Baseball, soccer, gay-marriage rally: one Denver nine-year-old's Saturday schedule
Ethan lays it out for Sen. Michael Bennet.
Meet Ethan. He's nine and in Mr. Kimmal's third-grade class at the Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment in west Denver. He likes soccer, football, baseball, basketball, swimming and skiing. But his favorite thing to do after school is read, especially the Harry Potter books.
Oh, and tomorrow at noon -- in between baseball, soccer and a graduation party -- he's throwing a rally in support of gay marriage on the steps of the state Capitol. "They're the same as other people," he says of gays and lesbians, in the high-pitched, sincere voice of an elementary schooler. "They just love somebody else."
Ethan has already lined up speakers from The GLBT Community Center of Colorado, PFLAG and other organizations, and can rattle them off when asked. He's contacted Mayor John Hickenlooper -- he can't be there -- and Senator Michael Bennet, who Ethan thinks is trying to give him the runaround. "I e-mailed him tons of times. I called him a couple times. I confronted him personally," Ethan says, sounding exasperated. "He never gave me a straight answer."
Welcome to politics, kid. But Ethan isn't giving up. He's sticking with it for the same reason he hatched this idea in the first place: He thinks it's wrong that his neighbors, who are gay, can't get married. "I just didn't think it was very fair that people couldn't get married just because the person they wanted to get married to was the same gender as them," Ethan says.
But thinking wasn't enough for Ethan. He wanted to do something about it. He'd been to a rally for President Obama, and liked what he saw. "It just popped into my mind," he says. "I was just like, 'Mom, I want to do a rally for marriage equality...' My teacher thought it was going to be a rally in front of the school, but I told him it was going to be in front of the Capitol."
His teacher, Kyle Kimmal, wasn't too surprised when Ethan's mom told him about her son's idea. After all, this is a kid who reads at a high-school level and routinely thinks big thoughts, he says. So while his classmates are doing projects on dogs or sports, Ethan is doing one on marriage equality.
"It's not a normal topic for a third-grader to be doing, but on the other hand, working with Ethan and knowing his passions, most of his life is outside the box," Kimmal says. "It seemed like something natural for him."
Ethan's mom, Tracy Edwards, says she wasn't surprised, either. "We talk about it a lot," she says of gay marriage. "We talk about everyone being equal. It's a big part of our lives and we have a lot of diverse friends." But, she adds, "I never thought it would get to this point."
Ethan did. He wanted to tie the timing of the rally to the release of the California Supreme Court's decision on Prop 8, which overturned a previous ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. (He's been following the issue with help from the internet and Mr. Kimmal.)
But because the court only gives 24 hours advance notice, he and the folks at The GLBT Community Center of Colorado, which is helping organize the rally, decided it would be better to just pick a date and go for it. They chose tomorrow and, according to Ethan, "a lady from Mayor Hickenlooper's office" rushed the approval of his request to designate May 16 Equal Marriage and Protection Day.
Ethan will be one of the speakers at the rally, which is expected to last about an hour. (Ethan says he doesn't want to bore people with a really long event.) He's been practicing his five-minute speech, but he's still nervous. His favorite line? That everyone is equal no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation.
"He totally gets it," his mother says. "For him, it's clear. It's black and white. We're all the same."
Who died on the season finale of Grey's Anatomy?
- George enlisted in the US Army as a trauma surgeon, and was given the rest of the day off by the Chief. On his way home he got hit by a motherfucking bus. Naturally he was taken to Seattle Grace where he was declared a John Doe. Meredith only found out he was George after he mimed "007" on her hand. He was taken into surgery and flat lined.
- Izzie had her surgery to remove her brain tumor but her memory kept resetting every few minutes. She finally recovered by the end of the episode but flat lined. Despite signing a DNR they tried to resuscitate her. She had a vision of herself in her season 2 prom dress, the elevator doors opened and she saw George dressed in uniform.
CUT TO COMMERCIAL. We will have to wait until next season to find out if they lived or died!
SEASON FINALE OF THE OFFICE SPOILERS
Pam is pregnant! OMFG! I am so excited!
Explanation: Dunder Mifflin played a volleyball game, and Pam got a foot injury. It wasn't that bad but because she was the team's best player, the opposing team (corporate) said due to legal issues she couldn't rejoin the game until she got checked out. Her and Jim went to the hospital to get an X-Ray and the nurse asks questions, one of them being "is there any chance you could be pregnant?". When they cut back to the hospital, Pam is seen in a room shocked-- Jim walks in and they celebrate and hug and kiss, etc.
I thought Phyllis was supposed to get pregnant though?
Source: myself and my TV.
So in Shia news:
"I'm Not Extremely Well-Endowed"
Man, you'd think oversharing had mutated and gone airborne on the set of "Transformers 2" because Shia LaBeouf has caught whatever Megan Fox has.
In the new issue of Playboy, Shia talks -- among other things -- about the time he lost his virginity. "I was shaking in my boots," he says about the romp, four years ago.
"Getting naked was very strange. It was the first time I'd been naked in the light, in front of a girl, with no hiding place."
Things took a turn for the worse when Shia, who was pretending to be a Lothario, made the age-old mistake of trying to copy a porn he'd seen.
"I remember putting a pillow underneath her because I had seen that in a porn movie...[It] put her at a weird angle, where I couldn't get in correctly. I'm not extremely well-endowed ... and clearly this wasn't the move.
And while that night might have been a disaster, the lady in question ended up dating Shia for a while, where she became his sex-instructor of sorts. "We had a lot of sex and would read the Kama Sutra together and do the wildest s***."
Megan, the oversharing ball's in your court!
Photo: WireImage
I still wanna bag, possibly even more after reading this.
Then there's this, which I found maybe seconds after:
I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO GET ME A SAMPLE OF SHIA AND NOW THIS STORY HAS MADE ME EVEN MORE ANXIOUS. DAMN THIS DUDE GOT ME BITING MY LIP...
HOW DID YOU MEET SHIA?
I MET HIM AT A NOT SO WELL KNOWN BAR IN LA BACK BEFORE, WELL WHEN HE WAS STARTING TO BECOME, A MOVIE STAR. IT WAS NOT A CELEB HOT SPOT, AND ME AND SOME OF MY GIRLS DECIDED TO GO OUT FOR SOME DRINKS. NEVER WOULD I THINK THIS GUY WOULD BE HERE. IT WAS LIKE RIGHT BEFORE THAT MOVIE DISTURBIA CAME OUT. I WAS AT THE BAR AND HE WAS THERE WITH SOME OF HIS BOYS. WE HAD SOME EYE CONTACT AND WHEN I WENT TO THE BAR, THAT'S WHEN HE CAME UP TO ME. WE TALKED FOR AWHILE, AND DECIDED TO MAKE OUT. HE IS A AMAZING KISSER. I'VE NEVER BEEN KISSED THAT GOOD IN MY LIFE! LET ME TELL YOU, FOR A WHITE BOY, THEY DUDE HAS SOME SERIOUS SWAGGA AND BEAUTIFUL EYES. HE'S GOT THE CHARISMA FLOWING THROUGH HIS VEINS. SO HE ASKED ME TO GO BACK TO HIS PLACE WITH HIM. OF COURSE I SAID YES.
HOW WAS HE?
WE WENT BACK TO HIS PLACE AND TALKED FOR AWHILE. WE SMOKED SOME WEED AND DRANK SOME BEERS AND HE TOLD ME ABOUT HOW HE BROKE UP WITH HIS LONG TIME GIRLFRIEND, NOT THAT I REALLY CARED. AT THE BAR WE WERE AT A BOOTH AND HE KEPT LOWLY TELLIN' ME STUFF IN MY EAR, LIKE HOW HOT I WAS AND HOW HE WANTED ME. IT WAS REALLY HOT. I HAD A CHEESIN' SMILE ON MY FACE THE WHOLE NIGHT. WE CHATED SOME MORE THEN STARTED MAKING OUT. HE HAS GOT THE BEST TONGUE I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED. THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS GO DOWN ON ME. ALSO, HIS DICK HE HAD A NICE THICK HEAD. HIT IT IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES. HE LOVES WHEN YOU PLAY WITH HIS BALLS. AND HE LIKES WHEN YOU TUG ON HIS HAIR. HE WILL GO NOSE DEEP, AND HE'S GOT EXPERT TONGUE, IT IS HEAVEN. HE HAD ME GOING ALL OVER HIS FACE NOT SOON AFTER. THE BOY KNOWS HOW TO WORK THE TONGUE I PROMISE YOU THAT! THEN I TOOK HIS CLOTHES OFF. LADIES, HE HAS THE BEST DICK I HAVE EVER SEEN. NOT ONLY LONG BUT THICK TOO! HE KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. I GAVE HIM HEAD FOR AWHILE BUT HE SAID HE NEEDED IT AND WE FUCKED FOR LIKE, 2 HOURS. IT WAS SERIOUSLY THE BEST SEX I EVER HAD. HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOIN' AND KNEW WHERE TO HIT THE RIGHT SPOT. HE'S KINKY, IT TURNED ME ON SO MUCH. WE SWITCHED POSITIONS A FEW TIMES, HE WAS PULLIN' MY HAIR MAKIN' ME SCREAM HIS NAME. HE'S REALLY DIRTY. HE LOVES TO HEAR WHAT HE'S DOING RIGHT AND HOW MUCH YOU LIKE IT. SO HOT.
ARE YOU STILL IN CONTACT?
I SLEPT AT HIS PLACE. HE OFFERED TO DRIVE ME HOME THE NEXT MORNING BUT I GOT ONE OF MY GIRLS TO PICK ME UP AT HIS PLACE. HE WAS VERY SWEET, EVEN THOUGH WE BOTH KNEW IT WAS A ONE NIGHT STAND. WE BOTH EXCHANGED NUMBERS BUT I'VE NEVER CALLED HIM, AND HE NEVER CALLED ME.
WOULD YOU DO IT AGAIN?
IN A SECOND. HE'S THE ONLY WHITE BOY I'VE EVER SLEPT WITH WHO I'VE BEEN SATISFIED WITH. HE WAS AMAZING. 5/5 STARS FROM ME.
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A GROUPIE?
HELL NO! HE'S THE ONLY CELEBRITY I'VE EVER SLEPT WITH, AND I DON'T REGRET IT AT ALL!
I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIM...
POSTED BY TALES FROM A GROUPIE AT 3:09 AM
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