Only A Few Days Until Our Hallo-Queen Weekend. Three---Possibly Four Days Of TRICKS and Treats. Costume Making Is In Full Swing. Fur Cutting. Caution Tape Finding. And Sexiness Exuding From My Pores. What Is In Store For You This Halloween? Let Me Know In The Comment Box! Stay Tuned... An Old Friend Of Mine Is Coming Back To Co-Host With Me Houston's Halloween Happenings. And Have You Checked Out My You Tube Channel Lately Lots Of Good Stuff Over There!
Peace Out Bro Scouts,
Porter Wescott
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
I NEED YOUR HELP!
For the next few Sundays I am in a contest called Go-Go Idol! I am trying to become Houston's TOP Go-Go Dancer, but I need your help! The contest is judged by several categories one of which is text voting! The number is 832-605-8144. Text "gogo" to register then you are set to vote. So be watching my TWITTER every Sunday around 11:00 Pm Central time to get my contestant number and text "gogo ##" when you see me say VOTE.
Help me become Houston's FIRST Go-Go Idol!
And Yes... There Will Be Videos and Photos!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Disgusted
- I found this in Yahoo News... My heart is so broken over this issue... Please Read This... All Of These kids were from the same town...
1 Ohio Town; 4 Bullied Teens
By MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 8, 4:01 pm ET
MENTOR, Ohio – Sladjana Vidovic's body lay in an open casket, dressed in the sparkly pink dress she had planned to wear to the prom. Days earlier, she had tied one end of a rope around her neck and the other around a bed post before jumping out her bedroom window.
The 16-year-old's last words, scribbled in English and her native Croatian, told of her daily torment at Mentor High School, where students mocked her accent, taunted her with insults like "Slutty Jana" and threw food at her.
It was the fourth time in little more than two years that a bullied high school student in this small Cleveland suburb on Lake Erie died by his or her own hand — three suicides, one overdose of antidepressants. One was bullied for being gay, another for having a learning disability, another for being a boy who happened to like wearing pink.
Now two families -- including the Vidovics -- are suing the school district, claiming their children were bullied to death and the school did nothing to stop it. The lawsuits come after a national spate of high-profile suicides by gay teens and others, and during a time of national soul-searching about what can be done to stop it.
If there has been soul-searching among the bullies in Mentor — a pleasant beachfront community that was voted one of the "100 Best Places to Live" by CNN and Money magazine this year — Sladjana's family saw too little of it at her wake in October 2008.
Suzana Vidovic found her sister's body hanging over the front lawn. The family watched, she said, as the girls who had tormented Sladjana for months walked up to the casket -- and laughed.
"They were laughing at the way she looked," Suzana says, crying. "Even though she died."'
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Sladjana Vidovic, whose family had moved to northeast Ohio from Bosnia when she was a little girl, was pretty, vivacious and charming. She loved to dance. She would turn on the stereo and drag her father out of his chair, dance him in circles around the living room.
"Nonstop smile. Nonstop music," says her father, Dragan, who speaks only a little English.
At school, life was very different. She was ridiculed for her thick accent. Classmates tossed insults like "Slutty Jana" or "Slut-Jana-Vagina." A boy pushed her down the stairs. A girl smacked her in the face with a water bottle.
Phone callers in the dead of night would tell her to go back to Croatia, that she'd be dead in the morning, that they'd find her after school, says Suzana Vidovic.
"Sladjana did stand up for herself, but toward the end she just kind of stopped," says her best friend, Jelena Jandric. "Because she couldn't handle it. She didn't have enough strength."
Vidovic's parents say they begged the school to intervene many times. They say the school promised to take care of her.
She had already withdrawn from Mentor and enrolled in an online school about a week before she killed herself.
When the family tried to retrieve records about their reports of bullying, school officials told them the records were destroyed during a switch to computers. The family sued in August.
Two years after her death, Dragan Vidovic waves his hand over the family living room, where a vase of pink flowers stands next to a photograph of Sladjana.
"Today, no music," he says sadly. "No smile."
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Eric Mohat was flamboyant and loud and preferred to wear pink most of the time. When he didn't get the lead soprano part in the choir his freshman year, he was indignant, his mother says.
He wore a stuffed animal strapped to his arm, a lemur named Georges that was given its own seat in class.
"It was a gag," says Mohat's father, Bill. "And all the girls would come up to pet his monkey. And in his Spanish class they would write stories about Georges."
Mohat's family and friends say he wasn't gay, but people thought he was.
"They called him fag, homo, queer," says his mother, Jan. "He told us that."
Bullies once knocked a pile of books out of his hands on the stairs, saying, "'Pick up your books, faggot,'" says Dan Hughes, a friend of Eric's.
Kids would flick him in the head or call him names, says 20-year-old Drew Juratovac, a former student. One time, a boy called Mohat a "homo," and Juratovac told him to leave Mohat alone.
"I got up and said, 'Listen, you better leave this kid alone. Just walk away,'" he says. "And I just hit him in the face. And I got suspended for it."
Eric Mohat shot himself on March 29, 2007, two weeks before a choir trip to Hawaii.
His parents asked the coroner to call it "bullicide." At Eric's funeral and after his death, other kids told the Mohats that they had seen the teen relentlessly bullied in math class. The Mohats demanded that police investigate, but no criminal activity was found.
Two years later, in April 2009, the Mohats sued the school district, the principal, the superintendent and Eric's math teacher. The federal lawsuit is on hold while the Ohio Supreme Court considers a question of state law regarding the case.
"Did we raise him to be too polite?" Bill Mohat wonders. "Did we leave him defenseless in this school?"
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Meredith Rezak, 16, shot herself in the head three weeks after the death of Mohat, a good friend of hers. Her cell phone, found next to her body, contained a photograph of Mohat with the caption "R.I.P. Eric a.k.a. Twiggy."
Rezak was bright, outgoing and a well-liked player on the volleyball team. Shortly before her suicide, she had joined the school's Gay-Straight Alliance and told friends and family she thought she might be gay.
Juratovac says Rezak endured her own share of bullying — "name-calling, just stupid trivial stuff" — but nobody ever knew it was getting to her.
"Meredith ended up coming out that she was a lesbian," he says. "I think much of that sparked a lot of the bullying from a lot of the other girls in school, 'cause she didn't fit in."
Her best friend, Kevin Simon, doesn't believe that bullying played a role in Rezak's death. She had serious issues at home that were unrelated to school, he says.
After Mohat's death, people saw Rezak crying at school, and friends heard her talk of suicide herself.
A year after Rezak's death, the older of her two brothers, 22-year-old Justin, also shot and killed himself. His death certificate mentioned "chronic depressive reaction."
This March, her only other sibling, Matthew, died of a drug overdose at age 21.
Their mother, Nancy Merritt, lives in Colorado now. She doesn't think Meredith was bullied to death but doesn't really know what happened. On the phone, her voice drifts off, sounding disconnected, confused.
"So all three of mine are gone," she says. "I have to keep breathing."
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Most mornings before school, Jennifer Eyring would take Pepto-Bismol to calm her stomach and plead with her mother to let her stay home.
"She used to sob to me in the morning that she did not want to go," says her mother, Janet. "And this is going to bring tears to my eyes. Because I made her go to school."
Eyring, 16, was an accomplished equestrian who had a learning disability. She was developmentally delayed and had a hearing problem, so she received tutoring during the school day. For that, her mother says, she was bullied constantly.
By the end of her sophomore year in 2006, Eyring's mother had decided to pull her out of Mentor High School and enroll her in an online school the following autumn. But one night that summer, Jennifer walked into her parents' bedroom and told them she had taken some of her mother's antidepressant pills to make herself feel better. Hours later, she died of an overdose.
The Eyrings do not hold Mentor High accountable, but they believe she would be alive today had she not been bullied. Her parents are speaking out in hopes of preventing more tragedies.
"It's too late for my daughter," Janet Eyring says, "but it may not be too late for someone else."
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No official from Mentor public schools would comment for this story. The school also refused to provide details on its anti-bullying program.
Some students say the problem is the culture of conformity in this city of about 50,000 people: If you're not an athlete or cheerleader, you're not cool. And if you're not cool, you're a prime target for the bullies.
But that's not so different from most high schools. Senior Matt Super, who's 17, says the suicides unfairly paint his school in a bad light.
"Not everybody's a good person," he says. "And in a group of 3,000 people, there are going to be bad people."
StopCyberbulling.org founder Parry Aftab says this is the first time she's heard of two sets of parents suing a school at the same time for two independent cases of bullying or cyberbullying. No one has been accused of bullying more than one of the teens who died.
Barbara Coloroso, a national anti-bullying expert, says the school is allowing a "culture of mean" to thrive, and school officials should be held responsible for the suicides — along with the bullies.
"Bullying doesn't start as criminal. They need to be held accountable the very first time they call somebody a gross term," Coloroso says. "That is the beginning of dehumanization."
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Associated Press writer Jeannie Nuss in Columbus contributed to this report.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Recovery
Peace Out Bro Scouts,
Porter Wescott
Saturday, October 2, 2010
A Quick Trip To Dallas
And there is no real good way to transition to my Dallas Trip so this line will be some fancy and good transition that makes perfect sense. <<JEDI HAND WAVE>>
So, Logan, Rhett, and I all went to go see Cazwell in Dallas and were going to stay with our friend and Logan's self-proclaimed husband Tyler. Well, come the morning of the trip, it was hard to get a hold of anyone! Logan, Rhett, and Tyler. Turns out Tyler had to fly out for a business trip. So when I did get a hold of Logan we decided that we'll take it by the seat of our pants. We didn't know where we were going to go or stay but we're young enough we can do it! So, we left at around noon to go pick up Rhett. We get to small town Texas, get Rhett and stop at the world's slowest Dairy Queen. No really, it took twenty minutes to get our burgers. Twenty minutes! At least Rhett and Logan weren't bickering. (They love each other but for real, bicker like old women.) So, (I'm aware I'm totally over using the "So," line in this post.) we get to Dallas around 5:00pm and have no where to go and nothing to do. Thankfully, it is the time of year that the Texas State Fair is going on and Logan really wanted to go so we do! We walked around and checked out the boys, and the eats that are terrible for you. Here are some of the items we saw listed: Friend Pickles, Fried Cheesecake, Fried Bacon, Fried Butter, Fried Jalapeños, even Fried Margaritas... Yes, Fried Margaritas. (You scooped it out.) Oh, and while we're on the subject of eats. Dippin' Dots, the Ice Cream of the Future? When is this future coming? Because it seems to me it is the Ice Cream of the past! The real fun started when we hit up the carnival section of the fair. The rides were anywhere from $5-$7 dollars a ride. A rip-off? Yes! But, they were so worth it. I have lots of videos to post of us on the rides. We were thrown and flipped, jostled and slammed, and in the end had our bodies thrown about as they never should be. But it was worth every penny! I'll post these videos as soon as I can get them uploaded!
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| They're Sad Flowers... Don't Ask! |
After a few hours we were all faired out and needed to get ready to go to the Cazwell concert. The real problem was... NO ONE IN DALLAS WE KNEW WAS ANSWERING THEIR PHONES! So, being as classy as we are we went to a mall, had some dinner and took over the restrooms and primped and changed. I was in the family restroom so long the janitor started banging on the door and telling me to get out! "FAMILIES ONLY!" he yelled at me in broken English. I didn't care though, I was going meet Cazwell and I looked good! We got to the club early so we could hand out Porter propaganda and made friends with some of the bartenders like the fabulous Sassy!
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| Cazwell gives out free icecream hats!!! |
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So the boys and I all chatted him up, got our photos and then went to the last drag show. Which was fantastic. (Videos of that to come to come soon as well!) But it was 2am, I had to be in Houston by noon, so it made no sense to get a hotel for three hours of sleep, so we just drove home. We got back around 6am. I got a few hours of sleep, then had a meeting to be at, and after that slept all weekend. But I gotta go boys, I am in a fashion show that starts in a short while so you know the drill...
PEACE OUT BRO SCOUT,
Porter Wescott
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