Monthly Archives: May 2012

Confirmation Day – Part III (Conclusion)

Posted on May 30, 2012 by gar

After the service, I became visible again.  Folks asked me if I enjoyed the service, and I had to say yes, I did, because I did get into singing and clapping and all that.  XY spoke to me.  He told … Continue reading →

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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Posted on May 29, 2012 by gar

On Daily Kos appears a piece about a $20,000 reward for anyone who can provide a copy of President Obama’s college transcripts.  The offer is being made by a Mr. Brooks Bayne over at a website called The Trenches.  Quoted … Continue reading →

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Confirmation Day – Part II

Posted on May 27, 2012 by gar

One weekend, my parents were out of town and Righteous was at some religious camp for good little boys.  So Kurt spent the night.  The Sci-Fi channel was running a “Prisoner” marathon that weekend, the show about an ex-spy who … Continue reading →

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Confirmation Day – Part I

Posted on May 24, 2012 by gar

(Editor’s Note:  This story is an expansion of “The Burrito Kiss” which was published on the gar spot previously.  The story is set c. 1992.) Saturday nights meant church service and that usually meant glares and taunts from Righteous, my older … Continue reading →

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Punishment Not Fitting the Crime

Posted on May 21, 2012 by gar

Some folks in the gay community have recently argued against a harsh sentence for the convicted Dharun Ravi, the man guilty of surreptitiously broadcasting over the internet his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, while he was having a date — an act which … Continue reading →

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A Note to the Readers

Posted on May 20, 2012 by gar

Some of you follow the gar spot via e-mail subscription or feed from Google’s Feedburner service.  I discovered this past Saturday that Feedburner was unable to read the feed from the website since May 9.  This means that all posts between … Continue reading →

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The Pink Ribbon Blues – Part V (Conclusion)

Posted on May 19, 2012 by gar

Rick called on Lionel’s cell just as he was packing up his briefcase.  It had been a long ass day filled with too many meetings about too much stuff that they had been dealing with for too long and he … Continue reading →

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The Pink Ribbon Blues – Part IV

Posted on May 15, 2012 by gar

Sonja didn’t tell her everything.  She didn’t tell her about her father’s cackling.  But she did tell her about the origin of the pink ribbon.  She did mention Rick’s name.  And she did tell her that Mickey met his late … Continue reading →

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The Impaired Judgement of Johannes Mehserle

Posted on May 12, 2012 by gar

I opened the Oakland Tribune the other day and found a most shocking headline:  ”Mehserle asks appeals court for new trial.”  I swear I thought it was a typo. Mr. Mehserle, as you may recall, is the former BART officer … Continue reading →

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Evolution Happens

Posted on May 9, 2012 by gar

If you go back and look at the tape of then VP-candidate Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate, when he answered the question about same-sex marriage, you can hear in his cadence that he was following a script.  Yes, … Continue reading →

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