As you might have noticed, I haven't been very active here on LiveJournal in recent months. That's because I finally grew weary of the proliferation of web presences I had spawned on various blogs, social networks, forums, and what-have you, and decided to focus all my blogging in one place: the new and improved Duck's Nest a.k.a. www.mizducky.com.

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Well, now I've gone and done it. I auditioned for a community theater production of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told ... and damn if I didn't land one of the juicier supporting roles. The play will be going up the weekend before San Diego's LGBT Pride weekend, July 11 and 12. I'd love for folks to pencil in that date if there's even the slightest ( Read more... )

Papoon for President! He's not insane!

(Which is more than I can say for at least a couple of the other candidates...)

First off: personally, I'm fine firewise. Nowhere near any of the firelines this time round ( Read more... )

Attention all San Diegan readers: the weekend of June 1st and 2nd features not one, but two different musical events in which I am involved to various degrees, and to which I heartily hope you come as they're both really wicked pissah (as folks say back in Bahston where I spent many happy formative years ( Read more... )

This is so beautiful, I wept. Seriously.

More about this amazing group at--of course--their MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/thezimmersband

Somewhere deep in the bowels (word choice deliberate) of the FDA, the Bushies have created an administrative entity known as the Office of Counter-Terrorism and Pediatric Drug Development. Check out the title (top of browser frame) for this page.

The mind reels.

Wow, it's been forever since I posted in here, huh? Life has certainly been on the hectic side for me, is why. But at least on the personal front, it's been all good stuff. (I'll get to the bad times referred to in the subject line of this post a little further on--suffice it to say right now that those bad times aren't mine, at least not right now ( Read more... )

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I've had a wonderful bit of serendipity happen to me recently. A couple of weeks ago, I was down in San Diego's South Park neighborhood--not to be confused with Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's "South Park," this is an old neighborhood of cute little restored Craftsman homes and funky shops favored by artsy creative type folks. I happened upon a ( Read more... )