Any day now the CA Supreme Court will rule on the legality of Prop 8. The conventional wisdom, which I agree with, is that they will rule to uphold Prop 8 while at the same time keeping the 18k marriages performed before the election. That's good news for me personally, but not so good for the rest of the community and the state ( Read more... )

And by somewhat less popular demand, ( Sean and I's vows )

Also by popular demand, the ( text of Owen's 'The Mishkoff-Abley Memorial Futon' )

By popular demand, the ( text of Amy's reading from the Book of Joan. )

A few final thoughts about my wedding, aka my special fucking day, and then I'll actually talk about other things here for a while ( Read more... )

So. The ceremony.

We agreed from the beginning that the most important thing was that it needed to reflect who we are, that we wanted people to walk away thinking "That was so them!". That meant a minimum of formality, a maximum amount of sass and humor, and just the right amount of earnestness sprinkled throughout. We asked Vinny (umkinda) to officiate ( Read more... )

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So this whole wedding thing? I highly recommend it. Turns out that what they say is true - it really was the happiest day of my life ( Read more... )

I think I've discovered the real reasons for honeymoons. Sure, there's the spending time alone with your new spouse and celebrating your new union thing. But more importantly there's the collapsing into a puddle and not moving for several days as you recover from planning and producing your wedding thing. Also recently understood: wedding planners ( Read more... )

I have an old friend, someone I've known for most of my life, that's a die hard conservative and whom I occasionally spar with about political topics. I would say he's much more thoughtful than most of the morons that speak for conservatismtoday - he actually makes good faith arguments that warrant discussion, even if we disagree on a fundamental ( Read more... )