Thursday, June 28, 2007
got a haircut from kelly last thursday in prep for PRIDE 07: uptown pride @ blb on friday w/ kung, bob mould impressing solo, doing lots of classics - wishing well, hoover dam, celebrated summer - and showin off a nicely buffed-up gay rugby type bod! i wonder if he wears a speedo to da beach these days ... skipped da eagle block party saturday, then back to the salon y’all for traditional sunday brunch mimosas + parade viewing @ da shOp - thanx ’n thanx kelly! we gays love us our traditions, and the christmas-in-june holiday way pride has of getting you back together w/ your dearest, if not nearest, longtime queer kin is not only a big heartwarming party, but also very important for our community, for obvious reasons ... we made out way down to the festival in loring park, partied w/ lots of dudes i never get a chance to hang out with anymore - loved playing ‘do not feed the bears’ w/ shirtless tony l on the other side of the chain link fence @ da beer garden, shirtless brad n swelled the bear contingent before we all took off together for the saloon block party, where brad heckled da kine esera into taking HIS shirt off for the last song in his set, which was surprisingly good! i was also impressed by brad’s influence from the audience - kung + i never considered trying to get bob to take his shirt off on friday night... but then i guess pride magic tends to build over the weekend, peaking on sunday night, when esera was wearing the exact same olive-grey nautica cargo shorts that i’ve been workin for the last 2 years both here + in hawai’i, which to me indicates a cosmic connection: several times during his performance he was looking directly at and singing only for shirtless, plastic-flower-rainbow-lei-wearin tom-A-hawk ... the party progressed into a tank-top-burned, bud-soaked bacchanal. esera gamely flirted back w/ me here and there as the sun went down, serving w/ bob as a nice big bookend to my plus-sized sweaty gay rockstar pride. next up: bastille day block party at cafe barbette - sunday july 15! HAPPY SUMMER!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
thawk + bob blob @ uptown pride ... thanx to kung for taking the photo, full pride 07 rundown coming soon!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
checkin in on a sultry midsummer’s eve, tom-A-hawk reporting that summer is in full swing. big summer weather continues with lots of walks to lake calhoun with seger + i wading along the shoreline from 32nd street beach to the boat landing, made my 1st bike trip to twin lake in i don’t know how long last monday - always forget what a great ride that is. hennepin / lake wine tasting a week ago was a smash - maybe not quite as many cute boys as in the past but as our friend mark likes to say: it only takes one... [mark met up w/ me and my new bud boone under the tent with an icy martini in his hand] ...and there was one, best of show edgy blond caveman and my current favorite member at the gym where i work - plus i got to chat him up, and he was nice! oh yes, the wine ... i decided to focus on new zealand sauvignon blancs as a starting point, chose the NOBILO ICON as the winner before i moved on from trying to focus on anything. first selection to knock my socks off was a fair trade red repped by - who else - fetching retro-hip wine guy BRAD from back in the day: the smoky, smoky CALESA CARMENERE, + i enthusiatically seconded boone’s top pick, the LOUIS B. MARTINI 2001 MONTE ROSSO CABERNET. my friend chris took enough time off from ripping on my haircut (or lack thereof) to tip me off about the 1999 VEUVE available for sampling; thom pham was there, and judging by how he was dressed i’d say he’s single again. towards the end of the event label art and other subjective qualities became the main deciding factors over what we chose to taste: boone tried a portuguese red with roosters on the label because he was born in the year of the rooster, i tried a south african red called THE WOLF TRAP that happened to be sitting right next to it because i was born in the year of the dog. the rest of my selections had already become a blur to me by the end of the evening, but walking away with an exhaustive, annotated list is not my goal at this event - it simply serves to rekindle my enthusiasm and appreciation of wine in general, and inspires me to branch out and try something new, like when i went back to hennepin / lake a few days later and was led around the corner to a section i never browse in my search for the nobilo, where i returned yesterday and found the CASA LAPOSTOLLE SAUVIGNON BLANC - 14.5% alcohol content! the magic was confirmed when i crossed the street to finally get myself some new bumble + bumble shampoo + conditioner and what is sitting behind the counter at jon charles salon but a big case of the same stuff i had in my hand.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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