Question: You’ve been offered a guest spot on
your favorite TV show. What is the show, and who is your character?
Ashok: Does Winning RuPaul’s Drag Race
count as a “guest spot?” No, on second thought, I’m not trying to expose all my
makeup secrets on TV. Or, well, the fact
that I don’t really have any makeup secrets…
Actually,
I feel like Raima sort of missed her guest star opportunity; I’d want to be on
one of those old 70s shows from Nick at Nite, like Maude or Mary Tyler
Moore. You know, wear a caftan and some
big hoop earrings, maybe compete with Betty White for some 70s-looking guy in a
brown suit at a dinner party. The swirly
patterns, all the paisley and pantsuits, everything was flowy. The hairstyles? Half of the extras in those
scenes probably were drag queens.
I think as
Ashok I’d have fewer offers. Maybe some
glasses and a lab coat, Brainy Lab Assistant Number Two on that NCIS show with
LL Cool J. Ooh, LL Cool J—now that I
mention it, I might have to start watching for casting calls for that show.
Maybe they’ll do a Santa Fe Season Finale.
Is that show still on?
Danny: Mine would be Cash Cab. Definitely Cash Cab.
Ashok: You can’t “guest star” on Cash Cab.
Danny: Sure I can. That cab can’t be that
hard to spot. You see a taxi coming with a film crew packed into the back like
a clown car, you give it a whistle. That
driver guy’s kinda hot, I’d recognize him, be like “Taxi!” Whenever I watch that show, I know all the
answers. It’d pay for our trip to New
York.
Ashok: What trip to New York?
Danny: The one we’ll go on to find the
Cash Cab. You should want me to be on
Cash Cab: you’ll be with me, right? Maybe
you’ll get discovered, LL Cool J will say, “That’s him! No one else could play
Brainy Lab Assistant Number Two!” and call his agent.
Ashok: So I should get some fake glasses?
Danny: Couldn’t hurt.
~*~
BLURB:
Santa Fe attorney Danny Hanrahan loves life in
his adopted hometown. He’s got a great job, a gorgeous home, he's tall,
he's handsome, and he drives a nice car. The only thing he’s missing is
someone with whom to share it all, but when his trusty assistant Monica sets
him up with her sexy son Ashok, Danny quickly considers the “boyfriend” box
checked, too. Ashok Rai has lived in Santa Fe all his life. He lives in
his parents' basement and has a secure, routine government job. Finding
little excitement elsewhere, he follows his best friend Erik into the glittery
world of drag, and his alter-ego Raima Reason quickly becomes one of Santa Fe’s
most celebrated queens.
Ashok is fit, charming, and dynamite in the
sack; falling in love with him is a piece of cake. Embracing Raima,
though, proves to be more of a challenge. Danny divorced his wife for a
reason, and it wasn't so he could go out and find someone who takes even longer
than she did to put on makeup. When Raima's career looks set to take off, Danny
has to decide if he's along for the ride, or if a boyfriend who's sometimes a
girl is more than he can handle.
