Ralph calls me verbose, but then I just stretched a single blog post into four, plus there will be a fifth discussing our post-wedding exploits. Okay, I might be a tiny bit verbose. It doesn’t matter, though. It just doesn’t. Why? Because we’ve arrived at the day a half Asian gave up his right after […]
Let’s Get This Gay Marriage Planned: Pre-New York Part 1
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A self-professed extraordinarily intelligent half Asian stud and a self-deprecating smart ass author white guy fly to New York City, dress up in their best suits, and ask a Jewish Rabbi to marry them in a non-religious ceremony. You’ve heard it, right? Great. Okay, let me back […]
That One Perfect Defining Moment Frozen In Time
There’s a picture I carry in my wallet since the day it was taken. My guy and I had been going out for a week or two and I decided to take half a day off of work and drive us north to Port Huron. There’s a mall there that had–at the time–a large carousel […]
Guess What My Ralph Has For Me!
Here’s a perfectly unrelated-to-anything-else-going-on-at-the-moment random thought; why does split pea soup go in smelling like split pea soup and come out still smelling like split pea soup? I can’t quite figure that one out and I only ever remember to ask when I’ve actually eaten split pea soup the night before. And it’s not like […]
Together: A Little Piece of Heaven in a Blu-Ray World
My co-workers and I stepped out to lunch on Tuesday and caught part of an episode of Family Feud. The question was “Name something you’d see when you pass away.” Five of the answers made sense, but the last one? Not so much. We all thought it would be relatives. It was clouds. Clouds? Hell, […]
Please Take My Temperature The Old-Fashioned Way!
“The temperature has gone up to 84.” My father has become the ultimate source of weather in southeast Michigan. Nothing gets by him. Not a cloud, not a percentage of humidity, not a forecast–well, all forecasts technically get by him because the man can’t remember shit due to the Alzheimer’s–and not a chance to explain […]
This Blog Has Been (Censored) For Your Amusement
This weekend with my father might have been the best one in the last year and a half. I think I’ve finally found a happy medium with how I want things to be versus how they really are–or reality–and there was almost a Zen-like feeling during our time together. His behavior didn’t change; mine did. […]
OMG I Love You, Now Change! Meanwhile, the Lesbians…
One of my co-workers was telling me about his ultimate stalker. He gets up in the morning, she’s there. He goes home at night, she’s there. When he goes out with his friends, she’s there. He goes to sleep at night, she’s there. He wants to watch TV, she’s there and she makes him watch […]
Seriously? You’re Dating An Asian? Why?
You know it’s going to be one of those days when somebody says “You’re dating an Asian? Why?” I’ve been asked that before and it’s usually followed by someone listing the ethnic anatomical stereotypes before getting into the whole “Oh, so you’re like a rice queen and he’s a potato queen?” Ironically, those may be […]
The Propensity for Perfection
Sorry, folks. In a bit of a serious mood tonight. A subject has recently come up with friends and I’m thinking this out as I go. Where to start? Do we expect our partners to be perfect? Do we expect ourselves to be perfect? Truthfully, are we perfect?
