San Diego Pride is always later than the other California Prides and celebrated the 2nd-3rd week of July every year. Pride week kicked off here today and will crescendo all week into next weekend. I was wondering how I would usher in our pride week and much to my delight Foo Fighters just dropped this Fabulous cover of a Bee Gees classic today.
Enjoy!
Foo Fighters – Dee Gees / You Should Be Dancing – 2021
Happy San Diego Pride Ya’ll!
No Hitter Beard
Joe Musgrove, second from left and a San Diego native, threw the first no hitter in the San Diego Padres 53 year history as an MLB team in more than 8,000 Padre games on 4/09/2020. His catcher, Victor Caratini all the way to the right, caught for the last pitcher who threw a no hitter in the MLB last September 13, 2020 as a Chicago Cub making him the first catcher ever to catch two consecutive MLB no hitters for two different ball clubs.
My apologies dearest blog thingy readers, I’m a day behind cause after day 4 we were exhausted but happy!
The Waldo Triplets
Cookie Monster
Beaker
The UPS Driver
Max Headroom
Disasterina
Fearsome with Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 1 Winner Chad Michaels
Don’t know the character but she’s Fabulous!
Seen on the streets
Superman & Wonder Woman
Street Scene
Super Fabulous
Best Part of Comic-Con 2019, Friends!
Friends …aka Fearsome, Sassybear and Jeffrey… We Had A Blast! We hope they come back next year!
Thor
Beards
Ace and Gary
Streetwalkers
Green Arrow Signing
Damn Zombies
Spider Menz
Fun Cosplay
Fearsome and PeakaPool
Pennywise …Damn Clowns
Fearsome working at the Krusty Krab
Make up artists at work
More freaking evil clowns
Setting up for the last ever Game of Thrones autograph signing at San Diego Comic-Con #SDCC #GOT
Cosplay
Fun and Frolic
Super Heroes!
Gay Stormtrooper Action Figure
Fearsome gets a hug
fearsome’s new friend Snoopy
Whew! What a day.
One of the very first things we saw up above in the Warner Brothers lounge was this gentleman:
Tom Cruise
He was an unexpected and unannounced surprise there to drop the Trailer for the upcoming Top Gun sequel. We saw him hidden in a lounge above the crowd and no one knew who he was except possibly a look alike until later when he surprised the massive Hall H.
Onto the floor we go…
Cosplay
Fearsome with Forky
Deadpool
Chewbacca
Fearsome and The Better Half at Iceborne
Cosplay
The Riddler
Comic – Con Beards
It’s that time.
Time for outlandish fun and frolic as the doors of the San Diego Convention Center open at 6 pm for this 50th Comic-Con’s preview night. Yes Fearsome will be there with bells on! WooHoo!
San Diego Pride 2019 starts now!
WooHoo! 🏳️🌈
Major League Baseball Opening Day.
This is what a national holiday should be.
Every year, like every at bat, is a clean slate with no idea what’s going to happen.
I fell in love with baseball accidentally when my dear friend, and man crush at the time, Clayton took me to my first San Diego Padres game back in 1997. It was a day game and he bought me a field level ticket right behind first base. Our first baseman at the time was his man crush, Ryan Klesko.
At first sight it was the handsome Ryan Klesko’s muscular ass that had my attention. By the end of the game I was in awe that I had lived into my early 30s having never discovered the timing, the preciseness, the skill, the sportsmanship, the timing, the patience, the fun and the sheer luck that is baseball.
I was sold.
Best. Game. Ever.
Today marks my San Diego Padres 50th year as a major league team.
1969-2019
Go Padres!
Fearsome Beard Himself
I live only about 15 miles from the San Ysidro port of entry from Mexico into the U.S. I can actually see the hills of Tijuana from the window of my bedroom.
San Ysidro is said to be the busiest U.S. border crossing. This international connection between two North American countries enriches our lives greatly here in San Diego. Culturally and economically both San Diego and Tijuana, as well as both countries, prosper from our connection and relationship.
Migration through this port of entry is yet another benefit to all of us living and working in this region. Immigration is simply the backbone of the birth and growth of the United States. Cities like San Diego and Tijuana function in unison each benefitting the other. Immigrants support these regions and beyond into the heartland of our country.
All are welcome. Bring with you your culture. Bring with you your strong work ethic. Bring with you your desire for a better life. Bring with you your desire to belong. Bring with you your language, character, love and laughter.
I want you here with us. I am not the only one.
It is where I live. I call it home.
I am blessed.
…Come on out and see us.
Dama Fortuna
Fearsome with Miguel & Dante’
Dog America and his Captain
Fearsome caught between Peter and the Chicken
Someone got loose
Fearsome’s fortune says his new novel will be a smash hit due to his strong Viking energy
Sam Gao Sculptor
Looks like Fearsome and I beat The Simpsons to their own couch!
The Jekyll Island Chronicles
Watch out for this guy
Ed Luce creator of Wuvable Oaf
Damn Zombies
Fearsome friend Disasterina
Scene out on the street
Ouch!
Nicole Kidman and Jason Momoa (swoon) at the cast signing for Aquaman
Jason’s (he doesn’t know it yet) future Daddy
Fab Pool
Missing Wizard?
Fearsome Kiss
Fearsome like a Viking
Snoopy!
Hirsute Astronaut
Beardspiration
Pulling Homer’s Finger
Wonder Woman with Bumble Bee
In a galaxy far far away
Pow!
Costume repair
Artists panel, Fearsome and I got tips of painting for eefectiveness and mood through use of light
Is that a dragon over my head? Or is the ceiling just happy to see me?
Dammit, it’s just a dragon but a big one!
Looks like Scooby’s been a bad boy again.
Fearsome’s found another new friend!
Fearsome’s new Hawk Man mask
New Friend
With the nephew in the My Little Pony booth
Should we adopt?
Another new Friend
Damn Zombies
It’s here, Comic-Con San Diego
SDCC 2018
Waiting to get in, these people are in front of me.
And these people are behind me. Only another hour before doors open!
Nerd Beard
Yes girl it’s KiKi time
We’re gonna serve and work and turn and huh-huh-Honey.
It’s here. It’s already here.
San Diego celebrates in July. After the other two large cities in our Golden State take the last two weekends in June, San Diego gives everyone a couple week break and then continues the celebrations.
I’ve been celebrating Pride since the first one I ever had the opportunity to attend. That particular pride was Seattle Pride 1990. I have been out of the closet since I was but a teenager however the place I lived had yet to have a pride celebration.
What Pride means to me is simply that we can be and are or authentic selves. In that we respect each other and support each other in living authentic lives. We celebrate and embrace diversity, acceptance, understanding, respect, affirmation, love and freedom.
Pride is, and should always be, a place of safety to simply just be. Just be. Be without judgment, discrimination, hatred and intolerance.
Be authentic. Be real.
