Did a former Kansas City high school debate star get a gig in the Mayor's office thanks to slightly teh ghey exposition by Joe Miller!?!

I love my free copy of Cross-X, an under performing book by Mayor Funky's PR flak Joe Miller.

Because the book is boring I haven't read it yet but I have used it to kill spiders, as a coaster for big mugs of root beer and for toilet paper when I'm out.

However, the book FINALLY came in handy while watching the Sept. 4th business session at City Hall.

I noticed that Brandon Dial had recently earned a job in the Mayor's office and I remembered him as one of the main characters of Joe Miller's flop of a book about some young Black dudes in local High School debate.

Mind you, the dude is just out of college and he's taking over the position that was once held by the woman Gloria Squitiro called Mammy. I can't imagine he's getting paid much but that's true of most of the minorities who have worked for Mayor Funky.

I shouldn't deride Miller's book too much, I often have trouble falling asleep and just a couple of sentences from Cross-X cause me to start snoring. Yesterday, upon watching Dial accept his new job in the Mayor's office I suddenly remembered a passage from Chapter 7 of Miller's book which didn't succeed even with the help of a week's worth of hyping by NPR.

What I remembered was a longing, seemingly homoerotic description of the young Black dude by Miller as the former journalist was digging deep into world of inner-city high school debate. Ew. Check it, read this passage from Miller and tell me it's not completely teh ghey:

Brandon paced the room, his XXL Eckō shrit hanging midway down his thighs. He bobbed his head and tried to sneer, but his puffy cheeks and long lashes still made him look like a doll. From a distance, you could faintly see the trim patches of whiskers on his upper lip and the tip of his chin. A thin frost of curls capped his crown and faded neatly to smooth skin above his ears. His eyes were half-shut, like usual, his head angled back as if he were regarding a fool.

Um, okay. That kind of intense description kind of makes me uncomfortable. Furthermore . . .

OMG!!! THAT'S THE MOST TEH GHEY THING I'VE EVER READ ONE DUDE WRITE ABOUT ANOTHER DUDE AND I SUBSCRIBED TO GQ FOR A YEAR!!!

As a brief aside, have you checked out the latest issue of CampKC? It's always good and pretty informative regarding an important segment of KC - the LGBT community that's increasingly influential and a lot more in touch with their ideals than the Mayor's Office. But I digress . . .

It's kind of a shame that Miller failed as a writer because it seems that he has some of the same "literary tendencies" as Oscar Wilde . . . I mean, c'mon, that book was pretty much a love letter to a bunch of Black high school guys and then he hooks one of the dudes up with a job to boot?!?!?!? I was going to make this post about the relationship between cronyism and nepotism in the Mayor's office but frankly I'm too creeped out by just reading that last excerpt to think about this stuff for too much longer.

NO HOMO!!!

I wish Mr. Dial lots of luck working under Joe Miller (hehe). I don't know the dude but I'm just going to assume he got the job on his own merits and not because of his previous interactions with the most powerful hack writer in Kansas City. I'm sure he didn't have to bend over backwards for the gig and his qualifications secured the position. In fact, it's my hope is that he'll stand up to the twisted environment in Mayor Funky's office where racial slurs, bare feet, foul language, nepotism and other so-called "unnatural" proclivities run rampant.