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  • “We Will Always Be Here,” A Transgender Pride Flag in Brooklyn

    Walking down 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn yesterday, I saw that someone had added something to a larger graffiti: a small transgender flag and the words: “We Will Always Be Here.”

    As I’ve posted before, trans rights are human rights.

    If you actually believe in freedom and individual rights, you believe in rights for everyone.

    Put another way and borrowing a metaphor from JFK, guaranteeing personal freedoms and rights for the least advantaged is like a rising tide that lifts all boats.

    Rights are not a zero-sum game. Ensuring rights and freedoms for more people supports everyone’s rights and freedoms. When you advocate for taking away rights and freedoms from one group, that’s fascistic. Ultimately, taking away others’ rights erode and likely lead to erasure of your own.

    The hysteria over trans persons manufactured by the right is not so much about an infinitesimal minority’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It’s an attempt to erase a group of people from public space and social participation. It’s one beachhead in a multi-headed attack on foundational American ideals.

    These attacks are also anti-scientific regarding the reality of both sex and gender. Ignoring transgendered persons about their lived experience and the deep and vast knowledge from biological, psychological, sociological, historical, and legal experts focusing on transgender issues is obviously guided by bigotry and willful ignorance.

    For those folks who want to be allies and want to learn more, I highly recommend Dr. Susan Stryker’s Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Revised Edition, 2017). Her website is also an invaluable resource, including links to her other work, such as the foundational (and free) essay “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (GLQ, 1994).

  • Mr. Toad Waits

    a toad sitting on its back feet with front feet propped up on a 1x4 board as if it is waiting to be served down at his local

    When I moved a pile of oak boards (that had been there at least a decade) off my parents’ porch a few weeks ago, this toad hopped out from underneath them. While I was finishing up, he moved over to this 1″ x 4″ board in front of the patio door. I took this photo, because it looked like he was waiting to be served at his local.

  • Old City Hall and New Murals Around Brunswick, Georgia

    a stone and brick two story building with a spire

    When my dad and I stopped at Tait’s Feed and Seed a few weeks ago, I walked around and took some photos of the Old City Hall and some street art murals in and around downtown Brunswick, Georgia.

    a utility building with a welcome to brunswick georgia mural painted on one side
    a building with a mural of an old woman, american flag, and child on the side of long building
    a mural of the side of the old Piddler's building showing the sound and the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the center

  • Kyoto Express in Brunswick, Georgia Is My Favorite Americanized Japanese Food

    a white plate with plain fried rice, fried zucchini, teriyaki chicken, hibachi shrimp and broccoli,

    Another favorite restaurant of mine in Brunswick, Georgia is Kyoto Express. It carries on the tradition of Kyoto Restaurant (lovingly called Kyoto’s) that used to be the go-to celebration hibachi restaurant on St. Simon’s Island, which featured large hibachi grills you sat around, twirling knives, explosive fire cooking, and good times. After Kyoto Restaurant closed, one of the chefs opened Joe’s Japanese next to Glynn Place Mall, which recreated the Kyoto Restaurant experience without the same kind of atmosphere as the original. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long, but thankfully, Kyoto Express opened as a quick alternative without the show and atmosphere but with the same good food. It is located in the Publix shopping center next to the Super Wal-Mart.

    I went there several times during my last trip to Brunswick. My go-to meal is the teriyaki chicken and hibachi shrimp dinner (above). I also like the teriyaki chicken and hibachi steak combo dinner (below). If I’m real hungry, I’ll add on a side of extra veggies (stir-fried zucchini, onions, and sesame seeds).

    There are two key elements that keep me coming back to Kyoto Express besides the overall quality of the food. The first is the way that they make stir-fried rice. It’s simple. They begin with oil on the grill. Then dump the rice. After working it a little, they add a lot of butter while working it over the grill’s surface and then toss in some soy sauce for flavor and color. The second element are the sauces. While most folks tend to like the “white sauce,” I don’t. I only use two sauces: mustard sauce (a concoction I’m guessing of thick mustard and soy sauce) and ginger sauce (both seen below). I use the ginger sauce for shrimp and steak. I put mustard sauce on everything else–chicken, veggies, and rice.

    several plates: one plate of plain fried rice, hibachi steak and mushrooms, teriyaki chicken, stirfried zucchini, a bowl with extra stir fried veggies, and a small plate with three cups of mustard sauce and one cup of ginger sauce

  • Tait Feed and Seed in Brunswick, GA

    a large plastic rat next to a wood sign that says Tait Feed & Seed, 50 years

    When I was visiting my folks a few weeks ago, one of our first stops was to Tait Feed and Seed in downtown Brunswick, Georgia. We needed to get three new blades for my dad’s 61″ cut Skag Tiger Cat II mower. We changed the blades and cut the grass twice while I was there. Even with such a wide cut, it takes about an hour and a half to cut the yard around their house, metal building, and the driveway from the gate, along the field, and to the house.

    an antique telephone mounted on a wall above a modern corded phone

    Besides the giant rat shown above, two other things caught my attention in the shop while we were there. First, they have an antique hand-crank phone stationed above their modern AT&T phone. Second, the Master Price List Replacement Parts catalog for Kut-Kwick mowers, which are designed and manufactured in Brunswick, reminded me of the first riding brush mower that I learned to use at Ellis Auto Parts on 341 Highway. I don’t know the year model, but the one I used many times was an updated version of this one from the 1960s.