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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | | 9:16 am |
Rick & Steve's Trapeze Show
 Sunday night Steve and I were in a trapeze show together at Cirque School LA. It was Steve's first student showcase-- his first time performing a whole routine for people other than students-- and he did amazingly well. We says he was shaking the whole time, but having been on the ground almost underneath him, I can definitely say that it didn't show. I was playing a boy scout character, and the props on the left were the things I played with throughout the show when I wasn't clearing pads or boosting girls up onto the trapeze bar. I sort of go through this whole transformation from childish boyscout to punky leather guy at the end. No shots of that at the moment, and no video, but hopefully soon.  Here Steve and I are backstage. We should be getting some more professional photos soon. He looks good as a hunky industrial worker.  Here Steve is in iron cross. Photos are a bit iffy because we couldn't have flash photography going off or else it might mess with a performer.  Here I am in an ankle hang while ripping off my shirt... that wouldn't rip. Oh well. It cam off eventually... That's showbiz. We're off to see family tomorrow for the holiday but I'm hoping to have some video up soon. | | Friday, November 20th, 2009 | | 3:29 pm |
Breaking News from Unzipped.net!
Steve and I are trapezing this weekend in Steve's first show, and it's going to be amazing. We'll post photos (and maybe some video) next week. But in the meantime, we just broke a major story on Unzipped.net. Levi Johnston working alongside—and pleasuring—homosexuals!  It's good for a laugh. Check out the story here. | | Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | | 10:07 pm |
Trapeze Showcase - November 2009
 Steve is super cute. Here he is resting before beginning a run-through of his performance on the trapeze. This was a rehearsal for this coming Sunday's show and he's pretty amazing. (Contrary to what my ego desires, I'm not posting photos of myself because I don't want to give anything away about what I'm doing this weekend.) So here are two pics that explain why Steve has been described as "masculine" and "seductive" while up on the bar. It's a good thing, because Steve struggles with seeing himself as being both masculine and sexy. And thin. He thinks he's fat. It's silly, but after 8 years I've made peace with his insanity (just as he has with mine) Anyway...  It's true, he is masculine and seductive while in the air. At least in my book. Hopefully we'll have some video next week. | | Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | | 9:59 pm |
Weekend Work Dinner
Amidst prepping for next weekend's trapeze showcase, Steve had to tag along with me to a work dinner. It was for the Free Speech Coalition, and two of the main honorees were getting out of their cars just as we arrived: Larry Flynt and Ron Jeremy. Yeah, no kidding. It was a long night, but at least I got this picture with Ron and our magazine's legal guy, Adam. He's the one on the left (in case you didn't know that Ron Jeremy was the dude in the center).  | | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | 9:42 pm |
Steve's New Disney Stuff
As a follow-up to Monday's post about Steve attending the Princess and the Frog cast & crew screening, here are some of Steve's collectibles that you can buy at The Disney Store. And if there's a link you can buy them at DisneyStore.com, but keep in mind they're less expensive in the stores right now.  Here's his two piece Princess and the Frog snowglobe.  Here's the super cute jewelry box that Steve loves. I love it, too, but the best was the day it came into his office and he called me so excited. The words out of his mouth? "Honey! We're going to have a jewelry box on our dresser!" However, I must note that he has not actually brought one home yet. But when we do, just you wait, on top of that Ikea dresser. That's a promise.  I know I've been promising to show you some of his Christmas ornaments, so here is his Tiana Christmas ornament. Since we have two sets of the other Princesses with skirt dresses, we'll... well... um... I don't know what that means other than this ornament will go up on the tree with all the other Disney ornaments.  And these are the bookends. Quite girly, but yet cute. And these were the words out of my mouth the other day: "So, honey, are we putting the Nightmare Before Christmas bookends away and replacing them with these? Because these are pretty cute." So you know what that means? Yes, we do have the gayest house ever. | | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 9:52 pm |
"Princess and the Frog" Cast & Crew Screening
 Steve got to attend the cast and crew screening for Disney's latest animated feature, The Princess and the Frog. We're all very excited because it's a return to a traditionally animated format, and since those are Steve's roots we want the film to do well. Plus, he made some awesome sculpted items for the film, which I'll probably show off later this week. But for now, let's focus on the party.  There were performers.  There was confetti helping the performers. There were also celebrities, which is pretty awesome. I mean, they call these things "cast and crew" screenings but the cast seldom shows up. They come to the premiere. But at last night's party Steve got to snap some pics of the cast.  Here's Debbie with Bruno Campos who plays Prince Naveen.  And here's the big moment of the night. Disney bigwig John Lasseter, Michael-Leon Wooley who voiced Louis the alligator, and Princess Tiana herself, Anika Noni Rose. She was delightful, letting everyone approach, introduce themselves, and take photos. Steve also loved the movie. He'd seen earlier versions, obviously, but said the final release was even better. I stayed home and filed comic books, read comic books and drank beer. It was a pretty great night for both of us. | | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 8:32 am |
Lazy Halloween Post
I know I posted these pics on The Facebook, but between writing for work, editing for work, blogging for work, rehearsing for our upcoming trapeze showcase, and keeping up on The Facebook it seems like there is even less time than ever to write on the blog. So I'm re-running pictures in the assumption that not all of you are on The Facebook with me.  Steve and I wore flight suits because they're sexy. We put some Battlestar Galactica references on them because we could. No one got them, I don't think, but many people thought we were cute. Which is something...  We ran into Jeff, Steve's brother, at some point in the night.  We also hung out with Rodney Alexander Griffis. Good times.  We also saw the girls from Jersey, and one of them definitely couldn't keep her hands off Steve. We didn't take many other pictures. Our plan was to take a couple while we were sober and then give up. As you can see, sobriety left early. | | Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | | 8:13 am |
The NEW Unzipped Cover Revealed
So here's the main magazine I'm working on. My first two months there involved a lot of scrambling, closing websites, figuring out how to make things run as our budgets got cut, etc. So the holiday issue is really our first issue that launches the new look and feel for the mag, including new interior design, centerfolds, etc.  The nude guy is Chris Rockway, the boys are the Jarics (porn star power couple) and the drag queen is Shannel from RuPaul's Drag Race. And as you can see from the cover, we have some fun stuff going on. I mean, really... Pornaments and Mazel Tov Cocktails? Check out the subscription deal here. | | Monday, October 26th, 2009 | | 10:39 am |
| | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 10:10 pm |
Si Se Puede! We're on Telemundo
 As you may recall, Steve and I were on Telemundo a week ago for a special Spanish language news report about the circus school. We saw the broadcast but then Steve found a copy of it online. It's very exciting. You get to see a bit of me doing muscle work and then some partner work, and there's a great zoom shot from Steve to me. But you get some really great footage of Steve doing a "stingray" and various other moves. I have absolutely no idea what they're saying. Our cleaning lady saw it and said it looked fun. And our friend Mary who reads this blog will understand. In fact, I'm betting her mom saw it. So Mary, when you watch the video, let us know if they make us look silly. | | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 8:17 am |
Crzay Friday Was a Big Success
 Crazy Friday was loaded with meetings and all that kind of last-minute work crap that prevents you from leaving the office early. However, as I started stressing about not leaving on time, I had an inspirational thought: Our company was having a party that evening so I should let everyone go early in order to give them time to chill out and get ready (and thus give myself time to get out and to the circus school). So I did, and they did, and then I did, which got me to the school in time to help set up, do a little rehearsing on a new trapeze, get in costume (look at the cool "dirt" makeup Steve put on me) and perform without too much anxiety. The fundraiser was for a documentary. It's about an orphanage in Africa that keeps kids safe and in contact with their mothers when the husbands decide the women cheated on them and should go to jail (I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the idea). As a side note, however, there was a mix up and my music had been deleted before the performance. So Aloysia (my trainer/producer) and the DJ quickly found something that fit my style and I faked it. But it went REALLY well.  Totally not a set up photo. I was sweating and focusing and trying not to rub the makeup off. I can't help it that the muscles are lit so well.  Are you kidding me with this? It kind of stuns me. I never dreamed I'd be doing circus stuff, much less performing, MUCH MUCH LESS looking good doing it. So this was kind of a triumph. I'm super happy right now. | | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | | 1:10 pm |
Steve's Big Book Signing
 Steve was over at Disney yesterday signing copies of the new book, The Art of the Disney Princess . The turnout, as you can see from the picture, was really great. I'm sad I couldn't be there, but it was more of an event for Disney employees rather than their loved ones. Still, I'm happy he got some pictures taken of his first book signing ever.    Good times. | | Monday, October 12th, 2009 | | 11:02 pm |
What Are We Doing This Week?
 Tuesday, Steve has a book signing at Disney Consumer Products. He will be signing The Art of the Disney Princess, the book that Steve drew four pages in. Sadly, I can't be there but he will take pictures and we'll post them here. As a side note, I know we were supposed to have pictures of his Christmas ornaments, but we never seem to find a time when the natural light is bright enough within the house. (That sounded like a great excuse, huh?) The truth is, our days and weekends have been really busy with work so when we do have a great we've been trying to just watch TV and chill out. But I will post them soon or steal the images from Disney.com. Promise.  So the reason why I can't be at Steve's signing tomorrow (besides the fact that it's at a work site and it would be a pain for me to get there)? I'm doing a manscaping photo shoot. Yeah, that's right. Manscaping. It's for the January issue-- you know, new beginnings, healthy living, clean crotch hair, that sort of thing. This job gets funnier every day. Wednesday I'm on the Frank DeCaro show again (9:15am west coast time, 12:15pm east coast), and Friday there's a fundraiser at the circus school where I'll be performing. Saturday Steve's auditioning for the next student showcase at the school. Needless to say, he's nervous as hell (but I've see his routine and have confidence that he'll be fine). I don't quite know how we get so over-committed. Please discuss. | | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 9:51 pm |
Steve's Book Is Out! (and we might be on TV)
 Okay people, listen up! You can now buy The Art of the Disney Princess, in which Steve drew four pages. This is very exciting for a number of reasons: 1) Steve is in a book. 2) He is the ultimate princess artist, so being in a book is very satisfying. 3) His pictures are so cute that you'll wish they were on shirts and vases and pillows and product of all kinds. 4) He will sign our copy if you buy one and send it to us. 5) Christmas gifts for my family just got a heck of a lot easier. The bigger point is that it's an amazing month because the book, Steve's Princess Christmas ornaments and others are out. And you can buy them both. Oh, and the trapeze school may be featured on some Telemundo show this Friday, and they want Steve and I to be in the episode. If it happens, I'll post the info as soon as I can because I know all the people who read this blog watch Telemundo for all their Spanish-language entertainment. Oh, and buy Steve's book. | | Monday, October 5th, 2009 | | 10:25 am |
Kylie Minogue Concert was INSANE
 Last night Steve and I went to the Kylie Minogue concert at the Hollywood Bowl (or as we like to call it, Gay Pride Hollywood Bowl). I don't think I've ever had as much fun in my entire life. Seriously. I know it's kind of "apples and oranges" when comparing this to the other concerts we've gone to-- like seeing Fleetwood Mac or Annie Lennox-- but I have never cheered and danced and sung along to the music like Steve and I did last night. Oh, and we got into the official after party. This morning, as I dragged my exhausted butt into work, I started downloading photos. There are 241 on the camera. I'm sure not all are amazing, but still... that's a LOT! In fact, it's still downloading as I type. I'm going to check my work email. I'll be back.  Okay, here they are. The first pic up there is from our picnic before we went to the show. This small pic is to show you how close we were to the stage. It's small because it's blurry. That's the problem you face when you debate whether or not to use flash photography. So to give you some better perspective, I included a photo of the area behind us before the show started. (Don't worry, it filled up.)  Kylie descended onto the stage atop a floating skull. She was, of course, the center of the universe.  She had hunky robotic dancers.    The pic below isn't the best, but we met the dancer later on so I wanted to show him in action.        Did anyone else notice Kylie was in a Kira from Xanadu pant suit?   So in the grand tradition of Steve's and my random life, we met a dancer on Saturday night through mutual friends. When we told him how excited we were to see Kylie he asked if we wanted to go to the after party. Um... yeah. So here we are at Boulevard 3 where it was held.   Random crowd shot.  Random stilt walker.    We met a group of fun straight people and ended up partying with them for a while.  As we were about to leave, Kylie walked in and right past us. Seriously. Petite, beautiful Miss Minogue was about 6 feet from us (surrounded by two giant security guards who could kill). Unfortunately, by the time I realized what was happening and thought about the fact that I had a camera, she had walked past and up into the VIP area. So we stayed for another hour trying to see her again but it didn't work out. However, Steve and I did meet one of the hunky dancers. Photo is not great, but at least we met one of the celebs.  | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 8:11 am |
36 Hours and Holding...
Until we see Kylie Minogue at The Hollywood Bowl!  Going with brothers Jeff & John... and every queen in California. Everyone at my office seems to be going. It could be very insane (if we're lucky). | | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 9:33 pm |
Trapeze Showcase - October 2009
 We have a trapeze showcase in October. The last one was actually July of last year, if you can believe it, and it's kind of neat to look back and see the progress I've made since then. I remember being so stressed, so anxious about looking like an idiot, missing my music cues, or just messing up. Everyone turned out to be feeling like that. Eventually one of our group gave all of us a wake up call. He reminded us that we're not in Cirque du Soleil so why should we have been feeling like we needed to have these A-list performances? After that, we ended up having fun, and that helped make the second evening go so much better (because the first night didn't go so well as a result of my being anxious). So now we have fun when we perform. That's what I'm looking forward to next month. It's nice being so confident and not caring as much, and just having fun. The big news? Steve might actually get up and do short performance during the night. He's new to the trapeze thing and hates any kind of public speaking (much less a performance involving tights) but the owners of the school are working him. We'll see how it goes. Oh, and there won't be any Kylie Minogue music this year (though we are seeing her this Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl-- praise God). I'm going to perform to Sonny J's "Can't Stop Movin'." I'm thinking of an old fashioned Electric Company or Sesame Street style costume. But how will I show my arms? I'll figure it out, I'm sure... | | Monday, September 28th, 2009 | | 7:49 am |
Steve's Latest Disney Stuff
 We shot over to The Disney Store yesterday because we thought they would have their new Christmas ornament display set up, and as you know Steve's the primary ornament designer. He doesn't get free samples of his work so we need to make sure we pick them up, and since every year his ornaments sell out we couldn't risk missing any of them. Unfortunately, while the display was supposed to be set up yesterday the instructions never said what time. Thus, no Christmas ornaments. We assume they were building the display that night. But it wasn't a total bust because, as you can see from this horrible photo, we picked up a bunch of Steve's snowglobes and frames. Here are some better images taken by professionals and put on The Disney Store website. (For some reason their website doesn't have the larger Snow White globe. But they do have the "Be Our Guest Belle" snowglobe from Beauty and the Beast)  This is the mini Tinker Bell snowglobe. I can't get over the detail on something this small.  Same goes for the mini Cinderella globe.  I also love when he can do the less popular Princesses, like in this mini Jasmine globe.  There were also some really cool frames. We limited ourselves-- this is going to be an expensive month because so much of his product is coming out-- but we did pick up this Ariel frame that comes with a snowglobe on it.  Finally, there was the Sleeping Beauty frame with snowglobe. He did create all of the snowglobe frames you'll see on the site, but these were the only ones we picked up this week.  Of course, Steve is going to the store today to (hopefully) get the ornaments, so God only knows what stuff we'll have in the house tonight... Is it tacky to put up your tree before Halloween? | | Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | | 8:56 pm |
Palm Springs Fashion... Is INSANE
 Palm Springs is the kind of town where gays visit from all over the country. A lot of them dress in clothing that they see in adult catalogs, porn movies, or hustler websites, so you sometimes see the greatest parings. Fishnet shirts with leather pairings, football jock shorts with lace shirts, or zippered sleeveless tops with acid-washed jeans. On one hand, I love it. I think everyone should have the right to go out wearing whatever the heck they want because it makes them feel sexy. EVERYONE should have the right to feel sexy. So on that level I have huge respect for guys who commit to their look and don't apologize for it. And yet... sometimes... you just can't help making observations.  Over the weekend Steve and I worked out at the Gold's Gym in Palm Springs. The biggest fashion trend? Men in the shortest shorts we'd ever seen in our lives-- so short, in fact, that you knew everyone's religion. Or knew when they were winking at you. (Think on it... Right? I know. Ewwww.) There was one guy in particular, who was actually handsome, and was probably known for his unstoppable butt and legs 10 years ago. But dammit if he hadn't spent those ten years over-working them so that they were the  biggest parts of his body, looking all the bigger because his shorts were so small that they kept riding up his muffin. Every time he did hamstring curls, lunges, or squats (which is all he did) he would stand up and spend the next two minutes pulling them from the muff. He'd then lumber to the next station, seemingly wounded from all the work on his legs. We wanted to tell him to stop, that he was cute enough and his legs would be killer if he just let them be toned at their natural size. But of course we didn't. Instead, Steve gave him a name. Legs McMuffin. And there, my friends, is yet another reason why I love Steve. | | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 8:03 am |
The Wedding Anniversary Trip
 Daisy Duke is in our hotel room. It's true. Steve and I are staying at The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. We'd stayed at The Ace in Portland, Oregon, over my birthday a couple years ago and wanted to check out the Palm Springs version, so here we are. It's simply designed, with clean lines and no frills and art like this-- a picture of Daisy Duke from a magazine clipped out and hung from the slats on the wall. It's absolutely perfect. When we arrived a bottle of champagne was waiting for us because it was our anniversary. Such a nice, simple touch, and so much fun. The restaurant and bar at The Ace are both super cool-- a redesigned Denny's with great comfort food. The pool is a crazy place to be if you're in town visiting because everyone seems to come here like it was a Vegas resort. There was a second pool that we could have lounged by as well, and it's much quieter but there's no bar or waiter service there. Then there's the spa where we spent our Sunday.      Here we are at night, exploring the hotel and the many cool public spaces where you can hang out. But now it's Monday morning. We need to grab breakfast and head back to town. More about the fun weekend in the next week. |
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