Andrew Q Gordon

Well I can't help you like Benji can, given how far away I am, but I hope you are back soon. Andy

Happy Birthday Nighthowl!!!!! Make it a great one!! Andy

Do Vampire Queens have Birthdays????? Happy Birthday Nephy!!!!! Make it a good one

Since most of the characters tend to be in their twenties or younger, I want to qualify this by saying, IF i were about that age I would have a crush on: Astrian from Hostage - who wouldn't? Rune from (In)visible - just because Tap From Escaping the Pain [big thing for hot baseball players ]

Wow, guess I am the lone weirdo here. I do and don't. Precise answer right? I do when we are going to sleep/sleeping/ napping. And I do on the couch when watching a movie etc, but the couch in the TV isn't the best so it is hard sometimes to get comfortable. I don't when I am hot, or it is excessively hot out - and I don't when I am grumpy tired but not ready to sleep. [Mike has accused me of being a crack baby at times, something my mom was not too happy to hear. ] So I can't be in the camp of yes all the time any time etc.

While I like guns, I am willing to give that up for a place where there is gay marriage or at least civil unions and the voters are not insane like they appear to be in this country. Mike and I talk moving to Canada, and that looks more appealiing now that ever. If this is a sign of things to come in 2012, we will need to seriously look at moving. lol

---------- Happy Birthday Bee! ! ! ! ------------------ Enjoy your day Andy

Montco?? You mean 202 U? I grew up a stone's throw from campus, learned to drive in the parking lot and played basket ball in the gym. Best of luck with the PhD and the job hunt. Must be real pretty around there this time of year, there are a lot of trees around campus.

Oh I remember these and many many more - though I was too young to remember Star Trek when it first ran, I grew up on the re-runs. There was also Adam 12, Emergency, The Six Million Dollar Man, and the infamous - Dragnet - 'Just the fact ma'am'

The short answer is yes. If it doesn't affect me later, it was written well enough. Now I am not sure everyone else will feel the same emotion I intended, but if my writing doesn't make me feel what I was feeling at the time, then I don't think I did a good enough job. Case in point, the Fall Anthology - the part where the two separate made me cry three times or so while I was editing it, which goes back to your therapy issue - I mean they aren't real YET I was still crying. Maybe my meds aren't strong enough, Hmmmm. Andy

I am with the other two. If you have the idea, get it down, the particulars can be arranged once you are 'feeling' it better. Otherwise you might lose the vision and then you will be annoyed at yourself

Matt, I am going to side with you partly, no in the end it might be an empty gesture, but what if? What if someone who is being bullied sees others, school mates and adults, wearing purple today and thinks, maybe I am not alone, or sees someone they know wearing purple and feels comfortable enough to confide in them? What if you make adults aware - like Steve said happened at his work - and they happen to be parents and they talk to their kids about this - to check to be sure they are okay and to be sure they aren't doing it. What if people who might take a stand against it but felt alone and doubted one person could do anything alone, sudden found support in numbers and rallied to help a friend or classmate. Given how little it takes to do this, or took, vs the potential for good, it is worth the effort even if it reaches only one person. Yes it is not the solution, your post is correct, and sometimes people do the simple stuff, like wear purple, but never show up for the hard stuff - like stepping in to help someone at risk to themselves, but then again, what if? Andy PS only 2 of 20 wore purple today - just myself and a fellow gay co-worker. the 4 other gay co-workers didn't know it was happening - sad in a way that it was not better known.

Add mine to the long list of people wishing Momma a most happy birthday. Enjoy your day.

Happy Birthday Kev!!! Do something fun on your day, but make sure you remember it so you can fill us in on all the details

Holy Crap Batman, Emu is 20!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!

HOLY CRAP Chase - 21! Oh well it's just a number. Have a great day - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Not that Mina getting the Frisbee isn't very cool - I never get enough of watching my dogs do stuff like that - but where were you doing that? Looked like a very cool setting with the hill/mini mountain in the background.

Very cool James!! Keep on going strong. Andy

happy birthday!! Do something fun with day!

Much as I want to I am not sure I can disagree with you on this BUT I wasn't sure what to use as an example. 15 years ago I had a pink triangle on my book bag but that seems to have disappeared. Rainbow flags are rather ubiquitous these days in that I have seen it used for more than just gay rights, and finally my co-worker has an HRC sticker on the bulletin board in her office so that what I saw when I used that as an example. [i just have pictures of me and the partner on my desk] I didn't mean for it to be a touch stone for a political debate on the worthiness of HRC or it's actions/inactions so if you or anyone else has a better example I can change the poll question.

James, I about pissed myself reading this

Something caught my attention today - it was an article on some guy who decided to be out at work - so it got me to thinking - I work in the macho world of Law Enforcement but am totally out - the partner's picture is on the desk, the local gay newpaper sometimes gets left on the desk, people ask about my partner etc. I am also very vocal about it when people make homophobic comments in front of me- usually these are police officers who say someone is a fag or something like that. In my case, I was out from day 1. My co-worker was doing the AIDs ride and I offered to have an event at my place to help her raise money. I was the lone out person in my office at the time. Today my immediate supervisor is an out Lesbian, my trial partner is an out lesbian and there are three other out gay men in our division - out of like maybe 100 people I would estimate. There is also one person who is totatally in the closet and doesn't think anyone knows - but go to the gay bar often enough and people WILL see you. It always strikes me as odd when I talk about my partner with others and he is there and will ask a polite question here or there but he has never come out. So with that as background - Are you out at work or school? If so how out? And anything unusual happen to make you come out?

LBJ Tricky Dick Nixon Chevy Chase - er Gerald Ford, J. C. - Carter that is Ronnie Raygun G Herbert Walker Bush B. J. Clinton - sorry could resist that W - the disaster Bush B.H.Obama That makes 9 - oh my god, I am SO freakin old sigh

Interesting how old topics get resuscitated and gain new life - May - Taurus but that doesn't surprise anyone who know how bull headed I am

Sounds like a pretty kick ass couple of days for you - here's hoping it contnues.