Few Tidbits and QueerAsFolk!

Another Proof Of Xian Extremists: It happened in the heartland of America -- in Westmont, Illinois. The Xian Extremists do not kill, they torture by harassing others if they do not comply their wishes. Check this out for the proof.

A Soldier Wants To Beat Up On Coward GW Bush! This is interesting stuff. The question is, will this guy be charged for treason against the country for making a threat like that? Probably.

Queer As Folk No More: Several of my straight friends enjoyed watching the soap opera of Queer As Folk where we get to watch Pittsburgh's own Brian Kinney fucking everyone else out of their brains meanwhile we get to love Brian's best friend, Michael Novotny for his laid-back and dreamy attitude. Then we get to wish that our mothers are like Michael's mother, Debbie Novotny. And who does not have a feminine faggot to hound the gang well as can be like Emmett Honeycutt? Of course, there is always this wallpaper guy that feels inferior when he goes to gay bars/clubs in Ted Schmidt.

This drama for Cable TV on Showtime is largely successful. In fact, Showtime said that the ratings showed that the most viewers are heterosexual women who drooled after few characters on QAF. Of course, the heterosexual men who liked heterosexual women had to watch it and ended up being hooked to the drama on that show.

In fact, nearly all of my straight friends already saw at least ONE episode of QAF. I knew of a heterosexual man who purchased *all* seasons of QAF and is enthusiastic about getting the final season.

It was supposed to end after four seasons, but the show was so successful that they extended it for one more year as well as including Rosie O'Donnell to perform in the show.

Last Sunday marked the finale show of QAF on Showtime. Some said it was so-so finale. I'll wait for my heterosexual friend to get the finale season of QAF on DVD and start watching. Know why?

It seemed to me that QAF seems to have bad captions when it is on Showtime Channel, often comes up with jumbled words that I could not decipher. Maybe the Al-Qaeda folks has better way to decode the messages? I have no innovation to be patient with these jumbled captions at all. That's why I rather to wait for the complete sets of QAF DVD seasons.

What do I think of the show? In general, nothing that they did surprise me. What you saw on it, I already go through that. Some as a participant, some as a spectator. 'Nuff said. But they got great actors in Hal Sparks, Peter Paige, Robert Gant and Sharon Gless.

Hal Sparks played as Michael Novotny who is romantic hopeless and was swept by hot, charming man in Ben Bruckner played by Robert Gant. In real life, Hal Sparks is straight single man who could do such a steamy gay sex that I had to mind-control my cock to go down. Later, Hal said that his former girlfriend told him that it'd be hot to see him doing things with guys on television. Hal went ahead. The result is that the QAF has more female straight viewers than any groups!

Debbie Novotny, portrayed by Sharon Gless, is everybody's dream to have that kind of mother. A mother who can love, support and defend you for who you are, not what you are. And be proud of it. In fact, Deb reminded me of Ricky Dockter's mother. I was blunt with him that I was envious of him after seeing his mother on the stage, boasted about his son scoring not one but two ... needless to say, Ricky was all beet red.

Emmett Honeycutt, portrayed by Peter Paige, is the kind of guy that I enjoyed associating with. Why do you think I hang out with Manny, Merritt, Toby, Mikey, Erik to name few? Because they can snap at their will and everything that straight men fought to preserve simply disintegrated.

However, Peter and I once bumped into each other right outside of DC's 30 Degree/Cobalt during the Capital Pride about five years ago. What happened was that I was on AOL Pager arguing with Mikey and Toby, trying to find where they were at that time. Apparently, Paige was talking to someone from behind as he was getting off the stairway as I was trying to reach the stairs to enter the premise, it was a fateful collison. I was jolted by that -- Peter Paige started to say, "I'm sorry!" in voice. My eyes widened and I smiled, I gestured that I'm Deaf. Peter started to sign some words, "ME SORRY, ME NAME PETER."

Really cool to know that Peter Paige can sign some words!

I smiled, "EMMETT ON QAF?"

Peter smiled its famous one for me and nodded -- it was interesting to note that he lacked the gap in his teeth like it was showed on the QAF series. I told him that I do not watch it all the time but I enjoyed his works. Needless to say, my friends rushed outside to meet Peter Paige and took a picture -- I'm sure Toby has the copy of that somewhere else.

Perhaps the most enjoyable segment of all is Emmett's affair with the hunk who played a professional football team. Man, these fuck sessions are hot. You can see the picture of Emmett wearing red tank-top shirt with this hunk. This hunk is to die for.

Perhaps it was fate that I get to visit Toronto for the first time recently where the QAF for the last 5 years has been filmed. Yes, Toronto acted as Pittsburgh on QAF for the last 5 years, especially on Church Street. It was amusing when I walked around Church Street and Yonge Street, I smiled and recalled seeing this, that and there.

It was a good run and bravo to Showtime for doing the bold thing to show the QAF as is without restraint! Of course, some gays will complain that the series is nothing but stereotypical. But who gives a fuck? It is called "entertainment", for the love of God.

Cheers,

R-

What A World -- Woe Unto Idiots!

Johnny Knoxville Is My Type: I must admit that Johnny Knoxville turned me on. I thought it was interesting that the OUT Magazine voted him to be the Coolest Straight Guy of the Year. There is an interesting tidbit that I read in this week's New York HX Magazine tonight about Johnny Knoxville's attitude approach with gay men. It makes me want him so bad.

Not that Knoxville has to wait for another Dukes movie to get a same-sex kiss - or more. “One night I was in a bar in downtown New York,” he recalls, “and this big guy, a real personal-space invader, comes up and puts his arm around me and goes, ‘I would love to fuck your ass so much - I’m your biggest fan.’ I was like, ‘Wow, thank you!’ And he makes his arm tighter around my neck. It’s like prison. At least fondle me a little before you go straight to fucking my ass! I think he wanted me to be his bottom bitch! Splendor in the ass!”

Indeed, I would.

Oil Prices Now Close to $65, Only $35 Left To Go: I suspect the Bush Administration has been allowing the oil prices to make a lot of gains close to $65 a barrel, perhaps just to make profits. Because the numbers of administrators including GW Bush invested/owned/ran the oil companies ... when they are done with the presidency, they are going to reap the harvest that they invested in these stocks. At this pace, it won't surprise me that we will reach $70 by December due to the "winter season", then $75 due to the "thunderstorms associated with spring season", then $80 due to hurricanes and terrorist attacks, then ... Ahh, fiddle while Rome burns.

I'll Never Abandon My Stupid Hearie! This is insane. How can a husband drive 210 miles and six hours later before realizing that his wife was left at the gas service station?! This husband should expect no sex for weeks.

Gimme an I! Gimme a D! Gimme an I! ...: Ever heard of telling the girls to write it down? No, they had to chant it out loud!

This Is Cool! I just saw this on television. I could not believe it. So I went ahead and googled it -- bingo, it is there. I actually saw the session where one person led the co-workers to sit in a circle. Then start to laugh which led the others to laugh. Laughter is contagious. It even gets to a point where the person who filmed the session had to flee the group because he could not breathe -- he was laughing so hard that he cried and started to breathe hard. The whole purpose of this is to break stress in workplace settings in which it brings happiness to one's daily life. Such a brilliant idea! I'll be sure to host one for BnB Inn some day!

Thousands Attended Gunter's Funeral: Thousands of people came to pay their final respects to Sue Gunter who died of Emphysema at 66. According to this article, it was positive and lightening somber with stories to tell about Gunter's love of life. It was certainly nice to read. She will be buried in Walnut Grove, Mississippi next to her parents. One interesting tidbit about this is that Gunter specifically requested that anyone donate money go to the Alzheimers Service. Alzheimers instead of Emphysema? Because her mother was a victim of Alzheimers.

Confidential to McWeenie: I'm not impressed that you mentioned your wife has 1/32nd American Native in her. Not even the United States Government would be impressed nor cared about that, m'dear. Let me guess, your wife said that her 1/32nd is from Cherokee, like many said.

Until then, cheers!

R-

And You Wonder Why California Tax Is High

From what I knew all along, California has one of the nation's highest tax in almost everything else. And yet, the state of California was financially in shambles.

The voters decided to get replace Gov. Davis with new Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger not a long time ago -- I really do not care about Califunny's problems, really.

What did Arnie accomplish so far? Not much, come to think of this.

You know, I saw the film recently -- one person said, "If you can't govern yourself, what makes you think you can govern the nation?"

I think this article just takes the cake.

R-

Even My Frat Brothers Thought I Was Odd

At Gallaudet, my fraternity's famous bratwursts which was barbarically devoured by many students. It was and still is the most popular thing to eat during Homecoming Day, CobraFest, Oktoberfest and among few events, especially during or after the drinking binge.

All of my fraternity brothers devoured when they can. Except me.

I gag at the smell of bratwurst. I simply cannot bring myself to munch one. I prefer hot dogs over the bratwursts. Even some fraternity brothers threatened me that during the retreats, they'll forcefeed me. They always fail at it. I just thought it was barf thing to eat.

Even my friends criticized me -- how can I join the fraternity and not eat its fraternity trademark? So fucking what. I like my friends, I did not join up for the bratwursts!

Yes, I cooked it. I prepped the preparations for others to munch. But you will never see me eat a bratwurst. Never-r-r-rrrr!

On the same note, this 99-pound woman, Sonya Thomas, munched 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes! And to top it all, there are famine in Africa, hunger on six continents, poverty problems all over the world and we have this organization?

Sonya Thomas, at 99-pound woman, held 24 titles in different categories including Asparagus -- one thing for sure, her urine stinks!

Cheers,

R-

A Minor Confession To Make

I am the child of Generation X. I may be the only Deaf person of GenX that has not visited DisneyWorld or Disneyland.

There you got it. That is the confession I am making at this point. My parents juggled with six children could not afford to take the family to DisneyWorld plus hotel, transportation and food.

We merely went to Busch Gardens' The Old Country, Paramount Kings Dominion and several Six Flags amusement parks.

My siblings, Hedy, Gary and Lily finally visited the elusive DisneyWorld while I simply never did. Even worse, nearly all of my friends went to DisneyWorld or Disneyland at one point -- you will be so Americanized if you visit at least one Disney-owned park. But I did not even to visit one.

My cousins went to DisneyWorld as well.

Chlms & Jon went to DisneyWorld with Zoe, not only that her in-laws worked at DisneyWorld. I did not even visit the place.

I had an online chat with PJ who recently went on a vacation with his daughter and wife to DisneyWorld. I still had not visited DisneyWorld!

Few friends from Florida lived near Orlando. I still had not capitalized to check out the DisneyWorld!

Even the worst part is that Manny's mother works at DisneyWorld -- Manny did not offer me the pass to get in the park! What a frugal. Haha. Actually, I'm lying -- his mother and I never met but she gave Manny a gift for me for X-Mas which is nice of her to do that.

The whole point is that ... everyone after Generation X seems to have some kind of requirements that I did not know -- you gotta visit DisneyWorld or you are not just an ordinary American. I guess that makes me non-conformist at its best, eh?

Cheers,

R-

Peter Jennings 1938 - 2005 - UPDATE

When I grew up, I rarely watched the NBCNEWS and CBSNEWS mainly because they are not captioned. Peter Jennings and his ABCNEWS was the first national news that has the 30-minute captioning for Deaf people and others who needed to read in order to follow up with the current events.

By leaping the giant step in live captioning, it became a model for others to follow up the stanrdards. CNN, Headline News, FoxNews, MSNBC, CNBC, CBSNEWS and NBCNEWS plus hundreds of local TV stations are now captioned. It is not an option, it is a requirement.

Peter Jennings was heavy smoker, he died of Lung Cancer at 67.

An interesting tidbit about Peter Jennings' ABCNEWS during his tenure, Greg Hlibok, one of four Deaf President Now Movement leaders at Gallaudet, was the first Deaf person to be named on ABCNEWS' Person of the Week. If it was not for The Washington Post and the ABCNEWS, the attention that DPN Protest would not have evolve into the national spotlight.

Plus, Ted Koppel's NIGHTLINE which hosted the debate between Elisabeth Zinser, Greg Hlibok (with female voice interpreter) and Marlee Matlin (with male voice interpreter) that ended up on a sour note. During the hour-long of NIGHTLINE, Hlibok was impressive to a point where Elizabeth Zinser decided to resign, according to The Week The World Heard Gallaudet by Jack Gannon.

Either way, Peter Jennings' persistent attention to the DPN during the week of March, 1988 inadvertently helped us to achieve the goals tremendously in breaking barriers for Deaf people and other minority groups.

Not only that, I recalled seeing Peter Jennings during the Gallaudet Commencement in 1991. He was quite nice, from what I was told by others.

You know, if not for Peter Jennings and ABCNEWS' WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, my parents probably will pick up the current events only on the newspapers. I mean, they probably will not know if Los Angeles was gone in the massive quake until the next morning!

How awful is that?! With the live captions, it makes our accessibility easier and possible.

Godspeed, Peter Jennings.

R-

UPDATE: It is tragic to demonstrate how stupid McWeenie is when he wrote on his blog about Peter Jennings, I do not want to link to that blogsite so I'm going to quote what he said:

Peter Jennings dies at age 67 in his home from lung cancer. He was an admitted smoker and smoked over 9/11.

Did 9/11 event ultimately put a path to his fateful destiny?

What?! Is this 'tard thing to say?! Peter was heavy smoker all of his adult life until 20 years ago in 1985 then he resumed again after 9/11. Lung Cancer probably was building up from the decades of heavy smoking, it was not 9/11 that did the deed, idiot! Common sense dictated that the lung cancer itself must have a long-term abuse for decades, not one day of current events that triggered his cancer!

I think it is important to remind how idiotic these wanna-be bloggers want to put stuff on the Internet!

8.7.05 Tidbits

A Friend Asked Me A Question: A friend asked me about the $7,890,477,420,684.06 deficit which the United States Government owed. In other words, it is $7.8 trillion dollars in debt that our government had on their hands. My friend asked, "To whom do we owe?" I was not sure. I checked around -- I was bit amused, 40 percent of the debt goes back to our government -- in other words, we owed it to our own government! AS for sixty percent of the debt, the foreign investors, banks, insurance companies and private entities. I'd like to know who incorporated the sixty percent of the debt. My bet is that many of them are from Saudi Arabia.

AMERICAblog's Michael of New York Got It Right: Michael wrote this entry and added that GW "Bush must be thinking, 'How Quaint!'". He is absolutely right. Yes, the UK is swift in arresting people who were suspected related to the terrorist bombings. The UK is also swift in charging them with offenses and provide the due process in timely manner. We have hundreds of suspects in our country, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq and many more that has been detained for years without being charged at all. By itself, the UK is more civilized and reasonable than we are. To have courage, we have to do the right thing. That is to charge the suspects with an offense and provide the due process under the law. Period.

Another Boy Scout Incident: God must have a bad bone with Boy Scouts! I just read an email from a friend of mine who forwarded the article about the Salt Lake City Boy Scout who went missing last year and presumed to be dead. The family decided to organize a search for his remains but failed to find after three days. The family decided not to do it again. Ahh, well.

SCOTUS Appointee Roberts' Adoption Background: Many Conservatives are in uproar after learning that New York Times has been looking into SCOTUS Appointee John Roberts' adoption records. John Roberts adopted two children. When I first learned of this, I thought it was no big deal. But when the Conservatives said that it is invasion of privacy, something was wrong with the picture. My guts were trying to tell me that they were full of shit. But I could not pinpoint on why my feelings did this until I read this entry by DowntownLad. Bingo! DowntownLad is absolutely correct in this manner. Not only that, there are evidence that some adoptions were done illegally, especially with the families that has money, prestige and power. I do not see any reason not to check around the adoption records.

After all, they demanded the information about President Clinton's penis during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. What is the difference in this manner? Absolutely nothing, really. Appointee John Roberts is now a public figure, subjected to deal with this. If he has nothing to hide, then he is good to go.

GW Bush, Send Your Kids To War! GW Bush claimed to feel sadness for the parents of dead soldiers. Prove it. None of his clan served in the United States Armed Forces. When a mother asked to see GW Bush in Crawford, Texas about her feelings related to the war, she was denied and kept at bay by the secret service agents. Bush's associates talked to the mother and expressed GW Bush's "sorrow". What the fuck?

Was it me who read a recent article where GW Bush said he is looking forward to go back home on a vacation and to re-connect with the folks in Texas? Oh, he meant to re-connect with HIS people?

The mother of a dead soldier claimed that the secret service agent made an indirect threat that they may be hit by the agents' cars on the highway where the mother stood outside and refused to leave until she sees GW Bush. As usual, the agents denied.

UPDATE: According to DailyKos, Cindy Sheehan, the mother of dead soldier, was informed by the secret service that on Thursday, she is a threat to the national security and will be arrested if she kept on coming back for a meeting with GW Bush. Check this link.

Schuylkill River Trail: There is a trail along the Schuylkill River from Norristown to Philadelphia which is 10.5 miles long. Since I hadn't ride a bicycle in five years, I wonder if it is unwise to take a morning cycle to Downtown for a guy who hasn't ride a bicycle in years. The trail is not hilly, it's pretty much level al the way to Downtown. Feedback?!

Cool, cool and cool! Remember this entry I talked about my houseparent at deaf school whom I enjoyed immensely? I was told by another friend of mine that this particular family that Kathy Hughes often mentioned to me during my times at VSDB about their organic food. The family sets up its own website so that others can purchase via the Internet. I think it is absolutely wonderful. Thanks to Sonny for the hat tip.

Cheers,

R-