Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
@HOME. Ok so I'm still lying here in bed thinking about actually going to sleep. I actually like the new Blogger format and updates they just released. I like being able to search on Location and Topics to read other peoples lives. It makes me feel somewhat like a voyeur or something. If you have no clue at all what I'm talking about you should check out http://www.blogger.com/, maybe that will clear some things up. You know it's pretty funny that they just released these updates because I've been seriously considering switching to .TEXT instead. I would have to install in on my server and get it configured so that would be a pain in the ass to do when I already have no time. However it had a bunch more features. Ah who am I kidding am I really going to use those features? Probably not. I'll probably do it just to entertain myself at some point in time. I think for now I'll just stick to Blogger. I like being able to have access to write from work sometimes.
Back to these other peoples posting. I think some of them are so interesting. I spent a few hours the other night reading posts from developers at Microsoft regarding their interview process. I spent tonight reading some guys posts about why he thinks girls don't like him. It's amazing how these BLOGS have really taken off and I think there are actually many useful postings. Perhaps in 20 years from now they will realize that we are actually returning back to a literary society. I hope people are reading some of these random posts and archiving them because it would be asshame to loose much of this information and not have it preserved for future generations to read and understand how we live.
Ok ... One last rant before I go to bed. Ok maybe two or three but ... First of all, I'm tired of picking up the paper in the morning and seeing photos from Iraq, articles about prisoner mistreatment, all that crap. (Yes I do get the newspaper still. Ask me why. I have no clue) But I'm just sick of it all. It feels like there is no other worthwhile news except for all that propaganda garbage. I can't wait for the elections to be over and the new president to take office (Notice I said new!) I suppose I'll just keep my fingers crossed and hope that my vote helps in Mr. Bush's great defeat. I'm tired of religious fanatics, conservatism, homophobes and just the rest of the freaks out there. I guess that's saying a lot coming from a big old QUEER like myself. Ok maybe not that big. Aside from my sexual orientation I pretty much see myself as a down to earth, caring guy who believes that people have the inherent right to make decisions for themselves. As long as it doesn't truly bother someone else. When I say bother I don't mean the "oh I don't agree with that ..." type of bother, but rather the "blow smoke in your face, spit on you, etc ... " type of bothering. You get my gist. Just let people do whatever the hell they please as long at they don't shit on your lawn what does it matter? Let the QUEER's marry, the drug users use, and let the rest of the world live their lives without preaching to them or telling them that their life is worthless and what they believe is wrong.
I really think my hostility comes from my disdain over the deep seated Catholic beliefs that I've been taught to not question over the years. But I digress, it's getting late and I'll have to save that discussion for another night.
