“A Modest Gay Marriage Proposal” was originally published on November 8, 2009. Since then, fabulous things have happened: the Gay Marriage ban in California was overturned, as was Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (maybe). History continues to be in the making, yet it hasn’t helped me make an honest woman of Kate, my partner of 8 years. Our 3 year old daughter Mabel remains a bastard. I’m still pissed.
Gay marriage was defeated by popular vote in Maine this week, delivering the cause a stunning roundhouse punch right in the Guccis. I, for one, have spent this week marinating in a dark concoction of vinegary frustration and venomous fury to the point that if I were to be tossed onto a grill and parcelled out on paper plates, I have enough taint to inflict at least 20 serious tummy aches at a church picnic. (more…)
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Jive Turkey Thanksgiving
December 9, 2012We’re having Thanksgiving dinner today, but it’s not Thanksgiving. This is a totally bogus holiday, culminating in the partaking of the jive turkey. Today we celebrate the Totally Bogus in all its many vestiges, from the deviously “counterfeit” to the flat-out “wiggity-wiggity-whack.” Jive Turkey Thanksgiving is so Totally Bogus, it’s the Courtney Love of holidays: a holiday that stands before us in tattered evening wear, confronting us with face smeared out of focus with streaked makeup and multiple plastic surgeries, a holiday that declaims from the top of its rattling lungs: “I fake it so real I am beyond fake.” Jive Turkey Thanksgiving is, in fact, the only real way to celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday that is in itself notoriously jive-ass from top to bottom.
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