Random thoughts on my one night in Atlanta.

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• Having a regular BART-style train going directly from the airport to downtown is a major advantage for any big city. I love Atlanta just for having this.
   
• Outwrite Bookstore and Coffeehouse is the love child of Kramer's Afterwords and the late, ( Read more... )

No, that other Clinton chick...  
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My Pics from SundayOUT 2007 on Flickr.

Take a gander, and do leave comments...

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All hail the opening of Club Platinum which (according to my darling HX Magazine) is "Philly's new alternative club catering to African American men and women seven days a week. Tuesday dom and fem nights, Wednesday all drinks for one dollar, and Thursday night Mega Men, male exotic dancers ( Read more... )

From The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, by Dan Savage, chapter 14 ("Two Moments of Transcendant Bliss"):
For children, promises are a deadly serious business because it's all they really have. They don't own anything, they don't control anything. The promises their parents make them are all they've got. And while no parent can ( Read more... )

[ I was gonna go to this but a "prior" is engaging me the same evening. But I can pass the word on and hope some of y'all get out to see him. ]
Tim'm West
with Monica McIntyre, and others...
October 27, 2006 (this Friday!) at ( Read more... )

Another "last-minute" decision to do something yields another cool moment: a chance to meet and get a picture with Nikki Giovanni:

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It wasn't until 4:00pm that I finally decided I was going to the 7:00pm talk by George Takei at U-Penn. But boy am I glad I did:

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