I'm going to meet up with a friend of mine for dinner and a movie tonight. He's picking the movie. I bet it won't be anything on my list, such as Scooby-Doo and Reign of Fire. I've seen my 'critically-acclaimed-movie-with-subtitles' for the year, so I'm entitled to something with explosions and car chases. Just to tide me over until the Vin Diesel movie comes out. I wonder if he's held captive and tortured by the villains at any point? If there were any homos on the script writing team then it's a given.

Years ago, when I was in college, a friend of mine said 'You've got to see this movie!" She said that it was a thing about an alien and it starred Arnold Schwartzenegger, but that there was a lot going on in it. (We were both English majors, so we talked like that. And I had not reconciled myself to my enjoyment of mindless cinema, so I had to have an excuse to see something like that back then.) The movie was Predator. My friend was right, but one thing that I picked up on that she didn't was that it was off the scale when it came to homoerotic content. The alien wants to bag Arnold because he's such a damn fine piece of man meat. A few years later, I read and enjoyed a book of poems written by Paul Monette called '18 Elegies for Rog,' written for his lover who had died of AIDS. In the 'By The Same Author' blurb, it mentioned that Mr. Monette had several screenplays to his credit, including 'Predator.' What's could be the reason for Mr. Diesel's meteoric rise to stardom? Uh.... That would be homos. Here's hoping that XXX is basically softcore porn. (C'mon, that title...) I wonder if Vin is or has been 'romantically' linked to any budding starlet. Maybe he's dating his publicist's sister or something. A google search indicates that he is 'rumored to be dating Playboy model Summer Altice.

Anyway, enough about Vin. (Yeah, right. I see an obsession coming down 5th Avenue.)

Tomorrow will be the final outing of the season for my softball team. It's a double header against the Hellcats from Cowgirls Hall of Fame. Interestingly, they're #1 in our division, and we're #2. So, it will just confirm them in first place if they win (possibly knocking us down to third), but if we win, we get to be the division champs. And I love that. Thank the Lord the first game is at noon. (We get to the park at 11 for practice, we rendevous to head up there at 10, and I get up at 8am.) It's just too much when the first game is at 10 am. It is so wrong to be getting up at 6am on a Saturday morning. Anyway, hail the conquering heroes.

This will probably be my last post for a while. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week I'll be on Fire Island with the Special Guy.