Today’s my TV — Totally Vaccinated — Day, two weeks after I got my second Pfizer COVID-19 shot, the point when, authorities think, the vaccine is fully effective.
So this morning I ventured out in the neighborhood alone, for the first time in 13 months. With a (penguin) face mask, and using a walker (I’m still working on learning to walk again on my own), and only for a block (I still have the dyspnea problem from well before pandemic time — I had to stop two times along the way to catch my breath — and I’m going through a bad osteoarthritis patch, so most of my joints screamed) — but the hell with all that, it felt wonderful, like a fresh start.
I was wearing my GAY AS F🧁CK t-shirt, but it was cool, so the tee was under a flannel shirt. And on that flannel shirt I had proudly pinned my badge:
On the other ornamental elements of my ensemble:
From my 5/25/20 posting “Pandemic gifts”, the penguin face mask:
And from my 6/18/20 posting “Exulting in Pride”, the t-shirt:
All sorts of sociocultural messages to be read here.
Then there’s the flannel shirt. From my 12/28/20 posting “The flannel guys”, with a photo of me and Steven Levine, both in flannel shirts:
You can now find on Twitter plaintive cries about how hard it is to distinguish lumberjack/cowboy/country flannel from gay flannel — [cries] from straight guys trying to protect their flannel fantasies from the faggy stuff.
Steven and I are both gay, but in this photo we’re wearing guy flannel, not gay flannel. Yes, yes, I know, it’s hard to keep up with all of this.
April 2, 2021 at 5:44 pm |
How fabulous—huzzah!
April 3, 2021 at 2:18 am |
Addendum the next day (Saturday the 3rd): today, Kim Darnell is going to take me to Palo Alto’s Gamble Garden — a place I have written about often on this blog, but which I haven’t been to in *20 months*, since August 2019. I won’t be able to manage a full tour, but just a bit of it will be a pleasure.
April 3, 2021 at 7:22 am |
Good for you! We’re going to a Red Sox game for the first time in a year and a half on Wednesday (even though my TV day isn’t until April 27; John’s was two weeks ago).
Is that penguin a King or an Emperor?
April 3, 2021 at 10:45 am |
I do know the feeling of elation of TV day; and I’m happy for you! However, as I’ve said on Facebook: I still have covid jitters which I have to fight against to leave home. But at least I am able to fight them off for now. I’m hoping by summer that all this will be behind us.