I am working like an ass-kicking moron (or is it ass-licking moron) on my strip queer empire which can be found here: http://queerempire.com/
It updates once a week and I am proud to say it has over 1,000 RSS fields already, and it's the best work ever cortesy of me, Astor & the Gravelles who tirelessly produce it while I am the fucking scribe of the son of a bitch.
Check it out. You won't regret it. Next Wednesday is page 28. after 100 pages it comes out in book form. Both in E-book and in hard back. Get it HARD back.
Here it is. Something I've been promising for months if not years. I've been in shock about how fast times have changed for strips. In the good old days, when you launched a strip, you did it in a zine or newspaper. Now when you launch a strip, you do it on the web, or your hopelessly behind the times. I had lots of help with this strip. I can't ink or color or computer letter. Electronic paste up? Hopeless at it. So thanks to Ron and Astor Gravelle for making this strip shine like a fucking diamond! Christ!!
Battling the urge to kill, maim and kick somebody's ass just for the fun of it. It's accumulated stress from Christmas cheer! And no money to spread said cheer. The economy sucks
The series has been renamed from the Adventures of Psychotix to: Psychotix and Texus.
This is to celebrate their married togetherness in an age when barriers to gay relationships are falling all over the world. Who would have thought that Delhi, India would throw off the final shackles of British Colonialism to recognize that gay relationships are a fact and should not be restricted anymore?
When the series was created in 1998, Canada had not yet allowed gays to legally marry. Nor did any of the states in the U.S. HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN 11 SHORT YEARS!!! :DDDD
You see, guys, Psychotix and Texus were created to be a married couple in the first place. Their marriage takes place in Book One. But at the time, the marriage was short, just one page. Now, the first book is going to be done to emphasize their married togetherness and the wedding is a full blown 60+ pages of celebration and togetherness.
Drawn from a real-life wedding of a couple of friends, this new story is going to follow the same story line: of Psychotix reuniting with Texus, in similar circumstances, but this time around the marriage part is given a much longer, more beautiful treatment.
The book is still going to be calledPsychotix meets Texus Separatus, but instead of it being called:The Adventures of Psychotix Book One: Psychotix Meets Texus Separatus,it's going to be calledPsychotix and Texus: Psychotix Meets Texus Separatus.
This will be much fairer to Texus, because rarely is Psychotix seen in the book without his Texus by his side.
It's going to be exciting, guys. The book is in the pencilling stage right now. Watch for it on http://www.landwaster.com
And from the Altman film Vincent & Theo (Embedding disabled by request but nothing gets me steamy more than stolen kisses.) "From the magnificent but terribly obscure Altman film Vincent & Theo, starring Tim Roth as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Rhys as Theo van Gogh. Here we have Vincent snogging Paul Gauguin"
Just for sniggers and snoggers, a comedy "bicurious" male kiss:
And for your hardcore fun you should check out this teaser video:
Hot kissing action but what the fuck gives with the sound effects?
And if emo is your game, here:
Oh, those sexy French Men!
And finally a bizarro German video that has a little kissing action and other action that might have been taken more seriously is everybody would stop the stoner giggling
David Carradines' death is tragic, sure. But he died the way Vaughn Bode died: misadventure. An autoasphxiation gone wrong.
His family is what makes me snicker. They have whipped up a conspiracy theory that Carradine's death was an assassination, though they can't say why someone would assassinate him.
If he was assassinated, though, why would somebody take the time to tie up his genitals? Why would they hang him from a closet? Assassins from foreign countries usually do it the "boom and go way" stab or shoot, then run.
If the family is trying to save face, this isn't the way to do it.
R.I.P. Mr. Carradine. Your Death Race 2000 by Richard Corbin will always be THE classic.
Maine joins the growing list of states legalizing gay marriage. How come it's happening so fast? What took them so long to start granting equal marriage rights to gays? Was everybody just that scared of the Bushies?
Two of the Supreme Court Justice hopefuls are openly gay. Although David Souter's sexuality was always a question mark. I hope the President does the right thing and does not nominate the same ol' same ol' to replace Souter. I am also kind of surprised he hasn't said anything about the justice of gays finally getting equal rights. With all due respect, what's up there, Mr. President? Or is that just too much heat? Why is it too much heat? Don't you want to piss off the religious right like most normal people?
Gay and a non-believer? You're not alone. When you think about all the destructive things that organized religion have done to us, it should be no surprise to any religious nutjob why we reject it out of hand. Even being an Asatruar is tough going at times when some Kindreds attract intolerant bunches who misinterpret the Troth. A group of us have started to embrace the "Asagnostic" path. Rejecting organized religion and following the Gods without any third parties telling us that we're doing it the wrong way. (My biggest fucking pet peeve with most kindreds.)
So this article in the NYT really cheered my cynical ass up:
To sum it up, this is a quote right from the article: The American Religious Identification Survey, a major study released last month, found that those who claimed “no religion” were the only demographic group that grew in all 50 states in the last 18 years.
Maybe it will mean that fewer people are going to tell us that it's wrong to be gay "because God said it, I believe it, that settles it."
Come on, is the Religious Right this intellectually and morally bankrupt that they have to put out this Gathering Storm commercial?
They lost the abortion debate, the Creationist debate is receding in favor of common sense. But they always have to have a wedge issue. So the best they can come up with is this, a misinformed video. But this retort is one of the best I have seen. They juxtapose the most absurd points in the Gathering Storm video, sponsored by the National Organization For Marriage, and the response to those points:
There are several good retorts to the Gathering Storm video, but this one is one of the most delicious, sane, rational and intelligent.
But these are good too:
I have been angered by the Religious Right, I have been enraged by the Religious Right, I have felt threatened by the Religious Right. But now I am embarrassed by the Religious Right.
Their moral authority is completely exhausted, dudes. Their arguments are petering out and becoming really feeble and dreary.
If they really think that an attack on a minority population who has done nothing to harm them is the answer to their prayers, then they are in for unanswered prayers.
I have been angered by the Religious Right, I have been enraged by the Religious Right, I have felt threatened by the Religious Right. But now I am embarrassed by the Religious Right.
Their moral authority is completely exhausted, dudes. Their arguments are petering out and becoming really feeble and dreary.
If they really think that an attack on a minority population who has done nothing to harm them is the answer to their prayers, then they are in for unanswered prayers.
excited
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awake
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