mel misses

• the concept of making out
• the couch on the house of beij porch
• being able to talk about activism freely
• cheese and charcuterie nights, bottles of wine, guffawing
• you you and you

Drunk man fouls car seat, wipes himself with Bible

SURREY NOWNOVEMBER 3, 2009

SURREY, B.C. — A man was arrested in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey after he defecated on the seat of a car, wiped himself off with a Bible and then sought refuge in a nearby police vehicle.

The 33-year-old intoxicated man was at a Halloween party Saturday night when he stumbled out the door to use another guest's car as a toilet.

The outraged partygoers began yelling at the man, who then climbed into a police vehicle, where he was bit by a service dog and then arrested.

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

from Times Colonist.

you and me and a bottle of wine.

the white sands of puerto galera unearthed this gem.

new moon review

as it turns out, jacob black is a never-nude. they seemed to have given him that rule of being that guy who likes wearing cut off shorts and likes to run around as his main mode of transportation.

hey jacob, stop hanging out on the window sill naked!

all humour aside, the movie blows- like kristen stewart and robert pattinson. oh wait, "they're not going out." the movie proved to be an exceptionally oppressive example of racial profiling in which aboriginal people were seen as rough, wild, aggressive, and unable to control their anger. the civilized pure as white, though white as death vampires were shown to be more civilized with their acura cars and other accurate tools of colonization. there were also horrible pangs of legitimated domestic abuse; it's mentioned in the film that jacob's brother abused his partner, for the fact that he's a wild wolf and that's just the way he is goddamnit. let's deconstruct, historicize and not think that's okay folks. and let's not let new moon racial profile who and what indigenous people are.

sufficed to say, all three main characters need to read bell hooks' all about love and or watch glee instead of constantly martyring themselves to possessive love.

quezon city, my love. i'm recollecting the memories you've given me today:

• a woman approached me telling me that i needed to her my cola. and so i did because i was so confused, but it was because she said it with so much conviction (she would win my game show). also, i have full faith that this was all done in accidentally walking outside of the washroom, then office, with my belt unbuckled. you know what an unbuckled belt means.

• i stepped into an antique boutique/art dealership/gallery in cubao expo and met a wonderful man who manages the places who then introduced me to the father of filipino printmaking. the manager told me that he'd take me to the mountains, but that first a drinks at the martini sounded better. i told him that i was 19 and he then proceeds to tell me that he wants to hook me up with his son he is also a musician. anyway, i told him we should all jam, the manager, the son, and hopefully the father of printmaking himself with me with the woodwinds and percussion.

• i made friends with cool people and now they want to take me to a punk show. hopefully no one will sit on me this time, but maybe i shouldn't sit on the floors of mosh pits. also, todays begins my self-paced tagalog book club as i begin the first pages of norman wilwayco's gerilya, about someone who was once part of the NPA. i'm grateful in advance to the bookstore owner for telling me the plot because i otherwise would have had no idea. i'm also starting my pinoy zine collection.

i think you're fly. hope everyone's having a pleasant day.

i like you better gay.

watched glee the other day and cried a little cry as pepper talked about the conviction of not being worthy of being loved. shit's getting real, yo. by the way, hilary duff on gossip girl anyone? i leave you with this as an afterthought.

from guerilla mama.

Philippines Declares State of Emergency After 57 People Killed in Politically-Linked Massacre

The death toll from the Philippines’ worst politically-linked massacre has risen to fifty-seven. The victims were abducted as they were travelling to nominate an opposition candidate for governor in upcoming elections.The dead include 18 Filipino journalists from regional newspapers. It’s believed to be the highest number of reporters killed in a single attack anywhere in the world. We speak with Walden Bello, an Akbayan Representative in the Filipino Congress.[includes rush transcript]

from Democracy Now.

For the last twenty-three years, Kate Burridge, professor of linguistics at Monash University, has been travelling annually to Waterloo County in Ontario, Canada. There she spends research and social time with members of an Old Order Mennonite community similar in their beliefs and customs to another branch of the Anabaptist diaspora, the Amish. For over four hundred years, as a largely oral language, Pennsylvania German has survived alongside one of the globe’s great dialect crushers – English. This is the intimate language of home, family and community for these people who reject much of what the modern world takes for granted. Humility, simplicity and separateness are central to their creed. But what are the connections between the evolution of their language – Pennsylvania German – and their religion, culture and ethnicity? Is it an old language frozen in time or surviving because it is adaptable? Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke that, after a generation collecting data around the cornfields of southern Ontario, some of the more universal linguistic implications of her research are becoming clearer.

Living the Language

From Inside Story.

Christian Side Hug

I guess they wouldn't be into my front massages. shame.

from ish's from here.

it is slowly unravelling that i'm living in a blatantly homophobic space. i'm not sure how to deal. alls i know is is that i need at least one tegan and sara song and at least one youtube slideshow of carmen and shane from the l word to make me feel better about it.

here's one for the good old days.

i just got my first pair of heels people.

TEAM PILIPINAS at the 5 December 2009 Manila Pride March

20 November 2009

Rainbow greetings!

Philippine Forum on Sports, Culture, Sexuality and Human Rights (TEAM PILIPINAS) is a registered non-profit organization contributing to social change that is led and participated by young Filipinos from the grassroots who may or may not openly identify as lesbian, gay, bakla, bayot, bantut, bisexual, tomboy, transgender, transsexual, intersex (LGBTI) or as another sexual or gender minority (SGM). Through sports, culture, and human rights and sexuality advocacy TEAM PILIPINAS works to strengthen human rights, diversity, equality and peace in the Philippines and all over the world.

TEAM PILIPINAS believes that aside from experiencing violation of basic and fundamental human, economic and social rights and freedoms—rights to food, education, health, work, social security and highest attainable standard of living, most Filipino LGBTIs and SGMs continue to face stigma, discrimination, oppression, and violence for having a different sexual orientation and gender identity. The recent decision of the 2nd Division of the Commission on Elections to dismiss the petition of a LGBT party to participate in the 2010 National Elections on the bases of “moral grounds” and the alleged threat to the “well-being of the youth” is a clear manifestation that LGBTIs and SGMs in the Philippines are still looked upon negatively.

I LOVE P.R.I.D.E. / I LOVE Pinoys who Respect Rights, Identity, Diversity & Equality

On December 5, as TEAM PILIPINAS takes part once more in the Manila Pride March, the organization will highlight the real problems faced by many Filipino LGBTIs and other SGMS—poverty, stigma and discrimination. During the daytime TEAM PILIPINAS will march under the banner of ‘Diversity and Equality!’ asserting that despite our sexual and gender diversity, we Filipinos are all equals under the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” And in the evening, through the ‘I AM NOT IMMORAL’ Photo and Video Project, TEAM PILIPINAS will raise the public’s awareness on the immorality issue and educate people on the stigma and discrimination faced by Filipino LGBTIs and other SGMs because of the view that they are immoral, sinful, or mentally ill.

We are happy to invite you to support the work of TEAM PILIPINAS. Together, let us contribute to making the Philippines a country that recognizes, promotes, and protects the equality in dignity, rights and freedoms of each and every Filipino regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Should you have any questions regarding our work and the plans for December 5 Manila Pride March, please feel free to contact us. Thank you very much.

Philippine Forum on Sports, Culture, Sexuality and Human Rights (TEAM PILIPINAS) Inc.
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i am currently in the philippines

• waking up at 6 am to roosters and small barking dogs
• working for a human rights organization
• writing statements and researching rights for women migrant domestic workers working in the UAE
• becoming more and more overwhelmed by the crowded city
• constantly almost being hit by a car, tricycle, motorcycle, jeepney, or bus
• sweating in the armpits to 30 degree celsius weather

whoa man.