Don't forget to say 'thanks' to your neighborhood politician!  In the historic election for the open 3rd Alder district seat, we saw Nik Kovac's integrity in action when he built a coalition of hard working good people to win the seat.  Two other candidates also created crucial milestones in Milwaukee LGBT politics.  In Sura Faraj, we had a courageous queer community member who stood up early on in what was an unknown election climate to define the issues, suggest solutions, and act as heart,... read more

wow. i haven't blogged here since last year (technically). thought i'd check in, as i need a break from the head-spinning, headache inducing workday i have before me.

what's up? lots of snow shoveling. e-mails from californians asking if this wayward californian survived the (insert random inches number here) of snow. for the record, it was probably about 10" over two days, or 12" if you factor in the crap that hit the ground and melted instantly. M*kitty reminds me that a Native nor... read more

An awesome experience on the show tonight. It had started raining, and while some people find rain annoying, i often see it as a sign of good things to come, and tonight was no exception. I headed down early, turns out I was right behind the hosts as i entered the building where the station is housed. Got to meet the other guests, who were super cool and I was lucky to be on with such interesting women. We all did a pre-show chat just outside the studio and it turns out we were all people... read more

My adventures during the day today in Montréal all dictated by a single fact.

Last night, in preparation for the other segment of my reason for coming here, that is to do research on my Canadian heritage (part Canadian eh!) at the National Archives, since attempting to find anything on line related to the Scottish or Irish immigrants to Canada pre-Confederation is doable if they relatively simple to find (my Irish ancestry gave themselves up pretty easily ... my ancestor was a schoolmaster... read more

Bon jour hello from Montréal!

I had a super smooth trip here, utterly no problems other than minor seat mixups. But leave it to me to travel 1000 miles and then freak out two blocks from where i'm supposed to be going ... stupidly, i'd forgotten to do one last address check, or rather, since I often use commonalities to remember names a Français, I thought i was looking for *my* Rue ... Ste. Christophe, but instead should have been looking for my *brother's* Rue Ste. Dominique! D'oh! Po... read more