I Am Not Myself These Days

Posted on 09 June 2017 by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker s daring dual life advertising art director by day, glitter dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty pageant hopeful by night was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys His story begins here before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse s move to the country, The Bucolic Plague in I Am Not Myself These Days, with plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi camp delight WashingtonPost. Read I Am Not Myself These Days – kino-fada.fr Posted at Shelf Inflicted I m not much of a TV person and have never seen The Fabulous Beekman Boys or heard of Josh Kilmer Purcell, retired drag queen Still, I m glad I found this little gem about two misfits in love By day, Josh works for an advertising agency At night, he lovingly and painstakingly transforms himself into Aqua, a 7 foot blonde beauty who carries goldfish around in her plastic boobs His boyfriend, Jack, is a very well paid escort known as Aidan to his clients, and lives Posted at Shelf Inflicted I m not much of a TV person and have never seen The Fabulous Beekman Boys or heard of Josh Kilmer Purcell, retired drag queen Still, I m glad I found this little gem about two misfits in love By day, Josh works for an advertising agency At night, he lovingly and painstakingly transforms himself into Aqua, a 7 foot blonde beauty who carries goldfish around in her plastic boobs His boyfriend, Jack, is a very well paid escort known as Aidan to his clients, and lives in a posh apartment building guarded by doormen The two guys enjoy a routine life of reading the paper together and ordering lunch from the deli, while listening to Jack s beeper go off and occasionally running into his unusual clientsThe truth is, there s no movie of the week about a drunk drag queen and a crackhead hooker in love There never has been It s not the kind of thing people would care about Peop...apropos.i know a lot about my city.i know about all the places kilmer purcell held court.i know all but one of them are gone, now.i know the truth of a thing can lift you up in a rush of heat, and energy, and glitter.i know it can cut you open, too.i know i should not have read this today.The story is summed up pretty well by the author near the end The truth is, there s no movie of the week about a drunk drag queen and a crackhead hooker in love There never has been It s not the kind of thing people would care about People would flip right by the channel, either unbelieving or uncaring Who s the good guy Who s the bad guy Aren t they both bad If they didn t get what they deserved by the first commercial, it d be on to the breast cancer movie But that s not really true The story is summed up pretty well by the author near the end The truth is, there s no movie of the week about a drunk drag queen and a crackhead hooker in love There never has been It s not the kind of thing people would care about People would flip right by the channel, either unbelieving or uncaring Who s the good guy Who s the bad guy Aren t they both bad If they didn t get what they deserved by the first commercial, it d be on to the breast cancer movie But that s not really true I love that this story is about tw...This is an uproarious first person novel about a drag queen in New York City His her wastrel life in the clubs, finding love with a gorgeous, rich, kind male escort, having adventures both good and bad and doing it all with much humor and feeling There is enough kink here for a room full of afros but the focus is on the humanity beneath the outrageous Who would think that you could care about a guy who wears fishbowls with live fish swimming around in them for breasts I loved his relationshi This is an uproarious first person novel about a drag queen in New York City His her wastrel life in the clubs, finding love with a gorgeous, rich, kind male escort, having adventures both good and bad and doing it all with much humor and feeling There is enough kin...I absolutely LOVED this book Ad exec by day, infamous drag queen by night, Josh Aqua meets the man of his dreams at a club one night One problem Jack, the man of his dreams, is a male escort But for a while, Jack isstable than Aqua This is a simultaneously ...I don t know if it s appropriate to describe an alcoholic drag queen s memoir of his relationship with a crack cocaine addicted SM male escort as sweet, but that is one of the words I would certainly use to describe this fascinating, wry, and wonderfully told autobiography Josh is a master storyteller whose quips and acumen are as sharp as his stilettos I found myself laughing and, at turns, crying at the details of his life and his relationship, a passionate love affair that was someho I don t know if it s appropriate to describe an alcoholic drag queen s memoir of his relationship with a crack cocaine addicted SM male escort as sweet, but that is one of the words I would certainly use to describe this fascinating, wry, and wonderfully told autobiography Josh is a master storyteller whose quips and acumen are as sharp as his stilettos I found myself laughing and, at turns, crying...This book is like dirty, dirty candy It s ridiculous and silly and somewhat awful, but just terribly, absurdly compelling It s a memoir by an young hot accountant by day, drag queen by night I read it a while ago, but I remember a few things he lives in a ludicrously tiny apartment, he moved to NY to be a writer, his rich ass boyfriend is an on and off crack addict, and his coup de gr ce drag outfit which he makes himself and wears in places like Lucky Chengs includes fishbowl boobs full o This book is like dirty, dirty candy It s ridiculous and silly and somewhat awful, but just terribly, absurdly compelling It s a memoir by an young hot accountant by day, drag queen by night I read it a while ago, but I remember a few things he lives in a ludicrously tiny apartment, he moved to NY to be a w...I hate loving this book as much as I do I hate that it made me read it so quickly I hate the depth of my envy for its seamless melding of cynicism and lyricism, both overlaid with such sparkling wit I also resent that it made me use the phrase sparkling wit And I really hate that it will taint my enj...A drag queen with fish bowls for breasts and her hustler boyfriend get drunk and stoned and high and crash one year in New York This storyline s been done before it sort of feels like a queering of the movie Brigh...When I first bought this book I was pretty sure it was a fictional story about a girl and her boyfriend who were both drug addicts but still were able to find humor in their daily lives I was not completely right, but I wasn t too far off either turns out, this is a memoir about a young alcoholic drag queen and his her hot escort boyfriend who is unfortunately addicted to crack so if this sounds intriguing so far remember kids, this book will contain loads of drugs and sex and all things ba When I first bought this book I was pretty sure it was a fictional story about a girl and her boyfriend who were both drug addicts but still were able to find humor in their daily lives I was not completely right, but I wasn t too far off either turns out, this is a memoir about a young alcoholic drag queen and his her hot escort boyfriend who is unfortunately addicted to crack so if this sounds intriguing so far remember kids, this book will contain loads of drugs and sex and all things bad and naughty , then I suggest you pick up this book because ...

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09 June 2017

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