Update

Sorry I haven't blogged lately. I've been in the cave cooking up several projects, y'know, on account of this recession thing. (Perhaps you've heard something about it.)

However, for those of you in the Portland area, I'm emerging Thursday night to do a gig with musician John Wesley Harding and comic Eugene Mirman at Mississippi Studios, in which I will tell a disgusting story and sing a filthier song.

In other news, my upcoming fashion debut has just gotten cheaper! (Like me.) You can get $25 off a $75 ticket by putting in the code "Fashion" at reddresspdx.

Here's my fitting in muslin, with designer Shakir Najieb:


It might be worth fifty bucks just to see me fall on my ass in those shoes.

New Thing #380

Sure, filing taxes suck, but this year marks the first time that Floyd and I could file jointly as domestic partners.

Don't get too excited, it's not as good as all that. Domestic partnerships aren't recognized federally, yet the state requires that in addition to our separate federal forms we must also file a dummy federal form, asking that we write the words "as if" across the top. I kid you not. I imagine clerical functionaries seeing the form and snapping in the air, crying, "As if."

Gayer still is that the state refers to registered domestic partners as "RDP," which everyone in Portland knows stands for the Red Dress Party. Speaking of by the way, I'll also be taking part in a Red Threads for Model Citizens, a fashion show fundraiser for the charities the party funds. I'll be modeling couture by designer Shakir Najieb.

FYI, the sketch on the left is the front.

Both events promise to be nights you wished you remembered, so I hope to see all you Portlanders there. Until then, I'll be on the Gandhi Diet.