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Bill & Rick

The distance between genius and insanity is only measured by the level of success.

About Me

We are a Buddhist couple living among conservative Virginians. We consider ourselves intellectually elite liberals, although we have educated, big tent, republican friends. We are not necessarily democrats. We are physicaly and mentally very fit and stay that way through fitness, food, meditation, and the written word. We have no cable and LIFE IS BETTER WITHOUT IT. We are a monogomously gay couple. Which happily flys in the face of conversion therapy, bullsh*t, propoganda. We will fight for equal protection under the law and will fight for the ceasation of mental abuse brought upon by conversion therapy and the religous right.

My Interests

Biking, Meditating, Snow skiing, Jet Skiing, Swimming, Certain mediums of Activism, Reading a lot (non-fic). We prefer all diet drinks (even light beer) and are into fitness. Trying to be of sound body and mind.

I'd like to meet:

Cool folks. GLBTQS - Straight people, the S stands for you. Of course everyone thinks their "cool folks" so lets specify..... well rounded people - people who fight ethnocentrisim - people who dont believe the news they hear from sound bites or from corperate conglomos - People who like real movies like Capote, Brokeback, Children of a Lesser God, etc. NOT folks who prefer Fantastic 4, Independance Day, etc. We are fans of intellectually elite liberals as well as the down to earth blue collar Right (who oddly enough used to be liberal - because of unions and workers rights) We are even fans of educated republicans who believe in old school big tent issues. etc etc etc.. Hope this clarifies.

Music:

We both love 80's & XMas Music. BILL -Michael Buble -Movie Scores (i.e. Mars Attacks, Beetlejuice, Kundun) -SoundTracks(i.e. Rushmore, Queer as Folk) RICK -REO Speedwagon -The Cars -Joan Jet.

Movies:

We both love Kundun, Ghandi, & Children of a Lesser God. RICK gravitates toward Little Buddha, Interview with a Vampie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. BILL: Bowlling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Too Wong Foo, and Gorillas in the Mist.

Television:

Kung fu, The West Wing, Queer as Folk, The Daily Show, King of the Hill and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, American Dad.

Books:

"Anything but staight: unmasking the scandals and lies behind the Ex-Gay Myth." "The Tibetan book of living and dieing."

Heroes:

RICK's hero's are The Buddha, Sogyal Rimpoche, The Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, and Master Po (From Kung Fu). BILL'S are Ms. Annie Sullivan, Gandhi, Dianne Fossey, Mother Theresa, Thich Nhat Hanh, Master Kahn (From Kung Fu), & Lisa Simpson.

My Blog

Attention!

Hey guys, and chikidees.    I want to say I am very very very sorry for hardly being what you would call a friend, reciently.  I didnt get my holiday cards out I didnt call anyone, I di...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:32:00 PST

Interesting occasions

1.You and Jesus go out to dinner - who pays?We go dutch, I have a few angry questions for that guy.2. You suddenly have to flee the country and adopt an alias ...What is it?Anastasia Beaverhousin3. P...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:04:00 PST

Seeing my friends takena dvantage of and brain washed.

  I am scared that many of you and many of those around us are not aware of how programmed you are.  One of the biggest steps I took against the American Corporate Machine was turning o...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:01:00 PST

A long weekend at Massanutten

So a couple of weeks ago Rick and I went to Massanutten ski resort.  Well, the summer there is very fun as well  as you will read. Let me start earlier, though.  Our good friend Tom is reti...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Yogaville

So, last Sunday I visited Yogaville . The intention was to go, meditate then do some yoga in a class, at this institution, where Yoga teachers are trained and certified.We arrived at noon for the grou...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mediocre news!

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/030605mdBan.htm Where to begin on this personal annoyance? Just because this bill died one time is that good news? It is going to come back next year. You woul...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Great Buddhist Website

http://www.buddhanet.net This is agreat resource for free Buddhist ebooks and things of that nature.
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Learning to ski (by Rick)

Hello all. Today was a wonderful day, not a cloud in the sky and Bill and I and Adelaide (a friend) headed out for Wintergreen. (A ski resort in Western VA). It was only my second time sking and I rea...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Where to begin... First the earth cooled, and then dinosaurs came. Work for me (Bill) is dreadfully borring. Rick is enjoying himself at work 'cause all his new fitness clients from the new year st...
Posted by Bill & Rick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST