and what did you do this summer?

My sister Ann and her husband Mark are currently on a road trip through Canada and the US. She’s keeping a delightful blog about it. I’m not sure she’d want me to announce the link to the world at large, but if you’re interested in reading it, message me and I can give it to…

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time machine in my neighboring city

The old Woolworth’s Building in Oxnard now houses a nice little restaurant. Oxnard is a puzzling city, to say the least. “Whimsy” or “Respect for the Past” does not immediately spring to mind when contemplating Oxnard. However, the Woolworth’s building is preserved and quite lovely. And behind the restaurant, in the hallway, is a mini…

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no time for losers

I’ve been playing trivia on a regular basis with my team, the Breakfast Club. We are soooo good. We’re climbing the ranks. We may even make it to some regional thing in August. My teammates and I have great chemistry and good combined brain. However, the Breakfast Club is made up of gay men and…

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flashback

My roommate Tracy and me at our Christmas party in 1991. That’s a bold blond bob wig atop Tracy’s copper tresses. She made the hat I am wearing. That black dress now lives in my costume box. We lived in a flat above a Chinese restaurant and the living room (where this picture was taken)…

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shoe luck 2

After the last shoe score, I was hoping I could break myself out of the habit of the idiotic platform flipflops to which I keep defaulting to wearing. But no. Still haven’t rehabbed. So, off I went to the constant, ongoing megasale over at a local store downtown — buy one pair, get TWO PAIRS…

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so how was the festival, anyway?

I’ve talked about getting ready for it, my cold during it, the popularly of the Big Ugly Glasses throughout it. But how was the festival itself, doofus? Great. Intense. Dense. Freeing/frustrating. The focus was on the concept of “The Fool” and how it relates to improv. We delved into Shakespeares’ fools as well as clowns…

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man, you are a boy now

It’s 3am Sunday morning and I have a full day ahead of me, after I try to catch some sleep. This is going to be the blog post for the day. Oh, and the manfriend has now become the boyfriend. He’s snoring next to me and I’m about to join him. Good night!

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gentle, oh so gentle humor

I opened up an actual newspaper recently, first time in ages. Obits, local news, then comics. I laughed out loud at this Beetle Bailey cartoon. Is that wrong? Cookie has a cupcake on his head!

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a plague upon my house

My co-star on my trip to the International Improv Fest in Seattle last week was my cold, my endless cold. I was so ill. I had hoped, obviously, that I would be more out of the woods before I left. Little did I know this would be a 3 week+ rhinovirus odyssey. Things for which…

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my double vision always seems to get the best of me

I finally shambled on over for an eye exam, after a couple years of eye neglect. I had not been looking forward to it, because, in addition to my near-sightedness, I have been increasingly in need of reading glasses. Ah, age. I have been trying to have fun with the whole reading glasses thing —…

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