Marginal Revolution has an interesting piece on why Hollywood is getting all freaked out of late. Hopefully they are right — maybe things are changing. The crashing fortunes of Hollywood and the rise of blogging and other similar user-created content can only be a good thing if they each keep going in their same respective directions.
I joined Amazon Prime
It’s already paid for itself in shipping fees. I’ve ordered books, CD’s, appliances, computer equipment, clothes, and gifts for others thus far. It’s incredibly easy to find your item (usually at the substantial Amazon discount), set up your One-Click Shopping™®© settings, and then magically find the item on your doorstep two days later. It’s also had the remarkable effect, which I’m sure is the whole point, of making me rather exclude the non-Amazon merchants from my options. I seriously now go to Amazon first for everything I try to buy, because it’s so easy to just One-Click™®© my way to product-on-my-doorstep bliss.
I highly recommend Amazon Prime for anyone who does any amount of online shopping at all — it will seriously change the way shop!
So Daigle, whom I hardly know (and who recently had a frightening brush with appendicitis), has demanded that I put a picture up, and in the interest of keeping the waters of San Francisco Bay calm I have decided to assuage the beast within him and acquiesce. I hear the boy not only kicks and screams but actually bites, so I had best heed his wishes.
This picture was taken on a really remote beach about 3 hours south of Santiago, Chile during New Years 2002. I was ridiculously sunburned, hungry, dehydrated, and drunk, and I was having a fabulous time. It is one of the worst pictures of myself I could find, so I of course decided to post it in the sidebar to right.
There are other pictures of me scattered all over my ex Todd’s website, many from our trip to Chile.
So Pride was great. Before the weekend actually rolled around Kevin and I had seriously considered going out of town, to Napa or something. But then I decided that leaving town on Gay Pride Weekend was a bit jaded and cynical of me. And besides, my friend Alex Gray was coming up from LA/NYC for a visit, and I offered for him to stay with us, so I was Bound to the City.
I hadn’t seen Alex for anything longer than an instant in nearly 4 years, but the moment he got here it was like old times. Alex has a penchant for meeting new, slightly odd, surprisingly hot people, getting to know them, and then sitting back and kind of watching as bizarre stuff unfolds in front of his eyes. He also has a particular skill in not necessarily getting involved in the ruckus that ensues, and thus he generally keeps his hands clean. He reminds me of what my life used to be like in New York, and even here in San Francisco for awhile, and it’s terribly refreshing.
Anyway he drove up from LA with these two cute guys named Sean/Shaun/Shawn and Greg. Sean/Shaun/Shawn is like a typical Hermosa Beach dark-haired surfer type, and his boyfriend Greg is a wide-eyed 18-year-old (a surprisingly nice one, too, not a whiny annoying one). The LA Boys were staying with some friends at a cottage on Market Street, and we ended up hanging out at this place, thereafter dubbed “The Cottage,” for large amounts of time throughout the weekend, having nice conversations with the guys who lived there (amongst them Paul, Trent, and Demian).
Friday night we met up with my friend Shannon and his crew and just barhopped. Saturday I got some work done during the day before heading off to my client Jane Goldman’s barbecue. They were wrapping up as we got there to prepare to go to the Dyke March, which was good because we had tickets to go and see Tammy Faye: Death Defying, the new Tammy Faye Messner movie.
We had no idea that Tammy Faye was actually going to be at the premiere.
She was! Girl got standing ovations, and then got up on the stage and answered questions from the audience, including one from a guy who asked her about her lack of support for gay marriage. Even though this guy put her on the spot, her answer was right on the money: she basically said that she can’t support “marriage,” per se, but that she thinks that gay people should have all of the other rights and privileges that straight people do. To paraphrase, “Stop calling it ‘marriage,’ you idiots, and a lot more people will be behind you!” Note to the HRC: listen up! You would do well to heed her advice, for all of our sakes.
After that we went to our friend Matt’s house and threw condoms out the window at passersby, yelling “Happy Gay Pride!” In an unrelated event, at Alex’s prompting we started calling each other “Mary” all night, and then the saying somehow morphed into “Merry Gay Pride!” or rather “Mary Gay Pride!” It was at Matt’s house that I think I caught my first Real Life Glimpse of Chris Daigle, Chad Fox’s muse, though I can’t really be sure, as he was wrestling with someone much larger than him and was unable to get words out edgewise.
Then we just ran around the Pink Saturday mess for awhile until we go bored, and trekked back to The Cottage, where another cute-until-he-puked LA Boy named Ryan proceeded pass out.
Sunday was more of the same, though Kevin got sick and had to sit the day out at home. We saw 3rd Sum Mary 7 Eye 41 Matchbox Blink 20 182 Blind perform for two songs, and then saw En Vogue, who were great. We hung out with my clients Hot House at their booth for awhile, drank some more, and then decided to go back to the Catastro, though Alex made a solo detour to the Powerhouse and the Eagle, meeting more bizarre people along the way.
Meanwhile the LA Boys decided to leave San Francisco and drive back home, but the poor things got a flat tire on the 5 in the middle of nowhere. Apparently some cops stopped them and interrogated them, then left them on the freeway to fend for themselves. They had no clue where there were. Poor guys, must’ve sucked. The cops certainly didn’t help.
Finally we ended up back at Daddy’s and met some crazy Hawaiian guys, and finally just came home and went to bed. All in all a lovely weekend.
I put WordPress up to play with it and will eventually put a full blog up. For the time being it is Almost Done™.
