The Spontaneous Monday Off

[kybearfuzz]

I burned one of my "use or lose" vacation days today. I just couldn't muster the energy to get up. My new 500 count bedsheets might have something to do with that. I just didn't want to get up. I also needed a bit more time to recover from a rather stressful holiday week.

After the plyometrics workout (geez, been a while since I've done that one, I forgot how it wears me out), lunch at Chipotle (they have brown rice now!), and taking out the recycling, I'm settling in to do some odds and ends. I have the Christmas cards printed, the pages for the next comic installment, and Christmas stuff to put out. I'll get to that soon. Some of it today.

The doodle page was to have something to post here. I often do random drawings when I'm watching TV and I particularly liked this page for some reason. It slowly gets me into the mood to draw more, trying out some ideas to see how they'd look on paper.

Last night, I watched a documentary on Netflix, "Gay Sex in the 1970's." It was pretty illuminating and it was exciting to see the photos and videos of the time, seeing how free the love really was. Wow, how things have changed.

Okay... Rainy day, good day to get home stuff done, but only if I get started. Happy Monday, all y'all.

Comments

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Are your 500 count sheets cotton or percale?
What do you think about flannel sheets?

From conversations I've had with people who remember the early days of gay liberation (most especially my former prof for Contemporary Goddess Thealogy), the concept was to dismantle the heteronormative patriarchal hegemony (why, yes, her Queer Marxist dialectic does bring all the girls wymyn to the yard). Marriage was seen as a form of slavery/ownership, and marriage equality wasn't something anyone wanted. The evolution of thought on this matter is fascinating.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think they are cotton. I admit, I didn't look. Flannel sheets sound like a great idea, but I like the bed to be a bit cool when I sleep, so I think this might be too warm for me.

And the documentary was very light-hearted for the most part, except when discussing the obvious end to the sexual freedom when AIDS became rampant.

[champdaddy.livejournal.com]

If you get Logo, they've been showing a documentary called When Ocean Meets Sky, a history of Fire Island Pines. Worth watching if you like seeing 70's pioneers of gay life...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I do get Logo. I'll have to watch for that one, it sounds interesting!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

"Gay Sex in the 1970's." .... Geez, I hope I wasn't in the documentary!!! I was a slut puppy back then:)

I purchased my Christmas cards, but haven't gotten started yet.

HUGS!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oooh... a slut puppy?? Now that sounds like some great stories there! :)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Indeed ... I wasn't always the well behaved celibate older gentelman:)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh really? Now that sounds like memoire material!

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Post-Stonewall '70's was like a heady maelstrom of newly-discovered sexual liberty. I had just begun the coming out process back then... and from what I can tell, it still remains a 'process' that is ongoing for a lot of people. For whatever reason, I was (was?) fairly shy, and a romantic - so that anonymous sex never had an allure for me. In the '80's, living in NYC, I never did get up the courage to go to the 'baths' - and if you ever found me in a bar called "The Spike", it was likely for a play-reading by some gay author. On the other hand, I'm currently alive and healthy ...so perhaps the tradeoffs weren't such a bad deal.

Nifty page of sketches - it's always fun to see an artist's mind percolating on the page.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine the amount of control it must have taken back in the 70's. I think being in the environment would have been like sticking a fat kid in a candy store.

"The Spike"? Now that sounds like an interesting place.

And thanks. I tried to get into the drawing mood last night and it just wasn't happening.

[wooferstl.livejournal.com]

i saw that film and it was really something. You always hear stories about "the good ol' days"...it really is something, isn't it. As for the film on Logo, i can't find it in my search, but they do sometimes put their films online, so i'll have to check there. Or Netflix...no, not there either. Damn.