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The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."

He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior." (CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)


Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008



Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:

A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)

"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)


Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush


who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
--"Joe"

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Blogmistress SOS: vote for your favorite progressive blogger to go on Air America's cruise

by: Pam Spaulding

Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM EST


Regulars at the coffeehouse know that I'm burned out, fried and literally fighting all sorts of health BS of late, from the inevitable inability to balance the demands of my day job (hey, at least I have one to be thankful for), writing for the blog, along with travel to blog-related events, interviews and such. So here's a chance for my dear readers to force me into taking a vacation! The good folks at Air America have let me know that I've been queued up for this:
You've been nominated by Air America readers as their favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. You've garnered significant support and you have until December 3rd to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins.

The contest winner gets a free seven day cruise through the Mexican Riviera from March 6 - 13, 2010 with Gov. Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow, Robert Kennedy Jr, Ron Reagan, and other leading progressives.

Here are the rules:

http://airamerica.com/news/11-16-2009/win-cruise-air-america/
The top FIVE bloggers with the MOST nominations will be entered into a second voting round where Air America readers will vote again on the top five entries.

First voting round: November 16th - December 3rd, 2009
Second voting round: December 4th - December 17th, 2009
Winners announced: December 21st, 2009

Of course I am small fish in the large progressive blogger pond, so I'm not going to get my hopes up too high about winning yet, but stranger things have happened. So if I don't nab the top spot, I think a restorative vacation intervention will still need to be staged by Kate soon.

When Jen of Air America sent me this via email I tried to remember the last time I went on a lengthy non-work or non-family-related relaxing getaway. It was 2002, when I went to Hawaii. Yes, it's been that long. Since before I met Kate; that's pathetic. (I don't count our wedding since we were only in Vancouver 3 days and were running around sightseeing the whole time).

Flying roaches and a Q of the day are below the fold.

Pam Spaulding :: Blogmistress SOS: vote for your favorite progressive blogger to go on Air America's cruise
That Hawaii trip was relaxing, but there were times during that trip that were gut churning. A description from my diary:
Bugs! There was a giant palmetto bug (aka fucking flying roach) in the bathroom. That nearly made me flee right there. Ron caught it though. Later, as I start unpacking my stuff to take a shower, I notice lots of flying bugs, mostly small ones that I don't recognize. I hope they don't bite. Let's put it this way -- I'm not taking my stuff out of the Spacebags. I am glad I have everything, even toiletries, in Ziplocs so I don't bring any "wildlife" home.

[The next AM...] It's about 7:30 now and there's a hula class, but I am just too damn tired to go. I go take a bath. As I get out, it starts raining again. Not too heavy though. I am standing there at the mirror and what do you know, that giant 2.5 inch F*cking Flying Roach (FFR) crawls out from behind the mirror! I whack it with a big bottle of soap on the counter and it goes belly up, squiggling. I decide to be sadistic and put the bottle on top of it. Since the bottom of the bottle is recessed, that bastard is trapped under there. Hahahahahaha. I will leave it there for housekeeping to find.

So if I win this cruise deal I'll have more memorable things to share with readers than a giant flying roach. Certainly the company aboard will be interesting.

Anyway, otherwise I am the queen of a long weekend here or there which doesn't give you an opportunity to unwind or recuperate before you're back in the office or writing posts at 3AM. So I'd appreciate it if you vote for me so that I will be forced to take a break. I don't ask for much, in fact it's hard to ask for it (what's wrong with me?!), just like I don't do fundraisers for the blog since I don't like doing "the ask." So consider this an intervention of sorts for the ailing blogmistress.

So after you cast your vote for your weary head barista, come back and share the last memorable vacation that you've taken.

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I'm in for you. Bon Voyage!

"Money is the only thing they respond to, the only thing they understand. The vision of the Founding Fathers is dead. The Constitution is dead. Only bribery remains." -RW Givens


Vote Cast
I've also cast a vote for you.  You well deserve to win.

Me? Vote for Pam Spaulding?!?!?!
Consider it done. :)

Casted My Vote
Hope you make it into the Top 5!

I hope the fine print includes "and spouse"
And I hope you really work your intervention and re-post this item at least three more times before 12/3.

I've cast my vote for you.  My memorable vacation?  Hard to say.  I only want to consider 'memorable' in a positive way.  And over time, my perspective changes.  Vacations that might have been memorable are now not so much, since the relationships with the 2 guys I'm thinking of went south (figuratively).  I've had pleasant local/budget vacations with friends for several years now, but not necessarily memorable in a grand way.  Although maybe in 20 more years I'll be thinking "those were the days - me & my family of choice hanging at the beach."  I have high hopes for my solo trip to London in 2010, my first overseas.  I think my future husband lives there.  ;-)

P.S. What is it about roaches?  I like other bugs.  Ants, bumblebees, June bugs, dragonflies, etc.  Even Daddy longlegs (though technically spiders aren't insects).  I think it is roaches' land speed - that they can scurry away before I can crush them flat gently scoop them up and release them outdoors to rejoin their friends Bambi and Thumper.  Something about that freaks me out.  Same with fast spiders.

Listen to your fairy Godmother, my dear: you will go to the ball.


I specified
and spouse.  You deserve a decent vacation after the FFR fiasco.

[ Parent ]
Vote submitted
Good luck Pam!  You deserve it!

My vote is in.
Break the proverbial leg, Pam.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Me,too... but slightly confusing..

As the first round is the 'nomination' process itself.

So NOMINATE Pam.

..then we get to VOTE for her.



It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


Started Actly FLASH petition too. (for twitter)


It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


[ Parent ]
Oh, you need to go.

If for no other reason, I would want Rachel Maddow to meet you and realize you don't hate her, and you are human. =)

-----
~~Autumn~~

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
--Henry David Thoreau


vote / vacation
Done. I'd start packing if I were you.

Recent memorable vacation: 8-day walking tour of the Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland with my wonderful husband Phil, who convinced me that at ages 57 and 58 we actually could handle walking 12 to 18 miles a day in a place that has real weather -- and he was right!

No bugs. Like snakes, apparently St. Patrick got rid of them. Highs of 63 in July, though. And suck-your-shoes-off mud.

Visual proof on Flickr. Search for AbstractRandom.

Bon Voyage!


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Roaches here are different from anywhere else
Roaches in the rest of the world scatter when you turn on the light at 2 am. The roaches here in Hawaii look up at you, snap, "I told you to keep that light off and conserve energy! What the hell you thinkin'? And while you're up, get me a sandwich from the fridge!"

They don't even faze me anymore. I see them run through my house, I just shoo them out of the way. They lived here way before I did. Like the Tea Baggers, they're impossible to really get rid of; there will always be a hidden, shadowy colony somewhere breeding more for the express purpose of taking over the world and eating up everyone else's resources. The best thing you can do is keep your own house as clean as possible, put out the roach traps (and the snail killer, and the ant killer), and take pictures when the cat catches one and plays with it until it dies.

The last memorable vacation Beloved and I took was a short one. We spent a long weekend on the Big Island of Hawaii. The reason it was so memorable is because it was the very first vacation we've ever taken together, just us, no entertaining family, and for the very first time we were able to hold hands in public without fear of being seen by someone in the military.

I can't wait until that's a daily reality.  

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


When I moved to Louisiana I got schooled in all sorts of HUGE varmits I had never seen
Like flying roach crawling across the cieling over our bed as large as an elm leaf. Banana Spiders which make 6 ft by 6 ft webs around the house and the spider is bigger than my hand. Skinks and water moccasin snakes, rattle snakes, small owls flying by my face at night, possums hanging 3 feet from my face in a camelia bush.

NONE of these things ever seen in MN...and I'm the one to kill the house bugs. Sometimes it's a B*TCH being "the guy."

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


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btw we hear scratching noise by one wall of our bathroom from under the house
I do not want to crawl under there to find god knows what making a nest for winter, or raising a whole nest of god knows what. I'm thinking RAT or Racoon as the likeliest critter, cuz a little mouse ain't making that kinda scratching, and I don't want none of it scrathing it's way inside....YIKES!

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
STOP IT YOU TWO!
Now in my Mom's old house, you'd hear sounds like that in the basement, which was spooky anyway...

[ Parent ]
BOO!.....kev
Welcome to the third world nation of Louisiana
  http://cellar.org/2002/rats.jpg
and
   http://episteme.arstechnica.co...
and
  http://www.247wildlife.com/ima...

did I mention the gators?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
I'm thinking Dept of tourism for LA just tossed my job application


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Damn, Keori you owe me a keyboard
The roaches here in Hawaii look up at you, snap, "I told you to keep that light off and conserve energy! What the hell you thinkin'? And while you're up, get me a sandwich from the fridge!"
 

[ Parent ]
**bows**
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

Kev, you should have seen the roach we had in here on Wednesday. Beloved tossed a glass bottle into the garbage can instead of the blue bin, and a roach the size of my hand pushed it back out onto the floor, popped up, and yelled, "Hey! I told you to recycle that, bitch!" Even the cat jumped in surprise.

(Seriously, Hawaii roaches were the inspiration for that old MTV flick "Joe's Apartment.")



God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


[ Parent ]
LOVE that movie!
Welcome to Joe's apartment, it's our apartment too...

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[ Parent ]
Our farmhouse
is thoroughly infested with ladybugs- well, the south facing parts. Every fall, we have thousands on the porch, in the kitchen and now in the upstairs family room.

I once VERY ACCIDENTALLY bit into one- OMG, was it bitter!- so Dad and the Junior Executives have teased me about eating bugs ever since...

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[ Parent ]
On the upside
I've heard they're good luck... sure does explain alot about my life! ;)

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[ Parent ]
do they tow a dingie for junior baristas? :D
I'll ask about the dingy
Or maybe a better idea is a paddleboat steamer -- Showboat time!

[ Parent ]
showboat's comin'
   http://www.genspot.com/video-3...

and how it should have been cast with Lena Horne
  http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
We can be your entourage!
We'll get a mess of us together, all with dark glasses- everyone will think you're a major rock star!

Which imo you are... ;)

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[ Parent ]
I'd already packed my antebellum outfit and tamborines
HOW MANY costumes do you think I can pack?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Pam hope you have a relaxing voyage
ya got my vote, and I'll notify friends to go to the link too....you deserve it.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Cruuuuisin
Voted. Mexican Riviera, Maddow et al. -- that trip should be yours.

Voted!
Good luck Pam. Thanks for all you do!

Voting? Done and done
My last real vacation was six years ago. I had been corresponding online with a young lady who lived 30 miles east of Montreal (roughly 1600 miles from where I lived). She was my first relationship after starting transition so it was nice to be the real "me" for once. Being January, she didn't have much of a chance to show me the sights but that was cool. We spent most of the time in her bedroom anyway :)

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" (or non) is so 2006.

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