bored beyond belief #45 – Michael and Me at 50

bored beyond belief #45

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The Green Dad (& Spazio: 1999)

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Dark Forest & The Flatus Show (extra fun – road enraged)

The Bashing Report:
#1 – Seattle gay couple’s home defaced, #2 – young woman mistaken for younger gay man pushed into plate glass window, #3 – trans person shot twice, #4 -  gay man harassed and assaulted in bar, #5 – San Diego activist assaulted at pride rally, #6 – 4 men attacked by gang for being gay and Asian, #7 – gay men targeted for beatings by gang in NYC

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Exciting updates about my health including eye surgery for strabismus!

David Ryan @ Zillacast

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Death Watch 2009 update (Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett)

Leave me a post or call me (206-350-7630)

NEW NEW NEW: 206-203-1930

Michael Jackson (1958-2009) R.I.P.

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bored beyond belief #44 – A disgruntled 50 and a T

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Listener discretion advised (no offense)

A Giant-Sized, double-issue bored beyond belief!

Teresa joins me to wish me warm birthday wishes – I have reached the big 5-0. She offers me useless advice about becoming a “senior”

Her menopause is improved now that she’s on birth control pills  (“ping-ping”) and the regrets of never having an abortion.

Teresa fulminates about the word “senior”. Teresa insists that the phrase “mature adult” is an oxymoron.

Joe G. is in his “golden years”.

What’s new with California besides Miss California. Can you say “insolvency“?

I miss trash piling up in the streets – then I blabber & reminisce about the 1960’s/1970’s.  Teresa asks if my teens were the “best years of [my] life”.

Digital TV and re-seeing the wonders of blaxploitation movies! The wonderful Pam Grier!

What was it like growing up in the 1970’s? Remember trash pick-up strikes?

What was the #1 song was on the day of your birth?

What plans might I have for my 50th birthday?

Groaning about my health issues – I’m a senior now, after all. Would you want to be awake for surgery? My health insurance won’t pay for the less invasive procedure.

The young try to be respectful to seniors like me…

Incidental music:
Kansas City – Wilbert Harrison
Do Wah Diddy – Manfred Mann
Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison (Japanese style)
Ringo - Lorne Greene
Venus – Frankie Avalon
It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore – Morrissey

EXTRA DOUBLE ISSUE BONUS! – the wise words of “Miss California” (thanks to Lisa Nova)

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bored beyond belief #43 – Vado a festa italiana

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Vado a festa italiana (I go to an Italian festival)

La descrivo per voi (I describe it for you – and yes, I translate what I say in Italian, too)

Incidental music #1: Quartetto Cetra – Un bacio a mezzanotte

The bashings continue: (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 - had enough yet?)

Incidental music #2: Antony & the Johnsons – Aeon

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bored beyond belief #42 – you hate me, you really hate me

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Marvin Bloom blabs away…twice…! He’s also strangely prescient…

It’s Dark Forest, not Deep Forest

Daniel’s message about African-American’s and the Prop 8 issue

And my very long response…

Links:

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force report about blacks and Prop 8 (very informative if you haven’t seen it yet)

Bashing #1

Bashing #2

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bored beyond belief #38 – I am thankful for Prop 8 and your calls

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Part, the One
My Thanksgiving list to all those who got the anti-same-sex marriage & anti-gay adoption laws passed.

Part, the Two
Teresa Ortega is disaffected, per Hello, Waffles

Part, the Three
You called me. To call me is to love me: 206-350-7630
Caller #1
Caller #2
Caller #3 and 4
Caller #5

Incidental Music:
Jeremy Summerly – O vos imitatores excelse (Hildegard Of Bingen)
The Free Design – Make The Madness Stop

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