For years, my (now former) upstairs neighbors Josh and Mariah and (Charles and) I have gotten together for pizza (or whatever) while we watch the big awards shows - Oscars and Tonys certainly, the Emmys sometimes. This has become more of a logistical issue since they moved to Manhattan. I'd actually been pondering trying to …
Pillion
Happy Pride Month! I have all sorts of thoughts about Pride, but this is not the post for that. I finally got to see the movie Pillion last night. I'd been leery of it. By all accounts, it was excellent - and funny. But, as I've found myself motivated to state before, I am the …
June June June
Starting June by celebrating the end of the post-surgery eyedrops routine. Hurrah! I'm loving the new eyes, although I'm now resigned to having reading glasses in every possible spot in the house. Also having to deal with my now-way-too-visible under-eye bags. OK, I am in my 60's. But still! June is largely about BB66! We've …
New Normal down south
So, a couple of weekends ago, after a Friday night seeing Sweeney Todd and a Saturday so busy getting stuff wrapped up that I wasn't able to go see my buddy Manya's Mercedes in Carmen, on Sunday, I flew down to Raleigh/Durham to visit my dad and brother. Nothing eventful about the flight or the …
Life is lifing (and sometimes not)
Just a quick placeholder post before I head to the office. So much going on over the last week or so, some of which I'll cover in detail later. I won't actually bullet these, but they're basically bullet points. My buddy Marc discovered three cut songs from Iolanthe in the British Library! We'd always known …
Operation Mincemeat, Hadestown (and G&S)
So, I had two weeks last month where I had eye surgery on Monday and had to take off work for three days, not because surgery recovery was onerous or tiring, but because the eye doctor had said "no screens for three days". So, on both Wednesdays, since I had to go into town anyway …
Look into his laser eyes
One look and you're hypnotized! Got a ton to blog about, but I guess I'll pick up with the eye stuff. So, the first cataract surgery, three weeks ago now, went just fine and so did the recovery. Since my glasses were immediately obsolete, my vision correction solution for the interim period before the second …
On Writing
I had a great chat yesterday with dear friend Patti, who is no stranger to the creative arts. And I mentioned my struggles with wanting to write more, but it always falls to the bottom of the priority list. And how I will happily do all sorts of things about writing: do research, buy software, …
Eye can see clearly now
This is more of a placeholder post, a lot's been going on. I may flesh out (or flush out) some more of this later. Looking at my list from last time, some things I didn't really expand on. No Kings - yes, on the No Kings day, I did go to a march and rally. …
Barfly
So when I was a baby gay just coming out of the closet, it seemed obvious to me that the place(s) to start figuring it all out was bars. Now I was only 21 and not a drinker, but purely by coincidence, as a grad student, I was living mere blocks from Baltimore's cluster of …
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