tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:58:39 +0000This is what happens when you give an aimless young gay man in Chicago access to the internet.http://www.heyrichie.com/noreply@blogger.com (Richie)Blogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-6776318161659489405Mon, 11 May 2009 23:45:00 +00002009-05-11T17:01:15.846-07:00As a kid, I remember jamming out to Kool and the Gang and laughing at my mother for not knowing who they were. I’d make fun of her whenever she’d break out her record player and put old Beatles records on. Little did I know that Karma would soon have her dirty way with me. If you’re in your twenties and you think that you’re still young, then try going to a Fall Out Boy concert. One look athttp://www.heyrichie.com/2009/05/how-to-survive-fall-out-boy-concert.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-7525477607171905268Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:09:00 +00002009-02-25T16:09:09.382-08:00This morning I was greeted by a girl in my class who I initially thought forgot to wash her face thoroughly. There was a noticeable black mark on her forehead that made it look like she got headbutted by the smoke monster that killed Mr. Eko. She then wished me a happy Ash Wednesday and asked me if I'd been to church yet. I told her that, "I don't do church," and she stood before me with her http://www.heyrichie.com/2009/02/fair-weather-faithful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-3846973076647492796Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:28:00 +00002009-02-23T22:43:35.799-08:00Ever since I could remember, I was always unsettled by change. I remember feeling like the world was going to end when Cloris Leachman replaced Charlotte Rae on The Facts of Life. I also hated when my mother changed soda brands without first discussing it with us. It was madness.I still get nervous when I show up to yoga class and some other person is teaching it. My chakras just withhold allhttp://www.heyrichie.com/2009/02/i-could-have-cha-cha-slid-all-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-5945840978275941905Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:11:00 +00002009-02-23T10:11:09.167-08:00Someone very close to me announced that he would not be running this year. It came as a bit of a shock to me because running was all he ever talked about. He ran last year and things didn't go as well as he'd hoped, but he was very excited to try to run this year.He says that his choice to not run was all his own, but a lot of lazy and downright stupid people (and a few cunts) may have played ahttp://www.heyrichie.com/2009/02/run.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-4484932417558219259Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:29:00 +00002009-02-15T19:57:14.815-08:00Valentine’s Day stirs up a lot of emotions in everyone. Some people are swept away in a rapture of love, blind to the fact that they have been conditioned to act that way by greedy candy companies. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the militant, anti-Valentine’s Day people who stand outside of fancy restaurants and hiss at couples who walk in. But somewhere in the middle are people who http://www.heyrichie.com/2009/02/pinoyphilia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-2853757412563149156Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:49:00 +00002009-01-06T20:04:44.843-08:00We live in a society where the media surreptitiously disparages femininity, ethnic groups, and intelligence. You can't escape it. It's hard to turn on the television without seeing a gang of boys making fun of another boy because he acts like a girl or an episode of Law and Order with a Mexican driving a truck that has his last name printed in Olde English font. But there are a few rays of http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/12/fighting-stereotypes-one-porno-at-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-5858903764368341916Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:54:00 +00002008-11-10T13:38:47.485-08:00There has been an ongoing dispute between me and some girl that has been going on for a while, which is a surprise to me because I don't even know her that well. What I do know is that everything she says is ignorant and I've exercised my first amendment right to express how ignorant she is on several occasions.It's gotten especially heated now because she tried to amend a document and some http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/11/defending-c-word.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-1931930438943720272Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +00002008-11-07T15:34:32.966-08:00I've always known that drama happens at gay bars. It's one of those myths that is just accepted by people such as the existence of the g spot or the fact that Miley Cyrus' boyfriend ISN'T gay. I was at Roscoe's last week with the boyfriend and a group of his law school cohorts when a stray hand gesture made by the boyfriend connected with the glass of an unsuspecting queen who was passing by. Thehttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/11/bar-room-blitz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-4509490440769974957Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:48:00 +00002008-11-04T15:33:32.825-08:00People have been following a major event for months and it's gotten very intense, especially over the past few days. We've all been gritting our teeth, anxious about what will happen and I have been so worked up that I have lost a bit of sleep over it. This is an event that has been under a lot of debate and has sparked a lot of controversy over the years, but it all comes together on this http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/11/historic-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-5580504684734520845Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:15:00 +00002008-09-19T09:19:30.782-07:00My friend Rob called me last week to invite me to a party he was throwing for our friends, Nick and Laurel, who are getting married next weekend. It was to be a nice dinner followed by drinks somewhere else, and I was very excited to be the only gay who was invited (I checked).I found out that dinner was at Rock Bottom, which was great because I love beer. Then Rob told me that everyone would http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/09/no-i-do-not-want-to-buy-200-bottle-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-2281859534604762689Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:00 +00002008-08-21T12:39:56.457-07:00I was waiting for my yoga class to begin and I got to chatting with one of the yoga instructors whose friend is in the national touring company for The Color Purple. He also mentioned that she was going back to school.I am also going back to school this semester, so I was very happy to hear that someone else was doing something great with his or her life. But the yoga instructor scoffed at his http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/08/bliss-is-ignorance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-169455770632488608Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:20:00 +00002008-06-30T21:27:07.555-07:00It’s been almost two months and people have been hounding me for a fresh, new blog entry. The wait is over, and I’ve written a whopper! After wrestling with many possible gay-pride-related topics that would ultimately end up being viewed as fluff, I decided to share a fun little story about a recent experience on public transport.A very attractive young man turned to me during a train ride lasthttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/06/you-asked-for-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-2294714304055862814Fri, 09 May 2008 21:58:00 +00002008-05-09T15:06:53.871-07:00I always told myself that if Dolly Parton ever went on tour, I'd sew a coat of many colors to wear to her concert. My boyfriend and I had been working on our coats for weeks, and I have to admit that I was a little apprehensive about wearing a patchwork coat in public. After telling someone about the idea, they said that I'd look like I was wearing a clown coat and that people would make fun ofhttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/05/made-only-from-rags-but-i-wore-it-so.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-467820431683462161Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:31:00 +00002008-04-14T11:57:00.506-07:00Parking cars on the lawn isn't the tackiest thing I've ever seen.I was one of 78 people who got an e-vite this week for a "Spring Kickoff Martini Party." This is from someone I barely know. In the opening line of the e-vite, he states that he's got a martini shaker that is "just itching to be used" and I had a sneaking suspicion that he actually intended that tag line for the e-vite to his big http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/04/byob-nfw.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-8133425395273266689Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:14:00 +00002008-04-07T13:24:28.911-07:00I remember watching talk shows like Sally Jessy Raphael and making fun of the deluded women who pined over the men who abused them. It would always be a man who emotionally abused a woman by talking down to her, taking her money, and making her wait for him while he was doing god knows what. The abused woman would also comment about not being satisfied by the man, which would always surprise mehttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/04/sushi-survivor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-7952219257297278770Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:20:00 +00002008-04-01T12:31:01.092-07:00It's been difficult to write blog entries that are new and exciting, so I decided to use one of those online topic generators to help things along. The first prompt that came up read "list things that are very important to you." This was indeed a stroke of fortune because I think that listing things that are important to me will help people understand the uniqueness of this blog. To keep http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/04/importance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-4056723582243064114Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:00 +00002008-03-27T14:36:49.290-07:00If you're like the other dirty birds in Chicago, then you're probably hard up for places to go when you want anonymous gay sex in the mid morning. Foster Beach isn't warm enough during this time of year. The back room at The Ram does open at 9:30 A.M., but all of the better-looking felchers don't show up until after six. So what's a fella to do? He goes to the nearest Home Depot!I went to thehttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/03/this-is-not-what-i-meant-when-i-said.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-2264080624351908302Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:31:00 +00002008-03-20T12:52:37.130-07:00Someone named Jen was nice enough to bring this to my attention:I was just surfing the web and I came across your website and I have to tell you that you've been misspelling the word Oblogitory. It should be Oblogatory with an "A" not an "O" because the word Obligatory has an "A". That's all.I only inherited two things from my mother. One is the gene that causes male pattern baldness and the http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/03/you-spell-potato.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-4086000487668411480Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:46:00 +00002008-03-19T09:47:47.381-07:00Growing up, I always knew that I was different. While most kids were watching Nickelodeon, I was watching episodes of "Are You Being Served?" on PBS. When asked to use watercolors to depict our favorite movie scenes, I made use of the red-orange and black to recreated the "Tomorrow is another day" scene. I wanted to sing Eartha Kitt's "Uska Dara" in the sixth grade talent show after seeing a http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/03/kindred.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-1548933274502993397Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:54:00 +00002008-03-12T13:51:30.939-07:00One day in the late 1980s, the minions of hell conspired to figure out another way to make life unbearable for humankind. Anyone who studies demonology or has a passing interest in Buffy the Vampire Slayer would surmise that it was the demon Dantalion who spearheaded this campaign against humans. He quite possibly visited the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company and imparted his demonic http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/03/afrinholics-anonymous-its-been-nine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-7240562146988169222Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:56:00 +00002008-03-06T13:46:15.277-08:00I like to pick out a DVD series or a fun video game to keep myself entertained whenever I feel like I'm going to be sick from a cold or flu. I felt one nasty cold coming on last week, so it became a toss-up between Alias: Season 4 and Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS. The video game won out for the sheer fact that I hate getting up to switch DVDs. Professor Layton http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/03/drawing-blank.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-7229400654131627828Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +00002008-02-29T11:49:44.337-08:00One of the most fascinating aspects of the human condition is how we respond when something threatens people or things that are close to us. I once got into a heated argument with a six year old boy who pushed my niece off of a teeter totter during a play date at the park. It was more of a one-sided argument, starring me as the crazy uncle who shouted "YOU APOLOGIZE! YOU APOLOGIZE!" while http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/02/dirty-politics-and-gays-who-love-them.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-3414988229667605646Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:39:00 +00002008-02-28T14:50:23.879-08:00I attended the Valparaiso School of Law Barrister's Ball with my boyfriend a few weeks ago. It's a black tie event where law students can mingle and schmooze with their peers as well as get their names and faces noticed.At first I was excited because I hardly ever get to wear a tuxedo, and the last black tie event I attended was an Eyes Wide Shut themed gay orgy at a fancy hotel suite.Excitementhttp://www.heyrichie.com/2008/02/i-could-have-danced-all-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-496910664297974130Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +00002008-02-22T11:50:57.777-08:00One of my favorite recurring skits on Saturday Night Live features Penelope, a thirty something woman who always one-ups whatever anyone says. After one of the guests mentions meeting the hosts at a Lamaze class six months prior, Penelope responds:I've known them for, like, seven years. So, just a little bit longer. I've just known them for a really long time, so... longer, just better friends. http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/02/anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13544076.post-7074631189803833380Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:45:00 +00002008-02-18T13:15:38.347-08:00Picture it: overpriced clothes for sale, underage girls wearing clothes that leave nothing to the imagination, and young virginal gay boys who will eventually run away to Hollywood where they will be forced to star in several low-budget porn films shot with a camera purchased at Circuit City. No, I'm not describing a typical evening on the Sunset Strip. I'm describing the atmosphere of last http://www.heyrichie.com/2008/02/so-heres-story-from-to-z.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richie)0