you gotta have friends

It’s really just a geek thing, and probably pretty meaningless to most of you, but I’ve generated a FOAF file (not sure what that is? here is some info) for myself (just like Matt and Meredith, for example). If you know me and have a FOAF, drop me a line and I’ll add you to […]

dude, check this out!

Yesterday, I came across Dude, Check This Out!™, which enables sort of a cross between blogging and social networking (a la Friendster, LinkedIn, FOAF, etc.). You create your own blog on the service for saving links to interesting articles, sites, images, etc., and you’re encouraged to copy links from other Dude blogs; the site then […]

July 31 +/- 2 weeks

I mentioned this in passing to Jeff the other day, and have been thinking about it off and on; I know it’s a subject I’ve seen discussed elsewhere, and it’s not even necessarily unique to gay and lesbian couples, though that’s the context in which I’ve most often considered it and seen it considered: When […]

or maybe it’s cheney’s eviler twin

Vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney, father of a lesbian daughter, in a 2000 debate with Senator Joe Lieberman: The fact of the matter is, we live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. And I think that means that people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want […]

new york times

Jeff and I have been planning to take a long Valentine’s weekend (which turns out to be President’s Day weekend as well, a Monday holiday for me) trip to Manhattan, and today we finally got around to doing more than talking about it. Jeff already had tickets to see the Rufus Wainwright concert that weekend, […]

catch of the day

Earlier today, Jeff and I went to see Big Fish at Shirlington. This magical, enchanting story of a young man trying to come to terms with his relationship with his estranged, dying father, and to understand the truth of his father’s life, seemingly hidden behind–or within–a series of tall tales, has entered my personal list […]

feed me

The list of DC metro area gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, etc. blogs and journals has been updated; in the past two weeks I’ve identified another few couple dozen or so entries, for a current total of 75 76 93 94, and this evening I also added links to the XML/RSS feeds for the more […]

my name is thom and i’m a biblioholic

Four white Ikea bookcases line the walls of the media room, three more form a white wall facing the bed in the bedroom down the hall, while yet another in the entry greets me at the front door; on their shelves books lie on top of the standing rows. In the gaps between the cases, […]

but where’s skipper as gollum?

I‘ve just added a new item to my Amazon Wish List, thanks to an entry in Boing Boing today: Barbie and Ken as Arwen and Aragorn. I’m serious. I have to have this. I’m no Waylon Smithers with his “Malibu Stacy” obsession, but I do own a few Barbies: specifically, Barbie and Ken as unnamed […]

watch words

Continuing the tale of our shopping trip on Saturday evening, after our Gap spree we moved on to Filene’s Basement, where I found a very nice Kenneth Cole watch in a polished silver finish with a black polyurethane band; I have a brown and gold Armani I wear most often, but I was looking for […]