June 3, 2008

Quick Catch-Up

Life, Interrupted to screen in Arcata:

I received a message from a gentleman directing The Laramie Project, who wanted to know if he could use my video, Life, Interrupted, for the live show. (Of course, I was honored, and, of course, I gave him the go-ahead.)

For you Really-Northern Northern Californians, and close-to-the-stateline Oregonians, The Laramie Project will be at the Arcata Playhouse in Arcata, California, from June 18 through June 21, and June 25 through June 28 (8:00 p.m. curtain). See HumboldtPride.org for more info.

(I want very badly to go, but the dates are running into 1] our move, and 2] our wedding plans, so it’s doubtful we’ll make it.)

Events Calendar Coming to the Newswire

I’m putting the finishing touches on a dynamic calendar tracking major LGBTQQIA events throughout the world, and should have it ready for your perusal before the end of this week. You’re welcome to submit events we haven’t caught (just wait until the calendar goes live first, so you can see if your event has already been included).

Commenting on the Newswire

When you’re in the midst of moving and planning a wedding, you don’t get to accomplish much else. Thus, I’ve been sitting on a ton of comments I’ve been meaning to answer — mostly wonderful, supportive comments. The hate mail has died off a bit, mostly because I’m banning the IPs of abusers left and right — although I did get another nastygram from the nastyboy who told me he didn’t care if I voted for McCain or stuck dynamite up my private parts. (Hey, Jim Nacios, I’ll answer you here, when I get around to it — but you need to stop contacting me, right now. You come take a big, steaming dump in the middle of my living room, and expect me to welcome you here? You’re not welcome. Now, go away and harass someone else. If you contact me again, I’ll report you to your ISP — and to that university your email address appears to belong to. Now go away — permanently, pest.)

Because I’m so far behind in my replies, I’m thinking about reinstating actual commenting on the Newswire — moderated, of course — so at least intelligent comments will appear in a timely manner, even if I don’t have time to respond to them as I’d like to. (Unintelligent comments, of course, will either be dumped, or ridiculed mercilessly.) I’m also considering displaying trackbacks. I’m waiting to see if the backend measures I’ve taken over the past few days prove successful in cutting down the spam. (If you’d like to see what the blocked spammers see when they try to access any page on the LavenderLiberal.com domain, this is our new 403 “Forbidden” page.)

What Democratic Party?

Yeah, I know what’s going on with the presidential race, and yeah, I have plenty to say about it — but, frankly, it’s all come out the way I expected, so my opinion is practically moot now. That doesn’t mean I won’t be writing about it (me, not express my opinion? ha!) — but I don’t feel a lot of urgency about it anymore. The Blogger Boyz (somebody called them “petulant”; what a good word!) won (”Crush that defense! Kill! Kill! Kill!”) — that is, if “winning” means alienating a huge core of the Democratic base, plus ultra-liberal homos like me who will not forgive nor forget McClurkin, Meeks, Caldwell, Mary Mary, and all the rest of the homophobes contributing to this Great New Society and Realignment of the Democratic Party that 1) I don’t recognize any longer, and 2) doesn’t want me as a member anyway. As far as they’re concerned, I’m a racist, mouth-breathing member of the Bitter White Woman contingent. eye roll

Whatever. It’s Obama’s ~~world~~ party now — we just ~~squirm under its bootheel~~ have to put up with it. (But probably only until November.)

So, what’s there to say that can’t be said later, when I have time to sit down and write something long and thoughtful? Not much, really — except that I’m not looking forward to the next four years of President McCain. But, as I’ve often said, if I could survive Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II, I can survive McCain.

And, anyway, I’m trying to quit my addiction to national politics, as all my earnest participation has been for naught, and my energy can be better put to use elsewhere.

If you wonder what I mean by that, take a look at one of the last long posts I made at Democratic Underground — it’s at the top of my journal there (which I’ll be reprinting here sometime, since I expect that I’m about to be purged from DU at any moment):

I already know what I’m going to do.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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