Two women kissing in a ballpark and being asked to stop have sparked a debate of sorts in Seattle.
The AP coverage depressed me because it contained two incidences of people giving the following reason for being against gay PDA’s…
If kids witness it, their parents will HAVE to EXPLAIN it.
Wow.
It is amazing how stupid people can be. Maybe not wanting to have to explain things to kids is genetic. I am going to explain something to those particular parents. Sixty-five percent of US children now use the Internet. Actually that is a 2003 statistic. I am lazy and grabbed the highest ranking survey. I imagine it is close to 80% by now. I have it good authority that there are women kissing and men kissing and also some other stuff on the internet. Maybe you better skip the next ballgame and talk to your kids. You have a lot of explaining to do.
*Picture credit - I found this image on a 2004 blog post complaining about Ohio’s constitutional amendment to permanently ban same sex marriages.
I was watching the video by Tom Waits and I saw the thumbnail for this one in the related videos.
I really like this girl’s voice. I don’t want to over-explain why I decided to post it, but here is a quote from another good songwriter that might shed a little light…
I played Love Tara by Eric’s Trip,
On the day that you were born.
I had to find the cuteness, in the unadorned,
But I was torn.
Iraq has been on the verge of Civil War off and on for the last few years. America had its own civil war a short time ago and the end of this clip has some interesting commentary about the senselessness of people killing each other because of some silly geopolitical situation. The words are a little sappy and over-simplistic. that doesn’t mean the scriptwriter wasn’t right.
Researchers in the Republic of Congo recently observed (and videotaped) two gorillas having sex in a face to face position. They were holding each other and looking one another in the eye. One scientist told TIME that they had not seen this behavior in 13 years of research. I am pretty sure he was talking about the gorillas.
They held hands afterward.
I am actually curious about the possibility that the gorillas observed this particular behavior in the researchers or other nearby humans at some point. TIME did not ask.
I was reminded of this video while reading a post about etiquette on a wedding ideas blog called Wedding Idea Source. The post advises against drinking too much at wedding receptions.
The lady singing the duet in this video is Kathleen Edwards. I had an awkward moment standing beside her down at the Khyber many years ago. She’s the kind of woman that attracts me against my better judgement. The manager had been comping all the performers with Jagermeister shots from his fancy new sub zero dispenser and she was quite tipsy. When we made eye contact I got the impression that she was worried that I would say something lame and that she was too impaired to be gracious in that way that minor celebrities usually are when dealing with that crap. I said nothing and I felt appreciated for my silence.
The Worst Time to Suffer From Paranoia is when people are out to get you. I spent an hour pouring over the long Vanity Fair article about the tragic last days of an artistic power couple who had fled Hollywood for New York after a weird series of events and then committed suicide in separate events. The main theme running through the story is that two people who were very much in love had both descended into mental illness. One of the main targets of Theresa Duncan’s paranoia was the church of scientology. It is unclear as to whether there was any actual threat. Any correspondence coming from anyone involved with scientology could be put in the context of justifiable denials and pushback. Given the fact that there are powerful people in Hollywood who belong to this cult, I believe that there probably was some level of malicious damage to the professional and social lives of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Theresa Duncan’s story about befriending Beck and offering to help him escape the cult is dubious because of Beck’s denials, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Looking at this North Carolina Wedding Directory got me thinking about my East Coast beach wedding. I am pretty sure that Catherine didn’t have a resource like this when we were planning the wedding. If you live in or near North Carolina and you are planning a wedding, you should check out NorthCarolinaWeddings.com. They list vendors that handle everything except the weather.
Given some of the emotions that I was feeling as the big day approached, Cape Fear might have been a more apt venue than the beach we had settled on. And for those of you with knowledge of Canadian geography, we did not get married at Conception Bay either.
I think it’s safe to assume that the vast majority of people who read my blog are bloggers themselves. That’s just the way it is.
How many you have given up the practice of thinking the words “that’s a blog post” while having a real life conversation and you now just say them right out loud?
I said that about something that I was discussing while sitting at the kitchen table with Catherine about a half an hour ago. Now that I am blogging, I can’t remember what it was and Catherine can’t either. This post is to take the place of that really good idea.
I think the idea was about something that people do sometimes.
Gay people are gradually becoming more and more accepted in mainstream society. I was very surprised to find out that the alternate universe known as Daytime Television just had its first Gay Kissing Scene. This happened on As The World Turns. I would have expected this to have become a normal thing ages ago.
I don’t keep up with television trends very well. I would have assumed that Queer as Folk would have come on an hour or two earlier every year until it officially became a soap opera. I guess the real soaps want to get in on the action. It’s great marketing really. Most soap fans are women. A gay kissing scene means twice as many men. It’s twice as hot and even in this day and age, it’s still a little bit dirty.
I am pretty sure that the particular vow was spoken at my wedding and I am pretty sure that it is broad enough to cover crazy. Apparently I hadn’t been paying close enough attention when I ran my photo for Self Portrait Sunday by my wife. Apparently she had said it was weird and that I shouldn’t post it. My bad.
I love being in a relationship where an incident like this is funny.
Two women kissing in a ballpark and being asked to stop have sparked a debate of sorts in Seattle.