by a new-to-me author. If Dad listened to Rush Limbaugh I never caught him at it. And I, surprisingly, got a good night's sleep last night after my 3 hour nap. I think I'm almost caught up. Or as caught up as I ever get.
So that was my day. How was yours?
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