Scanned, Slit, Dan Savage's The Commitment, Over and Out

Friday tidbits:

I've been Scanned by Nerve and didn't even know it.

Slit magazine is going to interview me.

I'm off to the country to the home of Susie Felber, along with umpteen bags, where I will do my best to get a head start on relaxing. I've been freaking out a bit, even doubting my own ability to take a vacation, but I will, and it will be fun, and I'll return and work really hard.

Just in time for my weekend outing, I've been sent Dan Savage's new book The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family which is about, according to Amazon:

The true story of a marriage (not really), a lovable and relentless mother, a six-year old who says his parents cannot get married (but wants to go to the reception), a partner who doesn’t want to act like a straight person, and the author, who has written a hilarious and poignant memoir about making "The Commitment."

There is no hotter issue than gay marriage in the culture-war debate, and Dan Savage, one of America’s most outspoken and beloved columnists, takes it on and makes it personal in this rollicking memoir of coming to terms with the very public act of marriage. What he discovers will make readers—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howl with laughter as well as rethink their notions of marriage and all that it entails.

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I interviewed Dan about his last book, Skipping Towards Gomorrah, in 2002.

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