When I was in high school I was very much in the closet to most people with the exception of one person with whom I’m still friends. None of the guys I hung out with was gay even though one of them gave me second thoughts with his closeness to me. He had a girlfriend [...]

The university’s network was down over the weekend. No internet. Saturday I was at Paul’s again doing stuff. He bought a MAC Pro. VERY nice. He says he’s dumping Windows now! If I had the money I would have bought a MAC several years ago.

I’m done looking at Brokeback Mountain. I’m done crying. I’m done reaching into my emotional past. I’m done pretending that things could have been different. I’m done and ready to move forward. I’m not into movie stars but, I found this in a banner ad today. Very handsome face and a bit scruffy, dark hair [...]

Since I bought a copy of Brokeback Mountain I tried to watch it again last night. Big mistake. Aside from the emotional relevance of the movie to my own life, after seeing only about 1:15 min of it, I was abuzz for who knows how long before I could fall asleep. I was thinking about [...]

I’m not sure the topic is correct but, I did take up naylandblake‘s call and wrote something: “A knock at the door brought Chuck who barely passes the threshold before stripping bare his rippled flesh. The light grazes the small patch of soft golden hair on his lower back that seems to enliven the glowing [...]

Nah, nothing special happened on my birthday. I bought some ice cream and cake (wasn’t that good, only okay) and spent the evening with Paul and Pedro (two computer geeks). They were up coding for a Flash app and I was researching my public art project and doing some coding myself (xhtml, css, not Flash [...]

spider web trap Originally uploaded by artlab. This semester is turning out to be an intense one. Those three classes back-to-back kick my narrow behind today. I talked/ instructed almost constantly from 11 am to 8:50 pm. I have 10 min. between class #1 and class #2 and, 70 min. between class #2 and class [...]

Ron y 7 Originally uploaded by artlab. One does not inhale vodka’s bouquet, though one may use vodka to sterilize a wound on the knee. Vodka is as simple as it is clear. Making it requires minimal technology. Aging does not improve it. Any difference in quality comes from the purity of the water and [...]

The main characters of Brokeback Mountain had an intense, yet frustrating relationship. They had to balance relationships with other people in balancing their personal emotional relationship. While watching the movie for the first time just last week, it struck me how similar their relationship is to mine although, I’m not married. I have a friend [...]

All my classes are full this semester. That’s a good thing. The bad thing is that I’ve had a constant barrage of students wanting me to override the prerequisites for the courses. I’ve done it for three students only: one transferred from one section to another section (same class but different hours), two others were [...]