Kevin. New England. Some of my interests include sci-fi, sci-non-fi, music theory, humor, and Alaska (grew up there). My age makes me more or less a grandparent on tumblr, but I'm not really that old. Not yet, at least. But probably older than you. Just saying.
I started this blog with the intention of creating and capturing cool stuff I find. A scrapbook, if you will.
When I find good internets, I will make them happen here. Check back often for more internets.
Photo reblogged from StuckByTheSea with 6 notes
Same place but better pic. This is my hometown!
See that long strip of land that juts out into the bay? Way down on the end of it on one of the beaches on the right side, I proposed to my wife. It was a day much like the one pictured. Married two years this month!
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ALASKA: 5 Former Anchorage Mayors Support Gay Rights Initiative
The News Tribune reports:
Five former Anchorage mayors on Friday endorsed an April ballot measure to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents of the city.
If passed, the Anchorage Equal Rights Initiative would expand municipal code to prohibit discrimination on a basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity. Anchorage residents will vote on the initiative on April 3.
Former mayors Rick Mystrom, Jack Roderick, Matt Claman, Tony Knowles and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich all spoke in support of the One Anchorage campaign, which backs the initiative, at a press conference held in South Anchorage. Begich appeared by video phone link from Washington, D.C.
“This isn’t a Democratic thing or a Republican thing, it’s just simply the right thing,” said Mystrom, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2000.
Roderick, who served from 1972 to 1975, said that to him, the issue was a simple matter of fairness.
“In order to have a great community, everyone should be treated the same,” he said. “That’s the essence of democracy and I think, still, the essence of Anchorage.”
The last time the former mayors had gathered was for the swearing-in of Mayor Dan Sullivan in 2009, said Claman, who served as interim mayor that year.
The living former mayors not in attendance at Friday’s press conference: Tom Fink, mayor from 1987 to 1994, and George Wuerch, who served from 2000 to 2003. Both were caught up in controversies involving gay and lesbian rights during their terms.
In 1993, Fink vetoed a narrower ordinance protecting city employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Reached by phone at his home Friday, Fink said he wouldn’t vote for the ordinance and didn’t feel discrimination was a problem in the city.
In 2001, Wuerch ordered city workers to remove a gay-pride exhibit from a public library.
Jim Minnery of the Alaska Family Council, a conservative Christian group that opposes the initiative, said he wasn’t surprised by the lineup.
“Typically this gets divided down political affiliations,” he said.
Mystrom is a Republican; Roderick, Begich, Knowles and Claman are Democrats, although candidates for city office in Anchorage don’t run on partisan tickets.
Minnery’s group has been lining up support among Alaska legislators and Anchorage Assembly members and had plans to hold a “pastors’ briefing” for local church leaders, he said.
“We’re working with a number of elected officials who will come out and endorse us at some point,” he said.
“The current mayor is probably the most popular mayor we’ve had in a long time,” Minnery said. “And he has obviously not endorsed it. And I think that speaks volumes.”
Mayor Dan Sullivan wasn’t immediately available for comment Friday afternoon.
Campaign organizer Amy Coffman said Sullivan’s office had been informed that the gathering would be taking place.
The Anchorage Equal Rights Initiative is similar to another city ordinance passed by the Assembly in 2009. It was vetoed by Sullivan.
Sullivan has said he believes a ballot initiative is “appropriate” because it allows citizens to weigh in on the subject.
Coffman said bringing current and former elected officials together in support of the campaign would be a powerful and public affirmation of the campaign’s view that the status quo needs changing.
“It’s encouraging to have former lawmakers and leaders saying yes, it’s true, this needs to happen,” she said.
She was surprised by some of the former mayors’ responses.
“It’s one of the most beautiful things about the Alaskan resident,” she said. “We make assumptions all the time, but until you have the conversation, you never know what the answer is going to be.”
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/03/2011708/5-former-anchorage-mayors-back.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
Proud of my hometown
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ANC. How I see it.
When I lived in Anchorage, I actually really enjoyed the “feels like you’re on another planet” vibe the whole state puts out, particularly in the winter.
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Sadly, due to overhunting, there are fewer than 300 hay bales left in the wild in Alaska. Special hay ranches like this one aim to increase the population of hay bales raised in captivity in an effort to stabilize the species and prevent these magnificent creatures from disappearing from the earth.
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USS Princess May - Alaska 1910
Captain just needed to park real quick while he ran in and picked up some cigarettes.
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Chugach National Park, Alaska
Why live in Alaska? Yeah, this is why.
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And I dont plan on visiting….
ugh please don’t make the mistake of thinking that everyone who lives in Alaska is like Sarah Palin. She isn’t even from Alaska. Blame Idaho! And if I may editorialize for a second, if you never visit Alaska you’re missing out on some truly spectacular stuff.
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This is the ice rink in the mall I went to yesterday, that place is fucking amazing.
I learned to skate on this rink. Also, it really skewed my notion of what a mall should be. ”What do you mean this mall doesn’t have an ice skating rink? Isn’t that standard?”
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awillfulsuspensionofdisbelief:
I go to Alaska in less than a month. This is a comparison of Denali (Mount McKinley) and Mount Everest. Denali is actually bigger.
that’s right, bitches.
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I am being absolutely haunted by cars with Alaska license plates….why there so many Alaskans in New Hampshire? I’m gonna start wearing my Xtratufs every day and force them out in the open. Seriously though, any Alaskan driving from their homeland to the lower 48 perplexes me to begin with but to NH? What?
I’m an Alaskan in New Hampshire! I had my AK plates for about 2 or 3 years before I finally switched over, maybe 3 years ago. I went to college in Maine, that’s how I ended up here. I’m always excited to see AK plates, but now that New York switched to that orange design, there’s a lot of false alarms.
Oh, and I drove from AK to Florida first, then back up to New England. Long drive.
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