I really hope you haven't picked up this book thinking it's going to help you learn something about humanity or life or whatever. If that were the case, it would have tips or hints or something, maybe even one helpful bit of advice about how to make over your life with ease and grace, or, as in my case, make a cross-country move from a beloved hometown to a gay ghetto in a big city and how to fit in and not be constantly mortified. But it doesn't. This book is simply the one-year diary of a man who grew up in a nomadic family, and who as an adult decided to make a stubborn fetish out of staying put. Then that man found himself uprooted in the middle of his life and dumped, panting and sweating, into an unfamiliar environment. That's when he sat and complained about it, all the while stuffing his face with doughnuts.
My name is Dave White. This is my story.
Dave White was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1964. He lived there for a little while before being dragged to Roswell, New Mexico and then Texas. Now he lives in Los Angeles, specifically West Hollywood, and writes about lots of different stuff. His favorite job of all time was washing dishes in the Wall/Gates women's dormitory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. One time he made a 30-minute cassette tape recording of the huge dishwashing machine as it cleaned lots of big pots and pans. Then he turned that cassette tape into the professor of his music composition class and got an "A" for the semester.
Dave White has written for lots of zines, websites, weeklies and magazines. Here they are:
The Advocate
Butter My Knee
ChickClick
Cybersocket
Dallas Observer
E! Online
Fashionwire Daily
Frontiers
Glue
Glue, Jr.
Handsome
IFILM
Instinct
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Stage
Movies.com
MSNBC.com
Q Syndicate
Texas Beat
Ugly Boy
Unzipped
Village Voice
