I’m very happy to announce that my darling friend Antoinette—who has been in my life for nearly 20 years (we’ll celebrate our friendship anniversary this fall!)—has given birth to her first baby! Not-so-little Luca Antonio Rudolph was born at 1:30am on July 17, 2006, in Winchester, Virginia. He weighs 9 lbs and is 21" long.
He shares his birthday with John Jacob Astor, James Cagney, Art Linkletter, Phyllis Diller, Pink’s husband Carey Hart, Lucie Arnaz, horror movie queens PJ Soles and Heather Langenkamp, Diahann Carroll, Donald Sutherland, and...drum roll, s’il vous plaît...David Hasselhoff. Hot!!! He also shares a birthday with a host of Brits: Camilla Parker-Bowles, love rat Darren Day, Brooke Kinsella (from EastEnders), and Natasha Hamilton (from Atomic Kitten).
I also want to give a shout-out to my friends David and Mark, who are competing in the Gay Games this week. Chicago, like the rest of the US, is expecting blisteringly hot temperatures this week and is under a heat advisory, so I send them my best wishes to stay cool while they kick their competitors’ ass!
On a much more somber note, today is the 10th anniversary of the crash of TWA flight 800, which is most known for the conspiracies surrounding it (many believe that a US military missile shot it from the sky, causing a government cover-up). This crash in particular struck a chord with me—one that resonates to this day—because the flight carried 16 Paris-bound students (and five chaperones) belonging to a Pennsylvania high school French Club. Because I’m from Pennsylvania, and because I was in my high school’s French Club for four years, and because I too participated in a late-July student trip to Europe, the TWA tragedy really got under my skin. It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed.
song heard most recently before posting: Dancing Queen—ABBA
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