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Well, I’m home safe and sound after a long day yesterday. A few photos from my last couple of days in Dallas:
That’s my best buddy, Pat, and I enjoying wine and cheese at the Cru wine bar near the Angelika theater. The wine was wonderful, had great legs and a wonderful nose, and - oh, who am I kidding? My palette is about as refined as that of a prohibitionist bootlegger.
We saw a FANTASTIC film, by the way, called “Young at Heart.” I highly recommend it. It’s a documentary about a senior citizen chorus with ages running from 73 to 92. Touching, hilarious, and inspirational. I hope I have that much energy and life in me 30 years from now.
My favorite theater in Dallas. They run lots of artsy and indie films. Run, don’t walk, if you have such a place in your town.
Mr. Ian strutting his stuff. How I love this child. He took to me instantly, and I to him. Amazing, he has all the best qualities of Pat and Jasmine all mishmoshed together in a neat little 18-mos-old package.
My buddy Cathy and I at the Corner Bakery in Plano. I’ve known Cathy going on 12 or 13 years now, one of the many great friends I met thanks to Saint Rita’s Young Singles in Dallas. I was heavily involved with that group for a long time, acting as Spiritual Coordinator for two terms (and stirring up the shit on more than one occasion). That group saved my life in more ways than one.
Cathy is married now with a 3-year-old son who I didn’t get to see this time around. Gotta love her.
That’s Jim, me, Craig, and Mark…all of us former officers with SRYS. I was thrilled to see them all, especially since we organized the gettogether at the last minute. Craig I was REALLY surprised to see. He just graduated from medical school and is about to move up to Oklahoma for his residency. The timing was perfect, since he’s only in Dallas for a few days. Proof positive that you can start changing your life and career at any time. Craig is my age (41).
That’s Catherine, Craig, me, and Jim. Loved seeing Catherine again, and we were able to catch up on the latest news around SRYS and some of my old buddy alums from the group.
There must have been 14 or 15 of us there at Blue Mesa Wednesday night. Most I knew, some I hadn’t met before.
That’s Brent, me, and Tom, enjoying the dryness of the Blue Mesa interior while it absolutely POURED rain outside. Eventually, we had to make a break for it because there was no sign of letting up.
I was in bed pretty early (for me) at 11:30 Wednesday night, since I had to get up at 5:15 the next morning for my flight. But you’ve already read that story from yesterday.
Many big thanks to Jester for his help getting my blog working properly last night. He did it in record time after I got home last night. God bless the gays! Ha. I’m going to be on Jester’s amazing radio show in a couple of weeks. More on that as the date draws near.
And I want to plug the Alive Campaign once again. My daughter is part of this incredible project and she set off yesterday with her four teammates. Check out the blog with links to video news stories of their departure. I teared up. Yeah, I’m a proud daddy. Both of my girls are just wonderful ladies. You can donate to their cause, a documentary about the trip to Alaska all in the name of suicide prevention, here.
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looks like you had a great time!!!! How cute is Ian!!!! Almost makes me want one…ALMOST.
Nice job, Jester!
Poppy - Hear, hear!
Young at Heart — I’ve seen them on something. Graham Norton? Not likely but I don’t watch much of anything else in the ‘talk show’ format.
Whatever it was, they did a nice job and, as you point out, were vibrant and full of life.
Were Young at Heart the British group of really old people? I remember some of them going over to the US to be interviewed on Jay Leno’s show and there was a documentary on here about them. I could, of course, be totally wrong!
Great pictures - I’m glad you had a fab time :o)
Penelope - some of the members are British, yeah. They sing a lot of rock, punk, and R&B songs.
Ooooh, I’ve seen the elders singing! (Not the documentary itself but, also, a bio on them somewhere). I loved it!
It does look like you had a great trip. Now I don’t feel so sorry for your screwy travel scenarios…
Just kidding.
P.s Your kids DO rock!
Ian is so cute it pains me. I hope I have kids that freaken adorable.
Stacey - I’m sure you’ll have beautiful kids. Unless you get with a dog-ugly guy. But you’ve already spurned my advances.
So glad to see you had such a great time in Dallas!
And yay for Jester! Glad your blog is back up and running!
I wish I had been a bigger help with the blog, but WP is still kinda new for me. (And it likes to kick my ass too.) I can tell by the pics you had an awesome time on your trip. I’ll bet it feels good to be home. (Other than the zillion posts in your reader.)
Winter - I appreciate the help you were giving. Alas, I porked it up pretty good so I needed a pro.
Sounds like a very nice trip and your girls are just amazing!
I’ve seen some videos from them. I think I may have even blogged about their cover of Coldplay. Very touching and cool.
Glad you had a good time.