She's very awesome. You and I will have to arrange for the pick-up. Good thing we live relatively close to each other!

Queer As Folk - a show on Showtime about dem homosexual types

It's about gay people? In that case, I'm afraid I'm going to have to burn those tapes, GC. Sorry!!!!

When my older brother got married, he asked me to sing at his wedding. He and his wife chose "I'll Cover You," not only because they loved it, but because her parents are very fundie Baptists, and this meant that her family would unknowingly be hearing an ode to gay love in the halls of theire very conservative church. I was delighted to help out.

I've seen RENT on stage four times, and for a while, I thought it might be my favorite musical. Sadly, I over-exposed myself to it, and eventually, its songs became unwelcome brainworms for me. (It happens to music that I love from time to time. There are some things that simply wear out their welcome, and others that I seem to be able to revisit indefinitely without negative effects. I was sad to discover that RENT went into the "please, no more" category, as the show does mean a lot to me. Oh, and I thought the movie pretty much bit.)

I know, sometimes it's hard to see one's own life on the big screen. :p

My "Rent" experience was seeing "A Chorus Line" for the first time around 1976. The monologue from the dancer who's parents didn't know he was gay just knocked me over. A couple of years later, it was the movie, "Fame." 10 years later, when the shock of AIDS started turning to anger, we started saying things like, "Fvck you if you don't like the fact that I'm gay. My friends are dying and I've got better things to worry about."

Here we are now. People are still dying of AIDS, though not without a much longer lifespan through various drug treatments. People are still dying of all the things they died of before, drug addiction, suicide, car wrecks, and occasionally, blessedly, plain-old old age. I love my friends, I love you guys, I love my life.

La vie boheme!