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The Bird Box – Josh Malerman

06 Monday Aug 2018

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art, author, book reviews, books, entertainment, fantasy, gay, horror, LGBT, Life, lifestyle, movie reviews, movies, reviews, science fiction, The Bird Box, theater, writer

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I finished this fantastic book last night, and like great books often do, I was wound-up tight and then in tears as the final scene unfolded. So good, different, unique! The Bird Box movie is coming out in late 2018, with Sarah Paulsen, John Malkovich, and Machine Gun Kelly, starring Sandra Bullock as Malorie, but read the book first! Josh Malerman’s descriptive writing style shakes the reader’s visual imagination by introducing us to a  dangerous and challenging new world.

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can’t lift their heads to gaze upon them?”

“You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.”

“Robin was a great kid. Smarter than her father at eight years old. She liked the oddest things. Like the instructions for a toy more than the toy itself. The credits of a movie instead of the movie. The way something was written. An expression on my face. Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, ‘No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it’s dark outside.”

“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”

“It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

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My Book is Published!

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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author, books, ebook, gay, good reads, john jernigan, LGBT, the gay road less traveled, writer

 

 

 

 

Please go buy The Gay Road Less Traveled on Amazon!

 

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Shitty Thanksgiving FML

25 Saturday Nov 2017

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Alabama, chocolate, depression, family, foodie, gay, relationships, single, Thanksgiving

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I spend my holidays with my family, so obviously alone…here is my awesome Thanksgiving dinner

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Tucker

08 Wednesday Nov 2017

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art, dating, dogs, gay, LGBT, love, Obama, Portugese Water Dog, relationships

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Dave’s baby Tucker

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Chronic Childhood Trauma

12 Tuesday Sep 2017

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adoption, bear, child abuse, Domestic Violence, health, Life, medical, mental health, News, relationships, science, social work, trauma

My class curriculum includes considerable time spent on trauma-informed care and helping my prospective adoptive families succeed in parenting children who have suffered abuse or neglect. I use the example of a Bear in the Woods (at the 8-minute mark in this Ted Talk video on Childhood Trauma by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris).

Significant damage to the emotional and physical health of children who are exposed to high levels of adversity/trauma occurs over time (chronic trauma). They are more likely to engage in high-risk behavior, and to develop heart disease or cancer. Our brains have a stress response system, in the hypothalamic and adrenal glands, that governs our fight or flight response in a situation. Imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your brain sends a response to your adrenal glands: Release stress hormones! Adrenal! Cortisol! Your heart starts to pound, your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from that bear! And that is wonderful, if you are in the forest, with a bear. The problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, in the form of domestic violence, or physical abuse, or molestation. This system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being life-saving to health damaging. Children are especially sensitive to this repeated stress-activation, because their brains and bodies are just developing. High doses of adversity affect their brain structure and function, their developing immune systems and hormonal systems.

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Brimfield Flea Market

14 Sunday May 2017

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bargain shopping, boston, boston terrier, civil rights, design, equal rights, flea market, gay marriage, Gay Rights, humour, interior design, Lesbian, LGBT, new england

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Yesterday I went to the Brimfield Flea Market (by myself). Dozens if not hundreds of gay couples there, lookin’ all domestic and happy and slightly overweight because they have found someone who loves them just the way they are. Bastards. It’s Mother’s Day weekend and I am sad and super lonely…also have a small belly that I cultivated this winter (in preparation for domesticity) that won’t go away. The flea market is huge, I spent most of the day there, although my only purchase was a $1 lazy eyed panda? figurine…oh and $5 for a latte, $6 for kettle corn, $6 for hot fried cinnamon sugar donut holes, and $7 for a smoked sausage dog.

I hope my Anderson Cooper finds me soon…would settle for Bill Nye or John Oliver though. The pics I took are kind of my personality: uniquely different, a bit weird, definitely not some boring and vanilla bullshit. There are also a couple of pics of this super cute dad I was following around, and some disturbingly racist pics that I felt needed to be seen because Black Lives Matter. Dear Mr. Right, hurry the fuck up and find me!

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Twin Day at Work

18 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by johnjernigan in Funny Shit, John Jernigan, the Flaming Homosexual

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My twin, the semi famous Angela, actually played college basketball and was the FSU team captain her senior year. I was NOT the 12th man on my high school basketball team!

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I’s a Hero!

18 Saturday Jul 2015

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adoption, funny, gay, humor, queer, social worker, St. Petersburg Florida, superheroes, Tampa Bay, Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles

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My company’s  theme  for our yearly gathering was Superheroes. Some of the Adoptions team were Ninja Turtle (ish). Not me, was too gay

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Cowboy Realness

18 Saturday Jul 2015

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Alabama, authors, country, cowboy, funny, gay, gay blog, humor, LGBT, queer

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The Gay Road Less Traveled

A friend of mine who used to be one of the hard working under appreciated social workers for the State here in Pensacola has written a book now available on Kindle, John Jernigan’s “The Gay Road Less Traveled.” I purchased it tonight to start it, couldn’t out it down, it was so funny. Graphic, real, and hysterical, John’s writing is endearing, funny, smart and if you happen to be drinking coffee, it may shoot out of your nose at some point during one of his vignettes. You can read it on Kindle.

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