Just a few bits regarding some of my favorite posting topics:
Dollhouse: The season finale of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse last night was amazing, astounding, astonishing, and quite possibly a lot of other words beginning with A.
For those of you who are interested in the show, but haven’t yet caught last week’s episode or last night’s, I’m not going to give away the identity of the guest star, but his performances in those two episodes have had “Give this man an Emmy!” written all over them. Just incredible.
Citizenship: Thank you to everyone who tweeted and Facebooked and LiveJournaled and texted and in other ways passed along their congratulations; each helped to make an already special day a little more so.
I came home last night to find this:
… which was amazingly sweet.
Gay marriage: So I got a little pocket-sized copy of the Constitution at the ceremony yesterday, and was reading through it when I noticed something.
“Article IV, Section 1: Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records and judicial Proceedings of every other State;”
Doesn’t that mean that these supposed decisions taken by states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states are really just the states in question deciding to do what they were already constitutionally bound to do?
And by extension, if every state is required to recognize gay marriages performed in other states, doesn’t that make banning them a little pointless?
That Other Blog, Way Over There 
Hey American blogger Ollie, can I call you Ollie?….
Thanks for the link to PrariePopulists, I just noticed that.
I am not a writer, but came here anyway to drop a link
http://iggydonnelly.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/a-gun-story-by-sekanblogger/
This is my first attempt at short story.
HONEST feedback appreciated!
@sekanblogger
You can call me Ollie if you so choose, plenty of people do.
For a first attempt at short-story writing, this is remarkable; regrettably, I don’t know you well enough to know how much if this is fiction and how much has its roots in history, but it has enough feet-on-the-ground detail to have an authentic, visceral punch to it.
Elements of detail like the fact that the card game was Spades, that the gun was a .380, things like that keep it very grounded. The dark humor injected by the regretfulness over the Levis of all things releases the tension and gives the tale some emotional closure, but doesn’t detract from the underlying sadness, or the point that is being made.
You may say you’re not a writer, but I think you definitely have the makings of one.
I’d appreciate your feedback in turn on any items in the Writing tab at the top of this page.
You, my good man, were very generous in your critique.
I never properly learned to type so writing takes me awhile.
Kinda’ hard to go back to school as a writer when I don’t really type.
@sekanblogger
It’s not really an issue of generosity – just calling it as I see it.
I totally get the typing thing; I probably type about half-right, but frequent online chatting brought my typing speed up to a point where I might as well be typing ‘properly’.