tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19747726852436938612009-11-12T22:39:05.324-06:00A gay man's view of the world from small town TexasRuss Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.comBlogger746125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-15876023973703917102009-11-12T17:50:00.001-06:002009-11-12T17:56:15.058-06:00

Perception is everything. Over in the Toolbox, I've posted some pics (NSFW) of ultra-hot David Anthony, a new porn star with TitanMen.  He really winds my crank, I gotta tell you, guys - but I was struck by this editorial comment in Titan's press release about him: Working with David is a lot of fun, because he’s such a nice and intelligent man. He has the kind of confidence that only a

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-63321506289291866122009-11-12T03:14:00.002-06:002009-11-12T03:28:00.400-06:00

Stay right where you are boy, and don't move until I get there. (Psst - Does anybody know this stud's name?)

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-35014494972299236492009-11-11T21:00:00.001-06:002009-11-11T21:00:00.639-06:00

Patrick Decker and Stephen Hengst, married during Pride last June in Amsterdam Lisa Belkin in the NYT interviews M. V. Lee Badgett, director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law and a professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, on data from the Netherlands, where same-sex marriage has been legal for nearly a

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-30725200605733605662009-11-11T17:04:00.000-06:002009-11-11T17:04:42.417-06:00

Christianists got in teh gays' faces during protests yesterday at the Fort Worth City Hall.  Mike Lee reports in the Star-Telegram: The City Council voted 6-3 late Tuesday to expand its anti-discrimination ordinance to include transgender people, capping a marathon debate over a series of gay-rights proposals that were forwarded after a controversial inspection of a gay bar. A majority of

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-36814523846736709832009-11-11T00:25:00.001-06:002009-11-11T00:55:29.762-06:00

Today it is fitting that we all take a moment to honor the memory of those who fought and those who died in the service of our country.  If you know a veteran, smile and say "thank you."  It is always right to admire the individual courage and dedication of those men and women who put themselves at the nation's call, and in harm's way. In my mind there is a big difference between honoring

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-72590777715493357642009-11-10T15:41:00.002-06:002009-11-10T15:48:10.577-06:00

Found on Joe.My.God. today:  Dan Savage gets right to the heart of the marriage argument. All that Dan says is correct.  Until straight people changed the laws - with no little opposition from conservatives, mind you - in the late 19th/early 20th century, women in the English-speaking world who married lost their legal identity, being subsumed into that of their husbands':  a single woman, in

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-69545732546705353952009-11-09T10:00:00.002-06:002009-11-09T18:44:53.786-06:00

I see I'm up to 80,000 hits - thanks for your interest, guys - and nearly 800 posts.  Last night, just for shits 'n' giggles, I decided to try out this new label cloud feature that Blogger has:  you can see it down at the bottom of the blog on the right.  When I pulled up the screen, my first thought was, OMG have I really written about that many different topics? Guess I'm just an old

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-62969581181207254092009-11-09T08:00:00.004-06:002009-11-09T08:00:05.174-06:00

When I mentioned Gillette yesterday when talking about my beard, they must have heard me in Boston, because it wasn't long before I saw a Gillette ad pop up.  But they have this facial styler thing that is pretty cool, I had fun with it.  You upload a face pic of yourself, and then it shows you what different stache/goatee/beard styles would look like on you - go try it. Course, since I already

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-73674981078889554612009-11-09T02:07:00.009-06:002009-11-11T00:41:45.312-06:00

From Fortune magazine, "Queer Inc:  How Corporate America Fell in Love with Gays and Lesbians" (2006): Mike Syers, a 42-year-old partner at Ernst & Young, was coming out in a very big way. About 3,000 partners of the firm had gathered in Orlando for a conference last year. A two-minute video of Syers played on giant TV screens throughout the convention center. He sat in the audience watching

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-84139319250974629972009-11-08T18:00:00.005-06:002009-11-08T20:57:24.012-06:00

Never heard of Aiden James before, but I like him a lot.  Think you will too. Sometimes you find a lovely plant and bring it home.  And despite good soil, sun, shade, and water, and all the loving care you bestow upon it, it just won't thrive:  withering slowly away until only brown leaves remain to show what once was blooming and alive with tender, hopeful buds.  Love is like that too

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-38581644505056382572009-11-08T16:05:00.005-06:002009-11-09T18:39:38.190-06:00

Andrew Sullivan, a devout Catholic, has posted this today; the story's from a couple months back, but still pertinent: MCC churches in North Texas have put slogans like these on billboards in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  Which has annoyed the hell out of Bible-believing Christianists.  But perhaps it will make some people stop and examine what it is they really believe, and consider whether

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-20020183590849617822009-11-08T15:15:00.003-06:002009-11-08T19:58:42.154-06:00

David Traver of Anchorage, Alaska, won the World Beard and Moustache Championship for Team USA last May.  Very cool braids - imagine how long that took - but I prefer the natural look, myself. I'm a week late posting this, but a reader tells me it's National Beard Month, so I reckon that's cause enough for celebration.  He doesn't sign his name, but he has a Facebook page where you can learn

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-10458379430652078192009-11-08T08:00:00.002-06:002009-11-08T15:17:50.696-06:00

An old favorite in these parts.  Memories of sitting in a wooden pew, everybody in their go-to-meeting clothes, a comforting arm wrapped around a sleepy little boy, paper fans waving all around imprinted with pictures of Gethsemane, the sweet, faint scent of lavender sachet and waxed wood, the reverent silence of a summer Sunday morning, and the prospect of fried chicken and dinner on the ground

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-32689197822902467332009-11-08T03:58:00.000-06:002009-11-08T03:58:13.861-06:00

220 to 215.  Now I suppose the real showdown will be in the Senate.  Let's just hope that after all is said and done, we have a realistic public program that a working man or woman can afford - that will actually take care of people's needs and not simply feed the fat cat insurance and medical and drug interests. And will same-sex partners be covered?  Had you thought about that?  On my way to

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-26835294642752815612009-11-07T03:10:00.000-06:002009-11-07T03:10:40.821-06:00

I've just started another blog to hold all the nice 'n' naughty stuff that won't fit in the Blue Truck.  Be much obliged if you'd check it out and let me know how you like that little experiment, pardners. Not that I have any business starting another blog, when I spend too much time on this one already.  But hell, you only go 'round once in life, right?

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-26695515059803332342009-11-06T17:03:00.000-06:002009-11-06T17:03:52.590-06:00

No music track, just one smokin' hot cowboy home alone, enjoying himself. Have a good one, guys, see you down the road.

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-85101958533554514672009-11-06T15:46:00.001-06:002009-11-06T17:28:34.270-06:00

The ex-roommate has found himself a little house of his own, and I told him there's no rush getting his stuff moved out of here.  So all week, he's been coming back taking a carload or two a day.  Last night he called to say he had gotten his bed set up and was sleeping in the new place for the first time. It's an odd feeling here.  Every day I come home and find some familiar something gone,

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-64032357799337089202009-11-06T15:11:00.001-06:002009-11-06T15:13:13.493-06:00

One dead, six wounded. By a guy who was fired two years ago from an engineering company, where he returned today with a gun. Jeezus. How do you keep guns out of the hands of crazy people? Here, Ft. Hood, Virginia Tech, and all the other incidents.  And even if they are perfectly sane when they buy a gun, how do you know they won't go postal one day far down the road? I've never had very strong

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-88167954192448007372009-11-06T14:52:00.002-06:002009-11-06T17:47:35.349-06:00

David Corn, Politics Daily: When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP. Think I'm being harsh? The angry folks at the protest -- which attracted several thousand conservatives -- held up signs with messages of hate: "Get the Red Out of the White House,

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-20046885702804215422009-11-06T13:32:00.002-06:002009-11-06T17:25:48.201-06:00

An official apology:  Fort Worth Police Chief Jeff Halstead admits that his officers "violated the trust of the GLBT community" during a bar raid at the Rainbow Lounge last June that was "perceived to be aggressive, rude, and unprofessional" and left one patron hospitalized with a serious head injury.  Although the officers admittedly created an atmostphere of "fear and confusion," yet "It was

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-38598921433016211462009-11-06T12:48:00.000-06:002009-11-06T12:48:12.890-06:00

Coming soon to a TV screen near you:  more guilt-ridden, shame-inducing PSA's, this time about soft drinks.  I can see it now.  The American Academy of Family Physicians has cut a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola, prompting an outcry from other doctors - emphasis mine: "Coca-Cola, like other sodas, causes enormous suffering and premature death by increasing the risks of obesity, diabetes, heart

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-80687814615576530272009-11-06T03:52:00.003-06:002009-11-06T19:25:47.931-06:00

Okay, your Head Trucker got on a tear here tonight and couldn't stop.  I'm posting most of it after the jump to save space on this page, but maybe somebody will read it and let me know what you think. I'm a little pooped tonight but hope I can string these quotes into a coherent post here.  It's important to understand were we are, where we've been, and where we're going.  And by we, I mean not

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-11151643337609275592009-11-05T16:51:00.008-06:002009-11-06T10:15:22.885-06:00

The horrific news:  12 dead, 31 wounded.  Victims were preparing to deploy overseas.  One shooter is among the dead, the Army is searching for two more shooters has two more in custody, all soldiers.  Not many more details available at the moment.  Ft. Hood, which is a huge installation north of Austin, is closed down, they won't even let journalists on base, where they are doing a sweep of the

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-24306965224620918732009-11-05T03:07:00.003-06:002009-11-05T04:23:09.372-06:00

Ricardo Villani

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974772685243693861.post-59347553299284334532009-11-04T23:07:00.003-06:002009-11-05T03:25:53.529-06:00

This is our moment.  This is our time. Change has come to America. Yes, we can! Remember?   More pics and video below the jump. But then . . .

Russ Manleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05722260145543178087bluetruckredstate@gmail.com0