On Thursday, April 21, 2005, Richard McCollough was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of 15 year-old lesbian teenager Sakia Gunn. [Story from 365gay.com] R.I.P Sakia Sakia bears an uncanny, almost identical resemblance to a cousin of mine who is “in the life.” Same complexion, same facial expression, same hairstyle…chilling.

current music: frankly, mr. shankly – the smiths downloading amy ray’s newest prom from emusic.com. woo hoo! so psyched. too bad i won’t be in town to see her perform next monday next to download, jean grae’s attack of the attacking things..the dirty mixes. then off to zzzzland. leaving tomorrow eve. for seattle/vancover for a [...]

i’ve had peter schilling’s version of the david bowie inspired “major tom” story stuck in my head for the past 24 hours… 4, 3, 2, 1 Earth below us drifting, falling. Floating weightless calling, calling home… oh, the 80s… one parent’s take on the texas high school football coach shooting by a hot-tempered father who [...]

a playlist i had on heavy rotation for the past several days: 1. oh bondage up yours – x-ray spex 2. cities in dust – siouxsie and the banshees 3. genius – the murmurs 4. sleeping satellite (acoustic version) – tasmin archer 5. love is a battlefield – pat benatar 6. a stronger man (lazy [...]