Another kind of reunion

I won't be posting for a week because I'll be on some much-needed vacation in the Minn. I've got a class reunion to attend to, tattoos to get, driving to do, hopefully some swimming in an actual lake and visiting old friends I haven't seen in years. I'm darn-tootin' excited. When I come back, I'll post about the reunion, and how they react to having a queer kid in their midst. Should be fun, since it was a Baptist school I attended. We shall see.

It's not like Pippi

Queer, cheerful, riot girl (ish). Do this: sing the chorus to "Goddess Part 2" right now. Or the first two lines. Or the whole song. It's all Liz Phair pop punky fun that's queer with a little less gosh-I'm-so-hip-and-self-aware attitude.

Oooh-uh-oooh-oh-oooh!

Our poet laureate is a mo and other things

Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate of the United States. She's also a big D.

I think it's somewhat telling that I had to hear about this on a Canadian news program at 3 in the morning. Telling and terribly, terribly, terribly sad.

To this I say: yay, Kay! And boo, American mainstream journalists!

Ryan learned about the honor Monday, when she and her partner of 30 years, Carol Adair, arrived home from the Aspen Ideas Festival to find a phone message from Billington.

"I thought, oh my God, this can mean only one thing," Ryan said, "and the blood ran out of my head."

The next day was a busy one, because she and Adair were scheduled to be remarried, having married the first time in 2004 at City Hall in San Francisco. "We'll have to get the rings re-engraved with the new date," she said.

Heyo!

PRIDE: SATURDAY

I'm supa late on posting these pictures, but better late than never, right?

Blogger says what?

Is there some kind of technical issue with Blogger right now? Our images, embedded videos and just about everything else seem to be randomly appearing/disappearing every other time I load the page.

Looking okay for you guys?

We're still here...

I've blogged about genetic studies about homosexuality before, thanks to Olive Skene Johnson and her fantastic book. Anyway, Slate has an interesting article about the reason homosexuality hasn't evolved itself out. Because when you think about, if roughly 10 percent of the population is queer now, we should be dwindling in numbers since The Beginning Of Time, right? Evolution has shown that natural selection's main goal is to procreate. And procreate. (And, some of those Procreators take that a little too much to heart. *CoughDuggarsCough*)

The article's focus is on duders, but they site a female study that relies on nongenetic factors, but I warn, unless you're super interested in dry medically defining text, you'd be better suited for Curve magazine.