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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:32 GMT

Bumper Cars

Go, Drew, Go!

That spit-fire (and Chick I Dig) Drew Barrymore was rear-ended (in her car...pervs) in WeHo on Monday. Instead of the other driver being all sweet and polite and exchanging insurance information and a script or two, the other driver took off. Plucky Drew revved her engine and started chasing down the car that hit her. She lost track of the car, but did commit the license plate number of the car to memory...no doubt due to her superior memory from memorizing those Charlie's Angels scripts.

Bad, Bad Brit!

On Tuesday, perennial train-wreck Britney Spears got into a fender bender on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The extensioned-one was behind the wheel when her Mercedes-Benz rear ended a red sports utility vehicle in Beverly Hills. No injuries were reported....but Brit refused to get out of her car. The wuss let her bodyguard talk to the other female motorist and exchange insurance details. If memory serves me correcly, the "Crazy"-one was in a hit-and-run last year. And just last month, she allegedly (divorcing Star Jones alert!) caused a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles after bumping another motorist in heavy traffic.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Sun, 11 May 2008 09:23:36 GMT

The Bitch Is Back

It felt sooooo good to sleep in my own bed last night. Whilst I do enjoy a nice hotel bed, and we did stay in a couple of nice hotels, I needed my bed and my pillows and my blankets and my MissKitty cuddled up next to me to sleep properly.

I was just exhausted from driving from city to city...visiting DearBoy's family and museums and restaurants and cathedrals (DearBoy is a church junkie) and places of interest and walking around to various stores and shops and stuff.

Nothing all that dramatic happened on the trip. DearBoy and I just had a nice week together. We just visited a lot of art museums and tried to have a really nice dinner every night in whichever city we were in. I wish I could tell you something all kinds of scandalous happened, but nothing did happen. I didn't even shop very much.

The best part of the vacation was the neither of our phones rang very much and we actually got a week away from everything and just got to enjoy each other without the distractions of work and family and friends and social obligations....it was even better to come home Saturday night and sleep in my own bed.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:48:46 GMT

Kansas City, Here I Come!

DearBoy and I are gearing up for a road trip. We leave tomorrow night and are headed to glorious Kansas City, Missouri to visit his family. Don't be jealous, y'all. I know everyone wants to come with us, but we're going this trip alone.

Even MissKitty is staying at the house alone. She has her boys that will come and tend to her whims. She has plenty of food and I always leave a tv on for her, so she has something to watch.

Tonite, as I was scrubbing the kitchen floor, I thought about the random things I do when I go away...

· The house has to be clean before I leave. I can't rest in a hotel just thinking that my floor at home is dirty.

· I always put a new razor and bar of soap in the shower right before I leave the house. I like coming home to clean razors and real-sized bars of soap.

· I pack enough clothes for twice the amout of time I'm going to be gone. I've always done this....and then I shop when I go away and I don't wear most of what I take with me, but I like knowing the clothes are there.

· The week before I leave, I don't read my weekly magazines at the house. I save them for the car and the hotels.....and I get a lot of magazines.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:52:10 GMT

Just Because....

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:40:59 GMT

"You Little One Broke, Too!"

I had a knock on my door at 7:00 a.m. One of my neighbors noticed that my right rear tire was flat. I thanked her for letting me know and went back to bed.

I got out of bed about forty-five minutes later, and went downstairs. Dammit, she was right. So, I changed the flat and put on the little donut spare tire. Yes, I know how to change a flat tire. Fags need to know how to do this, too. If you don't know how to change a flat on your car, then go get a lesson.

But I digress....I get to work and all is well until about 5:00. One of the Asian girls who works in the back came running up to me and said in broken English, "You little one broke, too!" I didn't understand what the hell she was talking about until a different Asian girl who works in the back came up and said (also in broken English, "We take trash outside. Outside by car. Little tire gone, too."

Then I understood. Not only did I have a flat tire, but I had a flat spare tire.

Shit.

I called around, and the only place that would be open by the time I got off of work (at my job one does not leave early) was about three miles away. I prayed like hell and drove to the closest gas station and filled up the spare. I could hear a hissing sound, but again I prayed and got back on the roads.

It took forever to get to the tire place because I was taking side roads and trying to stay away from traffic incase the spare tire exploded or some random shit. The prayers worked and I made it there in one place.

Two and a half hours later, and a hundred dollars out of my wallet, I drove away with a brand new back tire and a fixed spare tire. (It had something to do with the valve...or something near the valve...which they fixed).

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:39:50 GMT

S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y.

I normally work on Saturdays. They're busy. Lots of people are in the store. We close early. It's a good day to work. I really like working them.

I was off today because of the thing-a-ma-bob tonite with DearBoy. We thought that I would have to help him set some stuff up, so I took the day off. Come to find out...they had enough people and my services were not required. Huzzah for me, right?

I tried to do on a Saturday what I normally do on my random weekday off. Tried to do laundry, but one of my neighbors beat me to the laundry room (we only have two washers and dryers). I did manage to clean the house because I can do that on my own.

The trip to the grocery store was a nightmare. People everywhere. Abandoned carts with food in them just left in the aisles...some of them had purses in them. (Ladies, please...keep your purses with you at all times. This his how theft and identity theft happens). My normal fifteen-minute trip to the store took me almost forty-five minutes just by navigating around the idiots who were shopping.

I tried to run more errands, but with busy parking lots and people wandering to-and-fro, I decided to pack it in and come back home. Which was good because I got to take a nap, and we all know I love my naps.

The errands can wait for another day. All I have to do today is put on my "happy happy" face for tonite. Later, gaterz...gotta go schmooze.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:55:03 GMT

Friday Flesh

Dylan McDermott

Dylan McDermott is an American actor, best known for his role on the former television drama The Practice.

Dylan was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, to teenage parents. After his mother's death, Dylan and his sister were raised by their grandmother. The neighborhood was so rough, that a burglar once stole their underwear (according to Wigglypedia).

His father's third wife was Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues) and she legally adopted McDermott when he was nineteen-years-old. Dylan was encouraged by his adoptive mother to pursue an acting career and she wrote roles for him into her plays. After she suffered a miscarriage, he took on the name Dylan—the name of her unborn child.

Dylan's big break as an actor came the acclaimed hit film In the Line of Fire. Through his connection with Clint Eastwood, McDermott was able to land his first major gig in The Practice. The show expanded his stardom, and he made People's list of the "50 Most Beautiful People In The World 1998" with the magazine calling him a "a prime-time heartthrob". Dylan nabbed the distinction again in 2000.

Dylan also had roles in Hamburger Hill, The Grid, The Treatment, Steel Magnolias, Will & Grace, and Ally McBeal. This hunky 46(!) year-old's last project was the ABC television series Big Shots. Unable to maintain a decent plot line or ratings, the show was cancelled, but it allowed us too oogle at his still stunning body.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:27:52 GMT

Functioned Out

DearBoy's company is sponsoring a huge event that is going on in the suburbs this week. A huge event. We've been to a cocktail party on Monday night, a small dinner with the honorees on Tuesday night, a black-tie dinner last night. We have a wine function to go to on Friday night, a thing-a-ma-bob to do on Saturday and brunch on Sunday.

I'm tired of smiling at his co-workers. Some of them are the most boring people alive...and I was seated next to one last night at dinner. I wanted to slit my throat just so I could have some fun during the dinner.

Luckily, I had another different cocktail party to attend tonite. I would have been stuck at a dinner where they are serving foodie-food. No mashed potatoes for that crowd. They gotta have shit like gnocchi in a wine reduction with pickled calamari and wild bison steaks in a lemon-tangerine sauce. Yeah, foodie-food.

I can't wait until Sunday afternoon. I can come home and put on some old shorts and a ratty t-shirt and veg out on the couch with MissKitty. And I won't have to worry about being nice to people who don't deserve my time.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:12:04 GMT

He Has A What?

DearBoy is out of town this weekend. EvilBestFriend and I were supposed to go out for dinner and drinkies tonite to terrorize the boys in town. Well, EvilBestFriend just called and he has a date tonite with a boy. (Which is very shocking since EBF doesn't date, he fucks).

I could call my straight girlfriends and go and hang with them tonite, but since I spent most of my day around women, I'm not sure if I want to be around all that estrogen.

I think MissKitty and I will be having a frozen pizza and watching HGTV tonite.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:41:56 GMT

Friday Flesh

Luke MacFarlane

Luke MacFarlane is an out-and proud Canadian Actor.

Luke was born in London, Ontario. After graduating from high school, Luke studied drama at Juilliard in New York City. After Juliard, he did a stint on Broadway appearing in such works as Juvenilia, Where Do We Live, and The Busy World is Hushed.

Luke's breakout role was Pvt. Frank "Dim" Dumphy on the 2005 FX network television series Over There. He has also played opposite Cynthia Nixon in Robert Altman's Tanner on Tanner on the Sundance Channel. Luke has also had roles in Supreme Courtships, Trapped Ashes and Recalled.

Currently, Luke has a recurring role on ABC's Brothers & Sisters as Scotty Wandell, a gay man who developed a romantic relationship with one of the "brothers" of the show, Kevin Walker. To ABC's credit, they acually show Scotty and Kevin kissing...not panning away like they do on the daytime soaps.

In his latest role for TV, Luke has finished filming a leading role in the upcoming two-part mini-series called Iron Road. Check those local listings. It is scheduled to air sometime in April.

In an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail published on April 15th, Luke came out publicly as a gay man. This didn't come as a shock to myself since Luke has dated Wentworth Miller and T.R. Knight semi-publicly...just do a Google Image Search for pics of Luke and his men together...but I'm proud of Luke for coming out this week.