December 23, 2007.
Oh, am I enjoying Christmas time — even though I’m not religious.
One of our recent email dialogues made me think of a good former friend and co-worker, Rudi Steinert, who was also a former HIC board member. He passed away before Don Slater, though I can’t remember when. He lived across the street on Calumet from Tony and Don, where Dale Jennings lived before he went into the nursing home. He had relatives killed in the holocaust and was a very practical person. He got on the bus every day and rode to a stationery store in Beverly Hills, and hosted several ONE/HIC events in his apartment.
He would pick up men on Main St. (Need I say more?). Then he would clean them up, feed them, have sex, and then return them to Main St.
The reason I bring him up is that he would explain the reason behind this in a way that reminds me of an ad as shared by Jeanne Barney. He said:
The older you get, the more choosy you get. It is nature’s way of saying, I know I can’t get the young cute ones, but fortunately, I don’t want them if they have any defect. So now I am more selective. I reject them before they can reject me.
Sour grapes or something.
The ad Jeanne Barney brought to our attention, from Craig’s List or some similar place:
I can host in my Q-shaped apartment on 39th Street between Delancey Street and Ninth Avenue. Please, no weirdos, druggies, smokers, drunks, hippie-types, fems, fats or African American colored black Oriental Asians of color. Sincere only need apply.
