Pride Weekend, Part 1

[lance_sibley]

Just a quick update as I'm supposed to be up in a few hours to help with the Polaris flyer crawl:

• Met up with Scott, Doug and Ken from Atlanta, who are in town for Pride, at The Hot House for dinner.


• Went first to O'Grady's, where we had to line up for 45 minutes before we could get in.


• Following one beer, we went to the Black Eagle (Doug was somewhat decked out in leather, after all). I'd never been there before (leather not being my scene), but it wasn't as scary as I thought it might be (though the porn being shown on the television was - shall we say - a bit on the uncomfortable side for me). Had a beer there, then Doug and Ken decided to leave. Scott was staying, so I offered to hang out for another beer with him - I didn't realize that the guy he'd been chatting up, whom I thought had left, hadn't - but I didn't seem to be too much in the way, and Scott paid for the beer, so obviously he didn't mind too much. Ran into Robert from bowling there, and also (finally) met the one Webb brother I hadn't met up until tonight, Ryan, who works there. (Me: "Are you Ryan Webb?" Ryan: "Yes." Me: "Hi, I'm Lance. You're actually the only Webb brother I hadn't met, so I wanted to say hi." Him: "Oh, you must work on the convention.")

And finally:

Made my way to the bus stop, where a cute young guy with a beard was struggling with the zipper on his bag. I smiled at him... and, well, we ended up chatting all the way up to Eglinton, where I got off the bus. He lives near Eglinton as well, though in the opposite direction from Yonge, so he also got off there. We ended up spending about half an hour sitting on a ledge up the street and talking about various things. He mentioned a friend of his, and it turns out she's a past Polaris panelist (or, at least, a member - I recognized the name, though I'm blanking on it right now). And he's a Buffy fan. And he was disappointed when he found out that he'd missed the chance to meet Ellen Muth at Gaylaxicon last year, because he's also a Dead Like Me fan. When I mentioned that I had chaired Gaylaxicon, his hands flew to his mouth... "No!"

Since we both have earlyish starts planned for tomorrow, we ended up parting ways at the back door (insert obvious joke here) of my building. But we did exchange phone numbers. *grin* (kaelsu2, if you see this before the flyer crawl tomorrow, if we make it up to near Yonge and Bloor some time after 1pm, I have dibs on dropping off flyers at the Kitchen Stuff plus just south of there. He works there and told me to drop in. *grin*)

Comments

[mountebank.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Lance. You're actually the only Webb brother I hadn't met, so I wanted to say hi."

*crosses one more name off the list of people Lance doesn't know*

But we did exchange phone numbers.

Go you! This has all the signs of working out in your favour! You deserve it.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

*crosses one more name off the list of people Lance doesn't know*

Hee! Well, I had to introduce myself because I couldn't let pann_da_bear continue to think that he knew more Webb brothers than I did. ;)

Go you! This has all the signs of working out in your favour! You deserve it.

Thank you!

[mountebank.livejournal.com]

We all expect periodic updates!

[evil-admiral.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Lance has a crush!! Might I get to meet the lucky guy at Dragon*Con?

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it a "crush", exactly... though I did see him again today. (More about that in the post I'll be making shortly.)

As for Dragon*Con, who knows... he works in retail, so his weekends aren't free and he's not exactly flush with disposable income. Who even knows if I'll see him or hear from him again?

[the-pirate-show.livejournal.com]

I'm not likely to get out to much of Pride this year, sadly- our big crazy Fringe show is just getting into the penultimate week of rehearsals, and there never seems to be enough time...

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Someone once said, "Time is the fire in which we burn." (I'm such a geek. ;) ) But I know what you mean... there's never enough time to do all the things we want to do. :(

It's too bad that you're busy, though - I spent pretty much all day on or around Church, and the place is just full of energy this year. And it's only Saturday.