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American television magnates had yet to learn how to extract the last ratings point and accompanying dollar from TV programming back when I was a kid. (Otherwise Twilight Zone, which never had high ratings wouldn't be able to fill so many hours Sci-Fi schedule.) Although the Ed Sullivan Show wouldn't have been a case in point; the show was incredibly popular. It was the first place many people saw the Beatles, Elvis - I remember seeing The Animals and Louis Armstrong.

The TV variety show is dead and perhaps with good reason. Sullivan's guests were often anything but artists and entertainers who'd be remembered. They don't show people juggling dinnerware on poles on primetime TV anymore. Although from what I hear of the reality shows TV is merely different, not better.

I was reminded of the TV plate jugglers when I saw a guy ride past used bookshop on a bike with a plate spinning at the end of a very long pole. Can't imagine wanting to do that. But I've never had the vice of attention seeking; let me pass invisibly by. (Except of course pretty boys back when I was young.)

Later I saw the winos we ejected sitting on the porch at the front of the hotdog stand at the front of the shop's parking lot. I suspected my quick glance looked venomous. It was merely the combination of bad eyesight and caring more about the car traffic I was about to step into. When I returned from the BP across the street the winos had left. Happily the male wino didn't feel a need to prove his studliness with impotent insults.

Later in the shop I caught one guy touching another with the casual tenderness couples have. . It reminded me of the day back in Savannah when I first saw an interracial couple walking hand-in-hand.

Glad to see two gay men touching in public (bars don't count). I'm not shy about touching Charles in public. Back in the 70s I held a couple of inhibited guys in public. Made out with one on a city bus in Atlanta.

Gay men should feel as secure in showing affection wherever they are, just like straight folk.

[Listening to: Tenderly - Etta James - (5:29)]

Richard | October 26, 2003 •
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