Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy. (your mileage may vary)
June 3, 2013
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For the second year in a row, the Visalia City Council proclaims June as LGBT Pride Month in Visalia. For our very conservative community, this is a big deal!..I’ll be putting up more pictures as I steal them from various Facebook posts, and once Mary and Herm get their shots to me I’ll have some professional style pictures to show off! For now, these…
June 3, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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I’ve never understood the attraction for an older man that some young gay men have. That may be because I’ve never felt attracted to men older than myself, but there are many young gay men that do go after men twice their age, or even older. They’re looking for “daddies”, and they can be quite determined about it. (“Daddie” here refers to an age bracket and/or an age difference between the men, not any kind of incestuous relationship) From time to time, I’ll receive messages through various media from younger men who want to chat. Usually they are short conversations, as many of these gay bois are looking for a “sugar daddy”, and I neither desire nor can I afford to be anyone’s ATM card. (maybe if I had won that $600 million Powerball draw last night….
February 13, 2013
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Built in 1891, and occupied only by it’s original owners, Porterville’s Zalud House is thought by some to be haunted. The home stands today as it has through it’s entire history, never remodeled, and furnished with the possessions of the Zalud family.
Pearle Zalud lived in the house until her death at the age of 84 in 1970. Pearle and several of her family members have died in the residence, and one piece of furniture sits in an upstairs bedroom, still displaying the bullet hole created when Pearle’s brother-in-law, William Brooks, was shot while sitting in it at a bank in downtown Porterville.
On February 12, 2013, the Tuesday Evening Dining Group (TEDG) went to Porterville for dinner, a walking historical tour of downtown, and a special visit inside the Zalud House. Hosted by Porterville’s Paranormal Movement Investigations team, TEDG went ghost hunting! Did we find any? Well….
February 6, 2013
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I didn’t know you could make videos with QuickTime. Once I did, I did. I may make more. Assuming I can think of anything worth saying!
December 16, 2012
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The guys at Andrew Christian are really enhancing my Facebook feed! If you ever hear I’ve had a heart attack, these kind of things are probably why…
December 11, 2012
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Stoney L., an Andrew Christian customer from Louisiana
The Andrew Christian (underwear company who’s target customers are young gay men) website, here. NSFW
December 6, 2012
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I’m not into sports, but I’m sometimes a fan.
Speaking of fans, I think I need one.
December 2, 2012
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December 1, 2012
I’ve never been sure about this whole suit-jacket-jacket-over-just-a-tee-shirt thing, it always seemed a bit… well, incomplete, I suppose. Most everyone I’ve seen doing it, however, has looked fine, so I thought I’d give it a try. It seems to work, for a picture anyway. I’m still not sure about wearing one with blue jeans, although, again, everyone I’ve seen out and about that way looks good (that may have more to do with them looking fine no matter what, than it does with anything they happen to be wearing at any particular moment. I’m looking at you, Ted).
I’m a bit annoyed with the Gay Gods for sending me down with incomplete DNA. No fashion gene, no decorating gene, no dancing gene…. I feel a bit like a rainbow flag with several colors missing!
BTW, the red marks on my neck don’t indicate anything more than my electric razor irritates sometimes, and I had just shaved. And for some reason, I get two spots on my chin when using digital cameras to take pictures. From my Kodak camera, to the iPhone, splotches show up in the strangest places, and are generally not visible to the naked eye. I’m not sure where all that gray is coming from that shows up in my hair in these pictures. It doesn’t seem to be there in my mirror!
A Tale of Two Cities
June 5, 2013
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
What a difference a day makes! On Monday, June 3, 2013, the City of Visalia‘s City Council issued it’s second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation. On Tuesday, June 4th, the City of Porterville issued it’s first. The two events could not have been more different.
Both cities provide online applications for proclamations, with instructions on how to turn them into the city. Such requests are routinely handled by cities across the country, and are ways for cities to recognize citizens and groups. Here’s Porterville’s “Request a Proclamation” page.
Visalia’s proclamation resulted in applause and friendly chatter in a standing room only crowd that overflowed into the hallway. This year’s proclamation went mostly unnoticed by the greater community in Visalia. Last year it provoked some media coverage and talk-radio interviews with the Mayor of Visalia, Amy Shuklian. Porterville’s proclamation, in a meeting room at least twice the size of Visalia’s, also with standing room only and overflow into the hall, resulted in boos, catcalls, the arrest of a anti-gay protestor, and at least two calls for the death penalty for homosexuals.
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