Conjugal Rites

The first few days of legal gay marriage in San Francisco, when there was a wonderful frenzy of marriages held at city hall, was captured in a documentary short by filmmaker Steve Damron, entitled Conjugal Rites. It premiered at the 2004 Frameline LGBT Film Festival. A short version has been uploaded to YouTube. Steve says,

It's hard to believe how much has happened since President's Day, 2004. The good news: youtube. The bad news: all the couples who got married that week in 2004 are not celebrating their 3rd wedding anniversaries next month ... at least legally. And many states have passed constitutional amendments to make ban same-sex marriage. In the end, though, amor omnia vincit.

It's extraordinary - how it captures a moment (literally, a moment) where politics and love both showed up and danced at a wedding. I'm glad they had their cameras with them.

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Could April 15 be an ordinary SUNDAY?

The tenth Carnival of Taxes starts with a reference from Sunday in the Park with George. Those 35-year-old veteran tax professionals...

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Credit El Niño

It's New York City. It's the middle of January. It's 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. It's crazy.

I'm off for a walk in the park.

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What in Hell is the Weather?

Every once in a while, I see these sites that just make me laugh out loud.

Check out this weather web site parody: Weather in Hell.

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Partying over Times Square at Midnight

It's a bit hard to see, but this is from a friend of a friend's apartment, overlooking Time Square, on New Year's eve, where I was partying with a bunch of Aussie's upstairs. A million people downstairs (and no toilets). Pretty amazing.

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Everything's Coming Up Optimists

Happy New Year, everyone!

Instapundit pointed me to a great set of 160 essays on optimism over at The World Question Center.

So far, I particularly like the essay entitled Evidence, by Clay Shirky.

It is only in the last hundred years that evidence has even begun spreading from the hard sciences into other parts of human life. Previous platitudes about the unpredictability or universal plasticity of human behavior are giving way to areas of inquiry with names like Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavioral Economics. (That we need a label like Behavioral Economics says as much about economics as Evidence-based Medicine does about medicine.)

So far, a great read, and I'm only half way through...

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