I'm Gay, so what?



Wednesday, October 22, 2003 :
 
I've got a very busy schedule lined up for this fall between now and Christmas. In fact next month I'll only be in the office a few days total. I'll be out for conferences, personal business. Then in December I'm taking a week's vacation in Puerta Vallarta at the Blue Chairs gay beach resort in Jalisto, Mexico. I try to go every December. Then there's Christmas and the Holidays. Hopefully all these activities will give me some interesting writing material.

I'm itching to use some of my airline miles to take another first class trip to somewhere international. I like to do that at the last minute once a year. But "last minute" won't work this Fall, so I'll have to wait until next year for that. I'd like to go somewhere I've not been, maybe South America. Buenos Aires, Rio De Janairo sound cool. With how I like latin boys, I'm betting if I go down there, I'll never come home! Kinda like in the movie Under the Tuscan Sun. I saw that this weekend and, although not spectacular, I was entertained. I enjoyed seeing the Italian countryside, and the Italian MEN, and now I also want to go to ITALY. Italian men are so HOT.



::: posted at 11:42 AM



Monday, October 20, 2003 :
 

There I sat at the Kodak Theatre, in an isle seat near the stage where you see all the Academy Award contenders sitting and the cameras zooming in and out on them.  I imagined what it would be like to be in a tuxedo at the Awards, and to be called to the stage.....
 
But that would be in a paralell universe.  In this universe I was there watching The Full Monty.  I bought season tickets to all the musicals (Oliver!, The Rat Pack, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and my seats are fantastic!  Right on the isle, so when there is acting in the isles, I'm right there.  The Full Monty was amazingly entertaining.  I chuckled as I sat there (alone -- these are my "artist dates" - and besides I don't have a boyfriend, and I'm too cheap to buy two tickets) when the opening line is something like "Ladies!  Welcome to Ladies Night Out!"  I chuckled and thought "if you only knew."  I was looking forward to seeing some naked men on stage.  And I was not disappointed!  And for some reason I was unaware this was a MUSICAL version, which was a great twist on the show. 
 
Anyway, gotta run to a meeting. Just wanted to chime in and brag that I'd been to the Kodak (my first time).
 
 


::: posted at 11:57 AM



Friday, October 17, 2003 :
 
It is weird how when I get really busy with my work and life that I just don't seem to have any creative juices left for blogging.  When I blog and actually have something cogent and interesting to say, is when I'm not that busy in other areas of my life.  My work (and now my weekly acting classes) are taking my creative energy, or perhaps FULFILLING my creative needs is a better way to put it.  Thus fulfilled, I don't have the "need" to write as often.
 
With that said, man am I busy.  Several major projects going on at work. Weekly acting classes on Monday nights, which is fun.  I'm also sitting in on another acting class during the day when I have time, and the teacher is also a stage director, and she has offered me to assistant direct with her on a play she is directing next year.  So I'm thinking about that, if I can handle that at night while doing a crazy busy day job on top of it all.  I like the idea though.  Would be great experience for me. 
 
And my social life on weekends has been fairly active as well. Family parties, birthday parties with friends, Hollywood shows with friends.  All good, except for the drinking that goes along with it. 
 
I'm staying true to my exercise routine and in fact think I've lost more fat/weight/inches.  Can't prove it because my home scales are broken, but I can feel it.  And see it in the mirror.  ;)
 
I'm so glad it is Friday. I have no plans this weekend (for a change) except to go to the gym and probably take in a movie or two, which I've not done in a while.
 
I've been thinking about the Earthquake story I promised I'd tell about.  I've not written it yet, because it is so very very special and personal to me, that somehow sharing it with people I don't know somehow might cheapen it.  We'll see. I'll eventually write the story, even if I don't share it, because it's one of those stories that just has to be told (or written anyway).
 
Have a great weekend everyone.


::: posted at 4:11 PM



Thursday, October 09, 2003 :
 
I'm embarrassed to even acknowledge that I'm a Californian.  Who in their right mind would vote for Arnold to be our Governor?!?  I mean the guy has no experience with such things!  He's an actor who can't even speak a complete sentence for God's sake!  It truly baffles me that so many people are so blind and stupid that they actually voted for the guy.  He only participated in one debate which was scripted and he could practice his answers in advance. I saw the debate and I was not impressed at all! I thought for sure the masses would see through his staged ignorance and not vote for the guy. But apparently I was wrong.  He struck me as a misogynist in the debates and then when I heard about the stories of him abusing women in the LA Times, it did not surprise me one bit.  I believe they were true.  But no one seems to care about that?  I don't get it at all.  He would not talk to the press, which to me only shows he was afraid he'd show his ignorance for the issues.  I picture this guy ruining our state.  I see signals that he might be somewhat of a dictator, like Hitler.  I'm afraid this new power will go to his head and he might abuse it.  Our only hope is that he realizes he can not run this state (the 7th richest economy in the world -- or is it the most bankrupt?) and he surrounds himself with people who do know what they are doing.  God help California.  The only saving grace is that he can not follow in Ronald Reagan's footsteps, because he is ineligible to run for President!  He would run if he could.  Would he win? Oh I shiver at the thought.  I think I'll move to Canada.  They seem like they are a whole lot smarter up there.
 
 


::: posted at 3:25 PM



Thursday, October 02, 2003 :
 
and so much for the "no drinking" eh?  I have been really good, but this night out with S. was surely a straying moment......


::: posted at 3:41 PM


 
My friend S. and I went for drinks after work the other night to a bar/restaurant on the Pacific Ocean which has a great view of the coast and they have nightly specials.  It's a weekly or bi-weekly after work hanging place for us.
 
So we walk into "our" bar and the place looked like a construction site. They were hanging stage lights and apparently getting ready to do some filming.  A guy came up to us and offered us free Yagermeister, fresh from the ice cold tap.  I'd not had it before, tried it and it was very yummy.  I looked around and noticed that every person in the bar looked like they just walked off the pages of Vogue or G.Q.  The men and women were all young and gorgeous.  Something was off.  I finally figured out, as I looked at a young lady near me signing a contract that said "Actor's Agreement" at the top of it.
 
A commercial!  We were sitting in the middle of a stage that was set to film a Yagermeister commercial!  Pretty soon the drinks kept flowing and the lights were on and the film crew was filming and interviewing all the beautiful people.  And then they got to us. Right at the time S. went out on the deck for some fresh air.  "Where's your friend" the film crew asked me (oh, so my friend is gorgeous and I'm not, eh? Well fuck you!).  Figuring they did not really want me in the commercial, but I might get in it if my "friend" did it with me, I tried to get him to come in and film. He refused!  So I went back and they did end up interviewing and filming me after all. I felt like a consolation prize. But it was fun.  So who knows, maybe I'll be in a commercial for Yagermeister?  I'll never know, since the commercial is for Germany, not the U.S.  So if you go to Germany and see a commercial filmed in a bar in a California beach bar, and see a guy who is oddly "older" than the rest of the beautiful people (but oddly handsome in a special kind of way) that person would be ME!
 
What a fun time!  My first commercial! 


::: posted at 10:12 AM


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Formerly "A Day in the life of a Gay Guy", I've changed the name to reflect more of how I'm thinking. Being Gay is not the focal point of my life. I'm a guy with interests like everyone else, I just happen to be Gay.



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