how to grow a goatee, virtual sock puppets, boys wearing dresses, Jared Fogel (the Subway Diet guy), and missouri sucks.

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I recieved a nice email from author K. M. Soehnlein today, thanking me for plugging his book, The World of Normal Boys. I didn’t really write anything more than “I liked it” before, and I’m not much of a book critic, so check out this review or listen to this audio excerpt.

Suffice to say, I identified with Soehnlein’s novel more than ever I have reading gay authors like Edmund White or Andrew Holleran. It’s a generation gap thing. Set in the late 70′s, the coming-out process described by Soehnlein is much closer to my own than any other I’ve read.

On the other hand, you should avoid D.A. Miller’s Place for Us : Essay on the Broadway Musical. I’ve done a bit of scholarly reading on musical theatre (and a lot my work during my masters in Library Science was focused on the bibliography of cast recordings), so I eagerly looked forward to reading this treatise on the connection between gay men and showtunes. Unfortunately, Miller’s work is a dense morase that ranges from obtuse academia to pop psychology. Leave it on the shelf.

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underbelly. Congrats on coming out, Vanessa.

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a loaner videocassette containing the first 3 episodes of this season’s Buffy.

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JohnMcDaniel.com. The bandleader on Rosie O’Donnell‘s talkshow now has his own website. He’s a cutey. But I still wish that he and Rosie both would come out of the closet.

Update: Yep, the question came up on his message board. But he hasn’t posted an answer.

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One of my student advisors put up his photo on Am I Hot or Not?. Later this week he’s going to have a floor social program where his residents can scan their pictures and puts them up on the site.

Wow. Floor programs sure have changed since I was a freshman.

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Queer Scribbles. Good stuff.

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Phi Beta Kappa. Truman was recently granted the privilege of starting a PBK chapter, the first in Missouri in over 30 years.

I was elected as a member in course of the DePauw chapter in 1997, and thus as a current staff member I am eligible to become a charter member of the Truman chapter (cool). I’ve attended two organizational meetings so far, during which we’ve reviewed and tweaked the model constitution and bylaws provided to us by the national society.

Part of me is bored by our stuffy, line by line analysis and discussion of every single word and phrase of the documents. But then, the old student-government part of me is excited to be exercising my brain and discussing the implications of different ways of wording chapter policies.

Either way, I’m glad to be making some contacts with faculty across campus. Besides… I’ve got my eye on one of the new professors…

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