Aran

Date: 1/5/2006 4:54:06 PM Author: zelgadis For the record, I'm very gay and I hate showtunes with every fiber of my being. quote> What's wrong with show tunes? Other than the fact that I've had Iowa Stubborn running through my head the better part of a week... We can be cold as a falling thermometer in December if you ask about our weather in July! And we're so by-God-stubborn we can stand touching noses for a week at a time and never see eye to eye... ...never mind. Guess I answered my own question.

Ooh, Mario reference! 10/10!

Can't ... stop ... counting ... the ... stairs ... (9/10. Lost a point because I blew ten minutes trying to see how many stairs I could count when I should have been doing something productive!)

Date: 1/1/2006 4:30:03 AM Author: defcon pilot That is Bucky B. Katt of Get Fuzzy... I have a link to the comic in my sig. Check it out!quote> Cool comic. It's been on my daily reading list for a looong time. That cat is such a twit.

Wait until you get a bit older. You'll start wondering what all the fuss was about. I laugh at myself these days for being so insecure and nervous about coming out when, in retrospect, it just wasn't that big a deal. But that's down the road. For now, take it slow and carefully and I'm sure you'll do just fine.

Date: 12/31/2005 10:35:26 AM Author: zelgadis Shoot, everybody knew before I did. quote> Hehe. Same here! (Why are we always the last to know?) I remember coming out to my best friend. I took him to our favorite hangout, bought us coffee and informed him that I had something important to tell him. The conversation went more or less as follows: What's so important? Um. I'm gay. Well, I know that. What's the big news? You already know? Sure. Everybody does. It was sort of like being sprayed with cold water. Not the reaction I was expecting from a guy who oozes masculinity and machismo from every pore. Made coming out to my other friends a lot easier...since they all more or less told me the same thing. Except for the one who freaked out, withdrew his application from the university I'd been accepted to and proceeded to enter a seminary. (No, I'm not kidding.) Oh well. It's the important things like this that let you know who your real friends are anyway. In fact, one of my girl friends had actually debated whether or not to set me up with her older brother for our senior prom. How weird is that?

Date: 12/31/2005 12:57:59 AM Author: vidioman You know, all the gay people I know have straight parents.quote> Come to think of it, almost all the people I know (gay or straight) have straight parents. Think it's some sort of conspiracy?

Date: 12/29/2005 12:15:30 AM Author: vidioman Haven't you met Kevan yet?quote> Probably, but I really suck when it comes to names. I have trouble remembering my own half the time.

Date: 12/28/2005 11:00:17 PM Author: vidioman I'm only 17, so 24 year olds are old to me, lol!quote> Great. I feel positively ancient. Someone pass the Metamucil and the oat bran, please. We fairy fogies need to keep up our diets in order to stay healthy, you know. On a side note, I was over at my co-worker's place today fixing his computer...I think I've finally found someone whose swishiness goes above and beyond my tolerance level. Think Jack, from Will & Grace (or Richard Simmons!) magnified by a factor of 100. I'm still recovering from the experience.

I don't usually bother trying to keep up with city journals as it would take up far too much of my time. I make an exception for yours. Frogface...your cities are stunning! I especially like the considered design of the transit networks. It seems as though you have put quite a bit of thought into where and why certain roads and rails should be laid. And layered atop that is an interesting, engaging story and history of this fictional land. I've actually saved pictures of your layouts to study for inspiration. Keep up the fine work! I (and many, many others) eagerly await the next installment! Cheers.

Date: 11/2/2005 10:24:17 PM Author: vidioman i can't stand that kind of music.quote> Me neither. Give me '80's or give me death.

Date: 10/14/2005 4:39:24 PM Author: zelgadis And on that subject, my fiance and I are thinking of getting a pile of Krispy Kreme doughnuts instead of a wedding cake. quote> Krispy Kreme. Ew. Well, whatever works for you guys I suppose. It's going to look awfully silly with two little groom figures balanced on a stack of doughnuts, though.

Date: 10/12/2005 10:42:25 PM Author: MallowTheCloud ...it's not all that surprising... quote> To you, perhaps. Jerry Falwell is probably wetting his bed just thinking about it. I'm always appreciative of positive media coverage about us, though. There's been one constant in this country since it was founded: generational attitudes are shaped in large part by the media. The supportive books, web sites, magazines and other media today of today are spiritual decendents of Paine, Nast, Marconi, Hearst, and other movers-and-shakers of communication culture. These are the people that saw something wrong with the system (specifically or in general) and set about the task not of attacking that wrong, but of publicizing it. Granted, yes, in some cases the wrongs were never addressed. In a lot of others, however, they were. Media coverage of the Vietnam conflict caused a public outcry; it remains to this day the only war in our country forced to an end by the public, not the political system. Media portrayal of the peaceful demonstrations against segregation led to public support of legislation that ended that as well. Maybe I'm being an optimist here...after all, people tend to blame the media for the degradation of values in our society today...but I believe that coverage of the second-class citizenship* that we gays are forced to endure in this country can only strengthen support for our own search for equal rights. When our (all right, my) parents were children, segregation of black** citizens (citizens under the 14th amendment!) was considered acceptable and women were still relegated to secretarial-type jobs or expected to stay at home, raise a family, and obey their husbands like some sort of domestic animal. Excepting certain parts of the Cotton Belt, these attitudes have changed across the country. I expect that the same will hold true of the gay bias in this country. Could you imagine if, say, Will & Grace had been broadcast during the era of I Love Lucy? Or if Trick had been released to theatres alongside Citizen Kane? I can't. But we live in a far more modern, far more progressive era. Not a great time, mind you, but certainly getting better. It may not happen until I'm gone, which pains me more than I can really say, but I expect that the generation following mine and the one after that will see a marked difference in the treatment of gay people in this country. I can only hope that the media can help the general public become more accepting of us. It certainly helped the racial minorities in this country and it definitly helped the cause of women's rights. Now it's our turn. When will we be free to live as we will under equal protection of the law? It seems only fair that if people cannot be persecuted on the basis of other genetic factors (skin color, gender, hereditary disability) than sexual orientation shouldn't make a d--- bit of difference. ----- *second-class citizenship: any situation in which people are treated unfairly in society because of law or the unjust interpretation thereof. I might be able to marry in Massachusetts, but if my partner is in the emergency room in Toledo on our honeymoon, I won't be allowed in the room to comfort him. **black: I use this term because a) I really deplore the usage (insert racial heritage here)-American and b) that's how dark-skinned people call themselves where I grew up. If you're living here, you're an American. Period. Other than white-supremacy groups and various religious sects...who cares what color you are? I seem to recall some phrase about judging a book by it's cover...

Date: 10/9/2005 11:59:36 PM Author: zelgadis Ha! I feel like Frodo! Except that I have absolutely no compulsion to toss my bf into a volcano in the near future... quote> Be grateful that you haven't. Those compulsions can be hobbit-forming.

Date: 10/9/2005 4:11:49 PM Author: DragonAnime Aran: That brownish building you refer to is actually the Iraq massive apartment complex. Here's the link IRAQ massive apartmet complex . Enjoy quote> I certainly will. Thanks a bunch!

Date: 10/9/2005 5:37:07 AM Author: jmusshorn ~ Gays will chase 'anything in pants' (again to use the old phrase) quote> Wait, this is a myth? You mean I could have actually studied my first time through college instead of doing this? Wow. Years of my life, wasted in debauchery... Oh, and you forgot floral arrangement and gardening in your list of stereotypes - probably the only one I don't adhere to, in fact. Hehe. I *&%#@$ing hate working with plants. Why do the people around me ask me for advice in this area? Seriously, though, you have a point. In fact, you make several good points in your post above. What people fail to remember, I guess, is that people are complex creatures. There are a huge number factors that influence who we are, from genetics to social imprinting and beyond. Focusing on a single one of them (such as homosexuality) is ridiculous. So I'm gay. Whoopee. Does this deny me the rights guaranteed other people under the law? Does this mean that the social values of civility and respect can be discarded? No. All it does, regrettably, is make me and my peers a target for hate-mongering by people who focus on that one aspect of my person. ...rant aside, the important thing to remember here is civility and respect. If everyone would embrace those values, there'd be a lot less hurting going on in the world. On a somewhat more happy note, I attended the wedding of one of my co-workers and his partner of many years back in August and it was probably the best ceremony I've ever been to. The only advice I can give to zelgadis is do whatever seems best - and take lots and lots of pictures. You'll want to remember that day. -- Edit: Well, if we can attempt to discuss this civilly here, may I ask what your reason was for promoting the belief that homosexuality is a situation to which one can be recruited? I really am just curious. I've never knowingly talked with someone who holds that belief before.

Date: 10/9/2005 3:01:44 AM Author: EricPoehlsen How in whatevers name can you not see a yellow traffic light?!quote> If you're color-blind, like I am, it's very easy to miss it. In fact it's very easy to get confused at traffic lights, given the variety of styles found in America. The traditional Red/Yellow/Green (top to bottom) is easy enough to remember, but I learned how to drive in Wisconsin and some - but not all, darn it - of the lights there are laid out horizontally. What a pain in the @$$. It took me a looooooong time to realize that the lights were laid out Green/Yellow/Red/Yellow Arrow/Green Arrow (left to right) at some intersections. Anyone have a pic of this particular light configuration?

Date: 10/8/2005 11:49:20 PM Author: zelgadis ...I believe myself to be the oldest queen participating in this thread...quote> Not by much, if the age on your web site is correct. Only got me beat by a year. (And you play with Legos, too! Sweet!) In all seriousness, though, I find myself more and more comfortable with the rest of us older queens. I don't know if it's a higher level of maturity or more life experience or what, but just I can't keep up with the younger guys anymore. Now hand me my walker so I can shuffle down to the dance club for a prune juice cocktail. Joesocwork: I'd be most interested in hearing your justification for the phrase ...to discuss the pros or cons of homosexuality or to recruit people to it... via e-mail or pm. I'm not sure that it's a subject that should be discussed here since we're all trying to avoid inflammatory comments, but I admit to being curious.

Date: 10/9/2005 12:11:51 AM Author: DragonAnime quote> What's this brownish building, DA? It has a certain quality I'd like to see in my games.

8/10. Like the flag, don't like the animation. (10/10 for your sig graphic, though. Very original. )

Date: 9/19/2005 11:13:49 PM Author: zelgadis ...irresistability to guys... quote> Prove it. (Kidding, of course.)

7.5/10. Neat idea, but the texture could use a little work. Nifty font. gggg: Kanji is one of several Japanese scripts.

Eeek. Automobile. Not my thing, sorry. 6/10. (Pretty colours, though.) gggg: It's the kanji for Wisdom and Eternity. I don't know how to explain it without sounding like an egoist.

Date: 9/19/2005 3:20:00 PM Author: masher ...listen to gayish musicquote> Abba? Erasure? Alanis Morisette? Gloria Gaynor? I wasn't aware we had our own style of music. Guess it's time to update my music collection.