When the musician and follow witch, Castalia, put together her second music CD, she included a chant called "We are the Wick." As I think about my own journey into Paganism and witchcraft, I find it appropriate to relate the first part of that chant: We are the wick That feeds the flame, The flame that is the love Which brings us back again. Castalia and I follow different traditions, and what I'm about to say doesn't fit exactly with the message of her chant. However, I'm hoping that our bonds of affection would put her in a place where she would be ...

Short Answer: Nothing. A big fat stinkin' nuttin!Long Answer: Not much more.Jonathan here from Cinema Styles and I gotta tell ya: I'm not a summer moviegoer. As such, what I learn from the summer movies I generally learn from my kids as I try to convince them to go see as many movies as possible while assuring them that their mother and I will not die of loneliness without them around. Through them I have learned many things:1. In big city multiplex theatres, ticket takers aren't very astute. I discovered this about a month ago when my oldest ...

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This morning, as I was leaving the 7-Eleven to head into work, I glanced at a guy still standing in line. My path took me close enough to him that I noticed his tattoo on the side of his neck. While I can't be absolutely sure from a two second glance, I'm relatively certain that the tattoo was of Jesus's head. For some reason, this struck me as totally odd. I honestly can't say why it struck me as odd. I've seen plenty of religious tattoos in my life. Indeed, in my faith community, tattoos that have some sort of ...

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[Jonathan from Cinema Styles] 35 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. It was delivered as the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Five years later King would be assassinated just one day after delivering his "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1969 Haskell Wexler, the noted cinematographer, directed the film Medium Cool. It takes place in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention and is justifiably famous for ...

Leaving in a few minutes for work.The summer flew by seemingly in the wink of an eye...If I didn't have my blog archives to look over, I could almost forget that I just had two glorious months off...And I did often find myself pulling myself together to go see another new experience thinking it would make a good blog post...If a blog post is posted in the woods and there's no one there toexperience it?? Does it make a sound?And...So which comes first? The chicken or the blog??Whatever. I enjoyed living and blogging about my summer and am grateful ...

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Split Decision: A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday. Recognized: Gay rights activist Del Martin receives a New York Times obituary. Jonathan Moscone, the gay son of former Mayor George Moscone, has no plans to see the new biopic "Milk" set for release this fall. Seeing his father’s assassination recreated on film is still too much for the 43-year-old Moscone to bear. John McCain will announce his vice presidential running mate at ...

"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly." -- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth ...

Madison Square Park has had some public art on display this summer.Public Art seems to be a passion of our billionaire Mayor.That's a good thing. ...

The Vice Presidential Nominee Joe Biden: President Bill Clinton: Beau Biden's introduction of his father: ...

From Adam of Club Silencio:"The earth is my body; my head is in the stars. "Of all the endearing wisdom that Maude gave to Harold during their May 1st/December 31st romance, that one seems particularly special given the anniversary of Ruth Gordon's death. She lived to the full age of 88, passing on August 28, 1985. I can't imagine there was a more hilarious woman of her generation. Someone just as likely to teach the splendors of life as to dose your chocolate mousse... Either way it's "Snips and snails and puppy dog's tails!"What a vast hole would have ...

I love it when my iPod — always in shuffle mode — randomly throws together a perfect mini-theme. Just now I got Song Against Sex by Neutral Milk Hotel, followed by Sexcrime (1984) by the Eurythmics. Even better, they were both capped off by Salt-N-Pepa's Push It. ...

Towleroad had the opportunity to speak with Dave Noble, Director for the LGBT vote for the Obama campaign. Noble is the former executive director of the National Stonewall Democrats and most recently director of public policy and government affairs at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Noble talked to Towleroad's Corey Johnson about mobilizing the LGBT vote, as well as the stark contrast between Obama and McCain's record on LGBT issues. Check out all our DNC coverage by clicking here. And don't miss our slide show of the DNC here. Previously Barack Obama nominated as Democratic Candidate by Acclamation [tr] ...

So this is pretty cool: During the roll call of the states during today's presidential nominating process, Massachusetts' Dem delegation (led by Sen. Therese Murray) made a point of mentioning that the Bay State was the first in the nation to move towards marriage equality.  Politicker MA has more on that and other state mentions:  Obama edges Clinton among Mass. delegates, 65 to 52 [Politicker MA]Dems who are not only okay with the fair and equal concept, but actually CELEBRATING their role in it?  Times = changing, my friends! It remains to be see what Massachusetts' Republican delegation has in ...

So you might have heard that Michelle Obama addressed Denver's LGBT delegates with an inspiring speech on what an Obama presidency would mean for the queer community.  If you haven't seen it, here's a video: Pretty inspiring and hopeful stuff if you ask us.  But one person who decidedly did not ask us is the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Lafferty, who today shared these silly musings on Michie's speech:“Michelle Obama and her husband apparently believe that defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman somehow ‘stains’ the Constitution,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “This is a frightening revelation of ...

Barack Obama officially became the Democratic nominee for President tonight after Hillary Clinton interrupted a roll call vote to lead a motion nominate him by acclamation. ...

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