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Mercnbeth -> RE: The Captain Kirk's (2/25/2009 12:29:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thorkin
I so want to be Merc when I grow up Well you won't get there that way.
NOT growing up completely has always been a personal deliberate goal. I'm guilty of regular and frequent childish behavior and damn proud of it! It is a function of seeking fun, being ready for fun, being open for fun, hanging out with fun people, and being fun to be around. The trick is being 'adult' enough to handle responsibility, have integrity, and live up to obligations. Work at work enough and you get to be a 'child', play, and have FUN as long as you have the desire to do so.
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ORIGINAL: feydeplume
...kudos as well to the people that stood up at Stonewall, the one's that started the sexual rights movement, I won't represent that I knew well any of the people involved with the 1969 Riot in the Village that centered around Stonewall. In the late '70's when I was hanging out there trying to earn my way into the BDSM version of 'Star-Fleet'; there were some who said they were there, or knew someone who was there. I imagine it is the same as the 10,000,000 people who claimed to have been at Woodstock that same year. They didn't think it was any big deal, except it pointed out to the 'entrepreneurs' that based on the size of protest turn-out; you could make money opening places which cater to the gay and or leather community.
As much as it may have accomplished politically, and as much of a political rallying cry it became; it occurred because of the exact reason sited above. The people there were just looking for a place to have FUN. Few know that it was a 'Family' (aka Mafia) business. The police wanted to close it down for that reason, as much as any other. Stonewall stood up when other's folded, but that was as much a function as to who was behind it than any 'movement'. The movement came later, the 'victors' wrote the history and now you have a legend, like that of Kirk.
All the 'red-shirted' crew were trying to do was have a place to relax and have some fun. The only piece of advise I ever hope anyone goes away with when they ask either of us for it, is to have fun and enjoy whatever it is you are doing. That's was the real agenda of the men and woman of Stonewall. Circumstances and consequences made it into something else. If you want to follow their lead do it on their agenda and seek a place within yourself to be yourself, enjoy yourself, and have fun.
Regarding shore leave? Any visitor to our neighborhood is welcome. We may not have a TNG 'holo-deck' but rest assured, you can play out your fantasies pretty easy if you visit our personal 'Enterprise' in SoCal. We 'beamed aboard' many 'aliens' thus far, a fair amount from the planet 'CollarMe'. We hope to our continuing mission brings us the company of more. 'Red-shirts' shouldn't worry; we always keep our phasers on 'stun'.
Hell - If you really want to accompany me, us actually, on a great 'shore-leave'; plan on coming to the Folsom Street Fair in SF; every year its the last Sunday in September. This year its September 27th. Last year was impossible to describe; ending with beth's topless woman's protest march down 12th Street after closing the Eagle Bar on Sunday night - check that Monday morning. Even that was, like Stonewall, a function of hapenstance; she already gave her shirt to the bouncer at the door of the Eagle when she went in, so being topless was not a matter of choice, it just was.
We've already booked our room inside the 'velvet rope' guarded by our great 'alien' friends from the planet of 'Perpetual Indulgence'. Nobody wears a red shirt, but you do see a lot of red asses and other body parts; however there have been no casualties from our prior missions. You're all invited to join us!
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