So You Wanna Have a Gay Orgy

Better disasters through planning You're in the dead zone, that stretch of time somewhere between 2AM and dawn, when normal lovers of every configuration, from par-for-the-course to unimagined, are enjoying the sweaty fulfillment of eagerly-anticipated dates made early the previous evening, or even, in cases of terminal normality, entire days in advance. You, on the … Continue reading So You Wanna Have a Gay Orgy

Aubade du vieux désagréable / (Morning Song of the Horrible Old Man)

Just - desserts... I’m old, I’m bold,Unnaturally cold,I won’t behave as I’ve been told. My greasy dishes fill the sink—I’d rather dally with a twink. Parquet burnt with cigarettesWon’t get me listed in Debrett’s Kawartha ice cream by the quartIs felony, but not a tort I sleep till noon and mock your ethic:Wage slavery is … Continue reading Aubade du vieux désagréable / (Morning Song of the Horrible Old Man)

Ethylene Glum and Me

+PLUS+ #MondayManCrush: Shaman Dude Jake Angeli MANY OF YOU MAY BE UNAWARE THAT I was the original choice for "Dorothy" in "The Wizard of Oz." There, it's finally out, and what a burden it's been these— sixty? one hundred? I lose count—years. And I hesitated about telling you, knowing you'd never again be able to … Continue reading Ethylene Glum and Me

New Year’s Resolutions +plus+ : Step aside and don your catcher’s masks…

Hasta la vista, 2015, and take a bitch-slap on your way out.  Gracias! ... while I haul back, preparatory to bitch-slapping the year formerly known as Little Miss 2015 from here to Des Moines and back. Hasta la vista, withered old putana of a year, and go dance your hobnail-booted habañera on someone else's empañada! Be it ever so faint, the next sound … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions +plus+ : Step aside and don your catcher’s masks…