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.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Let the Games Begin [Part 2]
@HOME. Alright so I figured I better finish this post before I forget about it. Justin and I arrived at Amsterdam before the rest of the gang. We proceeded to make use of the facilities when all of a sudden I heard someone screaming my name out across the bar. Looking around, I found my neighbor sitting on the couch with a drink. When I say my neighbor, I really mean my neighbor, as our houses are situated right next to each other.
Anywho, I knew he might stop by because before I left the house I returned something to him and he asked if we were going out tonight. I say "hell yeah" and he replied "well maybe I'll meet you guys out down there." Now you're probably asking yourself, wow I didn't know R&J's neighbor was a homo? Trust me, that's a story better left for another entry. Needless to say he is, and he's just coming back out of the closet after 10 years, so he's a bit of a mess right now trying to get things figured out.
'the Neighbor' and Justin
So Darin finally arives sans Chris because that bitch decided he was just going to meet us out at Charlie's instead. We orderd a few drinks and proceeded to in Darin's terms "get all shades of shitty." Drink, after drink, after drink, we pounded them back like water. Darin and 'the Neighbor' began a heated discusioon which really spiraled downward into a series of insults. Darin and 'the Neighbor' had met once before at one of our parties and well let's just say it's not a pretty story, so that's one better left untold.
While sitting on the couch talking to 'the Neighbor', I ran into my friend Jim Cook (white shirt) leader of the GPGLCC (Greater Phoenix Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce) Corporate Pride goup, and 2 of his friends who were in town visiting from San Francisco.
At this point Darin and I decided to leave Justin on the couch to hang out with 'the Neightbor' so that we could go cruise the bar.
I asked Darin to hold my drink while I went to the little boys room.
Rich and Darin walking around the bar in a drunken haze being quite silly
While Justin was still inside having a conversation with 'the Neighbor', Darin and I stopped off to talk to 'Back Bar Brian' who was at his usual post schlepping drinks for everyone outside.
So after a few hours we decided it was time to end our visit to Amsterdam and head up to Charlie's to check out the scene. Darin, Justin and I packed up and headed out while 'the Neighbor' packed it in and headed home for the night. We arrived at Charlies and as usual it was packed. We kept running into tons of people that we knew.
Don and Brian
Rich and Tracy, one of my oldest friends from back in my early days in Phoenix. Tracy's an air mattress now, so we don't get to see each other that much anymore.
Porn Star Chuck. He's not really a porn star, but lets just say he should be *WINK*WINK*.
At some point in the evening we lost Darin and Chris never showed up either. Yeah thanks for standing us us Chris! Justin and I just bounced our way around the bar talking to old friends and familiar faces. It was a nice evening that pretty much turned into a total blur as to how fast it flew by us. We ended the evening by dancing a bit on the dance floor and then heading home around 3 AM. Whew, another weeked out with the boys of Phoenix. Cheers.
