Easy Off

Life is riddled with paradox. For instance, I hate the sound of my own voice and yet I am reluctant to ever take a night off from talking on the radio. But tonight I did. In the morning, I will be boarding a plane to Los Angeles where I will be working virtually around the clock for the next ten days. So it seemed prudent to take an evening off and enjoy myself. After all, with the hours I work, I am never around on a Friday night for a movie or dinner with friends. So with this night off, that is exactly what I did.

I started with a late matinee of You Again, the new Kristen Bell comedy (although the way they are pushing current mega star Betty White, you would think she was the lead). After some casual correspondence online with Vanity Fair’s Brett Berk, we had planned to see the movie early and do some kind of online gay dueling review. But we missed the screenings and will have to wait for the next big gay movie, Burlesque, starring Christina Aguilera and what’s left of Cher. You Again was admittedly not a good movie, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t have a few laughs and even a tear or two as everything tied up just as neatly as you would expect. But mostly I came for the popcorn and the Cherry Coke and to relish sitting nearly alone in a massive theater in Times Square, instead of working.