Archive for August, 2007

Hot off the presses from Dana at Mombian: School Board Upholds Ban on Film Depicting Same-Sex Families. (I posted an All Points Bulletin about this broo-haha over the prizewinning documentary That’s A Family way back in February.)
In a first-person account of the school board meeting by Steven Goldstein, Garden State Equality’s chair, we [...]

“Let’s play ‘Family,’” says the lil’ monkey this afternoon. How can I say no? Also, how can I not use it as yet another opportunity to massage the concept, yet again? In situ? Under the guise of her initiative?
“When you play ‘Family,’ who is it that’s in the family?” I [...]

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Photo by David Rae Morris, part of his gallery “Mr.G. and the Rev.”
Posted on the Lagniappe page at his site.
• The beloved heard this commentary, “Dear New Orleans: I’m Leaving You,” by Eve Troeh on NPR the other day. Eve said,
Now I’m a jilted lover of the city. I’m angry and confused. [...]

Otherwise known as the FD+ORS. Beta-tested on the lil’ monkey, now polished to near-perfection with the peanut. [Caveat: this FD+ORS is applicable during the series of weeks/months between when the kiddle starts to eat spoon-delivered solids, and when said kiddle can reasonably direct spoon to food, then to face. Their face.]
This FD+ORS [...]

Overheard (1)

Scene: Little Monkey is tucked into a room taking care of “business” in her diaper. Downstairs Girl Cousin enters, and squats down next to her.
LM: I’m having privacy.
DGC: Can we have have privacy together?
LM: Privacy is when you are by yourself.
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Wood nymph in diaper, Carmel, CA.
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Scat Friday

Oh, but how I wish I meant the Ella Fitzgerald kind.
Nooooo, no. Alas, it is the lesser kind to which I refer today. The kind that stars in every – okay, not every, but nearly every story and joke uttered of late by the lil’ monkey.
See, last week the scatological dam [...]




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    Ellen DeGeneres: "My Political Point... And I Do Have One," on 24 Sept., 2008 at her site.
    The wording of Prop 8 is tricky. It’s like if someone asked you, “You don’t want dessert, right?” But you do want dessert so you say, “Yes,” which really means you don’t want dessert. And if you say, “No,” which means you do want dessert -- it sounds like you don’t. Either way, you don’t get what you want. See -- confusing. Just like Prop. 8.



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