My September Issues – the 2011 Edition

Mid August anticipation builds and I start nagging the newsstand shops about the arrival of the September issues – primarily Vogue. I started this draft around September 6 and now September’s almost over. But I’ve still got issues. And those issues are sitting on my coffee table. The September issue is to fashion magazines what [...]

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is over

Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 10:32 | Category : LGBTQ, military
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President Bill Clinton’s compromise for LGBT persons serving in the armed forces has officially ended under President Barack Obama’s watch. For some reason, I don’t recall the word “cave” or “weak” splashed across the headlines when Clinton was tackling this issue back in ’93. Or maybe I wasn’t paying attention. Or maybe Al Gore hadn’t [...]

TV Worth Watching

Monday, 19 September 2011, 20:31 | Category : African American, civil rights, Culture, LGBTQ, San Francisco, The Media
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Tonight network and cable television launch the new fall season of comedies, dramas, and [faux] reality. I chose to go to the vault this evening and watch a documentary produced by “then” National Educational Television aka KQED, San Francisco’s public television station (PBS). “Take This Hammer” documents writer James Baldwin‘s visit to San Francisco. These [...]

Train Wreck

Monday, 12 September 2011, 16:12 | Category : The Economy
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No more “middle man.”

Listening

Sunday, 11 September 2011, 9:02 | Category : Music, Peace
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“Fragile” was recorded by Sting September 11, 2001 at his villa in Italy and released in the live CD “All This Time.”