"times a drawin closer..." written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

Category: moving

06/13/07 04:08 - 86ºF - ID#39643

times a drawin closer...

i'm excited as pie. blueberry pie maybe. or cherry. i love cherry pie. ala mode. or maybe half a slice of blueberry and half a slice of cherry with a big fat scoop of vanilla perched melty like all on top and in between the two.
okay yeah.. my point was....
oh yeah

i just made a double appointment to go check out a couple of apartments on monday.

first thing first we have 367 elmwood - elmwood village.

Then we have 950 Delaware (sheldon apartments) on the corner of hodge.

they are both run by esquare capital - which i hear is supposed to be a good/gay friendly company, yes? no?

anyway - so they are both about $665 a month.... which rather frightens the hell out of me - but they include heat... so what... would that be equivilant to a $600 a month apartment?

dragonlady7 writes at 11:18:50 06/14/07 - Comment #19702: (And, er, by "real good" in my previous comment, I just want to clarify that I meant like, real fancy, like super-specialized and high-falutin kinda crap, like, you're the only person in the world who can do the kind of advanced-degree-type-forty-years-experience stock trading MBA whatever that you do. Those jobs? Not so much around here.
Also jobs here tend to pay less but it's totally way cheap to live here. By "buy your friends a round" standards we're about a quarter the cost of living of NYC, and probably half the cost of Chicago, so...)

I live in a tiny house. The square footage that I heat is probably... oh... under a thousand, that's my uninformed guess. (The house is thirty feet long by thirty feet wide, and it's one storey that's heated.) It's reasonably well-insulated. In February my gas bill was $180. This year was atypical in that it was very, very cold from January thru March, but barely dipped below freezing until January-- we had a green Christmas, I swear some of my flowers were still blooming. But it was extra-horrible from mid-January onward. You just can't predict the heat bills. But they'd probably average out around $75 if I did the math. Really depends on your square footage and insulation, though.

dragonlady7 writes at 11:13:23 06/14/07 - Comment #19699: Yeah... (e:Zobar) and I have a totally sweet deal on our house and I love the yard and wouldn't move for the world, but... if we did... it'd be probably to either Elmwood near Bryant and Summer... or to perhaps a nice little ghetto on the West Side. (The West Side is a crapshoot. Approximately every three houses are totally awesome and gorgeous; the one next door will be so-so but nice, and then every fourth one or so will be an actual working crackhouse. You really can't tell from the address, you have to go there.)

In re: your next post, jobs can be hardish to find if you want something real good, but I think managing a Sprint store is totally the kind of job that's all over in Buffalo. I mean, if you're really qualified? Hells yeah.
Buffalo has this reputation for being a place in which it is difficult to find work that is not McDonald's or equivalent, and I think the reputation is stronger than the actual fact. I do not presently know anyone who is unemployed who does not wish to be. I know a few underemployed persons who would like to trade up, but mostly they're either not looking super hard or aren't very good at looking.

So I'm sure you'll find something, but landlords are not exactly laid-back people, on the whole.

fellyconnelly writes at 11:21:01 06/14/07 - Comment #19658: lauren is the sapho lover of the relationship.
i just love vagina.

james writes at 09:36:15 06/14/07 - Comment #19654: That is a mighty fine location on elmwood. It is a short walk to Allentown, a short walk to the elmwood shops, bars, restaurants, etc. esquare is down with all your pets, heat including, sapho loving company. So you should be set with them.

Congrats

fellyconnelly writes at 06:06:56 06/13/07 - Comment #19630: oh and elmwood village apartments are between bryant and summer... is that good as well?

fellyconnelly writes at 06:04:23 06/13/07 - Comment #19629: they are both 1 bedrooms. and yeah - we kinda fell in love with the elmwood ave apartments from the moment we saw them.. so many great reviews too.

(and i would officially be an estripper!)

jim writes at 05:45:26 06/13/07 - Comment #19628: (e:james) and I just moved out of 950 delaware. The rental company is really nice, they allow pets, pretty good experience. But our 1 bedroom apartment there had a very small kitchen, and because our unit had a balcony they were going to jack up our rent so we decided to move.

You can't go wrong renting from them, but it is probably possible to get something cheaper elsewhere.

jenks writes at 05:24:24 06/13/07 - Comment #19627: hodge is a nice area. What's the cross street for 367 elmwood?

And 665 including heat?! That sounds pretty good to me. How many BR?

Good luck! have fun! And honestly, i found a lot more just driving around looking for signs, and looking in artvoice, than going through real estate companies.

imk2 writes at 04:48:30 06/13/07 - Comment #19623: um....heat here in the winter runs about 200 or more a month. i cant even imagine what (e:pmt) pay in their mansion.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

Category: randomo

06/11/07 03:51 - 78ºF - ID#39609

here is a great story!

nerves abound folks, time is flyin and felly is still apartment and job less!

you know if i'm referring to myself in the 3rd person i must be going nuts.

in one week from now i'll be in buffalo checking out apartments. i told my mother this mornign that i was not in any way interested in staying with my grandparents. she gratefully understood.

anyone know of any campgrounds near buffalo that i can stay at?

i spent a good 5 hours sitting in the garage painting last night. i was listening to a harry potter book on tape to keep my mind from going nuts as i was doing some detail work on the branches of a tree. Could you imagine painting tree branches for 5 hours without developing an annoying eye twitch? yeah i guess i'm just floored that it happened.

also - i have decided that for my big going away bash i am getting a kareoke machine. because the idea of some of my friends getting smashed out of their mind and singing 'girls just wanna have fun' makes my stomach tingle with glee. or maybe thats just the pizza that i had for lunch.

okay i get to leave work in no more than 20 minutes.

OH WAIT! i have an amazing story that I have to pass along.

About 3 houses down and across the street live these group of weirdo hippies. i mean these guys even have one of those purple hippie vw busses! anyway the other night there was firetrucks heading out that way. i got very nervouse because this place is right across from the bed and breakfast that jess runs - and she would have had to be institutionalized if anything happened there.

so apparently this is what happened.....

their cat died. so they decided that, instead of burying the poor thing, they should cremate it. yes... they decided to cremate their own cat. So they had a memorial service and played guitars for the cat and sang like the hippies that they are.......but apparently they waited too long to cremate it - as in it had been dead for a few days and started to fill with decomposition gases. so they tossed the cat in a ditch and poured gasoline over it. when they threw the match at the gasoline soaked/gas filled dead kitty the sucker exploded. EXPLODING CAT! the explosion managed to ignite a nearby ranshackle shed and thus the fire department.

this story was related to jess by the guests at the bed and breakfast that sat there and watched the whole thing happen.

am i sure that i want to leave this town?

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Category: religion

06/06/07 12:07 - 51ºF - ID#39544

Religion: Theory and Evolution

Due to some of the recent discussions of religion on the estrip, I have decided to write a bit about my own religious views.

I'll begin with something my mother once told me. It went something like
"I don't need a roof over my head to believe what I believe" in reference to going to church.

I grew up attending church. Or Sunday school at the very least. I have to confess that a great deal of my superficially religious nature had to do with the activities at the church, rather than the religion itself. My Sunday school teacher was a wealthy woman who used to set up an assortment of activities that peaked my interest. Picnics, trips to Darien Lake (what is that religious week that they have? Kingdom Bound?) We went to Toronto to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat.

It wasn't until about tenth grade when, in my social studies class, we started to study world religions from an educational position. It was at this point that I started listening. I started quietly questioning what they were teaching me.

Throughout the years I have become very interested in religion, but from a more open minded, historical and didactic point of view. I took a course in the Bible in college and got an A. I have probably watched every program that has ever been on the History channel about religion. But my curiosity has always been in the historical rather than the religious. To be precise, the evolution of religion to what it has become today, and the theories and gospels that have been dropped along the way.

I read in a book of fiction recently (one of the slew of post - DaVinci Code religious conspiracy theory books) something that I actually found as an interesting theory. At the risk of an argument, I will summarize.

The theory went as follows: Jesus was an ordinary man who had a religious inspiration about the way to live life. It was a beautiful and inspirational way to live without judgment of others, and love for one and all. When Jesus died, he was not resurrected to walk the earth in the flesh. The resurrection of Jesus was intended to develop into the rebirth of his principles into the traditions of his followers. It was the state of the world, and the requirement for a more authoritative message that prompted for the ascension of Jesus as the Son of God, in order to generate Christianity as force to challenge the pagan religion of the Romans as well as Judaism.

Now I'm not saying that this is in fact my belief, but I will say that this speculation touches me more than the contradictory and ever evolving verses of what has become the bible. The bible is an amazing volume of poignant and moral (and not so moral) stories that serve as a guideline for living a life of love and peace. But the idea of taking said Bible and following it as if it were law is quite absurd to me. I am very much in the conviction that religion is an individual experience, not one of sheep following sheep blindly without question.

Okay on that note I'm going to stop, as I could probably go on forever, and I've probably made enough enemies for the day.

drew writes at 09:04:04 06/06/07 - Comment #19302: Ok, here's the scoop on Q.

Of the four Biblical Gospels, 3 are similar, Matthew Mark and Luke. John is pretty different, and likely written at a later date. By looking at what's in the other 3, scholars have concluded that Matthew and Luke both had access to Mark and used it as a source. They also each had an independent source that nobody else used. Matthew and Luke also had a source in common, besides Mark. The Scholars called this "q" short for the German word for source. Nobody has a copy of Q, it may or may not have existed, it is our best guess.

Even the most skeptical of scholars give earlier dates to the New Testament. There are multiple attestations to it in the 2nd century.

The different translations have actually helped us understand what the early texts said. This is because most translators did not do translations of translations, but worked from the original languages. There are, of course, a few variants, and the footnotes of a scholarly Bible will point these out (Oxford NRSV is kind of the standard English translation--I can show you the best Greek if you want). Anyway, by comparing early translations, we are able to see that the Greek text was pretty well established. Almost all modern translations have gone back to those early texts, rather than doing the copy of a copy thing.

Yes, the canon was formally voted on at Nicea. However, there was wide agreement much earlier than that. If we look at the "excluded" texts, most of them were written at a later date, and by people that had no connection at all to Christ.

It's fun to look for conspiracies, but if they were being conspiratorial, they did a lousy job of it. After all, they did not do anything about the inconsistancies among the 4 gospels, or the different theologies held by Paul, John, and James. They also left letters explaining why some books were left out and others included.

Same thing about the bishops "deciding" that Christ was the son of God at Nicea. That's like saying that Newton "decided" that gravity was real when the apple hit him. The ideas had been there for a while--yes, there were people contesting them. (By the way, some argued the opposite position--that he was only divine, and not human). They weren't "decided" at Nicea, so much as "codified."

Yes, history is written by the victors, but its pretty much all we have.

As for other theories:

If Roman soldiers knew anything, they knew how to kill people.

If Jesus had a kid, SOMEONE would have mentioned him/her.
Thanks for listening.

Anyway, thanks for reading. I get into this stuff, but I know I am in the minority.

And yes, I do understand that I can be wrong on just about anything, but I have put some time and energy into this stuff.

fellyconnelly writes at 07:31:31 06/06/07 - Comment #19294: good call man... lots of historical stuff that i would go into in epth right now but fortunately for us all i am supposed to be working/closing my store!

metalpeter writes at 07:08:35 06/06/07 - Comment #19289: I am the first to admit that I don't know much about the history of different religons. But it does sound like and interesting subject. Along with the theory you have said there are a few others that when you say them people think you are blastfamous but you really aren't. One of them (can't think of the name of it, but it does have a name) is that when Jesus was stabed he was stabed in the side but not in the heart cause if his heart would have been puncherd he couldn't have come back to life. There are many theories about Mary Magdelin I guess the biggest one is the one used in the DaVinci code that she had a kid with Jesus. In terms of History scholers do belive that there may be what I was told is called the Q source. If my memory is correct there are different bible stories that tell the same thing but with varations. Some scholers belive that some of the stories where taken from this one source. I wish I could remember it better. I guess the one thing about my belief system that I wish more people would remember is 3 things.
1) The Bible (any realigous book) was written by men and not god.
2) It was supposidly written around 400 years after Jeusus died
3) It was translated into many different langauges and there are different versions of it
: For your own personal beliefs it is good to keep those things in the back of your mind but when you start to think someone isn't living the way they should then you need to think about those 3 things and understand that you might be wrong.

fellyconnelly writes at 06:18:06 06/06/07 - Comment #19281: As I have indicated, I do not necessarily believe in this theory, but it interests me enough to allow myself to be open to it. I agree that the theory does not follow what we have been taught in history. I also see that there is a great deal of history that is being rewritten as we speak. The axiom 'History has been written by the victors" has been found to be true on many occasions when searching through the rubble of ancient civilizations. Why, then, should we discount any possibility of an altered history when considering religion?

At the Council of Nicaea - wherein said canons of what was to be the bible were decided upon, it was decided that Jesus was the son of God.... by bishops. And even at that, it has been proven that there were many bishops that were prevented from reaching the council until after the vote had been made. But all that is another story that I will not get into right now.

Truth is a constant factor that exists at many levels; it is in our interpretation of the details that confusion exerts influence and our faiths fragment.

For myself, someone who had struggled for a long time with religion, I find peace in following the teachings of love and compassion for all, without having to adhere to the beliefs that have been outlined by various religions.

joshua writes at 03:52:10 06/06/07 - Comment #19275: YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY THAN ME - CLEARLY I AM HATFIELD AND YOU ARE MCCOY! Mwahahah.

Yeah, I think denying the ressurection would rankle Christians - its one of the single most important articles of faith in all of Christianity, and most Christians would argue that beyond the ressurection being an article of faith, it is a historical fact based on documented eye-witness accounts. Ultimately, I suppose either you believe it or you don't.

To be honest though, I agree with virtually everything you wrote and am particularly interested in the historical angle.

Actually, this afternoon NPR had a panel discussion about religions role in society - slightly skewed (everybody on the panel was either liberal or a member of the "left hand of God") but still an interesting and level-headed discussion that I thought had alot of value. One of the panel members suggested that Europeans, while vastly secular, are more educated about religion than most Americans. Personally I thought this idea was counterintuitive and simply wrong, but it got me thinking about how more secularized societies than our own approach religion. Generally speaking, its my understanding that secular people are more prone to approach religion from a historical perspective. One of the more interesting historical tidbits for me is how the Roman Emperor Constantine affected the spread of Christianity - without him Christianity as it is and has been might have been vastly different. Another more controversial topic might be the Apocrypha and how the early church manipulated what the Bible would contain based on what they thought was and wasn't heretical.

For religious people... true believers, religion is (in my own view, anyway) not an intellectual exercise outside of knowing the content of the Bible. The larger meaning of the faith is contained within the experience of having a personal relationship with God. I think all religious people should at least have some understanding of other faiths, because there are some lessons to be learned and since religion has been the most powerful force in human history (for both good and bad, admittedly) the more everyone knows the better.

I also grew up attending church (e:felly) - my family are members of the United Church of Christ... one of the more liberal and gay-friendly denominations I might add. We did not grow up as members of your stereotypical "christian right," in other words, hehe.

Maybe some wouldn't admit it, but I believe everybody struggles with understanding God, or if not g-o-d then the concept of a higher power. Personally I find myself wondering alot about the concept of a loving God versus the concept of a punitive God (biggest religious topic (e:jason) and I talk about), the afterlife and whether or not the major world religions really are that mutually exclusive. I think there are some positives to take out of most religions that Christians, Buddhists, Hindus can all appreciate. You can imagine my twin brother and I with a joint talking about these religious things - sometimes they get too deep and way too theoretical, haha!

Sorry for this long comment but I'm like you - I could go on forever. When it comes to TV I'm a horrible, unrepairable History Channel/National Geographic Channel/Science Channel/Discovery Times Channel junkie.

drew writes at 02:42:01 06/06/07 - Comment #19270: First of all, if a Christian considers you an enemy for disagreeing with you--they aren't very good students of the Bible. So no, you aren't an enemy.

Secondly, I agree with most of your post.

Finally, while your theory is intriguing, there isn't a lot of evidence to back it up. Because you have studied a lot, I am sure that you know that the earliest and most reliable accounts of Christ and the church were Paul's letters, and then the Biblical Gospels. I'm not saying that there weren't other books. We both know that there were others, but most of those came later.

Proving the actual resurrection is tough, but the first followers of Jesus were convinced that they saw an actual resurrected body, and were willing to (and did) die to defend that idea.

That being said, I wouldn't mind if a lot of people followed the way of Jesus for other reasons. I just don't think your theory squares well with history.

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Category: gay

06/03/07 05:43 - 80ºF - ID#39515

New Paltz Pride

first of all thanks paul again, as the restore key just kept me from being a very cranky dyke on Pride day!

the parade was today. but first.....
KITTEN!

cute as hell, I know. so anyway... on to the parade....

a truck (float) in our parade.

this was the grand marshal though i'm unsure as to who he is supposed to be.

I love these drummer women. they are an all female brazillian drummer group and they rule.

this is one of the hudson valley drag queen personalities. she is at all the gay events. i wish i cared enough to look up her name.

then after the parade came the festival in the park

i am not sure who these horses were but i loved them...

Char played later after we left.

this is qi. i wish i could describe qi, but there are no words that could possibly get you to truly wrap your mind around that which is qi. this picture, however, is probably the closest that i could put up here without legal implications. please take in the hair, the yell face, the half pointing finger and the starbucks cup of straight scotch. this is qi.

my drummer ladies played too!

which led to....

in new paltz, gay parades turn into hippie festivals...

lauren likes to dance too!

michael (one of our current fruits) came out of nowhere with a water bottle full of tanqueray and a splash of tonic.

got home and found our other fruit - steven, at home... steven doesn't do the pride thing.

so yeah those are a couple of our current fruits that we need replacing...

i'm doing something. or should be doing something now anyway.

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Category: randomo

06/02/07 06:06 - 85ºF - ID#39504

dance your cares away...

After work yesterday Lauren and I drove up to Utica to see her ex boyfriend's art show.
Now I have to first of all admit that I don't like the guy. And it is not just because it is her ex boyfriend, but more so because he is a genius in most everything that he does and therefore tends to be extremely pretentious. Most of the time I want to punch the pompous little prick in the face. (I'm not violent; I just wish I were sometimes). Anyway, the kid has only been painting for about 10 months, and he already has an art show. He is exceptionally good and I have to admit that there was a green little monster inside me that I was having an internal debate with for a while.

So I have decided that this evening I will grab the paintbrush and canvas and let it go. I will paint with wide-open strokes, and not tiny tentative dabs. I have spoken it, and therefore it is so.

Last night, in the car on the way home, we were discussing Buffalo, and she said, "We are going to need a new cute gay boy. I need a cute gay boy in my life!".... Okay we are fag hags. Gay men = Less drama + more fashion than a lesbians.... Applications to be our gay boy will be posted in the weeks to come.

So I see from (e:metalpeter)'s pics that last night's party was quite the enjoyable one! the pictures really helped me get a better idea of what the estrippers are all about. Also to put names with faces - though i don't know 98 % of you still...hope to see many more pics from tonight's party! I'll be sitting in my garage painting whilst you all party on up!

fellyconnelly writes at 10:53:46 06/04/07 - Comment #19179: theecarey: ya know i was wondering why buffalo seemed to have a large # of gay men... now i get it!

Metalpeter: these pics really help me figure out who is who, so thank you!

metalpeter writes at 10:10:33 06/03/07 - Comment #19152: Just wanted to add that there will be more pictures soon. Yes my pictures do show one side of (e:strip) but mostly the party side. Maybe if I put in some more time and labeled who was in each picture it would help people to the site. However that being said I don't know all the peeps and know who they all are. Matt and Paul and some other peeps have pictures at events and eating so they show another aspect of peeps.

theecarey writes at 03:33:29 06/03/07 - Comment #19150: hehe all the comments here are cracking me up. Anyway, you'll be in the right place for finding a pack of cute gay men-- we dont call it the queen city for nothing! Good luck :)

fellyconnelly writes at 10:11:26 06/02/07 - Comment #19147: ah but youth does not always guarantee victory!

paul writes at 09:53:32 06/02/07 - Comment #19146: Oh man, if I have to compete with mike I will lose. He is the younger model.

mike writes at 09:02:02 06/02/07 - Comment #19145: where do i apply? though i kinda have a few fruit flys already, the more the merrier

fellyconnelly writes at 08:58:29 06/02/07 - Comment #19144: fruit fly! haha wow i am so amused i am tempted to use multiple !'s intermixed with some 1's and other numbers. i love it...

we will definetely have to have fruit fly interviews!

jenks writes at 08:43:27 06/02/07 - Comment #19141: you and paul should all get together then- Paul was soliciting apps for a new fag hag (or, the new term, fruit fly) for after sarah leaves. sounds pretty win-win!

imk2 writes at 08:23:45 06/02/07 - Comment #19138: if you go back in peoples journals (like (e:jenks), (e:ladycroft), (e:metalpeter)) you'll see lots more pics from previous parties.

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06/01/07 01:15 - 76ºF - ID#39492

i decorate in my sleep

My nephew is selling raffle tickets for the Ransomville fire department. Apparently there are about ten different grand prizes along the lines of a laptop, flat screen tv, dyson vacuum, a generator, power tools, etc. Also there is supposed to be a beer/wine tent. and other things. Well I guess that since a good deal of my family will probably be there for it and my parents should probably be in town for that - I might as well go. And then I realized that it was august 11th... the day before my birthday. Wow. Nothing like spending the day before my birthday at the firehall... reminds me of me of my entire youth - always there has to be a fire department event to go to.... God my life is exciting.

Ever walk around in a store and just have a striking urge to just stick your arm out and just knock everything on a shelf onto the floor? Not that I would ever do such a thing, but I still think about it and it makes me chuckle to myself a bit.

Last night I dreamt of our buffalo apartment. It was right on elmwood and it was lovely. I don't remember much about the actual apartment, except that we had a lovely brown and light blue living room (as seen @ pier one). I only remember that it was great, and I felt wonderful living there. I hope that is a sign of great things to come.

I can't think of all those things that I thought about posting previously. So I guess I'm done.

Hope you all have a great time tonight/tomorrow! And good luck to lilho's evening goals!

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Category: work

05/30/07 05:08 - 83ºF - ID#39463

when you work at a toy factory....

I just set my post its to go to my phone. how exciting... i feel as though somewhere along the line i have jumped into the age of technology.

So I am presently working a ten hour day in one of my stores. It is a slow store, so i usually spend the day bored/playing online. today i watched a movie online - Another Gay Movie which is a spoof on all the gay movies that are out there.

Wow there is a lot of gay sex in that movie.

So the funny thing is that here I am, watching gay sex movies at work.... and if my boss was here , he probably would just laugh at me.

The funny thing is that the owner of this company has another business. he runs this website: www.shevibe.com with his wife. so when i work in the poughkeepsie location, there is constantly shipments being delivered for his website.... and so when the owner (thor) calls me back and says 'hey your order is in' and then he waves a giant black dildo at me, i think to myself... wow... this is the greatest job ever...

if i were just reading this, i would probably be completely skeeved out by the idea of a boss waving a giant rubber dildo at their employees... but somehow here it just is hilariously the way it is...

anyway... i just thought there should be some type of indication of the fun environment in which i work..

fellyconnelly writes at 12:25:04 06/01/07 - Comment #19108: guy on guy sex doesn't really do much for me either... but then again... i'm a flaming lesbian.. :)

metalpeter writes at 05:24:43 05/31/07 - Comment #19074: Firstly Guy on guy sex doesn't do anything for me personaly in movies. All that really maters is that there is hot chick or at least someone atractive in the scene somewhare. I will admit I havn't been to lots of video stores to campare prices but it does seem that as I have gone through a store the "alt" section the prices all of a sudden jump higher but that could just be me.

fellyconnelly writes at 12:49:21 05/31/07 - Comment #19049: James: yes it is called NY video exchange. and they indeed have such a section there... it is in a section that includes 'cult classics' 'alternate lifestyle' 'musicals' and 'fellini'. I never really had much in the way of inspiration to actually rent any of these movies. in fact i don't rent movies very often at all...
also yes. his name is thor, and he looks the part. he is about 6 foot tall and 4 feet across - a former body builder. and he is hilarious.

james writes at 07:42:39 05/30/07 - Comment #19023: There was a charming little video store in New Paltz that, in addition to the queer escapist fantasy section (my name, not theirs) also had a giant horror section populated mostly with Italian movies from the 70's. What was the scary part? The pot bellied guy dressed as a vampire? Or a script written by the functionally illiterate?

So, your boss owns an online sec store AND in addition to, his name is Thor? That is fucking awesome. In fact, my day has been made.

fellyconnelly writes at 06:46:12 05/30/07 - Comment #19018: Well it is actually gay male sex, i guess i should have been more specific.

and yes - there is typically a whole section of a video store dedicated to 'alternative lifestyles' - but then i do live in new paltz... i can only assume that these video sections exist everywhere (outside of blockbuster).

but i will say that i only watch girl/girl porn if i am prepared to laugh.

metalpeter writes at 06:29:27 05/30/07 - Comment #19016: See I really do learn something everyday I didn't know there was a type of movie known as gay movies. I knew there where gay characters but that kind of movie (not including porn). So then to hear that there is a parody sounds even more interesting. I've seen a few bad Parodies but I've seen some really good ones. So me being a piggy guy who likes all sorts of stuff would like to know what is the name of this movie with all this (I assume) girl on girl sex. I have said for years that I wish Blockbuster movies or even comedy movies (mainstream) would have great porn like sex scenes but I'm a little messed up. I can't imagine working in a sex toy factory (the other buisiness).

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Category: randomo

05/28/07 10:43 - 63ºF - ID#39431

Random acts of selfish thought

I'm not used to working Mondays. One of my employees quit this weekend, bringing my hours up but totally screwing my schedule. Wednesday I work a ten hour shift and now Thursday will be at least 11.5 hours.

We have managed to schedule a date for our next visit to Buffalo. June 18th-20th. Basically will involve waking up at the ass crack of dawn and driving for 6 hours, then Job Hunting/Apartment hunting for both the rest of Monday, as well as all day Tuesday. We will be camping too.

Yesterday I also managed to schedule in the following events.
June 1 - Art Show in Utica
June 9 - Nick's Body Building competition in Poughkeepsie
June 18-20 - Buffalo
June 22 - Concert in NYC
June 28/29 - move out (TO WHERE???)
June 30-July 1 - Campout going away party @ Kim & Jean's
July 7-8 - "the Felly & Lauren are gone!" party @ 66 south
July 22-25 - Family 'get together' @ Bear Mountain State Park.

I also got completely overwhelmed by all that is to happen and how the hell to do it all.

I realized that we have no place to store our crap for the entire month of July (if we don't get an apartment right away July 1)

I realized that I may not be able to work in July if I have already given then a July 1 leaving date.

All this and Mel decided to spend a good hour asking me why I am wasting my time selling cell phones when I am such a talented videographer. All the reasons that I managed to give to her all ended up being a steaming pile of bullshit. What it all comes down to is basically a lack of confidence. Sometimes I know i'm an awesome videographer. I can't even watch a movie without picking it apart. Then when it comes down to actually trying to prove that, I just get afraid of putting myself out there. And then I say.... All I need is ten G's and i'd be fine... I would start my own business!
blah blah blah its all bullshit.

Really though. Lauren is going to be gone for the evening so I'll spend the night painting some delicious works of art for Jess. And avoid the thought of taking control of my life yet again!

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Location: New Paltz, NY

Category: 'deep' thoughts

05/23/07 11:03 - 73ºF - ID#39386

Camp Felly

We bought a tent.

which basically means that no matter what happens, we will never be completly homeless...

maybe that is a rather bleak way of looking at the future. But seriously, it will work out wonderfully in our travels to Buf to check out apartments. We can just camp there and make it a fun little getaway. But the screwed up part is that I have a crapload of relatives in the youngstown/lockport/wilson/ransomville area up north of Buffalo. Brothers, grandparents and aunts and uncles. But really the only place that we could really stay would be my grandparents house due to circumstance.

I love my grandparents. Really I do, but with my grandpap's recent decline and the stagnant emptiness/loneliness of that house when nobody else is there... well i just don't like staying there.

And I count myself so lucky, because my gripe with not wanting to stay there has nothing to do with the fact that I am in a lesbian relationship and would be bringing my girlfriend with me. The last time we were there, they absolutely loved lauren. I am so very lucky for such a wonderful and loving family.

Alas. I love tenting. And so it shall be.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

Category: food

05/22/07 11:38 - 65ºF - ID#39374

bubble tea is being tried again...

okay so i'm trying to upload photos and it is telling me that adobe flash player is having a script error or something that is causing my computer to run slowly. then the photos that i upload have little x's on them of the red variety and so theydo not upload. are the two related?

my original post spoke of bubble tea.... here is the post without photos.

[box]I first heard of Bubble tea on here, but I was new to the estrip community so I did not voice my confusion. (what the hell is bubble tea? Bubble gum flavored tea?)
Then yesterday Wazina invited me to the City with her and Steve to have Bubble tea and do some shopping. (actually they didn't tell me they were shopping, they said 'walking around')

2 story morals here.
1. bubble tea is weird but good.
2. never shop with wazina and steven.[/box]

also saw 28 weeks later last night... not all that great...

it was as if the cameraperson was having an epilectic fit. i mean, the first one had just the right amount of fast camera pan/tilt/zoom/etcs to give you glimpses of what was going on... but this one - it was just too much... i felt cheated i guess... but then that is my videography training perhaps... i often feel cheated when watching movies...

also saw shrek 3 online.. (hehehe) and though the quality was poor, i enjoyed it immensely!
okay time for groceries.