Saturday, March 31, 2007

i imed someone who was in A2....we were talking and said we met before...so i start freaking out cause i didn’t know who it was! they wanted to hook up and i was like when where how did we meet, and they said we had dinner once....so i remembered who they were and it was a boring dinner date, I ate quickly and then took off. Heres the conversation from earlier after they said we had met.

A4: so...
thebryguy: i remember
A4: and now you're not interested?
thebryguy: i didnt think we really clicked
A4: it's a one night stand -- not a marrige
proposal :)
thebryguy: eh, i live up to my standards....good
luck bro
A4: haha -- well -- good luck to you -- you're
the one who messaged me
thebryguy: i forgot who you were, sorry
A4: I'm sure you are


HAHAHAHA
so there you go.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

my new shirts





Monday, March 26, 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007

THIS STORY WAS NOT REPORTED-i am mad

i read the newspaper everyday, i watch the news everyday. i am what one might call a news junkie.
THIS STORY WAS NOT REPORTED
DETROIT - Andrew Anthos had many passions in life, including old movies, legendary Hollywood screen sirens and a 20-year campaign to illuminate the state Capitol dome in red, white and blue one night a year. While he never hid that he was gay, he was no gay rights activist.
But after dying of injuries suffered last month in what witnesses portrayed as a gay-bashing, the 72-year-old Anthos has become a powerful symbol in a campaign to amend federal and state hate-crime laws to protect gays.
"The whole point is making sure that people have equal rights in the legal system, people aren't picked on or threatened just because they look or act differently," said state Sen. Hansen Clarke, who plans to introduce legislation to amend Michigan's Ethnic Intimidation Act.
According to police and family members, the Detroit man was riding a city bus home from the library on Feb. 13, singing along quietly to Spanish music on his headphones. A young man asked him if he was gay and called him a "faggot." Anthos ignored him.
The man followed Anthos off the bus, confronting him again. Anthos told the man he was gay as he helped a wheelchair-bound friend who was stuck in a snowbank, witnesses said. The man struck Anthos in the back of the head with a pipe, stood over him as he lay on the ground and ran off after Anthos' friend yelled for him to stop.
Anthos fell into a coma on Feb. 21 and died two days later.
Police have no suspect but released a composite sketch of the attacker. The department is investigating whether it was a hate crime.
"He wasn't robbed. Nothing was touched," said Anthos' cousin Athena Fedenis. "It was strictly a hate crime."
Fedenis, 45, said Anthos told her what happened from the hospital and she took notes because she "wasn't going to let this get thrown underneath the rug and let it be forgotten about."
Anthos touched the lives of many people. He struck up an improbable friendship with Ava Gardner in the late 1960s after going to a New York hotel where he learned she was staying, his cousin says. His campaign to light the state Capitol dome in honor of police officers, veterans and others put him in contact with countless lawmakers, reporters and others in Lansing.
Fedenis said Anthos asked her before he died to promise that she would work to realize his goal of lighting the Capitol dome. She established a nonprofit foundation called Andrew's Light to take contributions. Money that doesn't go to the effort will be donated to the Triangle Foundation, a gay rights advocacy group.
The federal and state legislative efforts have been around for at least a decade and picked up some support after the fatal beating of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard in 1998. Now, advocates hope, Anthos' death adds some urgency.
Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., introduced legislation in the House this week, and Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., cited Anthos on the Senate floor earlier this month when he said he would soon help reintroduce a bill that would expand the definition of hate crimes to include gays and allow the federal government to help local law enforcement investigate hate crimes.
Anthos went from job to job when he was younger but apparently was not working at the time of his death. He was on state disability; Fedenis said he was diagnosed as mentally ill in the 1950s.
He often traveled, scrubbing the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and laying flowers at Marilyn Monroe's crypt. When he met Gardner, he gave the actress pictures he had collected from magazines and later was invited to her home, his family says. She later wrote a letter supporting his dome-lighting crusade.
Julie Cook, who befriended Anthos in the late 1980s and remained close to him, said he put up with apathy and outright hostility in his dome campaign.
"He would stand on corners and people would throw things at him," Cook said. "It didn't matter. He would research the busiest corner to stand on where he could be seen the most."
While Anthos aggressively sought support for the idea, he wanted to be in the background, not in the limelight, Fedenis said.
"He wanted all the attention to be strictly on the dome for the veterans, the doctors, the police officers, the firefighters, the less fortunate," she said.
(A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the date of the attack on college student Matthew Shepard. It was 1998, not 1988.)

I am not a gay rights activist by any means, but THAT STORY WAS NOT REPORTED.
eh

i am over it, but wtf. the rapes and the murders and the kiddy rapers, and the president are all reported. eh.

let me know what you think.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

i am home. i am with alex. she wants me to tell everyone i love her. i do. she says good.
i think we are going to the jap steak house for dinner tonight. i am hungry, they make me happy.
food. oh food.
i went to dunkin dounts for free iced coffee today. it was disgusting. dam you free coffee, dam you.

oh god, i have a story to share.
a homeless who was drunk and had no where to live walked in my front door and passed out at the bottom of the steps. what is AnnArbor coming to? they make me sad.
my brother finally was able to use our home alarm system. the baseball bat scared the homeless lady away.

congrads caryn, congrads

Saturday, March 03, 2007

so I was eating lunch at work on Friday and someone asked me what I was doing over the weekend. I didn’t have anything planed but I knew and figured Alex and I would do something crazy/entertaining/fun.
It was quiet at work and I had a few hours left so I started checking out my hotel discount in other cities. I found a room in Chicago for the weekend and it was cheap.
Alex and I drove to Chicago Friday at about 5pm. It was a crazy road trip. It started to snow and it didn’t stop. We drove through (what I am classifying as) a blizzard and white out conditions. For the first time in my life I was scared driving.
On the way we got a hold of H and he invited us to stay at his place. He just moved to the city and lives right off Michigan Ave. Free parking and a free place it couldn’t be better.
We then went north of the city to linkin park area and bar hopped. Wow the Chicago is amazing. We met a cool group of people at every bar. They had some drinks, (I had bed bull and cokes), we had a great time.
My night auditor at work called off for SAT night, today alex and I woke up and went shopping.
I got 2 pars of rockports for $100.
Then we drove home.
The city was amazing, the time was great, if you want the full details, just ask.
Be safe, bz