A well-known fact is that my last name is difficult to pronounce — difficult enough to send even the most hardened receptionist or telemarketer into a full-blown panic attack whenever they attempt it. A lesser-known fact is that my family name is not German but Dutch. This is a very important distinction for several reasons, even...
read moreSo, geeky ones, I spent part of Valentine’s Weekend at BYU. I will now pause to let you all get the cackling and shrieking out of your systems. While BYU is home to a number of undesirable things including anti-gay policies and the Cougars — who, as a U of U alum, I’m contractually obligated to disparage — it is also the...
read moreAh, Valentine’s Day! The holiday that divides people of all sexes, orientations and gender identities into one of two camps: Those who hate it with the heat of a combustion reactor and want to mow down anyone carrying a Whitman sampler and those who love it and get defensive about, well, protecting their precious little holiday...
read moreI caved, geeky ones. For Christmas, I asked for and received one of those cute little netbooks which have been all the rage for the past, oh, I don’t know, two years or so? It’s compact, sleek (if disappointingly a little too fragile) and light weight, perfect for my back that can no longer haul my gigantic 2002-issue laptop...
read moreFollowing last issue’s outing of Snow Miser and Heat Miser as Christmas’ gayest icons, I thought that creating a gay — and geeky — holiday viewing guide was probably in order, given the number of movies and Christmas specials (and the rare non-Christmas holiday special) showing in movie theaters and on TV between...
read moreMy two favorite secular Christmas icons are fruity as nutcakes, geeky ones. And no, I’m not talking about Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Given the centuries they’ve been together, I think we can dismiss any arguments about Mrs. Claus being a beard, and as the classic 1964 Rankin-Bass special indicated, Rudolph...
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