~Octopussy~ ⋅ 42 ⋅
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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June, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois I’d finally gotten into a house. I’d been homeless since I arrived in the city in the beginning of May, moving on a whim from Los Angeles after a brief stopover in ...
I know I’ve been missing quite a bit this summer, but the head makes me listless and I can’t ever get my head together to write something appropriate. But that’s not all. An awful situation aros...
This might be an unsettling entry for some people… mainly because I’m going to refer, tangentially, to the circumstances of my coming out which landed me in jail. Every time I drive with my mothe...
I’ve gone inward again, much like I did while I was in SoCal, but there’s a difference to it this time. It doesn’t feel like a withdrawal so much as a respite. Although I am falling into a strang...
I know it’s been a while, but quite a lot has happened. Some good, some bad. The bad is mostly of a legal debacle in which I have found myself therefore I won’t comment on it. The good was that I...
I Want To Drag You Around by Blondie in The Song Remembers When
A year ago, Blondie came out with a new album. Blondie is an artist with whom I have a deep, intimate connection, musically. I didn’t really listen to Blondie until I saw them in 2004, met Jeff t...
I had actually recorded a video blog to post, it took me eight tries and I even uploaded it to YouTube, but the events of the night rendered the entire video moot. I went out on Thursday as is my...
I’m doing nothing. I mean, now I wake up every day early in the morning and if I don’t go to work, I take children to school. Then I’m free until I have to pick up kids from school. I wander aro...
Rob Me Blind by Jay Brannan in The Song Remembers When
If you don’t know Jay Brannan, it wouldn’t be surprising. He’s a cult artist who initially found fame in a truly explicit scene from the movie Shortbus. His appearance in that movie segued into a...
There was an interesting wrinkle to the other night that I didn’t share in that entry because it didn’t really fit with the theme I was going for. I don’t know whether or not you know this, but I...
I feel like my life is finally at Season 1 of Sex & The City. I started work, it’s fine. Even though they’ve already promoted me to an auditor, I can see that I need to find myself another oc...
I’m in the midst of my second week back in Northern California and things have already changed immensely. First, I’ll get the bad stuff out of the way. My grandmother is currently in the hospital...
I am watching the most boring documentary right now. The truth is, the only reason it’s boring is because I’m not at all interested in the subject. It’s some movie about the lack of gay professio...
It was the early months of 2004. I was wandering around the streets of Sacramento trying to find this young guy I’d happened to see in our 20-something youth group at the Lambda Center. I had sta...
I was enduring the long ride home the other day… I say “enduring” but really it isn’t that bad. It’s a choice that I made for this time in my life, but I must say that Southern California is NOT ...
I have just under three weeks before yet another radical life change. So basically, this could be an entry from almost any other moment in my life. I think I have more “I’m moving and this will c...
Tonight Tonight Tonight by Genesis in The Song Remembers When
On a whim, I bought Genesis’ greatest hits (it was the only thing on iTunes that had Mike + the Mechanics’ “Silent Running” that was halfway decent quality), and I suddenly remembered how much I ...
So there I was in BJ’s with Edgar’s roommate in Paris having a drink and talking about the way things have changed. There’s something comforting about seeing the people I know in places that are ...
Jack You Off by Pansy Division in The Song Remembers When
Part of trying to get my head screwed on straight (no pun intended) again is bringing myself back to more simplistic way of life for myself. I’m fighting a lot of the stupid shame that I seem to ...
There were some rather… intriguing comments to my last entry. The way I’ve dealt with things is to compartmentalize my life and while it has served me well in the past, I’m seeing that I have to ...
Head Games in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
I know I haven’t written in quite a long while but there’s a very specific reason that I haven’t written: I’m trying to keep my mind healthy. The truth is I’ve been taking this last opportunity i...
The entire time I’ve been going through this dark spiral I’ve been afraid. Now this isn’t really that unusual because I’ve come to discover that nearly everything I do is in response to some fear...
My time in Sacramento very much reaffirmed how depressed and angry I have been in SoCal. There are multiple reasons that people think that I might not have been able to retain my high spirits but...
I ended up getting overwhelmed with everything that happened at home that I didn’t have time to write about any of the other amazing things that happened. I’m going to break this up into a few en...
