My name is Greg, and this is my online journal.
I live in Austin, Texas, and I work as a web developer. At least, that's what it should say on my business card. I'm good enough at what I do, although I'm probably better at other things.
I've worked at a newspaper, a child support collection agency, a record store and (currently) a technology company. My degree is in music and journalism, so I guess two of the four jobs I've had were relevant to my education.
I'm homosexual in the clinical sense, but in terms of living up to all the stereotypical imagery of the term "gay", well, I'm a miserable failure at that. The number of times I have sex would make people weep. I'd weep, too, but my brand of self-pity has a lot more dignity than that.
I don't have a boyfriend. I probably ought to get one, but if Tim Gunn can go two decades without one ...
I have a reputation of being a music nut. I listen to it a lot. I write about it a lot. I even make it, not a lot but getting there.
For a long time, Duran Duran was my absolute favorite band. But then they recorded Pop Trash right around the time I ran across Number Girl and Shiina Ringo. I still like Duran Duran, but I think I'm the only Duranie in the world who wants the band to break up.
I've spoken at great length about Japanese music, and it's something of a trademark. I know enough Japanese to slog my way through a Japanese web site, but I wouldn't want to try to conduct a conversation.
I'm not Latino, I'm Filipino. I'm first generation and all the socio-economical issues that entails. Even though I can understand Japanese (to a point), my parents language is absolutely unknown to me.
I don't talk about my family much because I see no need to involve them.
I grew up in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. No, I don't want to move back there. Hawaiʻi could never really offer what I need from the world. I miss the food and the few friends I have back there, but that's about it.
I spent most of the '90s devoid of television. At the turn of the century, I developed an unhealthy addiction to Law & Order, and now I can't shut the thing off.
I just got a TiVo.
I won't draw a Johari window, but I think you and I would both agree I'm pretty smart, perhaps even funny.
Some of you may not know how much of an angry asshole I am, or that I'm quite misanthropic.
Some of you may think I'm sweet and generous, perhaps even sexy, but I would have no knowledge of that.
Neither of us would know I'm contagious.
This is my online journal, and you may find reference to all the things I've just mentioned therein. Some of them may be new discoveries for both of us.
This entry is my final one.
And it happens on the 10th anniversary of the journal's inception.
I set out to write everyday for the past 365 days as a way to mark the event. It ended up killing any enthusiasm I had about this site, which had been waning for years.
So I'm retiring it. But I'm leaving it up.
I've got some pretty deep archives, and I want to show some of us have been doing this thing way before it became "blogging".
I'll still write on my other sites, so it's not like I'm totally walking away from writing about the personal.
And who's not to say I won't come out of retirement?
Right now, on the 10th anniversary of this journal, it just seems like a nice stopping point.
Here's where I thank my readers.
Thank you, readers. Ten years is a long time to bore people, so I hope you come out of this all right.
And if this visit is your first, well, you've got some catching up to do.
— Posted by Pippin on 09/19/2006 13:42:52
Click on gregbueno.com link at the bottom of this page.
— Posted by NemesisVex on 09/19/2006 14:28:55
I read this, as I am researching sites about hawaii in the 60's, I lived near pearl harbor for 5 yrs in my youth, i was an only child and lonely at times, but a monkey-pod tree and a good uke make up for a lot of stuff, i am now 54, stuck on paxil, div 3 times with 2 great kids, i understand a lot of things but i don't understand why people chose to be unhappy because at some point they decided to give in to same sex attraction, if i didn't believe in a god/heavenly father, i would think the world was a scarey place, when you say you don't have anything to do w/ your family, i have no siblings or parents, or anything just the 2 kids, i think in the truest sense we are innately drawn to people both male and female because they are humans like us, we can't help it, but it's disturbing to think that one would think there's a real future with someone of their own sex, as it's based on fulfilling sexual gratification more than anything else, you can have friends that are male, but to create another life and to life your full measure of your self, a female is supposed to be your helpmate, not a man, i'm not condeming you, but i see you are lonely and if you could try to make a connection with the way you felt growing up, before you gave in to the same sex attraction maybe you could remember how it was to be attracted to a woman, it seems such a dark place to be where you are and there's choices to be made, and surely feelings to overcome, i think it's unatural the way you are and it's not a place to receive a fullness of joy, maybe you could change
— Posted by donna on 05/12/2007 02:13:25
Oh, the myriad of ways I could reply to that comment, but I think I'll just quote some Latin instead: "Res ipsa loquitur."
Or should I say, "Res ipsa loquitur, sed quid in infernos dicet?"
— Posted by NemesisVex on 05/12/2007 13:15:44
Hi Greg--just checking in with your journal after so long. :-) I can't believe what that woman, Donna, wrote! Quite a ranter! I wonder why she felt the need to release on you? Does she think a.) you are the only gay person on the planet, and b.) she is going to change you?
I swan. If she were to turn her opinions onto herself, what would she find? She wrote that you wouldn't be able to find a "fullness of joy." Whatever, woman! Sounds like Donna's the one who is frustrated at life and taking it out on everyone else.
— Posted by Brie on 04/29/2008 14:55:32
Ha! This is awesome. I love how this site hasn't been active for almost two years but can still generate a comment now and again.
(If future visitors are interested, I'm doing some personal writing over at Vox.)
The lack of periods and line breaks in Donna's comment doesn't sell me on the credibility of her remark. It's actually too much of a car wreck to read all the way through.
— Posted by NemesisVex on 04/30/2008 07:43:21
RE: "I'll still write on my other sites, so it's not like I'm totally walking away from writing about the personal."
Link? please? :)