Posted by: thekickable on: 27 December 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve actually updated this blog–October, to be specific. I’ve been busy. Here’s what’s happening:
I’m still continuing the 365 days of photos. Today was day 108. As I can’t post it for privacy reasons, here was yesterday’s–looking down/the Arkansas Delta:
I went home for Christmas and have been charged with showing the [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 31 October 2009
Recently, I had to do an oral history project for one of my classes. Thereafter, I decided to interview my parents about basically everything I could imagine. This idea found me researching significant events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to formulate questions. In the midst of doing this, I found myself realizing why my [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 24 October 2009
Kleenex has launched a new website entitled “Get Mommed,” where you can choose a mom to give you “extra care” this cold and flu season. You have your choices of race, ethnicities, socio-economic statuses . . . Are you gagging yet? ‘Cause I am.
I’m sorry, Kleenex, but I already have a mom, and I don’t [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 13 October 2009
This weekend, I attended the National Equality March in Washington, DC. On the way there, we drove through New York City’s Bronx. On the George Washington Bridge, I looked out and saw the Manhattan skyline in the distance and recognized immediately the Empire State Building. Growing up in Arkansas, New York [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 1 October 2009
A couple years ago, Alan Jackson released a song called “Small Town Southern Man.” I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it ever since.
It’s a sweet song, really. There are many people who are just like the people in this song and, having grown up in a small town in the South, I can tell you [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 18 September 2009
Yesterday, I received an Army jacket in the mail that I had bought for 75c on ebay. Since receiving it, I’ve worn it somewhat religiously. Today, I noticed a teenaged boy photographing me with his cell phone while I waited in line. First, he photographed my jacket. Then, he photographed the numerous buttons on my backpack. [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 14 September 2009
Throughout the United States, GLBT students face expulsion at many private universities. The Equality Ride aims to open up the lines of communication to change this.
When I tell people that I have applied to be an Equality Rider, the two most frequent responses are to tell me how awesome that is and to tell me how [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 11 September 2009
Today, I made a trip to Michael’s in search of magnets, after having a fellow peace activist on campus suggest I attach magnets to the bottom of toy soldiers and leave them randomly fighting battles. Though I was given this suggestion days ago, today was the first day I had even five minutes to run [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 5 September 2009
By request, I am typing up my brother’s most recent editorial, which I replied to in this entry. I would like to reiterate here that I emphatically do not agree with anything he says, and we don’t get along. Yesterday was my birthday and he didn’t even wish me a happy birthday, let alone send me [...]
Posted by: thekickable on: 31 August 2009
Today, I read the editorial of a small-town newspaper. This time, the editor managed todeny the Holocaust, support white supremacy, make a racist statement towards Obama, make another general racist statement, bash the GLBT community, mock lesbians in specific a second time, make an anti-Semitic comment, and label television, radio, and teen magazines as evil.
Wow. Where [...]
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