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Rich Brown - Living My Life Out Loud!
Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Monday, October 01, 2001
@ Home
Wow what a busy weekend ...
Friday night started out with drinks at Detour, over to the Bar on Castro, then the Cafe and finally ending the night appropriately at the End Up. I really like going to the End Up on Friday nights for Fag Fridays because they play the best dance music there. It's a bit loud, but you can really get into dancing there. I took a cab home a little earlier then the rest of my friends from the End Up because I was feeling tired and I just wanted to get home. At that I still didn't get home until 5 am.
Saturday I caught up on some much needed sleep. I stayed in bed until around 6 pm. I was up around noon, but ended up laying back down again to catch up. Around 7 pm I went to the gym with Steven and worked out for about an hour and 1/2. Later that night Philip, Steven and I had soup and salads at the Squat and Gobble cafe and then we headed over to the Bar on Castro to meet up with Steven's other friends, Merced, Louis, Gregg, and Edward. We decided to make it a bar tour night with the Castro being so busy. From the Bar on Castro we went to Daddy's (interesting crowd), the Edge, Moby Dicks, the Midnight Sun and then over to the Detour. After the Detour the rest of the guys went out to some of the Soma Bars but Steven, Philip and I headed down to Universe to do some dancing. We ran into Brian, and Philip ran into Brett and we all just headed out to the dance floor. Steven and I decided to spice up the night a bit and split the little yellow ... um ... piece of candy (*grin*) ... that I was fortunate enough to obtain from a friend. Wow -- let me tell you -- What a fun time. I was really surprised that 1/2 this time had the same effect as when I've done a whole one before. It's amazing how different each ... um ... flavor of candy (*grin*) turns out to be. Lets just say It was quite an interesting flavor and lasted a really long time. Anyway -- enough of that talk, we ended up dancing until around 5:45 am and then headed home at around 6 am.
Overall it was a really fun and busy night. Some of the things that happened were just too funny. I don't think I laughed so hard in such a long time. One of the most memorable points of the night was at Moby Dicks. Steven said hello to this guy who we had met at the Cafe on Friday night. The guy was a total asshole and said "Oh I don't remember you, I have short-term memory ..." So with that as this guy and his friend sat their full frozen drinks down on the bench seat to go outside for a drink, Steven picked up the drinks one by one and proceeded to drink them both. Philip and I were just laughing uncontrollably. When he was finished with them he said to us "See what happens when they act like a bitch to me, I'll drink their drinks." It might not sound funny, but at the time we couldn't stop laughing. We quickly left the bar before the two came back in to find their drinks gone. If only I could have seen the look on their faces.
Sunday was an interesting day as well. We headed down for my first time at the Folsom Street Fair. It was actually more mild then I thought it would be. I had been expecting to see people having sex in the middle of the street and God knows what else, but it really wasn't too bad. There were some questionable things going on, and definitely some sketchy people, but overall it was pretty interesting. I can't believe how hot it was out there. It was the perfect day to be outside. We ended up hanging out by the Dance area for a while and just dancing to the music. They had a really good DJ spinning. Steven and his friends headed out to the Lone Star while Justin, Philip and I just walked around a bit more as things winded down. We grabbed some Cheesesteaks at Wiz Wit and then headed back home. Justin and I went over to Philip's place to watch the first episode of the Sopranos which he had on DVD. I guess one of these night's we'll just have to do a marathon of them all. Then Justin and I went to the gym for a while to work out a bit. I swore that I was going to go to the gym today, so even though I didn't feel like it I made myself go and I feel really good that I did.
So -- In short I had a really great weekend. It seemed both short and long. Short in the sense that it went by really fast, but long in that we did so many things. Hopefully next weekend I'll be able to get some rest, but with the Castro Street Fair going on, I don't know what is going to happen.
Well I guess I better end this and get to bed or I'm going to be really tired for work in the morning. Thank god I don't have to be there at 8 am. Hopefully it will not be that busy of a week. We'll see.
