Stories from a man who fails to meet media expectations of what it means to be gay:
white, frivolous, over sexed yet sexless, shrill, single, stylish, a clown, unimportant, et al.

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Um, roughly a couple of months worth of cosas in a nonchronological order:

Holiday Party
A tamale making party that John and I showed up to just as the tamale making portion of it ended and the karaoke section started. Funny our sense of timing there. Hehe. I did not participate in the musicing, but I do the eating and talking to friends I haven�t seen in a while things.

John had some samples of his photography on his new video iPod, and was wowing the �Lesbians who despite not being into men, are into gay male porn� section of the guests, which surprisingly was quite a lot of women.

Lewis and Clark reach the Euphrates
Lewis and Clark making a wrong somewhere and find themselves in Cuba during the Spanish American war, then on to the Philippines, then modern Iraq as they stumble along the consequences of Manifest Destiny and American Imperialism, or is that merely American good intentions?

Characters are killed/murdered/assassinated/felled by friendly fire, ideals are stretched, body bags fall from the rafters, and history is repeated over and over and over and while it�s a very good play, it is also understandable not a very easy one.

Party
A birthday party for a friend of ours, that involved a night in Long Beach and my second alcoholic drink of 2005. Yup, I�m a drunkard.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
John Goodman made for a good Big Daddy, though his performance sort of scared some members of the audience. Red faced from yelling, goop to turn his hair white pouring down from his scalp in waves of sweat; it seemed all too believable that he was not a well man. That�s at least what some of the people I saw the play with started to worry.

The husband and wife sitting next to me spent their intermission talking about how the man playing Brick seemed physically miscast, apparently he wasn�t �athletic� looking enough for them. I got the impression that they also thought the play was very outdated. It seems that the idea of closeted men marrying women was quaint. I refrained from telling him something along the lines of �Straight people are just so darn cute when you say silly things.�

Harry Potter
I finally saw it long after most other folks had moved onto Kong, Narnia and other flicks. I�ve nothing worth mentioning regarding Potter, except that I now get the appeal of the young man who plays Krum.

They showed a crazy huge number of trailers that day, but other than Superman, which got a couple of boys in the back to shout loudly �Oh, hey, it�s Superman!� and some animated thing with penguins and Robin Williams voice, which got a couple of chuckles, none of the trailers got any sort of reaction from the audience.

The Drowsy Chaperone
A musical at, that was at (?) the Alhmanson. It was fun, cute, enjoyable, and other adjectives implying sweet and perky, but a good sweet and perky. I went in for some reason thinking that it was going to be a review of fake songs from fake 20�s musicals, and it wasn�t. It was actually a play where a lonely man plays a cast album from a fictional 20�s musical and then proceeds to explain, comment on, and occasionally interacts with the musical which takes over his apartment, except that it was much better than what I just described.

Unless I�m getting confused with something else we�ve just seen, it�s eventually heading to Broadway, which considering that the Los Angeles audience (at least that night) seemed to love it, means that New Yorkers will hate it.

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