Fire For Effect

Well, I finally decided to join the rest of the world and start a blog. I don't have a clue what I will regularly post here, or how regular that will be. I don't plan on making it entirely self referential or deep thoughts..or What the hell... here it goes.

My Audience - I figure I am writing this for myself and for any of my online friends who want to keep up with me. My family, fortunately know nothing of blogs and message boards, I love them, but I like to keep them at a distance from certain parts of my life.

Myself - For those who don't know me as well, here we go...

Basic Bio:

Name: Steve
Age: 35
Residence: Pasadena, CA (1 roommate, Gerald)
Occupation: Marketing Specialist (I make maps and flyers for Commercial Real Estate Brokers)
School: Cal State Fullerton, B.A. in History '92
.... oh hell I am falling asleep, since Gerald has thermostat set to Arizona in July this will be truncated..

Misc: Single, never married. I have family in Florida, Montana, No. Cal and So. Cal. anything else you want to know.. drop me a line.. too damn tired for now, more to come later I am sure.


I believe.. Random Thoughts for Tonight:
Consenting adults can do whatever they want in privacy.

Homosexuals should be able to get same benefits as hetero couples do. The concept of marriage as a bond between two people who love each other seems to apply well to both sides. Marriage between only Man and Woman was fine and great when they needed to legally figure out who got the cattle in exchange for the wife and they needed to pump out kids To help farm and replace population lost through high mortality. Nowadays the hang up with it just doesn't make sense, unless of course you take the ever-popular religious point of view, which I don't.

In the right to take whatever means neccessary to protect my friends and family. Depending on the situation and the severity of the situation is how my respone varies.

American culture is still too obsessed with a puritanical view of the human body. CSI will show some pretty gnarly corpses that would give a lot of kids nightmares, but I have ever seen as many disclaimers as when they showed a bare breast of a victim on an examination table.

The FCC right now would have been at home during the hayday of the Meese Commission. I can understand setting boundaries... although I think the parents hold primary responsibility of monitoring kids viewing habits, certain programming shouldn't be on earlier in the evening. What gets me is trying to dump large fines on broadcasters for something that happened live and was not expected. Although I guess it is good to maybe clue in the networks that if you bring on trailer trash like Nicole Richey or some rappers you might be asking for problems.

.... Well, signing off for now, bought ready to go face first in the keyboard.. more coherent thoughts later