The Rainbow Rx
Pop music and other serious musings, all writtten by a gay guy who happens to be a pharmacist as well.
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What would Dolly do? (opens the original)
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A couple weeks back I went through my rather extensive collection of graphic t-shirts and thinned them out. I bought a plastic tote from Menards and put ones that don’t fit or are worn out in storage, to be revisited either when I lose enough weight for them to fit better or that day when I decide to have them made into a quilt. It still left me with more t-shirts than I could ever realistically wear, but for some reason, it gave me this license in my head to go buy a few more. I already wrote a
A pharmacist in a gay romance (opens the original)
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So every day I get e-mails from BookBub which, for those not in the know, promotes low cost ebooks, usually less than three dollars each. I always say that the road to my eventual bankruptcy will be paved with three dollar ebooks, but I digress. In any event, I got one the other day and at the end of each email, there’s an ad for a book that’s not a BookBub offering but is frequently of a genre you might be interested in. Thursday, it was Danny & Clyde Have a Secret.Th
Supper Time (opens the original)
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People, along with Simply Streisand and Stoney End, is one of my favorite Streisand albums. If I could only keep three, it would be those. I’d miss some of the others, but these are ones that have prominent places in my history and consequently, I can’t imagine a world without them. One time when we were on the final leg of a fantastically long haul driving home from a vacation, I was crabby and annoyed with the world in general and my partner put the CD in the car stero (does that tell you how
Missing you (opens the original)
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I found this picture on Instagram last night (a screenshot from a Reel) and I wanted to send it to a friend but I chickened out because it made me too vulnerable and I wasn’t feeling like being vulnerable last night.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1
Do it on purpose (opens the original)
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I’m sitting here tonight listening to the soundtrack to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (the movie) which is oddly back on streaming services after being absent for quite some time. I’m not sure if this return had anything to do with Dolly Parton’s death, and I had the CD at one point that I ripped into iTunes, but it seemed like a good night to play these songs. Mostly, I’m just disappointed but not surprised that the Blu-Ray of the movie I always was going to order for $5.99 from Amazon is
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