Susie On Marriage
Susie Bright has a wide-ranging essay up about marriage and weddings, straight and gay (yay, California!). Impossible to summarize but worth your time. A couple of random excerpts:
This time, even Arnold Schwarzenegger, our improbable governor, cannot put on the pretense that he gives a shit about the Haters. (This is a guy who gave Oui Magazine an interview in 1977, his weightlifting prime, boasting that American men were too uptight about getting their dicks sucked by other guys; that it’s not such a big deal in Austria… really!)
And:
Weddings make your long-lost friends come out of the woodwork. There are people in my life, miles away, who I miss terribly, and yet the only time they travel to California is when some high school pal is getting married. I could fucking give birth to a chicken and it wouldn’t inspire them to budge an inch. Only weddings get their ass on the tarmac.
Shorter URL for sharing: https://www.erosblog.com/?p=2293
They are not your friends; keep that in mind.
Get married by a judge; go to a bar and get drunk; fuck until too sore to continue; go back to work. Repeat parts 2-4 as long as you can.
People are not enamored with the ceremony. That’s the territory for the bride and her mother. People attend weddings for the reception — the get drunk, try to get lucky with a stranger, the food and booze is someone else’s dime reception. And the only entrance fee is to show up and bring a gift. If there was that kind of party thrown for the arrival of new borns, then old college room mates would show up for that too.
I’m so glad you liked reading this, Bacchus… and I have to correct my cite on Arnold; it’s 1977, for OUI magazine… remember them? Smoking Gun has some of the details, but the copyright holder went on a rampage, removing the scanned copies of the entire original. I remember reading the original!
And on the other matter… let’s vow to visit each other when no wedding is involved!
xoxo susie
You got it Susie, I’ve always hated “wedding travel” anyway, visiting people when they aren’t insanely busy and distracted is much more fun!
Also fixed my excerpt to match your correction.
Weddings are intense affairs. Good essay though.
B, can you dig up any more old photos of the govenator inserting into various orifices’