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You've Got to Admit, Dan's Got Style

Tue Oct 27 15:33:00 -0400 2009

<><>Hello, everyone. I apologize for the blog being down for so long. There has been a lot going on, but one of the main reasons for the lack of updates is that I finally came out to my father a couple months ago. I don't have much to say on that topic yet. In a lot of ways, I'm only beginning to digest everything that's happened recently. I will say one thing: being 100% out of the closet fe...

You've Got to Admit, Dan's Got Style

Tue Oct 27 11:31:00 -0400 2009

<>Hello, everyone. I apologize for the blog being down for so long. There has been a lot going on, but one of the main reasons for the lack of updates is that I finally came out to my father a couple months ago. I don't have much to say on that topic yet. In a lot of ways, I'm only beginning to digest everything that's happened recently. I will say one thing: being 100% out of the closet feels ev...

You've Got to Admit, Dan's Got Style

Tue Oct 27 11:18:00 -0400 2009

<> <>Hello, everyone. I apologize for the blog being down for so long. There has been a lot going on, but one of the main reasons for the lack of updates is that I finally came out to my father a couple months ago. I don't have much to say on that topic yet. In a lot of ways, I'm only beginning to digest everything that's happened recently. I will say one thing: being 100% out of the closet feels e...

You've Got to Admit, Dan's Got Style

Mon Oct 26 23:31:00 -0400 2009

Gushing Blood...Half-Blood

Sun Jul 26 20:32:00 -0400 2009

<><><>When I first began to write this article, I was determined to get my opinion down before it could be tainted – for better or for worse – by the influence of friends and the media alike (especially that Rotten Tomatoes meter). It’s not that I have no backbone about my opinion; it’s just that, given enough time, I could come up with a million reasons and nitpicks to hate every one of the films.<> ...

99 Reasons to Love Hermione

Tue Jul 07 05:09:00 -0400 2009

<><><>In 1965, Mel Brooks’ hilarious send-up of the spy genre, Get Smart, debuted. The show centered on not-so-secret secret agent Maxwell Smart, played by funny man Don Adams, and his partner Agent 99, equal parts beautiful and clever, played by the über-cool Barbara Feldon. Agent 99 was the new modern image of women: she had the looks and the style, but more importantly, she was a woman who was ...

Y Tu Mama Tambien 2: Prisoner of Azkaban

Mon Jun 08 13:55:00 -0400 2009

<><>When Brokeback Mountain first graced the big screen, I read a review of the movie that described the initial attraction between Ennis and Jack as inevitable. Two young attractive men, alone for the season on a secluded mountain? Yeah, I’d believe it inevitable. So what about two young teen wizards holed up in boarding school for six years? Well, I can see that too. And, apparently, so can ...

Harry and Harvey: Walking the Forest

Sat May 02 15:18:00 -0400 2009

<><>I don’t talk politics much. I don’t read the paper - I don’t really trust the paper. I have a few friends who are politically aware and I trust them to keep me apprised of anything major. Several weeks ago I was visiting with one such politically-minded friend and we got on the subject of the Gay Rights Movement. Thanks mostly to 365Gay News on Logo, this was one political conversation in w...

Through the Brick Wall...and Back Again

Sun Apr 05 11:37:00 -0400 2009

<>A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about a concept album the band Of Montreal put out called “Skeletal Lamping,” which featured a character, the lead singer’s alter ego, called Georgie Fruit. Georgie is a person who has been through multiple sex changes, from man to woman and back again many times. Predictably, my employer walked by and said that she couldn’t understand that at all. T...

The Story of Jon, Jo, and AJ

Wed Mar 11 15:41:00 -0400 2009

<><>A few years ago, if you had asked me about the day I met J.K. Rowling, I probably would have mumbled something about how I told heard I liked to read just like Hermione and how much I loved this story. But that bit of history would have been slightly revisionist. I did say those things, but as I have finally grown up enough that I understand that the past is often embarrassing, especially w...

Life in the Cupboard

Tue Feb 17 16:26:00 -0500 2009

<><>Not too long ago, I came out to my mother. I think when we take on something like that, something that seems so enormously significant, it never really plays out exactly as we’d imagine. Maybe it’s just me, because I do lead an active fantasy life, always dreaming about what could or might happen, but when faced with reality, I’m never as articulate as I’d like to be. My voice becomes shaky ...

Transchildren: Under the Sorting Hat

Sat Jan 24 15:08:00 -0500 2009

"I sometimes think we sort too soon."

-Albus Dumbledore, “The Prince’s Tale,” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Me, too, Dumbledore, me, too.

<><><>The other day at work a customer called me "sir" then "ma'am" then, frustrated, threw his hands up in the air and said "I don't know which." I turned beet red and said nothing; not my usual tack, but I was surprised; most customers just ask my name...

Pumping Polyjuice: The "T" Comparison

Wed Jan 07 13:28:00 -0500 2009

<><><>Polyjuice Potion. Metamorphmagi. Or maybe just a little help from Madam Pomfrey. If you were a witch or wizard, would you ever choose to change your appearance by magic? We all cut our hair, tattoo our skin, get pierced, lose weight, straighten our teeth. But what if you had more than Hermione’s buckteeth or Eloise Midgen’s acne? What if you had body parts you didn’t want? Hair growing w...

Move Over, Draco/Giant Squid...

Sat Dec 27 14:09:00 -0500 2008

I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a month. New Year’s Resolution #1: Update blog more. And by virtue of the craziness of the holidays being over, I’m sure that’s one I’ll be able to keep. Now, on to the blog.

<><><><>It’s sort of a running joke in the Potter fandom that any ship goes. For any combination of characters, you can usually find at least a few shippers lurking around the internet. And h...

Just Call Me Voldemort

Thu Nov 20 19:47:00 -0500 2008

<><>Many years ago, when I was in my early teens, I knew a girl named Nicole. We did a seasonal program together. The year after I met her, she was in the program again, but her name was Marie. She had started going by her middle name simply, as she said, because she didn’t like her name. It was the first time I’d ever known someone before and after they’d changed their name and it was admitted...