Newt Gingrich Bitten by a Penguin
The penguin probably just wanted some mashed potatoes.
Posted 1 month ago
I Always Dated Tom Waits (Salon.com)
My favorite article of the day.
…Tom Waits’ greatest collaborator was his wife, Kathleen Brennan… he speaks of her with genuine warmth. “I’d be working in a steakhouse if it wasn’t for her,” he says in the GQ article. “I wouldn’t even be playing in a steakhouse. I’d be cooking in a steakhouse.”
The article is less about Waits but more the author’s introspection on her life and loves. I responded to her humility and the rather straightforward off-handedness with which she described her evolution through the years. I love it when someone can discuss the not-so-sexy aspects of themselves with candor and humor.
In the last paragraph of the article though, she says this:
I’ve heard that Waits doesn’t like those old songs, the songs pre-Brennan, and I wonder if what he feels is the tweak of regret and loss we all feel when we stumble on old pictures of ourselves.
And I wondered… what is “the tweak of regret and loss we all feel when we stumble on old pictures of ourselves.” Do I have that? Is that what I feel? Loss and regret…? Do you feel that?
I don’t know if that’s exactly right. Like, I genuinely don’t know. I feel something when I look at old pictures but I don’t if that’s it.
I’m going to give it some thought and get back to you.
In the meantime, a Tom Waits song from the article that’s sort of haunting me.
Posted 1 month ago
The iPhone is still unfound! That seriously limits my mobile photo-taking capacities. So stay tuned. More coming while I figure out an alternative…..
Posted 1 month ago
My Saturday Night - Gayhane
I went to a Turkish gay party on Saturday night and it was the total jam. So, so fun. Amazing music. It’s the last Saturday of every month and I shall definitely return.
Courtesy of NYTimes:
(I left my iPhone in a taxi this weekend so I’m improvising until which time (I hope) I get it back. Cross ya fingers.)
Posted 1 month ago
Just back from the flea market in Mauerpark. Doing a little online chitty chat and showing off my evolving Berlin look called “gay meets Unabomber.”
A few somethings.From the life of Kyle.
