tonight we are being forced to attend a friend's 30th birthday party at a place called Culture Club -- the owners also own that god-awful place Polyesther's. the cover: $15. the music: all 80s all the time. the crowd: B&T, which means Bridge and Tunnel, a derogatory term for people from New Jersey who come clubbing in Manhattan, making everything ( Read more... )

I am 14% White Trash.

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I'm in a bit of a quandary ( Read more... )

Like the issue of friendship, marriage is another thing I keep thinking about lately ( Read more... )

I have to drive up to Danbury, CT, tonight for a story I'm doing on speedskating. (Every month I profile a person/people who are into "unconventional exercise." It's called "Getting out of the Gym.") Anyway, so Danbury is 47 miles north of here, which means it's about 70 miles away from my home in Harlem ( Read more... )

I am forcing myself to write ( Read more... )

This past weekend was spent in Philadelphia, to see the University of Kansas kick Villanova’s ass. Only it didn’t happen that way. KU lost by many, many points. So much for being undefeated and ranked #1. I know all of this because my boyfriend is addicted to KU basketball. The cool thing was we had special box seats, so we basically had our own ( Read more... )

So I joined 'cakes "faghaggery" group. Anyone can join and be a part of the haggery ( Read more... )

My brother was in town this weekend. It was great except that I am now so damn sick. I caught some virus/bacteria/whatever from Brendan's sister and I now sound like I'm going to cough up a pus-infested lung ( Read more... )

As she boarded the downtown A train, Joy spotted an open seat next to an old man. She did her usual quick visual and olfactorial inspection of the seat, and seeing no strange liquids or smelling foul odors, she sat ( Read more... )