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December 3, 1998

Beautiful women and bisexuality

I spent the morning picking apart some code that creates a random image in Domino. I sent a few job leads (freelance) over to Andria Wolfe, Keith's apprentice and I decided over lunch to surf her website. I really like the title and it follow's Iko's Guide to Domain Names. Plus, it highlights what she does for a living: stage lighting design. That's a fascinating career, primarily because it is something that I know absolutely zero about and also something that I think I would greatly lack the talent in doing well. I spent my lunch hour surfing her site and discovered many beautiful treasures on it. I found the two snippets of poetry on her site about her wedding ceremony. It was very beautifully done (the site, and the wedding!) and there are a number of things that she put into the ceremony that I would suggest for other people's weddings. Like, the first 10 minutes of the marriage was spent by the couple being together and alone by themselves. I loved that. There are some wonderful pictures on the site, but nothing as flattering as the real thing, IMHO. She's very very beautiful (he's not so bad looking himself!). I read about how they were part of the 24 hours in Cyberspace project. I think that's very cool. I put up another new site! (Requisite groans from the audience.) Someone asked me for my desktop Star Wars theme that I made for the new Episode 1 coming out and I was planning on emailing the bitmap file to her. Well, my mail is screwy, so I decided to pop it on a website where she can download it. So, what's a file without a beautiful cover to it too? So, I slapped on a few graphics together and came up with a new website, Images from Iko. Tell me what you think! On Diary-l, we started talking about Ani DiFranco, to which I commented that I was introduced to Ani by way of Alana Davis' cover of "32 Flavors". I prefer Ms. DiFranco's version over Ms. Davis' but, I do give Ms. Davis some recognition as she introduced me to Ani (independent of my sister's obsession with her). That started the discussion that Ms. Davis changed omitted a verse because of its "bisexual undertones". I took it upon myself to do a little search for the lyrics to find out what verse Ms. Davis' omitted. Here it is: both my parents taught me about good will and I have done well by their names just the kindness I've lavished on strangers is more than I can explain still there's many who've turned out their porch lights just so I would think they were not home and hid in the dark of their windows til I'd passed and left them alone Can you even see a hint of bisexuality in that? <shrug> I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I'm a member of the Helen Mirren Appreciation Society (officially sanctioned by Ms. Mirren Herself!) and we had a game today called "Helen's Keepers". We were to pick parts of her that we would keep "safe" and would "protect". My keepers were: her piercings (I know she's got her earlobes pierced, and I believe her breasts are not because I've seen her bare breasts on screen and they don't look pierced. Then again, I've not gotten a close look), her wit, and her Shakespearian acting talent. I'm allowed one more thing this year and two more when the new year rolls around, but I can't think of anything particularly interesting at the moment. She's got a number of new films coming out... perhaps I'll get something from one of them. One of her new movies is a dark comedy about a group of students that want to off their teacher (played by Herself). It sounds intriguing. Almost anything that Herself does is intriguing. I love beautiful British women! I remember when I was in high school and was a questioning young woman. I then nestled myself in the camp of "bisexuality" and was quite proud of it. However, I started to rethink my feelings and when I got into college, was a very out heterosexual with an appreciation of the female form. I don't believe I could have a truly meaningful relationship with a woman, although I do admire them from a distance (and sometimes.. ahem.. from not so far a distance). I would miss the company of men too much, be too tempted to become bored and go astray, while with a man (especially Mike), I'm not bored at all. These days, I've decided to remain pretty much ambiguous about my sexuality. It's not so important to me anymore. I'm a person who loves and adores other people, men and women. Sometimes, I'll slap the label of heterosexual on myself, primarily to keep other people from being confused. Also, I don't think that the bi camp would be fully appreciative of my attitudes of my chosen relationships (all heterosexual). I'm a bi-camp reject. <grin> There is also a great need for "out heterosexuals" parading for glbt rights, so I decide to be vocal in that respect. Am I cheating myself? Am I being less than honest? Labels are too confining for me when it comes to sexual orientation, and the benefits of labeling myself to the outside world as a "heterosexual" in terms of promoting the movement outweigh the benefits of labeling myself a "bisexual". I'm probably about halfway between heterosexual and bisexual on the Kinsey scale. I hope I didn't spook you out any, Constant Reader. I've added a new section to my entries. Surfing. I surf the web all the time (well, not all the time. I am a hard worker!) and I find all these cool websites that I really shouldn't bookmark, because then it will become tremendously unmanagable. So, I have opted to add the cool links I discover in a bar on the side so that I can probably visit them later. If you visit them, come back here sometime in your suring adventures, 'k? Unless I spooked you out too much...

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