27 Saturday Jun 2015
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SUNCHYME I wanted to post a feelgood song to celebrate our Marriage Equality, and Sunchyme always makes me happy. For us older folks, you will recognize the hook from the 80’s (Dream Academy’s Life in a Northern Town).
26 Saturday Jul 2014
Posted in Music is the Answer, the Flaming Homosexual
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for Tom
25 Sunday May 2014
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On HBO tonight, starring Julia Roberts and my nerdy boyfriend Jim Parsons, who is a friend of Dorothy’s of course.
06 Tuesday May 2014
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Possum, Squeak, Cricket & Lucy Jernigan
Posted by johnjernigan | Filed under My Heart
29 Tuesday Jan 2013
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Sweet little Kiran is on a voyage of self-discovery in Blue Boy, so confused and unhappy and socially inept. His traditional Punjabi parents are very hard on him,they don’t get him at all, not seeing any of the sweet uniqueness that make him so utterly special in his “difference.” He has his Strawberry Shortcake (and Blueberry) dolls, he’s taking ballet, he’s incredibly smart, he’s an artist…and he can sew. His failures at trying to fit in are funny and heartbreaking and sad, ending with Kiran performing Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” in his school’s 6th grade talent show…in his mother’s traditional Indian sari.
“A book’s content never changes, and yet it is always intriguing; something you read can mean something completely different to you at a different time. This is not the case with my classmates. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that people can be devastating at any moment.”
“I have my own language. I am my own language.”
“I am destined for great things, too. I am blue, too. You just can’t see it yet.” – Kiran referring to Krishna
“Blue Boy proves that if you don’t quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color, and audacity as you can muster.”
Posted by johnjernigan | Filed under Books Check 'Em Out
21 Monday Jan 2013
Posted in Music is the Answer
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I hear in my mind all these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
10 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Music is the Answer
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culture, dance music, DJ, favorites, fort lauderdale, Freddie Mercury, gay culture, gay fort lauderdale, Grace Kelly, john jernigan, LGBT, Mika, music, pop culture, south Florida, vocal house
I tried to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie mmm
I’ve gone identity mad
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don’t you like me?
Why don’t you like me?
Why don’t you walk out the door
05 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in Music is the Answer
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Anggun, chillout, culture, favorites, gay culture, gay fort lauderdale, Ibiza, Indonesia, inspirational, Jakarta, LGBT, Miami, new orleans, pop culture, Snow on the Sahara, vocal house
My favorite song from 1998 until…still might be my favorite.
If your hopes scatter like the dust across your track
I’ll be the moon that shines on your path
The sun may blind our eyes, I’ll pray the skies above
For snow to fall on the Sahara
If that’s the only place where you can leave your doubts
I’ll hold you up and be your way out
And if we burn away,
I’ll pray the skies above for snow to fall on the Sahara
03 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Mr. Right
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alternate title: Men are such stupid simple creatures
Let me start by saying I have only male parts, not a hermaphrodite…hundreds of men can attest to that. Maybe I don’t want to be a hermaphrodite per se, it’s just that men are so stupid and simple and visual and obvious…I envy the fact that a woman will take the time to get to know a man on a different level, scratch below the surface…hold off on having sex until there is actual emotion in play. The whole time I’ve been in Fort Lauderdale, I’ve been trying to show various men my great big pink pulsing throbbing…BRAINS, with absolutely no success. So if men are such base animals whose little brains only react to physical stimuli, then that’s what I’ll give ’em. My New Year’s resolution was to get back into fighting shape, to my ideal weight of 145 pounds, to have a 2-pack or at least a completely flat stomach. I’ve been in pretty good shape 4 or 5 times over the years, luckily it doesn’t take much to get me back there…mainly just physical activity and cutting back on the sugar (goodbye tres leches and dulce leches) and it’s all good. I’ve started playing pickup ball again and I’m walking the dogs every evening, so suck it dumb mens. I’ll lose my ten pounds, get all tan and toned, and be back in the high life again. That’s my hope for the New Year anyway…I feel like Carrie saying “Your girl is lovely Hubble.” Let me try to dumb down my intellect and tone up my body…I won’t want for admirers then, they just ain’t gonna be smart ones.
fat me 2011, fat me 2006, kinda skinny me 2010, real skinny me 2005 , skinny me & the world famous Venus Shante-Deviss 2003
30 Sunday Dec 2012
Posted in Music is the Answer
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32 Flavors, Alana Davis, Ani Difranco, culture, different, fort lauderdale, gay, gay culture, gay fort lauderdale, inspirational, john jernigan, LGBT, point of view, pop culture, south Florida, wilton manors
I am what I am
I am 32 Flavors and then some
I’m taking my chances as they come
I am 32 flavors and then some
I’m nobody but I am someone
30 Sunday Dec 2012
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Christmas, culture, dating, fort lauderdale, gay, gay culture, gay fort lauderdale, hookups, LGBT, perspective, point of view, sex, south Florida, wilton manors
So I’ll all mad, pissed off because the guy in this pic won’t take me to dinner or out on an actual date…I am invited to his place for some adult fun, if I so desire. My problem is I don’t think I have the right to be mad at him or expect him to be something he’s not…I mean he sent me a butt-naked picture with Santa! and while I can’t exactly recall where we met on the interweb, it most assuredly wasn’t on a legitimate dating site (because those cost money $$$). Well it doesn’t appear that I’ll be enjoying some scallops and creme brulee this evening. Dude did let me know he was going to be at a bar later, if I wanted to meet him there…no thank you, good day!
Posted by johnjernigan | Filed under Mr. Right
22 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Music is the Answer
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Early morning, flying so high with the Flower Duet on the balcony at Oz…
ETHEREAL vocals at 4:04
22 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Movies
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ABBA, cinema, different, favorites, fort lauderdale, gay, gay culture, humor, inspirational, john jernigan, Juliette Lewis, movie reviews, movies, point of view, pop culture, south Florida, Toni Colette
Surprise & Waterloo
I loved Juliette Lewis & Toni Colette long, long ago: 1994, when I was 7 years old…
22 Saturday Dec 2012
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I can change…
22 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Mr. Right
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Bill Pullman, Bob Baffert, Brian D'Arcy James, Bryan Cranston, dating, fort lauderdale, gay, gay culture, George Clooney, Henry Czerny, humor, Ira Glass, john jernigan, point of view, south Florida, Steve Spurrier, wilton manors
alternate title: Old White Men I Have Known
Since I was 16 years old and driving to Birmingham every Saturday night with my fake ID I have always liked older men. When I was a high school senior there was this one girl who I thought I might have loved, but I had a major crush on her father, and if forced to choose…how you doin’, Paul?
I’ll blame the attraction exclusively to older men on the lack of a positive male role model as a child. My father was peace-out! when I was a baby and my grandfather was an asshole who used to hit us in the back of the head. I was an only child, the first grandchild, surrounded by women who babied and smothered and over-indulged me in everything, I had special meals made for me, never brought homework home, never went to church*, never ate at the table, won’t eat any type of vegetable, never had a curfew, never had a spanking, never was grounded, or made to do chores, or really do anything I didn’t feel like doing.
I wonder, since I ONLY like older men, when will I like a guy and then shit! realize he’s younger than I am? That fateful day is coming, but I’m not an old fella yet…am I? I can still hold it down in the bedroom…in short spurts (literally and figuratively).
08 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Music is the Answer
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70's, Elton John, favorites, fort lauderdale, gay culture, inspirational, john jernigan, music, point of view
And now I know
Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say
I thought I knew
But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City
Until you’ve seen this trash can dream come true
You stand at the edge while people run you through
And I thank the Lord there’s people out there like you
I thank the Lord there’s people out there like you
While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can’t and that is why
They know not if it’s dark outside or light
This Broadway’s got
It’s got a lot of songs to sing
If I knew the tunes I might join in
I’ll go my way alone
Grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in New York City
Subway’s no way for a good man to go down
Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown
And I thank the Lord for the people I have found
I thank the Lord for the people I have found
The Gay Road Less Traveled 