Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

1. Thai Spider-Man Saves Autistic Boy. Firefighter uses superhero costume to talk a scared boy off a ledge. Alleges that he keeps Spider-Man costume in his locker at work "to liven up school fire drills". We here at Featherynscale Industries are suspicious, but impressed. You go, cosplay guy!

2. "Sometimes the best news is that a story makes no news." Seventh-grade math teacher invites whole class to his commitment ceremony, nobody thinks it's that big a deal. Bonus points: 1. When asked "were you surprised to learn your teacher was gay?", seventh graders responded: “He’s not gay,” said Japhet Guzman, 12. “No,” agreed a lanky 13-year-old who walked with a bit of a tough-guy swagger, “he’s not gay. He’s bisexual. Why don’t you ask him?” 2. Bisexual math teacher is tremendously cute. Of course, he's a bisexual math teacher, so I may have some bias in that assessment.

What I've been doing lately (now that I finally bothered to upload pics from the last few months):

Hooray for Oregon!

I mean, way to do an end-run around Measure 36. It ain't marriage, but I'm still calling it good.

EDIT: I love you all. PLEASE READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH BEFORE YOU COMMENT. Thanks!

Washington group to equal marriage opponents: "Oh, you'd like to be absurd? Let's be absurd!".

The short form is this: Up for consideration in the state of Washington, a bill that would include the concept of procreation in the state's definition of marriage, requiring couples to sign a statement that they know of no reason why they should not be able to have a child together, and requiring marriages to be dissolved within three years if the couple fails to produce a child. Later, the group will introduce other bills linking marriage only to reproduction and establishing it as being for no other purpose.

Their intent is to challenge a ruling in which the courts intimated that the state had a legitimate interest in legislating against same-sex couples marrying because marriage is inherently about procreation. They hope that the death of their bills will chip away at the ruling, and eventually remove this roadblock to same-sex marriage in Washington.