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YourObamablog.com
June 8, 2008 by p00ky.
Thanks to “Nilsson” for introducing me to a nifty community blog sponsored by the Obama campaign. His particular contribution is his blog at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/hi .
and well worth the read and a comment or three!
You need to register to publish a comment in one of the blogs, but you register only once. Having registered, you are free to set up your own blog. Cleverly, you are awarded points for registering, publishing a comment, inviting friends, etc…. but i have not discerned just how the point system works, nor what the prizes are:)
I suspect this format will be replicated in the future by political hacks of all stripes, but i have a hunch that none, any time soon, will be as robust as http://my.barackobama.com.
Let the campaign begin, and put your queer shoulder to the wheel!
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just another spoon/june song
May 16, 2008 by p00ky.
praps because i played horn in highschool, or because even my shit is syncopated, but this song seems to keep ferreting around the edges
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a question to hillary voters… why?
May 2, 2008 by p00ky.
Polls show and have shown even before the Wright debacle and Barack’s clinging religious slip in San Francisco that 30-40 percent of Hillary voters would not vote for Obama if he were the nominee.
Why?
Yeah, some Obama voters report that they will not vote for HRC under any circumstances, and i confess to understanding their position 
though i will not defend it here. Others are welcome to do so.
Having followed the political dialogue for some time now, i simply do not get the position that the hrc supporters have arrived at. No unseemly attacks by Obama have been uttered towards Hillary, and great restraint has been exercised in the wake of a litany of stuff coming out of the hrc campaign that would be low hanging fruit to fodder the attack cannons. But Obama has risen above the impulse to use it against her… from the bosnia snipers to the whitehouse logs that speak of her vivid imagination in e.g. creating an image of endowing peace to ireland from a tea party. I am a believer in tea parties, but hillary is no alice.
So, again, i ask WHY. Given that the stance of the two candidates on the isssues is so very similar, Why do so many hrc supporters loathe Mr. Obama to the extent that they would not vote for him were he the nominee? Implicit in the position is that they would rather see McCain president than Mr. Obama. Why? Why? Why?
I would ask a hrc supporter who has come to the conclusion not to vote for Obama in the general election, but i do not know any. Help me out here. Please tell me WHY. Thanks.
(oh, in the words of DharmaWoo: Gawd i wonder if hillary gets nominated i will plant my lawn chair in your dotage.)
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Here’s What Gives
March 29, 2008 by p00ky.
Recently a post was removed from this blog due to objectionable material. The author will be named by nick only on his approval. The poster is a fellow-chatter, influential in the direction of #gayportland, an articulate and thoughtful individual, and one whom i consider a friend…. One of whom i expected more on this occasion.
I went to some length in chat to express to him my opinion that the youtube post was a page out of the right-wing play book, a hatchet job typical of rove-esque tactics, and the kind of anti-intellectual sleaze promoted on any random obama-bashing site in the blogosphere. When the request for deletion of the youtube link was declined, it was removed by management (yeah, in this case, me). On suggestion of the poster, the post was then removed.
He was encouraged to express his anti-Obama position in original words, which he is eminently capable of doing, in lieu of using our fair blog to promote a mindless video guffawed over by good ol’ boys on return from their saturday night dog fight. He declined again.
Authorship (the ability to post in addition to add comment) on this blog, is granted with the same consideration that ops is extended on #gayportland. Both are held to a higher standard…. with power, if you must, comes responsibility. And both are retained by the author in question.
I am well aware of the slippery slope potential that looms in the discussion and reality of “censorship.” Tomes have been written on the matter, and i will not attempt to expand the literature in this post. Suffice it to say that this blog will maintain its identity as a forum for free-expression within the context of the gay “community” and a furtherance of the dalliances enchatted on #gayportland. It will not become a venue for the recycling of right-wing propaganda videos that proliferate on lesser if more popular blogs whose purpose is not to stimulate thought, but to fester ignorance in a pustule of fear.
Cheered I am by the knowledge that he is capable of better, as witnessed by his fine libertarian blog at http://nwfreethinker.blogspot.com/ , which includes his thoughts on the subject at hand. No, dear, you are not a bad person:)
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HOWL…. In Your Own Back Yard
February 15, 2008 by p00ky.
Discovered in the bowels of a Reed College archive is a cleanly recorded reel-to-reel rendition of Howl read by the poet in a Reed College dormitory lounge, proclaimed as the first recorded reading of the poem as yet unearthed. “One” cannot help but wonder if Ginsberg got laid that night at Reed. Swallow hard and dl quicktime, and Enjoy.
http://www.reed.edu/news_center/multimedia/2007-08/ginsbergreadings1.28.08.2.html
(thanks to Reed, and to Allen)
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a winter song
February 2, 2008 by p00ky.
with compliments to and appreciation for the PGMC
Some say love, it is a river
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
an endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
and you its only seed.
It’s the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance.
It’s the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance.
It’s the one who won’t be taken,
who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun’s love
in the spring becomes the rose.
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Seasons Greetings From #GayPortland
December 16, 2007 by p00ky.
A card for you at:
www.gayportland.info/HappyHolidays
a link to a pretty good site for audio edition of A Child’s Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas: http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html
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GayPride: Flashback 2
June 15, 2007 by p00ky.
Tis the season again, eh…. and yeah, opinions are like assholes… we all got em…. here they are all valued, and here are a couple of em lifted from our previous blog… to fuel the fire:)
I don’t know… perhaps I credit most people with the brains to know that homosexuals aren’t all alike, and that should be bolstered by seeing the variety of groups one sees at Pride: gay parents, two-wheeled women, leather boys, gay geeks, gay jocks, religious gays, etc.
Pride has long been as much a show as a message. If there are things on offer that you find enjoyable, go ahead and have some fun; if not, then don’t. I don’t care for parades, so I tend to avoid them… and there are LOTS of parades to avoid in Portland in June! But I enjoy going down to the waterfront and talking to people, seeing what is on offer at the various booths, and so on.
Toronto 2006…. or AnyTown, Universe.
Gide said…
Even this most public event permeates the personal, and a greater health ensues.
It is worthy of mention in passing that gaypride is also one hell of a good party:) Which is reason enough to justify almost anything.
Sam is correct… gaypride Is both a show and a message… and both show and message are for the choir, and the congregation, as well as for the nonbelievers. I doubt there is a faggot among us who has not at least read the roots of “Pride” in Stonewall , nor do I pretend to know the extent of the minds and hearts of the participants of Stonewall in the spontaneity of a reaction to systematic and life-long oppression.
An elementary posit in Sociology 101 (which i never took) is that a vociferous fringe element expands the parameters of acceptable behavior. Thru blood, sweat, and tears, the parameters of GLBT’s (i know, it sounds like a delightful sandwich) “behavior” has gained considerable acceptance since the days of Stonewall. That “behavior”, however, is one of sexual and romantic love…. If homosexuality were a matter of caritas, I doubt we would be having this discussion.
I admire assless-chaps as much as the next faggot (with a modicum of aesthetics), but (pun intended), if the next battle is in the courts, driven largely now by a wet finger (lub it) reading the winds of the political climate, might the gaypride exposition serve to further entrench the already alienated, and possibly, just possibly, narrow the hard-won expansion of the minds that have come to accept the concept of equality?
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