Nashville loves Hillary Clinton. We attended her rally here tonight. I just got done putting my signs out in the front yard. I will be volunteering and delivering signs to anyone who wants one in their yard within a 50 mile radius.
I spotted this little tiny girl strolling through my five foot high fake flower bulbs today at work. $32.95. Visa/Mastercard/American Express accepted. She had a Circue du soleil stroller, lol, and was dressed like a little acrobat of some sort. She was dwarfed, achem,hhmn, by a few dozen 5 foot high Jonquils and Croci. I put a row in front of my store to piss people off when it's freezing outside. She was the tiniest, little, cutest little, most oddly dressed baby I have seen in a long time. Her strange little pointy hair was the icing on the munchkin.
She may be at our Children's Hospital as a patient. Hope not but she was sooooo tiny. Maybe one of those really strange diseases. She was so cute people were freaking out and taking pictures. Mine came out shitty but I think you can see what a little cutie she is. Nobody made a freak show out of it but she was sooooo cute and her mom was so happpy to see everybody light up as they happened upon her in the giant flowers,lol.
" Hey Fellini, get me a beer". My reality is a strange one. People dress their sick children like munchkins, everybody takes pictures. Maybe I shouldn't have rubbed her head and wished for world peace but why take chances. I need a photography class because this was CUTE. I missed the flowers and the stroller. It was just unusual to say the least.
Peace has been achieved in Nashville. Millie has been allowed to snuggle with mommie because mommie got jealous that her stuffed dog was paying more attention to Millie. Here is their threesome.
Kitty loves to snuggle with Tater. The only problem is that Tater doesn't share her enthusiasm. So here she is with a surrogate snuggler. This also happens to be Tater's favorite toy and she is just out of range glaring at the cat and the "Cheater" who is spending time with her. Both may end up headless. Millie thinks that Tater is her mommy and has since she was a baby. Tater does not wish to have children and has refused the position for sixteen years. Millie does not give up and snuggles with mommie only to get a growl and a nip. So, little Millie snuggles with anything that doesn't move. Tonight she was playing with Zola from under the couch. They ran from room to room and had a blast. The two older kitties are thrilled to have a new little playmate and they play and fight and tumble and hiss and then eat, shit, and sleep. Repeat.
I am going to become shallow and just post goofy/nasty shit for awhile. I need to be a little less serious and a little more fun. I got several pieces of good news last week and my heavy after hours workload will be lifting. I finally sold my parents house in New York and the Lawsuit against me from my mom's Hospice worker was dropped. I may get to go back to a regular day without all kinds of extra stuff to attend to daily. So, I am going to try my best to lighten up a bit and get back to being a vapid douche bag. It's way more fun than being bogged down with societal issues. I'll do that next week. I want to catch up on my neighbors again and start getting my house cleaned up and ready for a rollicking spring.
Documentary on Gay, Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin on LOGO
Tomorrow night, LOGO will air the film Brother Outsider; the documentary presents the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Despite his critical role in the fight for black equality in the U.S. and his close work with Martin Luther King, Jr., Rustin never became a well-known historical figure. Why the "outsider" status? Sadly, it was because Rustin was openly gay.
The documentary presents rare interviews, personal letters and videos of heated debates between Rustin and major figures, including Malcolm X, and the filmmakers make use of Rustin's first-person voice whenever possible. A bulk of the film's footage comes from the Columbia University Oral History Research Project personal interviews of Rustin himself. The documentary also includes portions of Rustin’s FBI file. (For the record, Rustin was a “suspected communist and known homosexual subversive.”)
The emotional 90 minutes make an even stronger impact thanks to the film's musical score, which includes recordings of Rustin singing civil-rights anthems and spirituals, as Rustin was a talented singer.
Rustin was born in West Chester, PA in 1912 to a Quaker family. In his 20s, he moved to NYC and joined the Young Communist League; he dropped his membership shortly thereafter, taking up the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation instead. He never stopped his push for civil equality in all forms: Rustin even spent three years in jail during World War II as a conscientious objector and traveled to India to study Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protest firsthand.
In 1955, a seasoned Rustin instructed a young MLK on how to lead the famous bus boycott in Montgomery, AL, as well as the March on Washington, the stage for King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Despite his integral hand in the movement, Rustin remained an unknown. He had two public relationships with men and made no apologies for the fact he was gay, so even his comrades pushed him aside.
Even the people he fought for fought against him. He didn't stop. Maybe one day his dream will be realized. Maybe one day we will all be equal under the law.
When we remember Doctor King we should also remember the principles he stood for. Doctor King supported Bayard Rustin as did Coretta Scott King who continued working with him fighting for civil rights long after Doctor King's assasination. He never got to see full equality and on this day we set aside to recognize the efforts of Doctor King for civil rights we should also remember those who stood with him and behind him fighting the good fight. Both Doctor King and his wife were for Gay Rights. 50 years later the Government of The United States of America is still fighting to opress it's own people through legal discrimination and biased laws meant to "keep their own people down". When you invoke the name Martin Luther King you should remember the principles and ideals and not just the name. He was a man of great principle and high ideals. He didn't leave people out of the equation.
Remember all those men and women who have gone before us by honoring the ones who continue fighting for the rights of opressed people everywhere. Don't let the dream die. There is still much work to be done. Until each person living is treated equally and protected by the law of the land none of us are free. When laws are bastardized for the political gain of individuals we are not living in a free society, we are simply furthering bias and legislating hatred.
