TIJO
MY RECENT POSTS
- Talk To ME
September 05, 2009 11:33PM - The Last Kennedy - In Memoriam
Edward Kennedy
August 26, 2009 06:44AM - She's Got Soul
August 24, 2009 10:46PM - Hey America! Get Some Culture
BONUS! Now With Blevins Update
August 21, 2009 09:15PM - If There is Mold on Your Hope
August 15, 2009 05:15PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “you naughty intricate
manbitch”
August 27, 2010 10:13PM - “glad to see you are
still kicking up the dust.
agree or
disagree it is good
to qu…”
June 08, 2010 08:01PM - “The best stories are
universal. Thanks for sharing
this
one.”
January 22, 2010 12:34AM - “I think they were saying
how those crazy gays just
can't keep
it in their pants
a…”
January 17, 2010 08:55PM - “Haven't been around much
lately so am catching up on
all the
changes around
here.…”
January 14, 2010 09:55PM
Tijo's Links
- New list
- Tell the President
- Gay-GLBT
- Barack Talks the Talk
- 10 Ways to Fight Homophobia
- Pride and Prejudice
- Homophobia V. Religious Objection
- What being gay tought me about hope
- Thursdirty Poetry
- Are You Gay?
- Coming Storm- Humor
- Thursdirty Haiku 20yr. old
- Thursdirty Haiku Shhhh
- Thursdirty Haiku #2
- Thursdirty Haiku
- Lexington Green- Fiction
- Requiem for a Gay Friend
- World AIDS day
Lord! Lord! A Brief Passion Play
A Passion Play for my friend Monte Canfield
Act 1 As Jesus ascends:
Crowd: Lord! You're going back to heaven and we have so much to learn. Tell us what is the main thing we need to know?
Jesus: Children, just love god with all your heart and love your neighbor… Read full post »
those young days
Those young days when bare feet touched the ground and how long has that been? how long? laying on the curvature of the earth and listening for it's spinning until surprised by a grasshopper underneath your nose you crosseyed stare at the remarkable creature and watch him spit tobacco. the wind… Read full post »
Long & Dirty Because Verbal Remedy Likes It That Way.
VR said we all should write
something long and hard for thursday night
she said 5-7-5 was just too damn trite
but something wordy and dirty
would fit her just right
"I want the words laid down
like you just don't care
shake that spear
… Read full post »
Thursdirty Poetry 5-7-5 be damned.
I wonder when it came to this
when the crinckle in your eyes
when we made love
became a squint
to see
who
I
was
and if
I even knew
when we made love
that the crinckle in your eyes
...was the cradle of a tear? Read full post »
How to Tell if You Are A Gay or if Someone You Know is A Gay
The following are real answers (untouched) from WickiAnswers in response to the question, "How can you tell if someone is gay?"
- Ask him or her. Apart from that, there is no sure way to find out someone's sexuality. Some gay people do 'act gay,' but so do some straight … Read full post »
Thursdirty My-ku
i love our sex but it's not the best
the best comes next when we take a rest
when we take a rest and you lay your head upon my chest
yes, i love our sex but that's the best.
i love our sex my dear sweet heart… Read full post »
Foodie Tuesday Poodle Sushi
Improving Your Post Master Class #2 WWJD?

What if when you died, god said to you, "In the middle of your life I gave you an opportunity to become any one you wanted. Your appeara… Read full post »
An Ode to the Last Firefly a Poem for Arthur James
Because some of the spirits who haunt this place present themselves clearly though invisible like the scent of flowers in an empty room or a gentle feeling of grace when they have arrived. This is for one of the many friends on here I have never met.
Come see me… Read full post »
How to Increase Traffic to Your Post- the Master Class
Chapter 37: Creating an Appealing Avatar.
The avatar (ava- route, as in avenue + tar- something sticky, the route to attracting readers) is one of your best free forms of advertising and is a way to attract visitors to your post. Just as you don't want visitors to be put off… Read full post »
The Coming Storm of Gay Marrieds Umberela Fund
Thursdirty Haiku Praise for the Architecture of 20 Year Olds
Relationship Advice for Women- Embrace Silence
Welcome Back Party for Cat
Thursdirty Haiku SHHHHH

Let your tongue be still
while your body talks to me
It tells me no lies
____________
My ears hear your words
spoken in sinew and bone
as my kisses pass
____________
The arch of your back
is just like a paragraph
of your biography… Read full post »
The Two Story Rabbit & the Bank Robbers

following account is a post in which the author
recounts a repeated dream from his childhood involving bank
robbers, the incredible two story rabbit and his trusty
Schw… Read full post »
Thursdirty Haiku
Grace and the Atheist- A Secular Sermon
Below is a post from when I first came to OS that I think deserves a second look in relation to Easter so I'm posting it again. I hope many of you can catch it the second time around. It's on Grace and Forgiveness. If you read it before maybe you… Read full post »
Why I Erased I Don't Hate Fags...But.
I erased two blogs today. Both were well deserved rants but I hated opening up my post listing and seeing these angry letters there. I stand by every argument I made and am making no apology but I didn't like living with all that trash in the middle of the living… Read full post »
Dirty Haiku Thursday

Lexington Green
A Birthday Requiem
Once again I was reading Sally Swift (Heath and Ron) and one of her past posts inspired me to write here. Sally maybe you are my muse. Come sit near by and scratch my head softly. Apologies ahead of time. This seems a bit truncated to me but I wanted… Read full post »
A Soup For Winter
How wonderful the soup is when one is tired to the bone of the cold and the rain and the sometimes snow. The winter has stretched out now as if it had a mind to stay forever or take us with it wherever it goes. I have cooked the potatoes… Read full post »
Updates
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For Neil and Sweet Sweet Diary, the Happy Couple
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The House's All-Purpose, All-Male Panel on Contraception
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My First Day As A Substitute Teacher!
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The other phase where she had been asked to promise
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Behind Chicago's Corruption
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Point of View
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Sunrise
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Who Do You Have To Blow (to get an EP 'round here)




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