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February 9, 2003
rants in small bites
I got back home to DC and had a good workout Saturday and today. This morning I had a nice greasy spoon breakfast with Gurl and also chatted for a Mr. McSpin on the street. His dog is very cute!
I finally got in touch with my beefalicious physician's assistant, who is also Gurl's arch-enemy. I spoke with him about weaning off the antidepressants, which are buggin' me. It's been really hard to tell lately why I've been so unpassionate about almost everything. I don't laugh much, but neither do I get angry or afraid. It's all sorta flatlined across the board. I want my passions back. P.A. is insinuating that it's chemical, but I'm fairly certain it was situational. Being unemployed for ten months in DC will put anyone in a hole. So in a few weeks I'll be off and ready to fire again.
Assorted rants written while sleep-deprivated last week:
When the terrorist threat level is elevated, what the fuck am I supposed to do? Put on a tinfoil hat and board up the windows? And could you please tell us what the threat is, so I can look out for swarthy fellows with coffee cans full of flesh-eating beetles or whatever?
The apparent mouth of our community, the International Gay and LBiTransQueHRCwhatever says I'm supposed to be against the war on ter'r and Iraq. Umm...do any of you know how shitty life is in the 'Stans and Iraq is if you're gay? Think _no concept of being 'out'_. Like it's not an issue. Like there are no gays _here_, they're only in the U.S.. I know these things, I've been there. Like drop a a wall on yer ass if yer caught blowin' someone. And we are the ones violating human rights? I guess by that logic, dropping a wall on a queer is acceptable.
If I could only grant a plane ticket and a one year stay to those that think Communism, Monarchy or Despotism works as a noble and efficient form of government, and that life is really rosy for gays and lesbians all over the world, just like it is in our McGhetto deep in the heart of the city.
Us gurls have it pretty nice here in the U.S., and the quality of life for gays and lesbians in the U.S. is directly proportionate to the stability of our economy, the free flow of ideas, freedom from religious opression, and our exposure to the rest of the world. We are hated as a Nation for many of these things, and the above rights and freedoms must be defended at all costs. These rights are maintained, like a cantankerous photocopier that always breaks. We have a choice to cower from those that hate us for these ideas, or to stand up, be pround and give it back.
I've noticed that I haven't seen any hitchhikers around on the East Coast since I got here 6 years ago. I can't say why. I used to hitchhike in Wisconsin and Alaska. I don't advise hitchhiking in Norway. No one picks you up. Anyhoo, not many life-affirming adventures to tell about it other than the odd characters that would pick you up. I got picked up by a carful of drunk Eskimos, a sorta-lesbian ecofeminist folk singer, a guy who made me drive while he slept and his kid was telling me how his daddy hit him, and the dude with his dentures on the dashboard, floating about in some soupy substance. Then there was the psycho chick with the shivering dachshund in the front seat who gave me the creeps. I passed up on her offer for a ride.
One of my students last week is in a band called the Ass Robots. He gave me a demo CD and everything.
Posted by jimbo at February 9, 2003 5:33 PM
Comments
Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo...
I find that monarchy, despotism AND communism all work perfectly in my regimes. Despotism is to be kept until your scientists discover monarchy, at which time you stop trying to increase the number of cities you control, and switch to monarchy. Focus on building wonders of the world. Then, finally, when you've discovered communism, switch, and commence building again.
I'm also particularly cross with you that you didn't take the poor shivering weiner dog and left it there with that obvious weirdo. Weiner dogs are gods, and need to be treated as such or we'll all be in trouble when their mother ship returns to pick up the few who squirmed out the space hatch. This goes for seahorses as well, since they are the evolved sea form of weiner dogs.
La dame du nostre tardaux
Posted by: le tardaux at February 10, 2003 6:29 AM
Geek. Wiener dogs burst out of peoples' chest cavities.
Posted by: jimbo at February 10, 2003 9:15 AM
I miss Theocracy. Then you could build fundamentalist units. They were cheap but determined.
Posted by: Chrisafer at February 10, 2003 9:28 AM
The P.A. isnt my arch enemy....he just gives me the creeps! He is one of the most maladjusted, compartmentalized gay peep I have almost met. Besides, he looks so Type-A in the sauna, I cant relax... it's as if he cant have sex anywhere else and hates you for kicking back and relaxing in his sex den. Besides, he isnt even that beefy anymore..he has lost a lot of weight lately....
G.U.R.L.
Gay Urban Recreation and Living
Posted by: GURL at February 10, 2003 10:54 AM
Howdy Jimbo,
Got into your site through a Google search; "Musclebound" and "Rugger" it was.
I'm a Prop on the new Gay Rugby team here in Boston. Somewhere in your postings you mentioned, I think, a "Rugger Irish hottie poster-child" (Jackson?) from Boston. I can't find your reference now, but would he be interested in playing for Ironsides RFC? This is our second year and we hope to really grow with new players.
You've got a nice "Blogger" site. Cute lil' hottie too.
Yours,
Tim in Boston
Posted by: Tim Cronin at February 10, 2003 7:55 PM
I agree with you that we should use our influence in these countries to bring about change. You at least got to live in a 'stan where being gay was legal. Living in Uzbekistan wasn't as nice. It was one of the reasons I lived there, to see for myself how gays were treated. However, we are invading Iraq because of oil and father avengement (is that a word?)
If you think that we should force regime change in Iraq, then we should also do it in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and a hundred other countries. By doing this with the opposition of the world, what right do we have to complain if China annexes Taiwan or Australia?
Posted by: Glenno at February 15, 2003 9:29 AM
beautiful, just beautiful...
Posted by: beenhexed at February 21, 2003 2:04 PM