Monthly Archives: June 2009

Bar Fragments (poem)

Posted on Thu, 25 June 2009 by Mel Green

This is the series of couplets that includes the lines about Michael Jackson included in my last post. Though written in 1995, the experiences date from 1983-84, when I was in my 20s & often went out dancing (& drinking … Continue reading →

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Deaths

Posted on Thu, 25 June 2009 by Mel Green

Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it.  The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had … Continue reading →

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Three things I did at lunchtime

Posted on Thu, 25 June 2009 by Mel Green

This post has nothing to do with the Anchorage equal rights ordinance — aren’t you glad for a break? — but two of the things I did have to do with two of our staunch allies in that fight.  The … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-24

Posted on Wed, 24 June 2009 by Mel Green

@tonei proord = pro-ordinance in reply to tonei # @tonei and yeah muni lib access wifi is worthless in reply to tonei # @jansonjones passed your photos link on to Bent Alaska’s wall on FaceBook – main LGBT blog run … Continue reading →

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No Questions, Questions (poem)

Posted on Wed, 24 June 2009 by Mel Green

You wouldn’t think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I’ve written b/c of him. Yikes.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-23 (Assembly public hearing #4)

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

How’d my work get on the mailing list for this meter reading/utility collection outfit? yoohoo, we’re UAA, not AWWU. # Lynne called from Assembly 345 PM: chambers not yet open, abt 60 people waiting: 2/3 blue. Pack those chambers, blues! … Continue reading →

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A word about our friends

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

Most of the blogging I’ve been doing these past few weeks — most of it, really, since opening up business at Henkimaa.com — has been about the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which if passed would protect LGBT people from discrimination … Continue reading →

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Christianist, defined

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post. Christianist is a term I first heard from … Continue reading →

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Transposition

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

Sometimes sleep, food, & friends need to come first.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-22

Posted on Mon, 22 June 2009 by Mel Green

I finally may have slept the exhaustion out of me. Now to make sure it doesn’t return. # Correcting Len Anderson of KSKA: 4 not 3 churches in Pride parade: MCC, Unitarian Universalists, St. Marys Episcopal, Immanuel Presbyterian. # Mst … Continue reading →

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