how did anyone ever get any work done back in the fifties and sixties? back in the days when everyone had three martinis for lunch?
i have no idea. having had a three martini lunch today.
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Author: jamie
dubious achievement
i guess it was the widget. or maybe redoing the html and taking away the frames.
but i’m now the number one jamie howard in google. both without quotes around my name and with quotes around my name.
just a week ago i was number eight without quotes, and three pages back with quotes around my name. who knew?
it’s not much of an achievement. in fact it’s no achievement at all. and i’m still ambivalent about it, although it must mean something to me because i check for it now and then.
the gayest entree ever
it’s masak nenas
photo courtesy of kelly
well, it was delicious. the menu describes it as “your choice of shrimp, chicken, or beef,” (i chose chicken) “with pineapple chunks, bell pepper, mint, and scallions in a spicy curry sauce.”
actually, to be completely accurate, the menu should read, “your choice of shrimp, chicken, or beef with pineapple chunks, bell pepper, mint, and scallions in a spicy curry sauce, in a hollowed-out half pineapple garnished with a paper tiki umbrella from our bar. it’s not flaming, but you are.”
as bill maher might say, i kid the malaysians. it was a very tasty entree, and the accompanying green tea and ginger bubble tea was sublime. the restaurant is called satay malaysian cuisine; our friend kelly took kirk and i there before we went to see rasputina on thursday, and it was a good choice.
rasputina. not bad!
i’d been cranky about going to see this band. frankly, yesterday’s post was more an attempt to kick myself in the ass to try to enjoy an evening about which i was, at best, dubious.
well, who knew.
not only was rasputina not bad, they were very very good. in fact, i’d go so far as to say they were pretty close to brilliant.
i used to care a lot, as faith no more once cynically said, about music. i was a nightclub dj and went out every single night for years on end. but music lately?
getting younger
i’m getting younger.
well, give me a chance to explain before you laugh. I guess i should say i’ve decided to get younger. well, no, that doesn’t work either.
i can’t will myself into reversing the aging process. but i’ve started thinking like an old person. not all the time, and not on all subjects, but enough that i’ve noticed.
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strip club dude
i voted in new york city’s democratic primary this morning. i voted for kris glen, among others.
i did not vote for strip club dude. who?
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i have a widget!
if you have a mac, with the tiger os, then you have dashboard which has all of the cool widgets with which you can access info.
and now, you can keep up to date with this site by downloading the widget for queerspace.com.
here’s the faq for the widget:
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questions to ask
it’s the 4th anniversary of 9/11. and i have some questions.
for dick cheney: during the last election, you said that if we elected john kerry, we’d all die. care to stand in new orleans and revise your comments?
for george bush: why should we believe that your administration’s response to hurricane katrina is anything other than an indicator of your typical response to a terror attack?
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vote for kris glen
i’ve decided to vote for kris glen.
who is she? hell if i know.
but she’s proven to me that she has more sense, or at least is backed by people with more sense, than anyone else i’ve seen running for any office in new york this year.
i should explain.
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my last mchale’s burger?
i’m hoping it’s not true, or hoping for a reprieve, or hoping that someone gets some sense, or something.
mchale’s, a perfectly wonderful open secret of a bar, is set to close soon, according to the new york times, which by the way will make you pay $3.95 to read about it.
but trust me. it says that the building was sold and the new owners are kicking them out. which really ticks me off.
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number eight
i’m happy, i think.
i spent time during the last few days redoing the code for my site, to get rid of the frame-based navigation that was cutting edge in 1998, but now not so much. i especially thought that search engines would be able to find my site better, because with the new system of div tags, each page’s address shows in the address bar. before, it always just said “queerspace.com” no matter what page you were on.
well, i got my wish. if you google my name, i’m now the eighth most popular “jamie howard”, right behind the wrestler and the guy at christiangays.com.
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well-expressed outrage
i know i’m getting clip-happy. but there are finally things to watch in the media that have actual impact and forethought and usefulness.
another must-see. he perfectly sums up exactly what is wrong on the gulf coast of america in the aftermath of katrina.
my favorite quote?
[the government] has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
there’s more better. much more better.
working well for them
from an ap wire story at yahoo.com. capital letters removed.
barbara bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the astrodome complex monday, said the relocation to houston is “working very well” for some of the poor people forced out of new orleans.
“what i’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in texas. everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said during a radio interview with the american public media program marketplace. “and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”
please watch this clip
i’m no fan of fox news, but this clip has to be seen to be believed. it’s at the site crooksandliars.com, and it shows shepard smith and geraldo rivera getting in the face of a spin-obsessed sean hannity. it takes some time to download (i think a lot of people must be watching it) but trust me, it’s worth the wait.
fox news clip at crooksandliars.com
what’s it going to take to get these people fed? it’s been nearly a week, and people continue to die.
how is this happening?
warning: this is going to be an irrational freeform rant.
is it in the genetic makeup of the bush family to have an inability to respond to a natural disaster?
you’d think that, after his great leadership in the days immediately after 9/11, he’d have a clue. but the federal government response, and bush’s personal response, was pathetic from the start.
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under construction
first, a quick note: i’m glad i don’t live in new orleans, and i’m also glad i’ve been there, because it surely and sadly will never be the same. definitely keep those people in your thoughts–i am. the hurricane was so much worse there than the ones i went through in florida, mainly because i think there are far more impoverished people in the area to start with, and they didn’t have a means of escape.
now, some business. queerspace.com is under construction.
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quick sunday thought
instead of enabling unlimited cell phone service in the new york subway, why don’t we enable 911 service only? that way, anyone who needs to use their cell phone for an emergency will be able to, but i will be spared the constant yammering.
the subway is the last cell-phone free area in new york, and i’d like to keep it that way. i enjoy the relative tranquility.
i realize that this isn’t financially feasible, because the only way that you’ll get cell phone service is if the installing companies can make a bundle off of it somehow.
but i can dream, can’t i?
grease
sometimes you just gotta have it.
most days i eat a very healthy diet. after all, i was a vegetarian for over ten years, and was even completely vegan for about three of those, and even though i’ve given up on that, i still don’t eat much meat. the majority of our meals at home are vegetarian, and when we do have meat, it’s most likely kirk and i splitting a can of tuna atop a salad, or a bit of salt pork in the green beans, and stuff like that.
today, though, i got the craving.
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let’s go mets
wow.
usually a baseball team that scores 14 runs in a game will lose the next game. usually by a score of 2-1 or something like that.
but the mets have done it two nights in a row. on the road. they said on tv (i’m going to get the exact figures wrong) that no team has won two consecutive games on the road by more than 13 runs since 1930-something or something like that.
wow.
i think i gotta believe.
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quick takes
number something in a series of some as yet determined number, where i talk briefly about a lot of things, rather than in-depth about one thing. like i never digress in any of my blogs.
anyway, here they are.
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