Archive for November, 2008

change i can believe in

November 30, 2008

Crossing XXX Avenue on my way home from buying underwear on sale at Gap, or was it standing at the curb waiting for the light to change, I had a thought: and my thought was, that with Plan C and Performer there were lots of differences of taste and opinion that I was always [...]

dater’s dark night of the soul

November 24, 2008

Sunday evening. I’m expecting a call – — not that he needs to, or that I asked him to, but he has made a practice of phoning me every day.
But the phone doesn’t ring.
1) I think, Maybe I dreamt it. Maybe it didn’t happen. Maybe I’m back where I was, still dating [...]

scenes from my dating life at the present moment

November 20, 2008

telephone conversation Tuesday 18 November
T: I’m so excited to see you, I’m like a little kid.
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Now that’s the nicest thing I’ve heard since the news that Obama was elected.
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from the same phone conversation
T: [...]

the forty-second new man

November 18, 2008

I’m up to # 43, who was the homophobic date in the previous post, the guy who swiftly walked me to the bus stop instead of taking me out to dinner! But that was fine with me, because he was ugly and tiresome.
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But back to T, [...]

gay by association

November 11, 2008

My checkered past.
Hmmm.
Checkered lavender and pink.
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Have you ever heard of heterodating homophobia?
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Probably not.
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I discovered it, and here’s what it means: men, some men, are afraid of dating a [...]

an interview with mimi about the dating status quo

November 7, 2008

Well, Mimi…
Yes?
So how’s it going, three months after the end of Plan C?
God, has it been that long?
Yes, it has. Three months plus, really, since Sunday August 3rd, when you had that discussion at his kitchen table, The Talk….
Wow. I guess it has been that long. And really, the whole relationship was [...]

vote for Obama

November 4, 2008

Mimi (wearing her blue-striped Democratic socks) dancing in the street with a glass of champagne in her hand.

trick-or-treat man

November 2, 2008

See the guy in this pic handing out candy to the kids? the guy in the black leather jacket?

Guess who he is?
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No. Guess again.
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You give up??
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