'Thoughts'

If, as Miss Schwarzenegger says, she is going to veto the gay marriage bill, one can't help but wonder...given that she has said she thinks same sex marriage should only happen between a man and a woman, might she be persuaded/deluded into outlawing heterosexual marriages too? The mind twinkles with mischief... :)

Imagine that...I could almost have guessed...

So I heard that four countries did not accept the declaration on native rights made in the UN last week.

Needless to say, I knew one of them was Canada (I don't watch the news much, but even I couldn't miss that one...).

And I imagined another would be Australia.

Surprise surprise that the US was another one.

I didn't know much about New Zealand, but I suppose I shouldn't have been shocked...

Both sad and predictable (the worst kind of sorrow).

Anyone planning to develop in Caledonia, Ontario had best cool his jets for a while...preferably switch them off or crash them into the ground (but not near Caledonia), really....

Surprised, but not...

After watching a bit of the Bush pep rally last night on Fox (and is it only ME who thinks Petraeus sounds like either one of the monkeys on PLANET OF THE APES or a failed Greek general from ancient times?), I was surprised that the Fox commentator tried, at the end, to imagine what the Democratic response would be.

I was NOT surprised that, unlike the other networks, Fox then did not actually GO to any Democrat for a response, but returned to original programming probably at least five minutes before the other channels did...

Stardust query

One wonders whether Robert DeNiro has ever played 'pink' before? He's alarmingly comfortable in this characterization (yes, it's a cliche, but I PREFER bad examples of gays to the nice sweet ones in so many boring movies...).

In light of the $54 million pants judge getting his comeuppance...

A few other judges that might want to be scrutinized a little closer (though I suspect both are long off the bench, because these rulings do go back a bit...)

(1) The one who said it was not sex discrimination to fire a woman because women didn't get pregnant - people got pregnant

(2) The judge who ruled that it was not discrimination to forbid two men from getting married because both men were perfectly legally allowed to marry women if they wanted to

(3) The judge who, upon realizing in a case where two men had had the banns of marriage read in their church without objection that the laws did not specify that marriage was between two people of the opposite sex, turned to a dictionary definition of marriage to make his ruling (yeah, there's a document of live language and societal use...)

A few little thoughts upon watching a bit of the Republican candidate debate

Of course, as a Canadian, I suppose I shouldn't discuss these things; however, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf, as a queer, I have no country - my country is the whole world...

Hearing Republican after Republican say that changing 'don't ask, don't tell' would be 'disruptive' and that there's no point in changing something that 'works well'...

Does it 'work well' for all the people who are discharged? Is it not 'disruptive' to not have translators in place to try and ease the largely untenable situation in Iraq?

Hmmm...inqueering minds want to know...

Went to see KNOCKED UP. Fun, if not quite as fun as THE FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN. Nice to see Seth Rogen both butt naked and with generous, long shots of the furry chest. :)

One is somehow tempted to reply to the movie poster's line about 'What if this guy got you pregnant?' with (a) it would be a medical miracle (b) I would be the happiest second daddy in the world and (c) late in the pregnancy, I would probably switch to blow jobs to keep Seth happy, even if pediatricians said it was safe to have 'normal' intercourse (oh, heck, I'd be administering them earlier too :) ).

and now a few ideas for direct-to-video sequels:


(1) The Boy Looked At Johnny - in which Whoopi Goldberg, having deciphered 'Jumping Jack Flash', now must figure out what Patti Smith is mumbling during 'Land' to solve another mystery

(2) The Seventh Sense - in which Haley Joel Osment discovers he can see dead careers.

(3) Shrek 4 - Shrek discovers he has become Prime Minister of Canada, which is odd, given that Pinocchio would be a much better choice (or, for that matter, the (necessarily reincarnated) King from the first movie)

(4) Brokerback Mountain - it was all a dream, a horrible, horrible dream...Jack and Ennis get together and move to Canada and get married. Within about a week, they realize that they had never actually been to Montana at all, and that Alberta is looking very, very familiar.

(5) Ooh, a Music Scuffle - Low, Sufjan Stevens and Prince shock us with their non drinking, vegetarian, Christian antics.

(6) Monsters Ltd - in which little Boo opens her closet and discovers that a former governor of New Jersey, a henchman to Joseph McCarthy and the son of Phyllis Schlafly have taken up residence there...aaaaagh!

(7) Fly II - in which an insect crawls all over the naked body of George W Bush. This is a horror film for all parties involved.

(8) The Omen 478 - in which we learn that the Antichrist cannot be killed until we...just...stop...WATCHING.

(9) The Brunch of the Living Dead - come on, even zombies deserve to sleep in ONE day of the week

(10)Austin Powers: Deadhorsey - well, the title speaks for itself...