Saturday, January 30, 2010

New Fetishwear

My two new articles of fetishwear that I acquired during mal are a neoprene outfit and a kilt. In this picture I was trying on the kilt while I still was wearing the neoprene. The neoprene outfit consists of a zippered, sleeveless top and assless shorts, which I wore for the rest of the day after I bought them.

Obama Taking Republican Questions

This video is Obama taking questions from the Republican congressional caucus. This is the first refreshing, political moment I've had in quite a while and gives me a smidgen of hope. It's refreshing because it shows someone (Obama) standing up and and speaking reasonably about the nations real problems and the kind of the things such as cooperation required to solve them. On the bad side, it stood in stark contrast to the majority of the questions that were obviously mere attempts to score political gain. That said, I must cede that some of the comments about Speaker Pelosi did strike me sincere.


Friday, January 29, 2010

Blogger Rant

So when is Blogger going to re-add the spell checker that they removed in their latest site update? It's crazy that we don't have such an essential tool and I'm surprised that they would even release this software without it.

Bin Laden on Climate Change

Bin laden discusses climate change. Never thought I'd say it, but besides the whole "death to the infidels stuff" I kind of agree with his main point here. I'm inclined to think that this latest tape is a fake just because it seems so way off of his usual topics. That said, the world would be a better place if he focused more on climate change and less on death and destruction.
Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality.


All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.
Could we be seeing a kinder, gentler Bin Laden? I think not!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Funny

Not quite my cup of tea, but I thought this was funny. Below are the accompanying puns that I received along with the picture.
A woman was proudly driving her 'pubic beetle'. Until the police arrested her after a series of accidents. The court ruled that her car was creating a dangerous situation on the roads. It was ruled that she had to paint over her car's hood. Here's a picture of her VW before she had to repaint it.  

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Random Pictures





Monday, January 25, 2010

Vegas




Recently I went to Vegas with the BF. We had a good time playing tourist, going to shows and visiting a couple of gay bars at night. When we went out we met some of the nicest people and had a good time. I haven't been to Vegas in a number of years and hadn't really experienced the gay scene when I was last there, so this was kind of my first experience of gay Vegas.

For all Vegas' reputation of sin, it's gay scene is quite tame. We went to two of the seemingly roughest bars (Buffaly and Hog Heaven) and even these seemed almost like pretty-boy bars. They certainly weren't anything like leather bars in DC, but then, perhaps out west "leather" seems more mainstream.

The other thing that struck me was that several, different locals that I met at different times made the same comment to me. That is, that so many of the people living in Vegas work in the casinos to some capacity and are in fear of the random and not-so-random drug checks. The locals seem to think that this has a huge dampening effect on Vegas' scene.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

MAL Es Bueno

This weekend DC hosts its annual Mid Atlantic Leather Festival. I'm one of thoses people that can't help smiling, but I tried to look as serious as possible in keeping with the leather theme. Am I convincing?






Thursday, January 14, 2010

Haiti


I read this absolutely heart-wrenching account from Haiti today. I comes from this blog.
All I could see was her face and left arm, and she frantically called out to me. I asked her to calm down because it would help me to work and asked her to pray for both of us. She calmed down and became very brave. I was having trouble seeing her where she was jammed under the slab. I pulled out a very large piece of rubble that didn’t really help Jacqueline at all (her name was Jacqueline). There was some sort of object behind that rubble and when I went to move it it turned out to be another girl’s bottom. The girl cried out but I could barely hear her – her whole head was underneath rubble.


At this point I began to realize that I was in over my head.

All I had was a hammer, and it was quickly becoming pitch dark with twilight fading and no electricity anywhere. I tried to borrow a flashlight, but it was impossible. I had a moment of feeling intense helplessness. After thinking and praying for a minute, I told Jacqueline that I had to leave her and find more help. I couldn’t do anything without a flashlight, and she needed to keep praying and remember that her parents were coming to look for her.

I walked 4 or 5 miles to a place where I could get a bus, then got on one eventually made it home just after 9pm. On my way home, I resolved to return to Port au Prince the next day with 2 trucks full of tools and workers to do whatever we could. I met a guy on the bus who was holding a sandwich. He had left his house to go buy a sandwich when the earthquake hit. He returned to his home to find it flattened, then went to the school that he teaches at to find it flattened. With nothing left but a sandwich in his hand, and $7 in his sock, he set out for Cap Haitien to be with the rest of his family.

I slept a little bit last night even though I kept thinking of Jacqueline and her classmate stuck in the rubble, in the dark. This morning all of the workers enthusiastically loaded all the tools we could use into the trucks along with food and water and set off for Port au Prince. I took them to the school and quickly made my way to the place Jacqueline and the other student were but both of them were dead.

Monday, January 4, 2010

A Picture and a Story

The following set of pictures were taken at my former home in Northern Virginia. We rent it out so when the last set of renters left, we went there several times to do the kinds of things that one does before re-renting. I can never figure out how it happens, but as usual I somehow winded up with my clothes off.






Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Pledge

I came across this while reading Pi's blog. It's some powerful stuff and just the kind of proactive and positive thinking that I don't think we do enough of: