My Blog is, Firstly, For Me

An article in the NYTimes online today attempts to determine why people blog when they should be doing things like “homework and swim practice, or perhaps even housework and parenting.” Their determination is that bloggers assume that just the act of starting a blog will provide an instant audience, followed by fortune and/or fame. While Continue reading →

8 Reasons This Blog Doesn’t Suck

I saw a post on probablysucks.com that listed reasons “your blog probably sucks.” In the spirit of Eight Random Things, I give you “Eight Reasons This Blog Doesn’t Suck.” I know how to write, spell, and use punctuation effectively. I have the guts to talk about things that most people won’t talk about. (This may Continue reading →

New Banner

I’m updating a few pages that didn’t have thumbnails yet, and while I was at it I made a banner from the logo that Mats made for the site. Here it is, for those inclined to post it. (You can find others in the “Of Interest” section above.) Link to http://spiritcompanion.com, of course.

Sale I Had to Share

I got an ad from Geeks.com for an Xbox 360 Elite. It’s good enough to pass on. I don’t get anything from this, btw. I wish I could afford one for myself, though! ETA: $199. Oops forgot to add the price. XBOX 360 Elite 120 GB Hard drive HDMI Wireless controller Headset Here. This link Continue reading →

Moved! and New Year, and Photos

Moved! This site has been moved to a new hosting company and a new server. There was some down time last night because I got sucked into watching Leverage with my daughter. We watched 3 episodes on the DVR, and then I checked the site to find a database error. Fixed it right around midnight, Continue reading →

Announcement of Interest

Since I’m scrambling around here posting email reminders between holiday gift-wrapping, I wanted to let my readers here know that we’ve created a Google group for readers of Rending the Veil. It’s an open discussion group, and everyone is welcome. It’ll help get everyone over the yearning for new RTV content during the hiatus (kidding Continue reading →

World AIDS Day

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, and as I often do, I got distracted and missed the opportunity to post about it. However, I’m going to make up for it now. Today while sitting in a waiting room and leafing through the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, I discovered a provocative ad. It was a Continue reading →

Attention All GLBT and Friends: For Immediate Release

Join the Impact‘s first national demonstration will be December 10, 2008 and is called: Please visit this website for details: http://daywithoutagay.org/ [with minor edits] “On December 10, you are encouraged not to call in sick to work – you are encouraged to call in gay – and donate your time to service! December 10, 2008 Continue reading →

An Interesting Development – PeopleJam

This is not a paid post – I want to make that clear. But it is an opportunity, for you and for me. A couple of days ago, I received an email that was not strictly spam – it referred to posts on this blog and spoke to me personally, within the body of the Continue reading →

Blog Days

I’ve often seen other blogs with days of the week assigned to various tasks, for example the very popular Thankful Thursday. I’ve considered doing something like this, but I didn’t want it to become a chore. It strikes me that, particularly with regard to gratitude, making these posts some sort of discipline would be very Continue reading →

Comments on Weird Anomalies in Reality

There are some very interesting comment threads in my LiveJournal on the crosspost of my blog entry about anomalies and weird things in my life. After some thought I’ve decided to go ahead and make it public just this once. So read up, and see what should be happening here. The link. Don’t say I Continue reading →

Current Ephemeris and Astrological Reference

Edited to add: I’ve corrected my chart below from the version I posted a moment ago. I recently found my birth certificate and discovered I was born 30 minutes earlier than I thought. This changes the house positions quite a bit, and moves Uranus in Leo to the 12th house when it had been shown Continue reading →