Category: kwir

• Breakup + Breakthrough = Still Broken

  Apr 24

  Once, if I remember well, I had to end an intensely demanding relationship with someone much younger whose native language was not English. We had been playing at breakup for… more ›

• Be Mine

  Feb 15

  When I was in second grade all those years ago, I got it in my tiny head to create my own Valentine cards for my classmates who, might I remind… more ›

• Election Coverage: Full Disclosure of H8, or California Goddam

  Nov 8

  Despite the false headlines in The New York Times Wednesday morning, Obama has not moved America beyond race politics. Very little has changed as far as the electorate goes. Otherwise,… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Disintegration

  Oct 28

  Saturday evening was “opening time down on Fascination Street.” Stephen and I went out to the Halloween street party on Cedar Springs for the first time in several years. Overall,… more ›

• My Big Gay Vice-Presidential Nominee Debate, or Thank you for your tolerance, or Some of my best friends…

  Oct 3

  IFILL: The next round of — pardon me, the next round of questions starts with you, Senator Biden. Do you support, as they do in Alaska, granting same-sex benefits to… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Melissa Etheridge

  Sep 29

  My twentieth “anniversary” is approaching. Twenty fuggin’ years! (No pun intended.) What the fuck?!?! Driving in Arlington, down E. Abram Street, past Meadowbrook Park where horniness and wine coolers blossomed… more ›

• Project Blog It: Certitude

  Aug 29

  I am certain that Barak Obama and his Obamanations are quite nice people. Senator Obama unquestioningly and with certitude will defend Israel’s right to exist. Yet certainly Palestinians, too, have… more ›

• Open Letter to the Haters

  Jun 17

  Dear Homophobic, Right-Wing Assholes: Your marriage was already a mockery. Don’t blame me. Love,Frank more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Oct 26

  It’s like, you know, flamenco piano: when you hear the first measures of just such a beast you recognize the form (flamenco) but don’t recognize the medium (piano) because your… more ›

• Internationalismus

  Aug 3

  … or the post where Euro-Franz offends absolutely everyone. (By the way, here “euro” is pronounced “oy-Roh,” pretty much how a Jew would address Rosie O’Donnell.) Sitting at Café Angst… more ›