Showing my stripes

[mattblakk]

This is what happens when you miss a spot with sunscreen and then ride around in a golf cart with a cute gay doctor all day.

I don't think the photo does really quite convey how briht red this patch is. There are three, one near the neck where my tshirt was too big, and one on each arm in almost the same place. Go me. Nope, no melanin here. (fortunately Blake has nice olive skin like my mom which browns quickly in the sun and doesn't burn through sunscreen or the car window or both like mine)




Had a great time yesterday. Handed out 3 bandaids, a ton of sunsreen and didn't have to deal with any major crises. In fact, the thing that people seemed most upset about were the naked men running around. The cops were great, "Just part of the whole experience, we were told to look the other way"

I wish I'd looked the other way. Because you know 99% of the naked folks at pride are creepy old trolls who can't get attention any other way and therefore, I thought I would share the naked men I had to suffer through with you. I took pictures of three out of four naked guys. I did not take pictures of the naked guy (in his 80s) in the wheelchair with his tshirt pulled up over his head like Cornholio. But the crix-bellied ghoul, the guy wearing nothing but a sun hat, and the oh so asking for third degree burns bear with no base tan nor sunscreen (but plenty of cocktails) are all captured for a digital eternity. I promised to share them with the other medical volunteers. hee.

Did I mention the cute gay doctor was single and baby-crazy? I don't think he's interested, but he did mention that he was bi after I told him I was trans. Ahh, well, at least I have his email address.

Comments

[erisisgoddess.livejournal.com]

Nice lines!

Just thinking about pride a few years back, and what a good time we had. And how nice you were to les us stay there . I just wanted to say I'm sorry for the way things kinda went strange, and I wish I had developed more of a friendship with you when you lived closer.

Hope all tans out nicely!

Curious to see your other photos :P

[swimunderground.livejournal.com]

lordy. A cute single baby-crazy doctor is worth the burn, I think. Though I empathize; I burn at the drop of a hat. -- and speaking of burns, I think every Pride everywhere has one guy who is looking practically purple by the end of the day, and in my experience this guy is always 1. drunk and 2. alone. Hm, that made it rather sad.

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, luckily people have gotten pretty hip to the fact that the swarms of medical people all have sunscreen. Sometimes I feel like we should be sponsiored by copportone or something.

Baby crazy partner was sweet, and we got to have fun channeling the inner queen all day while stopping to ooh and aaaah at all the cute kids with their various configurations of attendants.

[johno.livejournal.com]

chriso and I carry large bottles of sunscreen when we work the parade route. Every half hour or so, we wander up and down our section offering it to folks.

This year we used up 2-8oz bottles. We aimed for the Conan O'Brian types first.

[asssssssssp.livejournal.com]

Do people grow aloe vera at home in the US? I always have some in a pot for sunburn, it's brilliant. Even Diva who has irish cream skin and burns looking at pictures of sunshine loses the redness with some fresh aloe.

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

I don't have fresh aloe, but I have some after sun care stuff with aloe in it. Got it when I was in .au, so it's hardly fresh, but is helping at least until it dries the burn feels much cooler.

Luckily little mister doesn't burn.

[asssssssssp.livejournal.com]

hell yeah- a burned Blake would be a nightmare!

Ah, melanin how I long for thee

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

You can add my mom to that list. She has the darker Pictish Celt olive skin and dark hair coloring going on and browns nicely.

I, however, blue white, except when lobster red.

[conbrandt.livejournal.com]

Without trying to sound like your Mother Dude...

He's a frikkin Doctor! And cute! And he told you he was bi!

Two words...

Mail him.

*hugs*

D-C

[johno.livejournal.com]

{Ethnic mother voice on}

A Doctor?!?!

Who likes little kids?!?!

...and you're not calling him.

{sigh}

I just sit here in the dark and suffer...

{/voice}

[suewan.livejournal.com]

Hi, Matt. Been out of the loop after a week holiday in Majorca. Have you emailed the doctor or at least, emailed the man? How lucky are you? I have such rotten luck when it comes to relationships! Ugh. Gave up years ago, I guess I have a weird tick list in my mental diary for what I want from a relationship. Either that or I have two heads that no one has been kind enough to tell me about!