amazing lungs of death...or, Joel & Buck Angel

last week I read at RKB's In The Flesh. It was a FANTASTIC time, although Rachel told me that Alyson canceled the book Second Skin. But I think I'll find a fine home for my near-future Berlin where people are wearing recycled tires and two hot dudes get it on on the bus, so I'm not too bothered.

On Saturday, I went to the GLBT Expo on behalf of my work, GayHotMovies, and met Buck Angel. Now I stalked around the Hustlaball in Berlin last October looking for him, was torn up when I found out he wouldn't be at the GayVNs in San Francisco, and then just accidentally found him. We had a nice chat and I took a pic. And I resisted going down on him, so that's something, right? And he gave me a longshoreman's cap so I can look tough.

Then that's where the amazing lungs of death come in...I got really sick and had to flee back to Philadelphia. (And I thought my sprained ankle was bad!)I've been homebound for days on antibiotics and worrying that my lung with deflate because of some mysterious monstrosities called blebs. But now I have an inhaler and it's changing my life and helping me fully oxygenate my blood for the first time in a week!

C is For Coeds

Just came home and found my contributor's copies of C is For Coeds, which has my story "I Wanted Him to Feel It" along with 11 others from the likes of Rachel Kramer Bussel, Thomas Roche, Andrea Dale and editor Alin Tyler. The book is so tiny and cute and perfect...how can you not love that cover art?

So go and buy it at the Cleis Press site or somewhere else. Will post an excerpt soon. It's about a guy who just wanted to try it once (and may or may not have written a letter to the school paper about it later).

reading in New York on March 21

Come and check me out on March 21, reading at In The Flesh.

IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 at 8 PM
AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey, http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com

This month, join Cheri Crystal (Erotic Interludes 3, 4, 5), Joel A.
Nichols (Dorm Porn 2, Travelrotica 2), Carol Novack (Mad Hatters'
Review), memoirist Suzanne Portnoy (The Butcher, The Baker, The
Candlestick Maker), who's making an appearance all the way from
London, and Claire Thompson (Golden Boy, Slave Castle), along with
host erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel (He's on Top,
She's on Top, Caught Looking) for hot stories from across the sexual
spectrum. Free candy and mini cupcakes will be served and authors'
books will be available for sale.

Steve Berman reading

On Saturday afternoon, Ray and I went to hear the lovely and talented (and Lammy-nominated!!) Steve Berman read from his novel Vintage at Giovanni's Room. It's a YA novel about a gay goth boy, coming of age in New Jersey and being seriously attracted to a ghost. The three parts Steve read were tender and spooky, smart and made piles of leaves way sexier than I'd ever thought them...

Ray finished the book last night and thumbs-upped it. I am going to sink my teeth in when I finish the China Mieville stories in Looking for Jake that Genne & James gave my for Christmas.

Steve also read his story in Love, Bourbon Street, a funny and dirty coming out exam.

Buy Vintage now!