HOT DAMN!!!!
State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, May 15, 2008(05-15) 10:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
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If you want to read the full LONG text is here…
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while - been busy and stuff… more on that later… in the mean time Webb sent this my way and it made me laugh out loud while I was at the house of falafel for lunch today so I figured I’d share! :):)
Hollywood Squares:
If you remember the Original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this may bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when ” Hollywood Squares” game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.Q.If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?
A. Rose Marie: No; wait until morning.Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say “I Love You”?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.Q. What are “Do It,” “I Can Help,” and “I Can’t Get Enough”?
A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.Q. As you gro w older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I’m always safe in the bedroom.Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A.. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn’t neglected.Q.Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?Q.When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh
Now this is what I call a fantastic use of taxpayer money and political energy:
Florida Lawmakers Mull Ban On Ornamental Testicles
(Tallahassee, Florida) They’re proudly displayed by any self-respecting bull, but dangling big metal ones on the back end of a truck could be banned in Florida.
What the fuck… don’t these people have better things to worry about?
sorry… just feeling cynical today I guess..
Just a couple of quick things… First, Annik over at SlowGerman had a great podcast this week talking about German music and had some really great stuff… in particular, i just bought an album from Joy Delanane called Was auch Immer that I f-in LOVE… its a really cool combination of soul / R&B, south african, and some other stuff and she sings in about 4 different languages that I can count (German, English, French, and Swahili)… Its my new favorite right now! :):)
And my buddy Scott forwarded me this funny article.. I laughed out loud:
Federal Judge: Enough With the Stupid Names
After Judge Cabrera’s historic ruling, little Clitoria Jackson will likely undergo a name change.
Hey all…. If any of you are trying to register on my blog to post or post comments please send me an email first to warn me. I’ve gotten a few registration requests lately with I email addresses I don’t recognize. Since being registered lets you see things others can’t i’m kind of careful about who I approve..
now back to your regularly scheduled programming
TOTALLY random post but I found this interesting so I figured I’d share… I’ve always known that the plural of attorney general was attorneys general and poet laureate was poets laureate but I’ve never known why… So I just found out why on this site:
The Chicago Manual of Style says that “hyphenated and open compounds are regularly made plural by the addition of the plural inflection to the element that is subject to the change in number” and gives as examples “fathers-in-law,” “sergeants-in-arms,” “doctors of philosophy,” “and courts-martial” (196). The NYPL Writer’s Guide puts it this way: “the most significant word — generally the noun — takes the plural form. The significant word may be at the beginning, middle, or end of the term” (396). And then we get examples such as “attorneys at law,” “bills of fare,” chiefs of staff,” notaries public,” assistant attorneys general,” “higher-ups,” “also-rans,” and “go-betweens.”
Ok… so i’m a geek.. but I found the descriptions useful…
Anyway - as you were! 
Last few weeks have been crazy in both good and bad ways…. So here is the run down…
Two or three weeks ago Kevin and I took a vacation to go visit family back east. Kevin left first and spent a week in North Carolina with his family an I came 4 days later to spend a few days with them as well. After that we both flew up to Gettysburg to spend a few days with my Dad and new Step mom which was really nice…
After family time Kevin and I went to Washington D.C. to attend a Leadership Summit for the Human Rights Campaign. I wasn’t entirely sure what that was going to be like but it turned out to be a great experience. During the day time they lined up a bunch of speakers and other information on political strategy, politics, and policy initiatives and then in the evenings they had really swanky dinners and events.. overall it was a lot of fun though…
So then we got back and had a week of normalcy… work… dinners at home… walking the dog.. Also had a few HRC events in San Francisco which were fun - i’m very inspired to get more involved with them.
Then came the weekend… Started off well.. Dog walks and housework.. My sister was also in town so Sunday evening we hung out with her. Unfortunately, Sunday afternoon we got a call from Kevin’s nice saying that his Mother was very ill and in the hospital. As the day progressed she got worse and by the end of the day it became clear that he needed to go out there and, sadly, by the time he was about to board the plane she had passed away.
Kevin got out there monday and I showed up tuesday morning on a red eye. We spent the week there and returned to San Francisco on Saturday evening. I won’t go into the rest of the details of the following week out of respect. Suffice it to say the funeral was lovely and everyone, despite the solemn occasion, was very welcoming and loving. The other details are probably a little too raw right now - I may describe more later, who knows
I do have to say though that I feel really lucky to have met Kevin’s mom while she was with us - she’s an amazing lady…
So that’s our last few weeks… uggg… crazy huh? i’m EXHAUSTED and REALLY ready to get back to work.. :):)
more later…
that everyone I know seems to be showing up in facebook? :-)… We’re talking my sister, her husband, a zillion people I work with, my cousin, friends from college, and as of today my mother and my girlfriend from high school (Yes - my GIRLfriend - enough already! :):)).
anyway… just makin me giggle.. I guess its just a passive aggressive way of letting people to spy on their friends… hehehe… I actually really enjoy finding people on there..
happy easter - by the way!
Missing - Marilyn Bergeron
The sister of a co-worker of mine has gone missing… I know if anything like this happened to my little sis I would be wrecked so I had to pass this along. For more information go to http://www.findmarilyn.com/
On my shuttle on the way into work so figured i’d throw a few things out there… All completely unrelated and random - but what the hell! :)… Weekend was good but not many good stories to tell.. Dinner with R&R friday night was great… Chores and work Saturday.. Brunch and the park with Audrey and Brian.. Then walks in the GORGEOUS weather yesterday.. And watched Balls of Fury last night after dinner… Very nice.
Trip back east
Kevin and I spent Saturday morning booking a trip back east to visit family. When we first started looking at this it was stressing me out - not because I didn’t want to see folks but rather just because of all of the variables we had to plan around. We wanted to go to Gettysburg to visit my family, North Carolina to visit Kevin’s family, Washington DC for a set of HRC meetings, and Kevin wanted to stay longer and maybe go to Atlanta. Well we skipped the last part but we managed to find a great set of flights that pulled it all off.. Kevin is going to visit his family on a monday, I’m meeting him there that friday and staying for a few days before we head north to visit my family. after a few days there we’re heading to DC… Now that its all taken care of the trip actually is sounding like a lot of fun to me and i’m really looking forward to it.. I can really use the break.
High Class
We saw the trashiest example of drunken behavior yesterday afternoon… We walked out the front door to go to an early dinner to hear some woman spewing profanities with a slurred voice.. I rolled my eyes and wrote it off to drunks on a sunday coming back from the bar. But when I got a glimpse I saw her unbuttoning her pants and I assumed she was mooning her friends. New but still random drunken-ness so I kept walking. Then I glanced back to see if Kevin was coming only to see that that same girl was doing some strange crab walk with her pants around her ankles - and peeing.. Dear lord… A drunken slutty girl with a foul mouth peeing on the sidewalk about 10 feet from our front stoop - right where our dog craps on a daily basis… NICE…
Hypocrisy
In reading this article on John McCain trying to distance himself from the endorsement of a Texan pastor. Aparently, in addition to this guy being anti-gay, he’s also spoken about catholics conspiring with Nazis against Jews. Because of this American Catholics have been leaning on McCain to renounce this guy… Thats all well and good - but what I found interesting was this quote:
“By publicly addressing this issue, you will reaffirm to the American public and to Catholics that intolerance and bigotry have no place in American presidential campaigns,” Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United, wrote McCain in a letter sent Thursday.
Is it just me or is a quote like this kinda funny coming from a representative of a catholic organization - particularly after things like this coming from the head of that church.. I don’t know.. i’m just sayin! 
Just getting to work but figured i’d throw a few notes up before I get there… Weekend is lookin kinda mellow so far. We’re going to be having dinner with Rick and Randy tonight which should be nice.. Rest of the weekend is looking kind of mellow so far.
Nina got snipped on tuesday so she’s restricted to the house until her wound heals. The trick with that is her energy is just fine so being confined to the house is making her nuts.. She is REALLY hyper and attention starved ( A combination of not being able to play with her friends and not wanting to leave us again for fear she’ll come back with another scar )… So we’re probably going to spend the weekend watching her and being mellow…
Do have a few movies I’d like to see so maybe i’ll fill it with that…
Ok.. So maybe I’m being too sensitive.. but i’ve seen a couple of things in the media lately that have really bugged me.. The first is this video floating around by Jimmy Kimmel as a response to the I f-ed Matt Damon video that his lady did (I’m not gonna link to it but just search YouTube and you’ll find it). So I know its intended to be funny and they’ll say they didn’t mean anything by it.. But to me it came across an awful lot like white actors doing black face back in the day.
The other case was on Make me a Supermodel (I’ve gotten sucked into it by Kevin - kind of like watching a train wreck..). Last night there was a scene where one of the guys decided to start calling two of the other guys on the show gay and women. There is a lot of back story that makes it not entirely surprising that it happened - this guy seemed to be having his masculinity threatened by some of the modeling stuff and having his gay roommate hitting on him. But regardless the producers and editors found it an interesting thing to show but kind of presented it in a ‘well thats not cool but its no big deal’ kind of way which I thought was shitty. It really rung awful similar to people calling us ‘fag’ in high school and then brushing it off…
It just feels some times like because we’ve gotten some more acceptance in the media we’ve also made it OK to parody but they haven’t quite figured out when parody is actually funny and when its just obnoxious…
Anyway - I’m probably just being silly but it bugged me…
Quick weekend update.. Was a good one, despite the CRAPPY weather. Our buddy Ray from Calgary came down to visit on Thursday and stayed until last night. Had a rather mellow time - at least as compared to his trip down for Folsom a few years back which was crazy as you might expect - but still nice. Kevin took him to SFMOMA friday while I worked and then that night we went out for dinner and drinks with some friends.. Saturday was VERY chill (it was stormy) - TV time and out to Blowfish for sushi. Sunday we went out to Chrissy Field to run nina and then drove around the city.
Like I said - mellow but still pretty nice..
What ever happened to cars that were made to last. Its becoming more and more clear that these days even car companies that I would have considered reputable (Audi, Mercedes, etc.) are conducting business in a way that encourages people to replace their cars regularly.
Case in point. Our Audi just fell out of warrantee. While it was in warrantee they covered EVERYTHING. Oil changes.. repairs.. tune-ups… the works. I got lulled into a false sense of security thinking that these guys were great and the car was a great car. But now that I’m out of warrantee its a completely different story. All SORTS of problems are starting to come up and every one of them seems to require very expensive repairs. Most recently the check engine light came on (again) and when I took it in (to a repair shop that wasn’t at the dealer) they asked me how often I changed the oil. Turns out that the oil changes they were doing under warrantee weren’t frequent enough and now the engine is showing signs of the damage that results… I was furious…
What’s worse is a friend of mine was considering buying his Audi that was just falling out of lease and was asking around for advice.. He is basically hearing the same thing from everyone he’s talked to (and I had heard it from another friend myself). I don’t know if its unique to audi but it clearly isn’t unique to my car..
Anyway.. I suppose its not entirely surprising.. The car makers need to sell cars to make money so why not make cars with a self destruct so they can sell you another one.. It just pisses me off - like the world needs big landfills full of cars that are less than 10 years old… its nuts…
Sorry… Just ranting
to ping the blog a little more often here is my morning bus-bound-note! :):)
Though actually not a whole lot to report since yesterday… Our friend Ray is in town visiting from Calgary.. Poor guy came from Canada undoubtedly expecting a little California sunshine. Boy was he wrong… weather here this weekend is going to be NASTY.. rainy and cold… ah well - an excuse for me to finally check out the De Young.. :):)
Other than that just the usual. Am trying to plan a trip back east to visit Kevin’s ‘rents and mine before our dive trip to Fiji in may. so current plan is week in march in Gettysburg and Winston-Salem (Pinnacle actually) and then a week on a boat in Fiji. Neither of them can come fast enough for me.
And on a final silly note, I’ve got a new favorite quote and a new favorite site… I stumbled on Wikiquote… I really enjoy different proverbs and how they translate and this site is full of ‘em.. Anyway - found this one and it has seemed kinda fitting lately (and I’m going to plead the fifth when asked why it resonates right now! :):))
Klug zu reden ist doch schwer, klug zu schweigen noch viel mehr
Ok.. thats it for now… more
Once again, I fell off the face of the earth for a while.. but back now.. Lots going on and rather than wait till I have time to write about it all i’m just going to post a quick hi and fill in the details as I have time…
But the reader’s digest version is things at home and work have been keeping me VERY busy. I’ve been a little cagey about it since its not entirely my story to tell but the long and short is Kevin found out last june or july that he had Lymphoma. Thats the bad news.. The good news is today is the very last of his radiation treatments and then, knock on wood, its all taken care of… But for the last few months he’s been going through Chemo and Radiation to deal with it and i’ve been trying my best to hold down the fort and help him out… Not going to say no big deal cuz that’d be a lie. Its just one of those things in life that ya just deal with and try not to ask why too many times - cuz there isn’t an answer… But things are going VERY well and we’re doing fine… Kevin has posted some stuff on his blog if you want more dirt!
As to other things.. Well work is work… I could go into details there but its the usual Apple stuff - can’t talk about details… Suffice it to say the usual challenges continue to make me a little nuts but on a good day are a lot of fun.. The one good thing I can add is that they’ve started a bus system like Google’s to get me to work - so now I have nice buses that pick me up right in my ‘hood and deliver me directly to work.. pretty rockin…
Oh yea - and the puppy… Well she’s just too f-in cute for words… And she’s getting HUGE… Still a puppy though.. Cute as can be but a total handful. Training is going really well though I still don’t know why she does the things she does.. Some times she is PERFECT… sits at the corners on walks… comes when she’s called… sleeps like an angel at our feet while we’re chilling at home.. And then there are other times.. pulling at the leash.. random accidents for no reason we can see… ignoring us when she doesn’t want to obey… Just have to remind ourselves that she’s just a baby.. but we love her to death regardless…
Anyway - bus is half way to work and I have other stuff to do.. so rather than wait a while before posting this again i’m going to post and go… I’ll post more details later…
Just a quick happy new year to everyone.. More to come later but we all had a very nice holiday (with a few exceptions)… Spent christmas in Sacramento with my ‘rents, sister and brother in law, and step sister.. Then the rest of the break relaxing at home and playin with the puppy… New years eve was mellow at home then a 40th b-day party at brian’s yesterday…
Lots more to talk about but i need to work now…
(oh.. and this picture made me laugh out loud so I had to share… thats my boy! :):))
Shocked the hell out of me - but it seems that they were relatively successful at shutting down the party in the Castro this year. That meant that this year Halloween at our house was what it should have been… A bunch of cute little kids trick-or-treating at our doorstep and no line of freaks passing by to go cause trouble at the party.. Kevin laughed at me because of how excited I was to be able to pass out candy - but i haven’t been able to do that since I moved to the city.. One of the trick-or-treaters even gave out glow sticks to the houses he visited.. was so cute…
anyway.. was cool to see a more sane Halloween..
to give it a rest… well… maybe not give it a rest… but at least not turn this into my dog blog..
but isn’t she adorable?
She isn’t without her challenges though… My lord puppies are a LOT of work…. no really… A LOT OF WORK… But, bless his heart, Kevin has been doing the lion’s share of the work..
Housebreaking her is definitely a challenge.. We’re working right now on paper training her and once thats down then we’ll start the outside training… Outside training is a challenge living in the city without a lawn. since she doesn’t have all of her shots, she can’t be around places where other dogs have pooped which includes the front driveway… Those who have lawns can just let puppies out there but we don’t have that luxury - so it adds to the fun….
on top of that she really doesn’t like being alone… REALLY doesn’t like it.. if we can fool her into falling asleep we’re good but otherwise she’ll whine a lot.. we’re working on teaching her to be OK with it but thats coming slowly…
We just have to keep reminding ourselves that she’s just a puppy and isn’t going to quite get these things…
But she’s cute and a lot of fun so we’re OK putting up with an awful lot!
check it out…
we have a new member of the family… A new little Vizsla puppy… and I must say, she is just the cutest puppy in the whole wide world… Definitely a little trouble maker and kept us up a little bit last night.. but not too badly really…
Anyway… off to bed now - but I had to share! :):) There are more pictures of her on flickr!
so… Detals about the wedding.
Kevin and I flew out to Denver on Wednesday and met my mom and Webb to drive out to vail. Weather in Colorado was great and the drive was really nice. Wednesday night we had dinner with Katie at the hotel which was great.
Thursday kevin and I had a little quality time before everyone showed up. We explored vail and then went to the spa for masages. That night Kevins friend Laura ( ok - our friend ) came out to hang out with us. The three of us went to dinner and then came back to our huge condo to hang out ( it really was huge and nice - we were spoiled ). Pretty much as soon as we got back there nearly my whole family showed up to have drinks and hang out. It was a lot of fun. Katie and Nick ( bride and groom ) , aunts laurie and susan, mom and Webb, Carrie and her new daughter, nick’s dad, Katies friend julianna, etc. Very fun.
Whoops. Almost to work. I’ll write more soon.
San Diego Mayor Sanders Supports Gay Marriage
Wow… Really Great to see something like this! Well worth the watch
Kevin and I spent the weekend in Vail, Colorado at my little Sister’s wedding.. The wedding was fantastic and her new husband is just the greatest guy.. I couldn’t be happier for both of them..
Check it out… Little me with my dapper dan doll that I drug around with me where ever I went as a kid.. I just had a bunch of old videos my dad had converted to digital and there was some funny shit on there..
Had to share!
