Archive for July, 2006

DadDad is Michelangelo

Okay, or Joan Miró.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “DadDad is Michelangelo”, url: “http://www.lesbiandad.net/2006/07/27/daddad-is-michelangelo/” });

Said the man’s t-shirt

[Seen in front of Bette's Ocean View Diner in Berkeley. Front side had info about a City of Berkeley soccer field and skate park, named after Gabe Catalfo, a Berkeley teenager who battled leukemia for eight years and died in 1998.]
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Said the man’s t-shirt”, url: “http://www.lesbiandad.net/2006/07/25/said-the-mans-t-shirt/” });

Step one: with the sweet memory of a gentle, bathwater-mild midwestern lake still fresh in mind, test the surf with mama and gramma–but oops! It’s fed by the “California current,” whose surface temperatures are in the vicinity of 60º F.

Step two: skeedaddle.

(Wanna see how bad it is, in cartographic splendor? Feast your [...]

Guest captioned by a friend: “Heineken?! I ordered a Pabst Blue Ribbon!”
Bad news: flight delayed three hours due to “mechanical failure” (now I know why the bro-in-law calls it “Northworst”).
Good news: Axel’s Firepit Lounge or whatever it’s called was happy to let in a patron who was way, way underage.
Bad news: Axel’s Firepit [...]

Mpls lakeside bliss

Lil’ Monkey baptized by J, finally, in one of her favorite bodies of water. They don’t call it the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes for nothin’. Now she’s her Mama’s girl.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Mpls lakeside bliss”, url: “http://www.lesbiandad.net/2006/07/22/mpls-lakeside-bliss/” });

Minneapolis rain shower

Lil’ Monkey was transfixed, but only slightly more than J was. Because you can take her mama out of Minnesota, but you can’t take the Minnesota out of her mama.
If ever it rains in July in Cali, it’ll be a sign of the coming apocalypse. Here, it is simply part of the meteorological splendor [...]

Days of womanness

Estrogen hormone, courtesy  3Dchem.com
Day of womanness, part one: My plumbing, Myself. About a week ago I had a stout reminder of my biologically female selfhood, lest I think my ‘twixt genders state gets me off any essentially biological hooks: the one-two punch of (1) an external & internal ultrasound to check on the progress of [...]

“Straw– went– in. Straw– went– in.” So went the plaintive cry from the back seat. “She probably pulled it out. Just throw it away,” said the frequently impatient–but boy is she productive!–Other Parent, as she exited the vehicle for speed-errand #7 in a series.
“Heh heh” sez I, knowing a [...]




    LD's No on California Prop 8 fundraising

    Goal Thermometer no-on-8-cutie



    The time to step up is now.



    See that cute kid there on the right? My son. The day, this July, that my partner and I got hitched. It was our fourteenth anniversary. Help.



    300pxbaumevent

    Featured election news/analysis:

    From "Gay marriages in California surpass those in Massachusetts,", Jessica Garrison, on 7 Oct., 2008, at the Los Angeles Times.



    Data released Monday (6 Oct 08) by UCLA's Williams Institute found that an estimated 11, 000 same-sex couples were married in CA since June 17, when the court began to allow them. (Since May 2004, over 10,000 have married in Massachusetts.)



    Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in La Mesa, who has been rallying voters to pass the constitutional amendment, said: "The fact that there are big numbers doesn't change the reality that it is still bad for the country."



    Garlow, who along with hundreds of other Christians, is observing a fast until election day as a way to show his support for the proposed amendment, added: "There are enormous numbers of people doing cocaine right now. . . . Simply because large numbers of people are doing something does not make it right."
    "Foes of gay-marriage ban say poll shows Prop. 8 leading," by Jessica Garrison, 8 Oct., 2008, in the Los Angeles Times:
    The opposition has enjoyed a healthy lead in several surveys taken by polling organizations that do not have a stake in the campaign. But officials with the No on 8 campaign held a conference call with reporters Tuesday to announce that their own poll showed the measure would pass by four points. Opponents attributed the result to fewer television ads, which is, in turn, a result of the No on 8 campaign falling behind in fundraising.
    From Geoff Kors, Equality California, in an email to EQCA and No on 8 supporters, 7 Oct., 2008:
    Our worst nightmares are coming true.



    Today we learned of the massive $25.4 million our opponents have raised so far. They are using this war chest to broadcast lies: 24/7 and up and down the state of California.



    And the polls show the lies are working. We need your donation now.



    Yesterday’s CBS 51 poll shows that:



    “…likely California voters overall now favor passage of Proposition 8 by a five-point margin, 47 percent to 42 percent. Ironically, a CBS 5 poll eleven days prior found a five-point margin in favor of the measure's opponents.”



    People change their minds about Proposition 8 when they hear the lie that churches will lose their tax-free status if they won’t marry same-sex couples – EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT TRUE!



    So this is crunch time. With less than a month before the election, we must get on the air now to answer these lies and swing votes back to our side.



    And the ONLY way to do that it to raise more money. The generous $15.8 million that our supporters have given isn’t enough. Not when the other side has nearly $10 million more than we do and the fundraising gap is growing.


    Earlier:



    Ellen DeGeneres: "My Political Point... And I Do Have One," on 24 Sept., 2008 at her site.



    Previous election news/analysis links can be found at this here Election news links page.

    Lesbian Dad 101

    Lesbian Dad Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia.

    Still curious? You'll find a ton more on the About page. Baffled by the lingo? Peruse the Glossary. For the proper immersion experience, I highly recommend a visit to the Best of LD.

    Hispanohablantes: ¿aquí por error? Tengo una página para usted.
    Please join the conversation. If you have trouble registering to comment -- there's a link at the base of each post -- just write me and I'll do it for you.