Posted on September 29, 2009 by j3black
To mark the U.S. release of Streisand’s new album, Love is the Answer, here’s an essay I wrote about my partner’s adoration of her. It’s been rejected by some classy publications, so I may as well share it here.
Part one appeared yesterday.
Here’s part two…
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Streisand is part of our lives. A member of our [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2009 by j3black
Anticipating tomorrow’s U.S. release of Streisand’s new album, Love is the Answer, here’s an essay I wrote about my partner’s adoration of her. It’s been rejected by some classy publications, so I may as well share it here.
Part one today. Part two tomorrow.
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My partner Doug asked me to go with him to see Barbra [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2009 by j3black
On Thursday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. By “celebrated,” I mean that my partner, Doug, took me to a local brewery where we gorged on foods made of cheese and bread and potatoes. Next, we waddled to a nearby bookstore to do some shopping. Just before we were about to crash from our carb-induced high, [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by j3black
I wanted feathered bangs like Farrah’s.
I wanted to make the sidewalk light up with each step as Michael did in the “Billie Jean” video.
Farrah’s cleavage turned me on when I was a kid, mainly because I thought I wasn’t supposed to see it, even though that beaded gown was designed to show it off, and [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2009 by j3black
Transitions flummox me. I sit there. Metaphorically, physically, emotionally, whateverly, I get stuck for a while.
In an elementary school science class, I learned about inertia. To put it in a less-than-nuanced way, inertia means what’s going keeps going until it’s stopped; what’s stopped remains stopped until something gets it going.
Inertia should not be a problem [...]
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