From The Ashes ...

Much To Say On Many Things

Did you cut your hair?

Obviously, We've had a bit of a site revamp. First, if you're on a decent screen and you're wondering why the background color looks slightly different that's called "oatmeal". Looks like a light, light brown to me but I must admit, oatmeal is much more gay. The links/archives have been centered and spruced up a bit. Purely an affectation and cosmetic but hey, I like it. Finally, and this was a bitch to pull off, I've added what amounts to a cast of characters. That single initial business made for kind of a dull and certainly cornfusing read. I left people with initials if they were incidental to the story but all recurring or significant (read: pain in my ass) characters have been given appropriate (sometimes un-imaginative) nicknames. Further, I decided to take advantage finally of the perma-links in this chronicle and I managed to back-link said characters to their last appearance dating through back to their first. If you're bored and want to browse backwards there you go. The only thing I want to do yet is add an animated .gif of some sort to the title page, and I want to add a title page link to my five favorite postings. I just need to decide what they are.
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Took him long enough.

We can pretty confidently be sure he spent the last 5 years or so in a diaper wallowing in his own poop. All I know is I had to turn off the TV from 4pm on. Even dead he makes me angry. Thousands if not tens of thousands of good people are dead and he bears a lot of the responsibility. Never say karma ain't a fuckin bitch. I'm not alone it seems:

bj's gay porno-crazed ramblings
useless! worthless! insipid!
Gay Porn Blog
james wagner.com
buggery.org
The Search for Love in Manhattan
The Biologic Show
bj's gay porno-crazed ... (part 2)
Dear Steven by Matt Foreman
KitchenBeard
Ben Tripp via counterpunch
Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 Goodbye and Good Riddance -courtesy of Buggery.org
Dogpoet
Joe.My.God
:::JOCKHOMO:::
The Truth About Reagan and AIDS via Dogpoet
TRL The Rob Log
And Finally: (I think) also via Gay Porn Blog (comments):

I was born during Reagan’s second term and have no recollection of him as President other that what I have read in books, one of which is the Shilts book, And the Band Played On. I do feel, however, that the availability of Eastern European porn is of little consequence if we are to consider it in terms of lives lost to AIDS while Mr. Reagan was dabbling in Eastern European politics. For those who would say we need to give him credit for the freedoms he brought to that same area of the world, I would reply that to be so desperately enthralled with fighting for freedoms outside our country while ignoring basic rights and freedoms of citizens at home is no exchange at all. It might be different if he consequently refocused his priorities at home, but we all know that never happened. How sad it is that there are so many politicians in Washington, but much, much fewer statesmen, and even fewer humanitarians.

I may only be 18, but I know there will come a time when I will force myself to come out to the world. When that time comes I hope I can remember to honor the memories of those who have given so much that today’s tribe could have the rights we presently have, and that today’s fanatics wish to take away from us. Sometimes it’s all I can do to react rationally when I’d prefer to react “Monettishly”, to those who should know better, and tell them to go fuck themselves. So much for youthful optimism.

Ironic that one of those diseases for which his administration chose to ignore research funding started (or as some believe, continued) his downward spiral, isn’t it?

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E.T. phone home!

The Hellcat got fired. There was no way for me to prevent it. He didn't show up for or call out of his shift on Thursday. It was Jabba The Drunk's shift so he was doubly screwed as Jabba has been waiting for a good enough reason to can her ass. And this was it. Had I even tried Jabba would have thought I was nuts or me and The Hellcat really were fucking. We think he called in on Thursday shortly after 6 but hung up. He called my house at roughly the same time but failed to leave a message. I've gone from being sad to annoyed ( I had just talked to him about learning to keep his out-of-work drama from spilling over and affecting his job.) to now I'm worried. I haven't heard from him and I called yesterday just to see if he was all right. I'm guessing it was a drug binge that either hasn't run it's course or he's still coming down or he's just embarrassed at having fucked up. Either way I wish he'd call.