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Some of you are likely familiar with the Real Bad party that follows the Folsom Street Fair every year. For those of you who are not, it is a predominantly gay “circuit-party” type dance event. The web site describes Real Bad as follows:

REAL BAD is produced by Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West), a local, [...]

On Sunday I shaved off my beard. It was required to help a friend with a technical run through for a project he is working on and I volunteered to help with. The test is done and I’m already growing the beard back.

I think it makes me look younger. These photos especially make me look [...]

The hair on my upper back had gotten a bit out of control. Here is visual evidence.

Fuad trimmed it this afternoon. Because someone will inevitably ask, this is four months’ worth of growth.

Pay no attention to the gray in my hair and beard. It’s not gray hair – actually, it’s … it’s … ash from [...]

OK, so I was bored Sunday afternoon in my hotel room…

Here are some pictures from our ceremony in San Francisco’s City Hall last week. We didn’t think to hire a photographer, though in retrospect that would have been a good idea. These are from my own and my aunt’s cameras. I don’t have the pictures from the others yet.

The judge conducted the ceremony in the [...]