After spending a few days in London, including a wonderful weekend with friends as part of a conference at East London University, I am back in the woods north of Boston and slowly adapting to Eastern Standard Time and unseasonably warm weather. I thought I would spend a quiet day catching up this blog and updating the Punditty’s and epigrams on my website, whcih, of course, I am doing, but the day has turned out anything but quiet.
We are now planning for a hurricane, Earl by name, or more likely, a tropical storm which is heading in this direction by way of the North Carolina coast and is following a schedule that will put it off Cape Cod sometime late Friday. I really should be outside checkng the roof, the siding, the garbage cans and any other loose objects from lawn chairs to garden hose, but frankly, I haven’t the energy. Maybe tomorrow.
There’s a story running on Chris Mathew’s show purporting that the RepublCants are now embracing gay marriage — probably because fighting equality is turning out to be a losing proposition, even for the religious right, although I expect there will be holdouts, providing Sarah Palin and Glen Beck’s Teabaggers donit succeed in taking over the GOP and turning it into a party of the Christian Right with all that insidious hate, not to mention the bigotry and ignorance.
We are just beginning to launch our new web site, www.GayAnthem.com, where we will publish my latest song, "Come on Out," a song designed to unite and inspire the Pride movement. The plan is to enlist musicians and performers into recording their own unique versions and linking these renditions back to our site as part of a worldwide musical mosaic. The work has been registered with BMI, copyrights filed, and a standard royal contract developed which allow the artists to record their versions and once linked to our site, to sell copies directly from their own sites and outlets.
So far, the lyrics have been posted. The notation will follow soon. Then the first vocals. And eventually, all of the different versions. Visit the site as it grows to participate in this incredible experience.
All of my life, I’ve been hiding inside
A secret world I tried to hide
But then one day, I said I’d had enough
It’s time to come out and proudly strut my stuff.
I’m gonna come out; I’m gonna strut my stuff.
From "Come on Out," by Dan Speers, (c) 2010
Citizen Poet 