Kage Alan Blog

Anyone notice it’s gotten a little serious around here lately? Sorry about that. Between a friend passing away and my thoughts on President Obama’s announcement on gay marriage, things have been acting stereotypically drama drama drama. Let’s step away from that for a moment. Uh…so many things I could start with here…so maybe I should pick a juicy one. Anybody up for some chat about butt pirates? Er…maybe I should qualify that question. Really, it’s not what you think. Or is it?
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I’ve been having a little trouble lately coming with what I think are quality ideas for blog posts. It’s a tiny bit of a struggle after writing a certain amount on a regular basis, but then OutlantaCon gave me a few nuggets I could see working with and expanding on. I had the perfect one for today! And then President Obama announced his support for same sex marriage. Well, shit. What I thought about writing is going to have to wait because I had a pretty emotional response to the announcement. I don’t know about you, but I’m a little scared.
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It’s an odd feeling to think of your life as a threat to those who call themselves the moral majority.  It’s also an odd feeling to see so much of the church being brought into government after those before us specifically set the government up to keep them separate.  In moving towards this reunification, it feels like open season on the GLBT community, but there’s a difference between tragedy and preventability.
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It may shock some of you to learn this, so prepare yourself. I may, just may, have seen an adult movie…or two…or 200…in my life. I know, bizarre, right? You have no idea how difficult it is at times to convince folks I’m as pure and angelic as I need them to think I am. It’s not easy. I remember the first time I watched one back in college when all my roommates were at class–mostly because they wouldn’t have appreciated watching it with me. I was nervous, shocked, giggly, turned on, turned off, turned on again and couldn’t believe my eyes. It was called A Scent of Man, only I don’t recall anybody taking the time to really inhale and enjoy the scent of cologne anyone was wearing.
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Cliches suck, but they come from somewhere, right?  That whole ‘once you go black, you never go back’?  Is it true?  I don’t know.  Then there’s ‘once you go Asian, that’s your persuasion’.  ‘If you go white, that’s your delight.’ The list goes on and it gets pretty absurd.  I’ve met plenty of white guys in my 41 years and I’ve found very few of them to be remotely delightful.  Some of them are definitely more tolerable than others, but delightful?  It’s a bit of a stretch.  Anyway, why bring this up?  I received a few e-mails after last week’s blog post about the WEHO Book Fair with friends playfully calling me a rice queen.  I hate that, but I may have some insight into the phenomena.
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Acerbic.  I like that word.  I like the way it rolls off the tongue and it’s not something you’d hear a drag queen say.  It’s like a personal little word that few people ever use.  I’m slightly acerbic when I’m not generally cranky or annoyed.  The funny thing is that some folks have a difficult time telling what mood I’m in.  I don’t always translate well to the cyber or social media world.  In person?  Oh, hell to the yea.  One look generally says it all.  But I don’t often vent.  Not really.  That’s what blog posts are for!  I’m free to vent here.  Why?  Let’s face it, I’m hardly known in the literary world.  Well, not yet.  heh heh heh  So, let me tell you about what’s really pissing me off at the moment.
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I’ve been writing a bit lately about Alzheimer’s, family and some of my favorite b-films.  Well, while I was looking to see if any sites out there might be interested in running a RSS feed of my blog posts–like Alltop–I realized that I do technically fit into the GLBT classification or category.  After all, I am part of the GLBT community, so I don’t think pigeonholing myself too much.  Maybe a little.  But I also realized I haven’t really been mentioning anything specifically GLBT-related.  Or, you know, made fun of anything and then relate it back to the community.  So with today being July 4th, what better time to give it a shot and make fun of somebody?  Ready?  Here goes…
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My previous blog post really had me thinking about back when I was a child.  I recently spent a little time at my parents’ house looking through some old photo albums, then went back and borrowed a few of them when folks asked me to post my Green Lantern Halloween costume picture from when I was 11.  The more I looked through the pictures, though, the more I wondered about that whole advice thing I said I hated doing.  Given the chance, what would I say to myself at such a young age?  What advice would I give?  What would I say to someone who looked like this?

A young Kage Alan and his great-grandmother.

(***Some RSS Feeds or Blog Sites may not include the pictures I posted on my own site’s blog.***)
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Someone on Twitter gave me a nice compliment the other day. He said that I give things a nice twist when I talk about them and that I should keep expressing myself about things that go against what the masses think.  It’s food for thought.  The masses certainly go against me from time to time.  They liked The Hangover and I never bothered to watch it until this weekend despite being told how funny it was–and I laughed my ass off.  Certain masses in Tennessee don’t agree with me right now, either.  Or is it me who doesn’t agree with them?
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Writers are tricky little shits.  We are.  We know things you don’t and we’ve been forced to take an oath of silence that we frequently break whenever it suits us.  I suppose that makes us opportunistic little shits to boot.  So be it.  We wear it well, some of us better than others.  But, I thought it was high time to tease some of you with a few things I might get in trouble for revealing, only it’s really nothing you couldn’t already figure out if you sat down and thought about it long enough.  Ready?
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