I attended a presentation at the municipal library the evening of April 15th. There were several presenters, although only two are known to me. I have included a brief bio of the two: Marilyn James and Duncan Grady below. I have such respect for these people – I don’t know them personally, [...]

What is our purpose, Jenny von Loeben?
Salve For The Jenny Wound
I suppose the lesbian community has had their fill of malcontent screen characters named ‘Jenny’, but here’s one who packs a little more ‘punch’. Both the main characters in Four Minutes are lesbian, and the film is set for the most part in a prison, [...]

Scene from TV Series, “The L Word”
This is undoubtedly one of Jenny Schecter’s best scenes in the series, and an interesting sparkle in her thimble rebellion against the male dominated sexist regime of… well, the planet. I think that the idea has great merit, and that a movement could actually be started similar to [...]

I couldn’t take this subject to such an academic depth, but I always like reading scholarly cutups of  ‘culture’.  For serial television killers: I’d be more inclined to just say, “Off With Their Heads.”
Here’s a review of:
Better Living through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship, by Laurie Ouellette and James Hay. Blackwell, 2008, $29.99 [...]

Six Degrees Of Apophenation
I started off looking for evidence of men loving men on the internet – but not the obvious stuff, I mean something real. I feel that it is so incredibly oppressed – men’s capability to love & express love for each other. Men are not allowed to show self-love, [...]

Here’s a shot I took at a beach on Costa Del Sol on my way along the Mediterranean. I cloned his ‘little twin” in there just for fun. I’m usually taking it all in, watching both the voyeurs and the exhibitionist , and there’s plenty of that action along the Mediterranean.
Freud started it all, [...]

I looked out the dining room window at Elephant Mountain. The high-in-the-sky almost summer sun was making the green on the elephant’s side look so much greener, like the trees were just buzzing in a peak of fecundation, a post spring photosynthesis party. I turned away, my eyes soaked full of light and [...]

I want to try and tell you how sad I am inside, but I know that no one wants to hear other people’s problems. I wouldn’t really try anyway, because it is impossible to just describe such a thing.  That is why we have poetry and song; to try and bridge the gap between our [...]

I immediately love Sarah Haskins for her no-nonsense, un-angry, sexually intelligent culture jamming. I can’t say enough about the value of this type of media – it’s the old, ‘if I were rich’ – I’d gladly get involved in this kind of media and just keep putting it out there. The Carl’s Jr ad campaigns [...]

I wish there was a website like this with 10’s of thousands of young people from each country. I think it would be a good way for us to overcome all the ‘isms’ and start realizing that we are involved in a common struggle: The struggle to learn how to truly love each other. [...]