Disclaimer

  So in a blog such as this, I feel like it ought to have one of those "the names have been changed to protect the innocent..." blah blah blah et cetera things. But then I was thinking maybe it should be phrased "to protect the not-so-innocent." Maybe the names should be changed, even though this will be like watching Sex and the City on E! or whatever other channels syndicated it, all the raciest parts will be cut, there will probably still be some sensitive information sharing going down. (Okay, that pun was deliberate, going on.) Some of these people I still talk to and or see, so I don't need to cause more drama for myself than what has already happened that I'll be relating. But the juiciest most dramatic stories all center around people I have no contact with anymore at all, so it probably shouldn't be an issue. If/when I do change the names I want them to be something clever, like a different form of a person's real name, or a complete nickname I make up like "Mr. Big" on SATC. Another thing that I see when reading memoirs and things is that the author will say something in some a form of a disclaimer about, "this being my memory of the course of events, others may have a different recollection," blah blah. Perception is Reality. If I perceived something a certain way, then that is the way it was. (My friend will jump all over this because I am famous for reading emotion, usually negative emotion, into text messages, where you can't know how the person meant you to take something because a text doesn't convey inflection, but I am convinced that they were being hostile or snide or anything that could possibly escalate a situation in my own mind and make it something that it wasn't, creating senseless drama. But at least it's interesting.)

xoxo, Travvy

The [Blogger] Formerly Known as Tranny Manny

  Miss me? I know I have a very sporadic, or erratic, I'm not sure which is the word to use, I could easily look it up if I felt like it, but I really don't... Okay so I just looked it up anyway, either one really, I'll leave it up to you, pick your favorite, we'll make it a little Mad Lib. Anyway, I am aware of my (__adj.___) track record with blog upkeep, not posting with any regularity whatsoever, leaving you hanging, making promises that I will return to posting, or making a big show of a dramatic come-back, then letting you down because I only came back with that sole entry.  But this time it's for real.  I fully intend to blame the fact that I dropped off the face of the web and neglected Tranny Manny, and my faithful beloved readers/fans because I was laid off from my Manny gig and Tranny Manny for all intents and purposes was no more.  That doesn't explain why while I was still doing it I didn't post at all times, but whatever. I was talking to Danielle and I said I should get back to the blogging thing, but also what I just said here about Tranny Manny having bit it, so it wouldn't make that much sense to keep going there. I'd be some washed-up over-the-hill has-been trying to recapture my past glory.  I do still have things left unsaid over at Tranny Manny, which I may at some point revisit, but right now I am going to focus on this new project.  It isn't really new, it's just that I have never done anything with it since I created this second blog. I don't remember how I came to it, though it was probably while watching Sex and the City. Because if you didn't make the connection, (you're stupid, ahem, I meant,) it is a somewhat unoriginal take off of Sex and the City, but since I'm gay, and I live in the suburbs, not a city, it's Gay Sex and the Suburbs. (I don't know how people can read this, I just type my stream of consciousness and I feel like it is very run-on-y and hard to follow, but more power to you! Thanks for putting up with this mess.)  So when I originally came up with this plan it was to share quips and anecdotes of my abortive relationships and close encounters of the gay kind. Which it will be, but also whatever other stories I throw in along the way that may be unrelated, except that they involve me. Like how Tranny Manny wasn't always just about Manny misadventures, just whatever may have happened to give me an opportunity to (hopefully) showcase. my wit. (Sometimes it's hit or miss, but I try.)  So here goes... "Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy night."  

xoxo, Travvy

P.S.  Ew, I know that is a Bette Davis quote, but I haven't seen the movie, and I don't know the context, but I definitely didn't mean it as some kind of sexual reference or innuendo haha. These tricks may not be for kids, but I'm going to do my best to keep things as classy as possible. Well, of course.

xo