My brush with fame at Safeway
So, Saturday night after aclubbin’, I headed to the 24/7 Safeway in the Castro to stock up on food since I was completely without at home. Granted, it was like 3:00 AM, but I was ultrahungry and saw no point in going home all wore out and still intoxicated with no food in the cupboards to fill my tummy and lull me to sleep. So with my veggie pizzas, choco cookies, and the like in my basket, and go wait in line when I notce the beak-like guise and tell-tale white skin of Erasure’s Andy Bell. I kid you not. I even gave him a good look to make sure, and heard the accent when he spoke. The gross thing is, that there’s a sex club just across the street from Safeway (appetizing, no?) called Eros that he might have been at before popping in to the store for some eats. And if you didn’t already know, the man recently came out as HIV+, saying, "I just thought that getting AIDS was part of being gay." If that isn’t the most irresponsible, downright stupid thing for a 40+ year old man to say. Or anyone for that matter. You can be gay without getting HIV, unlike what all the TV shows and stupid gay movies might have you believe. You can even be gay and be happy–in fact, gay means happy. So, chin up, don’t let the bastards get you down, don’t say outrightly stupid things, and, in all seriousness, try the chocolate chip cookies they have at Safeway. They’re the healthy ones in that health food aisle. Free of hydrogenated oils, unbelievably soft and chewy, and downright addictive MMMM, gurl.
