...the Key Lime Pie dessert at the Pleasant Peasant in Friendship Heights...the Key Lime Pie in Key West (same dessert, different gastronomical results!)...having the guts to dance on-stage at the Mid-Atlantic Leather Contest (we had help!)...the waiter at Bryce Canyon, UT who wanted to open a bottle of champagne with a corkscrew!...Because the plot demands it!...Marilyn Ulloa & Monique Price & Darlene Murray...exploding manhole covers 20 years before it became "chic"...the burglar who broke into a neighboring townhouse, tripped the silent alarm and was caught by the police as he tried to escape out the back door...going shopping & eating in Westgate Mall in Brockton, MA with Rick & his mother...Philippe falling asleep & Roman's stomach growling during management meetings...the Dark Crystal, with Mystics, Skeksis, Gelflings & Aughra!...the boxes that fell off the truck in front of us on I-110 while we were returning to LAX, and the quick maneuvers we made (I'd like to have been above that highway to have seen what we actually did!)...Don't ask why!...buying sweet bread & linguicia in Newport, RI...driving a rental car with no tags, and an expiration date that was before we would return the vehicle (courtesy of Phoneix, AZ)...Connie Williamson & Kim Brown..."Mother Dubee" & the "Queen City Follies" (where we first heard Yma Sumac)...Status Quo...the lousy Hampton Inn at Fall River, MA...Crisis on Infinite Earths...watching Jack Wrangler perform at the Follies...Gene, the fan dancer at TRACKS...going to Leather Cocktails, which became Leather Weekend, which was held at the "EXILE" which became too small which was why it was moved to TRACKS, which became too crowded to be comfortable...Sutton Place & Trader Joe's...I'm not talking to you! (commercial line)...Get down on it!...seeing Chris Burns at Deer Park Lodge...
"Be afraid, be very afraid..."
...touring colonial Williamsburg & Mount Vernon in VA...exploring the "Greeks" at Nashville, TN...seeing Gatlinburg, TN...the woman in the health food store at Max Meadows, VA...our former rental property, the ceiling in the small room was more on the floor than above it; the weird exposed pipes that did not serve much purpose, the cracks that would reappear in the walls & ceiling every few years...the commode upstairs which took forever to refill, and sometimes needed encouragement...or the toilet in the basement which perpetually leaked, as well as the basement floor itself under rainy conditions...
...the sight of vehicles with Mexico tags...Would you please pass the jelly?...5 students from New Bedford, MA were going to stage a Columbine-style attack on the high school, the plans, some literature and weapons were found by a janitor...their plan was to set off a bomb in the building, shoot people,
then kill themselves...I want a billionaire, with a big, big, big, big.......economy shrank at 1.1% in the third quarter, the worse Gross Domestic Product slump since 1991...analysts predict that the economy will shrink again in the fourth quarter, forcing companies to shrink inventories...most jobs lost in back to back months since 1980...the unemployment is at its highest rate since August of 1995...but Intel & Home Depot expects fourth quarter profits...living la vida loca...tanking up on high octane coffee at a 7-11 in Waynesboro, VA and talking all the way back to DC...appearing in leather attire at our neighborhood Giant supermarket in VA to pick up Tidal Wave ingredients for a Trident Int'l cocktail party; did the same in TN during Marathon...Aftertime Comics in Alexandria, VA...the Center in the Pretender is the GSA complex in Mutant X... the rotary in Spartanburg, SC where we bought a bushel of peaches, which taste better than those of GA, which is the Peach State...there is a water tower in the shape of a huge peach in SC......Sim City...Al Brown & Mike Caldas, whose mother, Dicey, cut our hair while we lived in Fairhaven...I have Hepatitis C...Spike & Drusilla...Thoroughly Modern Millie, elevators, Bea Lillie & Dancing in the Dark by Mike Maureen (you had to have been there!)...the perils of Rosella...we call it cocktail music...Italo-disco...Holding out for a Hero...The Making of a Male Model with John Erik Huxum & Joan Collins...being told that Brad & Mike W. live in the past, which started a heated discussion; well, on that day, we must have transfered that trait to our club members and completely removed it from us...from that day forward we heard: Remember when we used to..., or Those were some good times we had at... and Remember the days of the...Status Quo!...the East Coast Fetish Family, now renamed the Southwest Fetish Family...the iron sets off the fire alarm when placed directly below it...Gentlemen, please, watch your wallets!...
...11/14/01: Brad has his first visit at the HIV clinic in Albuquerque; Mike, the Monday following...the steps are: talk to a social worker, then a nurse, then the doctor (Dr. Thornton [F] for Brad, Dr. Williams [M] for Mike)...people with this disease can get food, or money to pay rent, insurance and medical expenses, plus allow free message or accupuncture treatment...even a pet will be provided money to maintain the necessary care, food & attention he/she deserves...a shuttle is provided for the trek to UNM to draw blood...the clinic is at the corner of Truman & Marble NE, just north of Lomas; UNM is spread around University, Yale, Central & Lomas...received flu & pneumo-vax (Mike) shots...return visits on 12/10/01 to draw more blood...Mike is still waiting for medical records from Dr. Bruni which were requested by fax the week of Thanksgiving, and not received as of 11/29/01...Mike had a return visit on 12/21/01 to find out if he has contracted Hepatitis C...
"What do you think, Regent? I think...pastels!" (Pause.) "We're a long way beyond pastels now."
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