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I just finished watching the third episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on TiVo, and just as in the second episode last week, Jai Rodriguez received the opening credit as the culture queer, yet there was a hunky black guy, identified only as Blair, actually playing that role instead. Who is he? Why […]

For those of you who maintain blogs, I’m curious about your practices vis a vis comments. When an entry of yours has received a comment to which you want to reply, do you do so: 1) directly to the commenter by email only, 2) directly within the comments section of the blog entry itself solely, […]

For those of you in or near the DC metro area, the DC Lambda Squares glbt square dance club is having the second of their three summer open houses tonight, an opportunity to explore lesbian and gay square dancing before new classes begin this fall. The open house is from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at […]

I‘ve been writing so much about my family and my trip home, and I did say I would post some more photos, so here is a glimpse into my childhood home. My parents’ house in the woods. The portion on the right is the original three-bedroom, one-bath my parents built in 1964 when my sister […]

My family can be so cool. Here I am, ten days away from turning 41, and my birthday present from Mom and Dad included a copy of a vinyl record of J.R.R. Tolkien reading poems from Middle Earth (purchased from a library sale when my elementary school–the same that she also had attended, and that […]

The power just came back on after having been off for an hour and a half. No one in the building or on the block that I saw while walking around seems to know why it went out, though I’ve heard that there are severe almost tornado-like winds in northwest DC a few miles from […]

Yesterday, I made my usual mistake of agreeing to attend church services with my family, an agreement that usually ends up with my blood pressure spiking from holding in my outrage at what gets said from the pulpit. This was no exception. My family sometimes describes me as “selfish” and “free from guilt” in the […]

Friday’s edition of The Washington Post carried a great, very positive article in the Style section about DC Lambda Squares, the gay squaredance club with which I used to dance regularly. The first few paragraphs of the article are included below: The gay square dancers are group-hugging again. This time, it’s to the last notes […]

Now, don’t I feel chagrinned? Here I was talking about my family and the weirdness about today’s cookout, and then it turned out to be a surprise belated (by 353 days) 40th birthday party; apparently my mom had wanted to throw me a 40th birthday party last year, but with my dad hospitalized in Richmond […]