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gwydion* Two teams at CERN have found a new particle. They think it might be a Higgs Boson particle, but they are being circumspect, unlike the press.
* Rumor Control: Right wing "news" sources like the National Review decided that the existence of a fund raiser in Paris for expats on the 4th of July meant that the President would be spending the holiday in Paris. After all, why bother to fact check accusations made by a notoriously untruthful right wing blog if it fits the Right Wing the "President is foreigner" narrative, right? So of course it isn't true and the President held a big Naturalization ceremony and party for 25 veterans home from serving this country at the White House, in celebration of our country's diverse roots and as a way of honoring the soldiers who serve our country before it is officially theirs. Of course it also highlights why we need the Dream Act to fast track our veterans to citizenship. Meanwhile, the Republican propaganda machine keeps on telling lies about our President and fighting to argue our veterans should be deported as soon as their service is done.
* "Gayjacking and Whitewashing Philadelphia Trans History?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/07/gayjacking-and-whitewashing.html
* Today I went to see the stripper movie which didn't have nearly enough mostly naked Joe Manganiello in it, was aggressively heterosexual, and had an awful lot of slow moving plot. Seriously, I would have been happy with two hours of sexy men stripping tied together with a little backstage stuff, but there was all this boring filler. I was amused to see that the audience consisted of a huge number of groups of women, two over fifty couples on dates, one older gay couple, and me.
I then went to the Big Gay Potluck to flirt with the older men. I was a little worried the dude I turned down last time might be weird about it, but things went fine and I met a nice couple down from BC to flirt with along with the usual suspects. There were two guys my agish, but I picked the wrong conversation opener with one and it all fell flat. The other dude was always in the wrong conversational grouping though physically he's my type. Maybe next time. It was outside because the weather cleared up today for the first time in over a week. They have this glorious overgrown garden and between that and the wood smoke it reminded me of the Aunts/My Mother's garden in Lafayette Hill. I wish I could find one (or several) guys to fuck but it's just nice to find guys to flirt with and talk about which movie actors are sexy. There was even a bunch of food I could eat, since people brought a bunch of vegetarian salads along with the usual meat stuff. Someone made a joke it looked like lesbians had picked the food this time. (The was a lesbian there this time. rare, but welcome). I came home, pet cats, puttered around the garden a bit then settled in to eat melons and catch up on some shows.
The older guys tend to have rather different taste in men than mine, as it's somewhere generational differences shows. One of the things I love about them is how the flirting as way more contract bridge style like I was used to coming up back east, with lots of back and forth to see if you like the same stuff and the come ons are more polite and subtle, leaving lots of room for face saving backing out. After I came west I had to get used to less in the way of advance signalling and double entendre and more in the way of pouncing cold and hoping no one will hit you. I like the old school flirting and double entendre. I like having the opportunity to scope out compatibility before I take someone home. Now to find one I'm interested in taking home. Sigh.
* Tumblr continues to baffle me. The e. coli photo I posted is now up to 241 notes. I know, not tumblr popular, but by far the most popular thing I've posted. It fascinates me that so many strangers find bacteria as lovely as I do. I mention is I got a flurry of likes and reblogs today. I am now picturing people sitting around on the 4th of July, thinking, "Wow! That's one gorgeous bacteria!"
* 5 Reasons To Read The Newsflesh Series by Mira Grant
* Rumor Control: Right wing "news" sources like the National Review decided that the existence of a fund raiser in Paris for expats on the 4th of July meant that the President would be spending the holiday in Paris. After all, why bother to fact check accusations made by a notoriously untruthful right wing blog if it fits the Right Wing the "President is foreigner" narrative, right? So of course it isn't true and the President held a big Naturalization ceremony and party for 25 veterans home from serving this country at the White House, in celebration of our country's diverse roots and as a way of honoring the soldiers who serve our country before it is officially theirs. Of course it also highlights why we need the Dream Act to fast track our veterans to citizenship. Meanwhile, the Republican propaganda machine keeps on telling lies about our President and fighting to argue our veterans should be deported as soon as their service is done.
* "Gayjacking and Whitewashing Philadelphia Trans History?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/07/gayjacking-and-whitewashing.html
* Today I went to see the stripper movie which didn't have nearly enough mostly naked Joe Manganiello in it, was aggressively heterosexual, and had an awful lot of slow moving plot. Seriously, I would have been happy with two hours of sexy men stripping tied together with a little backstage stuff, but there was all this boring filler. I was amused to see that the audience consisted of a huge number of groups of women, two over fifty couples on dates, one older gay couple, and me.
I then went to the Big Gay Potluck to flirt with the older men. I was a little worried the dude I turned down last time might be weird about it, but things went fine and I met a nice couple down from BC to flirt with along with the usual suspects. There were two guys my agish, but I picked the wrong conversation opener with one and it all fell flat. The other dude was always in the wrong conversational grouping though physically he's my type. Maybe next time. It was outside because the weather cleared up today for the first time in over a week. They have this glorious overgrown garden and between that and the wood smoke it reminded me of the Aunts/My Mother's garden in Lafayette Hill. I wish I could find one (or several) guys to fuck but it's just nice to find guys to flirt with and talk about which movie actors are sexy. There was even a bunch of food I could eat, since people brought a bunch of vegetarian salads along with the usual meat stuff. Someone made a joke it looked like lesbians had picked the food this time. (The was a lesbian there this time. rare, but welcome). I came home, pet cats, puttered around the garden a bit then settled in to eat melons and catch up on some shows.
The older guys tend to have rather different taste in men than mine, as it's somewhere generational differences shows. One of the things I love about them is how the flirting as way more contract bridge style like I was used to coming up back east, with lots of back and forth to see if you like the same stuff and the come ons are more polite and subtle, leaving lots of room for face saving backing out. After I came west I had to get used to less in the way of advance signalling and double entendre and more in the way of pouncing cold and hoping no one will hit you. I like the old school flirting and double entendre. I like having the opportunity to scope out compatibility before I take someone home. Now to find one I'm interested in taking home. Sigh.
* Tumblr continues to baffle me. The e. coli photo I posted is now up to 241 notes. I know, not tumblr popular, but by far the most popular thing I've posted. It fascinates me that so many strangers find bacteria as lovely as I do. I mention is I got a flurry of likes and reblogs today. I am now picturing people sitting around on the 4th of July, thinking, "Wow! That's one gorgeous bacteria!"
* 5 Reasons To Read The Newsflesh Series by Mira Grant