Local gossip rag TMZ has reported that Mrs. Tennessee from the Mrs. America pageant was bitten by a rattlesnake! OMG, not a hometown girl! I was never bitten by a rattlesnake when I competed in pageants, but I definitely worked in a snake-pit! (Ha ha, kidding girls!)
Me being crowned Miss Heartbreaker
Today Andrea and I will be on set as actresses for a new short film by talented young writer/director Edward Gunawan. He’s also an actor, but for this film he’s focusing on writing and directing. Andrea-and-Calpernia watchers will have a field day with our roles! Ha ha! I haven’t asked Edward how much we can say yet, so I won’t spill too much, but our parts are small bookends to the main storyline, purely fun.
** UPDATE ** Shooting went great! The film is called “Laundromat”, and it’s a romantic short with a serious side. Andrea and I play a cute lesbian couple doing our laundry together, tee hee!
Wow, it’s 2007, I have insurance and I live in one of the most populous/medicalized cities in the United States. You’d think it would be easy to find a doctor.
Even though I worked in hospitals for many years, I still feel pretty intimidated when I need to go in for a checkup or some medical thing or other. During my years in the Navy Hospital Corps, the medical system was not only very different from “regular people” hospitals, but I was also part of the system, so being seen by a doctor was just a matter of grabbing someone I worked with in between patients and making them write me a prescription. I was never into painkillers or anything that would raise any red flags, so I usually got whatever it was that I needed quickly and was on my way.
Fast forward to a long time later, and I’m a relatively happy, healthy woman in her 30’s with a transsexual history. Every time I go to a doctor, I have to decide whether to “out” myself when the surly, distracted office staff puts me through the preliminary interview:
“When was your last menstrual cycle?” Honest: “Nevar” or Convenient: “Last week”
“Might you be pregnant?” Honest: “Hell no” or Convenient: “Hell no”
“What medications are you on?” Honest: “Estrogen” or Convenient: “None”
Lee and I have kept in touch over the years since “Soldier’s Girl”, and he has been busy with theatre, film and TV work. I’m excited to say that he has a really cool new series coming out on ABC called “Pushing Daisies”, where he plays a character who can bring a dead person back to life by touching them. Unfortunately, if he touches them a second time, they die forever.
The video below explains it better than I could:
So be sure to watch and write lots of fan letters for Lee when his show debuts October 3rd, Wednesdays at 8/7c
ABC “Pushing Daisies” Site
For the REALLY devoted, there’s even a Lee Pace Fan Site, OMG!
Gay.Com Reaction to the gay presidential forum
Reaction to the gay presidential forum
published Friday, August 10, 2007A few impressions of this political star-fest in Hollywood, where celebrity sightings usually involve klieg lights and movie premieres.
Under blue lighting that gave the Logo/HRC presidential forum studio something of a cool club ambience, celebrities of a different stripe kissed and hugged and buzzed with the excitement in the air.
Actors chatted with politicos and kingmakers. Who was that gabbing between Wilson Cruz and Darryl Stephens? Andrew Tobias, Democratic National Committee treasurer and, not so long ago, the anonymous author of “The Best Little Boy in the World, which told the stories of a generation of gay men who had to find themselves in silence.
Like all of us present, Andy must have felt he was witnessing a miracle.
Elsewhere, former Human Rights Campaign president Elizabeth Birch mingled with radio personality Tammy Bruce; Shelley Morrison, the redoubtable Rosario of “Will & Grace” and one of the LGBT community’s staunchest Hollywood supporters, beamed from the fifth row.
Trans heroine Calpernia Addams got a shout-out from LOGO president Brian Graden, as did Susan Stanton, the Largo, Fla., city manager official fired over her transgender status. In the front row was Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, grave and attentive; in the bleachers opposite were gay comics Jane Lynch and Alec Mapa.
**UPDATE**
Please excuse the cellphone cam video quality!
Hey kids, tonight I’m going to the Equality California 2007 Equality Awards as a guest of Logo Television. They’re honoring Arianna Huffington, noted activist and creator of The Huffington Post, as well as The United Farm Workers of America, represented by Christine Chavez. It should be a fun and inspiring event, and I always have a great time hanging out with the Logo crowd.
Now let’s just see which one of my old moth-eaten gowns I can recycle to wear…
OMG, if I could tell you what I did tonight… Ha! Let’s just say that my life in Hollyweird is ramping up a little recently, and tonight was a classic experience along the lines of the time I went out dancing, ran into Fabio (yes, THE Fabio) and ended up at his hotel party on the Sunset Strip with a room full of models lounging on hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer fur coats. The Fabio thing happened a while ago, but tonight was along the same lines of funny/weird. And I can’t tell anyone! Arrgh, ha ha.
Aside from the secret bits, I had a lovely, fancy dinner, though, and got to sample another fine single malt Scotch, which is a new interest of mine. Ahh, life!
Calpernia and Andrea attended the historic “Visible Vote 08” Presidential Forum in Los Angeles, CA, as guests of Logo channel. The event was hosted by the Logo channel and the Human Rights Campaign.
Democratic Presidential candidates in attendance were Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton. Many GLBT celebrities, leaders and people of interest were in attendance as well.
Andrea and Calpernia had the chance to meet Alec Mapa, Wilson Cruz, Jane Lynch and Susan Stanton, in the news for a controversial firing after coming out with plans to transition.
Whoa, we just had a cute, teeny little earthquake! We used to have ones like this on Adak Island off the coast of Alaska all the time, but this is my first one in LA (that I’ve noticed). This being Hollywood, I expect more of a big production… huge cracks yawning open as the Earth rends her stony garments in anguish over how far we humans have fallen in pursuit of greed!
Oh well, count yer blessings. The US Geological Society reports that it was 4.5 on the Richter Scale, 4 miles NNW of Chatsworth, CA (ID 14312160), AUG 9 2007, 00:58:49 PDT. Don’tcha just love the internet? I’ll bet they really felt it in Malibu!
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