Nothing like a little snow!!!

To make you wish you’d already put up your Christmas tree!!

I am so hoping that I have the energy to put the tree up tomorrow, gang. The snow we got yesterday was a pain in the ass to drive around in, but, WOW, was it beautiful to look at.

The perfect dusting on the hillside and on all the trees, for miles and miles. It really put me in the mood for Christmas.

The other day, I bought a couple of cute Christmas floor mats at the Dollar Store. I put one in front of the front door (on the inside), and one in front of the downstairs bathroom.

And YES! The cats have already ruined them!

BUT! They did not destroy them, so I’m gonna just try to stay positive about getting all the decorations up! We shall See!

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So!

If you stopped by here on Monday night, you saw that my 26-years-in-the-making new novel, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder, has SOLD!!

I’m still kind of stunned because, you know — what a journey this novel has been. And I still see it as a book that could, well, if not outright offend a lot of people, at least disturb people.

But the publisher is 100% behind it. She said things like: “I know I want this manuscript” and “something in my gut says Yes Yes Yes”.

But even she knows it is not an easy book, gang.

Which was why no publisher would touch it 26 years ago — even though it won 3 literary awards back then (for novel-in-progress).

I am very happy about her position on publishing this book. And I am very happy that the journey for this book is finally continuing. But I am having sort of uneasy dreams at night, you know. Mostly about book signings and readings.

In the old days, I had no qualms whatsoever about going to readings and reading my stuff out loud, about being there in person to sign my books.

My short-short story, “I Like Boys” became a sort of instant classic because I read it aloud in several venues in NYC, including at a launch party in 1998 for Marilyn’s Room Inc. , my multimedia production company — wherein staid (male) journalists from the NY Times, the WSJ, and the Village Voice were in attendance — and you could honestly hear a pin drop.

And then, at the end, everybody loved it. Everybody had so much fun.

But I cannot emphasize enough how different those days were back then. A whole different world. You could say anything, propose anything, challenge anything — it was about ideas. And you didn’t have to fear that you would get totally and completely attacked for your ideas.

Anyway. (Oh, if you never read “I Like Boys”, it’s on my substack page here, but it is absolutely for adults only. “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” DJT)

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Well, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder is not erotica. But it is not politically correct in any way shape or form. Plus, it is pretty brutal in some chapters.

Anyway. A huge part of my life is in that book.

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Okay!

Speaking of my erotica from yesteryear–

Another shot of the Parkside Lounge from Instagram! Lower East Side, NYC.

This is the bar where I met Mikey Rivera one fateful night in 2001. (It is now a trans bar, but it wasn’t back then.) And the rest is history — although, in my (award-winning!!) novel, Freak Parade, it is called the Sidecar Lounge.

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Okay.

And here’s this!

Keith without a shirt on!

And Charlie, Keith, and Ronnie, backstage in 1998! (Photo by Ronnie’s then-wife, Jo Wood.)

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Okay.

Johnny Smoke has been VERY active in Tokyo!!

Not only did his “A Bunch of Stuff” art exhibit open there recently (and it was exceedingly well-received — as it should be!!!):

His film “Modi: Three days on the Wing of Madness”, premiered there the other night, as well:

I’m guessing that at some point, I am going to be able to see this movie!!! I’m thinking it starts streaming on Amazon Prime US on Dec. 12th but I’m not positive.

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On another note!

Wendy and Kara and I had a really wonderful time at our Christmas lunch on Monday. It was so great to see them. (And YES!! Kara gave me a pair of gold dangling earrings in the shape of Elvis with a microphone!! Amazing!!)

And in similar news — tomorrow morning, I am meeting a new friend for breakfast. I can’t wait, gang. We’ll see how it goes. But I can say that for some inexplicable reason (the holidays, maybe?), I am suddenly getting a lot of men contacting me through my totally & completely inactive eHarmony profile.

I hadn’t been on the app since meeting Dennis. And Dennis and I are still friends, but there’s stuff going on in his private life that I can’t discuss on the blog. Still, I had no interest in eHarmony. I had other stuff I was focused on.

But then, suddenly, a bunch of traffic on my profile. 99% of which, I just ignored. But for some reason, this one jumped out at me. So we started texting. We chatted on the phone. Decided to meet for breakfast. And we shall see.

We have almost nothing in common but he is so nice. So we’ll see. (We’ll be here –but now picture it when it’s freezing cold outside and covered in a dusting of snow.)