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NEXT SCHEDULED UPDATE MONDAY, 11 MARCH, 2002
OUR SIXTH ANNIVERSARY ON THE WEB!
One edition (and eight days) out from the beginning of our seventh year on the Web and we're coming out with both fists! This edition took us longer than planned because we have so much to offer before the gala event.
Plus, it's getting tough to keep our publisher's attention when three (3) jobs are demanding every waking moment of his life. We're starting to feel lucky that he remembers this Labor of Love at all.
And now he's moving us to a new server again. Say "Hasta la vista, Baby!" to those pesky pop-up ads.
TODAY'S RDR: Our publisher started another e-mail brouhaha with his commitment to attend the Millions for Reparations March this summer and an article about it. Since RAHEEM first brought up the topic (and forwarded the article.) He gets the duty on this one. "Reparations - The Argument" -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Week and the New Readership Poll: ("The U.S. war on terror is...?") RESULTS OF PREVIOUS POLL: ("If I were in New Orleans, I'd ....?")"Why would anyone want to live in New Orleans?" -- 37.5% -- Now go rock the vote.**ABOUT US**** TABLE OF CONTENTS **
This is what really scares me: I have been to at least four gay and lesbian film festivals, and I can't even scratch together a list of 10 lesbian flicks that really moved me.
Why is that? We lesbians have made the cover of Newsweek magazine. Roseanne kissed a woman. Ellen outed herself with a thunder. We've culturally arrived because our break-ups now receive as much attention as our love affairs. So with all of these milestones, why don't we have grittier, sexier, more thought-provoking films about women loving women?
Look at the early lesbian films. Usually one of the female characters had to come to her senses and end up with a man so the hetero audience would not get too squirmy. Straight men could watch two girls kiss, and the fantasy would last as long as the women wised up and realized all they were needed was the right man...MORE
NEW ORLEANS, 19 FEBRUARY, 2002 - While I was away from the world, working my way through the Mardi Gras marathon of work and little sleep, the three Fates went to the gods and goddesses and joked that it was time to play with my life.
Besides needing to move to a new apartment within the next ten days ‚- and thus escape the junkie infestation around Dauphine and Franklin Streets (more on that below),
besides beginning my second job as janitor at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub in the Quarter,
besides learning new HR software and installing new design software on the new computer they are bringing in from another location for me,
besides the prospect of a new contract job designing a corporate Web site for a company in California,
SAN FRANCISCO - I think there's been a big misunderstanding among people about what is and ain't worth having. This comes to mind especially when I think about all the guff I've gotten from some folks over my predilection toward bimbos (bim.) But this time Charlie isn't going to just speak for himself, I mean to speak for all those men -- from Frank Sinatra on up ‚ who have gotten a huge ration from a lot of people for choosing to have nice-looking (and sometimes younger) frails on their arms. You've heard the terms people use for these kind of women: "Ornament" or "Trophy." The latter being connected a lot of with that four-letter word "wife."
Let's think about the other end of that spectrum for a second.... More
Sunday morning, 1965, following a wet night, the sun shone brightly at Lacken-on-Whit. Outside the chapel, blue serge suits and brogan shoes were the order of the day. Some trouser legs bore the horizontal and tell-tale marks of winter storage. Polished hobnailed boots were very much in evidence and even pipe-covers seemed to give off an unprecedented lustre. On such a morning, it was easy to see what Anthony Cronin meant when he said that turf-smoke "...leaves a sweet, rich, poor-man's smell on cloth" ...More
OAKLAND, CA - Because I'd first written about the issue of reparations for Black Americans, the people who built this country, back in June of 2000, I sent our publisher this link for his consideration. I thought he'd just look over the article and leave it at that.
I should know Rod better by now. Instead, he announces to a group of his world-wide cronies that he means to take up that torch and show up at the Millions for Reparations March in August. It caused a lot of feedback, which I've enjoyed reading in the "Lurkers" seat and thought I'd share with y'all... More
RDR 02.20.02: ROD AMIS looks at the "Axis of Evil" analogy and sees more sign of a Perpetual War Campaign that will take the USA on the slippery slope of empire-building. "The Small Axe"
RDR 02.06.02: Rod is back with the opening to our Super Bowl report from the Big Easy: "The New Orleans Way - Part 2."
RDR 01.28.02: Rod, our Full-time Man in The Big Easy gives you his Super Bowl and Mardi Gras warm-up. "The New Orleans Way."
As a former First Cavalry Division soldier and lifetime member of the
First Cavalry Association, I'd like to inform you that "The eagle flies"
is an Army phrase that goes back -- at least -- to frontier Cavalry
units in post-Civil War days, when dollars had Eagles on them and the
troops were paid in cash.
Perhaps some of the "Buffalo Soldiers" picked up this bit of slang.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I have also heard, but cannot verify, that the phrase is much older than
that, possibly dating as far back as the Roman Army, which also liked to
use Eagles as symbols and also paid in cash.
One edition (and eight days) out from the beginning of our seventh year on the Web and we're coming out with both fists! This edition took us longer than planned because we have so much to offer before the gala event.
From Robin M., Elkridge, MD, USA: