for the record, Office Max's CD inkjet sleeves SUCK ASS (and not in a good way)...trying to assemble a unique b-day present and this stuff sucks! figured a cardboard sleeve would be better then sending more plastic crap out into the world - alas, the office max dumbasses don't bother to provide a template, or even measurements, so i had to just eyeball it since avery doesn't seem to have a similar product...i was pretty close, but not as close as i wanted to be...grrrrr...

perhaps it's time for some sleep...

hrmmmm....we'll hafta see about this one:

The Bravo cable network is going where no television dating show has gone before: matchmaking gay men.

"Boy Meets Boy," a six-episode series that will premiere in July, also twists reality show conventions by secretly including straight men among the pool of dating prospects.

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It appears "Boy Meets Boy" will handle it in a lighthearted, non-exploitive way, he said.

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Already, the Traditional Values Coalition plans to alert its 43,000 member churches to protest the series, said Andrea Lafferty, the Washington-based group's executive director.

"Clearly, they've hit a new low," Lafferty said. "What's next after `Boy Meets Boy'? `Boy Meets Sheep'?"

hrmmm, well the fact that the TVC is protesting it means i'll definitely watch it, and encourage everyone else to do so, and to email Bravo that they like the fact that they broadcast programming for everyone, queers included.

UPDATE: interesting comments in the Fark discussion of this thang - now i'm not sure what i think of it...is it good to add straight guys in the mix of potentials, or are we setting things up for another Jenny Jones episode? probably not that severe, but i wouldn't put it past a major 'phobe to act like a queer-supportive straight guy to get in there and cause some trouble...*shrug*...yay to Bravo for including queers, but do we really wanna be included in ALL the things straights are, including trashy "reality" tv??

i suppose a strange mix of things has combined to flip my lid...

Recipe:
A reading of Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn...
A visit to the Culture-Jammer's Encyclopedia at sniggle.net, particularly the Creative Use Of Anagrams in the Vandalism section...
A visit to the pranks page at cockeyed.com...
A visit to the Busy Marquee...
A general desire to do something totally crazy (silly-crazy, not psychotic-crazy)

So ya take all those ingredients (and then some!) and the result is THIS...

so i guess it's all heterosexual married or single men on IPD, right? cuz the website for spouses of IPD officers is www.ipdwives.com - not ipdspouses or something like that, and we know them damned gay people can't do the marriage thing do have a husband or wife...

it appears the last thing on the page is an out and out lie, so i don't know how much else we can believe...

"You are visitor number
001720
since March 9, 2003.

And this counter only counts each computer ONCE no matter how many times you come back!"

wrong - every time i reloaded the page the number went up by one, and i doubt the site's getting flooded by hits at 3:30am...

yikes - scary pics! i guess we don't appreciate nearly enough just how much our hands do for us...

note to self, get info on Dupuytren's Disease for debbie

nice memorial day - been out in the back yard, getting the patio all ready for summer festivities...i wish it would warm up though! too cold to get into the pool - well, the ambient temp is okay, but it hasn't gotten hot enough to warm up the water - i think it's about 50 degrees in there - i suppose we could have a Polar Bear club meeting...

alas, there's lots of cleanup that needs to happen INSIDE as well, but i think it'll all be good for me to host the july women's pitch-in...why oh why do i have to be such a clutterbug?!?!?

incredible movie. Andy Goldsworthy's art and discussion of it makes me wanna dig out the ol' art supplies and get to creating...

woulda been even nicer if i hadn't been stood up, but oh well...

there are a lot of VERY interesting movies coming to Key Cinemas...i might look into coordinating a mutual friends movie night for the next few weeks or so - we'll see...

on my way to go see Rivers & Tides at Key Cinemas - hope the whole movie is as mesmerizing as the preview for it was...