ROBOCUB: My end of Summer reading cracking me up

It's been a while since I've been reading. Haven't had many chances since I used to walk to work. I certainly wouldn't read while walking like all those TXTing Zombies do with their f*ucking Crackberry things. And for some reaosn I just never ready while at home. But now I ride the PATH train and I have a good 20 minutes to knock out a couple of chapters a day.

Robopapi got me Armistead Maupin's latest novel, Michael Tolliver Lives. I think it's the 5th book in the Tales of the City series. I LOVE the series and read them all voraciously quite a few years ago.

So as I've been reading certain passages, I've laughed out loud or started to giggle on the train. Armistead really has a way with some of his humor which is right up my alley. Here are a couple of choice ones that I just love (granted I'm taking them out of context so try to bear with me, or better yet pick up the book and read it for yourself).

Funny passage #1
Patresse suddenly seemed distracted. "I should tell something."
I'm used to this moment arising—what gay man isn't?—so I tried to make it easier for him. "We always play safe," I said, "if you mean that you're positive."
He shook his head. "No. It's something else..."
We waited for the penny to drop.
"I do your mama's hair."
This simply did not compute.

Funny passage #2
Then my cell phone rang in my suitcase. It's programmed to ring like an old forties telephone—like Barbara Stanwyk's, say, in Sorry, Wrong, Number—and that always lends a certain jangly melodrama to the moment.