To save money on a tent for Burning Man (about $250 to be exact), Tabatha and I bought a cheap Coleman Sundome instead of a Springbar canvas tent. To dust-proof it, we needed to sew up the mesh sides with nylon. We were using a HUGE needle, and thick upholstry thread. I bet you are feeling prophetic, you smartypants.

MEIMEI THE DANGER CAT

On day two of sewing, during a break for some scrambled eggs and toast, we heard MeiMei, my little orange cat, wheeze, cough, and hack while sitting underneath a dangling thread. Tab noticed the dangling string, felt the end of it, and it was wet.

A few minutes of frantic, desperate, and fruitless searching on the floor of the tent for the needle, and we were in a cab on our way to the Emergency Vet Clinic in Carroll Gardens: VERG.  THANK GOD FOR BROOKLYN and all its crazy pet owners, WE HAVE 24/7 EMERGENCY VETS!
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I’ve always enjoyed a good diet Pepsi but I usually find myself ordering Diet Coke out of habit.

I received an email the other day from the American Family Association that has made me into a complete + total Pepsi Evangelist.

The American Family Association is one of those wingnut conservative groups that spends a lot of money fighting gay marriage.  I signed up out of simple curiosity, and out of a desire to get to know, and try to understand, the opposition, and people that frown on me and my life.

So the latest thing that’s gotten their panties all in a wad is Pepsi.  Now the AFA seems to think that because Pepsi does the following things, they are the pinnacle of all evil and must be STOPPED:

1. Asks their employees to take diversity training courses
2. Advertises in magazines like OUT
3. Gives money to charities like the Human Rights Campaign
4. Is a sponsor of the NYC Gay Pride Parade

Now, the HILARIOUS thing about all of this, is the AFA is asking people to boycott Pepsi. But if the above is their criteria, I got some news for them. They can’t just stop at Pepsi. Here is a list of just a SAMPLING of the companies that not only received 100% on last year’s HRC Corporate Equality Index, all of whom fit the bill based on the bullet points above (except perhaps for the parade sponsorship), but were also rated a “Best Place to Work” for LGBT employees:

• Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. So Kiss your Budweiser goodbye!
• Campbell Soup Co. Too bad, they’re kinda helpful in tough economic times
• Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. NO SODA FOR YOU
• Coors Brewing Co. NO BEER FOR YOU
  
• PepsiCo Inc. (duh)
• Walgreen Co. NO DRUGS FOR YOU

And that’s just a partial list of the Food category!  They also can’t buy camera or develop film (Eastman Kodak Co.), own a computer (Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) , Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc.), have a good calculator (Texas Instruments Inc.), ever fly in a plane (Boeing Co.) or pretty much do anything, EVER.

So back to Pepsi for a moment.

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