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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 2007)
OVE.MBLR 2. 2007 lustout 37 kl’ eatingiout eatingiout eatingiout eatingiout eatingiout ear- K>ut Making Each Day Count <■ What are you doing the rest of your life? ately, I’ve been thinking about aging. Not in a frightened “1 don’t want to die" kind of way, but in the resigned “There are less days ahead of me than behind” kind of way. Such thinking has me also recognizing that there’s no time to waste—it’s up to me to every day special. This idea was reinforced when 1 received an invitation to celebrate my good friend Mike Long’s 36th birthday in retrograde—i.e., the year he began counting backward from 40. (For the mathematically challenged, that makes Mike 44.) So, I dispensed with the usual cocktail chitchat and asked everyone 1 met what they still hope to accomplish in their lifetime. For starters, travel seems to lx? on a lot of minds. Tyler Traudt would like to visit each continent. He’s been on three so far. Everett Charters would like to see the Seven Wonders of the World from the Middle Ages. Of the ones still standing, the Taj Mahal is the last he hasn’t seen, although plans are in the works for a trip to the Indian subcontinent this winter. Baylor Von Daudt would like to go L Life is a Cabaret for Floyd and Chris Coleman. around the world, particularly to China. Joe Kaufman wants to see Antartica before it melts, and Suzanne Derrick wants to “make lots of mon ey so 1 can travel around the world, particularly to Africa,” where the excitement of a safari looms. Travel also heckons Eduardo Mulero, but he pines for the altruistic kind. Eduardo dreams of volunteering as a dentist in Third World countries. He’s starting this fall by spending two weeks in Cambodia with Medical Teams International (for merly Northwest Medical Teams). Other budding do-g<x)ders include Garret Saiki, who “would like to save a life before 1 lose my own," and JJ Higgins, who would like to start a program to help feed the world’s hungry. “Everyone deserves a meal,” he says. The following week, I continued this line of questioning at Matinee Idyll, Portland Center Stage’s very successful attempt to engage the gay community with brunch and a performance of the stupendous Cabaret. (With attendance exceeding FRESH & HEALTHY SERVED DAILY make ^ thing on X—IT U DINNER MENU wctui» D im in v take wt Hot mlh oilwr olfnn w diliounn Ow coupon Good al IXn»e< loation only UkolioGt bovtiapi eadudod tipnoa 11/IVII BY FLOYD SKLAVER a hundred, dates are being considered for two more shows.) During the delicious meal artistic director Chris Coleman confessed, “I’d make a film, go to India, skydive, have lunch with Hillary Clinton.” Ron Mitchell also wants to skydive (perhaps in tandem with Chris), while Scott Hall wants to see the North and South Poles (perhaps while dating Joe Kaufman?). Missy Townsend would like to “finally learn to play the guitar.” She’s been trying to teach herself since she was 15. Missy’s girlfriend, Angelyn Nicholson, fanta sizes about performing in a drag show complete with wig, stilettos, corset and eyelashes. “1 envision three women doing a real sassy Aretha or Patti LaBelle number.” As soon as 1 posed the question to pentagenerian Barb Beck, she knew exactly where 1 was coming from. To celebrate her recent 50th birthday, partner Diane Flanders took her to the jungles of Mexico. Diane fancies traveling to Europe for two months, while Barb imagines sitting on a tropi cal island and “doing what I should be doing: writing lesbian fiction about relationships.” Cara Frey, five months pregnant with a baby girl, would like to “streak Wrigley Field on a pogo stick.” She’s had this unusual fantasy since first pogo-ing around her childhixxl back yard, although presumably she’ll wait until after the baby’s born. Cara’s partner of four years, Jen Warner, would like to win the lottery and move to a high-rise in Manhattan. Speaking of Manhattan, famed Big Apple chanteur Michael Feinstein has taken an interest in Karen Kantor’s musical revue, Women of a Certain Age, about a quartet of ladies who reflect on their lives through the prism of four decades of experience. John Posey wants to have a three-way with a pair of hot Russians or Italians. (Why not one of each?) 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