Month: December 2012

Teagan and Sara

Teagan and Sara

Teagan and Sara first came to my attention with their song Where Does the Good Go? which was used as music in one episode of Gray’s Anatomy.

Since then my kid and I have been following them and, indeed, going to their concerts.

Looking back in my Music Category, three of the four posts I’ve made refer to them. I like the music they make and they do good concert.

They’re busy touting their new, more commercial album Heartthrob including their most recent video for Closer which I love. I love it because it breaks out of the typical boy/girl love mold and includes girl/girl love, boy/boy love and every one else love in the video images. As Mum would say, “About time, too!”

Yay!

Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?

Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?

I recently finished Dan Bucatinsky’s Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? and I thoroughly loved it. I think I picked it up because Neil Patrik Harris recommended it although the title itself is enough to merit a look see.

Parenting is hard, relationships are hard and Mr. Bucatinsky makes it clear that they are no easier just because both partners are of the same sex — indeed it sometimes makes things harder.

Mr. Bucatinsky (I’ll start calling him “Dan” when I meet him and he says to do so) hits on the notion of “maternal” or as he sometimes prefers “parental” — the idea that one parent is seen by the children as the principal nurturer. I found that very interesting because I think there’s a lot of truth to it. I think we all lose a lot by not recognizing that this nurturing nature is not sex-linked or limited.

I think that for some people kids are more often endlessly fascinating while for others they are more often endlessly frustrating. (Which is not to say that those “fascinated” don’t get frustrated and those “frustrated” don’t get fascinated.)

He also talks a bit — and tastefully — about some of the dilemmas that parenthood brings. I was particuarly amused to hear that he, too, had that one panicked moment when his daughter was delayed in a public restroom, the panic of wondering if the child’s been abducted, had a major potty disaster or has simply fallen asleep — and what to do about it — is still the source of nightmares (mine was at Universal Studio Tours).

His comments on parents and his sotte voce comments on male/female attire make me realize that we may be on the bring, as a society, of a great new dialog where us poor straight guys might start seeing the far more attuned gay community as a resource — people we can talk to about fashion and meeitng women without fear of ostracism or competition.

The One Tree of Luna

The One Tree of Luna

I’ve been working very hard for the past several days tweaking the eBook and trade paperback versions of The One Tree of Luna which is a repackaging, with illustrations and one more short story — Dasher — of my original anthology/collection Six.

The new header on my website is based on the artwork for the book cover. It’s a bit stretched but the original artwork was so cool that I just wanted to show it off!

I want to thank Jon Del Arroz for lining me up with this brilliant artwork. Jon is multi-talented, check out his Flying Sparks comic.