god help me, i got sucked into this reality show. and i’m watching the reunion. two words: Team Nene! i love her and in this reunion, she is totally channeling mary j. blige with her new look. go nene, go nene. now back to our regularly scheduled non-focused blog.

seen yesterday on n. lamar contemplating starting up the daily photo again. thoughts? it was a commitment that turned into a habit, monday though friday, almost without fail save for vacations and days that were nonstop travel (i did manage a daily photo from the frankfurt airport once). speaking of, my dear friend denenge is [...]

Open Casting Call Please Distribute Widely Open Casting Call: Auditions: Wednesday, November 19, 7-10PM, ALLGO (701 Tillery St, STE 4) Performance Dates: TBA as part of FronteraFest Short Fringe, Hyde Park Theatre; Jan-Feb 2009 Stamp Lab (Cheryl Coward, Ana-Maurine Lara and k. terumi shorb), an award-winning theater collective, seeks to cast performers for the original [...]

3 days. six games. six teams. some fabulous displays of athleticism. a few surprises. yet, in the end, expected results. in a nutshell, that was the world vision classic at the university of texas-austin this past weekend. the no. 13 lady longhorns basketball team hosted dayton, st. mary’s and no. 25 old dominion. i have [...]

Dedicated to those in my home state who voted for Prop. 2 and those in Cali who voted for Prop. 8: Happy Friday…

i’m really sick of reading racist tirades on the internet blaming blacks for the passage of proposition 8 in california. the vitriol is sickening. i don’t have the energy to write a long post about this. besides, there are several other black gay bloggers who have done an excellent job of breaking this ish down. [...]

miriam makeba’s song “pata pata” is one from my childhood. when i was around eight or nine, one of my aunts took my sisters and brothers and i to see the musical ipi tombi which featured this song. afterwards, we were lucky enough to get the soundtrack on a 33″ record which we played every [...]

i saw this van on monday. it says “see websites” but there were no web sites listed on the vehicle. i had to hurry and get the pic because the dude driving it was pulling out of the parking lot at a fast pace.

there were no lines at o’henry middle school in austin where i voted. one of my neighbors was a poll worker. it was nice to see her there. my grandmother has been a poll worker for years. earlier this year she received an award from the democratic party in her county for being a registered [...]

  we’ll see…poster in downtown austin. and seen last week on 6th st.: taken with my phone camera