There was a President of this country, a good but flawed man, who took office with a promise:  he would make it so if a man loved a man and a woman loved a woman, they would be welcome to fight in his army.  It was a mad act, this promise, and his opponents took [...]

Here’s a bit of surprising news: Cambridge researches have found that, like Latin and Esperanto before it, the gay subculture code language, Polari, is facing extinction. Here’s another bit of surprising news:  There is a gay subculture code language, and it’s called Polari.  THAT.  IS.  COOL. So, it’s going away, and I just found out [...]

My buddy and co-writer Drew’s birthday has brought me, quite unexpectedly, to Las Vegas.  To get even more specific, it has brought me drunk and stumbling down the Strip, our origin the MGM Grand, our destination the Mandalay Bay.  The MGM Grand’s tower rooms are so nice, that’s it quite obvious they plunk their money [...]

If you’re someone who thinks it’s still too early to be playing Christmas music, and/or you dislike Christmas music en toto, then I’d stop on by the 80′s department in iTunes and see a man about The Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping.”  Waitresses were one-hit album wonders, probably best known for “I Know What Boys Like.”  They’re [...]

It’s a cliche to say that the Holidays is a time for getting your drink on.  But I do so in a positive way, not a “I must dull the torture of all this singing and cheer and oppressive family gatherings” way. It’s the perfect time of year to throw on a buzz, blissful and [...]