I think I've finally gotten my new site the way I want it. I'm learning more about themes and PHP as each day goes on, which is a hidden benefit (I guess). It's a content management based system, rather than hard-coded HTML/xml, which is like a fancy way of using frames without all the baggage. There is a lot of CSS used, so I can't guarantee that it will look exactly the way it is meant to on all the browsers, but it works on the most often used ones.

You can check it out at http://jamesnunn.com/

Just got done watching Longtime Companion (IMDB, Yahoo! Movies). According to the blurb at Yahoo Movies, “A group of friends support each other through the heartbreak and gradual decline of AIDS.”

Like other movies that came out around this time (1990), it captures the reality of what was happening at the time from the small perspective of these friends. It's a funny movie at times (though not a comedy), and (for me) a tear-jerker. I remember the first time I saw this film, I thought it was so remote to how my life really was, but in hindsight, I was just oblivious to what was going on.

Great acting, good storyline, and not focused on the actual disease (like And the Band Played On), more focusing on the relationships that are affected because of the disease's impact. The cast includes Bruce Davison, Dermot Mulroney and Mary-Louise Parker (this was her first film).

I found this movie last night while at W*lmart, and just watched it. It was really good. At first - when it ended - I was a little confused, but then I realized that the ending was connected to the conversation Bulworth (Warren Beatty) and Neva (Halle Berry) had when they first met about why are there no more black leaders. Neva responds with a statement like “Because they're all dead.” Makes the ending all that more powerful.

Progress on my site redesign is coming along nicely. I've still got a few tweaks to make to the general feel of the site, and finalize my category layout - but overall I'm getting to be very happy with the outcome.

Feel free to check it out and post/send any feedback you may have.

I got this email, and I just had to post it. This is funny (to me), especially the bill to bury books
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:26 PM
To: lgbt-politics@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [lgbt-politics] 2005 Republican 'Fire Oaths'

2005 Republican 'Fire Oaths'
January 27, 2005
http://www.christiangrantham.com

Arkansas Rep. Roy Ragland (R-Marshall) hasn't said what he'd do with existing Arkansas school textbooks that don't explicitly define marriage as being between a man and a woman. His recent bill in the Arkansas House of Representatives to require textbooks to reflect the state's constitutional definition of marriage failed, but maybe Ragland can adopt Alabama Rep. Gerald Allen's (R-Cottondale) proposal to burry them.

HB1136 would require that public school textbooks containing a definition of marriage do so “only as a relationship between one man and one woman.” It also requires that textbooks be barred from “any definition of marriage that is contrary to the definition of marriage in the Arkansas Constitution.” [Bill Defining Marriage in Textbooks Stumbles - Arkansas Democrat - 01-25-05]

In the spirit of Republicans and their party's evangelical base seeking to cleanse society of references to gays and lesbians across the country, I've re-written a few Nazi Fire Oaths they can all chant as they purge American culture of the plague of homosexuality.

Fire Oaths were written by the German Student Association for Germans to chant as they tossed offending works into the fires of Nazi book burnings. Following each chant, Nazi sympathizers would say the name of the works that brought shame on Germany's purity and morality.

2005 REPUBLICAN FIRE OATHS

1) AGAINST: decadence and moral decay
FOR: discipline and decency in family and state
TO BE BURNED: SpongeBob SquarePants

2) AGAINST: equal marriage rights
FOR: defending the sanctity of marriage from homosexuals
TO BE BURNED: The United States Constitution

3) AGAINST: exposing American children to alternative lifestyles
FOR: portraying strong families with one mother and one father only
TO BE BURNED: Bert and Ernie, Tinky Winky, Buster the Bunny Rabbit