Yes, I know. This post is way overdue. Actually I’ve been trying to avoid to Dwayne/Dante blog lately. Dante got extremely out of control at Queer Prom in Athens back in February, making me consider killing him off altogether. However, like all my friends knew, he came back eventually.
I know many of you have no idea what I’m talking about and I think its best we kept it that way, lol. But before putting the matter completely to rest:
I’M SO SORRY CHRIS!! LOVE YOU!
Ok, moving on. (Inquiring minds can hit me up on the sly later.)
Did I just say sly??? Anywho, much has happened (as usual) since last we met. Most important of which is my new job at The Advocate in Newark. I’m actually liking it a lot, which I wasn’t expecting. My desk in kind of in a corner away from everyone, so I haven’t really connected with too many people, but everyone there is extremely nice.
Most of my job entails writing five stories, out of Columbus, for the weekly entertainment pullout they have called “Let’s Go.” I have total creative control over the content, which is hella cool. I usually do the cover and four mini featurettes about different events in central Ohio. (Click HERE to see some of my stuff.)
They’ve also got me doing a blog called “Columbus After 5,” where I write entertainment updates and do reviews of shows. It’s crazy cool that I get to go to all this stuff for free. It’s pretty insane. I interviewed someone from Avenue Q and saw the show Thursday. I covered the Carrie Underwood, Linkin Park and Martina McBride concerts, and have interviewed (as well as covered) people from Riverdance, Jesus Christ Superstar and Stomp. I even talked with a Doodlebop and David Copperfield, which was out of control.
It’s been a cool ride thus far. Though I’m feeling stretched a bit thin with writing for the insert, going to stuff on the weekends for the blog, working on this new entertainment Web site they want me to launch, and now they’re having me do American Idol reviews (which are actually pretty funny, click HERE to see the blog). It’s getting kinda hectic, to say the least, lol
I’m still loathing the fact that I’m in Ohio but I’ve been in a love/hate relationship with this state since high school so I don’t think that’s ever going to change, lol.
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about my car! OMG ½ it’s out of control. Yeah, so I totally totaled Lucifer (Blue 1996 Ford Taurus). Yes, I know, I know, but I personally don’t think the accident was my fault, but I was so cited! I was turning left in the middle of a crazy busy intersection. It was snowing, so the roads were hella icy and the light had turned yellow. You know how you’re in the middle of the intersection and you’re supposed to turn while all the other cars are stopping, right? Well, everyone else had stopped except this one idiot who slammed on his breaks and slid right into my car. And the police gave me a $110 ticket for “improper left turn!” What the hell was “improper” about my left turn!?
Well, anywayz, this time I at least had liability insurance (as opposed to having no insurance when I was in NYC) so his car was taken care of, but it would have been $4,000 to fix my car, which was worth much less, so, I just went ahead and had my mom cosign for me to get Dante Jr. (Silver 2005 Ford Focus). It has a six CD changer, and something about horsepower and mileage, I’m totally stoked, and totally broke, lol.
Anywho, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, living in Ohio. Yeah, it sucks, lol. I think that’s only because I’m stuck in suburban hell living with the parentals. After venturing out to the hoe dunk bars in Delaware for a while, the stares and “faggot” comments got old so now I’m just sticking to the gay bars and gay-friendly straight bars in Columbus. I forgot how huge the gay community in Columbus was. Once I move down there I shouldn’t have a problem falling back in love with Ohio, especially with all those men folk at my disposal, lol.
Ok, now on to my love life, which I’m sure is why many of you have tuned in, lol. In the last post I mentioned a Dale and a Jay, I believe. Yeah, those are long gone. I had a brief but short stint with a guy named Mike some online disasters and landed on hurricane named Dorian. Let me explain.
I met Dorian a little less then a month ago through my best gay bud Lamar, who I grew up with. He happened to be tagging along on one of our excursions into the C-bus gay scene. He was hella sweet and hella gorgeous, amazing lips and a very nice bod but I digress. He mentioned that he didn’t have a job but it was because he’d jus moved to Columbus only a week earlier, so I wasn’t immediately turned off.
Well, a month later he’s still unemployed, I’ve learned he has a rap sheet (I had to do a background check! My fellow journos know what I mean, lol), and he’s pretty much homeless (bumming on his friend’s parent’s couch) and to top it off he’s 35.
Now before you call me crazy, let’s not forget he’s gorgeous, an amazing kisser, one of the most romantic people I’ve ever met and also sweet as pie. Now, you tell me. Should I stop seeing him? Is personality enough? Or should I expect a man who’s got his shit together? Lol
Many of my friends have called me judgmental for considering ending what little relationship we have. “He’s in a rough spot right now,” they say. Others say, “35. No job. What the hell are you doing?” lol
I don’t know. We’ve only been talking for a month so it’s nothing serious. We haven’t even slept together (don’t let that fool you, we’ve dabbled lol). But I’ve relegated our relationship to only seeing each other once or twice every other week so I don’t get too attached, hoping he’ll get his act together. But, until then I’m a single man, waiting for that 27-year-old doctor with frequent flyer miles to come sweep me off my feet and rescue me from this dismal place, lol.
Well, that’s my life for now. I’ll be sure to keep the posts coming with further developments. If you know any single, rich cutties turned on by pudgy men with love handles be sure to send them my way, lol.
Smooches!
~D.A. Steward
