W13 Readings: Tales of the City

Notes are from Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, second 1/3 of the book.

• There was an attempt earlier by DeDe to sleep with Splinter, who is also a married man and now she’s with her husband meeting up with Splinter and Oona, drama time. 
• Oona putting on that fake smile.
• Oh, he didn’t tell her, she believes the grocery store boy story DeDe made up. 
• High society people in here have such a frazzled feel of them 
• Samoans.. matching Samoans, that just sounds awful to say someone has 
• Drinking in the bathroom, crying over a singer missing, what a life.
• Scrambled eggs doesn’t really sound like a great party dish...
• Michael is such a man slut, sleeping around with others but somehow wanting to commit to Jon, he needs to make up his mind. 
• A bean sprout salad sounds yummy. 
• “Radical chic” and being lgbt friendly for the trend, sounds early San Franciscan.
• Meeting the singers husband at the gay tubs, and he carries around a cassette of her singing. That’s weird. 
• Mary Ann gets attached really easy, Beauchamp is a married man, he doesn’t owe you anything
• I’m not sure what poulet Tolliver is, besides a type of chicken dish. 
• Michael is a good friend to his friends, and has a sharp memory too. 
• Oh, Mary Ann, wanting to move home after one rejection, pathetic. 
• Michael tells it like it is, it’s really cause she got dumped. 
• How convenient that her mom called at this type, and now it’s awkward cause Michael answered. 
• Her poor mom is confused and worried sick. 
• It would be strange to go to an address someone gives you and it’s a big Victorian house
• Oh, it’s an old phone directory center, for people looking for advice or help. 
• Vincent cut his finger off... for the rush of it...
• Jon has a monkey, so weird. 
• It was his dream pet, this just gets weirder. 
• And he took it out everywhere in the city! And they had jealousy issues with who it liked. Jeez. 
• Edgar and Anna are such an old soul couple. They’re very chill and calm compared to the others. 
• DeDe gained a lot of weight, I wonder what happened...it hasn’t even been that long.
• She put together Mary Ann’s and Beauchamp’s little trip to Mendocino. 
• Binky’s letter to DeDe sounds like an advertisement for jumpers and foster grants. 
• Going to the bus station dressed as Pan is quite the strange thing to do,
• The opera’s coming up, it’s going to be a big meet up event. 
• A little coke before the show, how elegant. 
• Strange that Mary Ann feels compelled to check Vincent for missing extremities now. 
• Oh, his wife is all the way in Israel, serving the army, that’s sad. 
• Mrs.Madrigal is getting in right on Mona’s troubles with men and missing her partner in crime. 
• Coffee as a cheer up late at night, but they get there and order wine, okay then. 
• It’s the move in anniversary for Mona, such a fine thing to remember. 
• A phone caller at the crisis center, and he’s a creepy dude angry it isn’t another girl. Typical. 
• And Rebecca is gone from an OD okay then, 
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