It is a uniquely gay problem to routinely awaken to thoughts of Liza Minnelli, but here I stand before you, dark circles under my eyes, affirming that I’ve been afflicted by this condition for years now, since first listening to Results. Several times a year, sometimes for weeks at a time, I wake up with […]
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As we settle in for a much-hyped all-American men’s quarterfinal at a sweltering U.S. Open (where I’m hoping for a Ben Shelton victory over Frances Tiafoe), here’s a smattering of unimportant thoughts on recent WTA happenings, from Venus to Coco and a rankings shake-up.
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Though the Twirl review remains overdue at Cranky Lesbian, I wanted to check in and say that I’m fine. My shoulder has been in bad shape, which is frustrating. But I’m almost done with a spate of home improvement project meetings that have sopped up whatever free time I’ve had lately that wasn’t spent rubbing
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New content was supposed to be posted here and at the Cranky mothership this (past) weekend, until something went awry in real-life and required all of my attention. That mini-emergency even preempted my viewing of Sunday’s Poland Open final, in which Iga Świątek defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-0, 6-1 in front of a jubilant Warsaw
There was a time in our relationship when everyone but Crankenstein seemed to be pregnant and it left her despondent. From inexperienced relatives in their early twenties to well-established married couples in their forties and seemingly everyone in between, our friends, family and colleagues were participating in a baby boom we knew would pass us
When Crankenstein was still in training, we used to fantasize about how our lives might change once she was an attending physician. We wouldn’t be tied to any one place geographically, as you are during medical school, residency and fellowship, and her compensation would increase dramatically, allowing us to finally make progress on her staggering
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Update: As of 7/20/23, the issue is resolved (knock wood) for now. No one at Bluehost has an explanation for ongoing cache issues with the Cranky Lesbian homepage, so until it is fixed I’ll post new content links here for anyone who isn’t an email subscriber. The lag time was a few hours last week,
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“What’s going on down there?” Crankenstein called downstairs from our bedroom one night a couple weeks ago, her tone suggesting more confusion than annoyance. “I’m serenading Muriel as I unload the dishwasher,” I replied of the off-the-cuff (and probably equally off-key) Nat King Cole medley in which I faithfully substituted ‘woo,’ one of Muriel’s favorite
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Edit: Around 9 pm CST, Bluehost’s server went down, so the site isn’t currently loading at all. That’s one of many reasons I’m currently testing different hosts with other content. Last night’s Wimbledon post on Cranky Lesbian didn’t originally appear on the homepage due to a cache issue that was quickly rectified. If it still
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“We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about,” Jennifer Coolidge’s character says of conversation with her husband in Best in Show, and that is how I feel about most people. As a teen, my parents and brother often chided me for my (excessive, in their view) introversion and
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