We went last night to a poetry reading/open mic event at Hollywood, a gay owned coffee house. Donna Garrett was the featured reader and she promised an evening of erotic poetry and she delivered rather nicely. I left with her chapbook and an email contact to do a feature on her for EP. I think we will review her book and meet up with her again for a pic and some interview questions as she has been doing this, my guess, for quite a while. She was very engaging and I am glad I went, though I should have known to be prepared to read some work. My friend Lori had let me know about the event in a quick email and it did not occur to me to read. We sat with Lori and a few of her friends so we also met a few other women.

After the reading at hollywood, we then went to get some food at MoMong. We ordered the crab claws, shrimp dumplings, and phu quac, all tres yummy. Having a good parking space there, we went across the street to shoot pool for a bit at Slick Willie's pool hall. They have recently done a remodel and we have to get a better feel for the 'new' place. It seems as if it might be a little more hetero than before, but I suppose I have to consider how long it has been since we have been there on a Friday night.

We shot pool from about 930 til near midnight and I think I drank 6 or 7 beers while we were there and also did a few shots. They were 2+ ounces each and tasted like lemonade, a combination of bourbon, peach schnapps and sour mix. I had two of those. Then my third shot was a raspberry kamikaze...

When we arrivedm the energy, as I mentioned, was very hetero. After about an hour or so, a table near us was occupied by 4 very butch dykes, at least 2 of whom were a couple. Once I had seen them, I got a little more aggressive in kissing E in an effort to run off the family playing to our left. Not that I really wanted to run them off, but I was looking for a shift in the energy of the place, which happened soon enough.

We had put a couple of dollars in the juke box soon after we arrived, and as it happened, the family to the left was ready to call it enough, and then our songs came on. We were then in the groove, of coursem the shots had all been consumed by this time.

As our songs ended, we decided to stop across the way at the lesbian mega bar. We entered through Chances, which is a local's type energy and got a beer there. Then we headed to the middle bar, The G Spot, formerly called The In Between. The music played there is often tweaked here and there to conform to the crown, and maybe they even offer a schedule of sorts. We just do not go often enough to know what will be playing when. Last night it was heavy duty house and we were just surveying the crown. I was surprised to see that Lori had turned up on her own. She joined us and we danced away the next hour or so shakin' some mighty fine ass if I do say so myself.

We left there before 2, perhaps not long before 2, but definitely before. Then it was home to allow E to fulfill her resolution aspirations.

Still hanging in there at the moment, having slept in a little, we went out to lunch at Dacapo, a lesbian owned( I think) cafe, and then it was over to Beth and Irina's for them to get their hair done and to shoot some pool.

E has gone to drop her son at the movies and I have dinner going, roasted mixed veggies and some tilapia...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...