November 22nd, 2005:

(Catchy Title Still Being Researched)

“Farris”:http://gentlenews.com/ said it “better than I can”:http://gentlenews.com/archives/2005/11/22/breaking-news-the-gentle-news-streamin-screamin-intarweb-show-debuts-tonight/ so I’m mostly just going to copy him.

Enough with the spectating and enough with the “some day I will” talk. “The Gentle News Streamin’, Screamin’ Intarweb Show”:http://gentlenews.com/theshow/ debuts tonight.

Visit “the show’s”:http://gentlenews.com/theshow/ official site (classy, huh?) tonight at 8:31PM CST, for best damn Internet Radio show you will have ever witnessed on a weeknight.

If you call it a podcast, Farris will make you pay, make your family pay, and I will personally make your pets pay. This is not a *podcast*. “Podcast” is just about the stupidest name for anything ever. It’s like calling a pot a “spaghetti cooker” or a toaster a “pop-tart heater”. Internet Radio is a stupid name, too, but it makes more damn sense than “podcast”.

Join us and listen. There will be drama, laughter, and tears. If I’m lucky, I might even get a little side action. Expect to lose about an hour of your life listening to me, “The Jew”:http://gentlenews.com/, the “Hot Chick”:http://livejournal.com/users/sivatonight/ and a whole gang of special guests discuss in great detail the important topics of the day.

Recorded transcripts will be available, but you’re be a loser if you just wait for them. Listen live!

If we need more -hot chicks- participants for various -sexual activities- intellectual conversations, we’ll be contacting people by telephone. Send me an email with your telephone number and we’ll -see if you have any nekkid pictures online- add you to the list.

I don’t usually bother to make note of the portraiture that I do that isn’t at least a bit artsy or in some way of interest to those other than the people in the photograph. But I’ve decided to make an exception to that rule today.

The first reason for the exception is to give you, my dear reader, potential customer, loyal patron, and adamant word-of-mouther, an idea of the kind of work I do. The style of this photograph is pretty much par for the course in regard to my portrait work. I try to be a little artsy and a little edgy while still producing an image of smiling faces and happiness that any parent, grandparent or close friend would smile in return to see. I tailor the images to the subject and try represent them in a way that I feel they will appreciate and enjoy.

The second reason for today’s exception is that this couple is absolutely beautiful, and I don’t just mean their faces and bodies, though that is true as well. I mean that, as a couple, together, they are beautiful. The way that she looks at him, the way they held each other, the happiness in their eyes, the closeness that was contagious just to be around: all of these things make them so beautiful. Young, loyal, powerful love like theirs is an amazing thing to look at, and even more inspiring to feel radiating from them. Maybe they’ll part ways in a few months, or maybe they’ll see each other well into their 80s. Either way, what they are right this minute is nothing short of incredible.

Seeing such a pure, raw, love reminds me so much of all of the reasons I fell in love with my wife, and all of the reasons that seeing her beautiful face every morning makes me fall in love all over again.