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Volunteer Work- Day 8 and Day 9

On Day 8 (which was Friday, July 5th) and Day 9 (July 9th), I worked on the inventory for my 4th box. This particular box was mainly the files of paperwork from the parades, going from the 1980's to the 2000's. I had a conversation with the museum leader about the box- he agreed with me that it wasn't really necessary for me to inventory each and every single piece of paper, so I did the inventory by the folder. Some of the paperwork was pretty tedious(I found memos about catering the ev

July 11, 2013

Life is worth an entry

Is justice applied equally to criminals based on sexuality?

I was watching a re-run of American Greed, a TV show about real life frauds and pyramid schemes. As I watched the episode, I was reminded of something I came upon during my research for my novel, the Big Squeeze. Most of the senior executives of Mortgage, financial, and legal system were never indicted or sentenced to jail time, except one very interesting exception, Lee Farkas of TB&W. Lee Farkas was one of the richest openly gay CEO's, if not the richest gay executive, in the 2000's. H

W_L

July 11, 2013

What are you currently reading?

Interview Wacky Wednesday: Ask An Author #6

One regular feature of this GayAuthor.org News Blog that I personally enjoy is "Ask An Author" - a piece developed and produced by Dark. Though normally posted the first Wednesday of each month, Dark was gracious enough to let us delay July's so that we could bring you last week's post about the Editor/Beta Ballroom. So - after a slight delay, here is Ask An Author number 6 - take it away Dark! Ask an Author #6 Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your

Trebs in Author Interviews

July 10, 2013

Let's get started

There's so much incredible material here on GA to enjoy, but I'm sure that most of us enjoy reading books outside of the site as well. How about sharing our favorites and maybe steer others to more great reads? Right now, for fiction, I'm reading James Patterson's Second Honeymoon. Nonfiction has me engrossed in David McCollough's John Adams. And in my spare time (hehe) I'm finishing up reading Dean Koontz's Darkfall. It's the final reread of four of his classics (Strangers, Watchers, Whisp

mickey1952

July 10, 2013

My kingdom by the sea

fat sack

oliver sacks, neurologist, turned 80 today good for him + brian i mean brain

thatboyChase

July 10, 2013

University of Delaware hiking tuition, fees for 2013-2014 school year

From Delaware Online: *** Tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students at the University of Delaware will increase by about $430 next school year – the lowest percent increase in about a decade, university officials said today. The 3.7 percent increase brings UD’s in-state tuition and mandatory fees to $12,112 for the 2013-2014 school year. Out-of-state students will pay $1,160 more, bringing tuition and fees to about $29,932 – an increase of 4 percent. Graduate students at UD will

July 9, 2013

Story Review Featured Story: Nemesis

We have a great review from a new member who has only been with us for a short while, but who has totally embraced and been embraced by the GA community. Not only is Sasha an author as well, but in less than four months has over 360 posts and a reputation of almost a thousand. Here is Sasha's review of Nemesis, by Author Thorn Wilde and if you enjoy Nemesis, Thorn has six other current stories on GA.Stories. Enjoy! Nemesis by Thorn Wilde Reviewer: Sasha Distan Status:

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July 8, 2013

Random Thought's

Randomness and life

So.... its been over a week (almost 2) since I've last heard from a really good friend. It's kind of put me in a funk. Last time this happened with someone else I never heard from the person again and this person was there to help me through it and now.... gosh its a real pain in the ass. I just wish I knew if he was still sick, out partying for his birthday with his boyfriend (I know they were having a party), did he just decide to give up on me all together or did his pyshco ex-boyfriend do so

AquariusGuy

July 8, 2013

wildone's Blog

Hope, Amazement and more hope

Not sure if anyone heard, but my home city of Calgary suffered historical flooding just 2 weeks ago. Several surrounding towns and hamlets were devastated as well . Something happened over the past two weeks that has given me a lot of hope, surprised me and just made me say wow. Although there was several beyond imaginable happenings over this time period, there is one that stood at the forefront in my mind. Every 1st and 2nd week of July Calgary plays host to the world with the Calgary

wildone

July 7, 2013

Life is worth an entry

33 strategies of War and an idea on application

Here's my musings on the 33 strategies and 33rd strategy specifically: Robert Greene has been heralded as a "modern version of Machiavelli", since his books exalts the amorality and ruthlessness that exists in human behavior and strategic thinking. I am no apologist for the man, but upon reading the 33 Strategies of War, I can see where is he getting part of inspiration. It is not Machiavellian concepts of amorality like the Prince, but the Chinese 36 Strategems and Art of War. Upon furt

W_L

July 7, 2013

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Happy July - isn't the year moving fast? We started the month on Monday with our usual CSR Book Club Selection - this month we're looking at Author Rob Colton's The Degan Incident. Take a look at this story (or review it if you've read it in the past) and come back on July 29th to join in the discussion day for this story! On Wednesday, we had an intro by Louis (LJH) and Joann (joann414) to the new "Editor/Beta Ballroom" - really, our re-energized Editor/Beta Program. The way they describe t

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July 6, 2013

Billy Martin's Blog

Trials and Tribulations

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is having a good day and that you will have an awesome weekend. A new chapter is now posted for Trials and Tribulations. I'm sorry concerning the time between the chapters, but life has a way of getting in the way of the things we love to do. For me, I love writing this story, and I hope that the interest shown thus far in the story, remains. I like to mention Wayne aka Comicfan and Louis aka LJH and thank them for their tireless work which they have freely

Enoch

July 5, 2013

mr.chris' blog

Second Too Soon

First off, happy 4th July to you nice Americans. I hope your nation was/is partying hard! Second entry. My first was yesterday but i need to get blogging out of my system and very soon the updates will be less intense. Anyway this is my friend, Pascual Scevaro. We adopted Pascual after my friend rescued him from an isolated trash bin about four months ago. Some people in this world clearly have no sense of moral awareness. I'm currently sitting in my uni campus room discov

mr.chris

July 5, 2013

Writing World

Prompts Writing Prompts #242 & #243

It's Friday, Friday, Friday. Oh it's Friday and that means new prompts for all of you. Hopefully you have all had a good week. Well not to keep you in suspense any longer here are this weeks prompts. Prompt 242 – Creative Tag – The Prize Your favorite author and artist ran a contest to have the winner become a character in their comic strip. You won, so what is the comic strip about and what is your character going to do in it? Prompt 243 – Creative Tag – First Line “I never make a promi

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July 5, 2013

mr.chris' blog

The First

It's 1:10 am. The television is on with ladies' semifinals (Radwanska's grunts can be heard) while i flip through old magazines looking for good pictures that i will eventually cut out. I'm getting better at it. My friend went to Europe for the winter break and he left me a paper-cutting-blade thing. I can now cut pages with at most two small rips at the borders. Clearly I'm moving up. And now i turn to my laptop to type this entry. It's my first. I've never done a blog before. I've only jus

mr.chris

July 4, 2013

July 1st-3rd, 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the final day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg, which was the turning point of The Civil War. Thought I'd mark that day by sharing a YouTube documentary about it: The Battle of Gettysburg (2011 Documentary) Part of me really wishes I could be in Gettysburg, but eh...priorities change. It's funny though- I did a Gettysburg encampment in 2004, and I was so excited to think that I'd only be 27 for the 150th annivesary encampment. Now it's

July 3, 2013

Volunteer Work - Day 7

I finished inventory on my third box, and now I've got two more boxes to go through. After that, I'll go through actually accessioning the collection. I found a packet of photos that ranged from 1957 to 1982, as well as a photo album from 2005. This was a very wide-ranging box in terms of the years. One really cool thing I found was a very old newspaper from Saturday, August 1st, 1987. It was pretty crazy- the paper was actually in really good shape considering that it was twenty-

July 3, 2013

harveybirdman's Blog

this careful dance

a faltered glance, a look askance but who would stop to guess the chance? blushed cheeks with velvet voice yet no one knew there was a choice a knowing smile, he looks away both know again, again we'll play one lies yearning, try not to kill this delicate bloom by keeping still the other's heart, it is unknown unknown as well is what was sown and so we stage this careful dance leave nothing open nor ope' to chance e'er part as friends though hope we might I say, go

harveybirdman

July 2, 2013

jamessavik's Blog

Vintage Audio- CD Players II

CD players took off fast. Their advantages, especially in car stereo, pushed them forward and the prices down. Compared to cassette players they were a quantum leap forward in sound and reliability. On the home audio front, the first and loudest voices were for multi-disk CD players. As the first generation players could only deal with one CD at a time, they were inconvenient and people wanted to play their CDs in batch. The first answer to multi-CD players was the CD magazine or cartrid

JamesSavik

July 1, 2013

harveybirdman's Blog

untitled

I'd build a pyramid and on bowed knee dedicate it to your memory. And if I carved up the moon you would be the first offered a slice. For I hear your plaintive howl on the wind and I answer, with bloodied throat, in kind. Know that when your lonely soul flies the byways of the ether you do not travel alone.

harveybirdman

July 1, 2013

Just a thought

Let's be fair.....

I was going to try and say all this as a response to MikeL's blog entry but it seems I have way to much to say for that. Mike is right in that the 5 things gay's cannot do need to be fixed, but I don't see them all as "gay" issues. They strike me more as human rights issues and at least three of them hit the "straight" community just as hard. Donating blood - I can understand why they banned it in '85. Back then they barely knew what HIV was. It was a logical step to reduce t

Kitt

July 1, 2013