Sitting there with Coshelle on the couch where Dionte slept, I thought about my own mother, who never cast me out of her own life, and how we both had mothers who loved us, Dionte and me, and families that took care of us, and how we as black gay men can do everything right – and still end up dead for being gay and black anyway.
Like the man on the couch in the New Yorker cartoon, he seems to believe that his personal life is none of his own damn business.
I think those moments are to be embraced as much as the moments of putting your feet up on the couch and treating yourself to whatever you treat yourself to after a tough workout".
He was cleared to go home, but the next afternoon was found in a friend's apartment on a couch unresponsive and when paramedics arrived he was dead.
Oh dear, the Times has sunk into its Victorian-era fainting couch.
I never thought, slumped on a couch under a festive blanket of meat, that I'd stumble on an atheistically skewed sci-fi-horror allegory, but Doctor Who delivered.
A postgraduate degree, extracurricular activities and physical hobbies convey a personality that is driven to succeed rather than given to sitting on a couch and bingeing on chocolate.
Either that or have countless rainy Saturdays on the couch with a Sex and the City marathon.
Coming home to find his bags packed was a blow to Williams; he ended up spending the next two months sleeping on the couch of his biological grandfather, who eventually told him he had to leave.
There is a particularly good bit in John Updike's stories about Henry Bech, a fictional New York novelist who writes a great first book and then spends the decades that follow in a state of grand creative paralysis, strolling from glamorous literary event to TV talk-show couch.
Tripodi said towards the end of the meeting Keneally had gone into the bathroom "to prepare herself" and he had stayed on the couch.
