PRIDE!!!

Pride Flag over the Castro Whoo Hoo! It’s Pride Weekend here in San Francisco, as in MANY other cities worldwide. Speaking of which, this time of year makes me wish I were back in Toronto – aside from having the BEST Pride I’ve ever participated in (yes, including San Francisco’s!), recent events make me feel as PROUD as I’ve ever felt to be Canadian. Between this and the decriminalization of the posession of small amounts of marijuana (another source of pride), you have to figure that Toronto is the place to be this weekend. On the other hand, San Francisco’s status as the unofficial center of the LGBT universe might just make it a close second.

Speaking of Pride…

How proud am I that the amazing CBC Radio 3 won not one, but THREE of the 2003 Webby Awards?? Webby Award Winner AND People’s Voice Winner in the Broadband category, and People’s Voice Winner in the Radio category. A lot prouder than I have any right to be, considering I had nothing to do with the design nor creation of the site, and just happen to be from the same country. But hey, pride is pride is pride, and CBC Radio 3 is definitely deserving.

And speaking of Webby Awards (can I segue, or can I segue?), Planned Parenthood Golden Gate won the Webby in the Health category, and speaking of Planned Parenthood, Carolyn (who works at PP – albeit not at PPGG) and Jason are coming to town in just few more days! Huzzah!

On the personal side, the last week has been COMPLETELY nuts at work, but at least I’ve been billable. Since the last post, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with JebAvaRe, which was great fun, and Em and I saw Greg Giraldo at the Punch Line here in San Francisco – he totally killed. Conor Kellicut and Joe Bartnick opened, and were both really funny as well. Em has officially decided that she prefers “professional” comedy to the amateur/open-mic nights I sometimes drag her out to. But I can’t help it – I have to indulge my sick fetish of watching wanna-be comics die on stage…

Finally, I’m excited to announce that a FOURTH person has actually been here and commented on a post! And he’s the FIRST poster with extensive web design skills (MAD skillz, at that) – no offense to the other three – so I’m now keenly ashamed of the low-rent HTML template this site has to offer. So, a very warm DanRochman.com welcome to the lovely (really!) AND talented (REALLY!) Misterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooob REINHARDT!! Rob is a Flash God, which is even mightier than Flash Guru. Mere Flash Gurus actually quake in his presence – I’ve seen it. He’s also a party on two legs (except when seated), and I know and love him from way back in my University of Toronto days, when I dated his roommate (or vice versa). Smooches, baby.

[ps-to-Rob: My e-mail isn't on the site because (a) the other three readers of the site already knew it and (b) evil spambots would scrape it within hours. But dan-at-thisdomain will get to me, and I'm about to mail you besides.]

Comments

Arnon says:

2003/06/29 at 5:34 pm

Just got back from the Pride parade here in TO. The weather held out just long enough for the actual parade to finish and be cleaned up. Clear and sunny and beautiful. Then came the huge storm clouds and all is pounding driving rain. Apparently the gods wantred to make sure the parade worked out, then cleared us all out.

There were queer newlyweds, and I definitely smelt pot.

I am deeply ashamed for my hometown of Montreal at this point. As My darlin’ commented: “Yah, Mtl seems nice, but I can walk down the street here, topless, smoking a joint, and making out with my wife. Bagels just don’t match up…”

The rain forced an early night on us, but that’s just as well, as there’s still packing to do before the big move tomorrow. Yoiks!

Arnon
Colossicus says:

2003/06/29 at 9:06 pm

Starting a segue with the phrase *’speaking of’ such and such* is a akin to beginning a sentence with *but* or *and*. Your haste with which to get across the point is paid for, in spades, with the loss of style, grace and reader’s respect.

I know of what I speak, particularly when it comes to spades. I am currently studying [?] for the Club Director’s Exam in order to receive my certification from the *American Contract Bridge League*. There are also many card games other than Bridge that use the spade suit found in any deck of standard playing cards. These games can include but are not limited to: Poker, Cribbage, Crazy 8′s, Canasta, Whists, Spit, War, Gin, Euchre, Solitare and the aptly named duo Hearts and Spades.

Don’t get me wrong. You have a tight, punchy style and I’m ever so glad to see a long entry on your blog and will continue to access this site regularly. It is just when I see a multi-faceted, super talented conversationalist taking extreme time to self-credit what can only be described as amateurish bush league efforts to introduce relevant information stream redirections, well, my heart goes out to you in droves.
Dan Rochman says:

2003/06/30 at 11:15 pm

You know, I *thought* my days of being skewered by LitCrit crybabies were over, but I may have been a bit hasty…

So, if it helps you sleep better, consider that my gratuitous self-credit was in fact the first salvo in an attempt to establish a post-rational, ethnographically tempered mythology of weblogging in the tradition of Kottke, and, of course, Chekhov.

Barring that, I’ll try to keep it tight, and punchy. Speaking of tight and punchy (see how the master does it?), how’s your Mom?

And good luck on the exam. Be sure to always call a spade a spade – I’ve heard they look for that in a Club Director…
Colossicus says:

2003/07/01 at 12:36 pm

Chekhov, I didn’t know he did weblogging. I thought he only flew the ship.