~Saturday~ I have completed my second book in the 27 Must Have Queer Summer Reads. I’m going to get the annoying stuff out of the way first. This book had 13, count ’em THIRTEEN, errors in it that should have been caught by the least competent of editors. This detracted significantly from my enjoyment of … Read more
~Wednesday~ I was on pins and needles waiting for the decisions on Prop 8 and DOMA to be handed down from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) today. Although I don’t, myself—at least at this time—aspire to the institution of marriage, I do believe that anybody who does should have access to it. … Read more
~Tuesday~ I'm nearing the end of the five movies I decided to watch after reading a list at the beginning of May of "the best movies you never saw." My friend, Bob, has patiently waited for me to be able to fit movie-watching into my schedule, and he has generously ordered them from his Netflix … Read more
~Wednesday~ Ten years ago today I began the first day of the four-day ride of my life—the Tour de Friends AIDS Ride. Along with my friend, Joe, I rode my bicycle from Raleigh, NC to Washington DC over the course of four days, raising $4,000 for AIDS research. Here I am “at the starting gate” … Read more
~Tuesday~ What started as a conversation back in the first week of February of this year, I received a recommendation to watch two movies: Picnic and Bus Stop. I watched Picnic a week after that, and I enumerated my thoughts and observations about it in my February 8 blog entry. Tonight, Bob and I watched … Read more
~Saturday~ My friend Bob and I had the pleasure of seeing this original adaptation of interviews with former slaves from North Carolina. The program featured excerpts from The Slave Narrative Project1 in the late 1930’s, and was actually “staged” on Horton Grove Plantation—the plantation holdings of the Bennehan-Cameron families were among the largest in pre-Civil War … Read more
~Friday~ Back in Wednesday’s entry, I mentioned I’d finished the first book in the 27 Must Have Queer Summer Reads, We the Animals, and that I’d share my thoughts on it in a later post. Well this is it. So, this is the introduction to the book in Wikipedia: We the Animals is the debut … Read more
~Thursday~ Synopsis: Is all fair in love—even murder? Self-absorbed Arlene is married to blundering car salesman Paul, who adores her. Arlene’s lover Mitchell, a dentist who fancies himself an irresistible ladies’ man, joins her to plot the murder of her husband. But wait—a betrayal shifts the alliances and the intended victim. A rambunctious suspense comedy … Read more
~Wednesday~ Several weeks ago now, I came across 27 Must Have Queer Summer Reads, undoubtedly pointed to on the feed of one of my Facebook friends or Twitter friends. Now, I know people who have committed to read lists of books, the most impressive by far, being my friend Glenn Hunt, who has this note in … Read more
~Monday~ As I would recommend you do if you don’t already, I have a Google Alert set up on my name—both on John Martin and nematome—and once a week I get an email report from Google telling me how and where I’m being talked about on the web. According to this week’s report, at any … Read more