JULY
1 July 2006 Saturday
No entry
2 July 2006 Sunday
It’s July all ready! Even the
2nd! Went to the movies today with Larry Smith and saw The Return of Superman
or is it Superman Returns. Either way Brandon Routh is hot! I really enjoyed it
much more then I expected to because of what critics wrote. Its a fun Summer movie. Go see it. After the movie we went to the Training
Table. I really am not that impressed
with the Training table but that is where Larry wanted to eat so why not? Because we went to the one on 4th South and
800 East afterwards I asked him if he wanted to see Gilgal Gardens.
He had never been there and its really one of those places that is extremely
quirky and that you would only find in Utah. I've been on the computer so much
lately that I am getting computer fatigue.
I just wanted to get some of my Gay chronology files in order so they
would be of use to someone if I croaked.
I sent in my DNA sample also to this Genealogy databank to put my
Williams DNA on file to see if I can tract down my Murky Colonial Williams
Clan. Britton Williams who was a South Carolina state
assemblyman and a Revolutionary War militia man is as far back as I have a
proven linage. He was caught by the
British after a skirmish and was hung as a traitor in 1781. So my great grandfather gave his life for the
birth of this country and I will be damned if I will let the likes of George
Bush and his NeoCon Aristocracy shit all over the Constitution. Haven't heard
from anyone lately so no gossip to report.
3 July 2006 Monday
No entry
4 July 2006 Tuesday Independence Day
Happy 4th of July. Mike and i
took the dogs for a ride this morning and went to see Chuck Whyte. Hadn't been
to his house since he had it remodeled with new carpets, and new furniture. It
looked great. He seemed to be enjoying
his new status with the Royal Court as the gracious loser. I was sick to my
stomach much of last night from eating what turned out to be rancid microwave
popcorn. Check the dates! So I took a nap in the afternoon until the
wind kicked up and a storm blew through dropping the temperature about 30
degrees. It even showered a little. In the evening went next door to eat a BBQ
with the Giles. Since the temperature dropped so radically we ended eating
inside the house. I had made all these hot weather dishes, pasta salad, English
Pea Salad, Jello Salad because I thought it was going to be in the 90's but
Mother nature changed her mind. The white vinyl fence across from the Giles was
tagged last night with blue spray paint by some Mexican gang last night. Wonderful sight to see in the neighborhood.
What a bunch of losers to have to sneak around at night with spray paint to
make a statement. Viva La Raza my ass.
5 July 2006 Wednesday
No entry
6 July, 2006 Thursday
I wrote
Dan Fahndrich: Hi Dan, I am meeting with the YMCA to reserve Camp Rogers for
next summer. Are you interested in being on a BS Organizational Committee? Ben
7 July 2006 Friday
No entry
8 July 2006 Saturday
The days keep slogging along.
Past two days I have been at school cleaning out my old room and moving into
the new room. However it’s so discouraging because the cupboards in the new
room are so jammed packed with crap that I have to clean them out first before
I can even set up stuff. Last year I had
to clean a pack rat's room and now I am doing it again. It’s frustrating and
extremely tiresome especially when these rooms have no air conditioning and I
am working in 85 degree plus rooms. I
lose water by the buckets. But it’s
better to do it now then later. Wednesday
I went to the YMCA to talk to someone about Camp Rogers but no one will be
there to talk with until this Monday. Chad Keller and Dan Fahndrich have agreed
to be on the Beyond Stonewall Committee and Kevin Hillman is considering it. I
haven't heard from Michael Aaron yet but I am sure he is busy. Watched
TransAmerica and Felicity Hoffman was excellent and the movie was pretty
good. Also watched Junebug, which was
just so so and Harry and Max which was kind of dumb. Thursday I had to take my
oldest dog Priscilla to the vet because she had an infection in her anal gland.
I guess as dogs get older they can become susceptible to that kind of
thing. So I have her on anti-biotic. Other
than that, and cleaning up after my puppies’ life, I’m just kind of in a Summer
Daze.
Actress June
Allyson, the sunny, cracked-voiced "perfect wife" of James Stewart,
Van Johnson and other movie heroes, died on July 8. She was 88. Allyson died at
her home in Ojai, Calif., with her husband of nearly 30 years, David Ashrow, at
her side. She died of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after
a long illness
9 July 2006-12 July 2006
No entries
13 July 2006 Thursday
Hot middle days of Summer. The
Fire Dragon Moon. Yesterday spent some
time with Chad Keller. We went out to lunch at the Jade Cafe on 9th South. I
didn't think it was as good as it used to be but that was years ago. Anyway
Chad and I had a productive meeting about Beyond Stonewall and that was the
whole point of getting together. We also
dropped by Michael Aarons for a brief visit and then I took Chad up to the U of
U hospital to pick up a prescription for him so we were out running
errands. Michael said the QSL should be
out tomorrow. Chad was in a tizzy about Rhett Barney's new column he his
writing for the Pillar. Today I got a certificate in the mail from the Praxis
test I took last June. I haven't seen my results; but I got a certificate
saying that I scored in the top 15 percentile of everyone who has ever taken
the test. That made me feel good since
all elementary teachers in the nation have to take this test. I had to take the damn thing in the first
place so that George Bush would consider me a highly qualified teacher! So I
would like to shove it up his ass, the so called leader of the free world. I
went to the YMCA's office early this morning and signed a contract and put down
a $550 deposit to hold Camp Rogers for August 3, 4, and 5 of 2007 so I guess I
am really committed to making a go of this again. I am kind of excited about
it. Israel is striking at radical Muslim militant bases in Lebanon and the
situation is very intense. For sure gasoline prices will go up before
Armageddon commences. LOL. Watched two German films with Michael the other day.
One was called "Coming Out" which was the only Gay movie ever filmed
in East Germany and premiered when the Berlin Wall was taken down in 1989. The other was called Colonel Redl which was
about the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a homosexual military Lt.
Colonel who gave state secrets to the Russians.
Both movies were interesting but nothing I would want to see again
unlike "Downfall" the German movie about the collapse of the Third
Reich.
Comedian-actor
Red Buttons,, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in
early television and then in a dramatic role won the 1957 Oscar as supporting
actor in "Sayonara," died on July 13. He was 87. Buttons died of
vascular disease at his home in the Century City area of Los Angele
14 July 2006 Friday
Mark Swonson
wrote: How about The Other Place at 6pm unless you have another restaurant you
would rather go to. I wrote Sounds great 6 pm The Other Place- see you then.
15 July 2006 Saturday
Hottest day of the year so far.
Depending where you were in the valley it was between 102 and 105 degrees. Mike and I went out to breakfast at Jim's
Restaurant which is always great and a deal before buying more doggie biscuits
at Petco. I took Daisy and Chaz in yesterday to the vet for their last puppy
shots and rabies so they can get groomed
finally next week. They have got to be hot in their long shaggy coats. We also took our neighbors to the airport.
They on a whim decided to go to the Bahamas. Kim works for Jet Blue so
she gets all these great passes. Anyway Mike watched movies all day and I
worked on Beyond Stonewall projects. I reconstructed the Beyond Stonewall logo
on Microsoft Paint and then sent out invitation letters inviting people to join
the planning committee. I've asked Chad Keller, Ron Hunt, Todd Bennett, Michael
Aaron, Mark Thrash, Kevin Hillman, and Dan Fahndrich to serve. So far only Chad and Dan have gotten back
with me and have agreed to be on the committee. Went and picked up a copy of
QSL at the Trapp. I think the Metro is kaput. Haven't seen it in awhile. Keep cool everyone.
16 July 2006 Sunday
We are having a heat wave- a not
so tropical heat wave- it isn't surprising- the temperatures rising. The
shirtless boys can certainly Can Can.
Mike and I decided to take in a early movie so at 10:30 a.m. we went to
Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada". There were maybe 10 people in the theater. It
was a hoot seeing Meryl Streep so deliciously autocratic. Afterward we went
over to Mark Swonson because he was having computer problems and Mike rebooted
it for him. We all went to lunch at The
Other Place and it was good as usual. Mike had a chicken Greek salad that he
said was especially good. Mark told us of his dream of moving to Spain and opening a Gay Bar
with a friend of his. That would be lovely. I set up a time for our first
Beyond Stonewall Meeting on August 13. Dan Fahndrich said he would host it. So
far there's Chad Keller, Ron Hunt, Dan Fahndrich, and my self on the committee.
17 July 2006-23 July 2006
No entries
24 July 2006 Monday Pioneer Day
Well 159 years ago the Mormon
hoards descended on this pristine valley, wiped out all animal
"predator" (wolves, coyotes, harks, eagles, cougars) and next the
humankind (native Americans, mountain men gentiles) , eventually deforested the
Oquirrh Mountains, polluted the Jordan River, buried City Creek all because
this was the place for religious fanatics that couldn't get along with their
neighbors. It took an occupational
American army to keep them under the American Flag. So let them have their parade today. Its the war of the Stake Floats anyway. If I
wanted to see true beauty queens I'd attend the Royal Court. How many imitation Brigham Youngs and Styrofoam
gilded Moroni’s does one need anyway? Spent a frustrating weekend because I
thought I had lost all my data I had stored on one of my external hard drives. I have two external drives as well as two
internal drives to store my nearly 75 gigabytes of information. The external drive I had been working off of
for all summer crashed due to a faulty program in an old Roxie data file burner
and I hadn't backed my work up for about a month...so I thought I had lost
everything I had done, writings, pictures, music etc. Anyway after spending
Saturday and Sunday working on fixing the problem Mike and I managed to get the
crashed hard drive up long enough for me to save it on another drive. I've got hemorrhoids from the hours sitting
at the Computer this weekend LOL! If my collection of archival material ever
really crashed it would be a disastrous day for Utah's Gay community and I
doubt whether anyone is aware of it. I have over 10 years of data collecting in
my files, documents, writings, pictures, audio interviews, music besides my own
personal work such as genealogy, school work, over 5000 songs in a collection
of 100 years of music from Edison wax
cylinders to 2006. It’s really quite a collection. It’s been hot hot hot as
they say. All last week I worked at school at least 5 hours in the hot 88
degree classroom. I finally put in Styrofoam sheets in the window to block some
of the heat and it has dropped the temps to 80. Mom called me to say that my
sister's son Kevin Jones was arrested and I think there's a whole lot more to
it then she knows. My nephew is 27 years old, lives still at home with his dad having
not worked in the past 25 years, while Donna supports the family. My brother in
law is a paranoid control freak and thinks he's a vigilante against drug
dealers. Evidently my nephew is following in his father's blighted footsteps
and this time got arrested for possession of a weapon. Too bad he's so screwed up because he is
really cute or at least was when I last saw him and that was nearly 7 years
ago. The pups are growing leaps and bounds. I need to post a picture of them
with their hair cut. Haven't really seen or talked to anyone in a while. Tom
Folk came over to watch movies with Mike Saturday night. Mike bought a copy of Mommy
Dearest. Excerpt from LDS Church Trial of Lorenzo Hunsaker of Honeyville, Utah
1893: Weldon Hunsaker testified that the first time he caught Lorenzo in the
act of sucking his penis was about one year ago, he coming to my bed. When I
awoke I felt that it was him, but did not see or speak to him or he to me. I
turned over on my belly and did not discharge. He did not leave my bed
immediately but kept bothering me. The second time occurred about 2 weeks after
the first, when he came to my bed as before and got my penis in his mouth. I
awoke in the act of discharging. The
third time was in a different room. I was asleep when he came in but awake
immediately. He did not accomplish anything, but remained in my bed about one
hour, when Florida
(his wife) came in search of him with a lamp, but she soon returned leaving him
still in my bed, she telling him that he ought to be ashamed of himself. I left
the bed and occupied another the rest of the night. The Fourth time occurred
near day light so that I could see him. I asked him what good it did him, and
he answered that it might keep me from bothering the girls. I replied that it
would make me worse rather than better. Got my penis in his mouth, the talk
occurred after I awoke. This happened last spring. Have no feelings against him
but had some words. Think Peter asked me if Lorenzo had ever sucked my penis
and I must have said "yes", as he told me that he had sucked his.
This was talked of at Blue Springs
last spring. Think I told Ira Neely and Thorn Boothe before I confessed it to
Peter. Have been told to stay with my previous statement, if true.
25 July 2006-26 July 2006
No entries
27 July 2006 Thursday
Micro winds rushed through the
valley about 5:30 clocked at 53 mph at the airport then out came a rainbow and
it was over. July has only a week left
and then on to August and back to school although it seems I have never left
it. All week I've been going in and working in the hot stuffy classroom. I've
got it in enough shape now that I am going to take a break from it until school
starts back up in about 3 weeks. They found the missing Destiny Norton’s little
body in a neighbor's basement. Israel
and Hezbollah are in a slug fest with nearly 400 people killed mostly innocent
civilians. The woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub to save them
from the devil was found to be insane. It’s such a wicked world and yet Gays
are the boogeymen. Haven't heard much lately but then I haven't made myself
available. Been watching all the Thin
Man movies with Mike lately. A change
has come over him and he's behaving and treating me well again, like before
Saffy died. When we go places he usually
pays, he bought me an external burner for my computer knowing that my old one
was giving out, and he said he would take care of the pups while I go down to
Vegas next week to visit my Mom before the summer is over. Don't know what prompted the change, just
glad for it. Todd Bennett said he would serve on the Beyond Stonewall Committee
but still haven't heard yay or nay from Kevin Hillman and Mark Thrash so I am
going to assume by their silence that they aren't interested. Read Jere Keys'
complaint that Gay Utah is just ran by white middle-aged men. Oh like women and
youth are underserved. I hope he finds
San Francisco more suited for his taste and convictions then. The Destiny
Norton case sure exemplified the gap between Mormon and Gentile and wealthy and
poor. KSL news even more or less said to
stop judging the Norton family when the majority of their emails said that the
Norton's inner circle had something to do with the child being missing because
they had tattoos, belonged to Liberty Park's drumming circle, and lived in
central city. Wonder what these people will say now that the killer was from an
Mormon family of nine children and was not connected with the Nortons except
through a backyard. Thank God he wasn't
Gay or they would pin this one on us too since the perception by these sexually
repressed wackos is that all Gays are recruiting pedophiles.
28 July 2006 Friday
No entry
29 July 2006 Saturday
Mike and I watched a fascinating
documentary on the 911 disaster that can be downloaded for free on Loose Change
2nd edition. Those who wondered how for
the first time in history reinforced steel and concrete buildings could
collapse will find the implications in this film very disturbing. Also read how
scary George Bush's brother Marvin is! http://www.loosechange911.com/
Here is some of the information it contained:
·
March 13th, 1962 -Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of
the joint chiefs of staff, presents a proposal to secretary of defense Robert
McNamara, named Operation Northwoods.
The document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo
Bay, to provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.
·
December
1st, 1984 -A remote-controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force
Base, and is crash landed by NASA for fuel research
·
August,
1997-The cover of FEMA’s “Emergency Response to Terrorism” depicts the World
Trade Center in crosshairs
·
September, 2000 -The Project for a New
American Century, a neo-conservative think tank whose members include Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, releases their report
entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” In it, they declare that “the process
of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a
long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". (pages 50-51)
·
October
24th, 2000-The Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises called
MASCAL, which simulates a Boeing 757 crashing into the building. Charles
Burlingame, an ex-Navy F4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon, participates in
this exercise before retiring to take a job at American Airlines, where, less
than a year later, his Boeing 757 allegedly crashes into the building.
·
July 24th, 2001 - Larry A. Silverstein, who
already owned World Trade Center 7, signs a $3.2 billion dollar, 99-year lease
on the entire World
Trade Center
complex, six weeks before 9-11. Included in the lease is a $3.5 billion dollar
insurance policy specifically covering acts of terrorism. In October 2001
Silverstein sought $7.2 billion from his insurers saying that the two planes
represented a separate attack that would entitle him to a pair of payments. He
also asked Congress to protect him from lawsuits from victims.
·
September
6th, 2001- 3,150 put options are placed on United Airlines’ stock. A put option is a bet that a stock will fall.
That day, the put options were more than four times its daily average. Bomb sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade
Center, and security
guards end two-weeks of 12 hour shifts under the direction of Marvin Bush,
George Bush’s brother. Marvin Bush was a director of the company Securacom also known as Stratesec.
Sucuracom/Stratesec company was backed by the Kuwait-American Corporation. Once
George Bush was made president of the United States Stratesec added a
government division, “providing the same full range of security systems
services as the commercial division.” They now had “an open ended contract with
the General Services Administration (GSA) and a Blanket Purchase Agreement
(BPA) with the agency that allows the government to purchase materials and
services from the Company without having to go through a full competition.” –
from a press release by Stratesec in December 2000- Securacom had a contract to
provide security to the World
Trade Center
until the day it came down. Neither the
FBI nor any other agents have questioned anyone at Stratesec about the
company's security work in connection with 9/11. According to the FBI regional
office, since October 2001, "the investigation [of 9/11] is being
coordinated at the national level, directly from the White House." One of
the world's largest gold depositories was stored underneath the World Trade
Center, owned by a group of commercial banks. After the WTC were demolished the
better part of a billion dollars worth of precious metals went missing. It is
not plausible that whatever destroyed the towers vaporized gold and silver,
which are heavy malleable metals that are extremely unlikely to participate in
chemical reactions with other materials. Some $230 million worth of gold was
discovered in two trucks in a tunnel under the 5 World Trade Center in November
2001, giving rise to suspicions that the trucks were being used to remove the
gold from the vaults before the South Tower fell.
September 7th,
2001 --27,294 put options are placed on Boeing’s stock, more than five times
the daily average
·
September 10th, 2001 - 4,516 put options are
placed on American Airlines, almost 11 times its daily average. Newsweek reports that a number of top
Pentagon brass cancel their flight plans for the next morning. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives
a phone call warning him not to fly the next morning. Pacifica Radio later
reveals that this phone call came directly from National Security Advisor
Condoleeza Rice.
·
September 11th, 2001- The National
Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, VA, is preparing for a exercise in which a
small corporate jet crashes into their building. NORAD is in the middle of a number of
military exercises. The first, “Vigilant Guardian”, is described as “an
exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense
outposts nationwide”, and “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.” The second, “Northern Vigilance”, moved
fighter jets to Canada and Alaska to fight off an
imaginary Russian fleet. Three F-16s
from Washington D.C.’s
National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base, 15 miles from the Pentagon, are flown
180 nautical miles away for a training mission in North Carolina. This left 14 fighter jets to protect the
entire United States.
Here's some more
interesting tidbits about Marvin Bush MARVIN BUSH EMPLOYEE'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH –
Connections to 9/11? Washington Post Sits on Story for a Week by Wayne Madsen (Special to From The
Wilderness) © Copyright 2004, From The Wilderness Publications,
www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed
or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only. October 10 , 2003, 1200 PDT, (FTW) --
WASHINGTON, At around 9 PM on September 29, Fairfax County, Virginia
police responded to a 911 call describing an accident. However, they soon
discovered they were not dealing with a routine emergency but the mysterious
death of an employee of the 47-year old brother of President George W. Bush,
venture capitalist Marvin Bush. Sixty-two year old Bertha Champagne, described
as a long time "baby sitter" for Marvin and Margaret Bush's two
children, son Walker, 13, and daughter Marshall, 17, was found crushed to death
by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the
Alexandria section of Fairfax County. Champagne
reportedly lived at the Bush family home. Champagne had left the residence to retrieve
something from her car, which police say had somehow been left in gear.
According to the police report, the car rolled forward and pinned the woman
between it and a small building next to the driveway (possibly a checkpoint
built by the Secret Service when Marvin's father, George H. W. Bush, was
president). The car crossed Edgehill
Drive, a small street in front of the Bush
compound. The vehicle then crossed a busy two-lane street, Fort Hunt Road, finally coming to rest in
a wooded area across the street that adjoins the prestigious Belle Haven
Country Club. No explanations have been offered as to why the vehicle did not
move until Champagne
was in a position to be crushed. Champagne was pronounced dead on arrival at Inova Mount
Vernon Hospital.
Courtney Young, a spokesperson for the Fairfax
County police was surprised when asked
about the circumstances surrounding Champagne's
death. She indicated the media was primarily focused on another Fairfax County story, the kidnapping and holdup
of the wife of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg on October 7. More mystifying
is the fact that the Washington Post waited almost an entire week to publish
the story about the baby sitter's death. The incident occurred on September 29,
but the Post did not report it until October 5 and buried it on page 3 of the
Metro section. Nevertheless, the Washington Post was the only media outlet to
cover the story at all. Young said police still did not know the exact cause of
Champagne's
death. Young said the police had posted
the incident on its web site in a press release, although the report makes no
mention of Marvin Bush. It reads: A 62-year-old Alexandria area woman died after being pinned
between a rolling car and a building.
The crash happened on Monday, around 9 pm, near the intersection of Fort Hunt Road and Edgehill Drive. Bertha Champagne
had gone outside to get something from a car in a driveway. The car, which was left in gear, began to
roll forward. Champagne was pinned between the car and a
small building next to the driveway. The
car continued to roll down the driveway, crossed Fort Hunt Road, and came to rest in a
wooded area. Champagne
was taken to Inova
Mount Vernon Hospital
where she was pronounced dead. The
press release is dated September 30 at 1330 (1:30 PM), some sixteen and a half
hours after the incident occurred. The police were well aware of Marvin Bush's
controversial role in serving on corporate boards for companies associated with
the 911 terrorist attacks, however, they emphasized that Champagne's death was merely a quirky
accident and no foul play was involved.
According to two articles in the Progressive Populist written by Margie
Burns, from 1993 to 2000, Bush served on the board of Securacom (since renamed
Stratesec). The chairman of the board of Stratesec is Wirt D. Walker III, a
cousin of Marvin and George W. Bush. Securacom had contracts to provide security
for Dulles International
Airport (the airport from which
American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, originated) and
the World Trade
Center in New York. Securacom's backers include a
number of Kuwaitis through a company called KuwAm Corp (Kuwaiti-American
Corp.). Stratesec also has Saudi investors. Walker also serves as a managing director of
KuwAm, which maintains offices within the Watergate complex along with Riggs
Bank, on whose board Bush's uncle, Jonathan Bush, sits. Saudi Princess Haifa al
Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the US
Prince Bandar, used a Riggs account to funnel money to Omar al Bayoumi and
Osama Basnan, two Saudi students in California
associated with two of the 911 hijackers. Until November 2002, Bush served on
the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (formerly Houston Casualty Company),
a re-insurer for the World
Trade Center.
Bush still serves as an adviser to the firm. Walker serves as chief executive officer of
Aviation General, an aircraft company backed by KuwAm. Aviation General,
formerly Commander Aircraft, brokered the sale of airplanes to the National
Civil Aviation Training Organization (NCATO), located in Giza, Egypt,
the hometown of lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. NCATO is the only civilian pilot
training school in Egypt.
NCATO has a training agreement with Embry-Riddle
University in Daytona Beach, Florida,
the flight school that was investigated by the FBI for possibly training at
least one of the 911 hijackers. A Houston businessman who worked closely with
the Bush family over the years confided that Marvin Bush and Wirt Walker appear
to have taken over the Saudi real estate investment and aircraft brokerage
business once run out of Texas by Houston-based James Bath in association with
Salem bin Laden, the late brother of Osama bin Laden, and Khalid bin Mahfouz.
The source, who has dealt personally with the Bush family in Houston for a
number of years, said there should be skepticism when looking at bizarre deaths
like that of Champagne. The source speculated that Champagne might have happened upon some
sensitive information the Bush family wanted kept secret. Some observers wondered if Secret Service
agents might have been able to assist Champagne
when her car pinned her. According to the Secret Service in Washington, the agency only provides
protection to presidential siblings if an Executive Order authorizes such
action. A Secret Service spokesperson emphasized there is no current Secret
Service protection for Marvin Bush. However, there remains a question why
private security agents posted at the Bush compound could not have responded to
Champagne's
distress. There are also questions concerning Champagne's actual place of residence.
According to the Post story, Bush told police that Champagne
resided at their compound, However, a phone call to the directory-listed
residence of Bertha Champagne in Franconia, Virginia
resulted in Mrs. Champagne's
son answering the phone. He confirmed that his mother lived at the Franconia address but he was clearly uncomfortable and
nervous in talking to the media about the circumstances surrounding his
mother's death.
30 July 2006 Sunday
Heading to Vegas tomorrow for a
couple of days to see dear ol' Mom. Michael said he would look after the pups
while I am gone. Kind of a do nothing
day. Fixed blueberry pancakes for breakfast and tacos for lunch. Worked on the Gay archives some a little but
mostly felt like napping. Dog days of summer except my dogs are jumping all
over me. Mayor Rocky Anderson announced he's not running again so that's too
bad. Everyone hated him except the residents of Salt Lake City. Chad
called and said that Kevin Hillman called and said that he would serve on
Beyond Stonewall's planning committee. Great. Only Mark Thrash has not
responded but Chad said that Mark's is heavily involved in his love life right
now and I said good for him! I got a call from my dear friend John Reeves who
lives in Boston. He and his spouse Jimmy Hamamoto were in Providence Rhode Island
watching a festival of fire on the river.
He was excited to learn that Beyond Stonewall is back since he
co-created it with me back in 1988. Need
to find a way to get him out here for it as a facilitator or key note
speaker. He's a professor of Sociology
at Bunker Hill College in Cambridge, Mass. My second cousin called me Friday
saying she was in town for her niece’s wedding.
Her husband's niece is a Mormon and Barbara flew to SLC with her
daughter to attend the reception. You can't attend Mormon Weddings unless you
are a card carrying Mormon but you can give gifts! I probably won't be writing
anything until I get back from Vegas either Thursday or Friday.
31 July 2006
Monday
No entry
AUGUST
1 August 2006-2 August 2006
No entry
3 August
2006 Thursday
Stephanie
Williams wrote me: Ok, Ben if you know who this is I will split it with you
Steph “MY WILL, My name is Mrs. Hannah Jack Williams I am a dying woman who
have decided to donate what I have to you/Organization. I am 59 years old and I
was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my
husband, who had left me everything he worked for. I have been touched by God
to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to you for the good
work of God than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds
ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to
forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going
in for an operation tomorrow morning. I decided to WILL/donate the sum of
$3,500,000(Three million five hundred thousand dollars) to you/Organization for
the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege
and also for the assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27). At the
moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my
relatives are around me and my health status. I have adjusted my WILL and my
Executor is aware I have changed my will, you and him will arrange the transfer
of the funds from the Private Finance company to your humble self. I wish you
all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and Please use the
funds well and always extend the good work to others. Contact my Executor
(Barrister Edward Hayes) with this specified Email:
(barr_hayeschamber@boxbg.com) with your full names contact telephone/fax number
and your full address and tell him that I have WILLED($3,500,000.00) to you and
I have also notified him that I am WILL-IN that amount to you for a specific
and good work. Thanks and God bless. NB: I will appreciate your utmost
confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don’t want
anything that will Jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with
you by email as I don’t want my relation or anybody to know because they are
always around me. Regards, Mrs. Hannah Jack Williams>” I responded: So how
much money do they want you to send them to change the will? LOL How is your
house coming along? I just got back from Vegas. Wasn't too bad 100
degrees. Mom and Charline are fine.
Talked to Barbara Danforth last weekend. She was in Utah for her husband's niece wedding. She
was on a hectic schedule so we never did hook up. I will be back in school in
another week. LUV Jr. PS. The only rich relatives we had was great great
grandpa's G.K. Williams' sister Georgiana Simmons. Her children were all cattle
barons in Ft. Worth Texas.
4 August 2006 Friday
Got back yesterday from Vegas. It
was a quick trip and a short one. It was
in the 100's there but not insufferable. Had a nice encounter while there at
the porn bookstore so that made it all the worth while. I listened to Planet Simpson on CD to and
from Vegas. It’s a pretty interesting book. Premise is that the Simpsons is
just as much a cultural reference for the younger generation as much as
anything else with each of the Simpson characters in archetype. Thank
providence the heat wave here has broken. The 80's feel so wonderful. Well
since War is breaking out I am going
with a military thing for pictures for a while.
5 August 2006 Saturday
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6 August 2006 Sunday
Received my DNA results from DNA
Family Tree yesterday and spent most of the evening trying to figure it out. My
Haplotype which is the genetic subgroup I belong to is R1b1 which is the British Isles but not Anglo-Saxon. My father's lineage is Celtic and my ancestor
dude left his Y chromosome all over Ireland
and Scotland
and in particular Wales where my immigrant ancestor came from before settling
in Colonial Virginia circa 1640's. Evidently after the last ice age, 10,000
years ago there were only about 60,000 Cro-Magnon (homo sapiens sapiens) humans
(not counting Neanderthals) in all of Europe.
They divided into several Haplotypes
such as Mediterranean, Alpine, Nordic, Slavic, and Celtic and many
more. Mine was a Celtic daddy... Anyway
already found two perfect matches with my DNA with other Williams who have
North Carolina colonial roots so it verifies that my research I did with just
legal documentation was accurate and also that my grandma's never strayed from
their Williams male mates or my DNA would not match what I always thought it
would. It’s kind of fascinating to know that one part of the male Y chromosome
is virtually immortal when every other cell in the body dies. That one Y sex
cell has existed from the beginning of time and keeps on going. Talk about an
energizer bunny. It’s also fascinating to know that there are complete
strangers out there that care similar DNA enough to show a common heritage. Any
how spent yesterday trying to save my Maple tree my drilling holes in the
ground to get iron down to its root system. I also went back to the gym in the
afternoon while Mike and Tom Folks went to the Park City Art Festival. We had a
fairly active thunder storm last night also.
7 August 2006-8 August 2006
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9 August 2006 Wednesday
Nothing is as inevitable as
change. Our neighbors stunned us with the news that they are looking to sell
and move to a planned community in Draper. We have lived next doors to each
other for nine years and they are the only neighbors we ever had since there
are only two houses on our short block. More then neighbors they were our
extended family and I am just sick at the prospect of them moving away. But
time changes everything. Don't want to really think about it or I get really
sad. I moved my mom into the same Mobile Home Park in Vegas as Kimberly's mom.
That how close we are or I guess it will soon be past tense. Hard to build up excitement for them when its
going to be so lonesome here.
10 August 2006 Thursday
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11 August 2006 Friday
A recent study conducted at
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, found that a large percentage of men in
Ireland (and quite a few in Scotland and Wales) share the same Y chromosome,
suggesting that the 5th-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages"
may be the ancestor of one in 12 Irishmen! King Niall established a dynasty of
powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries. Niall of the
Nine Hostages received his name from the taking of royal hostages in the 4th
and 5th Century A.D. as a strategy for playing mental havoc upon his opponent
chieftains. He is known in folklore as a raider of the British and French
coasts as the Roman troops were being withdrawn to defend Italy. His descendants became the
most powerful rulers of Ireland until the 11th century. In the study scientists found that an area in
northwest Ireland was the main powerbase of the Ui Neill kings, which literally
translated means "descendants of "Niall". The Trinty College Y
chromosome study appeared to trace this haplotype sequence back to one person
King Niall. Why is this interesting to me? Because my Williams 12 markers Y chromosome signature is a
perfect match to the Niall's family profile! 13-25-14-11-(11)-(13)-12-12-12-13-(14)-29 This
haplotype signature is found only in .6 of one percent of the entire Family
Tree DNA database. While the haplotype signature is typical for R1b European
the 11, 13, and 14 makes it unique to known descendants of the O'Neil family.
Niall of the Nine Hostages captured a British Roman young during one of his
raids who later became known as St. Patrick who is credited with introducing
Christianity to the Celtic Pagans of Ireland. Besides kidnapping St. Patrick in
his youth, Niall's reign is known mainly for two things. First, he consolidated
the northern region of Ireland
and created a dynasty that kept his descendants as High Kings of Ireland for
600 years. Second, his military ability led him to the Irish Control of all of
Alba and a large part of Britain.
He seriously damaged the Romans ability to control Britain
and even managed to carve out some Irish controlled territory in France.
It is said this Irish Empire was only eclipsed in size by Dathi's, Niall's
nephew and successor. Well I was surprised to find that I am a direct Y Chromosome
descendant of this Celtic king but I have no idea how during the next 1000
years one of his progeny found himself in Celtic Wales, where my Williams
ancestor set sail to America in mid 17th Century and landed up in Virginia.
Sure explains why so much of my FamilyTree DNA matches are located in Ireland
and not Wales where I expected to find all of them. It also helps explain why I am so drawn to
all things Faerie and Bohemian. Its in the blood. I remember studying that when the Romans
encountered the Celts of the British Isles that the said they were fierce
warriors who painted their bodies blue and fought naked. The Romans also noted how same sex love was
prevalent among the Celts even by Roman standards!
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15 August 2006 Tuesday
My last official day of my Summer
vacation and of course I was at work all day putting together music song books
I created. Lots of American Folk songs; Buffalo Gals, Buffalo Boy, Little Liza
Jane, On Top of Old Smoky, etc. with lots of Pete Seeger songs, the Weavers,
and some Beatles thrown in for good measure. Sunday was a fun productive first
meeting for Beyond Stonewall 07 (BSWO7) and was especially fun seeing the video
montage that Dan had put together on the previous Beyond Stonewalls and seeing
old friends I haven't seen in years. There was a good vibe and enthusiasm for
the retreat and I think we have a good committee with Dan Fahndrich, Chad
Keller, Michael Aaron, Ron Hunt, and Kevin Hillman on board. We made three
important decisions at the planning meeting. 1st we settled on a cost of $100
for the Weekend Retreat, that it would be a retreat for Gay identified men, and
that we would meet on cyberspace until January. The decision of having BSW07 a
Gay men's retreat invoked the most discussion. But once the point was made that
BSW does not have to focus on "community building" as much as it did
15 years ago, then it was easy to see how having a workshop retreat to address
Gay men's issues in the 21st century would be very productive. From now until
January we will be thinking about topics, lists of facilitators and key note
speakers. We will be keeping in touch through a BSW07 Group Site I created for
committee members, until we actually meet again. Yesterday I took my Daisy May
in to be spaded and she stayed over night.
I expected her to be wobbly today but when I picked her up and took her
home she acted as the whole ovarian yank didn't even faze her! She is such a
great dog and companion. Chad
teased me on Sunday when I said I was having Daisy May spaded by saying if I
had been a Lesbian, the two males would be the ones having their nuts removed
rather then the females being spaded.
Perhaps. This morning I spent $350 having a new windshield wiper motor
put in the truck. Ouch! but when the snow flies I sure want to be able to see
out my windshield. There's a cease fire in the Middle East between Lebanon and
Israeli finally and the terrorist threat to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic
seems to have abated. I am not such a
true believer in the War on Terror anymore since we seem to be doing everything
we can in our power to create them because of our failed right wing foreign policies.
Been watching old disaster movies lately: In Old Chicago, The Rains Came, and San Francisco. Tyrone Powers is in Old Chicago and The Rains
Came and I think he's one of the most beautiful men who ever lived. In Old
Chicago O'Leary's cow burns down the place and in the Rains Came, a Indian City
is destroyed by an earthquake and a dam collapse. Powers Plays an Irish O'Leary
scoundrel and a noble Indian doctor. No typecasting there. Of course in San Francisco after
Jeanette MacDonald sings her heart out to that bastard Clark Gable you get
earthquake and fire! I love old B &
W melodrama disaster movies where everyone learns a moral lesson. Hooray for Hollywood!
16 August 2006 Wednesday
Elvis Presley died 29 years ago!
Can you believe it? And now they say there are more planets in the solar system
and we are sitting close to the Yellowstone Super Volcano that is bound to blow
in the next couple of 1000 years! Or Sooner. My official first day back to
work. I have 28 students and more will probably come. My car died right after
work while I was dropping off dry cleaning in Bountiful! Battery
just went kaput! But Mike was almost off work so I called him and he came down
and used a battery pack to start the car and we have been recharging it all
evening while we rearranged the house furniture for company this weekend. Mike's brother is flying in from California for a job interview, and his mom and dad and
sister are driving down from Wyoming and Colorado. We had to make sure we had enough room for
beds and pull outs in our small house. So that's my day. How was yours?
17 August 2006 Thursday
Another expensive day. Spent $400
having an alternator put in the truck. Still better then car payments for sure.
School is back in swing with all the little dramas, passive aggression, people
pleasing and power plays that revolves in an almost total female work place. It’s
was a long day and a sweltering one in my room. I come home just drained from
the heat.
18 August 2006-21 August 2006
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22 August 2006 Tuesday
Things are getting back to
normal. Last Friday Mike's folks came down from Wyoming
and his brother flew in from California
for a job interview so it was a busy weekend for sure. Fay and Bill brought
their three Shi Tzus and with our four we had a full house. Yesterday my next
door neighbor said they weren't moving after all because, among other things,
they didn't want to leave us. We just cried.
However I now hear that Randy may be finding work as security out in
Wendover but I can't imagine him uprooting the gang especially when Kimberley
is a supervisor for Jet Blue ticket sales. Life is interesting. I am supposed
to meet Polly someone at the Center this evening. They want to interview some
"old timers" about their coming out experiences.
23 August 2006 Wednesday
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24 August 2006 Thursday
School is back is session. My
classroom teeters around 88 degrees with seven fans swirling the hot air. So far none of my kids have passed out or
have had nose bleeds but they get to leave by 1:30 all this week. I think I will have a nice class and I met
with my student teacher today. Her name is Arrowsmith. Pretty cool. I get home
exhausted from the heat and just need down time to cool off but nooo… there are
puppy kisses and hugs to contend with. Thank Sirius! Wrote my next column for
QSL on personalities from the French Revolution. I may have been drunk when I
wrote it. Oh well. Can't be any worse
then Rhett Barney when he's sober. I sent Polly Stewart contacts for 32 people
for the center's coming out video. I think she was impressed that I was able to
give them to her the next day. Soooo happy that my neighbors decided not to
move after all but are just going to do home improvements. Randy is going to
cut branches off my trees with the chainsaw I bought last month. I buy the
tools and butch Randy uses them. Symbiotic relationship. He said their daughter
has a male teacher for 4th grade who Randy says has to be Gay and Kayla says
its just like having Ben as my teacher. Cool. Darth Bush, Darth Rumfield and
Darth Condom Reeses Dirty Rice is coming to town at the end of the month. Rocky
Skywalker Anderson and Princess Sheehan are going to be here also for the
rumble. Everyone bring light sabers and their favorite wookie.
25 August 2006 Friday
Can you believe it Pluto is not a
planet anymore! The God of the underworld has been banished again. Does this
mean my horoscope is now truly a horrorscope? Well I can see the thousands of
science teachers ripping off Pluto from their solar system charts. More money
out of our pockets to update. It was Back to School night last night and a
couple of cute blue collar daddies showed up. But it was a long 12 hour day in
a warm stuffy room. Could be worse my friend Jennifer Lewis at Orchard says she
has 18 boys and 8 girls in her class. Yikes! It was thundering and lightening
and raining after 1 a.m. for most of the night. Poor Priscilla, my dachshund
mix grand dame just becomes a nervous Nelly when she hears thunder so she had a
hard night. Mike had Tom Folk over last night watching something on the big
screen. I just read emails, did a little computer work, and went to bed.
26 August 2006 Saturday
Today was not a fun day. This
morning as I was moving some dead tree limbs I had cut down early in the year
for the city clean up pile, I disturbed a nest of ground wasps that attacked
me. I never had such a miserable experience. I yelled for Michael to come turn
the hose on me but I was stung about 20 times. I was stung in my right eyelid
and my eye is still swollen so I can hardly see out of it. I have been keeping an ice pack on it but all
the other little stabs are still sore and stinging. I think I have only been
stung by a wasp once before and never by a Swarm. I think if I had any allergy
to bee stings I would be in the hospital right now not typing in my blog. Pretty
tired so I think I will go to bed and hope the swelling goes down. My neighbors
said my whole face looks swollen. I know I had several stings in my neck and
under my chin as well as my eye. They
got into my loose shirt and was stinging me there too until I could pull that
off. Oy Vey What I day I am having.
27 August 2006 -28 August 2006
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29 August 2006 Tuesday
I wrote
a letter to the SLTribune: Every time I read a letter to the editor penned by
Doug Dansie (Aug 29) I get a queasy, nauseous feeling and I have to put down my
toast. His message is always the same, a
parrot apologist for the dominant religion and culture. He even once outrageously wrote, in a
prominent alternative Salt Lake paper, that the people who were slaughtered in
the Mountain Meadow Massacre had it coming to them because of the alleged
slights given by them to the local Mormons.
His strident anti-progressive views would be comical if they weren’t so
sadly prevalent in a state that was founded by 19th Century progressives of
which only Rocky Anderson is a true political descendant. Ben Williams
30 August 2006 Wednesday
Interesting day in the city of Salt by a dead lake. Our Mayor Rocky Anderson basically called
George W. Bush the worse president in American history, a liar, and horses’
ass. Our mayor spoke at Washington Square to
more then 5000 at an anti-Bush and war rally. The hypocrites (pronounced
Republicans) are madder then the yellow jackets that stung my ass last Saturday
especially at our mayor. Neocons are
fuming that Rocky would speak at a protest when Bush is coming to Salt Lake City to speak to
the VFW. I suppose they would rather
have a Nuremburg extravaganza instead.
Let's all goose step to our corporate masters. Mike and I drove downtown
after work to give the pups a ride and at an anti-war rally at Pioneer Park
there were nearly 20 cop cars parked on 3rd South. I told Mike I bet you
anything there won't be any over at Washington
Square where a Pro Bush and pro war rally is
taking place and sure enough there wasn't one cop car that I could see as we
drove around the block. The Washington
Square Rally had at the most maybe 200-300 people there but at least 2/3 were
children dragged along by their breeder parents! Mike and I laughed when we saw a school bus
from Provo
filled will elementary school children leaving the rally! Lots of gas guzzling
SUV parked for the pro Bush rally. Sixth
South is all blocked off on the outbound lane near the Marriott Grand America
where Bush will have all his ass lickers groveling. A young soldier killed in
Iraq almost had his funeral disrupted by the Westboro Baptist Church from
Kansas who is protesting at funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq saying that God
killed them for defending a "fag
nation". A group of
motorcyclist bikers surrounded the funeral to keep the assholes away. I guess there is also a Death to Israel going
on to so downtown is quite lively for a change. I am feeling much better and my
eye has gone back to normal after swelling to the size of a walnut after the
yellow jacket attack. I guess old Warren Jeff the polliwog was finally captured
in Las Vegas of all places! LOL Viva Las
Vegas! I watched "What Ever Happed to Baby Jane?" last night. hadn't
seen it in years although I have it on video tape. Got to love old Bette Davis kicking the shit
out Joan Crawford's crippled Blanche character.
There are some fabulous lines throughout the movie that have become
legendary. Blanche says, "You couldn't do this to me if I wasn't in this
wheel chair.' Jane retorts "But ya are Blanche, but ya are."
Actor Glenn Ford, who played
strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as "The Blackboard
Jungle,""Gilda" and "The Big Heat," died on Aug. 30.
He was 90. Failing health forced Ford to skip a 90th birthday tribute on May 1
at Hollywood's historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. But he did send greetings
via videotape, adding, "I wish I were up and around, but I'm doing the
best that I can.... There's so much I have to be grateful for
31 August 2006 Thursday
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SEPTEMBER
1 September 2006-3 September 2006
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4 September 2006 Monday Labor Day
"The Crocodile Hunter",
Steve Irwin, 44, who made a career out of getting dangerously close to deadly
beasts, was stabbed through the heart on Sept. 4, by a stingray during filming
of a new TV program on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
5 September 2006 Tuesday
Well an pretty uneventful Labor
Day Holiday has come and gone. Managed to make it through the weekend without
being attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets. Mike took Smokey off to Fort
Collins to see his folks so I just babysat the other pooches. I know I am getting old when Michael Aaron
invites me to a nudist movie party and I decide to stay home and watch a movie
with my pups! Watched Bang Bang Kiss
Kiss or is it Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? Does it really matter? Nope. But I
really like Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer was fun as Gay Perry. I also
watched a documentary on Queer Cinema. It was just so so. I am not in the loop I suppose. On Labor Day
I canned 12 jars of peach jam from by tree. Didn't get as much fruit off the
tree as last year. I feel so connected to my wizen grandmas when I am canning
jam and there is so much faerie energy in gathering the fruit and transforming
it by magick into preserves to spread on muffins all winter long. I renewed my
membership to the Trapp. More out of nostalgia and loyalty I guess since I only
go out once in a blue moon, and not at all this past summer. Reread Love Poem
of J. Alfred Prufrock. I try reading it
once a year at least. Fell in love with the poem in college some 36 years ago
and now that I am older then when T.S. Elliot wrote the blessed thing I relate
even more. "I am old I am old I shall wear my trousers rolled," had
no meaning for me at 18. But I truly
feel like Elliott now for I too hear the mermaids singing and they are not
singing for me. I spent much of the weekend making seven CDs of classical music
and researching the internet for information on each of composition. I am really moved by Erik Satie's Gymopedie
No 1 and can't get enough of Borodin's Romeo and Juliet especially the March of
the Montagues and Capulets. So I lay in
the dark surrounded by my furry friends, dreamily taken to far away places by
the ethereal strains of melodic sound waves pulsating against my eardrums. In
this half conscious state I conjure up dead lovers and ghostly friends and we
embrace. Then we part. Such is life at 55.
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9 September 2006 Saturday
It's an election year and
therefore the price of oil is coming down after the über- rich made a transfer
of wealth from the poor to themselves and are now trenching to scare the bejeezuz
out of the commoners by resurrecting Osama and the war on global terror. Gone
are discussions on immigration, health care reform, minimum wage, global
warming, and all other failed social and political ideology of the über-rich's
minions err Republicans. Don't pay any
attention to us über-rich Corporate overlords feeding on the carcass of third
worlders- it's them Islamofascists out there that's gonna get you in the night!
Boo! Trust Us! I see that the BYU professor of physics who's been saying that
the planes hitting the WTC towers were just a diversion for them being blown up
with explosives has been put on paid administrative leave. Someone among the über-rich must have put the
screws to BYU. The talibaptists and other members of the Christian Reich are
squealing that if Republicans lose Congress dogs will be fucking cats and the
natural order of the world will go topsy turvy and then boy with Yahweh be
pissed off! Better get your asbestos
umbrellas out because here comes the fire and brimstone. Thank ya Jeeezus!
Mike's all into this Red Box McDonald $1 Rental where you can rent new releases
for a buck. He discovered how easy it is when in Colorado
and now is hooked- We've seen Robin Williams' RV, Peirce Brosnan’s The
Matador, and Disney's Eight Below about the poor sled dogs left
behind in Antarctica to fend for
themselves. Can't stand to see dogs
hurt. I worried more about the dogs left on the Titanic then I did about old
Leonardo. Since we have a wall screen projection type home theater we set our
aging butts in our Lazy Boys, grow fatter, and let Hollywood mesmerize us for a
few more hours. The American Dream. Nothing
at all is on TV and since Bob Schrieffer left CBS news last Thursday I don't
even watch the news. I got weepy when he
said his farewells. All the greats are gone. I hope Katie Couric lives up to
her hype. The rest are pretty boys that
while they can give you a "hard on" they rarely give you hard news
with the grace and gentility of the old school. Tom Folk came over last night
to watch movies and have pizza with Mike and I.
I like Tom but I don't get him. He said he was going to stop and get
some wine but spaced it off, and after having pizza and wine with Mike, he then
told Mike that the DVD he picked up for him cost $11. Mike just gave him
$10. I don't get it. I was never raised that way. The movie Tom
brought over was a Gay-themed Film Noir TV movie called the “Third Man
Out". It was like a Gay Nick and Nora Charles type detective movie. The other movie was Tyler Perry's Madea's
Family Reunion which had its fun moments. Nothing really Gay in it but
Tyler Perry dresses as Madea a 60 something matriarch of an extended black
family in Atlanta Georgia. Cicely Tyson as well as Maya Angelou and a basically all
black cast was in it . Wish the smoke would leave the valley. Idaho
and Montana
are on fire so the smoke is drifting down here.
Leaves are all changing higher up. Fall is in the air for sure. I guess I should go check the peach tree and
see what the birds have left me. Email to Mom-Hi Mom, Hope all is well. Fall is
in the air up here. I am over all my bee stings thank goodness. The pups are
getting bigger and Priss and Smokey are good. We had our fall clean up and
Randy helped me cut down a lot of branches in the back yard. School is okay so
far. Luv
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17 September 2006 Sunday
Well summer is over in Utah. We had a very
soaking rain for the past two days with much cooler temps. We even had slush
and some hail out of the storm. The Oquirrh Mountains are blanketed with snow
and you can see heavy snow in the back country of the Wasatch. Read in the
Pillar that Wasatch Affirmation has dissolved after 20 years. Its gone back to
the name Salt Lake Chapter of Affirmation.
I doubt whether anyone remembers how or why the Wasatch Chapter was
started accept for Russ Lane
and I but then I don't think Russ probably does either for that matter. He's in very poor health. Visited with Chad
Keller yesterday at his new place on 3rd North. He and Mark Thrash are room
mates and I like their place and location. Chad is working and in school so is
a busy boy these days. Biggest latest gossip in national news is that Karl
Rove, Bush's Machiavellian had a Gay father and no its not the Pillsbury
Doughboy. Republican hypocrisy and
meanness is just beyond the pale. They pander to the far rights most basic
fears and hatefulness so they can surreptitiously transfer more wealth from the
middle class and poor to the greedy rich. Talked to mom Friday and she said
that my nephew is having a baby boy. Baby won't be born until February. He will
be named James Edgar Clark II. Edgar is
a family name that goes back to 1873. That is how I inherited it. I guess all is well with the rest of the
clan. Been watching an awful lot of movies lately since Michael has discovered
McDonald's Red Box. I am still getting
movies through Netflix. Latest one we watched that was really fun was a German
film "Guys and Balls". It's a typical come from behind and win movie
but really fun since the underdogs are a rag tag group of Gay German soccer
players. Another similar film but a
world away is "Iron Ladies" a film of based on a true story of Thai
drag queens who win Thailand's
National Volleyball Championship. That one is also really fun. But you have to
read subtitles in both. Watched "Ex-Fuehrer", another German film set
in East Germany as the Berlin wall is coming down. It has homoaffection
inclinations, lots of full frontal prison nudity but I wouldn't say it was a
Gay film. For my own enjoyment I rented an old very old television series
"Love That Bob" aka the Bob Cummings Show (1955-1959). It’s the romantic misadventures of Bob
Collins, a suave bachelor and glamour photographer operating in Hollywood, California.
The show centers on his womanizing ways with his models, his secretary's
infatuation with him, his nephew's horniness, and his sister's attempts to make
him settle down. Featured players are Bob Cummings, Ann B. Davis, Rosemary de
Camp, and Dwayne Hickman. Shows were
written by Paul Henning pre-Beverly Hill Billies. One of my favorite episodes
included all the classic dykes of early TV sitcoms, Ann B. Davis, Nancy Kulp,
and Rose Marie! Well there's nothing on TV today as well written....
18 September 2006 Monday
Went to Affirmation for the first
time in years because I read that the old Wasatch Affirmation was discontinued.
The local chapter has been re-organized and is known as Affirmation Salt
Lake. Since its been 20 years since the Wasatch
Affirmation was formed by Russ Lane I felt like I wanted to see what the new
group is all about. Brian Bennington, Duane Jennings' partner, and Craig
Steiner are the new co-directors. Duane and Rick Bickmore will still be on hand
to help out. The Sunday meeting was held at the MCC building on 6th East, and
soon it felt like homecoming with Craig Hunter, Willy Marshall, John Cooper,
Bob McIntier and others familiar faces from the olden days. I sat with Craig and Willy, gave little back
rubs and caught up with each others lives.
Willy is still living in Big Water but comes to SLC on the
weekends. He said that John Butler is
living in some communal cult in Myrtle
Beach SC. He's 60 now
and has totally put the LaBarons and Tony Feliz and all other Mormon sects
behind him. I finally found out what is wrong with Russ Lane from Willy Marshall. He has Parkinson's Disease. Leave it to Willy
to just go up and ask him! Willy was
afraid that Russ might have AIDS but its Parkinson's that is destroying his
health. Russ Lane was always such a health
nut...drinking nasty wheat grass juice and lots of rabbit food. Wouldn't hardly
touch meat. Few today remember what a dynamo he was when he started Wasatch
Affirmation. Another reason I went to the meeting was because a presentation on
Gay Mormon history was being given and I thought I might learn something but it
was a rehash of Michael Quinn, Rocky O’Donovan, and Jay Bell's research as well
as some of mine although I hadn't been given credit. After the meeting stayed
and talked with Brian Bennington and others about Mormon history and later
Willy Marshall and I visited and reminisced about days of yore. He said that he saw Billy Bikowski sometime
back at a LDS single Ward dance and made Billy talk to him. Billy was extremely uncomfortable and said he
had been going to Evergreen and wanted to get married, have a family, and put
the past behind him. Poor lost soul. It
was a pleasant meeting under 20 people there, mostly middle-aged men and some
thirty-something Lesbians. Like all
support and social groups in Utah,
Affirmation is struggling. I think the Golden Age of Support groups have come
and gone. Going to Affirmation tonight
made me realize even more how far I have journeyed these past 20 years. Affirmation spoke of four categories that Gay
Mormons often find them in-DNA Mormons, Cultural Mormons, Ethnic Mormons,
Spiritual Mormons. I did not feel that I belonged to any of those definitions. My sojourn through Mormonism is a part of my
history but really isn't a part of me anymore. And I am happy for that. Someone
set a bomb off in the SLC Library. I would like to stick a pipe bomb up his
ass. Our beautiful library, the true
Salt Lake City Temple of Humanism.
19 September 2006 Tuesday
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20 September 2006 Wednesday
The 19th would have been my
Grandpa Johnson's 105th birthday. He was a hoot and had the gift for gab, the
old hillbilly. He's been gone ten years now.
Monday I had my ESL class, trying to convince us why the balkanization
of the U.S. is a good thing, and Tuesday
I made my student teacher cry by telling her she had to have more control over
the kids. Oh well. I was nice about it
but some people just don't take criticism very well even when inter spliced
with lots of positives. Last night I entered the rest of June from my 1986
Journal where I finally broke off with Russ Lane, the Restoration Church, and
my marriage. People mentioned who are still around were Willy Marshall, Jon
Butler, Bob McIntier, Mike Howard, Marc Lamar and Craig Hunter. This morning
its gloomy and rainy this last day of summer
21 September 2006 Thursday
Todd Bennett and Ron Hunt host
several bear house parties through out the year. Its a nudist party as
well. Mike Romero is a roommate that I
have lived with for a number of years. We aren't lovers anymore just house mates and at times companions. We
started out as lovers then moved into just friends. Its at time awkward because
the comfort boundaries shift from time to time.
I bought out his interest in the house but he still helps out with the
pups. I have two 6 month old miniature schnauzers and a 10 year old dachshund
mix and he has a 8 year old miniature schnauzer as well. We don't party
together and kind of keep our sex lives to ourselves....probably more info then
you needed. LOL
22 September 2006 Friday
Well lets see what is happening
with me? Luci Malin asked if I had a list of past board members of the
GLBTIQLMOPCCLU- aka The Center. So I spent my entire evening searching my
archives for lists of board members of the various community centers we have had
through out the year. And I am thinking don't they keep minutes and shouldn't
they have these lists? Luci Malin is a
board member so if she doesn't know how to access a list I wonder if they are
even keeping records. So that is how I
spent my evening. It took nearly 3 1/2 hours.
It still pisses me off that they have that the Utah Stonewall Center was
started in 1992 and that the GLBTCCU started in 1997. They can't even get that right and far be it
from asking people who know. The Utah
Stonewall Center
grand opening was June 1, 1991 and closed its doors October 1, 1997. The GLCCU
had its grand opening in October 1998! I should know I wrote the fucking speech
about the history of the community that they asked Kim Russo to give. Oh well if they can't even get their history
right makes you wonder what else is amiss.
They don't care. It all happened before their time and they won't stick
around long enough to be bothered. It was like when Pride Day said 2004 was 20
years of Gay Pride in Utah!
Morons. But no they can't admit they
are wrong because, like George W., they are the "deciders". Finished
my Cross-cultural awareness project for my ESL endorsement today. It's not due
until the 28th but good to get it finished. I wonder if I'd had taken pictures
of the gang fight on the corner of my house today I could have brought it as
show and tell for Cultural traditions of my neighborhood: swearing, graffiti,
and gang fights. But by golly their parents do the work that Americans won't,
so why should I complain? Gee I am in a pissy mood. Must be catching something.
Colds are starting to pass through the school. I had three kids absent today
and it’s been rainy and cool. Probably more pissed that I went and bought
season tickets for the Grand Theater and made sure I had aisle seats for Mike's
big feet, and instead of being excited tells me that he might have other plans
tomorrow. I am not sure why I bother at all.
Sometimes I think Mike is like a bunion something that I have grown use
to but still is a pain. Well my poochies sure like this cooler weather, they
are even more rambunctious then before.
They take a lot of energy but they sure give a lot of love back for the
effort unlike most lovers. Speaking of lovers, someone that I dated okay
fucked, about three years ago when Mike and I were experiencing our annual on
the outs, contacted me via email and wants to go out on a date. His name is
Patrick Kimber. I can without qualms now
since Mike said last May said that he only wants us to be room mates. But it is going to be really awkward I think
if I want to bring him home...kinda like two divorced people still living in
the same house dating. Not sure if it’s worth
the drama it might arouse. I love using the word aroused as much as I can. In
the news Pope Bend- a- Dick Rated X has pissed off the Muslims by saying that
they have a violent religion and the Muslims are threatening to kill the pope
for saying that their religion promotes violence. Am I they only one that
thinks they are both insane? In Utah we have a tax for the rich and one for the
poor now. The poor can get a tax cut up to $48 thanks to the Republicans while
the Uber Rich will get $750 back. Hmmm. Now that’s fair.
Edward Albert,
the actor son of the late screen veteran Eddie Albert who first gained fame
co-starring with Goldie Hawn in the 1970s film, "Butterflies Are
Free," and later became an outspoken environmental activist, died on Sept.
22. He was 55. Albert, who served on the California Coastal Commission, died in
his sleep at his home in Malibu, Calif., after a battle with lung cancer.
23 September 2006 Saturday
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24 September 2006 Sunday
It was a beautiful if cool fall
day. Yesterday Mike and I went to the Grand Theater and watched The Pump Boys
and Dinettes. It was a hoot. He decided to go at the last minute after Chad Keller
said he was at work and couldn't go with me. Today just really cleaned the
house by polishing, dusting, vacuuming, all the boring but essential work it
takes to keep a house up. I've finished
putting my 1986 Journal on my Blogger site up to the end of July. It was the
best of times- it was the worse of times...where did I hear that before?
25 September 2006 Monday
Beautiful fall weather although I
didn't get to enjoy much of it being inside all day and going to my ESL class
until 7 p.m. Bought a new bed in a bag comforter yesterday. Ahhh! A simple
pleasure of life...fresh crisp sheets and a snugly comforter. September is fast slipping away and then it
will be October the Gayest month of all! Someone named Christopher Feld emailed
me through QSL wanting some help with research about Gay Salt Lake City in the
1950's. I emailed him back and said that I would. I've never heard back from
Luci Malin. I assume she got the email I sent her on past board members of our
community centers. Billy Bikowski's 45th
birthday is the 28th of this month. He will always be 25 years old in my
heart..the shit. Debbie Rosenberg wished me a Happy Rosh Hashanah today. I want
to wish everyone a Happy Mabon. Anyway sleep well all my friends and
adversaries. Lets get our rest and resume the battle tomorrow.
26 September 2006 Tuesday’
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27 September 2008 Wednesday
I have the sniffles so not sure whether
coming down with a cold or not. My puppies are chewing my walls. They are not
eating me out of house and home they are eating my home. Little stinkers. Gas prices are slowly coming
down. Mike filled up at Exxon’s for $2.64 per gallon. Just a week ago it was
$2.89. That's what I paid at Flying J
and it cost $40 to fill the tank up. Can't think of much news...meeting with
this kid Christopher Feld Friday about news records I have from the 1950's.
Probably will go to Todd Bennett and Ron Hunt's party this Saturday with
Patrick Kimber. I suppose it is LDS Conference weekend this weekend since
Sunday is the 1st of October. Bars should be hopping then. Hope everyone is
well.
28 September 2006 Thursday
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29 September 2006 Friday
Finally came down with the head
cold that had been teasing me all week. I took today off to rest and to eat the
chicken soup I made. I also made an apple cobbler. The autumn makes me want to
start eating apples and cinnamon. I met Christopher Feld today at the Center
and of course they were closed! They are always closed in the day time any
more. So I waited for him in my car and
then we hooked up by sitting at the little table that they have behind the
joint. Christopher is a 23 year old
transplant from Pennsylvania
who is a senior at the U of U working on a degree in history. Man after my own
heart. He's working on a book about Gay Salt
Lake in the 1950's so I
gave him a cd with 83 pages of research I have done on the SLC Tribune and
other sources. He's tall, dark and
handsome and young enough for me to be his daddy. We talked for nearly two hours in the warm
Autumn Sun about all types of things from politics, history, and local
personalities. He said our visit was the most fun he's had in weeks. That made
me happy. I told him that if he wants to
run something past me or just wants a history fix, since we are both history
junkies, that he could call me anytime. Picked up an issue on QSL at the Trapp
before heading home and low and behold David Nelson in a tux is the cover
story! Naturally it was on guns and Gays. I wrote my article on my coming out
in 1986 since Coming Out Day falls within the time frame of this issue. Yesterday was Billy Bikowski's 45th birthday
and I wanted to write something about it but I was feeling peckish so just went
to bed early. Funny how some people can
still cause the heart to dim after all these years. Billy once said he couldn't wait until I
stopped loving him so we could be just friends. Its been a long wait Billy. 20
years and I have no pictures of you except those that remain in my heart and
mind.
30 September 2006
Saturday
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