Thursday, December 11, 2008

Calm Again


And all it took was forgiveness from Emily for the nasty things I said to her, an invite to a concert from the author and several bottles of wine with big publishing honchos on the upper west side.
Up and down.
Down and up.
Is this called bi-polar? Or just a bad week where everything worked out OK in the end?
I'm going with the latter.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Oh Man


The photo above came up when I googled "dumb," which I am.

Thinking It Through


Ok, I think I'm starting to understand more about what is going on with me today. A big part of the
book of his that I read last night had to do with the nature of relationships - their possibilities and odds of working, and the general idea was that as long as two people share the same principles, then that is a really solid foundation to begin on.
I know I have good principles. I KNOW I am a good person at heart. But I constantly betray that side of myself and I don't know if it's the pills or if it's part of my soul or just my nature to be capable of doing really terrible things. This seems to me to be a normal trait of humans. There is no such thing as black and white. But the people in my life so far who I have really and truly fallen for are ones who have learned to not listen to that side of themselves. They've chosen the good side and managed to hold on to it. The have a clear vision of right and wrong, but more importantly, they act on that belief and live their life to that standard. And that is something that I haven't figured out how to do yet. And I'm getting scared that it's too late, that maybe this is something people learn when they have parents who don't join cults or disappear for months on end, leaving you with a rotating cast of scary high school friends and your kindergarten teacher.
I know I'm far too old to blame my parents for anything. I'm an adult. But I can't help noticing that the truly good people in this world (the ones who don't cheat or fall into drugs) that I've come across, all come from extremely well adjusted and loving families.
It's not fucking physics here. (Which is good, because I never took physics and have no idea what the basic principles even are, despite the fact that my grandfather helped build the atom bomb)
So the question is - HOW DO YOU END THE FUCKING CYCLE? I've been to rehab and been in therapy for years and essentially, nothing has changed.
I guess you just accept who you are, and hope that someday you find someone who can love that version of you. And be cool enough to understand that I will always need any pills in the house to be locked up in a place that I can't get to.

Who Else Is On The Rag?


Friends who are girls? Are any of you going through this today too? What the fuck? When I worked at a women's mag I was on the same cycle as the other women there, I'd be an emotional wreck whenever they were all PMSing. Did this hormone cycle stick? Because right now I feel like a ninth-grader who just found out his parents are getting divorced, got dumped and discovered razor blades all on the same day.

Never Date Someone With A Fan Base


I can't count how many times I've told myself this. It always ends in heartbreak. So I thought this time around I'd play it different. I refused to read any of his books. I didn't go see the movie just made based on one of them. He's just a normal, cool guy. One with thousands of teenagers who worship him, but whatever. We've been casually dating for about a month now but something happened over the last few times we were together and I fell for him. And I thought maybe he was feeling the same.

But I finally made the mistake of reading one of his books, cover to cover. And he is a fucking genius. It made me cry, multiple times. And I told him that.

And now he isn't returning any of my messages.

I'm a fucking idiot. Because I'm lying to myself. The real reason he probably isn't returning any of my messages is because he discovered that I stole some of the hydrocodone he needs for his back out of his medicine cabinet the other morning. It was pure instinct, everything I'd learned disappeared and my mind went totally blank while I was opening the bottle.
This is never going to end, is it.

I have a meeting with my publisher's lawyers in an hour and I'm a sobbing fucking mess and I don't know how to pull it together in time.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

I Stole Something Today

And I keep playing this song over and over and over again.

Christ, I'm a Dick



Actually, worse than a dick. I threw a total freak-out tantrum aimed directly at somene who has done nothing but love and support me for years. And I am not a tantrum thrower. I am the most mellow, relaxed, everything-is-totally-cool-always person you could ever meet! But that is dangerous, because I actually get angry a lot, and then just swallow it down and it either turns into depression or builds and builds until it bursts out like wormy white pimple being popped and splattered all over the wrong person.
She claims to have accepted my apology but doesn't want to talk to me.
I don't know how to make it right.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Sooooo Soft


I just want this creature to envelope me in its arms and let me fall into a deep sleep.

Dog Fight Rescue Mission?



Anybody else read this article on dog fighting in today's Times? The article states that one of the reasons why police have a hard time taking these rings down is because they can't find the yards where the pit bulls are raised. Well, I know where a pitbull dog yard is. And I know that the local police in the town where it is know about it, but refuse to do anything about it. I assume because members of the force are probably in on it (I'm not being paranoid, we're talking about a small, really fucked up town where the police have been called many times about this yard and NOTHING has been done about it).
Anyone interested in staging a secret rescue mission? I've wanted to to do this ever since I discovered the yard but I need partners. Preferably ones who are dog experts and have a few pairs of night vision goggles and tranquilizer darts laying around. The pen is in the woods behind a house, so there is some cover if you come up to it from behind. But we'd need a way to safely put the dogs to sleep from afar in order to get close enough without them alerting the owners by having them freak out.
I'm totally serious about this. Or even better, if anyone knows about any underground animal liberation fronts PLEASE send them my way or even just forward this post to understanding parties.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Two Steps Back



I say two steps because not only did I slip up, I slipped up in a really disgusting way. I was on my way home from a therapy appointment on Monday, got on the M train and as soon as we hit the bridge I glanced down and noticed a thick, round white pill sitting next to me on the seat. I didn't recognize what kind it was but I knew, just knew it was an opiate in generic form. It sat there and looked at me and without any hesitation I scooped it up and slipped it in my pocket. When I got home I looked up the markings on Pill Identifier and I was right, it was a 300/30mg combo of codeine and acetaminophen. Weak by my standards, but it's been awhile so a few nights later I took it before I went to a party at a former co-worker's apartment. OH MY GOD just as I wrote that I remembered that while I was there I stole a strange pill from his bedside table!!!!!! Oh fuck. Hang on.
Ok I just found it in my jeans pocket and looked it up on PI and it's just a Zolpidem, a hypnotic non-benzo sleep aid. That's going in the trash, I have no trouble sleeping. I can sleep for days if I want.
Anyway. The party. I could feel the codeine pill, but in a really nice, very subtle and mellow way. It just made me smile a lot. I got drunk, going so far as to sneak beers into my bag out of the fridge because I was scared they were going to run out since it was more of a cocktail party. I saw many former co-workers, gleefully showed them a picture of my book cover on my phone, bragged unnecessarily about this dumb ghostwriting job and stumbled out, totally wasted by 9:00 PM. I met a friend at Metropolitan where it was 2 for 1 night and everything is just a haze from there on out. I remember getting home and shredding cheese over the contents of several bags of Doritos and microwaving them. I woke up in my bed, fully clothed, contact lenses still in. My computer was by my dresser and according to my browser history I was searching through M4M listings on Craigslist. Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about those listings. They are evil incarnate. Even that drunk I know I wouldn't have acted on it, I was probably just looking at pics.
I spent the day on the couch, catching up on a week's worth of DVR TV. I took fourteen Advil in all over the course of the day and my headache refused to leave. I stayed up until 5:00 AM until I finally showered and passed out.
I feel fine today, the only hangover left is a guilty emotional one. It's been so long since I've had a night and following day like that. I guess maybe I just needed a reminder about how terrible it makes me feel about myself. It's good timing since there are so many holiday parties coming up that I'm supposed to go to, I'll know to keep it in check now. What worries me most is that after everything I've gone through, the second I saw that pill next to me on the subway, there was not one second of hesitation in my brain. It was mine, finders keepers. I'm a guest speaker at an NYU class on Monday where I'm supposed to talk about the process of writing my book, and I know the first question is going to be if I've stayed clean and I have no idea what to say. I want to be honest but my editor will be there and I don't want to jeopardize our relationship, especially since my contract gives her first look rights to my next project and I really want to keep working with her. I don't want to give her reason to doubt me, but I guess that's just inevitable when you've made your real life your career as well.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Barf


This is what was served for Thanksgiving this year instead of turkey. For the sole reason that my Tennessee family can use the goose fat drippings as butter for the next few months. I didn't partake because the only things I don't eat are birds and amphibians. Turtles and frogs are just too cute, and birds are special because they're the only creatures in the world that can walk, swim and fly.
I think that deserves respect.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ghostwriter!


Right on the heels of turning in my first book, I just got a second book deal. Not for me though. I'm going to be ghostwriting a book for a celebrity who I'd say is maybe C+ in terms of national recognition, but surprisingly an A within his specific industry. I didn't even realize just how respected he actually is and how many top list people and companies he still works with closely until doing a bit of research right before our first meeting.
This could either be a total blast or a horrible nightmare. I'm not sure yet if the ego I'm dealing with is a fun one or a scary one. But at the end of the day it's a great paycheck, the whole thing will be over with by April, and it will keep me out of trouble while waiting for my real book to come out. I need a project to get me through the winter, otherwise it's probably right back into the drug pool. It would be easy for me to just coast through until the book comes out. There's nothing I want more than to just live off my advance money, watch TV and take as many drugs and tropical island trips as possible until I have to start doing press, but I know I'd hate myself if I chose that route. So instead, I have two articles out in a magazine now, another article due on Monday and this ghostwriting gig which will start pretty much immediately.
I look at all of this as a big middle finger to certain assholes in rehab who told me I was going to fail. Look at me now, fuckers!

Friday, November 14, 2008

Lesbians are kind of Genius


My favorite lezzies introduced me to the incredible world of Craigslist Free postings last night. This one is my favorite so far, and also breaks my heart.
Come on, one of you has to have a barn. The text above is really tiny, here's what it says:

"We are a family from Brooklyn with a weekend home in Vermont. We got evicted from our house in Vermont and have had to bring our pony back to Brooklyn with us and we have nowhere to put her. She is kind and loving and needs a great family who has the resources to support her. She's living in our teeny back yard right now and seems to be adapting very well, surprisingly. If you don't have a big yard she is small and will make do with what you have as long as you love her."

Christ, people are assholes. Don't let a pony grow in Brooklyn.

Apparently I have Aspergers


I looked up the videos N wrote about. Is it wrong that I think that this dude who has my exact same name and Aspergers Syndrome is really super cute? What's really weird is that not only do we have the same name, but this video was posted on my birthday! Spooooooky! Or fate?

Also, I'm aware that I'm not exactly protecting my identity here. I just don't know how to put black boxes over parts of photos I don't want to show. I don't think anyone cares anyway.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

MeTube


I just got the following email from little sister. She YouTubed my name. Obviously none of these are me. I haven't had a chance to watch and post them yet. I'm scared.

"oh my god! you never told me you had asperger's syndrome and a hot freestyle demo out! i couldn't tell if it was you on the casio or the mike tho. the best is where you duke it out with your last name... they just don't do graphics like that any more."

I'm Baaaaaaack


Holy shit , it's been a MONTH!!! A lot has gone on, but today I turn in the FINAL EDITED VERSION of my book!! Yaaaaaay! And I just moved into a HUGE loft! And I got a truck!
More soon!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I'm not into that anymore


Emily and I watched The Night of The Hunter last Friday. There's this prison scene where Harry Powell is trying to get the kids' father to say in his sleep where he hid the money. Harry is on the top bunk and when the father wakes up, Harry leans his head down in order to talk to him. When the father realizes what Harry was up to he punches him so hard that Harry gets knocked off the bed and across the cell.
Emily turned to me and said, "That's what I imagine your sex life is like."

Saturday, October 18, 2008

RT & JR


Did you know that Randy Travis is gay? I didn't. But my father swears it's true. Which is weird, because Randy Travis also looks like my dad. And speaking even more of my dad, Gawker has been all over that cult he joined when I was kid, MSIA, because Arianna Huffington is also tight with John-Roger. JR is the one who predicted, on tape, that I was going to be a prophet when I grew up. I'm going to look for that book JR wrote that my dad gave me, "Manual on Using The Light" and scan some pics to post here. It's pretty priceless, The Light is represented by a stick-drawing version of a star that comes to help stick drawings of kids when they are in trouble. It also talks about how The Light is manifested by the god Sugmad.
Stay Tuned!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

R.I.P. Bela


Feline Infectious Peritonitis took Bela from me this morning. The symptoms came on fast and furious -- in the middle of the night he woke me up, crying. I thought he was hungry so I lifted him from my side and put him on the floor so we could go get some food. His legs collapsed. He kept trying to stand but he had lost all control of them. It was two in the morning, I stupidly thought his legs had just fallen asleep so I carried him to his food bowl but he wasn't hungry. I carried him to the litter box, where he peed, then I carried him back to bed. He kept mewling as if he couldn't get comfortable but I fell back asleep. Around five I woke up and he was crying terribly, he had defecated all over himself and me. I lifted him to the ground and he just laid there, staring up at me and crying.
I rushed him to the ER vet on Fifth and Fifteenth. They admitted him and discovered it was FIP, there's no cure. They said they could stabilize him for a few days but there was no way he would live out the week. They brought him to me and he couldn't move anything except his neck and head. He was crying so loudly and was in so much pain because his kidneys were so swollen. I held him and kept my cheek on his until they administered the injection.
It was instant, but gentle.
I only knew you for eleven days little one, but that was enough time to know your tiny beautiful soul. I hope we find each other again someday.

Monday, October 6, 2008

I Heart My Homeless Gay Junkie


I ran into my favorite gay homeless junkie today! I thought I'd already written about him on here, but I searched around and couldn't find anything.
I first met him at the LES needle exchange. He's tall and has big buggy eyes and long hair. You could tell he was pretty handsome at one point before the drugs really took over his body and he got that oily, leathery skin that comes with the territory. I could feel him checking me out from across the room while Rambo: First Blood II played on a huge flat screen TV in the rec room (how come the harm reduction center has a giant flat screen and I don't?) when he finally made his way over to me and complimented my tattoo.
"Thanks," I said.
"I've got two," he said. He rolled up one sleeve and showed me something nondescript like a skull, I can't even remember what it was, it was that boring.
"My other one is right here," he continued, proceeding to roll up his pant leg, never taking his eyes off of me, while he revealed an upside down triangle with a rainbow inside it on his lower calf.
I burst out laughing and he winked at me and THANK GOD my drug counselor came out and called my name so the conversation couldn't go any further.

I ran into him again two weeks ago, at night, walking on 1st Ave. I didn't recognize him, I just knew some homeless guy was following me and cat calling. I didn't realize it was the same guy until he was walking almost side by side with me and said, "Nice tattoo, check out mine."
I turned to look at him and he was shuffling along beside me with his pant leg rolled up, showing off his rainbow triangle again. I cracked up and said "Dude, you already tried that trick on me once, it didn't work then and it's not gonna work now."
"It's not a trick," he said, slightly insulted. "It's a move."
"It's still not gonna work," I said, but in a friendly sort of way. He followed me to Houston and I was able to ditch him there.

I saw him again today on Allen Street. He was in the midle of asking me for spare change when he recognized me and just said "Aaaaaaahhh" with a big grin on his face.

He's really starting to grow on me. But don't worry, I'm not in my twenties anymore so there's no chance of me dating him.


Sunday, October 5, 2008

The New One


He has finally arrived, and he looks like a Kenny Rogers Roaster. He spends most of his time sleeping but he's super vocal when he's awake. O is not having him at all, and is lashing out at me in protest but everyone tells me this is normal with an older cat and a new, younger one. Any tips on how to get my first born to accept him are appreciated.
PS - He just molted. He looks hairless because right now, he is. His new coat will grow in soon.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Zombie Janice


While I was searching for a photo of a fly to add to the post below, I came across this picture. It is seriously freaking me out. Today is WEIRD.

Lord of the Fly


The creepiest thing in the world just happened to me. I was on the phone with my sister, who had called to ask what it had felt like when I got appendicitis because she was having severe abdominal pains on her right side. As I was talking to her, I had my cell phone held between my ear and my shoulder. I was closing the refrigerator door with my right hand and my left hand was clutched in a fist because I was nervous - she was refusing to go to the hospital and I was trying to convince her it was worth it to just make sure she was ok (she hates hospitals).
As I closed the fridge door I felt something moving inside my clutched fist. I freaked out and opened it fast and a HUGE black fly flew out of my hand and disappeared somewhere into the apartment.
WHAT THE FUCK????
I find it hard to believe that I would have accidentally caught a fly in my hand without knowing it. I went to Ikea the other day and itched for about seven hours after sitting on a bunch of couches, so I'm super sensitive to this sort of thing. So the only deduction I can come up with is that this was a prognostication of things to come if my sister doesn't get her ass to a hospital immediately.
She's in a cab now.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

"Hostel" is Totally Real


I met a Moldavian waiter the other night who told me that the going rate right now in Eastern Europe for killing someone is 100 Euro. Which is like what, $150? I spent seven times that on a new bag two weeks ago. Really makes you think about, like, the horrors of global commerce, right?
Who am I kidding. I'm already making my list.
J/K, Feds!

Monday, September 22, 2008

"Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place."

Bigots Need Quick Cash Flow


Awww, even the monsters at Love In Action are feeling the economic crunch. Please forward the following letter to any of your hate-fueled relatives.
PS - the "support" I supposedly gave them actually came from Conde Nast, in order for me to write my story. I was conflicted about paying to enter their program but figured the end result was worth it.

Dear XXXXXXX,
We are so thankful for the support you have given to this ministry and it is our prayer that God is blessing you as you have been a part in the blessing of so many others.

We are going through some trying times in our country's economy and this affects what we are able to do in the ministry as well. So many people are coming to us with the desire to find freedom in Jesus Christ from the sins they are caught up in, whether they be homosexual, heterosexual, relational, or some other addictive behavior. We need your help more than ever to meet the needs of these people.

Regardless of what you have done in the past, will you consider making a special donation to the ministry at this time? We are seeking a hundred people who would give a thousand dollars to meet the present needs of the ministry. Any amount you feel led by the Lord to give will be used to help others. It is our belief that in the process you will receive the blessing also. In order to give online, please use the convenient link below.

If there is anything we can do to minister to you or someone you know, please do not hesitate to contact me.

For the sake of God's Kingdom and His Son,
Rev. Jim Scott
Director
jimscott@loveinaction.org

Sunday, September 21, 2008

It's Been a Rough Two Weeks


I forgot I even had this blog. Went to a wedding and got so blasted that I lost both my wallets and my iPod. But the bride found one of my wallets the next day, and over the course of the next week two different forest rangers found my other wallet and my iPod, so, you know, thanks karma!
Other than that I've been trying to land a job and desperately trying to meet my book deadline. Leaving for Tennessee on Tuesday for the final push, I figure the isolation will keep me from getting distracted. Except that I am returning to the town where everything bad in my life began, so maybe this is a mistake, I'm getting that same pit in my stomach that I always get whenever I know I have to go back. I always feel so naked there. And I've been having horrible nightmares about returning to the house all week.
Klonopin, you are my true savior.
PS - the two drugs above can save your life if you are ODing on benzos or opiates. Naloxone is easily picked up at any needle exchange center, not sure where you can get Flumazenil without raising eyebrows.

Monday, September 8, 2008

"You won't get dead-assed..."


Just spent the last two hours catching up on 28 pounds of magazines that I haven't had a chance to look at yet, and I made two important discoveries. The first is that in a piece on the City Center in The New Yorker, Joan Acocella used the term "dead-assed." I love it, and love even more that I now know that the term should be hyphenated. The second discovery came from Elle, where I learned that Judith Leiber is making pill boxes in the form of wrapped candy. I should hate what this implies, but I cant, and would probably buy one for myself if I didn't think that Leiber's products look super tacky.
And speaking of pills, as I often do, I ran into an old friend today who used to give me Valium and blow jobs, in that order. He looked great!

Panic


Head. Spinning.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Oh My God I Miss These SO MUCH

"Didn't your mom teach you to chew with your mouth closed?" "My mom got hit by a garbage truck when I was three."


When I was in high school The Living End was one of my favorite movies. AIDS was in full swing, and here was this movie about a fag who took this nihilistic approach to the whole thing, a fuck the world attitude because there was nothing left to lose anymore. I know that this idea should feel really dated now, but for for some reason it doesn't to me. When I was younger I really identified with the blond guy who just didn't give a shit and went around killing people, and found the brown haired guy kind of annoying, mainly because he fought sharing this idea with his new, suicidal and murderous boyfriend. He was just sort of along for the ride because it seemed new and interesting.
I've had a few bad HIV scares after sleeping with guys who I found out later were positive. I've been lucky so far, luckier than I probably deserve to be. But I still think I might take the same approach as the blond guy in TLE should I ever test positive. I know how horrible that sounds, and everyone will say "but the medicine we have now makes you live longer etc etc." But I would still be so fucking angry, furious that this thing even EXISTS in this world, that it might just unleash all the anger in me that has been disguising itself as banal depression since I was a teenager. So if you ever see me on the evening news, after a blood bath at some Republican or evangelical event, you'll know what happened.
Fuck, I've got to get outside and into the sun.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary



OMG I have SO much to say about this movie I don't even know where to begin. OK, so this is the third film in the Urban Legend series. The premise is standard -- a girl named Mary gets murdered at Homecoming in the 60s and comes back to wreak havoc after a girl says Bloody Mary three times. But she wasn't even looking in a mirror when she said it! Or maybe Bloody Mary is seeking revenge because the sons of the guys who killed her roofied the main character and her friends because the main character wrote a scandalous article about the original jocks' sons in the school paper. Got it? Whatever, this is all irrelevant. I was too focused on this one weird bad guy jock (above), who just didn't seem to fit in with the normal stock actors you see on direct-to-dvd films. He looked like a gay porn star on steroids who is trying to "cross over," or maybe just some stoned dude who works the ski slopes in Park City, since the movie was filmed in Salt Lake City. But I'm leaning towards the porn star theory, because his death occurs when he pisses on an electric fence, and when the EMT workers are packing him up, one of the guys says, "Holy shit, his dick is smokin'!" HA!!!!
Horrible joke, but not the only homoerotic subtext in the movie. The first jock to bite it gets trapped inside a tanning bed (an homage to Final Destination 3?). While he's inside the tanning bed, the camera is viewing him from the feet up and you can practically hear the director whisper "Move your foot so we can see your crotch" and then he does! Which brings me to my last freak out from the film. This movie was directed by MARY LAMBERT!!!! The same woman who directed a ton of Madonna videos, like Material Girl, Like A Virgin, Like a Prayer and La Isla Bonita.
I think this fact lends a lot of cred to my queer theories. There's also a pretty decent 60s sounding soul soundtrack, Sci-Fi Channel style bad digital effects, and a particularly gruesome death scene involving the urban legend about spiders laying eggs under your skin and then hatching. Or is that one real? I can't remember. I know it happened to a woman in The Believers, but in that movie the victim didn't rip her own face off to make it all stop.
Sick!

Big Surprise, MGMT Are Kinda Douchy


A friend of mine had to work at this party where MGMT were playing. One of the lead guys (not sure which one) got really trashed and kept ranting about how the grass they had on the rooftop was "Nazi grass," and that the people who put it there were "fucking Nazis." Dazed and Confused magazine is staffed by Nazis? He also got really pissed off when he saw that the wait staff had to wear new pairs of Converse while they worked and demanded that he get his own free pair.
Dude, they're like $40.

"A Kid Who Tells on Another Kid, Is A Dead Kid"


This movie is art. I never realized it was released on HBO because it was deemed too controversial for theaters. I can see why, I got really uncomfortable lusting after Matt Dillon's torso when he is wearing his cut-off shirt. He was only, like, 15 or something when this was made. Creepy!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Anti-Fashion Week


I got thrown out of Happy Ending last night, somewhere between the free whiskey shots at Julius and being hypnotized by fish the size of dogs lurking in some dude's giant aquarium. Today = pain.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

"Credit is like sex: some get it, some don't"



I watched Mala Noche for the first time since high school last night, and holy shit, whatever happened to Tim Streeter? I can't find anything about him on-line, except that he appeared on one episode of 21 Jump Street in 1990.
He is my ideal. Except for the whole only-lusting-after-teenage-Mexicans thing. But wait, that was just his character! I bet he is super smart and cool in real life, and hasn't lost any of his rugged good looks since 1985.
He gets two pics because he is INSANELY HOT.

Vigilantes


I kind of love vigilante activism, especially when it comes to protecting gays. If you live in Lawrence, Kansas, join this new group called Project Resistance I read about on Queerty and see what they're all about. They are talking about watching the streets outside gay bars to prevent bashing.
Kind of like a lavender Bernard Goetz brigade.

Found the Knife


Remember how I had to hide my one sharp kitchen knife from the guy I brought home from rehab, after he went crazy on me? And then I couldn't remember where I hid it? Actually I can't remember if I ever mentioned that here or just told my friends. Anyway, I finally went to Bed Bath & Beyond and bought a new knife yesterday. And then, of course, this morning I found the old one hidden on the top shelf of my kitchen cabinet, behind the aluminum foil.
Damn it.
On a sadder note, I found out yesterday that the rehab boy has been kicked out of his latest sugar daddy's home. He is now turning tricks and living in a park in Minneapolis. He texted me yesterday about it and I told him to check himself immediately into a shelter, but he said he was "too proud to do that." Then you know what? There is fucking nothing I can do about it. You're on your own now, kid. Sorry if that sounds callous, but if you aren't willing to help yourself at least a little bit, then I am not willing to help you.
Sad today.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Hills Have (Soulless) Eyes


Catching up on trashy TV. On The Hills, Heidi and Spencer went to some restaurant called Cut, and Heidi sat underneath an enormous photograph of someone who I THINK is Christopher Walken. But doesn't it look like some eerie portrait of Spencer from the future?
Shudder.

Lesbian Weekend


Spent the last few days at the sprawling, haunted farmhouse mansion of a famous novelist in upstate New York with a bunch of lesbians. This seems to be my lot in life - vacations in houses owned by esteemed people, with large groups of dykes. I'm not complaining AT ALL, I always have a blast, but one of these days it would be really nice to have another guy come along for the ride. I'm posting my favorite picture of the weekend because the different looks in both of their eyes sum up my lesbian universe perfectly.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Leatherman


Timmy is hosting at Mr. Black tomorrow night, so I went with him to Leatherman in the West Village today to buy assless chaps for him to wear. Here are the three best things I found:

A porno called "Can Opener." (HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!)
A fisting-sized dildo shaped like a large skyscraper that was called "Rump Tower."
A comic book series called Demonicsex, which is all about buff dudes who turn into devils and werewolves and bone each other.

Guess which one I bought? Hint: it was NOT the second one.

God Tube???


Love in Action, that fucked up straight camp I checked myself into last year for a story, is reaching out to more churches to spread their message. Just to be clear, Love in Action doesn't claim that they can "cure" homosexuality, just that they can free people from "bondage" (heh)
and make them men and and women of God. Here's a list of the latest churches and organizations to align themselves with LIA:
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Olive Branch, MS
Audubon Park Baptist Church in Memphis, TN
Sold Out Ministries (National, you can find all sorts of stuff about them on www.godtube.com. They do a lot of interviews with NFL players).
Cross Way Church in Bartlett, TN
World Overcomers Church, Memphis, TN

I'm so embarrassed that my home state is such a hotbed for these closet cases. But don't let that ever stop you from visiting Pigeon Forge. I still have a cigarette case from the Hank Williams Jr. museum that I bought there when I was a teeeeeeen.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Ahem


In light of Hilary Duff's dad being sent to jail, I'd just like to remind you all that back in December of 2006, I was THE VERY FIRST writer ever to uncover and reveal the sad circumstances of her practically estranged father.
Service journalism, at its finest. You're welcome.

Restless, Anxious


Not sure what is going on with me today but I'm feeling super angsty and restless. I can't get any work done, despite a looming deadline. I could go to the gym and work this out but I think I'm just going to pop a Kloni and go buy these boots instead.
Gay gay gay.
And yes, I recognize this as "addictive behavior."

N


One of the 187,654,362,874 reasons why I love my little sister:

"How do you explain that at 5:00 every day, you feel as if your heart might burst and the world shatters into a thousand thin blades of glass that lacerate your gut and make you want to fling yourself weeping from somewhere high to something flat, hard, and unyielding, so as to explode the pressure once and for all? Sometimes i feel as if i might just burst into flames, i feel my chest burning with a slow embryonic ember heat that howls to claw its way free and expose itself to the oxygen ignition. There are people with one long, endless scream going on within them and those are the ones my blood responds to and my instinct insect ticks towards, invisible scent on the wind unrelated to intelligence or common belief. It’s a sense apart from the animal and a part of the animal simultaneously somehow. I suppose it’s what makes me love some complete assholes, and other soft-spoken gentle people with bombs secretly ticking inside them, people with switchblade fury, no morality, or such morality that they hold it like a torch in front of them burning directly from their blood. they come from all paths, all corners, and you recognize them by the fact that they don’t give a fuck, or care too much in the world’s eyes. The possessors of a permanent, chronic fever of the soul."

Henceforth, a Blogue


As some of you know, I got my career started at Interview magazine back in the mid-90s, so I've been watching their regime change with great interest. Ingrid Sischy and Sandy Brant had a pretty bizarre influence on my late adolescence, and I basically worship Fabion Baron. The new September issue is pretty fucking great. My only problem with it was that every single designer they picked for their "Non-conformists" piece was a man, but other then that personal annoyance, it's a great read, especially the interviews with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kate Moss and this guy, who I am now totally obsessed with.
But the BEST part of the issue is Glenn O'Brien's brilliant way of dealing with Anna Wintour's distaste of the word blog. He refers to them as blogues.
Fucking. Genius.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Exercise in Abject Narcissism

When I was at rehab, one of my friends who was house sitting confessed that while I was away, he had accidentally stumbled across something on my computer that made him extremely uncomfortable. I cursed myself for not deleting the Plushie porn after downloading it, but it turns out his discovery was even worse.
He had opened my iPhoto and saw the 500-odd portraits I had taken of myself back during the initial Friendster and Myspace craze. I was mortified, AM STILL mortified, but I figure it's better to face these things head on. So, I give to you a video montage of my early internet social networking self-images. I wish I could claim that these photos were a pre-planned project to see how I'd grown since 2002, but no, each one was purely a ploy to try and land a boyfriend. I threw in some gory stuff from my pill-induced break down period in there too, so be warned. There will be blood. Oh, and I also set it to some time period appropriate Luxx/Berliniamsburg music. Enjoy, or be horrified.

Squatting in Barcelona?


Little sister, rumor has it you have run off to Barcelona to nurse a broken heart. If you are reading this, please get in touch. I'll fly you out here and we'll go to the upstate house and sift through old stuffed animals and climb up to the widow's watch and smoke a little pot and wail for our husbands who have been metaphorically lost at sea.
Call or email me, I'm worried.

Monday, August 25, 2008

"Ollie Dior" Tagger Finally Busted


I followed Ollie when I saw him sneaking out the window the other night, and LOOK WHAT I DISCOVERED!! He is so grounded.

Special thanks to Jonny for indulging my retarded whims.

Summer of Monsters Continues

Look at these HUGE parasites I found swimming in a vat of pigeon shit that your leather products get soaked in before being turned into a purse or shoes or, god forbid, pants. SICK!!!!
Use the plastic cup at the end of the video to get a sense of their size. Sorry for the Blair Witch filming style, but I was trying not to vomit.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

"Kindness is just love with its work boots on."


I saw "The House Bunny" this morning and cried, like, seven different times. And not out of laughter. Don't get me wrong, it was funny, but seriously, this is why I have so much gay shame. And why I miss opiates so much. I have so many FEELINGS now and they just keep popping out at really inappropriate moments. Who the fuck bursts into tears when someone utters the words in the headline above??
Jesus.