Snapshot 1990 – Scared Co-Worker, Leather Ball Cap and MPD Photographer
Shortly after moving to Texas in 1989 I figured out I didn’t like working in my Aunt’s screen printing shop (where I got the T-shirt I am wearing in the picture) so I started working for a telemarketing company. This photo was taken within the first two weeks of my being there. It was on a Saturday (why we were allowed to wear t-shirts) and yes, my t-shirt sleeves are rolled up and yes that is a leather ball cap on my head. Oh and yes, those are Sally Jesse Raphael type glasses.
I know I know ::: shrug shoulders :::
There wasn’t anything “post-gay” about me that day … but this photo does prove that having fashion sense is not a universal innate genetic trait among gay identified men.
High On Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips – Book Review
The one word review is:
tragic
I think it can be best summed up in her own words:
Living on the road
Gave me a great excuse
For hiding out in hotel rooms Seclusions self-induced
Forget about the outside world Just sing and smile and dance
They won’t know that you’re half dead
Or bored and in a trance.
Sex, drugs and rock’n'roll. The book tore at my heart as I thought of the lives of several of my friends in the 12 step program who had led similar lives. I could relate to parts of it from my own history of drug, physical abuse and the feeling of finally waking up thinking “… what the hell? I am an adult now!?” That said, I didn’t weep in empathy although I was moved to tears more than several times (especially over the abuse, abortions and despair.) My life changing event happened at the age of 24 … Mackenzie’s happened last year at the age of 47.
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