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especially with this uncertain tummy rumbling going on.

now the real challenge. getting it up and into my tiny room...

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NEXT THURSDAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

am in the hunt for more of them. let me know if you know of a great place in sg that sells these fellas.

yeap I love em casio g-shocks.

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The David Letterman show on the CBS network has insulted Amanda Simpson, a trans woman who was recently appointed to the U.S. Commerce Department by the Obama administration. In the clip below David Letterman announces the news, followed by a guest on his show who breaks out in shock that "Amanda used to be a dude" the man is disgusted and outraged and runs off stage, the segment insinuates the man had some sort of relationship with Simpson and reinforces the sentiment that being transgender is somehow disgusting, misleading, and abnormal.

The video clip, other remarks by Letterman on LGBT issues and ways to contact the show are available below:
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-letterman-show-promotes-trans.html

heh found this in ken's blog.

sweet~!!!

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how about posting once and notify everything?

not such a bad idea with this website. heh.

google for posterous and there you have it folks.

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I posted here a few months ago, about what to do for the 3 year anniversary, but now the relationship is over. I've been okay, cried a lot, I've been journaling, talking to friends, the whole shebang. I'm not totally healed or whatever, but I'm doing pretty well I think.
Anyways, the ex texted me the other day at 3:45am asking if I was staying at my mom's or my sister's (I'm home from school over the break, and obviously can't stay at the apartment we used to share). It's very unlike him to be awake or texting at that hour, so when I woke up at 8am and saw the text, I responded 'At mom's, is everything okay?'.
He responded later 'yeah, I guess. I haven't slept in like four days, sleeping pills aren't working anymore. I think I was having a panic attack or something. I'm going to spend the rest of the break at my parents and maybe go see a doctor'.
Now, I know I'm the ex, but I also know him extremely well. I know that since the break up he's been having anxiety problems, which has been causing him to not be able to sleep well. I also now that he wouldn't lie to me about this stuff, he's better than that.
I'm not sure if I should contact his parents, so that they know what's been going on, he doesn't have a good relationship with them, so I don't know if he will talk to him on his own.
Should I contact them in case the situation gets worse?
Thanks everyone

-Phil

my girlfriend needs a male hair model for tuesday night at 7pm. $20, but nobody's turned away for lack of funds. any takers? let me know and i'll give you the details.

Making her San Francisco theatrical debut SHARON GLESS ("Queer as Folk", "Burn Notice", "Nip/Tuck", "Cagney & Lacey") leads the cast in A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN, based on Jane Juska's best-selling book. Often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, this world premiere follows Jane Juska's journey through the encounters that resulted when she placed the above ad in the 'personal' column of the New York Review of Books. Visit zspace.org for more details and to buy tickets, starting at jut $20!

Don't forget to mention you saw it on Livejournal!

Prop. 8 backers say TV coverage of trial unwise

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

(12-29) 17:26 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage, which faces a federal court trial in San Francisco next month, have told the trial judge that his suggestion to televise the proceedings is both unwise and illegal.

Television coverage could expose witnesses and other trial participants to harassment and intimidation, backers of Proposition 8 said in a court filing Monday. They said some of their witnesses "have indicated that they would not be willing to testify" if the trial was televised.
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The year started strange. I was visiting Evansville for Christmas, when my dad broke his ankle. I ended up staying nearly three weeks to help him out.Returned by bus in mid January. My New Year's resolution was to face all of my fears head on.
Fears I successfully faced: vomiting, flying, failure, strangers, ocean, heights, driving on I-5. Whether or not I'm magically cured now wasn't the point. The point was that I wouldn't run from them. I feel like this was a major success.
Jan. 27th: I go down to see my west coast best friend and she puts my hair in dreadlocks. I am an official hippie now.
February: The Decemberists hold a poster design contest. I slave over it for a week, only for the band to choose another poster. They didn't even put me in runner-up position. But my spirits are raised by the support of the fans who made it known via a voting system on the contest site, that I was their preferred artist.

March: I did a commission sale and began volunteering at the Tacoma Art Place, which gave me good exposure and gave me more faith in myself, as other well-known Tacoma artists paid for my art!

April: Planted a potted garden and had huge success with it! Spent the month feeling very zen-like, spending a lot of time outdoors, humming to my plants. I began to set up the idea to screenprint shirts for the Decemberists' messageboard.

May: I began screening and shipping the shirts. Batch number one saw 53 shirts sold. I have about a dozen leftover after I gifted a few to my closest friends. We wore them to the Decemberists' show in Eugene, OR, on May 19th, and that began the shirt odyssey. The day after the show in Eugene, we packed up, picked up two more friends from the airport, and drove through the night with the Jimmy stuffed to the gills to the Gorge in George, WA. Quaint name for a town, right? The Gorge was... well, gorgeous. We went for Sasquatch music Festival. Three days of my favorite bands all packed into one lovely, sticky-hot outdoor desert. I saw 20 bands play, including the Decemberists again(#2 for the Short Fazed Hovel tour).
Early June: The Decemberists have been on tour for 2 weeks, when Colin Meloy, the lead singer, stops someone wearing one of the shirts I screened, and asks where he can get one. I end up making shirts for the whole band!

June: Sold wands at the Freemont Fair, saw Rent on tour, visited Portland a lot. Began really fancying the idea of moving to Portland before the end of the year. Went and got an IUD put in me, painfully insuring no unplanned babies for the next five years.

July: Flew to North Carolina to visit Nick's family. Got drunk with a bunch of retired right-wing old ladies at a party and had a complete blast. These ladies LOVED me for some reason. They all played with my dreadlocks and had me tell them stories of the west coast. Haha. Went kayaking and boogie boarding. Had a wonderful time.
Mid July, I had a couple of board members come visit from across the country. We saw a Decemberists' show in Seattle (#3) and two in Portland (#4, #5). Through an arrangement between a friend and the band, I was surprised with backstage passes, and at the second Portland show, we spent the night getting trashed at the after party and hanging out with our favorite band. Spent most of the evening chilling with Andrew Bird's band and Shara Worden. Was a magical night and it will remain one of my favorite memories forever. :)

August: Spent a week at Hidden Lake with a large group of friends. Every day we spent naked on the rafts in the middle of nowhere until the sun was too low to keep us warm, then we went back to camp and sat around the campfire, playing music. I tried mushrooms for the first time, and had a really pleasant experience. Not something I would do too often, but I wouldn't mind doing it again sometime.

September: Through the help of good friends, I got a ticket to NYC. Flew out and spent 4 days visiting my old stomping grounds, seeing old friends and making new ones. Conveniently scheduled the trip around the Decemberists tour, so I saw them out there as well (#6). Colin Meloy was all "it's so strange to see you out here! wtf?" when we met them at the tour bus for some group photos after the show.
The flight back home was nice enough, but I arrived just in time to have find us a place to live. We had though we landed a house down in portland, but then the man bailed on us at the last second. Our lease was ending in a week, and I had to desperately fix the situation... which is the perfect time to have caught the SWINE FLU. I started feeling sick on the plane. Somehow, I managed to handle the flu and get us an apartment in a suburb of Portland called Beaverton. We moved on October 3rd.

October was mostly setting up the new house. A friend from the message boards moved from Kansas City to live with us. Nick couldn't get a job down here in time, so he had to stay in Tacoma, and commute down on the weekends. This made me really depressed. I felt I didn't really do much productively. Got stuck with artist block. Drank a lot more than I'd have liked. At the end of the month, I began having problems with my dreadlocks. It turns out they were too heavy for my head, and it was breaking the skin on my scalp. Having nothing better to do, I decided to not shave my head, but to attempt to meticulously undread my hair. It took a little longer than a week, but my hair surprisingly survived. And survived well!

November: Joined my friend's band and performed a nice set at a coffee shop. Nick counldn't land a job. Continued drinking too much. Became very disgruntled and grumpy. Decided to do another batch of shirts, and set the orders of 35 more tees, including three for Colin Meloy's mum, who emailed me, wanting to get some for stocking stuffers for Carson and Hank (Colin's wife and son). That really boosted me out of my funk a bit.

December: Nick still has to commute. I miss him a lot. I finally put my foot down on the alcohol and have limited my intake. I can still enjoy a good beer, but I don't feel dependent. Really started making art again. Felt stranger about myself. Put my foot down about my goals. Didn't go anywhere for Christmas, but got to share Christmas with Nick and my roommate and had a grand time. Had the honor of helping The Decemberists' Shoppe (were they package and ship all their merch) a couple of times when they were really overloaded with the Holiday sales. Making connections is good. And Here we are, Early morning, December 27th.

New Years Eve plans include a party at the Laurelthirst where 3/5ths of the Decemberists will be playing (so I will count that as #7, thankyouverymuch) and toasting the New Year to a new and prosperous venture. My New Years Resolution is to get my art off the ground. This is a goal that can and will be met.
The past year has been full of enjoying good music (not just the D's. I only emphasized them so much because through they're messageboards and fans and music, have I been so inspired and motivated and been given faith in myself), and wonderful travel. Many nights sleeping in tents and days climbing on mountains. I've stepped foot on several planes, puked for the first time in a decade, and handled the rejection of my art by a group of people I admire (which was hard, but I'm glad it happened that way). I swam in the ocean and ate lunch with my feet dangling off the side of a mountain. I spent a full week naked and felt natural, I allowed myself to try new thing that I'd been intrigued but afraid of my whole life. It was a year full of adventure. :) Maybe the best year of my life. :)

Hope you all had a great one! i love you all and will post soon. I have a lot to write about

The National Union of Jewish LGBTQQI Students's 14th annual conference will take place January 15th to the 17th at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As usual the conference will be held over a weekend, and co-hosted by a campus Hillel, the NUJLS leadership conference features workshops, services, community building, and social time. This year's keynotes are Rabbi Bradley Artsen, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and comedian Dana Goldberg!

We welcome students from all sorts of backgrounds (religious, not, newly out, not, liberal to conservative, and more). Workshops, speakers, and text studies address such topics as Judaism and homosexuality, activism, relationships, ethics, coming out, and politics. Last year more than one hundred students came from across the United States and Canada to participate, and we anticipate a similar turnout this year! Registration ($80) includes meals (all kosher), housing, and all conference events. Travel and registrations subsidies are available upon request (in the registration form). View past schedules and register at http://www.nujlsonline.org/conferenceinfo.html

This piece - tells me more about what a relationship should be, than any book, lecture or article.

That simple interplay between two people: A stable consistent base pulse- starting off first, as though building a home on firm foundations; joined soon by a lyrical lead- filling up that well built home with the sunshine of an articulate melody; each then taking turns to lead, yet melting into a harmonic duet of such sweet delight.

This is my Christmas wish and prayer for each one of you: That you will find and work to maintain such harmony in all your relationships - be it friendships, family ties or love.

After a year, I finally changed my location in Facebook from Singapore to Cape Town, South Africa.

I guess in a way I've always felt that I'm merely a visitor in South Africa, mentally and psychologically I'm pretty much still a Singaporean in Singapore.

I think it is somewhat important to cross this mental barrier, over the past year I've let go of many things living alone here in a foreign country which has become not so foreign anymore.

I don't feel like I have to run home every 2 months anymore, but the emails and contacts I have with my friends are still very important. It's not easy for me to trust people, so I'm determined to hang on to the friends that I have, as long as they still allow me to be a part of their lives.