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Pink Shirts

By Bill on June 10, 2008 8:25 PM | | Comments (0)

What's with all the pink shirts lately?

I have nothing against pink. In fact, I sometimes wear a hot pink shirt to work, paired with black slacks. I think it looks rather smart actually.

But I've noticed that times have changed. It used to be rare for a guy to wear a pink shirt, and if they did, it was assumed that they were gay. Yes I know, it's a stereotype, but I suppose behind every stereotype, there is some amount of truth. The world is changing, and fast. Am I the only one noticing that the pace of change has increased?

It was ten years ago that I had gone to lunch. On my way back to work from lunch, I stopped off at the car wash. As I was leaving the car wash, I had to stop at a stop sign. This guy passed in front of my car on a bicycle. He took one quick look at me and as he passed, turned around and yelled, "Faggot!". I quickly looked at my shirt to make sure that he wasn't saying that because the shirt was wrinkled, or out of place in any way. It had to have been the color. It couldn't have been how I looked at him because before he blurted out that rather rude word, I didn't even see him.

Today, that same guy would most likely be very confused. Yesterday, I went to the sandwich shop for lunch and there were three guys there in pink shirts, along with me. I'm thinking, "What the hell?" And around my workplace, there are no less than six other guys who occasionally wear pink - all very straight. Apparently, pink is no longer associated with gay men.

Wearing pink just doesn't seem so special anymore. Perhaps I shall wear red.

"I shall wear red yes, and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes." - James Joyce, Ulysses

YES!!!     YES!!!     YES!!!

I need a cold shower now.

God It's HOT!

By Bill on June 9, 2008 1:17 PM | | Comments (0)

It wasn't long ago... a few days ago, that it was in the 70's and very comfortable. Within one day, it's climbed into the high 90's. I was mowing the lawn this last Sunday. I was fine for the first 30 minutes, but I kept thinking that I was having allergies or asthma, because I just couldn't get my breath. It's not that I'm really out of shape. It was because of the air quality I think. And this morning on the news they were warning everyone to stay indoors and not do anything outside because of dangerously high levels of ozone. So I'm wondering if that was the problem.

At any rate, I didn't complete the lawn. I did what I could and went into the house where I was faced with a pissed off cat (Maxwell) who wanted the air turned on. I told him, "Maxwell, remember... we talked about the size of your 'carbon footprint', and how we were going to try to not contribute to global warming?" His reply was a quick swipe at my leg (his way of saying, "This is CRAP!"), so... I ended up closing the windows and turning on the cooling. At 72 degrees, he's a happy cat. He jumped up on his post in front of the window for his afternoon sunbath, with the vent above gently blowing down cool air upon him, and then he had the audacity to want the window cracked open so he could get fresh air from the outside as well (we didn't do that)!. I know, it's scary how I understand what he's saying to me.

At any rate, schools are now closing. People are leaving work to go get their kids. It's like a disaster has happened. Here's the current weather, courtesy of AccuWeather.com.

So I'm going directly home from work. I made Gazpacho this weekend so we would have something refreshing to have for dinner, without heating up the kitchen.

And to keep those cool thoughts going, an image comes to mind when I was enjoying myself so much after a winter storm had hit. Seems like a long time ago now.

The Joys of Winter

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