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The response to the last post has been equal parts of wonderfully astounding, educationally frustrating, and absolutely beneficial. I have learned so much and had really great discussions fueled by a passion which something of that nature demands. The "you're a jerk!" responses are actually more meaningful to me than if I'd received no response at all or only flyby "tl;dr" responses.
In fact, the only negative thing is that I'll have to followup that post with something equally as cool! Ahh well, I post when I can, and the big posts happen when I have a bunch of little posts to reflect on, so here's a little post for you to enjoy.
My poor car (his name is Charlemagne) is almost three years old and has already had a rough life. He's been ran into twice, ran into a guardrail once and seems to be an unintentional magnet for all kinds of vehicular drama. I took it Charle in this morning to get serviced and when they were done one of the drivers came to pick me up so I could take my car home. I saw a huge brand new black truck with rainbow lightning bolts on each side of the back window, and a pink triangle sticker near the top. The license plate said "STONWAL" and I wanted to follow them and find out where they lived and asked if I could sublet a room.
It was so artfully defiant, so obstinantly lovely in its own form of societal bouleversement. They didn't need a red ribbon magnet that said "Go Huskers" on it, just three tiny, nearly unnoticeable little decals and a license plate that screamed their message in code.
I wonder what their neighbors are like? I couldn't tell if they were men or women (tinted windows), but I wondered if they borrowed sugar and eggs or gave tomatoes from their late summer crops. If they were quiet at home and watched Designing Women for the snark and Perry Mason for the subtext. Did they go to rallies, or were they their own?
Did they own dogs? Did they treat the dogs like children or like dogs? For a couple with so much to say did they say it loudly? Or through the power of suggestable fashion and subversive inclusion? This couple that drove so bravely through the streets of Lincoln where they are abundantly in hiding, were they the Moses of the homosexual exodus out of the closets and into the open?
Probably not. They probably just thought it would be cool. But it's nice to think of what could be, right?
