Monday, February 19, 2007

"I Gave You My Pretty Years"

The height of my day and night came when I found that Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler are “gay married,” as a curious pedestrian so quaintly put it. Doonan is the small-framed and large-famed Barneys window dresser, and Adler the very successful interior designer who now has a gig hosting the TopDesign, on Bravo. They have a dog named Liberace who watches them play ping-pong every night.

That’s all just a very fantastic thing. When asked if Jonathan had a “thing against old people,” (because the majority of those eliminated from the show were older), Doonan interjected that he may be cut the day Adler finds out how old he really is. “I gave you my pretty years,” he said. Is that not great? They’re great. THE END.
If gay courting gossip isn’t what you’ve come here for (frankly, if it was, I’d be a bit worried and give you the name of an analyst), a bit of a “me-update” follows.

Five month periods of blog-death do not look attractive. Gaps between the months of posts just aren’t aesthetically pleasing, and present readers with inconsistency. You may not hate it, but I don’t like it terrible. Anyhow, I’m going to act like those five months of bareness never happened.

I’d like to take a moment to talk about the phenomenon known as Speech and Acting Team. The 2007 season has just come to a close, and Christopher Guest (director of such greats as Best in Show and Waiting For Guffman) could most certainly make a movie based on its intricacies if the subject was more widely known of. It’s a very competitive passtime, with tournaments weekly, and events ranging from your general public speaking, to speeches a competitor is required to invent on the spot, to scripted dramatic monologues, to duets, to original comedies, and so forth. Throughout the season, celebrities undoubtedly come into existence. It’s really an incredible thing to witness, and even more incredible to think, even for a moment, that you may be one of these celestial beings.

Even more remarkable is the effect winning or losing has on a competitor. People have been known to cry (in both cases). You can figure for yourself why those who choose to partake in speech choose to do so, and why it is such an emotionally involved thing.