Given to Fly

Been a social bunny today, updated Twitter, changed the pic on Facebook and read someone’s conclusion for their essay. All in all I did well being social but it’s easier on the end of a computer I must admit. In other news, my mass Tassimo coffee delivery came - I can speak highly of the Starbucks brand, but to try the rest in one day would send me hyper.

Second thoughts, think it already did coz I’ve done my Tesco shopping too. Online, of course. My theory was that it freed up Mum and Dad to visit Nanna in hospital, and it worked because I’m going to see her again tomorrow. Hopefully today is better than yesterday for her.

The cricket has been on. England started badly and have recovered, but then my Torchwood DVD’s came and I lost interest. Why isn’t James Marsters on the front cover…come on Russell, sort it out lad!

All the best x Moulty

Alright all?

Get on this, I was told today by one of my closest friends that she had been reading this site. Everyone who says that mentions it in a apologetic kind of way, once and for all I really don’t mind.

Today has been good. I caught up with a few people and when I handed those valued few off to work and their other men, I went off to Tesco to watch the world go by and have breakfast. It’s good for people watching, there was an old dear sat next to me who was talking to herself really loudly. Everyone around her was doing the polite thing and making it look like they didn’t notice but come on people, when there is a friggin’ pink elephant in the room…you watch the animal! It was quite a giggle coz for a while I thought there was someone there with her (there clearly was, but not an actual person).

It’s funny when you bump into people that you have known for a while; they think they own a small part of you because they remember you from years back. They are easily spotted by the fact they sport a daft smile for the five minutes it takes them to approach you, and they always ask me the same three questions. Next time it happens I’m gonna give them this website…and give them this page. Read these answers.

No, I do not have a job: I do not have the time or the inclination to explain to you why, if you do not know this already.

No I do not have a girlfriend: I was no good at having one when I thought I wanted one, never gonna happen get over it. I’ve found that I have several girls in my life, all of which are dear to me and none of whom interest me in that way. I think I’ve found the answer, to be really good friends with a girl you must have no interest in sleeping with them.

No it is not a shame, and no it is not a waste.

Milk LAST when making tea. Not first. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Saw Nanna yesterday in hospital, she was on top form with her Nanna one liners. My favourites, “This is my Simon. He went to University you know, and he had Cerebral Paulsy”.  I would like to reassure people that I still have it! She also put money in her television so that she could watch her soaps even though she had read what was going to happen in the magazine we had just brought her… I can’t wait to be old. A world of yer own and revenge on yer kids!

I have a weekend free due to the fact that someone has to work. If any one needs a shopping assistant, or at least a couple of handles to rest shopping bags on, contact Given to Fly via the usual methods. I am this season’s must have accessory, and you know it’s true.

In a bit lovelies!

Simon

One of my friends told me that he knew I was gay as soon as he met me, and I listened to him then because his view completely matched that of my closest family members and went against everyone that reacted in a shocked way to the ‘discovery’.  His reasons maybe stereotypical somewhat as I discuss them here, one was that I knew how to dress, another was the Wham song as my ring tone and the third was the fact that I have Fraiser, Will and Grace and Sex and the City box sets. I don’t think much of his observation, I think the clues have been there for my whole life. I may have only now jumped on the bus but I’ve always had the ticket.

Part of my head is always questioning stuff like this at the moment, and it can lead to some fun discoveries. I was once obsessed with figuring out the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Zero at 4am. So just for a laugh I typed words into a well known search engine and attempted to disprove his theory that only girls and gays like these programmes. It isn’t true. Well, what I found out was more that more thought has been put into it than I knew…Garry Maddox writes

“For Sex and the City, it seemed the formula was to write gay male and cast straight female. Its (gay) creator, Darren Star (pictured), devised one of the gayest hit series featuring straight characters in television history. The lives of the glamorous central characters – and apologies here to gay readers who dislike the stereotyping as much as anyone – revolve around sex, shopping, gossip and bawdy humour. As City Journal has noted, the show is a Yellow Pages of Manhattan’s status fashion objects, including Prada skirts, DKNY jeans and shoes by Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo. “The heroines lust after these pricey and au courant accoutrements of success … They size up men with a similarly calculating eye for surfaces.”

This hardly changed, even when Miranda had a baby.

While Sex in the City has thrived on sharp, witty writing and its clever dealings with the struggle for love, it’s part of a subtle shift on US television. As The New York Times noted two years ago, openly gay writers and producers have been transforming TV comedy since Ellen came out in the late 1990s. The result has been hit sitcoms such as Will & Grace and “lots of nudging and winking” in shows focusing on heterosexual characters.

Even in less accepting times, many saw old shows such as The Odd Couple, Cagney and Lacey and The Golden Girls as having a gay sensibility, even though the central characters were heterosexual.

And what about Frasier? One gay spokesman, as quoted in The New York Times, saw it as a show about “two stereotypical gay men, except they sleep with women”. FAIRFAX DIGITAL

So it seems the theory of a Pink Triology is valid. I don’t care. I like all three and I like Buffy and Angel too. Sue me!

Interesting reading though. And Coke Zero is the true diet version of Coke in that it’s the same recipe as Coke just no sugar. You would think that Diet Coke would be the same recipe without sugar, but nope. DC is a completely different recipe to Coke. In case you wondered.

In a bit

Moulty x