It’s true, Godiva has gone MOBILE.  That means our chocolate fantasies can all be fulfilled RIGHT from the comfort of your smart phone!  I tried the application out on a Blackberry Curve and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use.  There are menu options for gifts in various dollar ranges, business gifts, gift baskets and, of course plain old CHOCOLATE.  It’s all very cool and you can get your mobile Godiva here:  http://www.godiva.com/mobile/default.aspx

You may not know about them now, but you most certainly will in the future.  AGREAA stands for The Association for Gender Research, Education, Academia & Action.  They have an interesting charter that is multidisciplinary in approach. In their own words:

The Association for Gender Research, Education, Academia and Action (AGREAA) supports those who enrich the understanding of gender and sexuality by providing community space dedicated to the discussion of gender, professional development opportunities, and increased access to information.

One of their first projects was the very interesting, Trans-Academics.org, “a place where people of all genders can discuss gender theory, the trans community and its various identities, both as a part of the academic world and day-to-day life.”

And AGREAA now has an award under their bonnet, the Richard L. Schlegel National Legion of Honor Awards, awarded to “recognizes individuals living in the United States who have exhibited outstanding leadership and significantly contributed to the dignity and freedom of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people”.   Dr. Schlegal was a pioneer in GLBT rights.  You can read a bit more about him and the award at American University’s site here.

The Milky Way Lounge and Lanes is reopening!  If you have ever visited the old Milky Way Lounge and Lanes you know what this means!  The old one was downstairs in Jamaica Plain with a bar, dance floor and bowling ally!  I kid you not fair reader, they had 7 candlepin bowling lanes.  The new location has skee ball instead but hey fair enough.

The new one is at The Brewery 284 Amory Street Jamaica Plain MA 02130 (phone 617.524.3740).  This Friday, is the first Dyke Night at The Milky Way so that’s even more good since they donate 25%+ of Dyke Night profits to GLBT causes.

When I first stumbled on The Sunlight Foundation I automatically thought it was a liberal leaning thing disguised to be a bi-partisan watchdog of the U.S. Government.  I’m not so sure my initial impressions were right.  So, having a second cup of coffee I dug a little deeper to look at their “projects”:

• Read The Bill @ http://readthebill.org/ is about a grassroots campaign to require “Congress to post all bills online for 72 hours before they are debated. That gives members of Congress – and you – three days to read legislation and consider how it could potentially affect each of us in our daily lives.”
• Open Congress @ http://www.opencongress.org/ “brings together official government data with news articles, blog coverage, and public comments to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement.
• Earmark Watch @ http://earmarkwatch.org/ is a site dedicated to looking at congressional earmarks from 2008 and links to another site who is doing the same work for earmarks on bills for 2009.

Reading these changed my mind that perhaps, for once, there is a group that cares about how our government is working for it’s citizens, for the people and by the people, regardless of political affiliation.  Now that really is a ray of sunshine.  You can read all about The Sunshine Foundation and the many projects they are doing to keep government accountable to the people by clicking to their site here.

I saw a post on Yahoo‘s home page today that was so encouraging!

I know, I know, none of us really cares if we look hot or not, if our waistline bulges, if our hair grays, it’s all about being serious about who we are, standing up for others rights, being true to ourselves …. but you have to admit, “Married … With Children” mom Katey Sagal looks HOT at 55 and we’d all LOVE to look like that.

Okay Katey, fess up your secrets to Beck’s Cafe’s “very serious” cofee swilling readers