T-minus 29 days until Chicago. Got paid today…that was depressing. I might have to start throwing the tip jar around for real; these damn taxes and insurance deductions are a killer! But I guess it's a good thing to get broke from paying bills right?

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• Please head on over to Best Gay Blogs and leave me a comment on my "In Depth" interview, would ya? Let's see some BGB support!
• My Morehouse podcast really got some mileage — I was surprised. I guess it's one thing to write about it, but a certain something's missed in the transposition, you know? Anywho, expect part 2 to come up on Sunday afternoon.
• I am very very very very very excited to see that the Blogging While Black panel discussion (now titled Blogging While Black Revisited) is coming back to SXSW this year! I so want to go, but y'all know my shit-talkin' ass…I'll be sittin' here in Atlanta ho-hummin' about it…maybe. Unless….
• Summer's post on why she loves the Bay is seriously making me yearn to go back permanently. Calgon, take me away!
• I'm thinking of starting another Livejournal. Ain't that some shit? This will be the third one I've started, stopped, re-started, abandoned and then deleted. What can I say? There's some cute guys on LJ and I like some of the communities. Sadly, that appeal usually wears off after about five or six months. After all, I do have this place.
• Tomorrow, I'm going to get tested. It's a semi-annual rite of passage, and even though I don't get much play these days, I still do it. And I know a lot of dudes who subscribe to the "ignorance is bliss" mantra, but c'mon bruhs. The time for fear is over.
• Work has me burned out. Charred, black and crispy. I think I got my cold as a combination of a too-sick-to-cover-her-mouth-while-coughing Micro-Manager and too many trips to the aquarium with all those kids licking the glass.
• Why do Black gay men who don't want to work become masseurs? Get a goddamn job, you slacker!
• Ma'dea's ulcer is flaring up and she's eating red clay to cure it. Claims that Mylanta and stuff like that has too many chemicals in it. Don't laugh — that shit works wonders. Also, a compress of red clay and apple cider vinegar wrapped in brown paper bags works just as well as Icy-Hot and ACE bandages and that's a fact Jack! Nix the dirt and use the soaked bags on your forehead next time you have a bad headache.
• Speaking of geophagy, that reminds me of how me, Death-Phoenix, Sperm Donor and Smokedawg would go to the Syrup Sopping Festival in Loachapoka when we got too old for trick or treating. It was about 2 hours from us, and I tell you, it's a wonder the FDA hadn't shut that damn thing down. We'd come back with syrup, and Ma'dea would make us syrup cookies. Just thinking about that made me gain five pounds.
• Yes, I am (from the) country. Any questions?
• It's the holidays — time for me to pick my 'bone Tranessa back up and make a little change playing Christmas carols. Don't knock the hustle.
• What is about a dude that has multiple orgasms that make other dudes run away scared? Don't be scared I got it like that.
• Oh yeah, and Dave? More about him, how we met, and these pictures in part 2 of Man about Morehouse. Tune in and tip big.