(people, places, things, ideas, events, &tc.)

1. Jessica. ♥ ♥ ♥
2. J, c.g., Reading and making the guilty pleasure complex into a real home for good times & bad.
3. President-elect Barack Obama!
4. the Birthday Tour, from San Francisco to San Diego, from April to October, in cars and planes and hotels and theaters and parking lots and every stop in between
5. having the amazing professional privilege to call up just about anyone i thought made interesting artistic/musical/life choices and ask them why why why — and then attempt to make sense of it for all the world to read.
6. R and i continuing to conquer the known queer world (soon to take flight as begaylittlebird).
7. Bright Shiny Morning, by James Frey, which reminded me of all the things to love and fear in Los Angeles and all of us who live there
8. Milk, by Van Sant et al, which reminded me that they still vote 2 to 1 for us but only if they know us
9. Fauxmas with the Dome-inators
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