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There was a show called "Dyke TV", which I used to watch sometimes on FreeSpeechTV on Dish Network, way back. Today I was reminded of the show when I came across an old donation receipt from them. Wondering if the show was still around (maybe on the internet), I did a search, but a lot of the results were related to Dick Van Dyke.

So I modified my query... "Dyke TV -dick".

::amused::

According to this page, Dyke TV was first broadcast in 1993, and was on the air for at least 13 years.

Dyke TV aired for the first time in 1993 on a lone public access cable (PAC) channel in Manhattan. Today, the show is broadcast on PAC stations and the independent satellite channel, Free Speech TV, in 78 cities and 23 states across the US, which have a combined subscriber base of 4 million viewers. Episodes feature current news and events, political commentary, arts, health, sports and other issues of interest to lesbians in the US and beyond. We use this national platform to support balanced, LGBT-specific programming from diverse rural, urban, racial, economic, artistic and political perspectives.

The last time the original www.dyketv.org website was archived by the Internet Archive, was on Sep. 26, 2004.

This myspace page indicates that they shut down "5 years ago":

After thirteen years of groundbreaking, award-winning videos by, for, and about
queer women, Dyke TV has shut its doors, ended production, and dissolved its
non-profit corporation.

Dyke TV's free and low-cost video production and editing classes spurred the
careers of many of our community's most innovative video and film artists. The
self-produced videos in Dyke TV's entertainment/news magazine television show
opened eyes and minds, and paved the way for queer shows like The L Word and
queer channels like Logo and here!.

Funding and organizational support issues have unfortunately forced DTV to shut
down, just after receiving a federal trademark for its name.

Dyke TV would like to thank the volunteers, funders, students, staff, board
members, and video subjects who made Dyke TV the amazing show and organization
that it was for so many years.

Good luck to all the video and film artists out there who continue to change the
world with their visions, creating "Television to Incite, Subvert, Provoke, and
Organize!"

The Dyke TV team

I got one of the SC Equality license plates for my car. It is quite nice looking:



The black rectangle is where the numbers are. The white rectangles are where the month/year stickers go.

If you own a vehicle registered in South Carolina, and if you've been thinking about getting one of these plates, I'd suggest you don't wait too long. Based on SC Code Section 56-3-8000,
"If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and renewals for a particular plate authorized under this section, it shall not produce additional plates in that series. The department shall continue to issue plates of that series until the existing inventory is exhausted."

Based on the number I got, it doesn't look like 300 have been issued yet.

I was uncertain how much to pay for the plate. The application form (MV-95) indicates that you should pay $25 plus the regular registration fee (which is $24 for passenger cars), so I sent $49. They sent me a $12 refund, however. What is stated on the SC Equality site seems to be correct:
"If your current registration is less than one year old, you will not have to pay an additional registration fee, and will pay just the $25.00 plate fee. If your registration is in its second year, the DMV will ask you to pay just one year in order to have a full, two-year active registration.".

The MV-95 form also states:
"If your current tag is within three months of expiring, you should pay your property taxes and renew your plate BEFORE you submit an application for a specialty plate."

This week of vacation hasn't been at all relaxing for me. But I did get a lot of things done, and the house looks better - fewer piles of "to-do" stuff laying around. I still have stuff that I wanted to get done, which I didn't. I wish I had another week off. Or month. Or year.

Maybe I'll take another week off next month.

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I ended up baking the poppyseed rolls too long. They still taste ok, but not very special.

It would be bad if my place of employment suddenly started random drug testing, with all the poppyseeds I've been eating.

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I'm glad that the NY legislature passed the gay marriage bill. While looking over the list of states that now allow gay marriage, I was surprised and impressed to see that Iowa is among them.

skipped lj for 2 days due to lack of time, now I'm a few pages behind... and still lacking time.

sort of figured out a mysterious performance problem at work... at least the what, if not the why. who would have expected that reading or writing a 5kb BLOB to the database would take ten times as long as either a 3kb or a 30kb BLOB? seems to be a weird SQL Server bug.

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seeing men be tender with each other... being gentle and intimate with each other... makes me melt inside. why don't i have the same reaction when females are involved? why?

i don't have much, if any, desire to go to regular bars. but i just
realized that the idea of going to a gay bar sparks my interest.
like, i could do that? yeah, i could do that! but, what would i do
there? i'd feel out of place. like, what would my purpose there be?
what do people go to bars for - to drink alcohol and find people to
have sex with? i don't drink alcohol and am uncomfortable with the
idea of sex. what would i be doing there? i'd just be sitting, watching, thinking, feeling vaguely fine and vaguely uncomfortable,
and like normal, managing to be ignored by everyone else there.