Tag: Adulthood

  • Party like it’s 1999

    Party like it’s 1999

    Mark was a mess.  But he was rich, so as drinking buddies go, when you’re in your 30s and up to your nipples in credit card debt, he was a good friend to have.  Plus he had a really cute Latino boyfriend that I had less than honorable designs on, so I figured “befriending” Mark…

  • Boys Town

    Boys Town

    It rained all day.  Rain in Los Angeles makes the city feel clean.  The smog disappears; the dust is washed off windowsills and handrails.  There’s a distinctive smell in the air after a Los Angeles rain:  it’s called petrichor, from the Greek words petra (meaning stone), and ichor (from Greek mythology, referring to the fluid that flows like blood in…