I called Johnny and realized that he had seen the first program when it ran for the first time this past weekend, but he told me he was coming to the 9:40 show. I went in and got my seat.

Ryan Cox, the Agliff Film Programmer responsible for choosing many of the shorts that showed at Agliff this year introduced the program as well as it's sponsor, Five Star Auto Group. The guy who owns the place got up and gave a nice short speech about his business which he said was "Gay owned" and then told us that "all of our staff is gay, so we're very gay friendly." He seemed really nice and professional and it seemed like the kind of place I would want to check out if I were in the market for a car.

Ryan then introduced three filmmakers who were in attendance. I had been looking forward to seeing Austin filmmaker David Zellner's short "Quasar Hernandez" since I found out it was in the festival, so I recognized him on stage right away. Ryan introduced the others as J.T. Seaton ("Nightshadows") and Jason Cooper ("Daniel"). When I had talked to Ryan a few days before, he mentioned that there were a couple "local" filmmakers in this program, but I am not sure who, other than Zellner, was from here. The three made some brief introductions and then the films began.

I hung around afterwards hoping for a Q&A but as usual everyone was filing out and when it looked pretty much like it wasn't going to happen, I walked out to. I went to the lobby and waited for John but like a dumbass totally forgot to look for Zellner. He's e-mailed me and I've seen and reviewed a lot of his work but we have never met in person. I was hoping to introduce myself to him. I didn't see Ryan either but then again, I wasn't even looking for him. I guess my mind is kinda in a haze after so many days and so many film.

I was standing by the concession counter and I noticed some postcards, so I started looking, thinking they might be Agliff related. But they were Arbor things. I got a flyer which said that THX 1138 was going to be released as a Director's Cut and play at the Arbor on September 10th. Then it says the DVD is due 9/14. That's kinda crazy. There was also some interesting stickers and tattoos for the film. And I got a series of 4 postcards for the new Mark Ruffalo art film. I'll be damned if I can remember what it's called. Where did I put those things?

There were lots of Agliff volunteers busily helping folks as usual. They have been really hyping the "Best Little Whorehouse" sing-along before the movies lately. I saw Bobette, Bruce and Kevin (the hottie fishing cap boy) all working at the Agliff box office table.

Summer, the Agliff membership director and Bobette's gal-pal came up and said hello and we talked for a bit. It wasn't long before some big-shot member type came up and dragged her away though. We talked about "Surge of Power" which she hadn't seen. She told me she had heard that it was over-camp. I told her that in my opinion it wasn't gay enough. "I want my superheroes flaming!" I exclaimed. Summer is such a sweet girl.

John came and we sat in the third row next to the reserved seats members who have hunkered down there at almost every showing I've been to. We chatted a bit and Bobette came up and introduced the next series of shorts. She also introduced the sponsor, Project Transitions but I missed most of what was being said because Johnny kept whispering to me about their yearly holiday ball.

After the short shorts program, we went to Pluckers and ate. I was wearing my groovy gay necklace and for some reason when I walked in, I felt like I was in a room of straight people and everyone was sneering at me. I haven't felt so uncomfortable in a long time. There was a really bad vibe in the place. I tried to ignore it and we ordered and talked for quite a while. We chatted about the shorts we had seen and about a ton of other things. We spent a lot of time talking. UT is back in session and Pluckers is on west campus, so there were lots of cute boys coming in and out. We spent a lot of time looking too. Not a bad Tuesday night