Yesterday, I watched MILK.If you've been following this blog for a long time, you know that I walked onto the set when they were filming it in SF.It's a good movie. It made me miss California.The thing that really got to me though, the thing that really "affected" me, was that people like Dickie Bell, if he ever bothered to see a movie about equal rights, probably cheer at the end.In fact, I know he would. It bothers me. It bothers me that people like that run for office. It bothers me that p... Read Full Story
I've been thinking of friends.It seems like I am always on a different path from all of my contemporaries. I always zig when my friends zag. I don't think that it's ever been a conscious thing, but I remember playing hide and seek when I was a kid, and I was always last to be found. Once, on a trip to Disneyland, we were playing hide and seek with a friend's father on Tom Sawyer's Island. It took them ages to find me. When I finally was found, my father said he would be "it." I was excited be... Read Full Story
I called my congressman today to tell him that I wanted healthcare reform. I told him that I was a small business owner who supported Obama's plan to reform national healthcare.A few weeks ago, I called the Virginian senators to tell them the same thing.I hope they listen.The truth is, I don't think that Bob Goodlatte, my congressman, cares about human beings very much. I don't think that he'll listen to me or anyone else. He wrote a short article about what he calls "common sense healthcare ... Read Full Story
Many interesting and/or fun things happened in poetry last week.First, I got some poems published at Back Room Live, which used to be a monthly reading series in Oakland and now is an awesome online poetry journal.Then, a poet named Jeremy Czerw wrote me an email and told me he loved The Berenstain Bears Go to Church, a chapbook that Wheelhouse published.Finally, someone freaked out about my "How to Join a Motorcycle Gang" poem on this blog. I'd kind of forgotten about that piece. I like it v... Read Full Story
