For today’s “So there!” moment, however, the Pew Internet Project has released a report on “Gaming technology and entertainment among college students” that concludes that computer, video and online games “are more of a social/socializing activity [for college students] than most suspected,” rather than an isolating “geeky” behavior. Some key findings included: All of those […]
In today’s “well, duh!” moment, Britney Spears admitted that despite her repeated claims over the years that she would wait until marriage to have sex, she actually lost her virginity several years ago to ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake. In a related story, though it’s the American people who were screwed this time, the Bush administration also […]
Last night, Jeff and I were sharing some laughs over a reprint of a February 1950 Popular Mechanics article about predictions of suburban life in the year 2000 (thanks to Arts & Literature Daily for the pointer to the article). [Note: the reprint is part of a larger, fascinating MIT site dedicated to the “home […]
I left Yorktown around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, and got back home after 6:30, another depressingly overlong drive that took almost twice the time it normally would on a non-holiday weekend. It was a relaxing, low-pressure weekend in which, as Sheldon pointed out in his LiveJournal entry, the three of us quickly and easily, though not […]
Thursday evening after a meeting at church that ended around 8pm, I braved the holiday traffic to drive down to Yorktown to spend the long weekend with my friends Sheldon and Lisa, now living back in Virginia after nine years away in Belgium and Anchorage. It took four hours to make what should have been […]
It’s been a very strange morning here at the office. By 10:00 I’d already been involved in two personal conversations–including one with my boss–about homosexuality. My closet having been blown wide open when I started coming out in 1980 to my friends and family, the final splinters from the closet door were swept away in […]
While watching last night’s episode of Family Guy just now (thanks to TiVo), I was pleasantly surprised to see a Chili’s commercial featuring Esera Tuaolo, the former NFL athlete currently focusing on a musical career, who came out publicly as gay last year. It wasn’t long ago that athletes who were gay–or even presumed gay–were […]
While having my hair shampooed and styled yesterday, and writing about it today, some of my favorite memories of my parents and my paternal grandmother came to mind. As a young boy, I would sit next to my grandmother in the pew every Sunday at church services, while my mother and father were up front […]
Yesterday evening I had an appointment for a haircut. I had been a bad boy and hadn’t seen my stylist since February 28, so my hair had grown longer than anyone in my current job had seen on me, though still relatively short, and certainly not nearly as long as during my high school days. […]
As if the religious right weren’t apoplectic enough after last week’s Supreme Court decision legalizing private consensual sodomy, I can’t wait to see their reaction to the announcement that that bastion of rural couture and puritanism, Wal-Mart, announced yesterday that it has added sexual orientation to its corporate antidiscrimination policy. With this formal change to […]