by the time this goes to press kids, Warbucks and I should just about be in our destination...Barbados! If I get the chance, I'll drop some postcards, otherwise I won't be returning till September sometime, after the trip, then a stint in Fire Island for the Labor Day weekend with the clan and Pearly Gates ( who's finally getting out of P-town for a change), then a few days in New Hope. What can I say suns out, buns will be out!
And the staff of houseboys is joining!
I hear they are there already awaiting in inspection on the beach.
The one thing about getting ready to leave on vacation is trying to get everything in order before leaving, so it is nice to have some extra days getting the garden in order before leaving. I know once back, it will need some TLC. What must be like a never-ending wave of roses this summer keeps coming, thanks to all the dead heading. This has been a great year for roses in the garden. Probably te first year I didn't lose any bushes over the winter. Over the last week or two, the garden not only bring the hummingbirds, but I noticed we had more butterflies then normal. That has to be a good sign. Some years I don't notice as many. It could be in thanks to I have planted more flowering plants and the ones existing are more mature. All I know it's great to have a sit some days and enjoy the fruits of labor.
I think it's time for a fabulous gay Saturday Night Dance Party. The club days did and still do give me life. I LOVE dancing. So in the tradition of our Anne Marie...let's dance like no one's watching! In these times, I find dancing is a cure for what aches! This will most likely be my set of tunes for my last Woods trip in September when I host, down the dance floor.
Sypario is one of those Legendary Queens, when you see , you know she is going to inspire yet make you wet yourself. We caught her act on our Italian trip last year. If I hadn't already done drag, she definitely would have been inspiration for me to start. She sort of reminded me of putting Lady Bunny, Leigh Bowery, and Hope Springs, put into a blender and mixed, Sypario would be the result. Campy, loud, hysterically funny, bawdy, filthy, a slant of club kid factor and the natural talent to sing. Sypario hails for Naples, Italy and her name was the brainchild from a friend of hers who, after seeing a photo of her in drag, exclaimed the word "sipario, which is Italian for "theater curtain." She also choose the name as a tribute to her theatrical artistic background. Unbeknownst to me, she went and appeared on Drag Race Italia, where she placed fourth. She is not using the show as a crutch, but want gigs on her own merits, and not because she was on the franchise. She is one of those queens I believe is way to big and over the top to be sacrificing her own being and style, or being roped in to be on the show. Much like Charlie Hides. This to me would be like Bunny or Hedda Lettuce completing. Let a judge rope them in for something, and they most likely would tell Ru and judges the go fuck themselves. She is what a call a legendary queen, a queen who is going to be remembered for years all on her own, with her style, personality and antics. And will not be molded. She brings back many good drag memories of my own. She seems to be quite popular in italy.
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