My weekend was great (including the big, dramatic, emotional, "discussion" on the couch which turns out to have given me a lot of hope and excitement) and pretty relaxing which is what I was hoping for. Friday night we joined in Boston's restaurant week though it was unplanned. I had some really good Parisian steak frite with standard mustard butter. Mmm. We attempted to go out dancing but the fucking Red Sox game let out just as we were trying to park our cah in the area with the clubs and Fenway park so we gave up nearly instantly. Saturday I got to hang around lounging on the roof reading Potter and taking some pics since it was an absolutely perfect weather day followed by our "discussion" followed by a fabu dinner party in Dorchester at Justins house. Sunday, we said a sad farewell to Carl who headed to Barcelona before a bunch of other places at a brunch before a hop through the Ansel Adams show (which was great) at the MFA and my first ever mani-pedicure which made me feel like a little girl but left me wanting another as soon as I stepped outside and looked at my half moon fingers. They look soooo.... clean. Haha. Had a small get together to watch the premiere of HBO's Rome which turned out to be a let down. Oh well. I always have high hopes for HBO but they don't always follow through.
Some other things.
I am a total news freak when it comes to disasters of certain magnitudes. It just sucks me in. The replaying of the off shore digging facility because oil prices have skyrocketed to the view from the hotel balcony overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. I remember another course in college about the media and the professor saying, "Nothing makes tv news like a hurricane. It is just purely visual."
Harry Potter book 4 turns out to have grabbed me tremendously in the last 200 pages. I have nearly finished it (or enough that I am now reviewing it) and must say that I really liked the book. I think the character development for Harry is really really good, the fantasy world she creates is magical yet not C.S. Lewis, and the imagination on Rowlings part is pretty good. Much more than the movies YET I do feel that Rowling could have written it about 250 pages less (she seems to rehash a lot with a lot of words that are unneeded). I am not sure if I will actually read another one anytime soon but maybe once I see movie 4 I will feel the need to do it again.
I am onto my third pair of Baskit underwear. Buy them here or any hip store. I totally think they look hot as hell (not just on me haha) but on others, they fit amazingly well, are above and beyond 2xist as a brand now (straight guys are wearing 2xist now, come on!), and they even come with a condom holder in them, so those who choose to cruise around the bathhouse in their underwear can feel like they are absolutely ready to go.
This is a book that I suggest every young gay man should read:
Clean
A New Generation in Recovery Speaks OutRecovery
A firsthand look at what it means—and what it takes—for young addicts to get clean and stay clean
"To suddenly think, ‘Hey, wait a minute, I’m 21. I just got sober. I can’t drink like all my friends ever again?’ I remember thinking my whole life had crumbled." Welcome to recovery from a young addict’s perspective. Written by MTV’s Chris Beckman with contributions from dozens of teens and twentysomethings in recovery, Clean is part autobiography, part addiction and recovery primer, and part wake-up call about what’s really going on in schools, cars, malls, and wherever else kids come in contact with drugs and alcohol. Beckman, whose out-of-control drinking and drugging lasted more than a decade before he got sober at age 24, uses his story to illustrate the book’s fundamental message that recovery at a young age is very different from recovery in adulthood. "We get clean at 20 and feel like we’re still 13 emotionally," he writes. Clean is the real thing: an honest, nonjudgmental, peer-to-peer lifeline for young people thinking about experimenting with drugs, for those who are already experimenting or those who are already addicted, and for families and friends who want to understand and help.
Price
Quality Paperback $12.95 $10.35
Posted by: robert | November 20, 2005 at 02:51 PM