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Author: piefolk
Sunset Plaza: Eddie Thomas and Chris Jericho
Eddie Thomas’ eyes flash blue and green in the sunlight, as piercing as ever. He’s sitting at a cafe table, regarding me with a cool, almost reptilian quality, all fine-featured and full of smirks. His primary mutation is a mild form of telepathy, and he’s in his element today. His power manifests in a sway […]
I Love Me: Breaking the Silence Awards + Maxine Waters
Breaking the Silence Awards recognizes corporations and leaders who use their platform of influence to advocate for Sexual & Domestic Abuse awareness. Since the inception, the I Love Me Foundation has provided supportive services through legal referral assistance, advocate support, financial aid, employment referral and housing assistance to over 1,500 youth, young adults, sex workers, […]
Reality Check Live: Gay #MeToo #Broadway #WilliamIveyLong
Hey! I’m the current top-trending story on Reality Check Live, with Cary Harrington. It’s a long interview – about 25 minutes. Stream at the site, or download the Reality Check Live app on your smartphone! We talk about solidarity in the gay community, hetero-supremacy, internalized homophobia, and the growing dossier of evidence being compiled against […]
Dear William Ivey Long,
September 11, 2018 Dear William, It’s been a long time since I corresponded. I have been busy, and surely you have also been busy. Even so, you abused me a little in 1995, and quite a lot in 1996 – so I have complicated, unresolved feelings for you. Not to worry, I pay a therapist […]
Sweet Gregory: Part Three, The 59th Street Bridge – 2001
Gregory is perplexed, and sort of chasing me up the hill. I’m not running, but it’s a steep climb and I’m race-walking. I don’t understand my powers yet -I can’t control them. In the years to come, I will learn that if emotionally triggered, or feeling slightly manic, raising my heart rate isn’t a good […]
Orange County is Burning
Orange County is burning maybe i’ll go to Africa, the wild savannah sounds enticing maybe i’ll see giraffe and hippos and learn tribal dancing, maybe i’ll trek the nile and find a hidden treasure beneath murky riverbeds, wearing a jerkin of faded crocodile skin maybe i’ll let you in maybe i’ll head to […]
The Fall and Rise of Andy Dick, Part Three: The Man
I walk into Akbar. I’m going to ask Andy Dick to come outside, to dance a little – to fight me. I crack my knuckles. It’s been a while since I let myself have the thrill of a dust-up. Since middle-school, probably, if you don’t count me subduing lovers in younger years, when, wild, they would […]
The Fall and Rise of Andy Dick, Part Two – The Myth
My wife is a tiny bit jealous – just a little. I was spending time with one of my Wizard friends, and now I’m teasing her about it. She’s fascinated with my friend Wendell, and has been ribbing me about how I’m hoarding access to him. Somehow, without being told, she can sense Wendell is […]