Current Events: January 2008 Archives

At this stage of the game as the primary candidates are still being decided across the country, in the black, gay, and especially in the black and gay communities it's basically a toss up between Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as all three communities generally vote Democrat. And things are starting to get ugly. Besides the snubbery and bickering between the candidates themselves through the media, their supporters, everyday folks like you and me are even battling it out. I had a bitch go off on me the other day on The Janet Jackson Message Board because he supported one and I supported the other. At the end of the day, let's not forget, oh lovely Democrats that Clinton and Obama are ultimately on the same team and may even end up on the same ticket together before this is all over. And besides all of the Democrat drama, there are even a few black gay republicans out there (to each his own chile, to each his own...) let's not forget them, even though in many ways they've already forgotten themselves, but that's my opinion and today's blog post is supposed to be impartial. Either way, this week's poll should be interesting.

I would tell you who I'm voting for, but then I would have to explain why and on top of that, I mean, I watch the news, I read, but I'm still not the most political guy in the world anyway, I just like who I like. So then some bitch gon' wanna come and start some long, boring-ass political argument with me, then I'd ignore the bitch and then she'd try to post some slick shit and then I'd reply back and then it'd become this reading match and I'd have to shut the bitch down and it'd just be this whole big thing and I'd just rather not, okay? It's not even 10 am yet. Just rest assured that Adam is voting for somebody in the primary in February and in the real deal in November.

As things stand today, who's gonna get your vote in this year's US Presidential Election? Primary results, country of residence, and age notwithstanding, pick one of the nine major Democrat or Republican candidates running.

In the comments section let us know why you picked who you picked and/or your thoughts on the election. Along with you thoughts on the election, after you vote give me your thoughts on the video below. I've never posted an outside YouTube video on my blog before, but I thought that this one was quite interesting. What are your thoughts?

Hopefully, all of my lovely American readers of voting age this poll is not the only election you vote in. If you are an American citizen, over the age of 18 you can register to vote for real here.

Every week I will update the blog with a new poll question.
Click here to check out all the previous Adam's Web Log Polls.

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Playing In The Background...
"I Nominate You"
by Fantasia
from the album "Fantasia"
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- Actor Heath Ledger
- Official poster for the film "Brokeback Mountain"
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Heath Ledger, the Australian born actor and star of the 2005, Oscar winning film "Brokeback Mountain" arguably the biggest, most important and critically acclaimed gay themed movie of all time has been found dead in his New York apartment earlier today.

The film is a touching story about a romance between two cowboys over a span of decades set in the Western United States. Ledger played Ennis Del Mar, a ruggedly handsome, yet troubled man who throughout the film had trouble dealing with his feelings for Jack Twist (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), a fellow sheepherder whom he falls in love with after spending a summer together working in the mountains of Wyoming.

In real life Ledger was engaged to actress Michelle Willams who he met wile filming "Brokeback...", she played his wife Alma in the movie. They had a daughter together, Matilda Rose and lived in my hometown of Brooklyn, New York before they split in the summer of 2007.

The news of his death today was very sudden and truly unexpected. The impact of "Brokeback Mountain" on the gay community and society at large will never be forgotten. He will be greatly missed.

Taken from the New York Times' City Room Blog:

January 22, 2008,  4:42 pm

Actor Heath Ledger Is Found Dead

By Sewell Chan

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, according to the New York City police. Mr. Ledger was 28.

At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger’s bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities. The police said they did not suspect foul play and said they found pills near body.

Mr. Ledger, a native of Perth, Australia, won acclaim for his role as a co-star in “Brokeback Mountain”, a 2005 film. The film, based on a short story by Annie Proulx about two cowboys who fall in love,  won critical acclaim. Reviewing the film in The New York Times, the critic Stephen Holden wrote, “Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.”

Calls by The New York Times to Mara Buxbaum, a publicist for Mr. Ledger, and Steve Alexander, the actor’s agent, were not immediately returned this afternoon.

Thomas J. Lueck contributed reporting.