The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man by Mordden Ethan

Author:Mordden, Ethan [Mordden, Ethan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
Published: 2013-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

JASON:

I ask you! Such riddles of life in our sideshow metropolis! And meanwhile, there was the Lyle-Jutter thing, and the queens all agog, and the stories being told!

Such as: by the third date with Lyle, Jutter was unnerved. By the fifth…petrified! And by the seventh—hiding out in an undisclosed location! Well, actually, just an overnight at Todd Rifflin’s. During which who knows what went on? Although when you asked Todd, he simply flashed one of his CinemaScope grins and made some festive retort.

And. They. Say. That…Lyle left six phone messages on Jutter’s answering machine, ranging from annoyed through angry to interplanetary. It seems that our Lyle was not used to being vanished on. No, Lyle does the vanishing, doesn’t he?

The sermonette segment on The Bette Davis Show all but devoured the show itself, because we had so many unsubstantiated rumors to coordinate. And good old Rick—to whom we eagerly turned for those reports that he seemed to pull like rabbits out of his hat—suddenly went mute. He claimed he didn’t know any more than we did.

Then, all of a sudden, Jutter was back behind the bar at Mary’s as if nothing had happened. So that was nice. And one night, Jutter spent his first break chatting with Rick. And that was…unbecredible! How did those two even know each other?

Well! The queens were blown sky-high! Did this summit meeting of the town’s favorite boy and my own personal Rick betoken some new helping of dish soon to be shared? Each of us sort of wandered by them to eavesdrop at various times, but then of course they would just happen to be in the middle of analyzing the films of Toffanetti, or whoever that is. You know—the Italian with the clowns? Right. At this crucial turn of events in the history of our lives, that’s what Rick and Jutter were fascinated by—the cinema of Toffanetti!

Then Alistair Tessier got a brainstorm. (Allegedly.) It seems that when Mahantango Mary’s first opened, the proprietor found his way into some time capsule somewhere and took away a lifetime’s supply of those paper placemats from the 1950s with pictures of cocktails next to their recipes. There was always a pile of them on the bar, and they happened to be right where Jutter and Rick were talking. So Alistair said he always wanted to know about a drink called an Angel’s Tip, and this looked like his golden opportunity to find out all about this drink. See, he would hang around by the placemats with the apparent intention of showing Jutter how to make an Angel’s Tip by pointing to its recipe—because who would know how to make an Angel’s Tip otherwise? And, la, while he was waiting to get Jutter’s attention, Alistair could…you know. Listen in.

Well, of course, we were all so eager to find out what was going on between Jutter and Rick and that we one and all renounced a golden chance to pass heartless remarks to Alistair on the subject of Angel’s Tips.

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