JamesSavik

You are right Nick. That is a puke-fest. Just my opinion: if that's how it is and apparently, how it is gonna be, be somewhere else. Now- you may be the right guy to fight the battle and change the heart. As for me I'm sick of the battle and would rather save my sweet words for someone who deserves them.

Luc- Unless you made someone overdose and die at gun point, then it was entirely their decision to do whatever junk they did. It is sad, yes, but not an outcome that you had any control over. People do what they do of their own free will. No one can make another person do anything except by force or duress. I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk-blood to keep from running out. I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun. -Niel Young JS

>> Is America that stupid? I quit asking that question after Reagen's 2nd term. :wacko:

B.B.E. I hate the very idea of anyone pushing around someone that is 110 pounds. If he is drinking a lot, it will only get worse. In situations like this, the person that is being abused is paralysed by some bogus beliefs. Usually those beliefs are rooted in a poor self image. You don't HAVE to take it. You CAN do better. You DESERVE better. YOU are the one that has to take action. We can cheerlead, give advice and generally pump you full of sunshine but YOU are the one that has to take the bull by the horns and neuter the b@stard. All my best wishes, please let us know how its working out. You are only 18 and entitled to pick a bad boyfriend or two. If he is being a shitee, then you just have to remember to flush before he stinks up the joint. James

I don't watch American Idol. I can't imagine anything more boring. Golf maybe?

Happy Birthday! Please don't be a stranger.

You can't please everybody Nick. If he is looking for a one-handed story, I'm sure that he can find something on Nifty diaper fetish page that will suit his fantasy... I mean fancy.

You can only appreciate it in the native southern. It is pronounced... Hawt

Any movie with a whole bunch of young Greek guys is off to a flying start on general principles alone IMHO.

No. Richard Hatch, the actor, is actually Tom Zarek on the new BSG. Believe me- he was a big ole hunk of burning seventies hotness. Richard Hatch, the reality show doofus, is, erm, nobody.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Something is rotten in the state of Hollywood. O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do! Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. This was the unkindest cut of all. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. Out, damned spot! out, I say!

Like it or not, we gay folk are defined by our sexuality to some extent. We simply don't fit the usual mold of getting married, having a soccer mom and supporting an SUV full of kids. I'm fine with that. Although I like kids, I like them much better in small doses and preferably living elsewhere. I detest SUVs and I really despise mini-vans. It's a lucky thing that I can't have a rocket-launcher because I would cleanse the road of those damned rolling abominations. I have absolutely no doubt that the behavior that you described is equal parts homophobia, ignorance and social ineptitude. I'm sure that we all know and understand those three attributes all too well. There is also probably an element of denial involved too. Social ineptitude while annoying, is forgivable. Homophobia is annoying, potentially even dangerous, but we know and understandable it to some extent. Ignorance is just plain sad- and denial is pathetic. Back in the early 90s, I had a friend that worked for CDC tracking AIDS cases in Georgia and Florida. People that do that burn out fairly quickly and change jobs to something less stressful like air traffic controller or working at the department of motor vehicles. He told me about a case where he met this redneck guy in his mid-twenties who was symptomatic but denied being gay or bi. When interviewed, he said- I'm not really gay. I just like to have sex with my cousins and their friends at deer camp. When ignorance meets denial, the results are usually a pathetic, sometimes even tragic mess. And some people think I'm stuck-up and too picky about the people I go out with.

Here you go Wrath- Johnathan Brandis- a total sweetie. His passing was so sad. BTW- this is how I imagine Brandon from the Dairy of Billy Chase. From another generation: this is Leif Garret, hunkola of the 70s.

A few thoughts about BSG from a long time follower... Battlestar Galactica (TOS) is an artifact of the Cold War- in fact it appeared in the late 70's- at the very height of the Cold War. The idea of a "Nuclear Pearl Harbor", a devastating sneak attack with nuclear weapons, was something that was very much on peoples minds at the time. In fact, the BSG(TOS) was singled out by high profile members of the peace movement as pro-military propaganda and scaremongering. The original series started strong and the writing seemed to decline a little with every episode. What has been reported in the history of the series was that the studio was low-balling the production- using the same cuts over & over, crappy production quality and so on. The network and the studio had no idea how to handle Science fiction in general and Battlestar Galactica in particular successfully. They packaged one of the darkest scenarios imaginable, the nuclear annihilation of a race and the struggles of its survivors, as a kiddie show complete with the trilogy of death for a sci-fi series by the sixth episode: a cute kid, a smart dog and a dumb robot. [Once this trilogy has appeared in a sci fi series, it symbolizes doom because the writers have reverted to clich

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Here is the address for the Eggman's Yahoo Group: the Glass Onion News The name of his best know works are A New Life and Life Goes On. I dare you to read either one and not fall in love with his characters. The Eggman is awesome!

Battlestar Galactica... where are you? like Thailand??

Just when I was getting used to the bizarre morphing of happy-go-lucky Dirk Benedict Starbuck into the angsty Katee SackhoffStarbuck, they killed her. I can't believe it. I'm in a state of shock. Starbuck wasn't supposed to die.

Disclaimer- today's birthday boy is another James. My birthday is in late July which makes me a Leo- ROWR! Happy birthday to the other James.

I hate Hollywood. Stuff like the Oscars makes me want to puke. When they get together and pat themselves on the back after yet another long, hard year of producing mediocre and trite crap, it's a real barf-fest. It doesn't matter what they wear, they are cheap plastic soul-less automatons underneath.

Dan- Happy birthday! Best wishes for next year. JS

Happy birthday Jakob! You remain one of my favorite net-people. I do hope that at some point in the future that you'll write a book on marriage since you are a pioneer in this area. PS- Nono complained of being sick in his blog. Remind him that it would be a good thing if he let us know how he is doing.

Dio- Not irrelevent at all. The L Word ~ a lesbian soap opera. I've never seen as it's not on any networks that I get. The "word" on the L Word is that the writing is a tab better than QAF. Both are "gay" soap operas which define a new genre. Dio>> What do you think of the play-house methodology that I discussed? [Rather than a very rigid sequential soap opera, a series of loosely connected short stories that share setting, characters- examples: the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits. Each episode can stand on its own, but fits in the larger framework. I've not seen it applied to this genre but I'd bet that it would make the series unique enough to sustain interest.] Sunset>> I'm not hating on your idea. I like the idea of a series that portrays gay people living life. I just think that the situation comedy and soap opera have been done to death and need a new spin. If you think about it, the BIG winners that always deliver are unique and innovative. Star Wars was so very different from anything that had come before that a lot of critics doubted that it would fly. 24 introduced the unique concept of real time drama (despite the occassional contradiction you might spot if you pay close attention). Another quality of the big winners, which seems to contadict unique and innovative, is that the big winners WIN with the very same elements that the ancient Greek playwrights used: strong characters in dramatic conflict. While Star Wars was a highly unique and innovative when it came out in 1977, it is still a heroic saga- a literary form thousands of years old. Just my opinion- if you want to succeed with this concept, it has to have a special sauce [something unique] to set it apart from the competetion. I'm not sure what that might be and it won't please everyone. If it pleases enough people however, you'll have a hit on your hands. Bets of luck.

Cops are paid so poorly that they attract a lot of people that have bad motives. A lot of them a losers that get off on the power of the badge. Others use the badge as a means to prey on people at the margins of society: kids and criminals. A great many sexual predators become cops (or they try to) because the job gives them power and protection to some extent. Usually when it is a matter of one person's word over a cop, most people will side with the cop. The trick is to get a NUMBER of people singing the same tune. Then they have to listen because if they ignore the allegations and he offends and is caught, they are hella liable. BTW- sexual predators gravitate toward jobs which give them power, especially power over young people. FBI stats taken a few years ago show that of new sex offenders caught, over 75% of them were cops, teachers, coaches, preachers and so forth. I don't like cops but what I am saying isn't merely cop bashing. Police Departments need to screen their recruits much better and improve their training and oversight. Some of the people that they are giving a badge & a gun to these days aren't a hell of a lot better than the criminals.

May your 22nd year be the best yet! Happy b-day Jack!