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31 Saturday Jan 2009

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gay politic..tic,,tic

Interesting issues surround Sean Penn’s nomination for best actor for the movie MILK, named for Harvey Milk, the first out gay elected politician in the US. At the same time that FOX News is being outed for omitting the little detail in reporting on the film- “It’s about a politician in the 70s…Sean Penn smiles a lot…..will have a small audience-” in other words belittling the film’s significance because it is about gay America.

Dear FOX NEWS, why not just state you hate, loathe and otherwise don’t cover films about homosexuals, instead of this slimy code.

Meanwhile, Penn is also getting heat from The Advocate for his article in The Nation ‘Conversations With Chávez and Castro.’ Unlike Castro Street, the Castro Bros. now co-dictators have a genocidal record for Cuba’s state policies and treatment of homosexuals since the revolution.

Stay tuned

30 Friday Jan 2009

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Thanks to by Derek this week at L2 Restaurant for this shot. I need to prove to Bill that I don’t put old photos on my blog.

POTD by Jan Carroll

30 Friday Jan 2009

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I’m thinking Moby Dick on Ice

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28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Idiot’s delight

That two ton political Tessie, Rush Limbaugh is at it again this week. Not content with all of the publicity he got over venal “I want you to fail” statements hurled at the President in his first week in office, he thinks he’s baited the president into a serious tete- a -tete. “By telling Republicans not to listen to me, he wants me to fail.” Oh, Rush, how hard can you blow.

short story

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Toss

“You’re getting it wrong, we don’t have to be there yet.”
Lance said without glancing up from his book.
“Thanks for telling me.” I, Scott, said back limply.
“Well , don’t sulk.” My once and only lover for a brief and shining moment, cooed.
“Let’s just have a drink before we go.”

That kind of sums up our relationship now, on the 18th month track to the badlands. Unspontaneous, predictable, slouching toward Cheeveresque.

Shame I can’t say that he might laugh and we would actually have to decide to split.

I’ve suspected he was having an affair or at least anonymous sex, perhaps both, for about a year. Not that he doesn’t give me complete satisfaction as a husband and a lover, but lately there is a nagging vibe of a been there, fucked that, attitude.

“What are you reading?” I ask as I make our martinis, knowing that it is one of his pet peeves to be interrupted from reading to tell someone what he is reading.

“Nancy Drew and the missing dildo, smart ass. Actually, I’m bored with it so I’m not going to finish it, so you didn’t really get me.” Lance then hurls the book in the corner. He likes to throw things. It‘s his trademark actually. He told me once he would throw everything within reach as a child and that his nickname was ‘Chuck’.

On our first date we got out of the cab and he tossed his wallet to me and said “Can you pay him, you beautiful man. I’ll be busy looking at your ass.” Even though he could sound like a mutant member of The Rat Pack, he was actually very romantic.

How could that fire be going out so quickly? I ask myself, immediately putting it out of my mind when he switches on the tv and we have the safe zone of discussing the news. We are both broadband liberals and that has kept a lot of passion in our relationship.

Just as I was mind-munching on this, Lance, downing his drink with a flourishing ‘Ahhh’ said “Ok, Scott, let’s walk so we don’t have to talk. Great, now he was fucking reading my mind.

“You hate walking.” I said.
“Well, you hate talking, so we’re even.” he said.
He swept open the closet door and pulled out our between season leathers for the theater.
“Let’s switch them. Your coat goes half way over my ass which I think looks good on me.“

Lance said this without a hint of vanity even though it sounds completely egotistical. He actually doesn’t even think of himself as attractive, but has an very natural style about what looks good on his body. He could have been a model because of his bored attitude and neutral, read pissed off, leer.

“Yes but yours looks way too short on me.”
“Wear a sweater and it will look great. Anyway, you are always in my closet, so you can lend me your jacket.” He said, tossing it to me, like we were roommates now instead of lovers.

Another piece of evidence of his evolving decision. Transparent as cheap glass sometimes is a thought I’ve had before.

“Sure.” I said limply not noticing that he was actually having another drink.

When I turned back around Scott was crying. It was the very first time I saw him cry outside of a wayward tear during sex the first night we met. I never forgot it and over time thought that it was not the result of a sneeze, but that he was actually smitten by me in the first blush of love or lust or some emotion that he couldn’t really control.

Politic,,tic,,tic

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Gov. Rod Impeachhimasfastasyoucan Blagojevitch doing the talk show news circuit to make his case as the Illoinois legislature listens to FBI recordings of him trying to make quid pro quo deals for Obama’s Senate seat. Everybody but his hairdresser and his newly unemployed wife knows for sure.

upcoming for The Philadelphia Flower Show

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Delphinium, A Gay Garden May 2000,

with new verses featuring the cast of Amaryllis Stem Theatre loitering with intent.

metroscape

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Rittenhouse Square snowy and sloshy with clouds hanging like Miss Haveshaim’s drapes. Want it to be a snow day, but there is not enough to play hooky without guilt, so will just return ‘Tongues Untied’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’ to the RS library branch instead of playing in the snow. Want to chase down motorist on my bike and splash them back. They are tearing around the Square deliberately hitting puddles and otherwise menacing the Rittenhouse doves trying to cross the streets in the wrong shoes.

LsOTD-

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Checking in on Jeremy Denk’s blog to read more about those tormenting dreams of insane sandwiches, which should be painted by Dali descendent, I found he has clips of his live piano. Which is along with this entry, is like spending the afternoon together.

“Go home,” they will say, “write a poem, eat a bagel, have a massage, do a crossword puzzle, fall in love, and then, only then, come back. “

-travel entry, ThinkDenk

27 Tuesday Jan 2009

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Mozart’s birthday which is really just another of a gazillion reasons to remember to listen to his music. All day on WRTI if you can buzz out the pledge drive banter, course, they must hate doing it themselves. Wolfgang was always broke, begging his dad to send him money and always answering to Leopold over rumors about him.

Qotd– Letter from Wolfgang to Leopold–

“The voice of nature speaks as loud in me as in others…I am able to swear to you that I have never had relations with that sort of female-for if such a thing had occured I would not have concealed it from you.”

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