I'll Drink To That

Recorded: June 5, 2026 No longer part of the entertainment business conversation Jan 2nd deep clean First Vegas trip since COVID I joined a union! Starting AA 500 days sober Backstory - counseling where I lied and then drank Naltraxone Finding my meeting The Big Blue Book The 12 And 12 (Traditions not affirmations) It IS a cult My final AA meeting Masters Degree Portfolio Revisiting my Queer Elders paper Music backup recovery Tripping falling up the stairs 1776 Dodgers Pride night Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence kerfuffle  You DON'T need an MLIS to work in a library! LGBTQIA2S+ Library Services Class Information Literacy! Blog link Birdo as Queer Icon Futurama Animaniacs John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl Wine and painting night Barbie Deciding to not go to movies anymore Prioritizing my own serenity Nintendo Switch I don't think I'm a cozy game lover Tom Nook is a usurer! Chateau Marmont Hurricane in LA Palm Springs Graduation Vacation Pee Wee Dinosaur Pee Wee's Playhouse Covid round #4 Switch emulators - all Mario Bros, all Zeldas Online proctored test nonsense Blueberry Stoli and soda Digitizing VHS projects from 25 years ago Grateful for the friends who play pretend with me Jerry Springer Hosts a Cabaret Jerry Springer and the Silence of the Lambs Macbeth in 8th grade Disneyland visit! Magic at Galaxy's Edge Beverly Hills Public Library Angels in America in 2001  

Recorded: Wednesday 6/10/26  2022 (NOT 2023) COVID still a thing! Sir Mix-a-lots basement Seattle New Year show School all year long New Years Deep Clean Staff Day at Work - Teaching Podcasting Managing Yappers Boomer Not Understanding How Presentations Work EVERYONE is creative "You should write that!" Work dress code Elizabeth Goldman is a coont! Last of Us II LAPL Central Library The Guilded Age Sorry about the quality change during the second block of the episode. It gets better. Orange is the New Black Matt Baume, Sewers of Paris Honey, I'm Homo Irate Ireland Library Donations telling a tale…and adding to my collection Don't Say Gay Heardle YA Classes Gay bashing outside the gay bar I'm a bad boy First bout with COVID 4/29/22 - My printing press tattoo! It shouldn't be a surprise I want to be a librarian Mothers Day cards My Dad is sneaky The gift of being oblivious Googling myself First post COVID visit home Never underestimate down time with a family trip Burbank airport hot tip! Hierarchical relationships Drinking was still a problem. And I still held onto it even though it's the only issue in my life I've treated that way. 510 Days without booze Roe v. Wade overturned Being silly Officiating a gay Disneyland wedding Diane Keaton project Flash flood in the desert Wrenching my back at work Mpox My open relationship Variety show history paper Academia icky Loving collections management https://archive.org/ My personal music database X-files rewatch Dramas aren't my thing IRL drama! Jinkx & De La Christmas special Threads is Nice

6/19/24 Missing Mixer Reflections on reflecting 40th birthday in lockdown  Week o' movie nights Rage and frustration January 6th ***Not me sharing misinformation about Fox News! There was no moment where they said "we're not news we're entertainment"*** The Last of Us game Missing W-2 Biden inauguration Amazing Race Drag Race rewatch VITU A year of COVID Vaccines! New career game plan You don't need a masters degree to work in a library!! Covid outbreak at work 2nd vaccine  Tin Horn Flats Trump Rally Science with impossible burger The world opening up again East coast Covid funerals Dramatic revelations Ask the question! Paying off credit cards in May! School scholarship Bye bye PS2 Job offer at VITU Page test Pickwick Gardens Going back to school LOTR marathon in 2020 heatwave Star Wars Marathon Questioning Star Wars fandom  La petit trios Cop Rock Hamilton Hired by the library Boston believing in me Carvana used car Helix piercing  Gay elders research paper #librarypagefinds Picture books count toward your annual reading goals Stephen Sondheim's passing 3rd vaccine Log Book Podcast Delivery driver training Libraries don't do fines anymore! Back at trivia Grandma smith passing  

Final Season Recording in 2024 Lost mixer August 2020 last recorded episode April 2020 Mom ready for a road trip! Little Richard and Larry Kramer died Black Lives Matter To The Best of Our Knowledge Podcast, 6th stage of grief, giving meaning to loss. Nintendo Power online archives Personal archives scanning project Family COVID deaths Lay off in July Unemployment issues 1st Experience with Depression That was the end of production for me Just one day off Scream into the void Iceland Reface App NOT LEGO Simpsons house An Honor to be Nominated Podcast Snow storm in CO in September 7th the day after 90 degree temps Broadway dancer aerobics in the living room, 5th grade flashbacks Gay bars COVID closures 2020 Election We needed a little Christmas What we do in the shadows Lockdown thanksgiving  Being part of a team Queer Magnolias Libraries of LA Music getting me through World AIDS Day 2020 NORAD Santa Tracker Santa Hat 2nd Place Covid nightmares  

Facebook Losing My Mind Disco Album Miserable weather Coco's solitude videos Streaming movie community Late night drinking…cause I'm bored Counseling chaos Dad can't hug son Superman The Soundtrack Show Earthquakes and locusts Swallow some Clorox Redecorating the apartment Tuna noodle caserole New Zealand Day Planners S.O.B. - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Facebook Sweet Caroline COVID Meme Pete Butigeg drop out, Primaries Reluctant Biden RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 COVID vs Early AIDS Online Museums Kanopy Things Getting Cancelled in the Middle of March Scanning project Apocalyptic Ralphs Adjusting to the new world Dumping rain forever Learning to survive via delivery Start of my late night weekends Tomie dePaola Closing Time -Semisonic

Early Covid on the horizon Clueless at work Boston's Surgery We've been here before Joker Parasite Oscars Bingo Springtime for Hitler Lynn Shelton Music compulsions Primaries Gout attack in my knee Springtime for Hitler - The Producers

I'll Drink to That Instagram Sick New Years My Meds and Better Drinking Game Plan Topiramate warning Cats Parks & Rec Frozen Lottery Trick Job Situation Changes Jockey Club Vegas Fun Hog Ranch Circus Circus Simpsons Arcade Game Academy Award Viewing Hygge - Frozen  

I'll Drink to That Instagram Designing Women Auntie Mame Matthew Bourne Swan Lake Judging the Mouse In the Heights Frozen II Candy Cane Lane Precinct Black Christmas DJ Young Samuel Alamo Draft House Rise of Skywalker I Am What I Am Kingdom Hearts Snyder Cut Land Days Gone By - It's a Pony Kind of Christmas

Discussing my absence Live Theater Casualty of Covid Hamilton Ticket Lottery More things Change the more they stay the same Cats - they should've kept the buttholes Knives Out The Last Jedi

No intro, skips and snorts You Must Remember This Next door neighbors Salt Lake City Fall is falling Billy Porter & Glenn Close for Halloween So So Busy This Time Of Year OG Star Wars Catching up on Red Dwarf Reflections on my entertainment career

Great Pumpkin Waltz - Great Pumpkin Grandparents Memorial Wedding Revelations  

Franklin Shepherd Inc - Merrily We Roll Along Linklater Merrily Reflections on Jerimy Working Being More Matty Reflecting on 20 Years of Aging Back to School Again - Grease 2

Mary Poppins Returns - Can You Imagine That 7/20/19 Viewing schedule update Whitney Class Observations This is the Life - Weird Al Yankovic

Lusty Month of May - Camelot June plans Trump for Bea Arthur 30 second update Gay Olde Time With Roseanne I meant Fred, not Arnie Expressing Yourself - Billy Elliot

Speechless - Lady Gaga Addiction meds and counseling Jeopardy audition Game show auditions World history finished Dan Brown - Origin Any Dream Will Do - Joseph

Could We Start Again Please - JCS 11 year anniversary in LA Asshole bird Built in obsolescence Thoughts on Green Book Crash Billy Porter and Glenn Close Throwing cheese on babies What is the problem, Academy? A.I. Rewatch Herod's Song - JCS 1992 Australian cast

Singin' in the Rain Get it together Academy! Black Panther nomination Best picture nominees Award list The Favourite AARP Movie Awards Green Book Can You Ever Forgive Me? Bohemian Rhapsody Minding the Gap Hale County This Morning This Evening Cold War Blackkklansmen First Man Vice Why it gotta be black & white Period.  End of Sentence. End Game Fauve

Brand New Day - The Wiz We Moved right after everything was perfect Goldfishing at Home Other updates,  deaths in the family,  King Tut,  Epic Novels,  Special,  Wicked,  counseling and pills Birthday Auld Lang Syne - Pink Martini

Who Loves You - Jersey Boys My co-host Blue Bertolucci Obituaries Bush sr. Obituary Blackkklansman Auntie Meme Captain Marvel Game of Thrones Elf park Family Dawn (Go Away) - Jersey Boys

Bring On The Men - Jekyll & Hyde Musical Weekend & Musical Monday Tired Mystery Vampirates 5th Anniversary Staycation Rare Bit and R Pats Horror Marathon Skin I Live In Babadook leading to connection and conversation Susperia Simpsons Trivia The Shining Allergy testing A Star is Born Game of Thrones Forbidden Broadway - Jekyll & Hyde

Time to Say Goodbye - Sarah Brightman I'll Always Remember Your Smile - Enya

Last Midnight - Into the Woods Damn dog Skam Love, Simon Clean Grandma Smith Wear your hearing aids!! Family is exhausting My Mom's tinnitus Jerimy Pakio Connecting with family Wedding Hometownie Bar Doing Seattle things Underground Ferris wheel Finale - Into the Woods

Finale - In the Heights Starting flame wars in my Golden Girls Facebook group Neighbor's dog Discussing rap in my Show Tunes group Valley Pride Big Dipper Babe Rose Aretha Franklin's death My Little Pony Broadway Telling people how to fan August news highlights Pageant of the Masters Arrested Development reference Laguna Beach Gay Bar Dreamgirls John McCain Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin 2015 Kennedy Center Honors

I Can Live With That - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Emmy Moment Credit card payment update Randy Rainbow Secretary on a Clearance Board Random horror movie night From Beyond Society Not Dropbox, Letterboxd Working from home = weight gain 50th Anniversary of Franklin in Peanuts Mr. Rogers and the gays Matt Baum - Sewers of Paris, YouTube channel Emmy nominated: Patton Oswald - Annihilation, Michelle Wolf - Nice Lady, John Mulaney -Kid Gorgeous 2018 Rock and Roll hall of fame induction Let's Make a Deal Hey There Single Guy - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Mommy Issues…and my THOROUGH Review of a Show That Closed A Month Ago Hunchback of Notre Dame - Bells of Notre Dame 4th of July Hunchback Live Show Friendzoning Quasimodo Closing night magic Rough 2nd Act Opener Parental visit Old People at Baseball Hockney Show The Treachery of Images In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art I wasn't a project!

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995) - Company Way Drinking/Counseling Update Harry Harlow's Monkeys Dodger's Pride Night How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011) - Company Way (reprise)

You'll Never Walk Alone - Hey Mister Producer! Why I hate Carousel Vegas Wedding Upstairs neighbors guessing game That's fun too Instagram Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Hey, Mister Producer!

Wig in a Box - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Spa visit Consider my reaction Wicked Little Town (reprise) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hello Dolly! Matty got too high Sobriety counseling update Money update So Long Dearie - Hello Dolly!

And the Glory of the Lord - Handel Work kvetching Choir Striking a Cord Our Easter family Changing the face of book Star Wars Last Jedi Padding the resume? Hallelujah Chorus - Handel

Hamilton Polka - Weird Al Yankovic Jury Duty My awards spreadsheet

Hairspray - So Far To Go 10 Years in LA Worn down listicle Saying Banana and Hearing Orange St. Patrick's Day Sober Update Hairspray - You Can't Stop the Beat

The 5th Dimenson - Aquarius This is Back Hair 10 years since I left WaMu Corporate vs Production Title change at work Chloe March Following Different Dreams My insta Hair (2009 Cast) - Black Boys

Gypsy (Bette Miller) - Rose's Turn It's been a very good month 9 year anniversary Icarus Hollywood Picture News Heroin(e) Beauty & the Beast Oil Can Harry's (kfc commercial) Marijuana Field Trip Facebook Updates Blue apron Black Panther My work made it into a Marvel Movie Gypsy (Patti Lupone) - Everything's Coming Up Roses

Grey Gardens - Another Winter in a Summer Town I only like to monologue my problems It's not getting any easier Self care Monday Blues Boys in the Band Grey Gardens - Entering Grey Gardens

Grease 2 - Score Tonight Taking a break...again Work Ickiness   Grease 2 - Girl For All Seasons

Grease - You're The One a That I Want Final episode of 2017 Politics with Auntie Mame The show isn't called I'll Drink to That because I like to confront things Trivia Music Man evening Italian Dinner Xmas Resolutions? Grease - Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee (reprise)

Godspell - All for the Best Star Wars check in Doing the Holidays Trivia Update My Christmas Carol Knowledge is everything CDC Words So Busy Not so deep Christmas thoughts Godspell - Finale

Glee - Deck the Rooftop Roy Moore defeat Proposing a chain gang Dougie Jones? Thanksgiving reflections I miss credit cards I'm pretty sure my mom was one of those girls Early end cause I got sloppy Glee - Hello Goodbye

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - Why Are All the D'Ysquiths Dying Progress Not Perfection 2016 Exploded, 2017 Imploded Charles Manson, the Man Who Killed the 60's No longer living from drink to drink Car adventures No one else is gonna adult for you Being productive I still love movies and now I'm a part of them A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - I've Decided to Marry You

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum - Comedy Tonight 2 Months No Drinks Math and drinking Clompy upstairs neighbor Game plan WeHo Halloween Am I drinking cause I want to? Forum - Comedy Tonight (reprise)

Funny Lady - How Lucky Can You Get First time recording in a month Sobriety update Anniversary Filling My Time 70's film studies Double Dipping on Movie Nights Heavier than expected Funny Lady - Million Dollar Baby    

The Greatest Star - Funny Girl All Good Things Measuring by Unemployment 2 Months of "Sobriety" Put a sock on your doodle! My Man - Funny Girl

Maps - Fun Home August was so busy 2 months of sobriety Self Improvement Catching y'alls up Camping Wedding The Reno Experience Ring of Keys - Fun Home

You Rule My World - Full Monty Facebook Catching Up Douglas Adams Legally Blonde the Musical Breeze off the River - Full Monty

First Time in Forever -Frozen Much Better Mood Work got it's shit together Making plans for camp Talent Show Working from home New neighbors Lost on the backlot of Paramount A Fixer-Upper - Frozen

Hades - The Frogs Rough Times It's been a long year Sister's Visit Cousin's Visit

Rich Man's Frug - Fosse Pre-Pride Reflections You can't teach everyone not to be an asshole Freedom of Speech is like being a good Christian Your scrunchie is your accessory.  I am not! Making my sex noises  Wonder Woman Hollywood Picture News Late 90s gay films Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Counselor update It's not a relapse because I planned it. Life is just a bowl of cherries (reprise) – – posse