This is one of my first Hy-Arts, a Hockney/ Bougereau, that feels eminently appropropriate given that California is on fire again. I'm in an intensely urban area, so don't personally have to worry, but the sky is gray and orange and smells smoky, and of course your heart breaks for all the people losing their homes. I can just imagine the survivalists watching from some sort of shelter in Idaho. The gays wanna get married, there's a black man in the White House and California's in flames. They must be ready for Armageddon/the Rapture any second now. Luckily for them, they've all been whiteous.
I forgot to take a picture of my "boot," a velcro'd contraption that I get to tromp around in for a month. I do, indeed have a stress fracture and a ligament tear. I am eminently relieved to have objective proof of my injury, even though I can't drive with it so it will be a pain in the ass to take on and off so much. I actually got the staff at the doctor's office laughing out loud by showing how I was going to have to walk like a pimp in order to look cool. I do a good pimp imitation--I knew a few in prison. (The fires are very bad close to where I was, in Chino. The air quality must be awful.)
I was going to go down to the demonstration late, but Mister Mister called to say he was refugeeing my way from the rally for a booty call. Sorry people. I want change but I need to get laid even more. It was hothothot. He never disappoints.
I have had one change of heart about the gay marriage ban. Even though I still advocate my ARCUFALLS, (Adjustable Renewable Civil Unions For All ), it did sink in that legally granted rights were taken away, and that's a very serious issue in and of itself. I guess the only equivalent is when blacks were granted the vote and then deprived of it in essence with all the obstacles to actual voting that created the need for the Voting Rights Act. I can be thoroughly ambivalent about whether we should be so anxious to join the institution of marriage, but the removal of civil rights already accorded? This is a threat to progressive democracy.
Of course, the NRA would insist any restriction on guns would amount to the same thing, As much as I abhor guns, wouldn't it be interesting to try to become their politicial bedfellows by advancing our cause as a parallel argument? If only to see how quickly they found arguments to deny any equivalency.
My mother sounded positively rejuvenated yesterday, having her port at dusk on my sister's balcony, as her grandchildren played nearby. And my brother had some eye surgery that has a 90% success rate. If I could get married and buy a house, all would be perfect, except the house would probably be burning and I'd probably want a divorce.
Some people just aren't optimists.
MCO 2008
