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My dear old friend David LM Mcintyre proposed to Ms. Sarah McKinley Oakes (who I don't know at all but assume is pretty awesome) a few days ago and was accepted.

David (aka, at various times, "Crazy Moondog" and "Jesus 'Too Tall' Christ") and I met on our first day at NYU in September, 1986, and were pretty well inseparable from then until his return to his homeland of California sometime around '94-'95. We acted in a lot of things together (including several years in the floorshow of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the 8th Street Playhouse under Sal Piro's supervision), and he was a huge inspiration to me as a theatre director (I was primarily a stage actor and filmmaker back then) - without his lead, I never probably would have tried it. Actually, I'd say I'd certainly have never tried it.

We also wrote a collage-play together (from his original concepts) called Even The Jungle (a mixture of The Jungle Book and Apocalypse Now and pretty much the entire history of Hero mythology). It was first done under his direction in 1993, and I've directed it twice since in 1999 and 2000. I don't know if he still feels this way, but he once considered it the most important creative thing he had ever done or was likely to ever do, and I do indeed still feel that way.

His proposal is his own damned business - though I'm very very happy for him - and I wouldn't have bothered to mention it here for that reason, except that it showed up on Boing Boing this morning, which means it's pretty much a public thing now.

And why did David's proposal wind up on this internet "directory of wonderful things?"

Because he proposed to Sarah in ZERO GRAVITY!

Now that's flair!