The Inner Queen

Sure, I like sports. I can rummage deep within the bowels of a car and understand what I'm looking at. I know that drywall is out and sheetrock is in, and I can tell you what all those little pipes and wires running through a house do. I even have the fashion sense of a Pennsylvanian coal miner.

Some days, it's a minor miracle I identify as gay at all. How is it I even know that I'm really a homosexual?

Because, when I saw this, I let out a squeal that set every dog in the neighborhood to howling:

Tony Award-winning American director Frank Galati will stage the pre-Broadway world premiere production of The Pirate Queen, by Les Misrables writers Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schnberg in Chicago in fall 2006.

Mmph. Mmph. Mmph.

Comments

[Don]

I even get flack from other gays for my love of musical theatre. This is exciting and it will certainly be worth the drive into Chicago to catch.

[Robbie]

I just have so few interests that mark me as stereotypically gay. My parents still don't believe I am. I have to re-come out at least once a week.

But throw me a piece of new musical theater, and I spontaneously combust. And for it to be here in Chicago. Squee.

[Steve]

Drywall and sheetrock are the same thing.

[Robbie]

Pretty much the same thing, but I differentiate. The chalky white drywall that goes crumbly is just plain drywall to me, and sheetrock is, well, sheetrock.

This year I redid an entire bathroom with sheetrock. It was the first time I've had a chance to use it while doing a project myself. Love that stuff.

[Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest)]

Hmm... you seem to have some lesbian traits, Robbie.

[Steve]

Well, they have the exact same ingredients in the same amounts; SHEETROCK is just a brand name. But whatevs.

[Tristan]

Am I just being French or is the right spelling "Les Misérables" ? Les Misrables is some underground band... now...

[Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest)]

Ok, my Dad is a builder/real estate developer and I grew up visiting some of his construction sites, but still don't knwo what sheetrock is.

Despite some lesbian traits, maybe I'm not a real lesbian.

[Cathy]

I was wondering why my bassett hound was howling this morning, now I know why!

[North Dallas Thirty]

GPW, take a hammer and swing it at the wall in your apartment. Look at the resulting hole; the white stuff that looks like a layer of chalk between two pieces of paper/cardboard is Sheetrock. :)

You may be familiar with plaster; think of Sheetrock as plaster in a handy carrying case.