whitegood?

Ah, you missed that Aussie lesson, did you?

Whitegoods = major household appliances (dishwasher, clothes dryer, range, etc). As opposed to "Browngoods", the small kitchen appliance type stuff that used to be bakelite brown.

Is that a kind of spangly semi-tranluscent sequened feather-adorned fabric?

They should be so lucky.

iSm and I attended last nights meeting of Love Honor Cherish (LHC / lovehonorcherish.org ). I was pretty impressed and we're both getting involved with the organization (in the media group, more on that in a sec). There were a lot of attorneys there but also people from all areas -- Here's the email I was asked to forward, to those who would also like to be involved:

For those that were wondering the funds raised are going directly to the Equality California PAC. There are going to be house parties to raise funds -- and if anyone HAS a place they'd like to do a house party in (and invite their friends.... LoT fundraiser, perhaps?), the group can send a speaker to talk as well. (that's one way of getting involved).

Two of the more immediate things that are coming up are the Public Service Announcements that are going to be filmed this Sunday, and the pool party on the 29th. I've already put up a flier in this thread re: the pool party -- PM me if you'd like to go because I will be there for sure.

As far as the PSAs are concerned -- we need folks from all walks of life-- gay, straight, married, single, etc. to record a short video on this topic. You can talk about anything you want -- what gay marriage means to you, why you should vote against the marriage amendment, or even how you're a straight married couple and you support your gay friends equal rights, anything. If you'd like to participate, the videos will be filmed both THIS SUNDAY and also AT THE POOL PARTY. (These are videos that will be used both on the website and elsewhere). PM me on that if you'd like to participate.

... more on this in a sec... gotta get back to work.

Hence the old Aussie joke:

"Why does a bride wear white?"
"So she can blend in with the appliances in the Kitchen"

^^^ To continue:

If anyone knows anyone that would like to participate, please let me know.

So iSm and I signed up for the media committee, which does the website, among other things. Right now we're searching for a web designer who would be willing to donate some time to making the lovehonorcherish.org site more accessable -- or even making an animated logo from the existing one. Suggestions re: the website are welcome as well (obviously it just got plopped up there)... we just added blogging capability, etc. but the general design of the site needs to be re-done so that the regular page (and not the splash page) is the front.

Other things we have are business cards to hand out, t-shirts, etc. There are simply too many people who are complacent about this -- who either don't vote or who don't understand why gay people want to get married or why equality is important (there is a separate outreach committee that is handling speakers, etc. as well as a fundraising committee... as I mentioned above, a LoT house party might be a cool idea to do. I'm talking my parents into having one at their house as well).

I mean, think of it on these terms (this was discussed at the meeting)-- if, during the interracial marriage debate, you had a solution where if two people of the same race got married, it would be "marriage" and two people of different races got married, it would be a "transracial union". Silly, huh? Well that's what is going on here. Separate is not equal, and this marriage amendment is discriminatory. Gay marriage legitimizes gay relationships, and that is what supporters of this amendment DO NOT WANT.

Please get involved in some way, come to the next meeting (iSm will be there; I will be there every other Tuesday). Thanks for your support!

Cherny - while I'm not available at all this weekend, I'll be happy to lend any shooting and/or editing work into the mix starting next week. I can go and shoot just about anything - parties, rallies, more PSAs, etc.

I will cheerfully volunteer any beer drinking work that needs to be done

Disneyphile, I was going to approach you about this tomorrow night ... but we were wondering if, in connection with your soon-to-be-burgeoning gay marriage videography business, you might ask some (or more than some) of your gay marrieds if we could use a little of their wedding footage on the site, to help the cause (it was tossed around that gay wedding bloopers might be a complete hoot).

Just an idea. :D