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With the election and gay pride seasons both in full swing, there is now “Obama Pride“. A part of Barack Obama’s website for LGBTs wanting to connect with other supporters or looking for his stance on the issues. Here’s a great article that ran in the Advocate. In this interview, Obama answers (or deflects…sometimes…) many of the questions that I and other LGBTs are asking now that he is the Democratic nominee. Obama Talks Everything LGBT With The Advocate
Your Hostess is going to take it easy the next couple of days. Probably won’t even get off the couch. My girlfriend is still a little miffed about the whole China thing, so the couch is where I’m sleeping for the time being. I’m still milking the fugu overdose though. That stuff almost killed me. Speaking of which. I found a winner of a website: Findagrave.com. Think what you want, but you can do searches for all those famous people…
…they have a nice bio about their life, and the location of the cemetery. You can search for family names, cemetery names, or just see who the top famous searches were for. Pretty interesting stuff, for when you’re recovering on the couch.
It’s a long drawn out story involving 3 gay Asian guys at Hotel Yesterday’s “Tomorrow Bar”. It includes a party for Margaret Cho’s Celebrity Family Feud episode, and a fugu eating contest.
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Take home from the Margaret Cho party? She’s got a good sense of humor when you ask her if she’s Chinese. For the record, she’s American, and her parents (pictured above) are from Korea. She throws a great party complete with contests where you can win fabulous prizes. Just don’t be as stupid as me and say yes, you’ll eat whatever it is, just because you’re stuck in China, and the prize is a plane ticket home.
Enter the pufferfish, stage left.
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You’ve heard about this stuff. The liver ovaries and skin of the fish contain the poison tetrodotoxin. They prepare the dish so that you get enough of the stuff to get a euphoric sensation, but not enough of the stuff to get “dead”. It’s not even a Chinese dish…it’s a Japanese dish. Come to think of it, the gay Asian guys that talked me into going to the Cho party and entering the contest weren’t even Chinese. I think they were Thai. Whatever. The take home here is I won the contest and got a plane ticket home. Bonus? I know how they came up with those cartoon characters for the Olympics. It took me all night to come down from the fugu high and I saw all kinds of fun things, including these guys.
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…I’d like to personally thank Dr. Chin. He’s the acupuncturist that helped with a speedy recovery.
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The only lingering effects of the fugu and the whole China mess is having to brush 3 times a day with “Black Charcoal toothpaste” and writing long rambling incoherent blog posts. Hopefully it will all go away after a good night’s sleep. “
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