Greeting Cards as Historical Record

Happy Gay Wedding

Posted to Blog on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 @ 10:48 PM
I was buying a birthday card for a friend today, when I saw a new category: Gay Wedding.

One card had two guys at the altar, with the Justice of the Peace saying, "You may now exchange recipes." Another had two guys in tuxes holding hands, carrying huge happy face lollipops.

It would be interesting to see how greeting cards have changed over the years to reflect society. I'm sure somebody way smarter than me, with more time on their hands, is already putting together a doctorate on exactly this topic.

It's great to see that gay wedding cards are hitting the mainstream.
Ed's Note: In fact, it's FABULOUS!
My only complaint? Most gay people are way funnier than these cards.

Unruly Joy

For Amy Lister and Joe Cumming

Posted to Poetry on Saturday, June 10th, 2006 @ 1:08 PM
This poem was written to celebrate the wedding of my two friends, Amy Lister and Joe Cumming.

Amy Lister is
ninety percent granola
ten percent sunshine

Joseph Cumming is
six parts concrete, three parts smile
one part jackrabbit

Amy is a dance
and a painting, and a song
and a space to play

Joe is a ladder
and some duct tape, and a plan
and a prank phone call

Two universes
each their own laws of physics
each their own orbits

What unruly joy
to find in love entangled
such friends, such old souls.

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