| Wednesday, January 28th 2004 - 08:44:59 AM |
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//shadows Tortoise - The watercolor has no name. Well, maybe "yellow and grey composition." It was just a sketch, my opening foray into the watercolor medium. |
| Wednesday, January 28th 2004 - 03:17:47 AM |
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//Tortoise What's the name of your January 26th watercolor? It's good! |
| Thursday, January 22nd 2004 - 01:17:57 AM |
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//Tortoise Happy New Year, Duck!Wish you plenty of monkey fun!!! Tortoise |
| Thursday, January 8th 2004 - 04:34:35 PM |
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//shadows Yah. I forgot to pay the domain name registration so the page disappeared for awhile. Luckily, the domain name wasn't snatched up by someone else in the two or three days it was unregistered. Hah. Like anyone would want pylduck.com.... |
| Thursday, January 8th 2004 - 10:41:44 AM |
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//Tortoise Yeah! Your blog's working again!Tortoise |
| Wednesday, January 7th 2004 - 11:26:48 PM |
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//Tortoise Duck ---Where are YOU??? When I clicked on your site tonight, the net said it couldn't find you. Oh please, don't be gone. I like reading you too much to lose you. Tortoise |
| Sunday, January 4th 2004 - 08:56:13 PM |
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//shadows Mwah! Thanks for the happy wishes, Tortoise. Best to you and yours as well. :) |
| Thursday, January 1st 2004 - 03:34:47 AM |
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//Tortoise Happy New Year, Duck!Hope the waters are calm and the skies sunny for you in 2004! |
| Friday, December 26th 2003 - 01:23:08 AM |
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//Tortoise With glee ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUCK! |
| Tuesday, December 23rd 2003 - 02:39:17 AM |
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//Tortoise Nice new design of your site! It's your words -- your articulated thoughts --that make your blog attractive and appealing though!Wish you a joyous Christmas, Duck! |
| Tuesday, November 25th 2003 - 12:58:13 AM |
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//Tortoise Duck ---Thanks for the Gaydar Radio link. It's an awesome listen! Hope you and Rob have a Happy Thanksgiving!!! Speaking of gratitude: It's amazing that amid your studies, your teaching, your job, and your relationship you have time to write. I'm glad and grateful you do. Your writings are excellent! Happy Thanksgiving! Tortoise |
| Friday, October 24th 2003 - 06:42:05 PM |
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//shadows Tortoise! You're still here! :) |
| Monday, September 22nd 2003 - 02:01:31 AM |
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//Tortoise Regarding your Sept 21st entry: I luuuuuv the way you think and express yourself. You're brilliant, Duck! |
| Wednesday, July 9th 2003 - 01:02:44 AM |
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I just stumbled upon your site a couple days ago and have been enjoying it.
You should check out the "duck club" at myss.com. The only thing it has in common with your entries is the duck theme, but it's hilarious and you might enjoy it. Turtleflame |
| Saturday, July 5th 2003 - 06:09:59 PM |
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//Monique Not so sure what exactly what this site is about. |
| Saturday, July 5th 2003 - 06:09:49 PM |
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//Monique Not so sure what exactly what this site is about. :) |
| Wednesday, January 8th 2003 - 03:13:03 AM |
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//Tortoise Why, god, why? Why do people keep imprisoning poor little rubber duckies in glycerin soap? My friends keep sending me these ducks-in-soaps so that I can liberate them. (Thanks, Better Fangs :F? !!)HILARIOUS!!! Tears-coming-out-of-my-eyes, laughed-till-I-coughed FUNNY! Down with the capitalist glycerin soap makers of the world! Viva Duck! The Liberator of the Imprisoned Rubber Duckies! |
| Wednesday, October 9th 2002 - 12:35:38 AM |
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//Tortoise Just in case you haven't seen this ...http://musical.chosentwo.com/main.html |
| Wednesday, September 25th 2002 - 11:45:02 PM |
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//Tortoise Eagerly awaiting your comments about the premier episode of Buffy Season Seven! |
| Wednesday, September 4th 2002 - 03:31:07 PM |
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//Tortoise Dear Duck ---Reflections on your August 29th thoughts on journaling .... 1. The retrospective & concurrent purposes of journaling = Utterly brilliant! 2. A Record of Beauty = Happiness and gratitude are good. And too often ignored. All as you said. Please share more! 3. A Repository of Angst = Angst exist. For us all. I'm glad repression doesn't work so well for you as it does for others. I like hearing about your angst. It reassures and calms knowing ducks swim on stormy waters and don't exclusively fly in blue skies tortoises will never see. I hope amid the beauty you chronicle there's a little room for reports about the occasional squalls you encounter. Reflections on both your August 28th entries ... 1. UNC LGBTQ Home = Indignation is good. It brings change. The LGBTQ should employ you as their press agent. 2. Parents = Gosh. Your love, devotion, admiration, and respect for your parents is incredible and praiseworthy. No wonder your folks are so proud of you. You are a good son. There's a saying that a prophet is not accepted in his home. As a result, prophets leave their homes to spread their message. Your parents need not accept your message of same-sex love. No matter how eloquent or reasoned your discourse, you're not going to persuade them with your words. Only your actions will win them over. Most likely they will never be as fully accepting as you want them to be. Yet your father's e-mail shows devoted love and tolerance. Don't forget your parents traveled thousands of miles to visit with you. Many families excise their gay sons. Include your parents in your life. Tell them about the adventures you have with your boyfriend and your buddies who are gay in the same manner they would want to hear if you were writing about a girlfriend and friends who aren't gay. Sex is private. Love is public. Don't talk about why homosexuality is real or how you love your boyfriend. Show them how normal homosexuality is and show them how you and the men you love enjoy dowing ordinary day-to-day things together. Too often we look at ourselves as gay men instead of men who are gay. Your gayness doesn't define you. You define your gayness. Show your parents you are a good man ... who just happens to be gay as well as a thousand other things. You've said your HUmon parents forgot you were a duck and accepted you. Maybe you need to forget your not a HUmon and accept them. As you said, don't concentrate on the angst your parents induce in you. Focus more on what makes you grateful they're your parents and how you share happiness with them. Fly to the zenith, Duck! Concerning your "Who is Tortoise?" question ... Sorry for delaying. I'm a shell guy. About your August 29th entry: ducks break through their egg shells, emerge, waddle, and then spread their wings and fly. You didn't have shell-ness this summer. You just didn't navigate away from your nest enough. Tortoises are quiescent and don't want to disturb others in the water. If I intrude or irritate, please say and I'll introvert. Keep quacking, Duck! You're good! Tortoise |
| Friday, July 26th 2002 - 11:16:53 PM |
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//shadows Who is Tortoise? :) |
| Thursday, July 25th 2002 - 12:08:02 AM |
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//Tortoise Dear Duck ---Concerning your July 24th entry about "the possibility of turning blue and yellow M&Ms into green by rubbing them together hard..." Uhhh, I gotta tell you ... that's impossible. Blue is a boy M&M. Yellow is a boy M&M. Green is a girl M&M. A boy and a boy can't make a girl. The reason your experiment didn't work wasn't the physics of friction, it was reproductive biology. Sorry. B.U.T. ... Since Blue and Green are both boy M&Ms, I'm sure they greatly appreciated your rubbing them together "hard." That's a feeling that any boi would find saaaaa-weeeet! :-) Next time, jest fer fun, try rubbing Yellow and Red together "hard." Bet those two boi M&Ms give you pink! ::wink:: http://global.mms.com/us/about/characters/index.jsp You got a great *sweet tooth,* Duck! sugarly yours --- Tortoise |
| Sunday, June 30th 2002 - 06:44:47 PM |
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//shadows //http://www.pylduck.com/weblog Tortoise: Aha! Watch out! Layout changing again tomorrow. But for your Edward Gorey fix, see Edward Gorey House. :) |
| Sunday, June 30th 2002 - 04:35:02 AM |
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//Tortoise WOW! What a change in layout! Magnificent! While I will dearly miss Edward Gorey, change is GOOD! Just like YOU are good! |
| Wednesday, June 26th 2002 - 12:51:01 PM |
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//Mark Oh, rock. How right you are! I hadn't thought about the similarities to Greek tragedy. You simply have to read the original book now, if you haven't already. You'll see just how on-target you are. |
| Wednesday, June 26th 2002 - 10:00:21 AM |
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//shadows //http://www.pylduck.com/weblog/ RMR -Yeah. I've been kinda pissy lately. I wouldn't necessarily necessarily want to flog Spielberg literally, but it irks me when he makes things so maudlin, simplistic, and un-thought-provoking. Minority Report really has the basics of an ancient Greek tragedy with the oracle, etc. But even the Greeks, insistent as they were on the slipperiness (i.e. always tragic) of foreknowledge, managed to make their stories and characters live out their doomed lives with some sense of struggle and thought. |
| Tuesday, June 25th 2002 - 09:08:17 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee/ Since I'd heard a little about the movie Minority Report, I went over to the local Barnes & Noble a while ago and read the Phillip K. Dick book. It's pretty short.What I'm inferring from your post is that Spielberg should be flogged for this. I'm not a strict-adaptation Nazi, but it looks as though he rewrote the ending into a morally unambiguous, blandly feel good, hopelessly Spielberg piece of dreck. Ick. |
| Tuesday, June 18th 2002 - 09:34:57 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Wow. I almost didn't recognize this place!The redesign is cute. <3 |
| Wednesday, May 15th 2002 - 03:21:21 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Yay! Rock on, (future)Dr. Duck. |
| Friday, May 3rd 2002 - 01:33:13 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.pylduck.com/weblog/2001_08_01_archive.html#4859137 Found it! :D |
| Friday, May 3rd 2002 - 10:25:12 AM |
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//shadows //http://www.pylduck.com/weblog Hey Mark. The "grizzled scribe" look was last summer. I don't remember posting pictures, though... I think the only photo of myself I've posted in a long time was of my elbow. Hmmm.... |
| Friday, May 3rd 2002 - 07:55:56 AM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee How odd. I can't remember how long ago this was, but I dug your grizzled scribe look.I used to get the occasional, "Excuse me, miss" in highschool, when I had really long hair and wore a lot of form-concealing clothing. 'course, I was visibly male from the front, 'cause I never shaved. |
| Wednesday, May 1st 2002 - 03:10:17 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Far be it from me to try and lure you away from Blogger, which has much better facilities for publishing to your own site, but if you want, I can give you a code for a free livejournal. If nothing else, you'd be able to see my friends-only entries (admittedly, very few and far between) and comment on posts as someone other than "anonymous". |
| Friday, April 19th 2002 - 11:39:31 PM |
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//Better Fangs :F Hey quackers. Is there room for someone on here who isn't a blogger? BFG is going away and I'll be living with a Buffy-ite next year. Hmm. I see much potential for further obsession.-Better Fangs |
| Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 04:33:46 AM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee/ I'm glad you can get something out of mainstream pop.I just wanna boink Joey Fatone. I don't think I can even remember what N*Sync sounds like anymore. |
| Thursday, March 21st 2002 - 10:24:00 PM |
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//shadows //http://www.pylduck.com/weblog I googled Kenji Yoshino and came across this cool course page at Columbia Law on Jurisprudence of Identity.http://www.law.columbia.edu/course_00F_L9188_001/ Linked on the syllabus is a paper by Yoshino about his work on "covering." :) |
| Thursday, March 21st 2002 - 05:23:05 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Wow. *adds Kenji Yoshino to the roster of queer social theorist all-stars*I'm fairly flexible about body type, but I totally melt around shy/good-natured/wouldn't-hurt-a-fly types of guys. There's a rather small, soft-spoken, shaggy-haired guy in my computer class whose shy smile makes me weak in the knees. <3 |
| Wednesday, March 20th 2002 - 11:10:27 PM |
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//Chris When you have time, rent the video "This Boy's Life." It's Tobias Wolfe's autobio-film. Very good! |
| Sunday, February 10th 2002 - 09:18:28 AM |
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//shadowy duck Mark --
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| Sunday, February 10th 2002 - 08:59:15 AM |
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//http://www.pylduck.com/weblog Gargstopher,
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| Sunday, February 10th 2002 - 08:18:44 AM |
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//http://gargy.diaryland.com Y-you mean that Disney have LIED to me? But this isn't possible! Next thing you'll be telling me they lied about stories like Pocahontas and The Little Mermaid as well, giving them happy endings when in reality they're quite miserable. Nah, that's not possible. They'd never do that. |
| Monday, February 4th 2002 - 11:58:24 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Wow. That's fantastic. I never could quite articulate my subtle misgivings about Matthew. Well... now that I think about it, another danger about that is that it can go from an emblem of a serious social problem to nothing more than a movie of the week all too easily. Rather ties into the realization of Brechtian theater that an emotional catharsis leaves the audience sated in a way that discourages change, rather than inspires it. |
| Saturday, February 2nd 2002 - 01:21:01 AM |
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//Alex //http://clix.to/DiRtYWaNg Hey! I just realized that you actually have a g-book but I already sent you an e-mail... Yeah. ok.. ;-) So anyhow, kewl site again.. i like itz simplicity.. my site has too much crap junk on it.. Well itz almost one here and I'm about to fall asleep on my keyboard.. so I'll talk to ya later! ~~~Alex |
| Friday, February 1st 2002 - 07:32:36 AM |
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//Gargy //http://www.livejournal.com/users/gargy Well it took you long enough. :D I've been waiting to back chat you for ages! |
| Thursday, January 31st 2002 - 08:02:19 PM |
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//Mark //http://www.livejournal.com/users/scapegoatee Rock. There are always some elements to your posts that provoke comment, but those've gone mostly unvoiced unless you happen to be online at the time. I'm sure I'll be chiming in quite a bit. |