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ah, astrid...my role model. i love that dress!
30 October 2001
i still can't decide what to do for Halloween. or where to go. or what to be. but that's okay. i'm fify and i still can't decide what i want to be when i grow up...whenever that might be.
some of my colleagues are doing a Lucille Ball thing this year, so if you happen to be wandering around downtown Berkeley in the early afternoon tomorrow and espy a bevy of Lucys - maybe even an Ethel - you're probably seeing some folks i work with.
i thought i might be going to the Castro this year. still might, though if the yucky weather keeps up i'm likely to venture out only as far as my therapist's office.
after reading three or four recent articles i went out and bought the new Leonard Cohen this weekend. i find myself listening to it quite a bit. letting it soak down deep into the brain. like the rain.
drew was a tremendous help yesterday, getting us up and running on our office's new DSL and then coming back later to apply his healing hands to cure a network printing problem. and if i can shake my gray mood - let's blame the weather! - i'm likely to accompany him over to North Beach tonight where Susan Stryker will be talking about her new book, "Queer Pulp". drew and i saw her several years ago at the LGBT International Film Fest when she presented a work in progress.
drew has also been writing quite a bit about the current depressing events on his blog. but more than that, he reminds me through his actions that one can do more.
30 October 2001
yesterday i spent most of the afternoon with drew in front of Oakland City Hall at a public gathering in honour of Barbara Lee.
Alice Walker, Danny Glover and many others, spoke, sang and orated, but it was Danny Glover's comments referring back to a speech that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had made some 30 years ago at Riverside Church in New York City that moved me most. and his stirring rendition of the Langston Hughes poem quoted by Dr. King in his speech. and the fiery and eloquent introduction that Supervisor Keith Carson gave Barbara Lee.
it's too bad, too sad, that we're in times where to even speak of caution is taken as a traitorous act.
22 October 2001
"Mao II" by Don Delillo.
"Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
"The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold" by Kate Bernheimer
"Arthur or the decline and fall of the British Empire" by the Kinks
"Requiem" by Gyorgy Ligeti
alas, none! although drew and i and maybe the g-daughter might take in "From Hell" tomorrow and then catch the celebration in downtown Oakland in honor of Barbara Lee.
basic black...which reminds me that i'm just one paycheck away from a shopping trip to Sephora.
20 October 2001
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