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Apology for wrecking Gov Sanford's marriage [Jul. 1st, 2009|08:23 pm]

 

 

July 1, 2009

 

Governor Sanford

Governor’s Mansion

Columbia, South Carolina 29211

 

Dear Governor Sanford,

 

I read with alarm your wife’s statement : “Gay marriage wrecked my marriage” and I would like to apologize to you and Jenny for breaking up your marriage.

You see, I and my same-sex partner innocently enough got married last October. We thought we were just experiencing marital bliss and enjoying some, but not all the benefits and all of the responsibilities that married couples enjoy. We had no idea we were actually destroying your marriage! We are so sorry.

We feel especially sorry for the kids and want you to know that we don’t have any children and don’t plan on having any or adopting any. I’m sure if we did we would hear of other prominent upstanding couples breaking up over it.

We’re not quite sure what we did to break up your marriage. Perhaps it was the thought of hot man on man sex that drove you to seek release outside of your marriage.

Perhaps it was that we try to be role models by being able to cook, sew, keep house, raise children (or sometimes beloved pets), enjoy musical theatre, fashion, interior decorating and all with great panache. In our drive to be role models, have we inadvertantly set the bar too high for straight couples. I bet Jenny often complained that you’re not as good as the gay couple up the street.

We also enjoy strolls on the beach and  long walks up the Appalachian Trail.

Best of all , we can have a boy’s night out and take our spouse along. I’m sure that that put a damper on your marriage. I’m so so sorry.

Sincerely,

 

Steve  and Gary Zink-Young

 

 

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Don't Ask, Don't Pay! [Jun. 18th, 2009|08:43 pm]
[Current Mood |determined]
[Current Music |The ride of the Valkyries]

I have decided to send this letter to all my representatives in the Federal government and return it (postage free) whenever I get a mailing
from the Democratic Party asking for funds or membership dues:

Don't Ask, Don't Pay )



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Day of Decision video [May. 25th, 2009|06:52 pm]


Day of Decision:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoGAxBQgDKM

Enjoy!



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"Break my heart" video against prop 8 [Feb. 6th, 2009|11:42 am]

Have you heard that Ken Starr -- and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund -- filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and attempting to forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California last year? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March 5, 2009, with a decision expected within the next 90 days.

The Courage Campaign has created a video called "Fidelity," with the permission of musician Regina Spektor, that puts a face to those 18,000 couples and all loving, committed couples seeking full equality under the law.

Please watch this heartbreaking video:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/Divorce

After you watch the video, please consider joining me in signing the letter to the state Supreme Court and passing this video on to your friends. The more people who see this video, the more people will understand the pain caused by Prop 8 and Ken Starr's shameful legal proceeding.

Thanks.
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Unblocking dream [Feb. 6th, 2009|11:11 am]
[Current Mood |whimsical]

I had a dream that I was at a party. A female friend of mine who is an Eckist brought some expensive candies. I turned around and there was a black cat who had eaten a child's wooden block whole. It was stuck. You could see the cube distending it's trachea. It tried to swallow it but it couldn't get it to it's stomach. The cat realized this and tried to cough it up. The cat couldn't breathe and passed out. I moved the block from the outside by pushing it toward the mouth. Finally it came out.  I woke up.

With the financial turmoil all I could think of was that I was trying to deal with a block in my kitty (ie investments). I asked Gary what he thought it meant.

Without hesitation Gary, being Gary said  "You're unblocking your pussy".

End of dream interpretation.
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100 books list [Jan. 29th, 2009|02:44 pm]

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below. Look at the list and...
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

3) I'm strikethroughing the ones I've read part of, given up on or may yet try again.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. A Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney-- John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LMMontgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert (the original set - not the stuff by his son)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection –Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

101. Time and Again - Jack Finney
102. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
103. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
104. Battlefield Earth - Old L. Ron
105. Contact - Carl Sagan
105a. Anal Pleasure & Health ^-*

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Cool High Nerd (aka oso canoso) [Jan. 27th, 2009|11:11 am]

NerdTests.com says I'm a Cool High Nerd.  Click to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and write on the nerd forum!
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Amusing 411 profile [Jan. 11th, 2009|08:09 pm]
Here is one of the funniest profiles I've seen in awhile:

Age: 43 Earth years (but only 22 in Martian years)
Height: 5'10/ 178 cm
Weight: 210 lbs/ 95.25 kg - A bit of belly, but solid and dependable.

I am a reasonably open-minded man, and am looking for good guys to chat with and meet for friendship or even a relationship. I care most about intelligence, kindness, and a healthy body & mind. Remember, beauty fades. Stupid is forever. Obnoxious lasts even longer than stupid. Given my recent track record I am seriously considering waiving detectable pulse rule.

On the flip side, I seem to attract guys who either have to register with the police every time they move or who live with a large number of stray cats and their mother, usually in, but not limited to, rundown trailer parks on the wrong side of town. Please don't contact me if you have ever owned a clown outfit or a beat-up old van. Ditto if your sole income is from selling your blood or running a meth lab out your grandma's basement. ;-)


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Thoughts on Prop 8 [Nov. 15th, 2008|10:02 pm]
My thoughts on Prop 8 )
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Prop 8 is in violation of the first amendment [Nov. 6th, 2008|10:40 am]
Here is an interesting article we can use to defeat prop 8 even now.

First Amendment : Church and State regarding same-sex marriage
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me in the here and now. [Sep. 17th, 2008|05:48 pm]

just little ol' me.

Post a photo of you Right now
Don't change your clothes or fix your hair
DO NOT EDIT
post these instructions
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(no subject) [May. 30th, 2008|06:54 pm]
Well today was our birthdays, for me it is the one that allows me to get social security (without proving disability) and no, I'm not 65 yet.
I am also almost 9 in dog years. My dog died at 10 so anyday I may start limping and bumping my cold wet nose in the walls leaving little nose prints like he did. I don't feel old mentally, but my body sure takes a while to get going in the morning.

Since Gary and I were born on the same day, although 17 years apart, I have often wondered if it is a coincidence or destiny, or perhaps I'll chalk it up to a little astrological narcissism. Our suns are conjunct but our moons aint. That's for sure!

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, especially Philippe in Paris who I will be visiting shortly.

 
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Villanelle take 2 [Apr. 9th, 2008|06:05 pm]

Thanks to <lj user=showmeonthedoll> for helping me find necessary changes.

 

What is the point

                     A villanelle by Steven M. Zink Copyright 4/9/2008

 

What is the point of living out our days?

Pleasant enough: April through September

Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

 

The sun’s fire sets our souls ablaze.

And to live is easier than to remember

What is the point of living out our days?

 

The spring brings flowers’ colorful arrays.

Where are these blossoms come November.

Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

 

Sometimes we are lost running through our maze.

Our lives burn bright then fade to an ember.

What is the point of living out our days?

 

Some seek answers in God’s praise.

Or take refuge as a congregation member.

Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

 

Autumn’s bright leaves strewn across our pathways

Darkness  returns with the snows of December.

What is the point of living out our days?

Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poetry month: A villanelle [Apr. 9th, 2008|11:19 am]
[Current Mood | contemplative]

I was recently challenged to write a villanelle. It is a poem with an aba type rhyming structure in as Wikipedia defines it:

A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English-language poetry in the 1800s from the imitation of French models.[1] A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.

It has appeared most famously of late in James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

<lj user=fuzzygruf> has given me the title and direction of this poem:


What is the Point?
                                A villanelle by Steven M. Zink copyright 4/8/2008

What is the point of living out our days?
Pleasant enough: April thru September
Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

The fire of the sun sets our souls ablaze
And living is easier than to remember
What is the point of living out our days?

The spring brings flowers’ colorful arrays
Where are these blossoms come December
Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

Sometimes we are lost running through our maze
Our lives burn bright then fade to an ember
What is the point of living out our days?

Some seek answers in God’s praise
Or take refuge in the congregation’s members
Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?

Autumn’s bright leaves strewn across our pathways
Will our sorrows briefly dismember.
What is the point of living out our days?
Must we endure winter’s harsher ways?





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Life is good [Mar. 18th, 2008|12:19 am]
[Current Mood |radiant]


You are The Sun


Happiness, Content, Joy.


The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.


Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.


The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

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"Sir, you're loony!" [Nov. 26th, 2007|09:31 pm]
[Current Mood | amused]
[Current Music |Blame Canada]

We just got back from the square dance fly-in in Vancouver, Canada. On the way through the homeland security system, I thought I had grabbed all my carry-on stuff when I heard a female voice call to me: "Sir, you're loony!". I replied, "I might be a bit eccentric but I don't think I'm that loony". Oh, I had left one dollar canadian in the tub with my coat and forgot to retrieve it.

Then on the way through customs on the Canadian side going back home, Gary and I stepped forward together. The asian customs officer asked if we were father and son, to which I gave a resounding 'NO' (daddy doesn't count). So he asked Gary to step back over the red line and wait. To which I proclaimed that we were domestic partners. He said that as a federal agent, he didn't recognize domestic partners, to which I proclaimed that we were still in Canada where gay couples are recognized even in marriage. He backed off a little , seeing as I was pissed and said well, maybe someday gays will have equal rights, it's coming but it might take some time.

At least I moved his consciousness a bit. Score one for the loony team!

* For those of you who have never been to Canada, the one dollar coin is called a 'looney' because it has a loon on the back of it, must be the national bird. Makes sense.
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Senator Craig and the Village People - claymation [Oct. 26th, 2007|11:52 pm]
Who has time to do this
It is very funny.

The Village People out Senator Craig
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Notes from the South of France... [Sep. 19th, 2007|09:58 am]
[Current Mood | chipper]

I'm about to wrap up my trip to Southern France and go to Barcelona this afternoon arriving in the
Evening where my friend [info]ursine1 will meet us and lead us to his domicile for a few days.

My thoughts about France:

Nice is nice, but not 'that' nice, as I was told by a woofy dj named stefan. Saw a couple of museums for the cultural part of our tour: Chagall and Matisse, and spent a lot of nights at Le Fard, the gay bar around the corner from my hotel.

Cannes is very commercial, posh and expensive. But you already knew that. They were having a boat show while I was there. I traded in 'Mustique' for a bigger boat.

Marseille is a shithole. Don't come there. I don't even feel safe here during the day. Luckily we leave before nightfall tonight.

Aix-en-provence is very beautiful, and a very livable city. The people were all of a good disposition, so unlike the French. I'd love to come back here for an extended stay and explore the environs. Went to the Garet museum ,has an atalier of Cezanne and an exquisite sculpture of Achilles wounded (reminded me of Gary, whom I miss dearly, I wish he could come with me on some of these trips.)

Well , on to Barcelona and Sitges. More later.
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Heard tonight at firewood [Sep. 7th, 2007|11:08 pm]
Someone was at the airport and a female homeland security guard was saying:

Please remove all liquids from your bag.
Remove all liquids,
remove all liquids...

Please take off your shoes
remove shoes,
remove shoes...

Please take off your jacket
jacket off
jacket off...


I wonder how many wet socks resulted from that.

After which the idea of a homeland security porn movie was suggested:

They were caught with little bottles of a gel like substance and were subject to a full body search...

See you tomorrow at the picnic!
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(no subject) [Aug. 6th, 2007|04:36 pm]
Happy birthday to [info]enhydrasf!!
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