LaughAtlantis

I've apparently visited twenty states. Somehow I thought it was more.

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Josh asked me five more questions...

1 - What is your favorite theatrical experience? Not necessarially a show, but it could be.
Interesting question. I think my favorite moments onstage come in improv, when all of a sudden you realize, this is good. And there's a chemistry and a magic and a knowledge that you are completely in tune with your scene partner and doing something amazing. And you just remember those moments forever. It's always hard to reiterate what happened in an improv scene that made it so good, but trust me. It's good.

2 - You've recently gotten married. What is the best part of marriage? What is the worst?
The best part of marriage is knowing that at the end of the day, I always have Rod to go home to. There's a hug waiting for me, and an ear to vent to, and a support system. What's wonderful is that every day, I fall in love with Rod a little more.
The worst part of marriage is that while I am a very messy person, Rod is among the messiest people on the planet. Thus our house is a shambles most of the time. Sometimes you just want to be somewhere that has some order to it, and neither of us is really good with keeping things in order.

3 - What would you considered your highest-ranking geek-cred?
I got five varsity letters in chess in high school, including being the captain during my senior year.

4 - You are a very politically minded individual. What would your consider the biggest problem with the current political process? (Not the people involved, ala "the president" "the congress" "the little ladies who work the tables at voting centers", but in the actual process of politics/elections/laws?)
I'm going to take this question and answer it in a whole separate post, because I'm all sorts of miffed today.

5 - Favorites:
(you said favorite, not best, so that's what I'm going with)
- movie, comedy - The Princess Bride
- movie, tear-jerker - Return to Me (Really, I kind of can't think of anything, but this works.)
- movie, drama - American History X
- movie, other - The Breakfast Club
- book, comedy - The Socratic Method (Michael Levin) - It's out of print, but it's funny.
- book, tear-jerker - A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving)
- book, historical - historical? erm, I don't read a lot of histories, but I have to go with either The Source (James Michener) or Guns of the South (Harry Turtledove). THe latter of those is "alternative history" - which posits "what if X had happened; how would that have changed things?" In the case of Guns of the South, it asks, "How would the Civil War have turned out if someone had traveled through time to provide the South with AK-47s?"
- book, other - toss-up between The Stand (Stephen King) and Beach Music (Pat Conroy)

So, today Massachusetts passed a law saying that civil unions aren't enough, that there needs to be gay marriage in order for homosexuals' constitutional right sto be upheld.

In Ohio today, they banned gay marriage.

What the fuck???

It boggles my mind that the Massachusetts Supreme Court can look at the US Constitution and say,"Yes. Yes, we will allow gay marriages because anything less is unconstitutional," while the Ohio State Supreme Court looks at the same damn laws and says, "Oh no. That's not going to happen. Gay marriage is banned here. Never gonna happen. And no domestic partnership rights either, ya godless heathens." So, say I'm gay and I'm married in Massachusetts and then I move to Ohio? Well, I'm completely fucked in that case, aren't I? It's just a ridiculous concept.

Technically the US Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery. But the issue there was, the Southern states wanted to have the right to own slaves while the North said, "Wait a sec, those folks're people too, and you can't just enslave them because you need to turn out a tobacco crop!" The North beat the South, damn it all. Forget states' rights. Let's go with civil rights.

Do we get to have an emancipation proclamation for the gay community? You are free! Go get married!

Oh, but not if you live in Ohio.