Caught the premiere of Georgy Girl on TCM tonight and it got me in the mood to seek a bit of information on one of my other favorite British (and Lynn Redgrave) films of the era, Smashing Time. Which I managed, a few minutes later, to buy on DVD for only eight bucks plus shipping. I do love the web sometimes…

Mark gets here in less than 24 hours now. He’s had a crappy week. I’ve had a lethargic week. Much garlic should do us both a world of good, although it probably won’t help me update more frequently nor be better about answering email than I’ve been lately…

Time to walk up to the corner now and pick up enough fags to last me through tomorrow…

Absolutely asinine: career homosexual Jeff Sheehy’s latest rambling in the Examiner about the “explicit homophobia” among tenant activists who dare to disagree with his position on a pending home ownership ballot initiative in San Francisco. Apparently, since he is homosexual and since the issue might impact him in some fashion, anyone who opposes it is a raging “homophobe”…

Note please that I don’t currently have an opinion one way or another on the initiative itself; I don’t know enough about it. I might even find myself in favor of it, just like the author, if for different reasons…

But I most definitely have an opinion on this particular op-ed piece. It aggravates me so much I can hardly express it. Mr. Sheehy has apparently lived so much of his life framing everything in terms of sexual orientation that his only means of arguing ANY issue now seems to be to cry “homophobia” whether or not any actually exists. Limited vocabulary, I guess…

For all his babbling about “refugee communities” (who evidently have more of a God-given right to own property than anyone else, especially with government assistance) and “life as a fully realized person participating in a community free from discrimination”, he doesn’t seem to grasp the fact that homsexuality is completely unrelated to this particular issue. There is no connection. Period…

Of course, to admit this to himself would be to render invalid his assertion that tenant activists are nothing but evil “homophobes” (despite the fact that many of them are every bit as homosexual as Mr. Sheehy himself). While these activists undoubtedly have some skewed priorities, I find it hard to stomach the none-too-hidden assertion that they wake up every morning wondering how they can “screw over the fags” today…

I can see a great future for Mr. Sheehy as a speech writer for Willie Brown, another San Franciscan with a penchant for finding bigotry anytime a dissenting question is asked…

People in the south are just nice. In today’s mail, I received a box of supermarket collectibles and rare photos from a complete stranger in North Carolina. He’s letting me borrow them to scan for this site and then I’m to return them to him. They’re not terribly valuable, although they are somewhat irreplaceable and would probably fetch a couple of hundred dollars on eBay. But this very nice man thought nothing of sending them right to me, even though he doesn’t know me from Adam, and he even told me I could keep some items of which he had duplicates…

Sort of restores my faith in humanity. And you can rest assured his stuff will be returned quickly and in the same condition in which it was recieved. I want to get it all back to him before I have a chance to spill something on it…