I maintain that Hedwig’s death is the official symbolism of Harry’s childhood/innocence ending. It’s horrific, but I defend its occurrence.

My freshman year of high school I read “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien during study hall (directed by a strict teacher who decided study hall was for STUDY and not for socializing). At that time, I depicted characters as people I knew. Also, this was in 2001 so the idea of boys I knew going off to war related…

I would even deem it graceful. What a lovely soul she must have.

and creammmmmm and crimson and ochre and mauve

I have a friend named Joey and I occasionally sing “Go, Go Joseph” to him. He is a snobby theater queen and doesn’t get it.

It’s been a horrific news day and that makes me believe in humanity all over again.

She is also the lead actress on Blackish. And I was recently watching “Hanging Up” which is not a good movie, but she’s randomly in it. Neat!

Do you remember when “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” did an advice segment called “Listen to Iman”? It was the bessssttttt.

My mom was so obsessed with it that any time a local high school or college was performing it we had to go see it. I’ve seen it about five times but NEVER in a professional capacity. I don’t think I would want to at this point. My first ever “date” was with a kid playing Zebulun. We were both gay so a girl in the show…

I’m a native of the area (but live downtown now) and was bummed out to find out it was the Quarry McDonald’s. That’s on the way to my parents’ house!

I was watching “The Kelly File” today and was pleasantly surprised that their judicial expert (Napolitano?) was actually in favor of Obama releasing prisoners who were only there for non-violent drug crimes and emphatically stated that jail is not a place for addicts. The country’s starting to come around on it.

I was in love with someone who looks like a carbon copy of Baby Thor, BUT ONLY IN THAT MOVIE. I still have the .gif of when he says “We should split up.”

My relatively healthy great-grandmother finally went into palliative care at 102. She hardly ever spoke of her siblings (they had all died decades prior) but in her final days she would have conversations with her brother as if he were in the room.

An comedian/improv performer friend of mine recently had her first pregnancy that may have been more complicated because she was in her late thirties (but maybe it was just complicated because it was a pregnancy! I don’t know!). She performed practically up until her due date and told me, “I’m excited about this baby,…

And if you’re a woman who dates comedians, you are called a chuckle slut. Even if you go on, like, ONE date, because they can get mean that way. (I’m a gay comedian so I get to avoid this)

“Hey, Virginia. Let’s do a movie together where we go on a road trip and just be SLUTS.”

Controversy doesn’t have to be a bad thing for Ebony. Remember how people were outraged about this cover? Entertainment Weekly is still proud of it (they mentioned it in their 25th anniversary issue).

“Leave me alone, YOU BITCH!”

When I lived in New York I always got my hair cut by Israeli men at their barber shops, so I like it only for that reason. And the random Mariah Carey cameo!!

I heard that last time she was here in Minneapolis she did it as a medley so she didn’t even yell the “Minneapolis” part! (And we don’t get a lot of shout-outs). She’s here next week and I hope she does it.