{"id":486,"date":"2009-12-31T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=3f6bac48283882166e5222584f23176d"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:56:59","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2009\/12\/happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people\u2019s favourite bisexual, Angelina Jolie, is in the news again (well, the Daily Mail<\/a>, if that counts). According to that esteemed [sic] organ, both she and the lovely Brad don\u2019t rate fidelity as important to their relationship. They got this factlet from a new book Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, by author Ian Halperin, via a German newspaper Das Neue.<\/p>\n

Many people don\u2019t think that physical exclusiveness is essential to a happy relationship. Infidelity (in the sense of lying) is another matter. I think not lying is essential to a happy relationship myself. Not being “physically exclusive” (aka polyamory) is entirely up to the people concerned.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Brangelina don’t “restrict” each other. That’s nice. And it seems that Jolie and her ex Jenny Shimizu kept a jungle love nest for \u201ctrysts\u201d \u2013 one of those words that never appears in ordinary vocabulary. Perhaps only celebrities have them.<\/p>\n

However, as a mother (only of one) I am baffled that parents of six – even with “help” – have the time and energy to pursue more than one sexual relationship but perhaps I am being lazy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this non story has given me the chance to add another pic of the toothsome couple – and when Ms Jolie is pictured here, my blog stats always leap up. I\u2019m cheap like that. Sometimes.<\/p>\n

For a more nuanced view of some bi stories in 2009, take a look at the Bisexuality Examiner here<\/a> with its best and worst bisexuality stories of 2009.<\/p>\n

In other news<\/span>
I have done a bit of tidying on this site, by removing most of the blogs I had linked to on the right. It is telling that, in the three and a half years since I started writing here, almost all of the personal blogs I listed then are no more. Blogging consistently over a long period is hard and, if you start to do it for personal reasons, often outlives its point. Others come to take their place.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the ones I have added here are (at the moment anyway) posted to regularly and hopefully will keep you amused, entertained, challenged and supported.<\/p>\n

If you know of any other good sites or blogs, especially your own, let me know as it is easy to miss them. I know there are more to add but I can’t find them right this minute.<\/p>\n

My last blog of 2009<\/span>
For those of you whose New Year\u2019s resolution is to act on your bisexuality, which often seems to people to come here at this time of year, I would say \u201cgo for it\u201d. To me, anyway, the fact that you are thinking about it and weighing up your options means that you have a good chance of making it work for you.<\/p>\n

Bisexuality is not necessarily difficult \u2013 from my point of view it is cause for celebration, something that I am proud of and is an intrinsic part of myself \u2013 but for many people it certainly can be. Perhaps those who find it easy-peasy tend not to comment on this blog! But I hope that even people who have found it difficult are on the way to a happy bisexual life.<\/p>\n

Have a great 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
Many people’s favourite bisexual, Angelina Jolie, is in the news again (well, the Daily Mail<\/a>, if that counts). According to that esteemed [sic] organ, both she and the lovely Brad don’t rate fidelity as important to their relationship. They got this factlet from a new book Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, by author Ian Halperin, via a German newspaper Das Neue.<\/p>\n

Many people don’t think that physical exclusiveness is essential to a happy relationship. Infidelity (in the sense of lying) is another matter. I think not lying is essential to a happy relationship myself. Not being “physically exclusive” (aka polyamory) is entirely up to the people concerned.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Brangelina don’t “restrict” each other. That’s nice. And it seems that Jolie and her ex Jenny Shimizu kept a jungle love nest for “trysts” – one of those words that never appears in ordinary vocabulary. Perhaps only celebrities have them.<\/p>\n

However, as a mother (only of one) I am baffled that parents of six – even with “help” – have the time and energy to pursue more than one sexual relationship but perhaps I am being lazy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this non story has given me the chance to add another pic of the toothsome couple – and when Ms Jolie is pictured here, my blog stats always leap up. I’m cheap like that. Sometimes.<\/p>\n

For a more nuanced view of some bi stories in 2009, take a look at the Bisexuality Examiner here<\/a> with its best and worst bisexuality stories of 2009.<\/p>\n

In other news<\/span>
I have done a bit of tidying on this site, by removing most of the blogs I had linked to on the right. It is telling that, in the three and a half years since I started writing here, almost all of the personal blogs I listed then are no more. Blogging consistently over a long period is hard and, if you start to do it for personal reasons, often outlives its point. Others come to take their place.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the ones I have added here are (at the moment anyway) posted to regularly and hopefully will keep you amused, entertained, challenged and supported.<\/p>\n

If you know of any other good sites or blogs, especially your own, let me know as it is easy to miss them. I know there are more to add but I can’t find them right this minute.<\/p>\n

My last blog of 2009<\/span>
For those of you whose New Year’s resolution is to act on your bisexuality, which often seems to people to come here at this time of year, I would say “go for it”. To me, anyway, the fact that you are thinking about it and weighing up your options means that you have a good chance of making it work for you.<\/p>\n

Bisexuality is not necessarily difficult – from my point of view it is cause for celebration, something that I am proud of and is an intrinsic part of myself – but for many people it certainly can be. Perhaps those who find it easy-peasy tend not to comment on this blog! But I hope that even people who have found it difficult are on the way to a happy bisexual life.<\/p>\n

Have a great 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,117,129,116,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bisexuals-i-havent-met-yet","category-blogging","category-celebrities","category-coming-out","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}