How “Milk” is like “Titanic”

One of the biggest draws for me to the movie “Titanic” was the opportunity to experience what happened on that ship in 1912. The ship came alive in that movie, and watching its destruction and sinking into the Atantic in a film brought to life something I would never want to experience firsthand.

“Milk” was much the same thing for me. It brought Harvey Milk’s camera shop to life. It gave me the opportunity to experience what it might have been like sitting in his store in the 70s plotting to bring gay rights to San Fransisco and California.

While “Titanic” was a spectacle, however, “Milk” was intensely personal. I’m going to have to go back again just to hear the line Harvey said to Cleve “you will never know until the day you die who will be your best lovers and best friends.” That line really floored me. If someone can please tell me the exact quote, I’d really appreciate it.

Bearnaked Joe’s New Canvas

I uploaded “Bearnaked Joe’s Web Home” in 1998 with my own artwork. I’ve always preferred to host my own domain rather than use another popular web service of the time. I’ve seen these services’ popularity come and go.

I started publishing directly to bearnakedjoe.com using Blogger ages ago, but never really liked how it handled the archives. A few years ago I reconfigured the site and it worked well until Blogger changed their system and dropped almost all usable new features for people who prefer to directly publish to FTP. I’ve been working recently to update the site to work with their system, but it crashed somehow, and all I got was 404 errors even though the configuration was the same. So enough with Blogger. I’m publishing directly again using Wordpress. I’ve used wordpress in the past, and I think it’ll be fine for bearnakedjoe.com.

I will soon repost some of my favorite posts of my old blog. I could go through the trouble of importing the whole blog. But truth be told, I’m not sure how happy I was with it. I kind of hated blogging because I started having outrage fatigue. I don’t know how Kieth Olberman does it. I’m going to take this opportunity to start over with a more optomistic outlook. We have a new adminitsration coming in, and I hope the politics of the past can be forgotten.

“… So many possibilities.”