laramiepup

Inspiring short for a shorty like me

2009-10-19T00:10:12Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sdk3mqVSRA

Special gift to the Minnesotans (at the end of vid)

2009-09-08T19:57:12Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adiLJxayfg8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp&feature=player_embedded#t=239

Who needs speculative fiction

2009-05-22T22:26:38Z

when you can have "preventative detainment" for crimes that MAY be committed in the undetermined future and you can hold that person/s as long as you want without charging them with anything, or when you have unpunished torturers running free and a politician's load of sheit in front of the ACTUAL constitution while saying "rule of law" as many times as possible.

Samuel Clements was right:
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

Frogs return

2009-05-09T00:36:16Z

The frogs returned to the lakes today.

Cursed sopranos

2009-05-05T03:39:41Z

Or rather, cursing sopranos.

Good news!

The soprano I'm working with does not have a problem singing and/or recording the word "fucking" in an Art Song. "If it is true to the author, of course I'll do it."

I didn't tell her "cunt" and "cactus" in the same paragraph were also true to the author.

Is it just me?

2009-05-01T05:32:50Z

Or is this a coded Furry ad? I just saw it on the daily show. Makes me sentimental for the old days when gay folks coded everything. Peter Lorre's entire ouvre, for example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYZpZxTKvWs

Live free or die

2009-04-29T23:40:23Z

....by getting your very own same-sex ball and chain in New Hampshire!

Gender roles: the children's version

2009-04-24T14:56:23Z

I agree with the last panel of this children's book about gender from 1970 - (things to fix. Hmmm. The patriarchy, the wage gap, etc.) I'm sliiiiiiiiiightly skeptical of the rest:

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/childrens_books_fcking_with_gender_roles_since_1970

Daemon

2009-04-23T05:22:15Z

I'm reading the Golden Compass for the first time and I got to thinking:

I would want my daemon to be a wolf or perhaps an antelope.

But I suspect my daemon would be .... a lamb.

Spring melt

2009-04-19T17:58:55Z

Well, now that the snow is melting, and the sky is cerulean blue - the homos are out holding hands. Yep, that's right - two college boys just walking along the main street in Laramie, sweetly holding hands. Maybe they are emboldened by lame Drag Queens and aids walk events? Or maybe just spring and bluebirds. Either way, I love it.

Queens of Yore

2009-04-19T05:58:03Z

Ugh. Lip-synching drag queens and Budlight. Earplugs made out of bar napkins. I'm not sure I could have had a worse night. Am I stuck in 1952 here?

I heart Belgians and Julie Andrews

2009-04-07T16:04:15Z

True to queer form—with the Julie Andrews worship and all—this video brought me INCREDIBLE joy and made me wish so badly that I had been there. It is post-modern, guerrilla performance art - but with charm and warmth instead of angst, anger, and existentialism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

This will pick you up II

2009-03-22T04:00:00Z

Swirling colors, unrelenting double reeds, percussion, romance. What more could a person desire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewp4vJojac

This will pick you up.

2009-02-22T23:39:31Z

tap dance to die for - The Nicholas Bros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk9paFSyuk
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70 mph

2009-01-04T05:00:59Z

Owl food

2009-01-04T04:50:39Z

This is the presidential pug - belongs the president of my university. I was quite afraid it would be owl food.

Bye bye tenure.

The owl returned and I had my camera this time

2009-01-04T04:40:14Z

The Antichrist

2008-12-06T17:43:36Z

My friend Jonas was reading Obama's book on a recent plane trip. An older, grey haired woman leaned over to him and said, "you know he's the Antichrist, don't you?"

Normally, a gentle and compassionate gay man, Jonas said, "That is the fucking stupidest thing I've ever heard."
And went back to reading.

Effing shite. I'm a redshirt.

2008-11-22T06:29:47Z

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		75%
Worf		60%
Deanna Troi		60%
Data		56%
Uhura		50%
Will Riker		50%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		45%
Mr. Sulu		45%
Jean-Luc Picard		45%
Geordi LaForge		45%
Chekov		40%
Spock		25%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		25%
Mr. Scott		15%
Beverly Crusher		10%

Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed,
and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable.
That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you
were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first
episode you appeared in.

Click here to take the "Which startrek character are you?" quiz...

The good queer

2008-11-20T07:07:26Z

HOMOPHOBIA and a Lexicon of Violence: a conversation with Jonas
Slonacker 10 years after Matthew Shepard

You can read the conversation here at:
http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

Same old queers

2008-11-15T21:29:40Z

Well, I did my bit and protested with the same old 30 people in Laramie, against California's Prop. 8. For an hour we managed not to get flipped off or yelled at. I consider that a success.

On another positive note - finding a family friend there supporting her 13 year old daughter. The daughter greeted me very happily and wanted to talk about choir and music. Someone said, isn't it nice to have your mother supporting you, and the girl replied, "Yes, but that's what mother's do."

Huh. Fascinating.

Children's Opera done

2008-11-14T05:53:21Z

Finally finished the children's opera - I took too long writing the last song because my brain told me it was my last time to write something decent for this show. Must.....shut off.......brain. When Chuckwagon sings lovingly of his favorite meal, Lizzard Gizzards, and says they are better than some "stinky fish," I quoted Schubert's Trout. Ha ha. Oy.

Director sent an incredibly sweet thank you. I'm looking forward to hearing it outside of head, sung by real human voices, and not on a crappy youtube video, either.

walk, nov. 7, 2008

2008-11-08T03:58:18Z

On my walk at the lakes today, I saw over 100 antelope running - about 98 does and 2 bucks on amber waves of grass and under purple clouds, in late day sun. I greeted one great horned owl who let me and Jonas get close enough to see the yellow of her eyes and the swirling of her head. I heard geese honking and coyotes howling,
scared 3 monstrously large hares—now turned white—out of the brush, much to the delight of the dogs, and was surprised by 8 snow geese, taking off from the frozen water.

laramiepup @ 2008-11-05T00:11:00

2008-11-05T07:14:24Z

Tired.

Glad for the country.

Sad for Wyoming.

Anxious for Cali.

ME: lonely.

Dog Poo

2008-09-23T04:25:01Z

On the subject of Dog Poo:

1. In the high prairie and mountains, the stuff degrades quickly. I know, I have a test site in my side yard.
2. In a park where kids or I might be playing or walking in the grass, I always pick up the poo - even though it will take a zillion years to degrade in a bag in the landfill.