My sister made a lovely cake. Her and her husband and now shown in the picture, but these are the best ones that we took on a Friday before a holiday weekend when we had a BBQ.
My 42nd Birthday
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Pride Week 2010
Videos and pictures – One of the videos is from the Dyke March gathering after which I first heard, then saw Wanda Sykes and her wife. Wanda was amused by a completely naked man with a genital piercing so behind her sunglasses and with her short dreads, I saw her pull out her camera and take a shot of him. I’m glad their twins were not there!
I can’t believe that a 19 year old kid was shot and killed at the Pink Party. A few others were injured. I left relatively early that evening and I had quite a week with six days of staying in the city with various friends visiting from London, Berlin and Philadelphia. My friend Gene hung out with me a lot and he put me up for a night when two unmentionably flaky people from the Sacramento area left me high and dry at 1am after begging me to wait for them. I knew all the hotels would be booked this weekend of all weekends, so I had the prospect f sleeping on my office floor, which fortunately did not have to manifest.
I met a lot of nice men and women and came into town with my daughter and her two friends and my Yorkie on Sunday, but I didn’t stay too late as the week caught up with me. I was just getting over losing my voice the week before, but I got a lot of walking in and I had most of my energy back.
Alex’s Graduation Party and Father’s Day BBQ
Throwback picture from 1994
This is a picture of Alex, her mother and me in 1994 around the corner from where Alex and I now live, on Montgomery Street in Cherryland, where Alex’s aunt used to live. We pass that house almost every day now.
Pictures and video of daughter’s graduation
She had rehearsal this morning. She’s had my Mom and me there and relatives from her Mom’s side are visiting from all over the country. She got a job, her driver’s license and her yearbook all in the past few weeks. I’m very proud of her. I just wish I had a VOICE since yesterday it started to go south, and I wasn’t be able to scream and yell congratulations to her tonight from the audience. There were 710 people graduating! It’s a good thing it’s one of the longest days of the year, since it didn’t start until 6:30pm and it was a long ceremony. We also sat in the shade, which was comfortable when we first got there, but soon got kind of chilly.
More Point Isabel and Berkeley’s Live Oak Street Fair
Video and pictures of Monte, Aaron and me:
Trip to Santa Cruz and Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Some pictures and a video of our trip around the bay today.
We thought the buildings by the lighthouse were for the staff, but it’s actually a hostel! See http://www.norcalhostels.org/pigeon/
Protected: 20100531 Virtual Tour Gallery & Video
Here are four videos and about 150 pictures to give you a virtual tour of our new place, which we moved into a few days before April Fool’s Day this year. It feels like I’ve barely been here since with my trips to Phoenix and New York, where I was for 11 days.
New car is only eight years old!
I got a 2002 Buick LeSabre with only one previous owner and only 69k miles on it. It’s a V6, so it should last a long time, and seems to be in fantastic condition.
201005 New York Scenes including visit to Highline Park
I had three celebrity sightings when I was there this time. Anderson Cooper was eating at Chat & Chew near Union Square, one of my old hangouts. He was with the Parisian guy who is reputed to be his boyfriend (I later saw a link and verified his identity). I also saw Kristin Wiig at the former Dugout/Rock Bar, making out with a woman. She was already my favorite SNL cast member at the moment. Now she really is! Lastly I saw Michael Musto at the Urban Bear Weekend fair. He’s a Village Voice columnist who I used to see around town all the time.
It was so great to see many old friends, but I did neglect to photograph a few special people, including Laura Yellon, Chris Cintron, Ted Habza and David A. Garcia, who I made sure to spend time with as they went out of their way to make sure they saw me. Here are pictures of the various events and people I saw, including my first look from the High Line Park, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
