Musings on the West Memphis 3

May they find true peace.

I’ve watched these guys and kept an eye on their site, regularly, since the first Paradise Lost (See all Crime & Conspiracy Documentaries), though I had heard of their case previously through the occult grapevine. I have taken an Ambien so no doubt I’ll say all sorts of inappropriate shit, but I guess that’s entertainment. Continue reading →

Homeless Shelters and Bedbugs Links

Are you doing enough?

I found a few really cool links in the latest issue of Redbook. One is to look up (or make) bedbug infestation reports at apartments and hotels around the U.S. Go to Bedbug Registry.com to find out if your potential apartment complex, home, or hotel has reports of infestations. You can either enter the name Continue reading →

A Nice Tree for a Good Cause

Support your local organizations that provide assistance to GLBT members of your community.

To those of my readers in the Pacific Northwest, particularly Seattle: My friend Mel — in the past he’s been known here as “Xanquela” — volunteers for Dunshee House (206-322-2437), an organization dedicated to “helping people of the LGBTQ community find and support each other in many different ways, including sobriety and various social events.”

In Which I Rant

The New York Times today reports (among content about the new health care bill and the release of the names of those killed at Fort Hood) that “There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed; 77 Continue reading →

The Bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act Needs Your Support!

Sign the petition at the Lifetime Network website, here. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently re-introduced the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act in Congress. Thanks to its viewers, Lifetime has so far collected more than 23 million online petition signatures urging Congress Continue reading →

Blessings Needed For a Friend

From my friend Judith: This week, I start the third round of my treatment. This includes a biopsy on my arm to see if the cancer has spread. To pay for it, I’m trying to drum up some work I can do from home, so if you need any media, database, programming or web design Continue reading →

Birthday Coming Up

For those who care, my birthday is coming up at the end of the month, on the 29th. I’m saving to buy a compost turner on Amazon.com, so anyone who wants to give birthday gift items is recommended to purchase Amazon gift cards. My email address is sheta@rendingtheveil.com. I’d be very excited to be able Continue reading →

Adventures in Dogsitting

I forced myself out of bed yesterday morning after less than three hours sleep so that I could drive 45 minutes to a ritzy community center in Kingwood (a suburb north of Houston I’d never visited before) for a Dog Adoption Day. Homeward Bound was teaming up with an organization called Twyla’s Friends, a no-kill Continue reading →