Heya!!!

If you're in SF and have a room to rent or a couch to crash on, I have a friend who needs some temporary housing for a few months. If you know of a place or have it, please email me: sfmusikub at gmail.

Thanks!

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Shabbat Shalom, everyone!

OK! So, love having hair, but am thinking about buzzing my head (Jew-style) for the purpose of photography, and because, well, it's free. My beard will also need a trimming.

So, should I? Here's a pic, as of last night:



Click on the pic to enlarge. Also, I'd probably buzz all hairs toniiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhttttt....

I have a new friend. eireangus brought us together last week, and it's been heaven ever since.

I'd like to you to meet Moshe:



Moshe is kindof becoming a little helper, a little Jewish conscience and just fun all-around. Plus, he has a deep bond with eireangus, so what's not to love?!?!

I'll be posting somoe pictures and stories about my journeys with Moshe. You can check them out here, in "Tales of Moshe!

Let's see... let's see... I have been so heavy on the memeage that I seem to have forgotten what a real post seems like.

Last Thursday to Tuesday saw the presence of potionsmistress, here for the big 3-0. It was wonderful; gave me an excuse to take a day off and pamper myself and her, and go see sights! It was a lovely visit and I'll post pictures and details later.

I am coming to an impasse with the temple I've been attending as a tentative member. I am truly on the beginning of my path in Judaism, as more than one person have witnessed. I've been attending one of two Reform temples in SF, and my observations have been that while the congregants are wonderfully warm and fun, the Rabbi and Cantor are rather full of themselves. I am not judging all of Reform based on my observations at this temple, but I need to branch out. On 5 March 2009 I will be visiting the local Conservative synagogue and meeting with the Rabbi there. eireangus thinks that I'll probably find more of a fit in an assembly that follows more traditional guidelines and approaches, and I think he may be right.

Other than that ... I'm alive. I used twitter today for the first time in something like two weeks.

I need a new kippah. Anyone know how to crochet?? :)

blah blah LJ is going to implode, ohnoes, where are the dramatic bitches gonna spread their sauce now?

Not that LJ going away is actually good by any means, but it's funny how the world works out. I was thinking to myself the other day, "FLF, you really need to update your address book. You should ask all the LJers for their info!"

And then everyone beat me to the punch, but for different reasons...

So, comments screened, please leave me whatever you feel comfortable with:

Name
Mailing Address(es)
Phone Number(s)
E-mail Address(es)
Favorite Sexual Position (kidding. kindof.)

While you're busy whittling down the Kama Sutra to your one favorite pose, I'll be backing up my LJ.

:)

If you're in SF and want to see a killer honky-tonk band, join me at The Riptide (3639 Taraval) to see The Red Meat! The show is free, but if you can, bring an unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots. The toys are being collected in honor of the band's bassist, Jill, who's birthday is also this Saturday!!

Hope to see you there!

So, I'm kinda a big fan of two peoples out there: Violet Blue and Andrew Blake (links NSFW.) So, VB recently interviewed Andrew Blake (huge in my world) -- AND SHE INCLUDED ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, and LINKED TO MY SITE.

Here's the interview: The Helmut Newton of Porn / Violet Blue/sfgate.com.

OMGOMGOMG. This doesn't compare to the press coverage grubbybastard is getting for his art direction/work with the LGBT marching band that will be in the Inauguration Parade... but still! Wow!

If you feel so inclined to be a dear and send me holiday greetings...

Stephen McKenry
Post Office Box 190926
San Francisco, California
94119-0926
USA

And if you're rich as all hell and feel so inclined to be a dear and give me holiday presents...

Well, maybe not the highway to paradise exactly, but check out what is happening down in Lancaster, CA:

(10-17) 13:02 PDT Lancaster, CA (AP) --
The folks who silenced the nation's first "musical road" are singing a different tune.

Workers on Wednesday began carving grooves on Avenue G that will produce notes of the "William Tell Overture" when cars drive over them.

The high desert city north of Los Angeles placed the grooves on another road, Avenue K, last month for a Honda commercial. The quarter-mile strip was engineered to play the notes — better known as the theme for "The Lone Ranger" — when motorists in Honda Civics hit them at 55 mph.

It was believed to be the first such musical road in the United States, although there are others in Japan, South Korea and Holland.

The city paved over that stretch two weeks later after neighbors complained the noise was annoying and kept them awake.

The city, however, received hundreds of calls praising the road and decided to retain the concept.

"It will be a tourist attraction. It will pull people off the freeway," Mayor R. Rex Parris said.

Many residents also liked it.

"You drove over it and you didn't know what to expect. When we got to the end of it, I was smiling ear to ear," said Genevieve Skidmore, 80.

The city decided to recreate the road in an industrial area away from homes.

On Tuesday the City Council approved spending up to $35,000 for the work.

City officials said there has been interest from several companies in sponsoring the road and reimbursing the cost in return for publicity.

So, I've previously mentioned how, via association, I am "this far" from being involved in drama.

I am feeling dangerously close to a whole lotta drama that is going on right now, Although I've only read one entry about drama since this weekend's apparent big drama fall out among the SF Fag communities, that one entry is one too many for my liking. So, I'll say this:

I disdain drama. I have worked very, very hard to remove myself from circles that are drama-centric. It makes me very nervous to have so many people on my friends list that are so closely associated with nouns I consider to be dramatic. Drama is one of the biggest and easiest ways to give me just cause to distance myself from a person, and although I will not "erase" people from my life, I do reserve the right to not involve myself in things I consider dramatic.

HOWEVER

If any of you starts excessively posting dramatic crap, I will cut you off of my friends list. It isn't personal, but it is a way for me to protect my sanity.

We are adults and god damnit I like to think my friends are above flaming one another or pulling dramatic "he said, (s)he said" bullshit. Don't get involved in drama, kids.

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Edit:
Have I ever mentioned I think hasidic and orthodox jews are crazy crazy hot?????

So:

I was supposed to go to a party at Dore Alley, there were a bunch of LJers there that heard I was going to show up, and that was enough to make me say "HAAAAAAAY YOU GUYTH!!!!"

Well, I only knew about it through a friend o'mine and I'd have felt weird knocking on a door there appeared to be security at ... and ... well ... I didn't go.

Now, I hear that these people kinda knew who I was, and really knew who I was after I posted certain pictures of what was happening at their party, from street view.

So, I say: Why have none of these people added me on here? Is it because I have a rather blunt and "HAY THIS IS FRIENDS ONLY, HAHAAHAHA BITCHES!" tagline in my LJ profile?? If that's the case... be afraid. No, really, don't, I'd love to get to know you.

So, this is an open call to all of you who wanna know whatever about my little world: Add me. I don't bite, well I don't bite that hard, and it's in a totally good way. Plus I show some of my chesthair every now and then. And I write about the sex I have. OK, I'm really boring, but add me anyways. It could be fun. :)

I leave for Alaska in just about a month.

So, who want a bloody postcard from Alaska?????

Leave me your address in comments, they're screened.

I found this picture straggling among a few old pictures I never uploaded.

Can we all "awwww" together??

So, let's cut out the creative ways of phrasing this and get right to the bragging and laughing and ayaayayyyaayyayasdfkasnbdf'asdbfasdfaksdf EXCITEMENT:

I'm goin' on a cruise!! I'm gonna be gone in early September for ten nights, eleven days. The boyfriend and I are going to scare Alaskans with our gayness, our style, our cameras... Everything. YAY!

I'm picking up a new SLR for this.. my very first SLR. I've played the review game for quite some time now, and am feeling very confident in selecting a Nikon D60. I'm buying online through E-Bay because there's all kinds of good deals: I get two lenses (18-55 & 5-200mm) and all kinds of good stuff. (I'm totally gonna be testing the SLR out everywhere up until the trip, so... yeah. Anyone in SF/Bay Area gonna model for me?? PLEASE?!)

Also, I got a really good deal on a suit this weekend at a one-day sale (Suit: normally $885, marked down to $129. Wow.) But, I really want to wear a tux to the dress nights on the cruise.

So, I'm making a poll and asking you guys:

Poll #1223411 Suit or Tux?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

What should I wear for the formal nighs on the cruise?

I am being made to watch Vantage Point.

This... is ... TORTURE.

EDIT

It's like they only filmed enough of a very badly written, extremely loopholed story to last 50 minutes, so they replayed a lot of the badly written, very incomplete story over and over and over.

Then edited it to make it truly bad.

And then pooped on it.

Twice.

Who's going with me to any of the MIDNIGHT MASS shows????????

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