Watching The Defectives

Joe. My. God. posts on how Pride doesn’t need to be “reformed”, on why drag queens and leather dykes invariably wind up in news reports on Pride festivities, and on how the political aspects are nowhere near as important as some people think they are. Probably the most insightful piece I’ve yet read on the [...]

More from /dev/random

Wildly distracted at the moment, so this’ll be fast. Apparently, this very site comes up when one searches for “nude boy and asparagus”. No friggin’ clue why. Got the home network infrastructure mostly in place; just waiting on the eBay-purchased 802.11g AP to arrive via UPS (scheduled for Friday). Now, to tinker with Samba. Also [...]

Everything Mao!

I swear, Mao Tse Tung is gradually sticking his ghostly nose into every facet of my life. So far, just in the past 24 hours: the jokes cracked in a particular online community about a “cordial revolution” (signing letters with “Cordially” in defiance of company policy) which led to a half-baked idea about making little [...]

I swear, there’s something very Brownian going on in my head.

I just can’t focus on a damned thing, thanks to all manner of random activity in my brain today. Hopefully I can alleviate this by dumping core here. I am semi-secretly stoked that geekslut has returned to blogging. Wikipedia’s completed its upgrade to v1.5, thank God. Now I can breathe easily and go back to [...]

Pride 2005 recap, aka “Jesus didn’t have wheels!”

So this weekend was STL’s Pride festival and parade and associated goodness. Here’s my quickie recap. Friday night, post-asplosion, was the first of two Gateway Men’s Chorus concerts. Since Fred and I are both in the chorus, we both went. Crowd was good; performance was so-so. Saturday afternoon Fred and I volunteered at the chorus [...]