Rob Thomas said the following:  “I believe the fact that an atheist, who doesn't believe in God at all, is allowed to enter into the holy land of marriage while a gay Christian is not, shows that this law is arbitrary. Are we to believe that anyone who doesn't live their life according to the King James Bible isn't protected by the same laws that protect those who do?” 

 YAY for Rob! 

 He says some other wonderful things as well, such as:  “We've been here before, fighting for the rights of African Americans or women to vote, or the rights of Jewish Americans to worship as they see fit. And, just as whites fought for African Americans or Christians for Jewish Americans, straight people must stand up and be a voice for gay people.”

Please take a few minutes and read this well thought out and well written article by Rob Thomas. 

Article stolen from bonnie_halfelvn

EDIT:  This edit paragraph was written after I wrote everything else.  This quick and dirty still turned into 2 pages.  Wow – and I really did not go into details.  I guess I can do that later, probably on private for myself since nobody cares the details like I do.  I mean, does anyone else really wanna know the details on how I twisted my hair up?  Heck no!  Anywho – this is for my LiveJournal but I am posting it a few other places also incase anyone wants to know.

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So here is the quick and dirty about JACON as best as I can describe it without going on for pages and pages and pages about it.

Thursday we drove up after work.  It took 2 vans to carry everyone and their luggage.  We were all so psyched!  The weather was absolute crap – raining and lightening and such.  We got there though.   We checked into the hotel and into the con and got our badges.  Sweet.  I love beating the crowd.

Friday the con actually started.  I put on my Jedi cloak and put my hair up in twists on my head, grabbed my Sith saber and headed out to the con.  I noticed this conw as not nearly as huggy as most cons I go to.  People were not really rude or anything, just not as huggy.  The dealers room was my fav place.  It was smallish – but not ridiculously so.  They had a fair selection of whatever you were looking for.  The sleeping samurai section in the back was made of win.  I watched people fighting (with foam weapons) for a while and then started hanging out in the back of the dealers room where there was room to hang.  That’s when the fun really started. People were loving my Jedi self.  I took many photos (I had already been doing it off and on earlier but standing back there I guess it was easier for people to approach me.) by myself for people and with people too.  It was a ton of fun. 

I headed back over to the Jedi Legion table (I had passed by earlier) again and this time a Solo costumer was there.  I had a great time with him.  We chatted (my lightsaber was off) and laughed and such.  Then someone walked by and asked me about my saber.  I lit it up and it glowed bright red.  Before I could blink Solo had turned on me so fast and drew his blaster and had it aimed at me.  He was fast!  I was so excited.  I played it cool but inside I was squeezing like a fangirl.  Anyhow, hanging out there was awesome.  Solo and a Jedi I met (whose name escapes me) invited me to join the Rebel Legion.  I was floored and flattered. 

Later I was walking by a table with Richard Horvitz aka Invader Zim aka Billy from Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.  I heard him call “Jedi..” then make lightsaber noises.  I walked over to him as calm as could be - but inside I was totally freaking out!  Casual as I could  I said “Wanna touch it?”  He said yes.  OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!  So I hand it to him, still keeping my fangirlness in check.  He holds it and I tell him he can turn it on and feel the power.  He did.  Then he went into this hysterical thing about striking down his assistant so she can become a more powerful assistant.  I laughed because that was so funny, plus it helped me release some of my fangirl squee needs – without actually squeezing.  After he was done I told him he needed to let me take a pic of him with my saber since he had wanted to touch it.  He totally let me.  I was so freakin excited!!!!!!!  I still managed to keep my cool even though I wanted to just freak out with excitement.  Later on Lana saw him and got him to do a classic Billy line on video for her “Destroy us all!  Destroy us all!”  Lucky Lana!!!

That night we went out to IHOP to eat.  Me and all my little anime nerds took up 3 tables.  YAY us.  Our waitress was totally made of win.  I had more ice tea than I can recall.   I got the most delicious Hamburger Club.  Mmmmmmmmmmmm.  At some point there was a whipped cream fight or something – I missed that.  I do recall the table behind me was drinking half and half like it was normal milk.  Uhm.. ew. 

So Friday night some of us headed to the Yaoi PJ party.  I am so not getting into that!  Lol

Saturday, after sleeping in and lounging around, I got back into costume and headed back into the con.  I was so loving seeing some of my friends now in their full costumes.  Impressive stuff I must say.  We cruised together for a while and then split up.  I headed back to the sleeping Samurai area in the dealers room.  I saw Genesis from Crisis Core.  He was good.  I was impressed.   I hung out with Justin a whole lot.  He and I took turns fangirling/fanboying over people, and I saw some people fangirl/fanboy over us.  ^_^   Now that’s always a win.  Later, I reconnected with my other peeps again.  They kinda got to see me fangirl over Genesis later.  I eventually got the nerve to go ask him for a hug.  Holy cow.  He was hitting on me so hard that Natalie noticed from 50 feet away.   He was a nice guy and he was actually a really good Genesis.  I can’t wait to get the pics from the cameras.  I left Genesis broken hearted and rejected and headed to walk around again.  We hung out around Solo again and he and I took a photo that him and the Jedi guy wanted to post up on Rebel Legion website.  Score!

Saturday night we went to a Japanese steak house.  OMFG it was so freakin good.  I got some great photos.  One of them actually show the steam fresh off the chicken, that’s really cool.  We had fun telling the staff it was Anthonys birthday – and it totally wasn’t.  The look on his face when they showed up and gonged near him and slipped the birthday hat on his head was priceless.   He was a good sport and played along.  Hooray.

That night most everyone dressed up for the Masquerade ball.  They had to dress up formally.  They looked so amazing.  I was quite impressed with my group of peoples.  There was some issues in the ball, I don’t know all the details but there was apparently a molester groping people so they cancelled the ball.  Later there was a rave – my people were now shiny and glowy. 

Sunday rolled around and I was ready to go home.  I didn’t get into costume this time.  I put on the shirt Lana got me.  It’s a “Dude, Where’s my car?” shirt.  Sweet!  I ran through the dealers room once more wrapping up and choices I had not yet made in the room.  I got Lana the complete set of Keyblades (necklace charms) and I got the boy a set of utensils Naruto style (it had a fork, spoon, and chopsticks – I had bought him a wallet the day before). 

Checkout was a serious pain in the butt.  It took me almost an hour.  Yikes.  But in the end it worked out thanks to some genius moves by Amy. 

We ate at Wendy’s for lunch and then headed home.  I was so glad to get home.  I had a blast but I was freakin exhausted.  I am so tired right now but I wanted to got busy watching Star Wars Episode IV.  I think since this entry is complete, I will head to bed now.  It’s past midnight30.