Leslie Jordan is taking his Trip down the Pink Carpet

I was fortunate to see Leslie last night at the LA kick-off of his Gay Pride book tour. If it's possible to die from laughin' then I've died an' gone to Heaven.

The good news is, that in addition to his new book, Leslie will soon be seen on Sordid Lives, the television show!

May 4 - 10 is PTA Teacher Appreciation Week

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

If a week is too much for you to handle, May 6 will be NEA National Teacher Day.

In the name of full disclosure, for the record I'm the son (and grandson, and great-grandson) of teachers.

These links are not for the weak of heart, but required viewing for anyone who considers themselves an American

The sales department of the Associated Press asked on January 16, 2007 that 4,000 images of Iraqi killed or maimed hosted by Cryptome be removed. The images came from the Associated Press archive at the New York Public Library, and are free to members. Methods for obtaining a library card for online access to the collections are described here:

http://www.nypl.org/books/cards.html

Once given a pin number with the card, log onto AP images here:

http://www.nypl.org/databases/remoteacc/apphoto/index.cfm

Cryptome offers a free DVD (190MB) of the iraq-kill-maim collection to public and edu libraries which do not have access to the Associated Press archive. Send requests to jya@cryptome.net.

Adapted from the http://iraq-kill-maim.org/ website. Clicking on the header at the top of this post will take you to a page about former Staff Sargent Eric Alva on the Human Rights Campaign website.