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!!!