JamesSavik

Ghostie and AJ- I'm not trying to silence Pat Robertson. I'm trying to make it more difficult to stand in front of his audience of shut-ins and demented old people and call gay people child molesters and compare our relationships with bestiality. If I can cause friction between ABC, ABC Family and the 666 Club, I will. If Pattie boy wants to spread hate, let him do it on his own dime on an obscure network no one has ever heard of. Not on the one parents program their remote controllers to allow their kids to see because it says FAMILY in its name. We have friends at ABC that will be just as appalled at the child molester/bestiality comments that we are. Maybe they'll look at their deal, find an out and say fuck you Pattie. I'm all for free speech. No one is immune from blow back from hate speech. James

The Awakening "When will I see you again?" "Do you want to see me again Misha?" "Yes. No. I don't know. My feelings are so confused." "I'm a telepath. You don't have to tell me that. It's coming through loud and clear. What does your heart tell you?" "My head and my heart don't talk much Kerr. I'm afraid. If they find out..." "I've noticed that about you. When I touched your mind, were you afraid?" "No. It was wonderful. It's like nothing I've ever exper

Very well done. I have a new author to follow.

I'm going to be pretentious and use an example from one of my own short stories the Barlow Boy In this story the protagonist is a young minister named Peter who has been saddled with an onerous task that he's very uncomfortable with. One of the kids in his congregation is gay and his parents are demanding that their son be fixed. Peter has tried everything in his church approved play-book and nothing is working. The antagonist is an angry teen ager named Chris. His parents have chosen the time honored method of trying to punish the gayness out of him. They've made his life very difficult, isolated him from outside influences and are force feeding him the bible. Peter and Chris have been meeting for months and Chris is fighting him. He is depressed and angry and getting worse with every meeting until one day he appears less dispirited, confident and give Peter a lot to think about. Even though it's a short story, there are levels to this story that a casual reading might miss. Some of it is theological and some of it is symbolic. Most people miss the symbolism of the names Chris and Peter. The whole thing is an allusion to Christ and Peter's encounters during the trial and execution of Christ. Going deeper, there's a sound theological argument that even the most devout just can't argue with: Christ's own words. There is the a shocking twist at the very end that is an allusion so blatant that I doubt it needs any explanation at all. A work doesn't have to be long or even very complex to operate at a number of different levels and deliver a message. It doesn't have to be pretentious. It just has to ring true.

If you can manage to come out on your own terms at a time of your choosing, I doubt that anyone would regret it. Being outted before you're emotionally ready and/or way too young is a disaster.

To my right, this is Rambo my editor- sleeping on the job as usual. To my left is Kitty Kloie, ornament.

Pat Robinson just compared gay marriage to man-dog marriage. Pat Robinson Compares Gay Marriage to Man-Dog Marriage Now I've got nothing against dogs but I'm reasonably sure that they have no standing in legal agreements. Pat Robinson is an ass hat and spreads hate against the GLBT community every time he opens his senile mouth. Tell ABC Family that this isn't the sort of family values you had in mind when you tune in. If you have had quite enough of this asshole, sign the petition below: Remove Pat Robinson's 700 Club from ABC Family

The answer is being stuck between a bud and a bro. There's something you might not know about Southern culture. In some ways we are almost Arabic. Once we make friends, there's very little that can change that. We're loyal to an absolute fault even when it hurts and goes way past making any sense. Why sure Butch, I'll follow you over that cliff. There is one place that I absolutely hate to be: in between people I care about in a controversy. I literally don't know how to handle it. Stay out of it and hope it gets better? Take sides? GAH! I know how electrons interact in semi-conductors but, when it comes to how people bounce off of each other, that's an equation I haven't derived yet. Being around the rooms of a 12 step program tells me to let it go and accept it. I'd rather grab them by the ears and bonk their hard heads together but that wouldn't work. I have to admit that you've both got a point. Why not meet in the middle? Whatever. I'm still there. Now. WTF is this about a cliff!?

With a name like James, he sort of had to be awesome.

Personal best on the rowing machine today: 300 pounds (136kg). That's my weight + about 1/3rd. That's not a weight that I'll be working out with routinely but- I'm working up to it. My Pecs and Lats are getting respectable.

I enjoy facebook. I don't know any of the people on it and, I avoid getting involved in my own life so it works out just fine.

A Local Youth “I have to have a talk with your mother.” Nine words. Nine despicable words that I wished that I had never heard. "But why? I'll just leave scouting." I didn't know that the scoutmaster was a Mormon, and he really had a stick up his ass about homosexuality. Hell, I didn't even know what homosexuality was until he told us. "Legally, I have to tell her. You and David are underage. You've been having homosexual sex." I said, "But Jesus

The House I waited years for the house to sell. Even then, I had to act through an intermediary. If David's parent's had known that I wanted their old place, they would have burned it down rather than see me get it. They were like that, and hated my guts. They blamed me for everything about David: mostly for turning him gay. Because he got wanderlust and caught HIV, and of course, they blamed me when he died. Hell, they didn't even allow me to attend the funeral after I had taken care

The Inquisitor Anybody who wants this job shouldn't have it. They would just be thugs. The people who should have it burn out or flip out. Philip Baker was just trying to hang on to his retirement and self-respect. Once being a special agent for the Bureau was a respectable job. That was the job he had signed on for twenty-seven years ago. It seemed like a lifetime ago. That was before the wars. Before the genetically engineered plagues were released. Before the Night of the 13th Proph

The Vermilion Cannery The storm started out modestly near the Cape Verde islands off the coast of East Africa. The prevailing winds took it across the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic where it grew to become a category 3 hurricane, but it was too late in the season. When Hurricane Mona entered the Gulf, instead of strengthening like they often do in August and September, it meandered through the cooler waters of October and November losing strength. It brushed Haiti and Cuba

The War Inside Stardate 43887.3 Dr. Walter Ingalls, Starfleet Medical Personal log. At the request of the Angosian government, Star Fleet has dispatched a team of doctors and other specialist to help rehabilitate veteran's of the Tarsian War. When I first got this assignment, I thought that we would make quick and easy progress. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I first thought were symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a much more complicated condi

[sharedmedia=gallery:images:7603] Abscess Blues There's trouble on my gum line, I can feel it in my bones I had a premonition that I would have to take out a loan I knew the tooth had a cavity, but I didn't think It'd pop Holy cow it's throbbing and I think I'm gonna drop Everything exploded, and the blood began to spill The dentist just smiled and fired up his drill Pay a little money now, we'll set up an easy payment plan You be cool for thirty minutes, and It'll cost about a grand Yeah

Rats Racing Fat cats, mall rats, old bats in expensive hats, Kids in cars, jocks in bars, wanna be movie stars, Dead heads, red heads, hot loving newly weds, Old men, young skin, trying out a brand new sin, Cops in cars, sushi bars, hippies with old guitars, Chinese, Japanese, anime sluts on their knees, Avenue, Revenue, a river place with a view, Young punks, old drunks, opportunistic political skunks, Stylish hills, favorite pills, summer time standing still, Alley cats, spoiled

1996 I have seen the fire Destroying everything in it path In its blazing wrath I have seen the fire Bringing terror as its might As it consumes the night I have seen the fire Slaying friends and lovers Strangers and brothers I have seen the fire. Out of control consumning souls Hell on earth a mass funeral pyre I have been burned by the fire With scars that don't show The loss it still burns and stings Friends and lovers I can not replace I am haunted by their familiar

Insomnia Insomnia haunts me and taunts me, Mind racing and chasing details of the day. Plans of tomorrow, no time to borrow, Always behind as time grinds, Past and future together in the breathless present. I am so lost, I don't know the cost, Of the things that I've been or the things that I've seen, At night, they are burning bright, Restless azure darkness impaled, By the fires that rend the eternal night. There is no peace when the wars never cease, even thou

[sharedmedia=gallery:images:11021] My work and class schedule for the spring is brutal. The classes and labs with tons of statistics to grind out are enough to make even an old school nerd like me sweat. Add in work on top and it's a shit sundae. I'm sitting on several contracts now. Most of them are for ongoing work. I'm focused on point of sale systems- it's easy and I've got a ton of experience with it. Whenever one of my customers has one of their point of sale terminals drop dead or they w