(from a 2015 interview)

$529,000 CAD/4 br/2660 sq ft

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories

$275,756/4 br/3100 sq ft

$275,756/4 br/3100 sq ft

(Especially you Millennials and such)

You have a provincial election in two days (June 7, 2018).

The Liberal Party of Kathleen Wynn has already admitted that it is not going to win, which means that you have a two-way choice.

On the one hand, you have the Progressive Conservative party of Doug Ford, the brother of the Rob Ford, Toronto’s late, crack-smoking embarassment of a former mayor. He’s running on a Trumpist platform, dressing up give away to the corporations and gutting of the welfare state as populism.

On the other hand, you have the New Democratic Party of Andrea Horwath, who is promising to raise the minimum wage, expand prescription-drug and dental coverage, and relieve student debt, among other things.

The two are currently essentially tied in the polls, but the Conservatives are favoured to win because they hav a geographical advantage. However, the model that gives them this victory is contingent on the young people who would benefit from an NDP government, staying home.

Prove. Them. Wrong.

Go vote. Get your friends to vote. Drive people to the fucking polls if you can.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

Give the events names, give them themes, make them reoccur. 

I have a friend that I see 3-6 times a year for “Dracula Breakfast.” We meet at a diner and drink coffee and I eat waffles and she eats eggs and we talk about Dracula. Then other things. Then monsters in general. Then back to Dracula.

For about 2 hours, then we schedule another Dracula Breakfast and go our separate ways. This is our only form of communication because we’re both introverts who like to spend time apart.

There is no other standing appointment in my life that could rival Dracula Breakfast.

We exchange tiny gifts occasionally (almost always something we’ve made and nothing that is ever more than a few dollars). I’m always 5 minutes late. I usually do not sleep the night before to try to make it on time and I inevitably fail ever. Single. Time.

I ramble.

Fancily.

Man 1500 years ago: Let me sleep with this woman or I will die.

The rabbis: