men: they all look alike

The Last Saturday in September, 2007
A bunch of my cousins and aunts and uncles who were in NYC gathered for dinner at my apartment and incidentally met Performer, my then bf, known in blog categories as “manhattan violinist who went back to his fat ugly wife.”
The Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, 2008
Some of the [...]

an interview with mimi about her new and (with luck) final beloved

YO MIMI!
Long time no hear.
WHAZZUP?
Lots.
SUCH AS?
Funny Guy.
YEAH. I HEARD. HOWZIT GOING?
Well, really, I could use the word ‘amazing’ and be accurate. This coming Sunday it will be seven weeks since we met, and things keep getting better and better. Every now and then there are mild — [...]

the mickey mouse club & other little stories about funny guy

HIS CLOTHES
Funny Guy looked terrific last night: he was wearing light, sort of beige-colored pants, very crisp-looking, a pale blue striped shirt with button-down collar, beige suspenders that matched the pants, and an off-white jacket (with a Lord & Taylor label) bought at a Harlem thrift shop. I gather most of his ‘nice’ [...]

the answering-machine message

‘Hi, this is Rachel. You’ve reached Rachel and Funny Guy. We can’t get to the phone right now, so please leave a message.’
* * *
I was a bit surprised to hear that message.
As you can imagine.
* * *
Deep [...]

modified rapture

Not knowing when he was going to spend his first night in my apartment — not knowing, to use his lingo, when we were going to have our first sleepover — Funny Guy was in fact packing clean underwear and a toothbrush in the messenger-type-bag in which he regularly carries water, a book, [...]

so what is funny guy like?

funny guy is funny
We were sitting on the sofa the other night, talking about serious stuff, i.e. family I think, and the following conversation took place:
MIMI Life is painful…
FUNNY GUY May I write that down?
[...]

the ‘Dear John’ letters

May 31, 2009
1.
Hi Dave, thanks so much for writing. Very thoughtful of you.
Well, I could say, who left the economy in better condition, Clinton or W?! seems pretty clear which party has the stronger fiscal policy. Obama is stuck with doing damage control on the mess the Republicans left.
Okay, well, I [...]