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Ryan P.: Hi! My name is Ryan P.. How may I help you?
Michael : Hi I’m actually looking for the damier graphite camera bacl
Michael : bag*
Michael : item # N58027
Ryan P.: That is a popular item and I certainly understand your interest.
Ryan P.: As it is currently unavailable for purchase online, I am happy to check its availability in your local boutique.
Michael : Oh that would be fabulous
Michael : I am in San Diego, CA
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Michael : That’s quite alright, looks like I’ll just have to wait
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Michael : That’s it. Thanks for your time

Not that I could have afforded this right now seeing as I have an unpaid parking ticket and medical bill (lol!), but who knows what I would have tried to sell to get my hands on this. Possibly even my soul? The Damier Graphite Camera Bag is seriously THE bag I’ve been looking for my entire life and will not rest until the day it’s on my shoulders.

Anyways, here are some other pieces to fancy. The backpack is looking kinda hot and I have the laptop sleeve in the regular damier and it’s really, really well made.

Buy yours at the NOH8 Online Store

View the article here.

Some excerpts…

Mr. Paterson made an unusual trip to the Senate floor minutes after the last vote was cast, saying, “These victories come and so do the losses, but you keep on trying.”

-Preach.

The state’s Roman Catholic bishops, who had actively lobbied against the bill, said they were pleased by the vote.

“While the Catholic Church rejects unjust discrimination against homosexual men and women, there is no question that marriage by its nature is the union of one man and one woman,” Richard E. Barnes, the executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference, said in a statement.

- Unjust discrimination? WTF? Is he trying to say there is such a thing as valid discrimination? When is discrimination ever morally right? I guess when it comes to marriage and homosexuality there exists such contradiction. That’s what I hate about religions. The picking and choosing of their own rules to suit their lives but not the lives of people like myself. We’ve adjusted the way we live based on what we’ve learned about LIFE, why can’t religions? We went from owning slaves as being part of life, to thinking how FUCKED UP those times must have been. Why is it, religion can’t change for the better?

“When I walk through these doors, my Bible stays out,” said Senator Eric Adams, a Brooklyn Democrat who compared the law preventing same-sex marriage with laws that kept blacks and whites from marrying. “I believe there are certain moments here where we can benchmark our lives by the votes we took.”

- As it should.

Demonstrators on both sides of the issue were relatively scarce in the Capitol on Wednesday. A small group of Orthodox Jews gathered outside the Senate chamber, one of them holding a sign that read “Gay Union/A Rebellion Against the Almighty.”

- All I have to say is, people like you are sick and should wear long corduroy skirts and die lonely and afraid.

They still fit! lol

I know right? Full article not included.

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you : Yes, is there any way to check inventory for a local store?
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you : I’m looking for the new Sporty Bag Beaubourg, product ID: M97036 in San Diego, CA
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you : thanks
Ingrid N.: This is a great new bag.
you : Yea it’s perfect and exactly what I’ve been looking for
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you : amazing! Thank you so much
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you : I’m definitely going today. Can you put one on hold at the Fashion Valley location?
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I’ve seen these all over flickr and also on a few blogs and never got around to doing it… until today. I didn’t realize how awful I laid my stuff out until I downloaded the images onto my mac, but shit… I ain’t laying that shit out again and retaking the image. Plus, the contractors doing our master bath will wonder WTF I’m doing lol!!

Somewhat from left to right:

Louis Vuitton Beaubourg bag
13″ Macbook Pro (4gb ram)
Cheap sun glasses
Panasonic TZ5 (party camera, on sale at Frys for $200!)
Louis Vuitton Brazza wallet
Louis Vuitton coin purse (hangs inside the Beaubourg)
Calumet CF card reader
WD 250gb portable hard drive
Sigma DP2
iPhone 3G
Bose noise canceling headphones (sometimes essential in the office)
Purell hand sanitizer
Keys and LA fitness pass
Portable Energizer iPhone/iPod charger (takes AA batteries)
Matches from Butter restaurant
Black book for quick notes, ideas, grocery lists, etc.
Altoids
Small screw driver set
Dinky little tripod

and yes, it totally all fits!

Yea right… you bible thumpers wish. But I am for some reason head over heels for Blake Lively, aka Serena Vanderwoodsen. I don’t know what it is but if I was into chics… she’d be my number 1 at the moment. Dorota is pretty hot too! jk. Eww, what am I saying? It’s all about Nate Archibald♥ Dan Humphry♥♥ and Chuck Bass♥♥♥

Great post by Perez:

“Nicole Lamarche, Miss California 2003 and now an ordained minister at Cotuit Federated Church in Cotuit, Mass, is speaking out.

She says:

“As a pastor and a former Miss California, I am often asked to interpret what the Word of God has to say on a particular subject. I am quite confident that God prefers that we human beings stick to speaking for ourselves. And yet there are occasions when God’s Word is used as a weapon, and I feel compelled to speak.

In the past few days, much has been made of the words of Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean. She stated that marriage is between a man and a woman. I write not in response to her opinion, but rather about her comments that followed: that the Bible condones her words. She said, ‘It’s not about being politically correct, it’s about being biblically correct.’ While this sentiment is shared by many who seek to condemn gay people and gay marriage, citing pieces of the Bible to further one’s own prejudice fails to meet the Bible on its own terms.

Most people seeking to condemn gay people point to the Book of Leviticus, where we read that men lying with men is an abomination. However, we rarely hear of other verses found in the book of Leviticus that are equally challenging. For example, Leviticus also tells us that eating shrimp and lobster is an abomination. And that a person should not wear material woven of two kinds of material—an impossible mandate for a pageant contestant!

In Paul’s letter to the community in Corinth we read, ‘For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church….’ And yet these words have not prevented Christian denominations from ordaining women, such as myself. Sadly, the Bible has been used to further prejudice throughout history. We have used it to permit ourselves to enslave people; to conquer and kill; and to denigrate the earth.

The truth is that it is difficult to know for sure the intentions of the biblical authors, but we do know something about God. Those of us who know God through Jesus of Nazareth know that he went to great lengths to express God’s love to people who were labeled as outcasts. He spent time with children, prostitutes, and lepers, all of whom were labeled as outside of the grasp of the Holy. As we continue to seek God’s vision for us as a nation grounded in a love for justice, I pray that we might move closer to the cause of grace.”

Via Perez

TGIF!!!

The right side of this backyard shed was a patio/storage room… that is before we got all Hulk on it with sledge hammers. We almost went all the way with the demo, except there was just so much to throw away and tile to break down that we had some professionals come in with their dump trucks to finish the job.

At first they quoted us $2,500 to demolish the room. We go to working and from where we left off, it was only an $829 dollar job. Not bad for a couple gay guys! LOL.

Ok enough of the boring stuff. Now comes the really fun, gay, non-sledge hammering stuff. What are we gonna do with that space? First thing that pops in my mind for that section is a Cabana, the kind like at The Wynn, lol.

For real though, how hot would it be to have a Cabana area in your backyard? I’m thinking these wood panel floor tile we found for the ground, some chase lounges with matching chairs… the modern wicker look. Throw in a hookah and some table areas for food and drink. Finally add in some nice drapes to give it that flow and resort feel. Of course we gotta have the firepit close by.

A Cabana would be sic right? Well, that’s if there’s a pool to go with it! Heck yes I said pool. Holla!! Summer parties 2010 is where it’s at. Get ready… Haha. In all realness, this is the ultimate goal. A nice backyard area (cabana style), a simple pool for laps and leisure, and a small getaway right at the tip of our home. The fabulous-ness comes with the company.

Where you at HGTV?!

It’s like Christmas:

Edit, Wallpaper time (click for 1920×1200):

see on flickr

Everyone has a finger
But they can’t point me to the light
It can’t be that hard to find
After all we’re so bright

I don’t know if tomorrow has a day
I don’t know if the rays will shine my way again
All I know is that I’m standing in a place where
My future is like the skies of L.A.
Skies of L.A.

- Celine Dion – Skies of L.A.

There is also some boobage action going on with the female model. Get it boy. Get it. Back to work.

Like for real. Rob Lowe, 100%, should have been Zac Efron’s counterpart in the upcoming movie 17 Again. They have the same lips, nose and eyes. WTF?! I hate pretty people. Matthew Perry looks like a dead beat now that I don’t even want to post an image because he’ll make my blog ugly.

FAIL!

Ok so I finally watched Milk last night. I know, it took a minute for me… We tried going several times with failed attempts due to a pre-dinner which ended with a bar tab and so forth, but alas, we finally went.

And let me tell you, I wish this movie came out (pun intended) prior to that horrendous Prop 8 passing. It was perfect for the moment, perfect for a Gay American like myself, perfect for any American for that matter.

Yes, guys kiss in the movie… yes Sean Penn makes out with James Franco and yes, it’s gay gay gay at times. But at the same time, it’s so much more. It’s history as it repeats itself and it’s invigorating and it shows the actual struggle that went on for our rights and directly mimics the struggle we’re currently going through now.

Yea, it might seem like all is fine in your world because you know some happy gay guy or couple, but deep down, there are still hundreds of barriers to face and walls to climb.

Harvey Milk is our Martin Luther King Jr.

Now before you go thinking that this is an absurd simile, stop and do some research. Yes ok, maybe the magnitude is different because let’s face it, blacks had gone through hundreds of years of oppression, but is it really all that much different? Is one hate different than the other?

Gay people couldn’t hold hands back then without facing death or jail. Shit, we still can’t do that now in most places without feeling ostracized and ridiculed.

The only difference in racial prejudice and homosexual prejudice is that you can’t hide the color of your skin. I’m going to put it out there and say that if homosexuality was marked by say, pink lips, who knows if I’d be alive today.

The fact is, we hide it. We hide it everyday in some point or another. I don’t kiss Mark goodbye outside our home as we leave on our Vespas. I do it before we go out in the garage. We hide it and that’s how we got away with it in the past.

That’s the difference. You can’t hide your skin color, but you can hide your sexual preference and that’s why we’ve flown under the radar. But we’re here. We’re everywhere and we are a part of life, just like you are asian, black, white, indian, mexican, etc. There is no changing of my preference nor was there an influence.

It’s who we are. So if you’re reading this and you’re not out, I urge you to be.

Because truth is knowledge.

And that’s what Milk is about. Being heard and being you.

This is by far THE BEST gay movie I’ve seen. It’s not at the least bit flamboyant which is why I respect the film so much. The story is heart warming and the acting is nothing short of excellent. Yes, Brokeback Mountain wasn’t flamboyant either, but I find Shelter to be more closer to home and not on some isolated mountain with cowboys. Sounds like another gay film I’ve seen.

Now, the film is nothing short of eye candy, but isn’t that the main ingredient to romantic movies, gay or straight? I mean, I probably would not have gave it a chance had the leads looked tore up, but would you have watched the Titanic if Leonardo was some fat hairy guy named Gilbert? Don’t even think about it, I know you wouldn’t have!

Anyway, I think Shelter represents gay people like myself who aren’t the diva type. I think more films and gay characters like this need to be out there in mainstream media. Yea, the flamboyant gay makes for good television (who didn’t love Will and Grace?), but they’re not in anyway the majority of the population.

I also heard they have good polish sausages on the second floor.

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“Don’t let your Harvey Milk’s legacy finance your oppression”

I saw these images on the net from last weeks protest in San Diego with 25,000 supporters. I still haven’t seen an aerial shot of the human rainbow.

Check out the images…

aka – Hey let’s fuck up peoples lives at the expense of our employees!

http://coloradoindependen…family-announcing-layoffs

More layoffs at Focus on the Family

Ministry spent more than $500,000 to pass California’s Prop. 8 gay marriage ban

UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide, bringing the total number of employees to around 950.

Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

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This Saturday, November 15th, there will be nationwide rallies against Proposition 8. In every Major U.S city, rallies will be held, and combined, these rallies will be one of the biggest organized simultaneous rallies in the U.S. One of those will be here in San Diego.

For other areas in CA please visit:
http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/California

Throughout the nation:
http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

There is a rally in EVERY state.

Remember that this is a peaceful march and rally. We are at the County Administration building for San Diego because that is where marriage licenses are issued. We have a mayor and city council who have consistently supported marriage equality and we are grateful to them for that. We are also not targeting any religious or ethnic group. Our opposition wants our movement to appear divisive. We are going to reclaim and reframe the discussion. We are about gaining equal rights for all and ending bigotry and discrimination. This is a cause every proud American can support!

There are 2 coordinated events happening in San Diego. The first one is a march which starts at 10:30 at 6th & Upas in Balboa Park. The march will go through downtown and will end at the rally site at the County Administration Building.

At 1pm there will be a huge rally at the County Admin Building. It’s located at 1600 N. Harbor Drive right near the Star of India on the bay. This is going to be a huge event and we expect well over 30,000 people and we expect national media attention. We encourage everyone to come out and protest Prop 8 and stand up for equal rights for everyone.

Please make a big effort to reach outside of our community for support. Invite your family, tell your co-workers, knock on your neighbor’s door, make calls and send texts. If individual rights can be taken away by a simple majority vote, what is next? We must unite and fight for our rights. Please note, however, that this will be a positive and peaceful protest.

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Thank you all that have been supportive through this tough time!

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my family, friends and co-workers for supporting me and millions of other Americans. If I take anything from this, it is that those that are most important to me back up my rights. So THANK YOU.

I do want to express my feelings and what I’ve gone through in the last few weeks of my life.

It’s been a turning point for me to say the least. The strong and insurmountable support I’ve gotten from you had me in tears last night seeing the Yes on Prop 8 prevail. Not so much tears in that so many people are still hateful towards Gay people, but tears because you and your support have showed me hope.

During the entire 27 years of my life, I’ve never once been the victim of real life discrimination. Well, maybe I shouldn’t say never, but it wasn’t really laid out in front of me… and if I was, it was masked out really well. Well enough for me to not realize it existed in my world.

Rallying in my neighborhood was an eye opening experience for me. I’ve never been called “Faggot” before and in the first 30 minutes of standing on the corner proudly and peacefully with my “No on Prop 8″ sign, I, along with my friends – gay and straight – were called faggots. Minivans with kids yelling out “Yes!” and other obscenities is not the way of God. Instilling hatred in your kids is not the way of the future.

I know ignorance exists, I just didn’t realize it was so close to home.

A women yelled out “What about our children?!?!” implying that Gay marriages will impact their lives negatively. I’m sick and tired of parents using their children and blaming other people for their inability to raise their child.

Being gay is not and will never be a choice. I grew up like any other kid. I played outside till the sun went down. I had two best friends that loved sports and loved being boys. We built sand rocks in the playground and threw them at other kids. We loved legos, Transformers, Thunder Cats, Street Fighter and the list goes on. We were kind of menaces since we broke windows and threw tomatoes at cars (sorry mom!). I was even around my brother and his friends a lot of the time. Break dancing, fighting and partying.

Was I any different from them? Yes and no. But when is being different bad? The difference was, even though I liked all those boy type stuff… and even though I played just like every other boy, I also had my own collection of stuffed animals that I would organize along side my bed every night because it was comforting to me.

I didn’t learn that through television, or through another person. I didn’t LEARN or CHOOSE to care about my stuffed teddy bear “Dandy”. It was just how I felt. It was ME.

Kids aren’t taught about drugs in school, yet some still choose to abuse. It’s up to parents to teach their kids what is right and wrong. So when these supporters blame Gay people for what their children will be taught, it’s a cop out because they don’t want to deal with it. They don’t want to have to deal with another “Birds and the bees” story. They don’t want to sit their child down when he or she asks, “Why are those two guys/girls holding hands?” But just because they are too lazy to parent their child, DOES NOT GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO BLAME GAY PEOPLE.

The very thought that Americans won’t vote for Obama simply because he’s half black are the same thoughts that lead to wars and are the same thoughts that lead to Proposition 8 passing. They are the thoughts that ignite hate, fear, discrimination and ignorance. These thoughts are thoughts of people who lead their lives thinking they’re good people not realizing their mentality is no better than those of world wars or those that took my rights away.

Obama said it right. With respect to Americans, he said that though in his belief, a man and woman should marry, that does not mean he doesn’t understand that Americans, regardless of sexuality, should have EQUAL RIGHTS.

I believe in evolution. I believe in it through scientific fact, but my mom and grandmother raised me up in Church. I believe that they have the right to trust in their faith. It’s what keeps them going and keeps them hoping. Through them, I have found God. I don’t go to church, but I do have faith. God = faith and hope in all things good.

So with Prop 8 passing, it’s easy for me to lose faith in God; the same way it’s easy for yes supporters to blame gay people for their kids’ future. But I’m not going for the easy way out. I can still believe in God, in faith and in hope because I know people like you are out there.

“I take heart knowing that in the past, the popular vote would’ve kept schools segregated and interracial marriages illegal.” It’s time for the Supreme Court to do the right thing. It’s still not over.

So this was my long winded thank you. Thank you, seriously for everything. You’ve become my hope.

Vote NO on Prop 8

I just had one of the most interesting conversations with a friend. He was messing around with me about him voting Yes on 8 and you know, naturally I started to get upset and heated but I wanted to know his logic.

Of course he had no logic since he was just fucking with me but I did say, “Had you really voted yes on 8, I can’t say that I would have looked at our friendship the same.” To be quite frank, our friendship would probably turn to mere acquaintances had he really voted yes on 8.

“You would really let politics get in the way of your friendships?” he asked. Ok, way to make my already irate day, turn to disgust. First of all, this Proposition is clearly not just about politics.

I can handle and respect people’s judgement on candidacy, policies and agendas but trying to take away or prohibit a right all Americans have for ONE group of people is nothing short of discrimination. This is more than “politics”

This is where a line between Church and State is clearly… not there. How is this Proposition, which is mostly endorsed and backed by religious conservatives, considered out right “just politics?”

It’s not.

I rallied yesterday and the biggest argument from people who support YES were that “we were sinners.” Look at the Presidential campaigns now. So many lies and racism going on. Sin? You were shouting at us with so much hate and you have the audacity to preach to me that I’m a sinner? Really? Oh wait, but your God probably thinks it’s ok for you to yell and harass people and call them names. Your God likes that you’re a bigot. You’re God allows kids to yell out their mini vans hateful words. Cool man. Good for you. And good for your church.

My question is, why are they trying to place… let me rephrase that, SHOVE their beliefs down other people’s throats? It’s not fair and it’s not the way of America. People didn’t come here to get their rights taken away. They came here for freedom.

Obama said it right. Though in his belief, a man and woman should marry, that does not mean he doesn’t understand that Americans, regardless of sexuality, should have EQUAL RIGHTS. It’s clean cut man. It’s clear cut.

I believe in evolution. I believe in it through scientific fact. But I would never, never in my life vote on something like banning church practices in CA. For the record, even though I believe in evolution, I also believe that a God does exist.

My mom and grandmother raised me up in Church. I believe that they have the right to trust in their faith. It’s what keeps them going and keeps them hoping. Who am I to say that should be banned? Who am I to say, just because I myself don’t pray, that they are not allowed to?

Who are you to say I should not have the same rights as you?

If this prop passes, millions of Americans who opposed this ban will feel the worse they’ve felt in years; perhaps their life. I personally will feel discriminated against and saddened tremendously.

If this prop fails, it’s supporters will forget this happened in 2 months and carry on with their lives. Let us carry on with ours.

VOTE NO on PROP 8

If you have dual monitors at home like me, you’ll appreciate this Zefron doubleness.

Example:

I decided to be Troy Bolton for Halloween lol. I don’t even have plans but the wig was only 12 bucks and I have a red jersey and basketball so I figured, what the hey!

Zac Efroncutan:

Note to self. Never grow out your hair. Emo hair is meant for hot white people.

Time to hit the gym religiously.

Just saw High School Musical 3 last night and it was soooooo fun. I admit, my gay ass almost cried a few times. But as cheesy as it was, it was just PERFECT. I couldn’t help but smile and giggle when Zefrons beautiful face first graced the big screen in sweat and all the tweens (and possibly some prepubescent… gasp!! girls) squealed. How could you not at such a horny age? LOL, ok that was way inappropriate and gross, but I totally squealed and wished the whole time I was pookie hudgens.

Donates $100k to ‘No’ campaign!!!!!!

No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008

Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8.

See google blog here

However, while there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 — we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.

Google co-founders Brian and Page personally donate to “NO” on Prop 8.

Silicon Valley hasn’t been a prominent player in the pitched fundraising battle over whether to ban same-sex marriage in California — until now.

Google co-founder and president Sergey Brin this week donated $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign, while co-founder Larry Page added a $40,000 donation, a Mercury News analysis of state campaign finance records show. With the contribution, Brin matches talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for the largest individual donation during the campaign’s final weeks to oppose a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

The six-figure donations by DeGeneres and Brin were among a group of large donations from celebrities and other prominent figures that recently have flowed
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into Equality California, the lead organization battling Prop. 8. Marin County resident and “Indiana Jones” filmmaker George Lucas gave $50,000, while Lucasfilm donated an additional $50,000, both this week.

Actor T.R. Knight of “Grey’s Anatomy” gave two $50,000 donations, while Monica Rosenthal, an actress in the comedy series “Everybody Loves Raymond” and the wife of series writer and executive producer Phil Rosenthal, gave $25,000.

Those large donations are among $9.2 million in large donations received by Equality California ( www.noonprop8.com ) since Oct. 6, when the dueling Prop. 8 campaigns last filed their extensive fundraising reports, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State.

THERE IS STILL HOPE. AS MUCH HATE AS THEY HAVE TO LIE TO THEIR KIDS AND NEIGHBORS AND CHURCHES, I HOPE REAL FAITH AND TRUE EQUALITY COME THROUGH. THERE IS NO SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. LOVE IS LOVE. WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT?

Today was the first time I road my vespa while listening to some tunes. It’s actually legal in CA as long as you’re only using one ear. I don’t know how important that one ear really is but whatever.

At any rate, I take some back roads to work to avoid traffic and the moment I turned down an empty road “It’s Over” by Jesse McCartney plays. Automatically I think, “Oh shit. This would be a scene in my video.” Shut up.

Wind blowing in my hair, me cruising down a long and winding road alone after a not-so-great night with the bf. It was totally a scene. Ok well… maybe wind wasn’t blowing in my hair since a) my head is shaved, and b) I’m wearing a big ugly ass gray helmet, but you get the point.

We’ve run out of words, we’ve run out of time
We’ve run out of reasons, really why are we together
We both know it’s over, baby bottom line
It’s best we don’t even talk at all

Don’t call me even if I should cross your mind
Hard enough, I don’t need to hear your voice on my messages
Let’s just call it quits, it’s probably better
So if I’m not returning your calls it’s ’cause

‘Cause I’m not comin’, back I’m closing the door
I used to be trippin’ over missin’ you, but I’m not anymore
I got the picture phone, baby your picture’s gone
Couldn’t stand to see your smile every time you dialed

Me riding my sweet vespa down an open road, wind passing through, music playing as I lip sing to it and the sun starts to rise causing some really awesome rays of light. Gay right. That’s ok because I’m gay. And that’s how it felt. Mornings are so dramatic!

Back to life. BLAH!…

I don’t know how he made it to work the next morning at 7am… but he did. Some pics from last night:

The rest here.

The obsession continues… as does my shopping problem.

Louis Vuitton Monogram Canvas Messenger
h&m double breasted pea coat
BDG jeans from urbanoutfitters.com

I sent the letter below to people in my address book and bcc’d everyone so a discussion wouldn’t start and here is what my mom replied with.

Did you send this to me by mistake? You know pretty well, I’ll be voting no on this prop 8.

Love,
Mom

LOL. I love her.

I’m not one to talk about politics all that much because I strongly believe everyone is entitled to their opinions and I can respect that. However, this deals directly with my future and the future of many people I love and I sent this to you because I respect you. I don’t need a reply out of this and I don’t need to hear whether or not you agree. This is just me speaking for what I strongly believe in because it directly affects my future and I can’t say I didn’t try; which will make me feel better in the event this proposition passes.

So I’m personally asking you to vote no on Prop 8 not because you believe same sex couples should have the right to a marriage, but because you believe people you care about should have the same rights as you. I’m not talking about domestic partnerships either. I’m talking about the right to marry.

Marriage is recognized by the state and/or a religion (or both). People without faith marry all the time. Marriage is expected in our society and gay/non-religious people are just as capable of sustaining a permanent relationship as straight and religious people. Marriage is not, nor has it ever been, solely a religious practice. Christianity preaches that marriage was made by God to unify a man and a woman. However, many ancient civilizations (and some still existing) all pre-date Christianity – and even Judaism. Marriage has been a concept for tens of thousands of years.

Regardless of your religion, race, nationality, etc., you grow up believing that one day you will be married because it is part of our society (not just religion). Regardless of your religion, race, nationality, etc., you may also grow up to believe that a God exists.

Does this mean that because I am gay, I am no longer allowed to believe in God the same way that I am no longer allowed to think that I may one day marry?

Some countries require that a civil ceremony take place before any religious one. In the US, both ceremonies can be held together. Prop 8 wants to completely take away the right for gay couples to get married. Why are they not opposed to non-religious couples getting married under law?

You can’t just pick and choose what you want to believe from the bible. People who point to the bible for evidence against gay marriage need to read the book a little more closely. They like to pick and choose what to believe. If something effects their life in someway, they say “We shouldn’t take it literally.” But once something doesn’t effect their lives, but many others, they are all for it as long as it has nothing to do with them. They also like to say it’s an abomination. I respect the bible, I do. But I also respect my morals and the morals that have been instilled in me and use that as my true guidance… not a book that was written thousands of years ago.

Supporters of prop 8 have two arguments. The first is that marriage has been, for thousands of years, defined for men and women exclusively. I’ll tell you now that in the last THOUSAND years, views have changed for the better. Especially views on equality.

Secondly, they argue that children should be raised by a father and a mother and not by two fathers or two mothers. Let me remind you that prop 8 is solely about marriage. Even if the proposition passes, same-sex couples can still adopt or have children though artificial means. The only difference now is that these children would be growing up in households where the couple was unmarried. How is that helping the situation and/or argument? Let me point out also that I know a few kids that have been raised by single mothers for parts or all of their lives and they’ve grown up to be some pretty SPECTACULAR kids.

So again, I’m not asking you to vote no based on your religious beliefs. I’m asking you to vote no for equalities sake. I’m asking your to remember that there should be a “Separation of Church and State” and I’m asking you to vote no because you believe people you love and respect should have the same rights and privileges as you.

I for one don’t believe you should wear a plaid skirt with a satin blouse, but that doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal.

Jokes aside, whether you like it or not, there are millions of gay Americans and taking away their right to be married is nothing short of discrimination. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Las Vegas

Minus the whole work related convention thingy….

Read on…

Not as sexy, but a valiant effort none the less wouldn’t you say? LOL. Left – Justin Timberlake 2008 Vogue, Right – Migs Vuitton 2008 Room and Board.

Never believed in perfection till this image:

Click the image for the larger version. Kudos to the photographer for this most excellent photograph and kudos to Justin’s parents. I can’t get over it. Here is more Justin goodness from a shoot he did with William Rast.

If I looked this good, I would be an asshole.

He’s my favorite right now. Speaking freely… it’s not because of his garments on the show thus far. It’s because he’s all man with the ability to sew. Most of the time, the gay dudes on this show are flamboyant, over the top, have neon colored hair, are ugly or they’re straight up queens.

Keith on the other hand looks like a man. His designs from his portfolio also have this look about them that says “A hot man made these.” I also love the fact that he acts like one. No BS on the show (so far) and I hope he continues to stay cool, calm and collective.

Check some of my favorites here:

Totally Filthy Gorgeous

Check out some behind scenes footage as well as the trailer for High School Musical 3!! It this shit gonna air on IMAX? Because Zac on IMAX be looking real good.