All except for Obama

[lobelia321]

By the way, the big gay wedding we went to last weekend? It was fabulous. I wore my silk frock and my hat, and it was all glorious and wonderful. London is pretty damn cool. I met fabulous amazing people (and spent the day after feeling totally down, in fact, because everyone seemed so happy and in-love and had achieved so much in life), and Alan Hollinghurst was there, and Will Self.

And so many middle-aged gents in snappy suits with sharp haircuts, five-o'-clock beards and fit'n'trim bodies. It makes me realise that it is not middle age that makes men sag and bulge; it is heterosexuality. They just don't care enough for us women to bother keeping themselves trim. They let themselves go!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

They were? Open house?


Yes, that's always been it; and the great danger of homosexuality to them is that they suddenly become the objects *shrugs* old hat, yet never changes.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

How do you mean open house? How is being an object a danger?

Tell, inbetween, tell! You got me all intrigued!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

No, no, first bit was about the wedding, I forgot who and what and how you were related to Hollinghurst. (Also, not possessing a hat - never mind a skirt - I'll never partake in those events that seem so delightful in British films).


The other bit is stuff you know, everyone knows. Straight men look at women, who primp and pluck and pump and puke to look attractive; the reverse is always needed significantly less, even now when supposedly money and jobs mean less in pairings. When gay men are about, straight men realise there are people, not just puny women, who gaze at them, evaluate their looks, possible lust after them OMG (not likely in most cases, as you saw) and coming from a member of the same sex, that's unsettling. As you know. Pardon any obvious short-cuts.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get it! My brain worketh slowly, like the common slug... *g*

I wonder what I will now do with my hat. Will I have to angle for an invitation to the Queen's garden parties??

Hollinghurst was at the wedding because one of the grooms is a well-known English novelist! I know! (Why do you think I bought the hat'n'frock? I was intimidated by the illustrious company to be expected... And just as well! Everyone was beautiful! And accomplished!)

What is it with men and the neglect of self?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

How would I know. I never owned one - or rather: the Dutch cap, the Australian akoobra and the grey homburg were all too small for my large head and thick hair :(

Ok, now you have to tell me. It wasn't Patrick Gale, was it?

It's not neglect; they love themselves and their bodies, they just see no reason to subject either to diet, excercise, frugality + grooming.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs at the het men* Oh, the woes of being straight.

No, it wasn't Patrick Gale. Who is Patrick Gale? :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

A pretty famous gay British novelist.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how exciting! :D

Except for the being down afterwards bit. That's why I mostly stay in Ipswich, you know.

Looking forward to my big gay wedding. We've bought them 50 paper glow lanterns to send flying off over the sea and pollute ocean life. Everone's going to be so tired of glow lanterns by the end of that day...

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, I see the logic of staying in Ipswich. Which is exactly why I don't want to move to California where the university is the richest in the world so everybody is extremely achievement-oriented and ambitious and will trample me underfoot without even noticing.

Paper glow lanterns!! Just like Mamma Mia!!

How are html tags stupid?

Yesterday I saw an episode of The Mighty Boosh. It's good to have a fix every now and again. It is quite fortifying. I don't know what it fortifies one for but fortify it does.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

everybody is extremely achievement-oriented and ambitious and will trample me underfoot without even noticing.

Yes, that does sound a bit horrid.

I haven't seen Mamma Mia! Do they have lanterns too then?

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I don't know what it fortifies one for but fortify it does.

I don't know either, but you're right. I think my favourite bit of Booshiness is probably still the Tundra Rap.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, Mamma Mia has lanterns in it, and whatsisname who used to be James Bond until Daniel Craig emerged Venus-like from the foam hangs them up on a tree!

Today I saw Boosh figurines in HMV!!

Vince/Howard totally have chemistry. They are practically an entire laboratory unto themselves.

[brindel.livejournal.com]

All I can say is,

"Where's the photo of the hat?!" *g*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Argh, the hat photo is still trapped inside the digital camera. Hrmph.

[kathputli-girl.livejournal.com]

Well thank Gods we have our pretty-boy super stars to look good for us and make up for the slouchiness of so many hetrosexual men! 8D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Well, that is an interesting point! Because the superstars are somehow cajoled/forced/chivvied/bullied by Farah Khan into staying buff. But the economics of the gaze is different there. The gay guys at the wedding keep fit for each others' gazes; they are both subject and object of looking. The stars are only the object; they are looked at but look at nothing. This is why I find their buffness a bit uncomfortable-making at times, even sad.

[kathputli-girl.livejournal.com]

Heh. I bet SRK's wife didn't have any problems with the buffness. 8D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Heh, I bet also... *gg*

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

LOL Reading this post reminded me of the last time I was in London where I was at a happy hour flirting madly with this gorgeous Englishman who was flirting back...until his wife came to collect him. D'oh. Still London IS pretty damn cool.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I was so sure that the flirty London man was going to turn out to be gay.

London is fairly cool. I don't understand London at all.

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

it is not middle age that makes men sag and bulge; it is heterosexuality

...Yeah. I hadn't quite thought of it that way, but you're right.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Kathputhli above, of course, pointed out the buffness of superstars but there's another topic altogether...