Tag: picket fence

  • Queer as in fuck you

    Queer as in fuck you

    In Pride Month I learned the sad story about David Olio, who was forced out of his job for playing, not reading, an Allen Ginsberg poem ‘Please Master’ to 17-18 year old college bound kids. Was this in the 1960’s? 1970’s even? No, earlier this year, in Connecticut. Several things annoy me about this from…

  • When will we fight back?

    When will we fight back?

    A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…

  • Love and it’s polar opposite

    Love and it’s polar opposite

    And I filled my head with so much shit And I dreamed and I dreamed of it Of love and it’s opposite Long white dress There’s been a lot written and talked about gay marriage over this week (HRC? Seriously? Read this) but I’ve always had a difficult relationship with marriage, be it gay or…

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