By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:34:43 +0000

Oooops – by Evan, I meant Eddy 😛

By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:32:58 +0000

Evan,
Not to be too intrusive, but it would be incredibly easy to create an email address with which to converse with Michael – one that you could get rid of immediately after your conversation – all without ever divulging any of your private information – FYI 🙂

By: Eddy

Eddy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:14:24 +0000

Michael: You have suggested several times over the course of our mutual blogging here that we start conversing offline. I’ve declined politely each time. I intend to be polite again but I guess I can’t escape telling you the balance of my reasoning…I am very protective of my email address and am extremely careful about who I share it with. On one level, I trust you but on others, I don’t. We have that one issue where I used the word ‘provocative’ in one sense and you continued to quote it without giving its original context even after I asked you not to and explained my reasoning. I shudder to think what you could do with an offhand comment I might make.
Already, on the blog, I feel the pressure of having to word and say everything ‘just so’. I accept that as part of the burden of blogging. But, I’m simply not ready to open myself up to exchanging so-called ‘friendly’ emails…knowing full well that these topics are the only thing we have in common…and then essentially having to monitor my phrasings so as not to provide a sound bite.
Beyond that, you can be a bit relentless. When something has your full attention, you seem to feel that everyone else should think and feel as you do…and you hammer. I have visions of logging in to my email and seeing a dozen or more messages. “Well, what do you think? Is that what you believe? So and so said thus and such, what’s your response?”
LOL! I know! I can be relentless too! And there are people who wouldn’t care for me to have their personal email address. I understand that. I hope you do too. (Our mutual friend, Robbi, has been after me for several years to make a trip out to California. I told her that when I do finally make it, I’d like to rendezvous with you if at all possible. At the moment, it’s the best I can offer.)
(Thanks, Ann, for your kind comments. Only time will tell. I’m delaying buying a new pc because 1) I want to avoid Windows Vista 2) I want to re-priortize my computer use. LOL. If I bought a new pc tomorrow, I’m sure I’d be back to blogging by Sunday. Not over the blog addiction yet.)
Time to head out. I’ve been invited to sing karaoke at the birthday of a lesbian friend of mine…I thought they said it was her wedding so I was practicing ‘non gender specific’ love songs all week…now I find out it’s a milestone birthday so I need to tweak the mix a bit.

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:52:32 +0000

Eddy: Still don’t get why you couldn’t shoot me a friendly email — on occasion. Maybe we could calm some of the contentious rhetoric.. Oh, well. About me always blaming the church for the pressures gays feel, I do not blame only the church or even mainly the church — but their influence has been huge. I know you don’t have to believe in God to be a homophobe.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:45:13 +0000

Eddy,
I hope your “occassional” posts will come often – please don’t stay away too long.

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