Author: Gareth

Up to my ass in work right now. Need a mental vacation, so this meme is as good as any:

The rules:

1. Open up your media player, winamp, sonix, fire up your ipod, rio, what have you, and put it on shuffle (like it’s not already. I just KNOW you guys like to listen to your music alphabetically!)
2. Skip through the first 25 songs and list them.
3. Add “In my pants!” to the end of each song title.
4. bold your favorites.

My List:

1.Rotating Head in my pants! – The English Beat (yeesh!)
2. Everybody’s Talkin’ in my pants! – Harry Nillson
3. Paris is One Day Away in my pants! – The Mood
4. Thursday in my pants! – Morphine
5. Deep Ocean Vast Sea in my pants! – Peter Murphy
6. Something About You in my pants! – Level 42
7. Pretty Things in my pants! – Rufus Wainwright
8. John, I’m Only Dancing in my pants! – David Bowie
9. Single in my pants! – Vibralux
10. Buried in the Sand in my pants! – Duran Duran
11. Elizabethan Dance Suite in my pants! – The Empire Brass
12. Human Racing in my pants! – Nik Kershaw
13. Woo Hoo in my pants! – The 5 6 7 8s
14. Do It Clean in my pants! – Echo and the Bunnymen
15. Lady Jane in my pants! – Rolling Stones
16. Feeling Good in my pants! – Nina Simone
17. Sin and Buggery in my pants! – Thomas Dolby (possibly my favorite from this entire list!)
18. The Queen and the Soldier in my pants! – Suzanne Vega
19. Ca Plane Pour Moi in my pants! – Plastic Bertrand
20. Everything’s Gone Green in my pants! – New Order
21. Return to Oz in my pants! – Scissor Sisters
22. Can’t Get There From Here in my pants! – R.E.M.
23. Town Called Malice in my pants! – The Jam
24. Elevation (Tomb Raider Remix) in my pants! – U2
25. After Dark in my pants! – Tito and Tarantula

…and now, back to work. In my pants.

And now, a mindless meme-break….

Up to my ass in work right now. Need a mental vacation, so this meme is as good as any:

The rules:

1. Open up your media player, winamp, sonix, fire up your ipod, rio, what have you, and put it on shuffle (like it’s not already. I just KNOW you guys like to listen to your music alphabetically!)
2. Skip through the first 25 songs and list them.
3. Add “In my pants!” to the end of each song title.
4. bold your favorites.

My List:

1.Rotating Head in my pants! – The English Beat (yeesh!)
2. Everybody’s Talkin’ in my pants! – Harry Nillson
3. Paris is One Day Away in my pants! – The Mood
4. Thursday in my pants! – Morphine
5. Deep Ocean Vast Sea in my pants! – Peter Murphy
6. Something About You in my pants! – Level 42
7. Pretty Things in my pants! – Rufus Wainwright
8. John, I’m Only Dancing in my pants! – David Bowie
9. Single in my pants! – Vibralux
10. Buried in the Sand in my pants! – Duran Duran
11. Elizabethan Dance Suite in my pants! – The Empire Brass
12. Human Racing in my pants! – Nik Kershaw
13. Woo Hoo in my pants! – The 5 6 7 8s
14. Do It Clean in my pants! – Echo and the Bunnymen
15. Lady Jane in my pants! – Rolling Stones
16. Feeling Good in my pants! – Nina Simone
17. Sin and Buggery in my pants! – Thomas Dolby (possibly my favorite from this entire list!)
18. The Queen and the Soldier in my pants! – Suzanne Vega
19. Ca Plane Pour Moi in my pants! – Plastic Bertrand
20. Everything’s Gone Green in my pants! – New Order
21. Return to Oz in my pants! – Scissor Sisters
22. Can’t Get There From Here in my pants! – R.E.M.
23. Town Called Malice in my pants! – The Jam
24. Elevation (Tomb Raider Remix) in my pants! – U2
25. After Dark in my pants! – Tito and Tarantula

…and now, back to work. In my pants.

As expected, the American Taliban succeeded in whipping their bible-thumping sheep into a frenzy, and Kansas has passed one of the most restrictive anti-Gay-Marriage Amendments in the entire nation. Turnout was low, of course, which means that the organized conservatives, told how to vote by their ridiculously-tax-exempt Churches, easily got what they wanted. The amendment isn’t limited to gay marriage, although most Kansas were too lazy or too stupid to realize that. According to this amendment, only traditional marriage is entitled to the “rights or incidents of marriage.” No common law. No domestic partnerships.

To put it in personal terms: if I am in an accident and hospitalized, Laura no longer has the right to visit me, since we aren’t married legally, despite the fact that we’ve been living together for 8 years. She can’t make any decisions on my behalf, or even demand the right to be notified of my condition.

Thank you, American Taliban. But hey, you’re keeping us safe from the “Fags.”

Somewhere along the line, Fred Phelps went from someone Kansans were ashamed of, to someone that Kansans want to emulate.

This victory is only going to embolden the Jesus Freaks, you know. Expect to see more of their agenda pushed on the legislature almost immediately. Bans on Gay adoption, More restrictive abortion legislation, you name it, and it’s coming. Which is why we all need to shake this off and get to work. We cannot let them succeed any further. We need to do more than bitching….we need to organize and we need to fight….HARD.

It should be evident even to the most casual observer that we are in the midst of a Second Civil War….one fought without guns, but a war nonetheless. The other side has been winning because they KNEW it was a war from the outset. They mobilized into armies, they manuevered, and they’ve struck repeatedly. Funny thing about a war, though: It’s only easy to win when nobody is fighting back.

I’m serious about this, folks. Enough bitching. Let’s do something.