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Charlie’s Angels

Ok.. So Kevin and I saw the second Charlie’s Angels tonight… Matt warned me not to.. Said it was AWFUL.. I mean – REALLY bad… But I actually enjoyed it… Not an award winner by ANY stretch of the imagination and at certain points it is colossally stupid. But overall it was exactly what I was looking for. Silly stupid messed up fun. And the fact that Bosley changes race on you between the first and second movie does make sense when you see it.

Granted now I’m going to have to see some heart wrenching independent film to make me feel better about killing brain cells on this one.. but still! 🙂

I think it works

By george – I think I got it working…. The new home seems to be up and happy as far as I can tell and i’ve hidden most of the stuff on the old one (though it still exists so people’s links won’t break)…

Now the real trick is finding all the places where I’ve laid links to the old URL and get those update (not to mention getting others to update their links)… Would be SO NICE if there was an easy way to do that automatically – kinda like DNS does… Just change the pointer in one place and everyone else gets the updates magically… Would be cool if blogrolling did that at least – you add a link to someone’s blogrolling entry if they have one so if they move the domain you’ll follow the move..

Ah well… Any hints would be appreciated…

Update your Links

Moving vans are rolling up for my Blog… I’m moving it over from Matt’s domain over to mine… So if you have links to http://www.fullerbrantner.com/swimfinssf/ please change them to point to http://www.swimfinssf.com/ – I’m going to be trying to get everything pushed over to there…

Not sure if this will go without a hitch but I’ve got my fingers crossed! 🙂

I KNEW IT

I knew I had a reason for hating those damn things! 😉

Tight ties could damage eyesight

Gay High School

I’ve got all SORTS of mixed feelings about this:

First public gay high school to open in NYC

On the one hand there is a lot to be said for creating a safe place for GLTB students to go where they can focus on getting an education without being harassed for who they are. There are FAR too many kids being abused in schools around the country for being gay – whether or not they actually are and it often makes it impossible for them to learn in high school. This leads to an EXTREMELY high suicide rate among queer youth… (think back to the number of times you heard the term ‘fag’ when you were in school)

On the other hand it seems to be missing the point in my mind and postponing the point at which these children learn about the realities of the real world (the good ones and the bad ones). Shouldn’t the point really be to ensure that if kids are being harassed in their schools for who they are, gay or otherwise, then shouldn’t we make the administrations of the other high schools accountable and responsible for stopping that abuse.

But maybe thats an idealized goal that can’t happen in the short term and a gay high school is a solution that can.

But doesn’t creating a separate gay high school make it that much harder to make the non-gay schools safe.

And as a parent I would also be concerned about the quality of a general education coming from a school that focused. Would my child have all of the same course selection and quality of teachers that are available at other schools.

Hmmm… Still pondering this one…

Dore Alley

By the way – Kevin, Brian and I went to the Dore Alley Street Fair yesterday which was a lot of fun. I know a lot of people who cringe when you mention this fair but I always have fun. Sure, its full of a lot of STRANGE stuff that you don’t see in most places in the world – and a lot of stuff that I could do without seeing. But if you can set that aside for a bit there is a lot of other fun stuff and a really good collection of folks. I just think people who go for their first time are so mesmerized by the more extreme folks that they miss the rest.. If you ask me hot boys dancing and drinking beer in the sunshine can’t be all bad… 😉

Anyway – Kevin took some pictures that we posted yesterday:

Pictures from Dore Alley