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[rm]

Aside from whatever emotional balm I'm getting from the spate of Swordspoint fic I've been writing, it's a good exercise in that Alec (for all his nasty comments ) and Richard are the two least verbal characters ever. How do two people have a conversation about something complicated or serious when they almost never ever speak in sentences longer than five words? This is the problem of the current thing I am working on, which is somewhat ambitious. I am struggling. I think I have it mapped out well, and I think in looking at this nearly finished draft, the answer is to cut it apart and make it one of those moody backwards and forwards things. But I'm still feeling weird physically, and I very much doubt that will happen tonight, espeically with dance class and a screening tomorrow, the fact of fencing on Monday and my shoulders hurting right now from lifting weights yesterday.

All that AC stuff I was going to write? I can't, apparently, churn out craptastic nonfiction when I have a headache. Strings, which I'm so behind on working on, is also suffering a similar fate. In that case, not feeling well makes me too aware of my own flesh to write about anyone else's.

I'm going to go sit in the bath and hem a pair of pants.

Also, I'm going to take this class: http://community.livejournal.com/nyc_for_free/1167992.html

Clearly, this is my new thing, taking classes in various odd and not particularly modern arts.

Oh yeah, and that dude who played Doogie Howser is gay. Hardly a surprise really, but after the evil genius that was his performance in Starship Troopers, I'm sort of irrationally thrilled he's one of my tribe.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

We were discussing Doogie today at work , and the thing I can't get my head wrapped around is how this is a newsworthy thing. I grant you , kudos to him and such for the whole coming out thing - but isin't it a bit much and personal? I'm not by any means suggesting that it remain closeted, but is it really woth a front page article on CNN.com? It strikes me like a person braving the world and the elements to share a truth about themselves, while the vox populi dance in a circle pointing and chanting " He's gay! He's gay He's gay! ". I read the bit about it being a pr move due to rumours and such, but really? Maybe the problem is that I have no ' issue ' with it, and it's a non event for me. To me if you are gay, or otherwise it's just another identifying component of your person - like hair style or eye color. Blue eyes. Blond hair. Gay. Small ears. Round nose. Republican. Wears polo shirts.

It's really that that big of a deal to me. I suppose I'm just odd.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to remember two things.

1) this is world where we're in teh midst of a news story about a homophobic preacher having had gay sex and drugs with a male hooker.
2) very very few leading men on television shows who play heterosexuals (and this guy is the lead on a new sitcom) are openly gay.

I think that with rumours swirling around in our political climate, which yu and I are both pretty insulated from stating that he is a _happy_ gay man is pretty important. Newsworthy elsewhere than teh entertainment pages? Probably not, but the necessity of it makes sense.

[melebeth]

I ADORE Neil Patrick Harris. He's amazingly talented, and I'm thrilled that he's gay. My friend in Cabaret said he was the best Emcee they had, and when I saw him... wow. I felt guilty feeling that way about Doogie. And now, in "How I met your mother" he's such a delightfully misogynstic scumbag that you can't help but love him. Whoot!

[miep.livejournal.com]

you can hem in the bath? I can hardly hem sitting in a chair with a lot of pins in my mouth.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I can hem anywhere, which is so not a cool skill. Of course, one has to only do it with fabrics that aren't going to have terrible thigns happen to them in water (either damage or expanding in water in a way that will effect the stitches. Hence the saree that still isn't hemmed since it's silk.

[mia-writings.livejournal.com]

"funny" that you are gay too.....
this "radar" always amazes me...........

[rm.livejournal.com]

the clumping action of LJ is pretty neat.