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eleven people and two dogs
Sunday, March 3 2002
Gretchen had nine people over this evening and we all watched the new season's first episode of Six Feet Under together. She'd baked a variety of snacks and I'd bought a whole bunch of beer, but everyone had eaten dinner already and no one was much interested in anything except the show. Packing eleven people and two dogs comfortably into our humble Brooklyn brownstone living room wasn't as difficult as you'd think.
After that, people continued to hang out, and, as opposed to watching the HBO Monica Lewinsky suckumentary, tuning in to see Ellen DeGeneres do stand-up comedy instead.
Later, before we went to sleep, Gretchen told me some things I hadn't known about the Ellen DeGeneres coming out story. It seems Ellen was just another inane American sitcom until she was allowed to reveal her lesbian identity and the writers were finally free to draft episodes that took advantage of her real chemistry. Predictably, of course, Wendy's Folksy hamburgers immediately ceased advertising on the show, which was fine since the the target audience wasn't much interested in family-style hamburgers anyway.
In telling me about the spending power of gay couples and the interest they've recently been paid by advertisers, Gretchen introduced me to a new term: Double Income, No Kids, or DINK. I joked to Gretchen that we're a No Income, No Kids couple.
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