Archive for December, 2006

Lil’ Monkey literally sucks the words out of her auntie’s mouth with her eyes, as she reads the beloved children’s classic about a duck’s near-fois gras adventures.
I have renewed compassion for Scheherazade.
There seem to be two kinds of weblog posters, the peripatetic, prolific types — the digital equivalents of Joyce Carol Oates, let’s [...]

The zoo was a drab sepia, but for the lone, might-poop-if-we-wait-long-enough monkey. Who was actually not the Ancient Mariner referred to in the title above. Read on.
We met the Ancient Mariner the other day at the zoo. The lil’ monkey and I went there in hopes of revisiting the phenomenally memorable monkey-going-poop! [...]

So sometime earlier today, the folks at the Weblog Awards enabled the voting screen on their site. Here’s how to cast the vote:
1. Go to the 2006 Weblog Awards: Best New Blog page.
2. Scan the entries, roll &/or hover your cursor over all the other finalists for a moment, heightening the dramatic tension a bit.
3. [...]

Kidding. I will totally figure it out by the weekend.
Kidding!
The beloved looked over my shoulder and was sure I’d be turning would-be voters away for several, critical, landslide-inducing voting days. I says NO! Dry humor is visible a block away! The would-be voters will persevere! Or at least [...]

I’m all about the magnanimity

With apologies to Lee Meriweather, Miss America 1955
(whose story is here, whence I filched this image)*.
Day one of sitting back and sipping a parasol’ed, coconut milk-infused beverage on a chaise lounge, lolling in the afterglow of making it into a Weblog Awards Finalist berth for Best New Blog, and I sit up with a JOLT! [...]

We’re talking Chi-town, circa 1930. [Ooops! I stand/sit corrected! By my know-it-all brother-in-law! Ooo, it stings! Make that circa 1950s-60s.]
The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over a million votes cast in the last three years for nearly a thousand blogs. And yes, gentle reader, you [...]

Like Mama like Monkey

In training to become as dogged an editor as her ma, who is always willing to give a draft yet another look, despite being nigh on 8 mo. pregnant.
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Grampy reads

Our lucky darlin’ has two living grandfathers: my father, who lives nearby and who’s known as DadDad, and my beloved’s father, who lives far away in the Midwest, and is known as Grampy. He came to visit this past week, to the delight of all his grandkids.
They love his company for so [...]




    LD's No on California Prop 8 fundraising

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    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.



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    Featured election news/analysis:

    From Geoff Kors, Equality California, in an email to EQCA and No on 8 supporters, 14 Oct., 2008:
    The latest tracking polls show that if the election were held today among voters who have seen both our ads and the other side’s ads that we would WIN!



    Unfortunately, we don’t have sufficient funds to get our ads seen by all the voters who’ve seen the other side’s ads. So it’s that simple…without more funds we’ll lose.



    But we will win if we have enough money to reach voters. So DONATE NOW!



    A powerful array of motivated groups have organized against us. Yesterday’s Sacramento Bee reported that:



    “Mormons…have emerged as the leading financial contributors to the controversial Nov. 4 ballot measure. Church members have donated about 40 percent of the $22.8 million raised to pass the initiative since July.”



    What is also unfortunate is that only 30,000 people have donated to the No on 8 campaign compared to the 60,000 who have donated to the other side.



    In a state with about two million LGBT people, in a country with millions more and tens of millions of straight allies, we have to get everyone to support this fight. If every LGBT person donates we can win!
    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."


    Earlier:



    "Foes of gay-marriage ban say poll shows Prop. 8 leading," by Jessica Garrison, 8 Oct., 2008, in the Los Angeles Times.


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

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