LL_'s blog

"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will be Killed With Our Families", a book written by Philip Gourevitch answered a lot of questions for me about the genocide in Rwanda. Yes, I've seen the movie, but it still didnt make sense to me. If explained in the movie Hotel Rwanda why the Tutsis were being eliminated by the Hutus, i must've missed it.  Read More »

One day when i was at a bookstore, I noticed a book titled " So You Think You're a Lesbian....100 Myths About Lesbians/Lesbian Relationships". I picked the book up and started page-browsing and I noticed a "myth" that caught my interest. "Myth: In a lesbian relationship, one person always plays the male role".  Read More »

Ok so apparently it is winter time if you live in the US...and the majority of us are suffering through snow, ice, rain, and hail. With this being said , I'd like to share a few pointers to those of us who have to drive through these sometimes deadly weather warnings.  Read More »

Just recently a man named Charles "Cookie" Thornton murdered 5 people, 2 cops, one councilwoman, one councilman, and one public works director, about 20 minutes from where i live because of tens of thousands (over 150 tickets to be exact) of dollars fined to him for parking his commercial vehicles in residential areas. He owned an asphalt and demolition company.  Read More »

So recently, a friend of mine got into an altercation. The friend is a gay male and the guy that approached him was not. I wont go into the details of the actual situation, as they have no relevance to the subject. During the altercation, however, my friend, and his enemy were seperated and left to simmer down. The enemy (lets just call him T)...  Read More »

So i am a fine arts major transitioning to illustration major...and one of my favorite courses has been figure drawing. For those of you that arent aware of what this is...its basically drawing people. Nude, sometimes clothed. In my experience it has always been nude. I have a great appreciation for the human body, be it an 85 year old man, or a 22 year old woman...  Read More »

Would you? When i look at my health benefits, 401k, and paycheck i find it a hard decision to make. Im only 20 years old and i make more than the woman that i live with who still pays bills that i should be paying and cooks for me on the weekends. My friends are jealous.... but im not happy.  Read More »

"I'm not homophobic"...said my mother as we watched an episode of Will and Grace. Jack had twirled like a ballerina and my mother made some kind of remark about him being a "fag"...

"It's just not right...and you know gays dont have real relationships. All they do is have sex. It's all just a load of perversion"  Read More »