The times we live in

So this is the big day in San Fran of Gay Pride, where everyone get to show off in public.
And in light of this months allowance of same sex marriage there is a lot to celebrate.

This was a post plastered around the parade area. And it got me to thinking. I like this image, its appealing to me. BUT then I am a male who finds females attractive. So this gets to thinking why I like it, why I think its sexy. Would I find the same image if it were two males intertwound?
Then I started to think about society at large (never a good thing). Why is it to women together is mostly acceptable (an average straight male fantasy even) and not two men?

Discuss

The Rose has Landed

I have successfully spirited away a fine young English woman from her home country, and I only needed to use my own charm as a lure...



HAPPY Kitty Dance of JOY!!!!

Its work, but not as we know it

As I have been working for the hostel now for 2 years, without raise, when ever a higher position come up, I put in a resume.
About a year a go the position of Activities Coord came up. I applied, but was not chosen. Well they have decide now to have an Act Coord for each of the three properties.

The current Act Coord is remaining and will be acting for the one I work at. So if I do get one of the two positions opening it will mean moving to one of the other two hostels. (Bit of mixed blessing with that.)

I have my first interview on Monday.

How Faire...

So it has bee meme'd so it shall be spread...

1. Tankard, Goblet, or Plastic Cup?
Goblet

2. Did you dress your 1st time at Faire?
No, but was dressed by parents

3. Big Faire, Dam Faire, or Southern?
King Richards Faire (Rest in Peace)

4. Do you regularly smuggle alcohol into Faire?
No, don't drink.

5. What was the last thing you bought - other than food and drink?
Hand bound book

6. Do you regularly pirate pictures?
I've been in pirate pictures, the verbage confuzzes me.

7. Ever followed the parade all the way thru Faire?
Can't say that I have.

8. Have you seen every show?
They keep changing them.. how could I?

9. MUST your costume be period?
Must, no. Should Yes.

10. Where was your last out-of-state Faire?
I count Northern Cal as out of state, cus all the peoples are different from who I know.

11. Do you know the words to a Poxy Boggards' song?
They have a topical cream for that now a days, right?

12. How many different costumes do you own?
By container volume, or by weight?

13. Do you carry a blade?
Yes

14. Have you been flogged?
In public?

15. When was your virgin year?
1979 I think. I was young so I don't remember so good.

16. Who originally introduced you to Faire?
My Mom and Dad.

17. Have you been drunk at ale stand zero before ever entering Faire?
No

18. Ever gotten a henna tat?
No

19. Had your hair braided?
Yes but that was long ago, the hair was long anyway

20. Do you use a tankard cover?
No

21. Do you have pockets?
Pockets are for men not comfortable enough with their sexuality.

22. Do you carry a cell phone where it can be seen?
No.

23. What part of someone else's costume do you wish you had?
boots, Ive seen some nice boots.

24. Ever had a run-in with security?
not really

25. Do you bother with Faire-speak?
Its contagious.

26. Have you been on either end of the blue ribbon?
huh?

27. What do you carry on you, that most other people probably do not?
String

28. Is sunscreen a normal part of your costume?
Irish blood + sun = lobster boy

29. What color is your shirt?
white

SOOO Close

My lady love, currently trapped in the UK, just received notice to attend her interview in the US Embassy in London.

If all goes well she might be here as early as middle May.


Jumping with joy.

Sometimes work can be cool

So this guy comes in to get his bags from our pack room at the hostel. I open the door to see this lovely bone shaker sitting in our storage, and the guy picks up his bag and pith helmet. Yes I said pith helmet. It turns out he MADE the bike in London and he cycles around in it like normal.

The hostel is good at times.

Need a make-up artist

As many of you know I am gettin' married this summer.

We need to find someone willing to help my beloved look her best on the day.

So are there any make-up artists out there willing to help us?

New Years BLAAAAH!!!!

IF ONE MORE guest at the hostel dares to ask me "Whats there to do for New Years?" I swear by all the great mothers of Science I will leap over this marble counter and thwap soundly across the head and shoulders with an iron.

Do I look like Im going out and doing something fun or exciting? No, I'm work on New Years Eve. I am sitting behind this desk making sure you get to have a good holiday place to crash in the city. And if you are really wanting to rub it in, I got this iron for ya'.
Does no one do any research before they go out? Did they just FORGET that they were going to be in SF for NYE?

Damn amateur night!

Ba HUMBUG!!!

Yep the 80's spawn be me.

1. How old were you in 1980?
9

2. How old were you in 1989?
9+9

3. Were you a Toys R' Us kid?
IF I ever grow... I will Die a Toys R' Us Kid.

4. Did you watch Transformers?
Bumblebee was a Beetle NOT A BITCHN' Camero!!!

5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen?
OH Yeah. Back when they guys had GUNS! And we liked it that way!

6. Did you own a Lite Bright?
I dont remember having one, but I swear I am still finding light pegs in my stuff 20 years later.

7. Who is your Favorite Golden Girl
Golden Girls, Designing Women, nope. Remember Voyagers, now that was what I was watchin'

8. When someone says " Who you gonna call? " You think?
Ghostbusters!!

9. What was your favorite toy?
Killer Whale, the GI Joe hovercraft.

10. Did you have a Hyper-color shirt?
if I did, I have blocked it from memory

11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block
Unfortunately, couldnt get away from it as it played almost everywhere.

12. 'Forever Young'- Alphaville or Rod Stewert?
Alphaville

13. Freddy or Jason?
Stripes beat hockey mask

14. Did you have a Swatch Watch?
Several

15. USA for Africa or Band-Aid?
"Feed the world. Do they know its Christmas..."

16. Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?
Im from Chicago. Nuff said.

17. Star Wars Toys or GI Joe?
I had Star Wars fighting GI Joe. GI Joe always own. They had the superior technology, swivel arms.

18. Did you ever play MASH?
No, but I do remember watching the last episode when it aired.

19. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles?
"Sad, demented, but social."

20. Did you have a crazy hairstyle?
They weren't crazy at the time, I swear.

21. What was your first bike?
Does a Green machine count?

22. Name one thing you still own from your childhood?
LEGOS!!!!!

23. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid?
Nope, wanted to kill my neighbors though

24. Madonna or Cyndi Lauper?
Shebop

25. Night Court or Cosby Show?
Night Court all the way. Though the perfect thrusday night tv, Cosby, Family ties, Cheers, and finally Night Court.

26. Did you watch Miami Vice?
Just a few, bigger on the A-Team

27. Tight Roll your pants or Parachute Pants?
Wont admit to it.

28. Did you own a Trapper Keeper?
HELL yeah

29. Atari or Comadore 64?
Vic 20 baby!

30. Did you play Pac-Man?
Horribly but continually

31. Which was better: the Goonies or Stand By Me?
once a Goonie, always a Goonie

32. Say Anything or Better Off-Dead?
Better off Dead. "Its a shame to throw away a perfectly good white boy like that."

33. What movie scared you the most?
Poltergeist. I could not sleep with my closet door open. And dont start me on clown dolls

34. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson?
There is no proof

35. Rolling Stone said U2 was the band of the 80's, who was the band of the 80's?
The Cars

36. Do you remember the founding members of Depeche Mode?
There are non founding members?

37. Wham! or George Michael?
Wake me up before you want my sex.

38. Oingo Boingo or Talking Heads?
Oingo Boingo! Oingo Boingo! Oingo Boingo! Oingo Boingo!

39. Blue Monday; 1980 version or 1988 version?
1980 version.

40. Back to the Future or Indian Jones?
Indiana Jones was the first movie I watched on Video. and I remember my father selling me on it say it was from Star Wars people.

The Dickens Fair is over

I had a lot of fun this year play Agent John Strock from Jules Verne's Master of the world with La Legion Fantastique.


Some of my favorite lines:

I earned my goggles at the Legion Fantastique.

I lost my goggles to some girl at Mad Sal's.

Our good captain Nemo, now theres a man with more passion than common sense.

Mr. Fogg says this medicine bag could cure the pox, but it ain't done him no good at Mad Sal's.

You made the spider a member of the Legion?

but my all time favorite is: Help! Edgar Allen Poe just stoled my bicycle!