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raybear"Ark-building" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
My pants are completely soaked through, and I'm in my bare feet since my boots and socks are completely saturated. And we just got a call from the landlord saying the southwest loop generator is flooded, so the power may go out at some point. In which case we will evacuate out the stairs and I get to go home. Yay. Though I don't particularly want to go back out in the rain, it would be nice to go back under the covers and watch movies on a gray day like this.
Got an e-mail from El___, which was sweet and I don't feel as self-conscious about how things ended. At this point I think I'm just going to focus on being friends, and then if she comes back from her vacation with some revelation that she wants to fcuk me, we'll just take it from there. But if that never happens, I'm still going to want to talk to her, maybe even hang out, and not have it be weird when we run into each other (which is inevitable in the chicago queer community). Unfortunately, I can't write her back, since my e-mail seems to be sunk. I receive messages ok, but nothing seems to be going out. Hrrrmph.
So I'm planning on getting involved with About Face Theater this fall, which I'm very excited about. I just heard back from someone who's an incoming artistic director (I think that's her title?), and we have a couple different connections from school and friends, and she will hopefully hook me up with some good opportunities. The youth group doesn't start up until January, but I'm interested in the regular company as well. I'm excited to go back into theater again -- it's been about 5 years. The summer on 1996 when I played guitar in the pit of Joseph and the Amazing Techinicolor whatever. But I really loved stage managing Hello Dolly in '95.
The new issue of the day: consciously realizing that this summer is NOT a break from routine that will re-established next month. It's a transition into an entirely new routine. This is important for someone like me who simultaneously enjoys change but also clings to inertia and experiences intense nostalgia.
In other news, why has the world forgotten that Usher is gay?
My pants are completely soaked through, and I'm in my bare feet since my boots and socks are completely saturated. And we just got a call from the landlord saying the southwest loop generator is flooded, so the power may go out at some point. In which case we will evacuate out the stairs and I get to go home. Yay. Though I don't particularly want to go back out in the rain, it would be nice to go back under the covers and watch movies on a gray day like this.
Got an e-mail from El___, which was sweet and I don't feel as self-conscious about how things ended. At this point I think I'm just going to focus on being friends, and then if she comes back from her vacation with some revelation that she wants to fcuk me, we'll just take it from there. But if that never happens, I'm still going to want to talk to her, maybe even hang out, and not have it be weird when we run into each other (which is inevitable in the chicago queer community). Unfortunately, I can't write her back, since my e-mail seems to be sunk. I receive messages ok, but nothing seems to be going out. Hrrrmph.
So I'm planning on getting involved with About Face Theater this fall, which I'm very excited about. I just heard back from someone who's an incoming artistic director (I think that's her title?), and we have a couple different connections from school and friends, and she will hopefully hook me up with some good opportunities. The youth group doesn't start up until January, but I'm interested in the regular company as well. I'm excited to go back into theater again -- it's been about 5 years. The summer on 1996 when I played guitar in the pit of Joseph and the Amazing Techinicolor whatever. But I really loved stage managing Hello Dolly in '95.
The new issue of the day: consciously realizing that this summer is NOT a break from routine that will re-established next month. It's a transition into an entirely new routine. This is important for someone like me who simultaneously enjoys change but also clings to inertia and experiences intense nostalgia.
In other news, why has the world forgotten that Usher is gay?
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duh
Date: 2001-08-02 08:48 am (UTC)There is no middle ground. Usher, therefore is not forgotten in his overwhelming homosexuality, but he is excused from it because The System demands and reenforces that all black males are hyperheterosexual. This is why we are feared as white-woman rapists.
A serious answer to a harmless question. It's not for you, but that's just my black ass educating the masses and using your post as fuel for my ranting.
gawd bless america,
joe
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 09:04 am (UTC)Ry the ignorant
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 09:19 am (UTC)But people just forget. Or more accurately, ignore/cover-up.
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 09:23 am (UTC)Ry
hyde park dykes
Date: 2001-08-02 09:36 am (UTC)Re: hyde park dykes
Date: 2001-08-02 09:38 am (UTC)Laaaaaaaaadyyyyyyyy
Ry
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 09:41 am (UTC)Ry the delinquint queer
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 10:06 am (UTC)You are not ignorant. Usher isn't KNOWN to be gay, it's just HIGHLY LIKELY and, in many an interview, he often referrs to himself as "the black liberaci."
I was semi-serious, Ry. It's just a rant between Ray & I.
You're not ignorant unless you want to be,
Joe The Confooser o da masses
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 10:12 am (UTC)Yeah, but I understand your point.
On the note of rants with Ray, we had a very nice conversation in which I discovered that I am not alone in many of my unpopular stances. Hurrah for sanity.
Ry
Re: duh
Date: 2001-08-02 10:50 am (UTC)hurRAY for sanity indeed!
joe
no subject
Date: 2001-08-02 09:29 am (UTC)I had no idea about any of them! *gasp*
..and the thing that's sick is that I'm a queer history buff. I knew Tevin Campbell and Bayard Rustin were, but those fellas I didn't know.
Ya learn something everyday.
Thanks for educating me fellas.
i thought
Date: 2001-08-02 09:52 am (UTC)bisexual celebrities
Date: 2001-08-02 10:06 am (UTC)There are tons of cool out bi celebrities (with my favorite perhaps being Megan Mullally), but we definitely need more out icons. Freddie Mercury isn't quite enough. And I wish these folks would come out in non-gay magazines. Like it's cool that they say in The Advocate that they've dated both men and women, but I want them to say it in freaking Time Magazine and Rolling Stone or whatever. In other words, I want my mom (i.e. middle America) to know that they're queer.
I'm starting to feel like Michelangelo Signorile....
Re: bisexual celebrities
Date: 2001-08-02 10:13 am (UTC)ok, off my soapbox.
Re: bisexual celebrities
Date: 2001-08-02 11:05 am (UTC)I mean, look at Missy Elliot, her dancing around the issue got so bad that she just sorta stopped saying anything in interviews.
I think that homophobia in america has to chill the fuck out just a bit in order for our 'family' members in the industry to be able to strut their stuff like they should.
borrowing your soap box,
Joe
Re: bisexual celebrities
Date: 2001-08-02 10:21 am (UTC)Oh wait, right-o. My bad.
Down Ry!
Ry
no subject
Date: 2001-08-02 09:02 pm (UTC)just having a little self-referential laugh over here, and thinking about how we forgot about courtney.
and [wave] hi to all of ray's kick-ass friends i'm reading over here. nice to have the key to the city and all that.