My church's stand for marriage equality was the lead story on tonight's 5 pm KTVU news. The story appropriately spent most of the time interviewing Don and David, a couple of 30 years who are getting legally married at City Hall Tuesday. My 15 minutes of fame was actually more like 4 seconds. But, I am very happy to see a church's stand for equality highlighted. Sorry about the lead-in commercial, but here's the video.
This entry will be used to communicate the latest updates on the celebrations planned for June 17, 2008 by the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco. Check back throughout the day on Tuesday! Celebrations start at 8 am at City Hall where we give out wedding gifts and wedding (CUP)cakes. Ministers will be at our Celebration Central to marry couples for free! Church Members and clergy will be cheering on couples until 7:30 pm.Don Williams and David Jones, "long-time companions" of 30 years , will be married by Senior Minister Rev. Gregory Stewart inside City Hall at 2 pm.Get [...]
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Coriolanus by William Shakespeare Coriolanus in 2008 It’s depressing. This centuries’ old play about events a millennium earlier than that still speaks too accurately about the crowd/personality/political dynamics of the campaigns featured today on CNN and Fox. There is no one-for-one tracking between Shakespeare’s characters and McCain, Romney, and the rest. But, at times, when the self-righteousness or their temporizing morality is front and center, being refined for us future generations, I heard John and Mitt. The self-centered, self-serving fickleness of public opinion is there, too. Is there nothing new or nothing that we have [...]
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Wow! This Midsummer isn’t so much a staging of a grandmother-approved Shakespeare classic as a performance of a barely Work Safe on-stage rave. The risque romp uses Shakespeare’s text and then sings, dances, and acts the story into a frenzy.The best part of director Mark Rucker’s vision are the fairy servants of King Oberon and Queen Titania. These fairies aren’t sweet Disney helpers with an impish sense of humor. They’re glam-rock refugees from Rocky Horror on a berserker binge of havoc making. Other productions have left me wondering [...]
... at least one of public parking. When I came back to the Sutter Stockton garage this afternoon, I was stopped on the way back to my car by a woman asking for help getting out of her space. She said she was sweating and panicking. She couldn't figure out how to extract her vehicle from its space. The car on one side had parked too close and far back in its stall for her to back out without hitting the car parked in a space behind her. She couldn't turn enough to get a good angle because there was a [...]
"Governor backs same-sex marriage ruling" says the Chronicle headline. But then they go goofy with, "But the Republican governor's stance on same-sex marriage has been curious and confusing to many people. Since his election in 2003, Schwarzenegger has twice vetoed bills to legalize marriage for homosexual couples." KCBS joined the chorus of confusion in their news reports this morning. Schwarzenegger's "confusion" is the sound bite of the day in San Francisco. Actually, Schwarzenegger is acting like a traditional, non-Bible-thumping Republican. The kind of office holder I used to love to hate; the kind I worked against on election day. But, [...]
We're back in San Francisco. It's especially nice to live in California today.
redozdachs and I are MIA (or, rather in MIA) waiting for the 11 am bus to take us from our red-eye flight to the Ft. Lauderdale dock where the Coral Princess will sail to San Francisco. The five-hour layover in baggage claim is 5 minutes shorter than the cross-country flight. But, 15 days of post-tax-season relaxation sounds lovely. The bridge cam will show our progress to, through, and past the Panama Canal. Better views of the locks are on the authority's site. We'll be passing through next Wednesday (the 30th). We'll hit the Gatun locks about 6 am Pacific time, I [...]
HomEland Security chief MichaEl ChErtoff said today that he understands the trauma caused by the government's crackdown on illegal aliens. (AP story) He said he feels the pain of employers who are left short staffed when their workers are deported. I am kinda not thinking of businesses when the subject of disruption due to sudden deportations comes up. Maybe it's only because redozdachs and I are watching the first season of Ugly Betty on DVD. Or, maybe it's my lefty liberal pinko commie bleeding heart upbringing. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong? I should have more compassion for those poor businesses [...]
UPDATE May 30, 2017 I received email from Joel Stephens in response to this post providing a link with lots of information on phishing: what to look for and how to avoid getting caught. For more good phishing information, see "Common phishing scams and how to recognise and avoid them" . I haven't seen this version of a phishing scam until this morning's email arrived. Crooks are now sending email claiming to be Google. They're telling me that my pay-per-click ads are offline and that I need to put more credit card money into my business' Google AdWords account. This looks [...]