Geese Aplenty wonders why all the fuss over gay men having affairs in the mountains when sunny Curacao goes out of its way to advertise its gay friendliness:

I haven’t actually seen Brokeback Mountain, but I love Annie Proulx’s short story. The final line is just beautiful: “There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.�? Which is a tragic, heart-rending line that underscores that point that I’m making here. If you have to stand anything, you might as well do so on the beach.

I couldn’t agree more. (And, no, Tim, it’s not called “Bareback Mountain”—at least not the version they can advertise in the paper.)

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Healing Hagar is now live at its new permanent address: healinghagar.net. It features news and commentary on (especially Christian) fundamentalism, with recovering fundamentalists especially in mind.

It’s a group project (four contributors so far), so there should be plenty of activity and several different viewpoints. We hope Healing Hagar will provide excellent resources for those of us in recovery from fundamentalism, something we’ve had trouble finding on the net.

Come over for a visit. (And find out why we’re calling it “Healing Hagar.”)

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• My house in Atlanta would be worth about half if a tornado moved it into OKC untouched.
• The new downtown trolley only costs a quarter (a dime for seniors) one way.
• The cute eighty-year-old trolley driver is under the impression that telling us that the big New Years party downtown will have “no alcohols” is a selling point.
• Traveling a mile on the Kilpatrick Turnpike costs 30 cents.
• Wal-Marts are fucking huge now. Christomighty.
• My NRA trainer of an uncle is a Democrat.
• Boston and Atlanta sunsets don’t hold a candle to OKC sunsets.
• Dry grass burns quickly. Very quickly.

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If this post works, then I have successfully moved over to the new webhost.

Thanks to everyone for their tips.  And especially Duane for the winning bid.  ;-)

New Years seems a good time to look around for a web host.  I’m pretty happy with the one I’ve got now, but does anyone have any recommendations for a good one.  I’d need Apache (for htaccess) and multiple MySQL account.

You liked them, read them, and/or commented on them. Here they are, your favorites for 2005:

1) Nursing my addiction. A very short post proclaiming my love Sid Meier’s Civilization series. Must be getting lots of Google hits.

2) A new way to do ministerial formation. Here I argue that the current state of ministerial education and training is broke and suggest a new model to fix it. Oddly, no comments yet. (Hint, hint.)

3) A plea for comment notifications. A quick shout out to a WordPress plugin. Guess I struck a chord.

4) Bible the “Word of God?” I take fundamentalists to task for their facile bible-olatry and show why its unbiblical to boot.

5) What can I get you to drink? Here I announced my new career move: bartender. (Still in training, but I think I’ll be getting the nod of approval soon.)

6) Washing liberal trash. I hate washing my recycling. Which provides me an occasion to expound on why liberals suck.

7) Peace and safety. Where I suggest new church safety policies, such as banning doorways so no one will nail their penis to a doorframe.

8) How to make a jackass of yourself. Declaring war on the war on the war on the war on Christmas. (Did I miss one there?)

9) Fie on forgiveness. I am a recovery fundamentalist, and I adore my bitterness about it. Too bad it isn’t working for me anymore.

10) No pity, please. A quick shout-out to the MTV documentary Murderball.

(Going away for the holidays, so posting will probably be light until after New Years.)

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