Libby took me to see poet Mary Oliver in Richmond last April. The reading will go down as one of my all-time favorite life experiences. Hours before the reading, I woke up bedraggled and thumbed to her poem about Humpback whales. She chose that poem at random to be her final reading later that day.
HBO's new series Enlightened was the antidote to everything wrong with 2011. Laura Dern's character, 'Amy Jellicoe' fought corporate interests, her status as an older and unattached woman in suburbia, and most importantly, self doubt, in a series that won my heart this year. If you haven't yet seen this show: watch it.
One of my TV boyfriends, Rodiney Santiago of LOGO's A List: New York, apparated Harry-Potter style at a club I visited in NYC late last summer. Our meeting was preceded by months of delusional oogling to the point where my friends who'd never seen 'The A List' knew who Rodiney was. When we met it was magic, and I'm pretty sure the flirting was mutual. This queen needs to watch her back.
It should go without saying that I've been delighted and impressed to see Neon Hitch perform on stage, on TV, and to hear her music while road tripping this year. My favorite memory includes me drunkenly singing the hook I wrote for her, to her, outside a Manhattan tattoo parlor a few weeks ago. Check for Gypsy Heart on your radio in 2012.
My dad recently asked if I had been seeing anyone, and with a flush of queeny enthusiasm, I confessed that my newest TV boyfriend, Ty Lor Boring from Top Chef: Texas had accepted my Facebook friend request. After 2011, the year in which a medical student promised to take care of me for the rest of my life, multiple threesomes, and continued sexual experiences with "straight" men, my less than complicated relationship with Ty Lor has been a breath of fresh air. He doesn't know it yet, but one day we're going to own a restaurant together and father chocolate labs.
2011 marks the year that Elizabeth Warren threw her hat in the race for a seat in the US Senate. Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard economist who was tapped by Obama to head the Consumer Protection Agency and one of the few progressive voices in modern politics, advocating for fairer taxes, and greater transparency. Liz Warren is a fundraising powerhouse and scares the shit out of Republicans -- her's is the race to watch in 2012.
Today, the final day of 2011, I watched the film Tiny Furniture which was written, directed by, and starred, Lena Dunham, a 25 year old bitch who is ballin out of her mind. This movie so perfectly encapsulates the dilemma every post grad has found herself in this year. This movie, and avocado sandwiches with Libby, gave me hope for 2012.
