So Marie Osmond’s son who recently killed himself similarly to my cousin (jumping from balcony) was gay and Mormon? I have always liked Marie, but bigoted communities yield high suicide rates. Roseanne Barr made a controversial blog about the subject, but I’m afraid I have to agree with her.
Fan pages for people on Facebook who have no particular following
My favorite “Mommie Dearest” quote is “Because I am not one of your FAAAAAAAAAAANNNS” There are some excellent remixes of it on Youtube.
I have lots of friends on Facebook (almost the maximum, even though I’ve had to rebuild the profile several times) and other venues, but those numbers pale in comparison to the number of people I actually have in my computer’s personal address book. I pretty much have kept track of everyone I have worked with, done business with, went to school with or socialized with at least my second year of law school (1996). I’ve used the same basic electronic tool to do it, too (Microsoft Outlook), which I’ve customized the hell out of. I should have database expertise on that alone.
However, I still can’t fathom having a fan page for myself just for the sake of having one. If I reach the maximum number of friends on FB, then I will weed out the ones who have been evasive or who have incomplete profiles. A fan page to me, would require that I have some special title or elected position that warrants admiration from complete strangers. Perhaps some day I’ll be a well-published author with books on various subjects and will have actual “fans” but for now I’d really rather just have friends.
Those who have invited me to their fan pages, whether or not I’ve met them in person or not, should not be offended if I don’t join. If I really like someone’s art work, I’ll join their fan page, but media whore that I am with all of the times I’ve been on TV and in print and with all of the columns I’ve written and articles I’ve self-published or formally published, I still can’t imagine myself crossing into the line of self-proclaimed celebrity without a body of work that stands on its own.
I actually think the American version of ‘The Office’ has been allowed to grow wonderfully.
“There’s always a thousand reasons NOT to do something, Pam.”
This kind of reminds me of Judy Tenuta’s line, “If you think I’m a proscrastinator, just you wait!”
The other quote I love to say from law school is “99% of doing something is starting it.”
Saw Temple Grandin movie about autistic woman on HBO
Everyone who has ever been touched by autism should see this. The movie about the woman’s life and how intelligence is mutually exclusive with the social functioning of people diagnosed with autism (in its various types) can and do contribute a lot to the world with special talents and different ways of thinking.
Daughter said she realized her father was a “genius”
Yesterday when she learned in environmental science that tap water is cleaner than bottled, and that was something that I had advised her of a long time ago. Moreover, bottled water I learned can seep plastic into the water when left in a hot car trunk, for example, over time.
Pictures on my walk home from Castro Valley BART station.
Alex’s amazing cooking!
The pasta sauce was made before we went really low-carb, but the point is that she was able to pretty much replicate my Mom’s homemade red sauce.
The second picture is of her purely vegetable and meat portabello bun sandwich.
Aaron’s sort of Going Away Tropical-Themed Party
My friend Aaron is going to Holland for an internship for his Ph.D. in chemistry so he had a going away party last weekend. There was great food, great music and a lot of fun people with a good mix of gay and hetero folks in San Leandro.
Some dancing (that I actually participated in)!
Daughter and I are going to start to look for places to live in the Emeryville/Oakland area starting tomorrow.
Landlords divorced after decades and foreclosed, basically. I can’t buy the place, so unless a family member comes through with a cash offer, we have to move anyway by beginning of April.
Made Phoenix plans for Spring!
I’m traveling to Phurfest and hoping to see friends and family in Arizona in late April/early May. It’s a state I’ve never stepped foot in, to my knowledge, but which my family has a long history in, apparently. I’ve seen a lot of relatives going back generations move and return to Arizona, and I know my dad lived there for a time as a kid. Ancestry.com has helped prove the links I have to the area, but I’m also looking forward to some pool parties and dry heat, which is one of the reasons I moved back to the West Coast.