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A so-called Miss X, responding to my previous blog, “Our Crazy Passieg de Gracia“, spoke up in defense of the wildly leopard-printed lady whose fashion sense I’d so mercilessly crucified. “I don’t know what you see wrong with this outfit. I quite like it…”
Which provoked the response: “Me TOO!”
The truth is, I love to see [...]
Uncle Bobby: Lawyer, Peacemaker, Bon Vivant. 1933-2009.
Estoy en tránsito a EE.UU para el funeral y no tengo tiempo para escribir personalmente a todos los que han dejado mails y comentarios sobre la pérdida de mi tío, por eso quiero deciros a todos que lo aprecio mucho, y me habéis ayudado mucho durante este tiempo [...]
We’re in a plaza in Cádiz on a warm, sunny day. I, along with a sizeable crowd of people, am admiring the old man and his parrot.
He sits alone on the bench, the huge, colorful bird perched on his shoulder. Small children crouch around him, in fear and awe of the parrot. The old man [...]
Last Sunday a friend asked me to make a small appearance in his show. It was one of those gay free-for-alls — really a party more than a show, full of drag queens and petardeo.
I went to the dressing room to put on makeup and change into my costume.
The space was designed to comfortably hold [...]
I have a habit of talking to taxi drivers. It’s so “typically American” of me, to talk to total strangers. Sometimes they don’t go for it. Other times, they do. In the case of some taxi drivers, with all those hours of isolation, they end up being kind of wacko, and then you wish you [...]
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