Haydennet.com - Joseph Andrew Hayden, Juris Doctor » Alexandra http://www.haydennet.com This has been my personal site since 1997. I'm a proud, geeky, opinionated, educated, activist, gay bear parent with polyglot aspirations and diva appreciation, living back in the San Francisco area since 2007 after happily living many years in New York City. As a military brat I was raised in Italy, Spain, NYC and various parts of my home state of California. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:31:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thanksgiving 2011 http://www.haydennet.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-2011/ http://www.haydennet.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-2011/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:53:08 +0000 jah http://www.haydennet.com/?p=8219 201111124 JAH 003 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 001 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 008 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 002 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 010 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 006 (800x600) 201111124 JAH 009 (800x600)

]]> http://www.haydennet.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-2011/feed/ 0 Jonathan Ripperger Visits http://www.haydennet.com/2011/10/jonathan-ripperger-visits/ http://www.haydennet.com/2011/10/jonathan-ripperger-visits/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:40:25 +0000 jah http://www.haydennet.com/?p=8188 We had dinner at Buffalo Bills in downtown Hayward and were sitting outside for the second perceivable earthquake of the day (the first one happened when I was at work on the 14th floor of a 30 floor building in downtown San Francisco).  Jonathan and I were neighbors in NYC and he has been my close friend almost eight years.  He lives two blocks from where I used to live in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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]]> http://www.haydennet.com/2011/06/fathers-day-trip-to-carmel-monterey-point-lobos-area/feed/ 0 My little girl turns 19! http://www.haydennet.com/2011/04/my-little-girl-turns-19-today/ http://www.haydennet.com/2011/04/my-little-girl-turns-19-today/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:56:10 +0000 jah http://haydennet.com/?p=8017 Fortunately — or rather, unfortunately, because they think I’m hetero — people still think I’m her boyfriend at times!

We had dinner at Fisherman’s wharf and then had a BBQ two days later with carne asada that Bobby marinated.  There’s a shot of the video games that ensued on the PS3.

On Barbra’s birthday (four days later) we had brunch at Doug’s Restaurant in Castro Valley.

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My admiration for these two women for various reasons made the reposting of this article at this sad time apropos:

Streisand Remembers Her Friend Taylor

By Advocate.com Editors, Posted on Advocate.com March 23, 2011

Barbra Streisand calls the passing of her longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor “the end of an era.”

The two celebrated entertainers and outspoken activists were close friends for several decades and nearly costarred on Streisand’s 1996 film The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Streisand’s full statement: “It’s the end of an era. It wasn’t just her beauty or her stardom. It was her humanitarianism. She put a face on HIV/AIDS. She was funny. She was generous. She made her life count.”

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