It’s Friday, praise Bob.
I’ve been a ball of stress for too long, and even though the stress part kind of had a denouement (note the usage of a $45 word) on Monday and then with the election on Tuesday night, I think I’ve forgotten how to relax. I’ve just been on edge for too many weeks.
So, thanks to those of you who offered advice on which photos to send off to my iStockPhoto audition. Turns out it was all for naught, as this was their response to me, sent barely a couple of hours later:
At this time we regret to inform you that we did not feel the overall composition of your photography or subject matter is at the minimum level of standard for iStockphoto. Please take some time to review training materials, resources and articles provided through iStockphoto. The photographs provided in your application should be your best work. Try and impress us, we want to see how you stand out from the crowd.
In other words, they think I suck.
I question whether or not my stuff is suitable as stock photography anyway. It’s a bit particular, and I think their restrictions are annoying. I happen to like my photos of pets, flowers, sunsets, and people. So there.
Anyway.
I’m being swamped in a deluge of e-mails from California-based friends who are unhappy about the passage of Prop 8. I, too, am unhappy about it, but I do kind of wonder whether going after the Mormons is really a good strategy. I mean, look how well that worked for the Islamic world during the whole Danish cartoons thing. At the end of the day, it was the Californians who actually voted for the law which means that maybe the left coast isn’t as liberal as everyone thought.
More frightening to me is the Arkansas law that passed banning unmarried couples from adopting. They try that shit here in Texas every legislative cycle (because we’re weird, legislative cycles are every two years), but the last time apparently there was so much laughter during the hearing that it never even made it to committee vote, let alone to the full house of delegates or onto the ballot.
So, it’s a mixed bag of emotions as we end the week here. We have a new president-elect, and the Imperial reign of the Bushes is at an end, and the nation spoke loud and clear about how they felt about the last eight years. That’s a big thumbs up.
On the other hand, homos always lose. I feel for California. We’ve had marriage banned here in Texas already. In fact, we’ve had it banned twice. We’ve gotten kind of used to being the failsafe punching bag.
And so, on that note. It’s almost the weekend, and I plan to laze around and do as little as possible. How ’bout you?
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Up and down. The Mormon Church, which strangely enough isn’t a big part of the mainstream in California, did the bankrolling. Largely, so getting at the people who put forth the money has some logic to it. Personally, I’d much rather create a big wall of shame of all the business in San Diego and California and making people aware so people can vote with their pocket books. Also, I’m all for making contributor information public, personal or business.
Prop 8 proponents succeeded in reaching minorities who would have been marginalized in other right wing campaigns. Horray for all the white people who voted NO, but No on 8 somehow they forgot about the African American, Hispanic, and even Asian American communities in California. The minorities helped make it possible for Obama to win in CA, but Yes on 8 was successful in associating Obama with their prop, but they also appealed to minorities’ largely conservative values on families and community (and even religion).
I haven’t done a proper post in a while. Perhaps a rant a little later. I’m still mad.
Oh, and like Texas, this is the second time we’ve had to deal with this asinine issue.
YES. I’m all for it.
I should point out that when I question going after the Mormons, I do so from the “lets not be our own worst enemy” point of view (kinda like when people were doing little giddy dances when Falwell died). Then it gets used against us when we try to put the issue to a vote again. “Can we trust gays? Look what happened last time … ” I’m all for having their tax exempt status yanked.
The thing that killed me about the most recent ban in Texas is that it was already illegal. And technically, the second ban also effects heterosexual common-law couples, but that hasn’t been brought up in court.
Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say …
I like your photos. I don’t get it.
I still don’t agree with you about Falwell. I don’t think that there is a backlash against finger-pointing waiting to pop out around some future corner. Mormons=$$$=passage of Prop 8. Lay the blame where it fits…squarely in the laps of religious bigots.