Today, btw, has been pretty amazing.  I’ll keep twittering and give a proper update later.  We’re on the way to something else now.  (Not meaning to be vague… just don’t quite remember.)

More soon!

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One random story starts with another as Margaret was introduced to me through my friend Crissy.  A few weeks back, Crissy wrote Margaret an email through her blog.  Crissy is Korean-American like Margaret so she wrote to thank her for keeping it real and helping her feel “normal.”  Long story short: Margaret ends up emailing Crissy back and they begin a dialogue.  More random: Margaret just started a 5 month shoot south of Atlanta and was going to be around through August.  Even more random: Margaret said “let’s meet” and Crissy said “yes, on Kyle’s porch!”

Fast forward to last Wednesday: Crissy, Trevor, Bucky, and myself are sitting on the porch waiting to see if Margaret Cho was really about to walk on up (it would either be her or the crew of candid camera). The gang was feeling a bit nervous about if it would actually happen or not but I felt pretty confident that it was.  Why wouldn’t it?  Crissy gets a call from her mom and I walk inside to check email.  Two minutes later, up walks Margaret Cho.

Crissy immediately let’s out a scream and walks down to greet Margaret. The first nervous words out of her mouth were “here, talk to my mother!”  And she hands Margaret the phone.

I come out to meet her, give her a tour of the place (“this has to be the best house in Atlanta”), and then we hang out for a bit.  Crissy talks with her about growing up, how she always gets mistaken for being Cho, and how she even used it to get access and free drinks to a club in San Francisco.  Cho thought it was hilarious.

We were playing "Which One is Margaret Cho?" on the porch. Now you can too.

Since last Wednesday, Margaret and Crissy have hung out quite a bit.  I’ve gotten closer to both of them and we’ve all had a lot of fun (Mary’s, Atlanta Rollergirls, Flip Burger, The Clermont Lounge, MondoHomo Fundraiser).  It’s been great… and interesting.

I imagine we will spend a fair bit of time together this summer.  I’ve become her “Atlanta boyfriend” (Crissy has become her “twinsies bff”).  Margaret and I talked about doing some shooting together on our own so hopefully we get time to do that.  With everything else, her presence should be an interesting element to this summer’s events.  I also think it will inspire some observations on people, celebrity, myself, and the intersection of all of them.  It already has.
 

But for now, it’s just about the fun of it.  Margaret Cho is great.  Crissy is great.  Atlanta is still great. And this summer will probably be awesome – unless I lose my house or a testicle or something (but at least we have the right people lined up to make really good jokes about it if I do). 

To be continued!