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Tacos
Now I’m all about a good steak, and pairing it with a lobster tail for surf and turf is delicious. If I’m feeling like pasta, it’s gotta be carbonara, and I’ll jump at anything with peanut sauce on a Thai menu. I have made my affection for the French Dip sandwich known, as well as…
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Broadcasting the Closet
As a young boy, I loved the television show Bewitched, where an attractive 60s housewife named Samantha Stephens (played by Elizabeth Montgomery) is married to an east coast ad exec named Darrin Stephens (played first by Dick York and later by Dick Sargent). Samantha is a witch; Darrin, is a mortal. They have a half witch/half…
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Come Fly With Me
I do not understand. When two sides have opposing views, you can generally look at the views in question, even when one side’s views are opposite your own, and see the reasoning that led to the adoption of that view. A good example would be the question of abortion; I think it should be legal,…
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The Avolatte
If you’re like me, and let’s face it, not many are, then you too love the newest coffee craze taking California by storm. Californians love their coffee. But not a piping hot mug o’ joe at Denny’s or your local diner, served with those little thimbles of creamer. Folgers? Maxwell House? Yuban? No, I’m talking…
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Duck You
It isn’t easy. I resigned from my job at 41 – medical reasons and all that – which means for the last 17 years I literally had nothing I have to do. Oh sure, there’s an appointment here and lunch with a friend there, but filling my days is a bit of a challenge. For…
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Pillow Talk
When I first saw Ray, he was sitting alone at the other end of the bar. Ray is a “peeler;” he compulsively peels the label off his beer bottle between swigs. A jet-black head of hair atop an olive complexion gave him a dark, swarthy, almost brooding look. I could tell he was Latino –…
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DOGE
Note to self: pinpoint just when in the past the combination of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, income inequality, disregard for the environment, unaffordable healthcare, and militant Christian hegemony coalesced in one glorious moment of American greatness to which the new administration in Washington DC wants to return in an effort to “make America great again,”…
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Fancy Steak Dinners
This weekend is the Super Bowl, where teams of grown men in tight Lycra knickerbockers bump into each other on a lawn trying to get a “foot” ball with their hands to the edge of the opposing team’s side of the grass, which is known as the end zone and features a gigantic fork stuck…
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Eavesdropping
Right now, everyone who sits at my table in the dining room is sick. There’s a bug going around. I had it last week. So, sitting at a table that seats four alone, I found myself eavesdropping on the conversation at the table next to me which, believe it or not, in an LGBTQ+ assisted…
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If you don’t have your health, what do you have?
Say what you will about George W. Bush, and I have said plenty, but in 2003 he started the United States President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR. It was the largest global health program focused on a single disease in the history of the world until the COVID-19 pandemic, and as…
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