woodpecker or bitter old queen? you decide.

woodpecker.pdf

confessions of a queer thief

The hetero-normative ownership paradigm is a tyrant belief system that deserves to be undermined on every front, from political protest to petty thievery.

from Lockpick Pornography, an online novella, by Joey Comeau

Linked

uh, someone has linked to us. Kinda odd for such a personalized, narrowly focused, but, yes, it has to be said, fabulous, site as ours.

But anyway, seems like a fun site: go here

Booms Booms With A San Francisco Flare!

Joseph and Chris - you MUST join us - Joseph see if you can use the Tribune's AirStream Jetty Jet for the week-end?

See the little movie link below!!


FINAL%20KABOOM%20TIMELINE_v2.mov



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what?

Trannie sighting III

Oh, my kingdom for a camera.

I know the West Coast boys are probably sooo tired of reading of trannier-than-thou postings from mere Chicagoans, but this was really a great one.

Walking home from the L, along Belmont and all the vintage/shoe/takeout places there, I spied in one of the too-many shoe shops a man, a big man. He was tall, about 6-foot-something, and 270 pounds or so. He had a huge belly, large and rounded, like he was 18 months pregnant ... with triplets. Over this proud, upstanding belly was stretched, nearly to the point of splitting, a white undershirt. His face was plump and rotund. He was the type of guy you'd expect to see drunk, starting fights at a dive bar way out in the sticks, except for the very very short flouncy tight white skirt printed with huge, bright red flowers and the perfect white/blond wig that curled at a-just-under-his-chin length.

I wish I remembered the shoes.

I wonder, what was he doing there ...

Why are David and Paul suddenly interested in the 49-ers?

@ 20 Alex not only got the ettention of the media- he got the attention of the 872 fridge! . . . . . .hmmm 20+49(ers) = ?

what I do for a living

so, like, tonight after work there was a tasting, the Wine Spectator Grand Tour, about 210 wines. There was the 1996 Dom. There was Taittinger. There were several Bordeaux chateaus, lots of barolo, etc. So, midway through, the other two guys I went to the event with tracked me down and said I had to try this wine. So, we went back to that table. It was Gunderloch, a German maker; it was their dessert riesling, a riesling trockenbeerenauslese. One of the guys I was with is a sommelier with an amazing palate. He was wetting his pants, the wine was so good. So, we tried it. But first, I needed a rinse. I had been drinking several reds, so my glass was pretty coated. So, what you do is ask for a rinse, which is just a little pour of the next wine you're going to taste. You swirl it around in your glass to clean out the previous wine(s) and you dump it. So, the nice, tall, lean, attractive, blond Germanic woman poured us each a rinse saying: "Fritz would kill me if he knew I was doing this." That will become clear in a second, but as soon as she said that, I was worried. But, onward. She poured us our tasting, and we tried it. It was fantastic. Easily one of the best wines there, if not the best. If you are a person who thinks he doesn't like dessert wines nor rieslings and definitely not dessert rieslings, you'd still have to try this wine first. It was fantastic. Now, the wine retails for $375 a bottle. That's a 375 ml bottle (or a half bottle). Only 400 bottles of this 2002 were made (it is a wine that is not made every year; only made when the conditions are right). 24 of them were given by the vintner to the Grand Tour (which is a 3-city tour, none San Fran; sorry). Sam's Wines, the largest wine shop in the nation and a Chicago institution, maybe has 2 or 3 bottles, according to our pourer. So, here's the point: Basically, I swirled and then dumped a $10 rinse.

That is not right.

Cheers, sweeties.