Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

I only vacuum when I move. It's been 4 years.

i clean the shit out of my place whenever we have parties but we've only had 2 parties here so

it's not the filth, it's the clutter

my years of collecting shit i buy at thrift stores is really starting to catch up with me

I'm not mad at the dirt or anything, but, srsly guys. Pick up a broom every once in awhile.

so, only a Grey Gardens fan at a remove?

I don't let anything get unsanitary.

that article is great (the homeless youth one). temara jazmyn reminds me of t is the t.

I wouldn't have stepped foot in that house, but would've hung out with them on the deck.

Dirty bathrooms are the dealbreaker.

haha had that same thought too, matt

I was only in Boystown one night this time for a couple hours to go to the Chicago Diner, def not long enough to absorb anything except the weird steel rainbow phalluses on every block.

If I visit those guys again I am not sleeping anywhere near the muskrat path.

My toilet is immaculate. The floor, just dusty.

My bf of nine years is fixing to join ILX, mostly to start an "Ask a Filipino" thread, after reading yesterday's papasan conversation.

He and I are living in different cities this year. His mom is sick and needs taking care of. Obviously it's totally great that I can work and he can take time off to look after her, but I selfishly miss having a confidant in the room.

Sorry, Owen/I'm impressed. Distance is never fun/easy.

JF is in New York for two months and finding times that work for both of us to just squeeze in quick 'what have you been up to' conversations is tricky. I can't imagine what a year (or longer) would be like. My sister and her boyfriend did four years of long distance, though, so I guess people make it work for them.

yeah geez i'm at three weeks with my bf gone and i'm already going stir-crazy kind of. are you gonna go visit him?

owen or me?

i wanted to, because i love new york, and every time i've been this year i've only managed to see one or two of y'all but it might be prohibitively expensive?

i'm doing a bunch of non-paying work for the summer, and my last potential paying research gig didn't pan out, so even though JF has a place for the month it looks less likely.

he's back august 4, so I have two potential weeks to do it? i dunno. i'd also have to find someone else to take care of his cat, etc. while i'm gone. just complicated.

i promise i'll come back and visit soon, though. maybe sometime in the fall? maybe i'll drag him down for his birthday? who knows.

ha, that was to whomever! two weeks seems like short enough of a wait to me.

if B goes down there again for longer (like 3 months or something) i'd like to visit him, although this presumes i'll have $1000 to blow by that point which...

As for me, my bf is only three hours away. Kingston. Boo hoo. It's not THAT bad, we see each other every three weeks or so. But I have been having the weirdest mental issues without him around. Panic attacks, tearful phone calls, real pathetic stuff. I started playing video games in the evenings to deal, for the first time in years. I guess I'm in no position to complain, the couple of you who've met him know he's pretty much an A+ dude.

It's ok! I've displaced all my boyfriend feelings (well, not all my boyfriend feelings, but you know what I mean) onto his cat that I'm watching for a month, and when the cat started dealing poorly with the 32+ degree weather, I decided I should panic about my relationship.

Sanity! It's overrated.

i don't need distance to act completely irrational about my relationship. :/

I'm watching Glitter and can't tell if it's so bad it's good or so blah it's boring. This feels like a made-for-VH1 film it's constructed of the dullest cliches but there's nothing flamboyantly bad about it. It seems completely pointless.

Like what makes this campier and funnier than like Crossroads or p much any other Hollywood star vehicle targeted at 14 year olds?

a couple of bros and I watched Crossroads rolling drunk in the theatre. No camp value at all -- I fell asleep.

An hour in and I haven't really gotten much camp value from this either.

Cliche is fine if you've got personality but this shit is flat like pancke

lol THIS JUST IN: GLITTER IS DULL, BAD, AND BORING

Have you seen From Justin to Kelly?

Eric you should pretend like you're not in Chicago until we can hang. :)

i just watched (a very badly projected) 'taxi zum klo' tonight

My DJ gig tonight went as horribly as possible.

i've never been able to sit through taxi zum klo

wut so bad about the djing, just play ur music, fuck 'em

technical ish. playing ur music does no good if no one can hear it.

also a guy who hired me to play his event in a couple weeks came out there after I'd already given up on making it work and I had to explain to him why I wasn't playing music. now I have to cross my fingers that he doesn't get cold feet and hire someone else after seeing me totally bungle this.

the cross-cutting in TZK is a little...much

sorry to hear that rev

rev i saw yr flyer for that night and wished i was close enough to check it out. i highly DOUBT youll have real problems getting gigs in the future.

i mean tech problems are no problems. if he came to see you yr there.

so funny that padma's in glitter

Right?? And Da Brat!

speaking of ... there's a new mariah single slated for early august !!!!

(did u know da brat was ft on heartbreaker the remix)

(which if you haven't heard it is essential listening btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyjuUu_XDZ8

Eric you should pretend like you're not in Chicago until we can hang. :)

I probably should've. My cousin also texted me wondering why I didn't give him a heads up. Next time, tho!

more weddings this weekend -- bittersweet symphonies etc

None of my friends have gotten married yet; what gives??

they're careful

My best friend from high school got married a year out of high school (I was his best man). Went a full decade before any other weddings after that, with a friend getting married two years ago and my sister getting married last year. 3 weddings in my entire adult life seems kinda low.

ahaha morbz.

anyway, you'd all be shocked and horrified at the filth i live in. "shmo-sexual"? whatever, i'm "hobo-sexual." and proud.

marriage = what straight friends from high school do. NONE of my good friends from college have been married yet. don't really care if they do.

that said, l3na dunh4m still returns my phone calls. so eh.

me and th3o rode the motorcycle, hung out by the lake, and are now sewing and working in my room drinking whiskey and listening to NWA.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/391606_250688265049188_2131860574_n.jpg

sassy!

I think all my peers and relations are done with weddings, even the double dippers.

2 more weddings this year, and then I think I can cool it for awhile.

no impending marriages on the horizon but i imagine they'll ramp up over the next few years