Friday night miscellania.

[lance_sibley]

Damn it, this is the third time I've tried to post this... Firefox keeps shutting down on me every time I try to start a post. Hopefully the third time is the charm...

First, bowling: I had a decent night, with scores of 198, 154 and 159, and we won all three games. h8torun was declaring her scores tonight, so it's good that she was over her average in all three games. Once again, however, we were the last ones out despite the fact that Mario was away tonight. The other team seemed to have a small problem realizing when it was their turn to bowl, which may have been the main contribution to the issue. Though the second-last group to finish included a rather cute guy named Spencer (who has a bf, alas), so I had some eye candy while I was stuck there to the bitter end. :) Randy had the car tonight, so he gave me a ride to the subway.

The painkillers seem to be working - my arm was just starting to get sore toward the end of the night, but nowhere near as bad as it has been. (I had tentative plans to go out with cuteteenboy tonight, but this time I had to call and cancel as I'm not supposed to drink with these painkillers. Dagnab it.)

I tried calling the recruiter again today to find out what's happening with the job I interviewed for (three weeks ago, now), but again, got her voicemail. I keep hoping that this indicates that they're still making up their minds, rather than that she's avoiding me.

And now some miscellaneous links from other folks on my LJ:

• From evawhitley: The Baptist Bulletin is on their high horse about gay marriage. In what I take to be an ironic typo, they refer to the third state to legalize civil unions (and about which I saw nothing on my friendslist despite the fact that it happened this week - what's up, folks?) as "Jew Jersey". I'm pretty sure that's an innocent typo, though, as they got it right further down.


• From defenestr8or, apparently the Polish president thinks that acceptance of homosexuality will lead to the end of the human race. Someone ought to tell him that legalizing same-sex marriage doesn't make it mandatory...


• From montrealais, another publicly-homophobic Baptist minister has been caught soliciting a man for gay sex. Unfortunately for him, it was an undercover police officer. The lawyer is claiming that the minister has a Constitutional right to solicit for sex. I can't speak to that point, but there may be laws in Oklahoma against solicitation.


• From chase820, there are full-frontal pictures of Daniel Radcliffe rehearsing for the upcoming production of Equus. Speculation is, however, that the picture at that link has been Photoshopped. Let's not have any jokes about Harry Potter's wand, 'mkay? *grin*

And courtesy of a comment by sarcasm_hime on sandwichboy's LJ, I present to you a preview of the upcoming series Blood Ties, based on the Tanya Huff novels:

Watch on YouTube

Apparently it's not being aired in Canada until the fall, however. *sigh*

Oh, and if you want a chuckle, check out Conservapedia, the right-wing version of Wikipedia. I particularly enjoyed the edits the page on the United States has been undergoing recently, though it still needs a couple of tweaks. Some pages strike me as being more bloglike than encyclopedic, though - when I searched for the page on the U.S., I saw listings for things like Should the United States Have Entered WWI? (that one made me laugh) and Should the United States Have Entered WWII? (still not encyclopedic, but a teensy bit more worthwhile than the previous one, if you ignore comments like "At this moment we could be speaking German and not be celebrating Christmas the Christian way!"). I don't think I'll be giving up on Wikipedia just yet...

Comments

[cartierobert.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to thank you for the interesting tidbits from other ljers I ahd not seen. I really appreciated the two on SOuthern Baptist as I was once a SOuthern Baptist Minister myself.

I am pretty sure there are laws against solicitation in Oklahoma, but they are trying to use a Texas case to repeal the law in Oklahoma.

It's amazing the 360 people take when they are publicly outed.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to thank you for the interesting tidbits from other ljers I ahd not seen.

Always happy to be of service. :)

I really appreciated the two on SOuthern Baptist as I was once a SOuthern Baptist Minister myself.

I think you mentioned that once before in a post on your own LJ, and I was a little surprised. I'm glad to see that you chose to leave that position rather than take a hypocritical stance. :)

I am pretty sure there are laws against solicitation in Oklahoma

When money's involved, definitely - but here, both sides agree that there was no discussion of money. That's what makes the whole thing a grey area - there's nothing illegal about just walking up to someone and saying, "I want to have sex with you. Are you interested?"

but they are trying to use a Texas case to repeal the law in Oklahoma.

Lawrence v. Texas was a Supreme Court case, however, not a Texas case. It just started in Texas, when a gay couple were arrested when a police officer broke into their home because he'd gotten a false burglary report. It was the case that led to all of the anti-homosexuality laws being thrown out across the country.

It's amazing the 360 people take when they are publicly outed.

Indeed... what I find strange is that it keeps happening. Do these people figure that they'll never be found out?

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

Do these people figure that they'll never be found out?

Probably. One assumes that some people never do get caught.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the Blood Ties trailer. I had no idea this was in production. I'll give it a look, but given my recent experienes with supernatural series I'm not holding out hope for anything decent. Buy it's free, so what the hell.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I don't actually read Tanya's LJ, and I haven't seen her since Gaylaxicon last June (I think - I don't recall her being at TT in July), but I've heard from third parties that she's quite enthusiastic about the show. So I don't think it'll be as bad as you might fear.

If she's at Ad Astra (which is next weekend), I'll try to see if I can get any info.

[defenestr8or.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reference! And if I can't even *ask* for sex, I'm in serious trouble!

[mountebank.livejournal.com]

Once that homosexuality thing catches on, everybody's gonna be linin' up to bugger or be buggered. Sigh, there goes the human race.

And note to ALL evangelical public figures: when will you ever learn?! Next on the Bugger list: Reverend Phelps!



If that don't scream "Fag!" I don't know what does.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Please pass the mental floss. Ewww.

If I were faced with the possibility, I would have to change my LJ handle...