Tuesday, June 24, 2008

I just wanna fuckin’ dance

Where the hell is Matt?

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

links for 2007-08-01

• ThinkGeek :: You Never Forget Your First Doctor
  It's true. You don't. (Of course, having a very long scarf hanging in your closet to remind you helps.)
  (tags: t-shirts doctorwho)
• Woolgatherer
  My pal Nick is off tonight on a 10-month journey around Eastern Europe and Asia, and he's set up a special travel-log to keep us posted. I am sooooo jealous.
  (tags: succa travel)

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Buckeye goodness

Wowsers. I haven't passed through Columbus, Ohio by air in a while. Loving the airport-wide free WiFi (and convenient charging bar), the many food options and the affordable massage service (which unfortunately I don't have time to sample). Good show, CMH.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Clearing the Cache: July 13, 2007

• Iconfactory : Freeware : TARDIS In Trouble
  Nice desktop wallpaper, also available in iPhone format.
  (tags: doctorwho desktop wallpaper)
• The horror of blimps
  A classic.
  (tags: humor schadenfreude blimps)
• Why a giant duck? This summer, why not?
  Ducky!!
  (tags: rubberduck)
• How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (Plus: How to Negotiate Convertibles and Luxury Treehouses)
  "Practice in 30-plus countries has taught me that packing minimalism can be an art."
  (tags: travel)
• Rob Cole, 76; gay journalist helped make the Advocate a national paper - Los Angeles Times
  "Rob Cole, a pioneering gay journalist whose efforts helped create a national readership for the Advocate, the long-running gay publication, died June 30 at his home in North Hills. He was 76."
  (tags: obit gay gaymedia)

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Across the Atlantic Sea…

A little help? Where might a homosexual gentleman go in Manchester, England—on a Thursday night, say—to enjoy drinking and dancing with similiarly-inclined fellows? Specific recommendations (in other words, I've already assumed a stumble down Canal Street) are appreciated. Have you any favorite nightclubs? Do let me know. Thanks!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Playing catch-up

Once again, I'm pleading busy, despite having several hundred things I've been meaning to note here. Please accept these travel-related brevities compliments of the management:

• South by Southwest Interactive was delightful and embiggened; rumors had that attendance topped 5,000 this year. The growth was certainly evident in the attendees and crashers at Break Bread with Brad. An expected 150 guests became 300 before the night was out. All in all, the crowds notwithstanding, it was as ever a great experience and marvelous opportunity to catch up with friends old and new.


• Best discovery of the Austin week: Opal Divine's—the Sixth Street incarnation—where they stock 65 single malts and a decent cigar selection. Fortunately, I wasn't introduced to this nirvana until the night before I left or no one would have seen me all week.


• I'm in New York again this week, concluding a long consultancy, and I'll probably stick around through the weekend to take in a friend's show and perhaps a few others. I'm not sure when/if I'll have space for socializing, but if you've a proposal for drinks or whatnot, be in touch.


• I'll also be in Chicago the first week(and -end) of next month. Same caveats apply.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

So I borrowed a thou and called American Airlines

So...I've been a smidge busy. October and November didn't actually exist—as nearly as I can ascertain—outside of my office, December was one long, mad holiday blur and January, which I expected to be somewhat more placid, proved to me that optimistic expectations are luxurious but wrong, wrong, wrong.

Having just been through the most hectic few months in memory, all I really want is a good, long nap. So, naturally, next week I'm headed to the city that Messrs. Kander and Ebb assured us "never sleeps".

Actually, after several months of making unannounced 24- or 36-hour surgical strikes on the city for meetings, openings and whatnot, I'm looking forward to having a couple of consecutive days just to...be a part of it. There'll be meetings, of course, but I've also set aside some time to catch up on a few shows (some that I've not seen, wish to see again or need to see friends in), walk some avenues and catch up with some pals. My whole schedule is sort of up in the air, but...hey, why not? Let's lift a glass!

How about it, New Yorkers? Join me this Sunday night, let's say 9:30-ish, at one of my favorite West Village haunts, Vol de Nuit (their frites can't be bite beat). I'd love to see you!

If you can't pop by, be in touch. Perhaps we can arrange another chance to get together.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Clearing the Cache: May 13, 2006

• Wired News: Airlines Try Smarter Boarding
  Now if they could just devise a system that kept the idiot in front of me from trying to cram his too-big bag six different ways in the overhead compartment.
  (tags: airplane travel airlines)
• Cybermen are Human 2.0? (plasticbag.org)
  The delicious Mr. Coates prudently refuses to buy into the hype.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Grocery lists wanted...
  My pal Bill is looking for grocery lists for his upcoming book.
  (tags: ephemera)

Friday, May 14, 2004

Headed to NYC

I'll take Manhattan: With these words, I'm off to New York for the weekend, a couple of meetings today and then two days of rapid-fire social obligations, including a confab to plan Paul's bachelor party.

(Memo to prospective grooms: Do not select a gay friend as your best man unless you're completely comfortable with terms such as "crudités" coming up in such discussions.)

A little work, a little play, so much (and so many!) I'd like to do and so much I'll have to skip for lack of time. There'll be some shopping, to be sure, but the rest'll have to wait a month or so. After a week that's seen the (not entirely satisfying) conclusion of two long, arduous projects, though, I'm glad to be voting myself onto the island for a couple of days R&R.

Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Up in the air

It's funny what you run across when you attempt to tidy your office. I'm not sure why I've kept it except perhaps to remind myself -- as though it was possible to forget -- that I was on a plane when it seemed like the rest of the world was up in the air.

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Sodomy Tour 2003

Rogue trip: Sodomy Tour 2003. "Four Days. Four States. Four Infamous Crimes Against Nature."

On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding Texas'--and, by extension, three other states'--same-sex sodomy law, which criminalizes sexual activity between members of the same sex. The court will issue a ruling by the end of June.

In advance of the Supreme Court's decision, The Stranger sent David Schmader to tour the four states whose homo-only sodomy laws could soon be declared unconstitutional--and to commit some good old-fashioned illegal sodomy for perhaps the last time.

It depends on how you say it: Peter Filichia's theatre-related Tom Swifties.

"Wasn't what happened to Eddie in Blood Brothers awfully lucky?" Tom said transparently.

"On June 7, 1998, Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, and Pamela Isaacs were thrown out of work and Broadway lost a good musical," Tom said lifelessly.

"Ms. Henshall is no longer in Chicago," Tom said ruthlessly.

Cute crooner: Michael Bublé.

No small (travel) plans: I'll be hefting myself onto the big shoulders of Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend, one of three planned (so far) jaunts to the Second City in the next few months. If you'd like to lift a glass with me while I'm there, please be in touch.

Meta: Alas, L'il Gromit's LCD woes seem intractable so, for the near term at least, I'll just be coping with his fluky backlight by applying the "jiggle the handle" method to find the sweet spot where it snaps on. A replacement PowerBook is in my future but, given other near-term obligations, it may be several months off.

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Sort the SFO details

It is proving difficult to arrange affordable air travel to match my schedule for a westward jaunt to attend Fray Day 6 in San Francisco, but I think I've got it puzzled out. The difficulty is opening our theatre season on Friday night, flying out Saturday morning, and then getting back to St. Louis in time to teach Tuesday morning. It appears I can fly into Oakland (with a connection at O'Hare, something I'm ordinarily loathe to do) and leave from SFO on the red-eye (which was the flight I was on last September 11) for something approaching a reasonable fare. But hey, wasn't the SFO BART extension supposed to be open by now?! Remaining decisions: What story to tell and whether to arrange a bread-breaking.

Monday, August 5, 2002

L.A. Stories

Back from Los Angeles, which means L.A. Stories this week in The Daily Brad.

It also means a sore throat, pile o' work and preparations for another weekend trip. Stay tuned.

ALSO: I would so cruise Lance Arthur if he biked past me. Rowr!

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

My digital lifestyle

The Expedia.com branded cyberbar/cafe in the American Airlines terminal at LAX is pretty cool. It would be cooler if they offered WiFi access, but free dial-up and power ports at every table is good too (really clean lines, too, since I'm connecting at the best speed I've ever managed with my modem on the road).

Saturday, July 27, 2002

The finest in duplex living

LIVE FROM HOLLYWOOD: Yes, poodles, I've arrived safely in California and am comfortably bivouacked at The Finest in Duplex Living and being shamelessly pampered by my hottie homey Eric. Met cool people last night? Check. Drank a bit too much? Check. Mattress danced with a cute boy until the small hours? Check, check and check. Love from La Vida L.A., kids. See y'all on Wednesday.

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Back page boy, uptown girl

BACK-PAGE BOY: With the latest chapter, A Soap Opera, Dispatches From The BradLands returns to print publication this month, fulfilling my lifelong dream of becoming the back-page columnist of a magazine, appearing in Outlook, a new, local nightclub ad delivery system entertainment publication.

UPTOWN GIRL: My buddy Reno, whose show Rebel Without a Pause I got to see at LaMama when I was in New York in January, has moved to The Zipper, and is getting great notices. Go see her if you have the opportunity!

SPEAKING OF: The fates are conspiring to keep me out of New York, first hurling obstacles which nixed plans for a Manhattan Memorial Day and now making it impossible for me to visit the weekend following. I should probably give up on trying to combine work and pleasure and just plan a hedonistic getaway weekend of theatre, dining and whatnot. Maybe sometime after I finish the first round of Sondheimapalooza, I'll scoot up to NYC.

Saturday, June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

The trip to New Orleans (the land of dreams...) has been postponed for better times and cooler climes. Meanwhile, I'm spending the weekend with pals in our nation's capital.

As expected, it took me longer to get from the airport to my digs near Dupont Circle than the flight here from St. Louis. I hate flying into Dulles; I ordinarily come into National Aiport, but the TWA soopa-savah fare (~$100 roundtrip) was only good for IAD, so I had a bit of a train schlep to get in.

I ran into two folks I know on the short walk here from the Metro station. I love this city. I've been away too long. On tap shortly: dinner and/or drinks with the local web cognescenti and other attractive fauna. Woot!