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Long and eventful week due to Conference. One more day to go after this one.

Blast From the Past

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Last week, on As Manny's World Turns...

• A friend paid a visit.
  
• Justice was served.
• Truths were revealed.
• The Past was revisited.
• A friend crossed over.

La Vulka

1910 Films Presents The Vulka, which tells the story of Ramon, a youngster whose family traditions seem to keep him away from making his dreams come true. That is until the unexpected happens and his fate turns around.

Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Julio Bracho and Elizabeth Alvarez
Director: Ramiro Medina-Flores
Producers: Ignacio Barba y Jorge Ibarra
Writer: Adolfo K. Franco
Photography: Israel 'Harri' Cardenas
Editor: Oscar Treviño
Shooting format: 16 mm

Angie Zapata (Update)

Angie Zapata's friends, family take the stand

REPORTED BY SHARON DUNN   PHOTOS BY ERIC BELLAMY/ebellamy@greeleytribune.com

The first few times, it almost seemed like the public defenders were misspeaking.

But then, those watching the murder trial of Allen Andrade started muttering under their breaths. Witnesses on the stand continued to correct the attorneys questioning them.

Family members and friends echoed repeatedly, “my sister,” “Angie,” one by one on the stand Friday as public defenders Annette Kundelius and Brad Martin questioned them about “Justin.” 

Jurors next week will decide the fate of Andrade, who is suspected of killing Angie Zapata — legally Justin Zapata — on July 17, 2008. 

Andrade and Zapata met through an online dating networking site last summer and became fast friends. They agreed to meet, and three days after that meeting, Zapata wound up dead on her apartment floor, her face bashed in by a blunt object.

Attorneys on Thursday opened the nine-day murder trial with vastly different theories: The prosecution said Andrade knew for 36 hours that Zapata was biologically male, and he killed her because of an intense hatred for homosexuals. Public defenders have plotted the defense that Andrade was so deceived by Zapata, who was convincingly female, that he snapped and lost control when he learned she had male genitalia.

To the prosecution, she’s Angie. The defense, in every instance, refers to Justin. 

On Friday, witnesses weren’t conforming to the defense.

Stephanie Villalobos, Zapata’s sister, continually corrected the defense. In one exchange while she was being cross-examined about loaning money to Zapata for gas to come back to Greeley after picking up Andrade in Thornton: 

Martin: “Justin actually called and asked you for $10 in gas.” 

Villalobos: “Yes, she did.”

In another exchange with Felecia Luna, Zapata’s best friend, about two of Zapata’s purses:

Kundelius: “Both belonged to Justin?”

Luna: “Yeah, Angie.”

Autumn Sandeen, a transgender woman who is a nationwide blogger in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, said the defense continually calling Angie as Justin is intentional, and disturbing, because it seemed to exploit Colorado’s hate crime law — which in this case protects transgender people — against the very person protected.

“It was kind of frustrating for me to hear the defense do that,” said Sandeen, who is blogging from the courtroom every day. “By going back from male pronouns to female pronouns, there are going to be some jury members who will see Angie as male and some who will see Angie as female, but they will all see Angie as male bodied.”

Family and friends described Zapata as a transgender woman who felt female from the time she was a toddler and played with “girl stuff” rather than cars. Zapata “came out” to friends and family about four to five years ago, they said.

“Angie believed she was female,” said her mother, Maria Zapata. “The way she dressed, the way she carried herself, the way she went in public, she dressed as a woman. She was better dressed than me, I’ll tell you that. She had better make-up than me.

“She carried herself as a woman and she was beautiful. She was beautiful.”

Zapata’s eldest sister, Monica Murguia, discovered Zapata’s body after she failed to show up to baby-sit her sister’s children. Zapata, she said, often would oversleep, but there was something different this time.

“I just had a gut feeling,” Murguia said.

She and her other sister, Ashley Zapata, drove to Angie’s Greeley apartment. Murguia went up first and saw Zapata on the floor.

“Ashley said, ‘Pick her up, Monica. She’s hurting. Pick her up ... and I was so scared,” Murguia said through tears. 

At first, she thought her sister was sleeping. But Zapata’s body was stiff, and a blanket covering her stuck to her head from the dried blood, her sister said. 

Murguia, who Zapata lived with three months prior to moving to her own apartment, offered a different idea when it came to the deception theory. She said Zapata told everyone she met that she was transgender.

“Angie did tell everyone who she was,” Murguia said. 

Maricella Meza, Zapata’s friend of five months, agreed: “She told me right away, about a month after I knew her.” 

Zapata didn’t tell anyone who Andrade was, nor did she introduce him to anyone. Prosecutors believe she took him to a municipal court appearance two days before her death. 

Murguia said she assumed Zapata had been considering the man she went to pick up in Thornton as a new roommate.

WHAT'S NEXT? The murder trial of Allen Andrade will continue at 8:30 a.m. on Monday in Weld District Court. The trial is expected to last until Friday.

ShitBiscuit!

I can't wait to see this shitbiscuit! A whorish blonde gyne and a angry black wife, beatin' the hell out of each other and falling through an attic floor. It's like a Lifetime movie on a big screen!

Angie Zapata

Angie Zapata was brutally murdered in Greeley, Colorado, in July 2008. Angie was a transgender woman and she was murdered as a result of anti-transgender bias.

The trial begins today and marks the first time that Colorado’s bias motivated hate crimes statute has been applied in the investigation and prosecution of an anti-transgender murder case.

For more information and show support, I encourage you to visit the following links:

Official Website: Angie Zapata
GLADD: Angie Zapata Resource Kit
Twitter: justiceforangie
Facebook: Angie Zapata
MySpace: Angie Zapata

R.I.P. Marilyn Chambers

I learned of Marilyn Chambers from watching her edited T&A movies featured on USA Up All Night. Of course, I only watched them to learn how to seduce men. Despite that fact, there was something extremely alluring about her. Today, I learned of her passing. Rest in Peace, Marilyn.

Let Me Be Your Dirty Fucking Whore

I discovered this gem of a song at the closing credits of the film Extreme Movie. I quickly put my Nancy Drew skills to test and tracked down some info on the artist - Machine Gun Fellatio. Below are the lyrics. Clicking on the album picture will take you to the bands Wiki Page, as well.

My darling the stars they shine for you

My darling the birds [whistling] twitter for you

My darling my heart skips a beat

Whenever I think of you

And under a moonlit sky

I pray and dream that I

Will be the one will be the one that you...

Bend over and bang good and hard from behind

Have me on all fours, howling at the sky

I'll give your cock a good long suck

Then you'll give me a long hard fuck

Squeeze my tits all big and bouncy

Then spunk all over my booty

I want to be your butt-hot greasy slut

Greasy slut

Begging for more for I just can't get enough

Can't get enough

When I leave your tool used-up, worn and soggy

I won't stop then, oh no no

I'll become your little leg-humping doggy

Let me be your dirty fucking whore

For those of you with SBS, help is here!

From the film: Extreme Movie

получил молока? trans. got milk?

Talk about a mookakee! No, they're not shots from an Top Model challenge. The photo series was shot by Russian photographer Alena Nikiforova. The title of the series, “Telki,” is a play on words which bares a double meaning, "cow" and "girls." Clearly, alot can be drawn from the imagery. Here are my four cents... Pornographic? No. Suggestive? Perhaps. Artistic? Yes. Will Tyra borrow the concept for Cycle 13? Absofuckinglutely!

AIDS Walk NYC - May 17th

It's about that time. This year, I will be the Captain for my store. Donations and walkers are welcomed! Just like all of you, I am well aware of how tough things are. Unfortunately, my company has opted out of matching gifts. However, this will not deter us from maximizing our fundraising! I've set my personal goal at $300. Please keep in mind that donating as little as a dollar goes a long way.

If you're interested in walking with my group, don't hesitate to reach out! I'm thinking of organizing a post walk bar-hop, or if the day is really nice, perhaps a picnic in the park.

Clicking on the image will direct you to my Donation Page. So get to it! You're donations are greatly appreciated.

Join My Team
My Donation Page

i'll never tell

Still Unknown

I never move in time
One by one my senses learn to fly
Wave good bye
I'm always on the move
I'm at one with the world
I'm at one with everyone
Everyone except myself

Call me names I don't mind
I shall pay you back in kind
My love for you is still unknown

Build it up
Tear it down
Don't be afraid to break new ground
My love for you is still unknown

My time is almost up
No amount of paint can hide the rust
There's a time and a place for everything

Knowledge is worthwhile
And ignorance is no excuse
I become the endless sky

What goes up must come down
What goes round always comes around
My love for you is still unknown

Sometimes I wish you were near
Sometimes I want you to disappear
My love for you is still unknown

It's a time of our lives
Lets go put our world to rights
My love for you is still unknown

Live it up
Blow your mind
We're but tears on the cheeks of time
My love for you is still unknown

Ugh...

I feel like I'm at the receiving end of that fist. Goddamn head cold!

Saber = Almost Boner

Not a Star Wars fan, but these girls almost gave me a breeder boner!

Classic Soap Cuntery

Jill and Kay's classic feud has been cleverly re-ignited, and it could not have come at a better time. Amidst the terrible news in daytime land this week, the number one soap was able to deliver classic soap cuntery, involving, dare I say, veteran actors. Thursday's episode featured a fine balance of heavy drama and comedy written by veteran Y&R scribe, Janice Ferri Esser. Let us all throw cake!

Where The Wild Things Are

A little over four years in the making (with plenty of Hollywood drama!) it's finally here! I get all choked every time I catch the trailer. The film opens October 16th.

Today's Mantra

Ugh...

So this whole week I've been the opening manager, which requires me to wake up at 4:30a. Today is the first day, besides tomorrow, where inwhich I'm afforded the luxury of sleeping in. So what am I doing up at 5:29a? Yeah, exactly... Fuck! Shit! Son of a Bitch! Jesus Christ! God Damn It! Fuck! Son of a Bitch! Shit! Fuck! Son of a Bitch!

F.U.C.K. Me (A.S.L Style Video Mix)

Another incredibly inventive one from Captainl0ver. I actually saw this cutiepie yesterday as I was crossing avenues through F.I.T. He's just as adorable in person!



You Tube Channel: Captainl0ver
Resources: National Association of the Deaf

The Upwards March

The Belle Orchestre Wiki

Strictly for Anthropological Research

Please Note: This is my first FOR MATURE AUDIENCES post.

I'm considering getting a fleshlight. Any fleshlighters out there? What's your feedback?

Fleshlight - (NSFW)

Fo Fierce!

Turning off The Light

The longest running daytime drama (72 years), which began as a radio serial has been given the pink slip. Yet another sign of our economic struggles, Guiding Light, has been sliced from the CBS Daytime line up. The final episode is scheduled to air on September 18th, 2009.

During its run, The Light, as it has come to be known, highlighted many social issues including discrimination against women, teen alcoholism and drug abuse. The show also has raised awareness about postpartum depression, AIDS, Down syndrome, leukemia and breast cancer. In the late 60's, The Light, was the first soap opera to introduce leading African-American characters. Currently the writers have been weaving together a powerful storyline pairing two female characters as a potential couple - Otalia.

In recent years, The Light, has struggled in the ratings. In an effort to stay cutting edge and lure back viewers, it has undergone several facelifts. The process has included on location shoots in NYC and New Jersey, as well as filming in HD and with handheld equipment. The show even went as far as returning to old style audio format, in the form of downloadable soapcasts, in an effort to reach a wider audience that didn't necessarily have the time to sit and watch. Additionally, same-day episodes are streamed on-line.

Consistent decline in ratings and a loss of advertising dollars have played a key role in the demise of the soap. While there is hope that The Light may stay on the air via fan outcry, the reality of it is that daytime television is scrutinized much like a primetime. There is very little reason to spend adversiting dollars on a show who's target audience (i.e. 18-49y.o.) is very limited, and as a result, there is very little reason to keep it on the air.

So get your Light fix while you can, before CBS turns it off for good.