Well it's Sunday. Had a pretty good weekend. Started Friday nite.
Friday evening we had the honoring of having Heidi Galli, Shelia, Karla, Danny and his wife over for dinner here in Eagle Rock. These friends go way back. I met them in 1976 before summer as I was still in High School when I first started going to the Sugar Shack (a teenage night club in North Hollywood, CA). You had to be fewer than 21 to get in, but of course there were those perverts that looked younger than they were. I didn’t realize this until I was much older. Older pervs, Guys who preyed on young meat and flesh. I think I was a bit odd for them, as they never bothered me. I think at that time they were chicken hawken’ for young blonde boys with blue eyes. I remember my friend John Besselo (I think that is how you spell his name) telling me as were painting a backdrop for a high school play in the auditorium…. “My mother tells me older men want to @uck me cause I am blonde and blue eyed and they like that.” I had a crush on him but didn’t tell him I did, I just smiled and told him he wasn’t pretty enough and they wanted pretty things no a challenge!
The weekends couldn’t come fast enough. We spent most of the week preparing our attitude for fun at the Shack. Sometimes we would go on a Wednesday as it was the third most popular day to go (Friday and Saturday of course being the first and second). If I didn’t get a ride from a friend, I would hitch hike which at that time mostly safe (except if you had blonde hair and blue eyes). The hard part was getting back home. At 2:00 in the morning your rides (if not your friends) were most likely going to be an old horny man or wasted hippies. I preferred the hippies… at least I knew I didn’t have to have sex with them!~
There were several clicks at the Shack. The Valley kids (mostly from rich families and simi adventurous), the Beverly Hills kids (rich, bored and had lots of connections for drugs), and then the Beach kids (really bored, hated their parents and found the rest of us entertaining). I danced on American Bandstand and the Real Don Steele Show from 1973 – 1977 so most of the crowd I had encountered there. The first time I saw (I say saw as I didn’t actually meet him until later) Chuckee Starr was at a taping of the Real Don Steele Show. I think the New York Dolls were taping their appearance when down the alley that was next to the Studio on the KHJ-lots, comes this he/she of a person with at least 6” platforms, blue jeans cut into hot pants with fridge hanging from them, tube top and a banner wrapped around him like a beauty queen winner that stated “SWEET”. Needless to say I thought I saw it all then!
Later at a tapping of American Bandstand I was introduced to the word BI…. “Buy? What am I supposed to buy?” That was my response to question a pretty young guy asked me between tapings “Are you BI?” I had no idea what the hell that meant until he then explains the meaning. I then was more confused as I always thought you either like boys or girls not both! I sense have learned to accept all.
Back to the Shack and our little reunion with some friends. It was a nice to see old friends. Catching up is always great for conversation. What we have done, what we should have done, talking about all the crazy things we did… then looking each other and wondering why we are still alive!
OK, well more later, my life has many roads. I decided to let you in on some of them, so enjoy.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
It's been a long time but I am back!
I have been working pretty hard the last several months to try and get my Diversity company up and running. Also been working on helping my better half’s projects by updating and trying to keep up with all that needs to be done.
They way the economy has been, I am blessed that the few clients I have been able to keep my head above the water. I am 51 years old and well, at this stage of the game I am hoping all those years of doing what I do will pay off and I won’t have to get a job a K-Mart or Taco Bell when I am 60!
I am writing to basically get my steam off today. I find in strange in a time when people are trying to get work and trying to find jobs that there are some that seem to take advantage of the fact that they have a roof over their head and that times have been good for them (for the most part) but yet they are complaining about the lack of money coming in but when you give them work they slack off or just do care. There I got that off my chest.
I wish all my friends and family that are going through tuff times right now the best and hope that things pick up. Ronn and I are truly blessed to have great friends and great family. We do what we can to help and if other do the same, we all can get through this.
Facebook has kept me pretty busy with catching up with old friends. It (for the most part) has been a great journey. I have truly enjoyed reconnecting with most and connecting with new. Boy it’s scary to see how some of us look after not seeing each other for over 30 years! When I wake up I feel 17… when I look in the mirror I look 45, when I lay down to go to bed I feel 100! : )~ I guess my life after high school was pretty much an adventure. I haven’t talk to most of my childhood friends for those 30 plus more years of not seeing them. So catching up on one’s life is great reading and conversation. All those crazy times I had in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I often stop and take a deep breath and thank the powers that be that I am still on this earth. So many of things I did or situations I was in… It’s a wonder that I am still standing. I guess I was supposed to so I could blog/write about it.
Going to be working at the GLAD annual "Taste of Eagle Rock" this Saturday, August 22nd at GLAD. The Great Los Angeles Agency on Deafness is a wonderful non profit that is helping our Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members. Rachel Braver once again is doing a fantastic job (as well as hard working) preparing for this event. both Ronn Savala and I are very proud of our little Braver!
So that leads me into what all that stuff above I am yapping about. I will use this blog more often to express myself and to tell a story or two. If your listening enjoy.
mandog
They way the economy has been, I am blessed that the few clients I have been able to keep my head above the water. I am 51 years old and well, at this stage of the game I am hoping all those years of doing what I do will pay off and I won’t have to get a job a K-Mart or Taco Bell when I am 60!
I am writing to basically get my steam off today. I find in strange in a time when people are trying to get work and trying to find jobs that there are some that seem to take advantage of the fact that they have a roof over their head and that times have been good for them (for the most part) but yet they are complaining about the lack of money coming in but when you give them work they slack off or just do care. There I got that off my chest.
I wish all my friends and family that are going through tuff times right now the best and hope that things pick up. Ronn and I are truly blessed to have great friends and great family. We do what we can to help and if other do the same, we all can get through this.
Facebook has kept me pretty busy with catching up with old friends. It (for the most part) has been a great journey. I have truly enjoyed reconnecting with most and connecting with new. Boy it’s scary to see how some of us look after not seeing each other for over 30 years! When I wake up I feel 17… when I look in the mirror I look 45, when I lay down to go to bed I feel 100! : )~ I guess my life after high school was pretty much an adventure. I haven’t talk to most of my childhood friends for those 30 plus more years of not seeing them. So catching up on one’s life is great reading and conversation. All those crazy times I had in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I often stop and take a deep breath and thank the powers that be that I am still on this earth. So many of things I did or situations I was in… It’s a wonder that I am still standing. I guess I was supposed to so I could blog/write about it.
Going to be working at the GLAD annual "Taste of Eagle Rock" this Saturday, August 22nd at GLAD. The Great Los Angeles Agency on Deafness is a wonderful non profit that is helping our Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members. Rachel Braver once again is doing a fantastic job (as well as hard working) preparing for this event. both Ronn Savala and I are very proud of our little Braver!
So that leads me into what all that stuff above I am yapping about. I will use this blog more often to express myself and to tell a story or two. If your listening enjoy.
mandog
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