Lucía Méndez, gira para gays y nuevo perfume unisex

Lucía Méndez, gira para gays y nuevo perfume unisex
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La actriz y cantante mexicana es la de las que piensan que hay que buscar al público sea donde sea.

Ha causado sorpresa la gira que hará la veterana artista (de 49 años) solo por locales "gays" de Estados Unidos y México, que comenzará mañana martes en el "Score Night Club" de Miami Beach.

A los asistentes se les regalará gratis una muestra de su perfume "Lucía Méndez Exótica", que -con una fórmula que incluye feromonas- se anuncia en el local como "La esencia que enamora unisex".

En unas declaraciones a la prensa mexicana, Lucía Méndez dijo que tras un tratamiento de feromonas, "mi sensualidad se ha incrementado y noto que Arturo (su pareja) se siente mas atraído hacia mi".

La talentosa artista mexicana, que vive en Miami, se casó recientemente, en segundas nupcias, con el empresario cubano americano Arturo Jordan.

También reveló un secreto: le gusta que le besen los pies. "Me encanta, me pone muy cachondona".

La gira por Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland (California), Houston (Texas), Monterrey y Puerto Vallarta, (México), ha sido anunciada para el público gay, al que califica como "sus máximos admiradores".

La diva mexicana aprovechará también para promocionar su nuevo disco "Vive", que incluye dos duetos con Mario Quintero de "Los Tucanes de Tijuana" y canciones, entre otros, de Juan Gabriel, Kike Santander y Frankie Marcos.
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Lucia Mendez - Diva?
Los gays son "sus maximos admiradores"?

No se, pienso que lo esta haciendo por que el resto de la comunidad latina se ha olvidado quien es. Pero quien sabe, esa es solo mi opinion.

Book: Dear Friends

Friends
Originally uploaded by kai7710.

I stopped by the bookstore today and I found a book that I found very interesting. It is called Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher.

As the book suggest, there are a lot of pictures of men together. Although the people in the pictures have passed away and their identity is not known, some of the pictures have a homosexual undertone and some of them are clearly gay. There are pictures of men holding hands, caressing each other, or just posing with their leg on top of each other. There is even a picture of a man with a beard in a dress next to a man in a suit, clearly very gay. Although I don't think all of the men in the pictures are gay, it is very obvious that some of them are.

I guess what surprised me about the book is the bravery, if you can call it that, of the men who posed for these pictures. If people are not completely accepting of homosexuality in this day in age, I can only imagine what it must have been like in 1840. I am adding this book to my list of books to read; if you are in the bookstore make sure you pick it up and take a look at it.

I loved my weekend.

I had one of the best weekends I have had in a very long time. It is going to sound corny but I am going to say it anyway...I saw most of the people I care about this weekend. My friends...my family...life is good.

My friend Kerry came in from Minnesota to visit and we hanged out all weekend. Having her in the house made me wish I had a roommate but I wonder if I enjoyed it so much because it was Kerry and because I knew it was temporary? Regardless, we had a great time (or at least I hope she did too).

She flew in on Thursday and we got home from the airport around 10:30 p.m., we wanted to go to Don Pablo’s for their $2 margaritas but they were close so we decided to just go home have a drink and watch a movie. I made Sip-&-Strip and we watched Chocolat. If you have not watched this movie, I definitely recommend it, it was very good and it might have even been funny. Kerry and I kept laughing; it could have been that we were drunk or that the movie was funny. I don’t really know.
Friday wasn't as fun, I went to work and she ran errands. At night we went to my sister’s house for her b-day party. The food was GREAT.

Saturday we went shopping all day and I spent way too much money but I did get some really good deals. That night we were picked up Chico to go to the bars in gayville. When we got to Chico's house he had already been drinking, what a lush, a bottle of wine. He did leave some for us 
We met up with Ash and Seyd at the bars and later by one of their friends. We went to our usual bars…drank a little and danced a little.

Kerry left me today. It was sad to see her go but she called me a while ago and told me her husband was waiting for her at her apartment when she got there. I thought that was the sweetest thing because he had to drive three hours to see her. I knew that Darin was a good guy.

After I dropped Kerry off at the airport I went to my friend Sarah and Will's house, we ordered food and had a good chat. I am so glad they live so close to me, it helps them having them so close to me.

I have to go back to work tomorrow…..I am not looking forward to that. I think I am catching a cold, I hope I get over it before my trip next weekend.

Kerry/Edwards Lawn Sign

I put up a new John Kerry and John Edwards lawn sign up last night.
For those of you who have not heard my story here it is, I will give you the condensed version.

My last lawn sign was stolen from my yard and my bumper sticker was removed from my car. I don't know who would be brave enough to go to someone else's property and remove something that they have put up.

On to other news:

Last night I was invited to a lawn sign making party. A lady in Fort Worth purchased 1,000 signs with her own money, that is about $10,000 to $15,000 once you take into account the stakes, nails, etc.
Yesterday a bunch of people went to her house and helped her put the signs together. It was a little assembly line. Some people stapled, others nailed, stacked, and bundled. It was great. We were able to put most of the 1,000 signs together before the sun went down. She is selling them for $2 if anyone is interested. Once she is able to get rid of all of these she is going to purchase 1,000 more and distribute those as well.
I am really excited, I hope to see all of those 1,000 signs out in Fort Worth over the next few weeks. Next time I see a lawn sign in a yard I will wonder if it was one of the ones I helped put together.

Isn't activism great? Last night I felt as if I was actually making a difference.

School

So I start school on Monday and I at first I was looking forward to it but today I remembered how much time and effort you have to put into it so I am not so excited anymore.
The good thing is that the school I am going to has trimesters so I will be done with classes faster.

Wish me luck.

I snapped

I snapped at my boss today and it wasn't pretty. I feel bad for snapping at him, after all, he is my boss.
I just got tired of it. We were on one topic, and he was on another and trying to seem like he knew what he was talking about. He was making assumptions left and right and I rolled my eyes at him and snapped.
The good thing is that there was only one other person in the room so it didn't look to bad.

I will see how he treats me tomorrow. Hopefully he will overlook my snap because I did him the favor of driving him to his mechanics during lunch to pick up his car.

Reviews are coming up. :(

Schedule

Schedule
Originally uploaded by kai1007.

This is what my schedule looks like for the week. I am so good, that sometimes I am scheduled to be at two places at the same time.

New Building

We are in a our new building today and it is so nice.
I have never worked in a building were we have been the first occupants, it has a new building smell....concrete....plastic...you know, the new smell.

The views are amazing. On one side we have the Trinity River and on the other we have all of downtown Fort Worth. The lobby is marble and very modern looking. I have not really had a chance to explore the rest of the building because I have been unpacking but what I have seen has been really nice.

It took me 14 minutes to get to work, approximately 5.6 miles. It is a little closer than my old building but it takes me a bit longer because now I have to do all city driving and the traffic lights are horrible. I will be exploring new ways to get to work and back home this week. I hope to find a shortcut that will allow me to get home in under 10 minutes.

The Trinity Trails are right across from our building so I was thinking that instead of going home or to the gym and jogging that I could just change in the gym in the building and jog on the trails.

It is all very exciting.

Changing the Past

It’s amazing how easy it is to change the past.

I have been hanging out with an old friend who I have not seen in a long time and he started to talk about things we use to do when we were hanging out and he remembers things that never happened. In order for this story to make sense I have to confess a few of my sins before I continue. This friend and I were hanging out a lot and on ONE occasion we were both drunk and one thing led to another. That only happened on ONE occasion. But from our conversations over the last few weeks when he brings it up he remembers this happening a few times. How do you tell someone they are living in a fantasy world, that what they remember never happened?

Shocking Facts

I was doing some research for reports I am working on and I ended up in the US Census AIDS webpage. I was looking through some of the links and I was shocked to read some of these facts:

An estimated 37.8 million (between 34.6 million and 42.3 million) people were living with HIV worldwide in 2003

In 2003, an estimated 4.8 million (between 4.2 million and 6.3 million) people were newly infected with HIV

About 7 percent of the people in low and middle income countries who need anti-retroviral drugs actually received them in 2003.

Every day 2000 babies are infected with HIV during pregnancy, at birth or through breastfeeding. Without effective medical interventions, at last one third of the infants born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus. Most of the infants that contract the virus will die before their fifth birthday.

Every day there are about 14,000 new HIV infections worldwide. Of these more than 95 percent occur in low and middle income countries and about 2000 are among children under 15.

It is a shame that in this day and age and with all of the advances we have made in the past years we still don't have a full grasp on the AIDS epidemic. The medication needed to live a healthy and normal life is so expensive that most people who don't have medical insurance are not able to afford it, and those people with medical insurance often have to do without other necessities in order to pay for all of their medication.

The good news, I heard on NPR the other day, is that a Swedish company is now manufacturing low-cost AIDS medication that will be distributed to the "third world" countries.

If you are not shocked, you should be. By now all of us know at least one person who is infected with HIV, and if you think you don't then you are just fooling yourself. You should be shocked that our governments have not spent enough money to edecuate the public. You should be shocked that medications are still out of the reach of most people. And you should be shocked that 14,000 people are infected each day.

Mending Friendships

I spent the weekend trying to mend old friendships and it was a bit more taxing than I thought.
For some of them I decided it was way to much effort for the friendship and for some others I decided to continue trying.

Horacio, for example, is one of those friends that I could do with out but we stay in touch because we have known each other for so long.

Then there is "Hawk", who I have known longer than Horacio and we may temporarily loose touch with each other but when we do see each other it is as if we had never lost touch.

There is also Miguel, who I see by accident once every year or so but every time we see each other we have so much fun.

I could go on but basically all of them fall in those three categories. Some are worth saving, others are just holding on by a frail string.

Poema incompleto

El viento sopla
fuerte, muy fuerte sin control.
Trato de sostenerme pero me siento devil
y no me puedo mas.
Pierdo el control y me caigo.
el viento me soplar
fuerte, muy fuerte para un lada y para otro.
El viento para temporarmente
y me caigo lentamente
como si estuviese sin vida.
Lento, muy lento
y me runo con las otras ojas en el suelo.

What Could Have Been

Have you ever wondered what your life would have been like if one or two things in your life had been different?

I was driving to meet friends for dinner this evening and as I was at a red light I looked over and saw a guy that had some resemblance to me. The guy was about my age and he was in his 4 door car with his wife in the passengers seat and two cute kids in the back seat. As I sat there I could see what my life would have been like had I been straight. It was strange, I sat there and imagined my whole 26 years of existence but with one major change, in my scenario I was straight and my life was totally different. As I kept on driving I thought of other aspects of my life that would have been different had I made other choices.

I thought of different scenarios and changed one small detail but the small detail changed the outcome of my imaginary life. As we go through our day to day activities and we make decisions most of the time we don't think of the impact these small decisions will have on our lives.