At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to The Kid in a way, |
But as gay parents our private life is so politicized. It's an object lesson. |
But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. |
He got married today?!? To the girl he cheated on you with??? We're gonna call him. |
How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family without wanting to marry? |
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? |
I do think people should get married, |
I don't think people should do things that make them miserable. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you miserable, don't do it. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you happy, do it. |
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. |
I felt a sense of loss and dislocation. |
I felt sad for D.J., |
I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like that anymore, ... In writing about that place, I had to write about my great-grandparents' marriage, my grandparents' marriage, my parents' marriage. |
It hasn't changed the way we live or relate to each other, ... But there is this intangible, hard-to-pin-down sense of permanence that is hard to describe. |
It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people in the U.S., so why do I need to advertise in other business publications?' But the truth is it does work to advertise elsewhere. |
It's amazing it doesn't happen all the time. |