Mental Junk Drawer TWO....open topics

*Note to self....proof read

sorry about the typos

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 17:45:53 PM CDT

hi petey

I cleaned up the entry so I could promote to the front page.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:14:26 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Thanks

Maybe I could proof read and spellcheck....nah that ain't gonna happen...*grins*

Did ya see the Mao ZePAM image?
   http://img.villagephotos.com/p...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:23:59 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

I think I got here from huffington post

Nowadays my regular reads are Pam's (this is my "home), Joe.My.God, towleroad, and Rod 2.0.

I read and occasionally post at the Slog, The Gist, 365gay.com.

I do huffington still and daily Kos.

I guess that Questioning Transphobia is a new blog that I've added although I don't know hoe frequently I will read and post there on a weekly basis though one of the regu;lar posters there (and here) gave me some homework (lol)

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by: kevinchi @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 18:26:58 PM CDT

Came here via Pandagon

and that via reading a bunch from a gal called "Happy Feminist"- found her while researching personality disorders.

BTW, I just posted "the best apology speech ever":

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by: Louise @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 19:44:00 PM CDT

Came here from Slog

And I'm still there.
And I'm now posting at my own Protest for Human Rights.

Time to Stand! ProtestForHumanRighs.com

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by: Enigmas @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:31:46 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

As for daily (or almost) reads

I have so darned many, that I HAD to create my own page just to organize 'em- and even then, there are another dozen or so others private/ bookmarked.

They cover local, international, humor. Because imo ya gotta laugh...

Then I have an ongoing file of music, to relax to and help clear a very cluttered, busy and disorganized mind.  

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by: Louise @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 07:48:47 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

I've been here from the beginning just about

I started my first blog back in 2001 and added several blogs to my blogroll over the next couple of years. Pam's House Blend and Shakespeare's Sister (Shakesville) are the only two left from the original batch and I don't recall when they were added.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:30:32 PM CDT

Usually

I'm usually on Facebook (addicted to Mafia Wars) or my other favorite blog Box Turtle Bulletin.  I like Joe My God too, but his page is so big it sometimes freezes my brower loading.

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by: shaz4005 @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:30:37 PM CDT

i noticed that about "Joe" too

If his isn't one ofthe first sites I go to, but go there after I've been online for a while, he just "crashes" my laptop.  And, even if i don't crash, he's so slow it just frustrates me waiting forever to be able to scroll down.  It's too bad too, because I like his site.  But, it's not always worth the "waiting"

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by: timNC @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:33:56 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Speaking of blogs

and cheap- this is good (from one of my faves, PunditKitchen):

see more Political Pictures

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by: Louise @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:32:28 PM CDT

undernet irc channel

#altreligionscientology

There's a group of us that have been chatting together (and moving from irc network to irc network) since the summer of 1995.

I think if I stopped showing up, my friends would send out a posse to find me. One guy stopped posting on Usenet (this happened a loooong time ago) and people called the Vancouver, B.C. police department asking for a health check.

Of course, when you play with Happy Fun Cult, a little paranoia is really never too much.

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by: Mirele @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 20:35:42 PM CDT

forgot my guilty pleasure

Queerty....for the Morning Goods....it's a guy thing

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 21:04:38 PM CDT

A Blender since 2004

I came to the Blend in the summer of 2004 from a link on RawStoryQ, now known as PageOneQ, and it has been a daily read for me since then.

Prior to coming to the Blend, I hung out on several Yahoo trans groups which have since disappeared or become dormant.

Other current regulars I read are the thrice-weekly cartoon posts at Slap Upside the Head, Womanist Musings, TransGriot, Screw Bronze!, and The Cracked Crystal Ball II.

Outside of the LGBT universe, I read The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive and a number of other mental health blogs.

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by: Stephanie @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 21:21:43 PM CDT

My online history

started with required class message board discussions in philosophy classes, then I moved on to our schools unofficial message board thinking if I did it in classes it might be worth checking out our schools student message board outside of class called www.thewolfweb.com which has over 33 thousand users registered for the largest university in North Carolina, NCSU, which is located in our capital city Raleigh.

Another message board called partyincollege.com spawned off that website to be a collection of many colleges across the US, although it turned out to be heavily east coast oriented & mostly colleges across NC that had the highest participation, which I visit on occasion, but it still manages less activity than the NCSU's message board alone.

Facebook & Myspace pulled me much deeper online, and campaign season brought me in contact with other sites like BlueNC.com, OrangePolitics.com, DailyKos, & of course the Blend.

I occasionally participate on local news & college newspaper websites commentary sections too.

If I had to pick one version of the online "me" that I use the most, it would far & away be:  facebook.com/equality

Most of these sites relate to me locally though.  The triangle area which is the heart/central part of NC where I've lived in for about 7 years includes 3 main points Raleigh (where my school msg board is run out of), Durham (home to the blend), and Chapel Hill (home to orange politics as it is located in orange county NC), and of course BlueNC is statewide, and that other message board that I mentioned was a collection of many colleges is still more NC oriented than anything else.

DailyKos is the only site where either don't know or haven't met at least some of its other patrons really.

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by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 21:50:06 PM CDT

I've been online since 1992

but I got here through google. I read a lot of news sites, I read some political sites, but this is the only (political/news) place I post. My other primary hangouts are personal interest sites, completely unrelated to news, politics, or even any LGBT issues, most of them car related. or associated with my industry segment.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

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by: QueerInSoCal @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 21:55:50 PM CDT

I don't really remember,

but I think I got here from BuzzFlash.  Otherwise, I hang out at Democratic Underground a lot.

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by: PSzymeczek @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 22:26:01 PM CDT

Besides this delightful blog, I'm usually checking out...

Joe.My.God., Towleroad, AfterElton, HuffPost, DailyKos, 365Gay

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by: obtusegoose @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 22:47:57 PM CDT

PHB is my first news blog

otherwise I follow several trans forums (TrueSelves and the late-great GenderPeace). Also a few blogs over on Live Journal.

GRS related Yahoo groups too. Dr. Kamol rocks!

Dena  

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" is so 2006.

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by: Denabeth @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 23:10:56 PM CDT

As for me...

...I usually read blogs which are less trans-hostile than this one.

It's pronounced "Keeva."

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by: Caoimhe @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 00:15:45 AM CDT

PHB was my first blog

and it was love at first read!  This is where I get most of my gay news;  HuffPo and CNN for other national news, and the Naperville Sun website so I'll know when The Peter gets caught soliciting an undercover cop for anal sex in the local forest preserve.  

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by: Naperville Mom @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 00:55:58 AM CDT

I'm "from the internet",

so most of my interactive online time is spent in the more geek-focused side of the internet (with a big chunk of it the academic and/or feminist and/or lit-geek and feminist-sci-fi brands of geek; all of which overlap extensively).  Several of my favorite sites have a not-quite-official policy of keeping discussions in-house to avoid people who aren't used to the whole "feminist geeks being sarcastic" mode of discourse.

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by: M @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 01:03:34 AM CDT

This is my first

I don't really care for chat rooms or forums usually, I have recently joined the Rap Pack on Goombah's Rainbow, and I try to get into it.  I follow lots of blogs both personal and news type.
It was for me love at first read here at PHB.  Though I had to purposely stay away when my semester got overwhelming, LOL.  It is addictive.

"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol



"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - Blaise Pascal

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by: TruthandLove @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 03:17:21 AM CDT

You had something

on your own site a few weeks ago that I bumped into and it REALLY made me feel better at a low point- wanted to thank you for such a lovely post, Rebecca.  

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by: Louise @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 07:44:34 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

initially

through americablog from 2003.
my second click every day was here because i had been looking for election information and found them first.
i remember when that changed(?)

but my browser's history makes it second on the first url "P"
Crooks and Liars second since i don't live under the Western media umbrella and don't even have a tv here, so i go there for video.
other daily's:
RawStory
Alternet
PageOneQ
HuffPost

i find it a luxury to benefit from many other people sifting all the crap for me.
tenk yu tru.

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by: troy3 @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 03:39:46 AM CDT

I started with

in the early 90's a BBS called Dave's Planet
Than,
those silly chaotic chat rooms provided by Prodigy. (LGBT and Warhammer discussions)

AOL chat rooms

took a little break, but the most recent history (in approximate order of first use):

Gay.com
365gay.com
Media Matters for America
Daily Kos
Pam's House Blend
Huffington Post

Actually I learned about the Blend from a fellow poster on MMA, he quoted Pam while arguing with the poster Tommy (all those who used or use MMA's rooms should remember Tommy)

 

Help defend equality, visit One Kalamazoo http://www.onekalamazoo.com/

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by: Mattkazoo @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 06:40:44 AM CDT

I read

HuffPo
DKos
Bilerico
PHB
Spectrum Cafe

I no longer comment at Huffpo, nor do I comment at Dkos. Indeed, Dkos is sorta like a fox in the henhouse for me, personally, but that's nonesuch.

I am involved in several forums, where I rarely discuss politics or things of  political bent and spend most of my time being silly or providing horrible advice.

Like a lot of transfolk, I focused on Bilerico and PHB because they made an effort -- and they still do.  One does not find that elsewhere.

Bilerico has issues recently as well, that were damaging (particular to transwomen of color) but not quite like here recently.

Up until late 2006, most of my forum and newsboard involvement surrounded digital art, emphasis on 3D modeling (I still prefer modo, damn it, but use a nice cheapie one called wings and convert, and I loathe 3DS) and places like that.

I can say that I've gotten to see things I created stolen and resold and then used in tv shows, lol. Among other stuff.

Before that I was involved in a lot of copyright, trand mark, and trade dress legal work online (I worked as an agent and enforcer) and, of course...

Private boards for the seven or so theoretical sociology projects I worked on, and my work with the same people who are now my opponents.

I do a lot of this, iow, going back a looong time (I think this covers pretty much the last, oh, 15 years?)

http://www.dyssonance.com  Breaking all the rules...

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by: dyssonance @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 07:40:36 AM CDT

There's no way to really say where things started

Early 90s, though, while I was at college.

More recent active history:
ENWorld (Dungeons and Dragons messageboard, where I'm a moderator (yes, under a different name).

Companion boards where gamers discuss politics--Nutkinland/Nothingland and CircvsMaximvs, although I left those because of rightwing nuts driving the conversation, and me, nuts.

Democratic Underground, but I'm gone from there now as part of the anti-gay purges (voluntary--I refuse to sign a moderator warning that insults my integrity (Rule 1:  Never question the integrity of a Marine)).

Facebook linked in with some of the other purged.

LavenderLiberal--the combined blogs of a lesbian Limited Edition Married couple from DU who have largely stopped posting at DU, both are expecting to be purged at any time.

Connexion.org--mostly a gay men's social networking site, but some limited low-quality discussion available.

I'll occasionally look over at other places when directed, but can't consider staying any place that lists DU as a "friend" or "site we like"--that's akin to saying, "We like sites that hate gay people."  That includes DKos and Americablog--there is occasionally decent commentary, but I won't participate because being purged once for BadWrongThought is enough, thank you.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

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by: MileHighDawg @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 08:31:58 AM CDT

Don't remember how I got here...

...it was a link from some other site in a news story or comment. Traveled a lot and didn't have much time, but hit it here and there.

Over the last few months I have been reading almost daily, then daily, now several times a day and commenting...

I also read PostMormon.com for interaction, and boortz.com for the news sifting and libertarian viewpoint. My husband is a transman, so I hit a whole bunch of trans and gay related sites, but not on a daily basis.


Stormie
Religious beliefs are not a basis upon which to affirm or deny civil rights.

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by: StormWalker @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 08:36:05 AM CDT

Usenet

was the first place where I actually participated in forums. The first blog I read was thismodernworld.com (I picked up reading Jonathan Schwarz there too).

From there I read atrios and dailykos. I left kos after the conversion to diaries. It was and still is way too much of a men's locker room and dominated by sports-thinking for me.

I stopped reading atrios somewhere around the time he strangely got pissy over smaller bloggers not liking the holiday he tried to create (This included Duncan stating that our Terrence was behaving in a way that made him want to shoot people in the face.).

Americablog was in there somewhere too. The ENDA debacle was more than enough of a reason to bail on that blog, but John's shrillness and shallow analyses were always grimace-inducing to me. Joe was the reason I read.

Somewhere, b4 the atrios bit, I found the blend. The first blend post I read is here. So I guess around 2006 is when I showed up here.

These days, for blogs, I read the blend and sites about tasers and police brutality.

I was faithfully reading Thinkprogress until a couple of weeks ago when the "progressives" began to complain about "teh gays" yelling too much at Obama.

I still get news feeds from rawstory, mother jones, and 365gay.  More than anything though, over the past year or so, I've been following and writing about tasers, post-tasing deaths, and police brutality via tasing. I've had a diary in the wings on that topic for the blend for a while.  I'll finish it one of these days.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 10:02:16 AM CDT

Sweet Mother of Pearl!

I'd never seen that clip of the Roach vs the Weatherman.  That was wonderful.  Of course, they use the euphemism Palmetto Bug in Florida.

That deserves another look.

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by: Pollyanna @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:17:02 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Do please excuse me.

I beg of you your indulgence and forgiveness whilst I take my heteronormative, heterosexist self and proceed to once again indulge in emotive display featuring laughter in order to express the sense of moral outrage that does not, in any way, come about as a direct result of seeing this video.

http://www.dyssonance.com  Breaking all the rules...

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by: dyssonance @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:54:13 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Been online for a long time

My first trip online was when my friend Chris and I used one of the original Apple Macs and one of those modems you put the old phone headsets on to call up a geeky local bulletin board.  This was years before even Prodigy or AOL, both of which seemed very fancy because they had any kind of graphics at all, heh.

These days The Blend is the only politically oriented site where I occasionally post, although I read most of the big liberal & feminist/womanist blogs to keep on top of the happenings the MSM blows off.  Other than that I like a few trashy pop culture sites but mostly hang out at smaller more personal blogs, those of friends both online and off.

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by: Rev Jane Ignatowski @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 12:31:55 PM CDT

Here and there

I live on the Internet.

My home on the net is h2g2. I have a Facebook account too.

I think the first gay news blog I started to follow was Ex-Gay Watch. Then Box Turtle Bulletin, Good As You and the ever-excellent Slap Upside the Head. I also hang around Pharyngula. And I've started to follow College Jay.

I've looked at Joe My God, but his habit of having every single link open in a new tab puts me off.

Yes, these are all American sites (mainly US; one Canadian), while I'm Irish. I really ought to get a bit more involved in my own country.

TRiG.

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by: TRiG @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 12:49:58 PM CDT

Since this IS open topic

1) I'll be damned if I spend $55 on a pair of jeans at a thrift store. Granted, I've seen these particular Levi jeans priced around $130 spanking new, there's just some things that I'm too principled to do. Spending that much on one item of clothing at a thrift store is one of them.

I did see an HRC tee shirt with "love" and the HRC symbol on it. It was $6. I was briefly tempted but said, nahhhh!

2. I like the idea of recurring threads like this (with or without a topic) just to unwind.  

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by: kevinchi @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 13:14:46 PM CDT

My gateway drug was Usenet.

First alt.folklore.urban
alt.politics.white-power   don't worry race traitor here.
alt.revisionism            again confident I was a good guy.
and a few in the alt.sex category

The first blog I fell in love with was
http://eyeswideapart.blogspot....   found by clicking the next
blog link provided by blogger.  Paige also has a blog
on her bout with breast cancer that was public but has gone
private.

Probably found Pam's from Shakespeare's sister.

Blogs I read daily now, along with Pam's
Orcinus http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
and
Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/index

I often check
Panda's Thumb http://pandasthumb.org/
Bad Astronomy http://blogs.discovermagazine....

Following PZ's response to the DOMA brief I'm reading more
Pharyngula http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn...

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by: Charles @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 15:34:52 PM CDT

rec.games.frp.dnd for me

and some of the derivatives.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

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by: MileHighDawg @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:21:25 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Ah, time for some fresh sun tea!

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by: kevinchi @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:32:41 PM CDT

Long Island Iced Tea

One would be nice but I don't even allow myself to think about that too long!

Southern Sun Tea it is!

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by: kevinchi @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 19:23:46 PM CDT

I'm BAAAAAAACK

Lightening fried our modem Thursday night, and just got a replacement modem today. GRRRRRRRRR!
It's still not installed on my puter, so I'm using my husband's.
Even UPS was plotting against me, they delivered the damn thing to the wrong house.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 17:42:59 PM CDT

Don't worry...

I upped my frequency of posting to cover your shortfall. It's been exhausting, but someone had to do it.

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by: Pollyanna @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:12:59 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Damnation, petey!

That's a mighty loooooong time... glad to see you're finally back online.

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by: Louise @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:37:34 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

glad to be back Pollyanna and Louise

It took me another couple hours to get this friggin wireless working on my puter. Wouldn't you know it they put the damn secret to finding the wireless password...on a G*D DAMN website, which you can't get to with out wireless.
My hubby's puter is slower than molasses in January, so getting his back up to go to the oneline website takes 20 minutes. I think he needs a puter from THIS Century...just saying.
Polly-potty-mouth thanks for the covering from my lapse of posts, and thank Goddess I got back before the day of civility, I can be BAD for a little while.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 20:36:07 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Oh yeah, on the topic of food.

I'm a tea snob.

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by: Pollyanna @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:13:46 PM CDT

Oh dear.

My husband can be like that. He specially orders loose leaf lapsang by the 2 lb bag and brews in a special tea pot, with tea cozy, strainers, special cups, etc.

Versus me, the "Trainwreck of Good Taste":

I throw a few bags of "whatever" in my favorite big ole broken and scratched plastic travel mug, fill it with water and nuke it, then chuck the bags, add sugar and milk, then stir and drink.

With a big plastic straw. And if it gets cold, that's okay.

I have seen him visibly wince and shudder more times over the years...

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by: Louise @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 18:42:44 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Well, lapsang souchong smells so strongly,

he better use a separate stainer.

At any one time, I might have 10-15 types of tea around, but my tin of lapsang souchong doesn't need replenishing for at least a year. So much for freshness.

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by: Pollyanna @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 19:01:49 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

He switches

to loose leaf Earl Grey or English Breakfast every once in awhile, but for the most part, it's lapsang. And yeah, he has 4 separate strainers. (and has gone through half of the 2 lb bag in less than 2 months!)

I like: green tea, cinnamon stick, constant comment, lemon, chamomille, and plain ole black tea. The kid likes some of those plus blueberry, peppermint and pomegranate.

We drink coffee until noon, then tea the rest of the day usually. And where it's been about 55-60 degrees, cold and rainy most of the summer so far up here in Maine, hot beverages are a MUST.

15 types? Neat! Whatcha got, Pollyanna?

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by: Louise @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 19:25:42 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Tea Time

Decades ago, I used to send away to England to get tea by mail due to the lack of decent sources in the USA at the time.  Times have surely changed.  I can place an order online for practically any type of tea from various businesses in this country and have the package hit my doorstep within a few days.

For tea (real tea, not herbal), I usually prefer individual types, not blends, and also not many scented or flavored teas.  Right now, of the black teas, I see I have at least one example of keemun, yunnan, darjeeling, assam, lapsang souchong and ceylon ; of the semi-fermented, one formosa oolong; of the greens, a lung ching; and a jasmine, a plum spice (an awful mistake), and an oddity, tea flowers.

A Hao-Ya 'A' Superfine Keemun has been my favorite morning tea for a while, but even though $52 per 250 grams is hardly expensive compared with some teas, I'm starting to sample cheaper keemuns these days.

One nice thing about tea, a little goes a long way, so you can sample extravagantly expensive types by just buying a relatively small amount.

For making tisanes I have spearmint, hibiscus flowers, lavender, various concoctions of rooibos, lemon myrtle and different ready-made herbal and fruit "teas."

I buy almost all my tea from Upton Tea Co. and whenever given the opportunity I rave over their terrific customer service, huge selection and range of prices to fit any budget. One other quite good, though more limited, online source I use is TeaGschwendner. Their presence in the US is fairly fairly recent, I think.

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by: Pollyanna @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 23:59:46 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Ooo!

Thanks for links, Pollyanna- yup, I'm way outclassed! ;)

We used to have a marvelous place in the Portland Public Marketplace that had the most amazing spices, teas, imported foods, etc. Then they closed the market and the company set up elsewhere in the city about 3 years ago. Just checked; no website. :(

We would drive down a couple times a year and blow a couple hundred, stocking up the pantry on cool stuff and I'd routinely let the owner put me onto 2 or 3 new (to me) loose leaf teas I have never heard of. But oh did I have a great time trying them!

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by: Louise @ Thu Jul 09, 2009 at 16:42:16 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

We got a tiny amount of rain, and less than 90 degrees the last 2 days

It ain't much, but it sure feels better.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 23:29:51 PM CDT

playlist for the darkside

channeling stuff here, that I won't mess up other threads with.
Rolling Stones Play with Fire
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Ramones - Beat On The Brat (Japan - 1991)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Cher - Follow This You Bitches
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Elton John - The Bitch is Back
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 17:38:22 PM CDT

Coretta mastered civility

While doing some investigating on the subject, I found one of the finest examples of someone who mastered civility was Coretta King. From the history we know of Coretta, having her husband continually put himself and his family at risk, the separation of him traveling to give speeches and demonstrations, and his being arrested, and imprisoned., showed a courageous, self sufficient, supportive, and gracious woman. When she was faced with the horrible fact, the hatred had robbed her of her spouse and her children's father, she was able to draw on a vast reservoir of strengths to carry on her husband's legacy, his works, and even expand on her husband's goals. The ugly sh*t thrown at this woman, from lying innuendos from the FBI about affairs, the threatening calls and letters she must have heard and seen, could have sent Mrs. King in a very rage filled and destructive path...and no one would have blamed her. Mrs.  King might have chosen to just resign from public life, and say she gave ENOUGH...and no one would have blamed her for that either.

no one would mistake civility as my strong suit, at least I can recognise someone who did it magnificently.
for Coretta

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

this wasn't what warranted a diary of it's own, but my contribution for day of civility

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 09, 2009 at 21:25:07 PM CDT

I was going through old photos

since I've never showed an image of me, this is me in 1990 with my lover Dan, the picture was taken at the very end of his battle with AIDS, he died of heart failure 2 weeks after this photo. I'm the dark haired guy with the beard.
My hair is more grey streaked and AIDS has taken the fat from my face and put it on my stomach, giving me that attractive 6 months pregnant in Bangaladesh look.
   

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 19:39:29 PM CDT

While counting to ten

civility hangin by a thread
The Rolling Stones-Sympathy For The Devil
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
A STAR IS BORN (1976) - 1/16 - Barbra Streisand
GO TO HELL
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Edgard Winter - Tobacco Road - 1972
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Eurythmics-Would I Lie To You?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 18:38:32 PM CDT