Posts by giovanni tiso
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Having the right to marry, whether you choose to or not, is superior to not having it.
Only if you go along with that mindset. If people actually abandoned marriage in favour of civil unions for the reason that Thomas so succintly espoused, then civil unions would become the superior institution.
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True, I retract my bucketful of lovers then. A handful perhaps.
I believe technically they're known as a "murder of lovers".
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It's a horrendous, ghastly word.
And it always makes me think of hubcaps for some reason.
civil unions are clearly superior because they're available to more people.
I couldn't agree with this more vigorously without developing an aneurysm. Seriously - fuck marriage already.
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Kind of ironic, in light of the "would you steal a car" ads we're subjected to from said industry.
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(Also, I spent a week in the US and made a lot of people think I was gay due to my frequent references to my partner, and that NZ had very liberal rules on gay adoption due to my frequent references to my children.)
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My current partner happens to be male, and so we had every right to a wedding. If he was the same person but female it would be different. I could feel the same way about her – need her, love her, make love to her - but I would be legally forbidden to marry her. It seems utterly ridiculous that the contents of trousers matter more than the contents of hearts. As long as my right to marry is dependent on the gender of my partner, I will not do it.
You and Brad Pitt both.
In Italian we have the lovely word compagno/compagna, which means both live-in-partner/lover and comrade in a political leftist sense (but not a military one). I miss being able to say that. Partner is just awful - we're not in business together, although it is occasionally business time in the home - and companion is only good over eighty. What to do?
And I also correct people, without feeling particularly churlish about it, except for telemarketers, to whom I'm happy to be known as Mr. Fletcher.
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btw, I believe that in California you can swim and ski on the same day too, maybe that's why Hollywood is there.
Lots of reliable sun. Early film needed lots of light.
And a Hobbiton – and this isn't a threatening or petulant observation, just an uncomfortable fact -- can be built anywhere.
It's not uncomfortable really - surely it's how it got to be built in New Zealand in the first place? It's unlikely to have been the location that Tolkien had in mind.
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I'm not sure I approve of this conversation taking place while I'm away. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't. For shame, y'all!
(Damn.)
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I barely know him and I'm not sure why we're friends on Facebook, but he's one of those social media guru types, so it's probably what he does with everyone.
You know what they say, though, it takes two to become friends on Facebook.
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I can't find the person
Thake's Facebook page is still there, you need to google it though.