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YOUR 2008 CRIB SHEET!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:46:15 GMT

Will's Votes (and commentary of course ... in no particular order)

Prez - Obama/Biden

YES ON 1A - Poorly written, but the only high speed rail measure we're gonna see this lifetime. Costs will only get higher.

YES ON 2 - We should all be vegetarians anyway. Until then, let foghorn stretch. Our food costs will go up though ...

YES ON 3 - Bonds are not going to save us considering our f*'ed up economy, but I figure until our tax structure is fixed (Obama?) we'll have to bond for any service we need over the next few years ...

NO ON 4 - Get out of women's bodies, republicans! PLEASE!! (with a Rihanna Take a Bow inflection, thank you lol ...)

YES ON 5 - I generally never agree with Feinstein on crime. One of my good friends helped write a ballot argument for Prop 5 (Dan Macallair) and I trust him when it comes to crime prevention.

NO ON 6 - I didn't really read this one (or 9 either). The money does NOT go toward rehabilitation or prevention like Prop 5. So NO!

NO ON 7 - Even environmentalists are against this clean energy scam.

NO ON 8 - We want Willy here to marry, no?! STOP PROP HATE (H8) -- NO ON 8!

NO ON 9 - SEE NO ON 6.

YES ON 10 - Willy needs a new PRIUS! =p

NO ON 11 - Too many conservatives behind this redistricting plan. It seems forced. And I don't like things that Arnie supports generally. Am I wrong? If so sorry, I early voted.

Locally (which is LA for me guys) ...

Yes on all the lettered initiatives in the City of Los Angeles and YES ON R. These are bond campaigns for community colleges, gang prevention/jobs, and R = more money for transit. Until I get my new Prius that's my ride! Yes on R! =p

San Francisco ... I'll put something up soon. I got a lot of friends running races and campaigns. But wanted to put something up for my locals in LA voting early. This has been an exciting election season. Hope you register to vote for the next one if for some reason you're left out of all the action now.

VOTE! please?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:25:57 GMT

god i've been trying to do this entry for like 3 weeks now ...

and what the hell are xanga credits?! why do i have an email box there now? and should i finally install bloggin software on my website domain mikewong gave me like years ago?!

ok i digress...

I voted this past Saturday in Norwalk, where LA voters early vote for the most part. It was very encouraging. Very diverse line of folks awaiting entry to the Recorder-Registrar's office. Obama folks were phonebanking New Mexico encouraging folks there to early vote. I called 52 voters there myself. Sadly, I walked past a Yes on 8 visibility rally at the corner of Norwalk Boulevard and Imperial Highway, where I caught the bus home. That 62 bus had the craziest woman talking to herself so loudly I actually had to shout at her to snap her out of it. The riders thanked me. I'm glad no one knew my employer ... shhh!!!

again i digress ... anyone who has known me over the years knows ... A-D-H ...

OK OK. It's important to tell you all how I voted because maybe you just want a crib sheet for the ballot box. This is also my opportunity to remind you all to vote early in order to ensure that you're not stuck in a line on Election Day. God forbid our votes get disenfranchised that day. So yeah, please vote EARLY (... vote often too! just kidding!)

WILL's Crib Sheet will be ... in my next post.

will's in bay area -- the only time i ever blog

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:24:27 GMT

i'm home for one more day! i think this blog syncs with things like facebook! i think i should write yet another sentence with an exclamation point!

so ... here goes

sunday, april 20, 2008

(i hear this is some kind of national holiday?)

11am -- extreme softball at lang field, golden gate and gough
              (san francisco gay softball league)

??pm -- dim sum sumwhere

4pm --    mark sanchez district 9 supervisor campaign kickoff and birthday celebration
             (medjool 2516 mission, san francisco, ca)

7pmish -- drivin back to la ... who's comin'?

oh yeah ... i do kinda journal blog or whatnot ... i'll eventually get back to this one but i've been ... byte challenged.

end of the world?!?!

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:43:20 GMT

monday, october 8, 2007 ...

1. the forecasted high for new york city is 82 degrees today! even angelinos (that's los angeles ppl, where willy lives now) will only experience a high of 76. san franciscans (for those keepin' score), 66.

2. it's indigenous people's day (dia de la raza), but i'm working. i don't have the day off like the rest of the county employees down here. and they keep callin' it friggin' columbus day.

3. whoopi goldberg's radio show is not too cute. i love my sistah but ... eh. it's blather. i heard she flirted with congresswoman pelosi on the view recently. is she a les?! oooh she family. go girl!

and lastly, folsom street fair and love parade was the most fun i've had in the longest time! thanks boys for making my weekend. boys like christien, mikewong, and harrison. there were many others though that i haven't named. love u all! =)

miss you bay! i'm home la!

love,

will

will's birthday dispatch

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:20:15 GMT

hi all!

my birthday is sunday, august 26. i turn 28. saturn returns. here's when we can celebrate my birthday together:

Saturday, August 25 - LA Women's Music Festival. Klymaxx is on at noon.

Sunday, August 26 - A nature hike in Griffith Park (11am), dinner somewhere, haven't decided yet (6ish pm)

August 30-September 4, New York City!

September 29 - Love Parade, San Francisco

September 30 - Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco

and no i didn't do an evite this time! call the cell or email me if you wanna come with.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! =p

later,

will

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la means ...

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:01:46 GMT

i LOVE YOOOOOOOOU!!!!! =)

well well well ...

I still haven't outgrown this Xanga thing. I thought my next blog would be written on my own website (http://wiyum.org) which still has nothing there til this day, except the cute li'l banner that mikewong (http://hapahaus.com) made me for it. at some point i took html courses, and learned to embed urls into the things i write. meaning i could type "mikewong" and make it hot so when you click on it it could go anywhere, i.e. hapahaus.com. or wherever. let your imagination run wild on that one.

i figured since my xanga links to other website agglomerators, and that this li'l post might end up in more than one place, it would be the easiest way to let folks know a few things goin' on with "big will."

number 1 ...

no one calls me big will in los angeles. no one asks me to play bob marley either. i don't even get calls from listeners who want to openly gay bash me on the air live while requesting a song. and no, there is not a reality show here in la waiting for a big gay black guy to star. that was real world seattle ... i think.

number 2 ...

hollywood reminds me of the haight before it got gentrified. montebello? i'd say the mission before it was gentrified -- the dolores heights part of it. alhambra sings clement street to me and monterey park sings taraval. or stockton even ... almost. minus monterey park, which was where i waited for the bus each morning for three months, i've graced every other "city" in this paragraph. hollywood isn't a city though; it's part of los angeles. i've been bumping around like a rolling stone, too cheap to put down a deposit on my own studio, and shacking up with just about any boy that'll have me, hence my grand l.a. tour. i don't mean dirty shacking up. i mean loan me your couch or let me rent your back room shacking up.

number 3 ...

full time employment sucks. i love my job. but being tied to a desk all day ... sucks. my desk just so happens to be at the largest public transit provider in the state of california (http://metro.net). and no, i can't embed that url, even if my life depended on it.

number 4 ...

i'm done with that cute "number" thing. my mild adhd won't allow me to stay on topic that long to create a coherent list.

but this short entry does do a lot for folks. it shows, for one, i haven't lost that great sense of humor that i have.

<insert courtesy laugh here>

it also shows that i'm breathing, i'm well, and i might just continue blogging here. or not.

it means you'll be able to find out where i'll be if you keep watching this space.

i do want to let you know that only one part of the plan i've embarked upon is solid right now: the job. (just passed probation monday. yay!)

the other elements of my socal move include completing school (classes begin sept 4), finding a studio (that's right, willy's own castle!), reflecting upon whether i drink too much or eat too much meat, and possibly, just possibly a new slough of buddies i can hang out with in the southland. i've also cut back on the san francisco trips. i continue that trend by embarking on a new york trip next week for a family reunion, and to celebrate my 28th birthday (saturn returns this year. i'm still trying to figure that one out).

so ... uh ... hopefully, this reaches people in good health and good spirits. i am very easy to track down online, so if you find this dispatch, please send a reply to let me know you found it, and to confirm i still have your phone number, your birthday (those are important), a functional email, and your address of course so i can drop by when i'm in town and send you all those christmas cards i've missed out on over the years.

love,

will =)

p.s. if you know anyone subletting their studio, timeshare, or a liveable place (for 4 hot gay boys) =p in manhattan 8/30-9/4, holla at big will (aka me). i have a room booked, but it'd be nice not to be in some stuffy hotel. we'll put some green (that would be cash) on it. later!

the end of an era ...

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:45:30 GMT

the end of an era ...

my radio "career" has come to an end for now. tonight (thxgiving) will be my last night on the air (at 10pm), even though i told listeners that this past monday night was my last night on the air. what's funny abt all of this, is that no one even cares! except me. you might care now that you're reading my blog.

you might also care when i decide to upload all this audio to my website: http://wiyum.org/audio

until then, you'll just have to hang tight.

also ... my career as a bay area resident is also coming to an end. i'm a bit tentative in writing this, because i always fear that big decisions like these fall through when you put ink (or the virtual ink the pixels are putting) to it. i might have to relaunch this blog thing ... http://blog.wiyum.org ... rather than xanga. oooooh. the possibilities.

i must say that change is very scary. i've been a bit paralyzed over the past three months, when it became evident that some kind of change was going to happen. i've cried. i've enraged. (is that a word?) i've purged. i've binged. i've purged again. (i promise i'm not bulimic ... and nothing against them either!)

i'm not quite sure what i'm saying here. check in with me in a few weeks.

happy thanks-taking ... thanksgiving ... or whatnot. = |

vote today!

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:01:47 GMT

I'm really late on this post. I've also been lazy.

thanks to my friends at the indyvoter, you can be lazy too, and take their cheat sheet to the ballot box, like me.

also ... thank the folks at indyvoter for getting me drunk on the chris daly bus friday, catching the flu saturday, sunday and monday, and barely posting this post up on tuesday.

and in san fran, please vote mauricio vela, jane kim and kim-shree maufus for school board, all good friends of mine.

later y'all!

will

VOTE!

http://theballot.org for your cheat sheet!

Monday, September 04, 2006

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:22:11 GMT

i have a new friend on myspace lol

George W. Tom

Happy Labor Day!

Props to those who worked for us to have a day off. Props to all the celebrating virgos (I am one of 'em)!! Props to the folks kickin' it at Art and Soul in Oakland. Props to 24-hour BART service. Why can't we have it every day?! Ok ... I'll cover that in my next entry =p

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:25:04 GMT

stop thief ... part deux!

so i was at work late again. i can't prove it was a stoner this time. but my bike seat is now gone, stolen from its frame that was secured to the kpfa bike rack with a kryptonite lock. too bad i didn't utilize the seat cable that time. add to that a summer session algebra class that i'm beyond "over" and the fact that i'm moving yet again ... august 1. someone steal my drama why don't you!