Walking home late tonight -- alone on a sidewalk -- I had the unpleasant experience of having someone follow me with a red laser from some apartment building. I mean, normally, I would've screamed and fallen to the ground like I had been shot in a mock playing-along-with-it kind of way, but for some reason, it really creeped me out tonight. For the ( Read more... )

I lost my wallet tonight. I believe this is perhaps the 20th time I've done so. I feel strange when I wear expensive clothes -- something between guilt and superiority. I don't even like saying that, but it's true. A financial analyst bought me and my friend all our drinks tonight, even though we only exchanged brief words -- that made me feel ( Read more... )

The other day, I found a small laminated coupon on the subway that read: "FREE HUG COUPON FREE: Good for one hug, redeemable from any participating human being." How cute is that? It made my morning. But now I feel conflicted over whether or not I should use it. I don't want to give it to a woman who might feel threatened by my offer of a hug, and ( Read more... )

I've been introduced to a band that I'd heard of before but never listened to: The Be Good Tanyas. I like them so much I'll be off to see/hear their concert later this month. Though all their stuff is great, I fell in love with a song called 'Lakes Of Pontchartrain', about a female/female love ( Read more... )

"For many gay men and lesbians, practices of drag are a crucial element in both political and personal life, as they mark a breathing space in which elements of nonheterosexualized representation are made possible through the strategic use of farce, ridicule, and/or irony. Rather than claim a new identity (which is, of course, always formed from ( Read more... )

I felt horrible this morning. I hadn't finished something for school and decided just not to go. Cleaning up the house, I went outside to take out the recycling and noticed how warm it was. And so I sat out in the front yard most of the day, smiling at people passing by and getting a lot of productive reading done, and now I feel much better. I ( Read more... )