The crazy lady strikes again for Saturday, July 15, 2006

After writing the post entitled Beam me up, Scotty! this morning, I started thinking about why some homosexuals prefer to stay in the proverbial closet - to put it in plain English, why do some gays keep their sexual orientation secret? I discussed one reason when discussing my reaction to Greg Louganis' announcement of his sexual orientation. Some keep their orientation secret out of fear of the experience of violence. Sometimes, especially if a gay person lives in a very conservative town... Sign in to see full entry.

In my last post, I mentioned my trip to the Protestant bookstore located in a local strip mall. (I won't tell you the name of the Protestant bookstore, because it's the only outlet of the national chain of bookstores bearing that name. There are no other bookstores affiliated with that chain anywhere close to us. Suffice it to say that it's affiliated with a "Christian" - read: Protestant - publisher which owns or franchises out a chain of affiliated bookstores.) I used to like shopping at this... Sign in to see full entry.

We pay for Comcast Cable services every month - digital basic and Internet broadband service. (I can safely say this because Comcast is the official cable service provider for most all Chicago suburbs, at least the suburbs with which I am familiar. Years ago, when cable TV - CATV, as it was known in its very early days - first became widely available, cable companies signed exclusivity arrangements with each individual suburb. In other words, if Continental Cablevision signed such an agreement... Sign in to see full entry.

In a way, this post does have something to do with Star Trek (often called Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from Enterprise, Voyager, and Star Trek: The Next Generation ). George Takei - who played Capt. Sulu in the original series and six subsequent movies - is here in the Chicago area to serve as a featured speaker at tonight's opening ceremony for the Gay Games at Soldier Field. He was also the grand marshal for Chicago's Gay Pride Parade last month. Takei is an open... Sign in to see full entry.

Loyal readers of this blog will remember that I entitled one of yesterday's entries "Grumble, grumble, grumble; mutiny, mutiny, mutiny." I promised to give you the exact source of this quote as soon as humanly possible. It turns out that the quote comes from a Stan Freberg album called The History of the United States, Part 1. The specific cut of that album containing this quote is actually about Columbus, not the American Revolution (as I'd erroneously thought). In that cut, Freberg (playing... Sign in to see full entry.

Yesterday, I read the latest entry in the blog entitled Opinionated Bitch. Jemmie211, the author of that blog, talked about a communique she'd gotten from a teen member of MySpace.com (the controversial website which seems to have attracted child molesters lately). In that communique - I'm not sure if it was an email to Jemmie211 or a blog entry or just what type of written communication it was - the teen complained about the loss of a cell phone, and his difficulty in obtaining a new one from... Sign in to see full entry.

Yesterday, in one of the entries to this blog, I mentioned Mariska Hargitay in passing during a discussion of the acting ability of rapper Ice-T. (Both of them star on Law & Order: SVU. Hargitay is currently on maternity leave, though; she and her husband just recently had a son.) Someone left a comment on that post, asking if I knew that Hargitay was Jayne Mansfield's daughter. The commentator also asked if I were aware that Hargitay was in the back seat of the car Mansfield drove when... Sign in to see full entry.