Blogging GALA :: Day Three
Your columnist interviews the author of the book "Voices From A Chorus" and enjoys music from the Great Northwest.
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The long-delayed final segment of the GALA blog is here. (What? Your columnist had to pack, travel, and get caught up. Okay, and party.) Read all about it...
View Article"Mitt Gets Worse"
"Mitt Gets Worse." Now that Romney has chosen ultra-right winger Paul Ryan as his running mate, that's become more than a catch-phrase. It's become the chilling, but accurate, bumper-sticker slogan...
View ArticleWild Promises
Did Obama make wild promises in 2008, and again during last week's DNC? Maybe. But the wild promises that Romney and Ryan have made should raise red flags, if not hackles. Meantime, Bill Clinton gave...
View ArticleSketch Comedy
Your columnist's funny little cousin presents three "humorous" sketches. (He might want to hold on to his day job.)
View ArticleSeptember Surprises
There's nothing like a good old-fashioned October Surprise... even when the surprises erupt in September and just keep on coming. And even when they're not really surprising at all, like the gaffes Mr....
View ArticleThe Fading Sun
Summer's over. Shall we celebrate or despair? Or maybe both? Your columnist ponders the possibilities under the fading sun...
View ArticleIt's Debatable
Your columnist is -not- writing about the Obama-Romney debate debacle. Except, he is.
View ArticleThe Resurrection Platform
Your columnist's cousin presents a nightmarish vision of an Election Gone Amuck... Prepare for A Dieter Melloy Skandal!
View ArticleSee Ya in the Comics
A little over a year ago, DC Comics shook things up and hit the reset button (sort of) on 52 of its top titles. What's the result? And has it been worth the fuss and bother? Your columnist weighs in...
View ArticleScience As Religion
Extremists claim that science and religion are mutually exclusive and mutually hostile. But for the rational-minded, science -is- religion... and it's a religion that's being attacked, suppressed, and...
View ArticleReflections in a Flickering Eye
The horror genre has always served to summarize and explore social anxieties, but one movie -- the original "Halloween" -- stands above the rest of the last few decades' cinematic fare. Now the...
View ArticleTrickle-Down Freedom
A fraction of America votes today. If you don't speak up at the ballot box on Nov. 6, then please do us all a favor and keep the complaints to yourself until 2016.
View ArticleNo Sale
Big money poured hundreds of millions, if not billions, into this year's presidential election, only to come up with a big fat NO SALE. The message is plain as the new day: This nation's highest office...
View ArticleSwimming in De Nile
It seems like every time the Republicans lose big, two things happen: The rightward fringe go into paroxysms trying to pin the blame anywhere but on their own extreme ideology, and everyone else starts...
View ArticleThanks-gay-ving?
Home, hearth, and coming out. Why, they all go together, don't they? Your columnist recollects the start of a unique holiday season 28 years ago... and the start of a lifetime partnership.
View Article"For Your Consideration"
Whatever mainstream movies Oscar graces next year, your columnist submits this short list as 2012's unmissable essentials for GLBT cinema -- For Your Consideration.
View Article48 Frames Per Second (And Its Discontents)
If you're going to see, or have seen, Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit," you may be about to experience (or already have) the latest improvement in how movies are made and shown. Is it a new milestone, or...
View ArticleWatching the Clock for the End of the World
It's the end of the world! Or... maybe not. Your columnist keeps one eye on the skies, the other on the clock, and reports in at regular intervals.
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