Monthly Archives: May 2007

Jerry Falwell Dead Dead Dead

Jerry Falwell has died after being found unconscious in his office this morning. I will shed no tears. In fact, Tinky Winky and I may just have a big hug. “AIDS is God’s punishment to gays.” – Jerry Falwell. “Instant death is my punishment to Jerry Falwell” – God. UPDATE: I can’t resist adding some classics from Falwell… – “If …

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Soup & Pallid

Lenny’s Deli, 1st Avenue, 12:30pmGirl 1: OMG! That chowder smells so good! Girl 2: It totally does, but I’m not getting cream soup so close to summer. Girl 1: You can always get rid of it at the office if you need to. Girl 2: Oh, I never purge at work. People can hear you. (Both laugh.) Girl 1: Yeah, …

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Moscow Pride Banned For 2nd Year

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has banned the gay pride parade for the second year in a row, saying a parade would violate the rights of non-gay residents. Last month parade organizers lost a libel case against the mayor after he called pride marches “satanic”. Last year about 200 people were arrested for defying the parade ban, but charges were later …

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Haloscan Suckage

Haloscan has been most unreliable over the last few days, my apologies. Please try reloading the page until you get a comments link. Then if you’re lucky, you can actually leave a comment. Grrrr.

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2007 Tony Noms

The 2007 Tony nominations are out. It looks like Spring Awakening leads with 11 nominations, followed by Grey Gardens with 10. UPDATE: I failed to notice that Kiki & Herb – Alive On Broadway, which Little David and I saw on opening night, is nominated for Best Theatrical Event. Woo-hoo! Best Play: The Coast of Utopia – Author: Tom StoppardFrost/Nixon …

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Morning View – Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a neat little 9-acre park squeezed behind the Main Library at 5th Avenue & 42nd Street. While an official NYC park, Bryant Park is managed by a private non-profit group. During the civil war, Union soldiers drilled there. Fashion Week takes over the park twice a year and during warm weather I’ve seen some great 8AM concerts …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprise’s Hip-O Records, this week’s swag haul is a fantastic collection of 13 Elvis Costello CDs. The prize package comprises two brand new collections compiled by Elvis himselvis and his first 11 albums!Brand new is The Best Of Elvis Costello – The First 10 Years, containing 22 hits spanning Costello’s first decade on the charts. Also …

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Phone Call

Joe: Hello. Joe’s boss: Hey, I’m running late. My tranny is leaking. Both: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! We are such children..

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Sieben, Sieben, Ai Lyu-lyu

I remain mystified by Eurovision, the annual camp fest that captivates gay Europeans. Although I’m pleased that The Gays took first and second place, this year’s winner, the song by out lesbian Marija Serifovic, representing Serbia, was complete schlock ripped from the Jim Steinman/Celine Dion songbook. However, I am amused by the second place winner from Ukraine, a drag queen …

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HomoQuotable – Karen Magee

“This is deeply disappointing and concerning to me and the rest of the management team.” – PlanetOut CEO Karen Magee, announcing that the company, owner of Out, Advocate, and Gay.com, will be out of money by the end of the year without an infusion of cash. PlanetOut reported a first quarter loss of nearly $7M on Friday, sending its stock …

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Chrysler: In The Bargain Bin

Nine years ago DaimlerBenz bought Chrysler for $37 billion. Today they sold the bulk of the company to a private equity firm for the bargain basement price of $7.4 billion. Ouch! Lee Iaccoca, who famously engineered a government bailout of Chrysler in 1979, is “broken hearted.” The new owners of Chrysler are faced with billions of dollars in employee costs …

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Mommy’s Boys

Overheard: “Hi, mom! Happy Mother’s Day! I tried to call you this morning. What? No, I’m in the city. At a bar. A bar. The Eagle. You wouldn’t like it.” Traversing our usual haunts yesterday, we observed that teh gays must be good sons, because Mother’s Day really wiped out attendance at the bars. Good boys.

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Rome Protests Gay Rights

Several hundred thousand Italians protested proposed gay rights laws in Rome on Saturday, in a giant rally called “Family Day.” The rally was organized by a consortium of Catholic groups and was attended by many nuns and priests. The new law would give expanded rights to gay and unmarried couples in matters like welfare and inheritance rights, but does not …

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Morning View – From The Rock

Central Park and northward, from the Top Of The Rock yesterday, courtesy of Dr. Jeff. If you embiggen, you can make out the George Washington Bridge. The white square below the big lake is the Metropolitan Musueum, I live somewhat to the right of there.

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Saturday Love

For always and forever, you will be my Saturday love. Ah, that’s better. Another lazy Saturday afternoon in the park with my boys, attended by George, Aaron, the Farmboyz, Little Tom, Little David, Foxy, Rod, Mike, Chris C., Dr. Jeff, DC guys Todd and Joe, several friends of friends and a trio of doggies. The park is fantastically lush already, …

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Dead Daddy Dollars

Did you hear the one about the dead sperm donor being forced to pay child support? In 1999 and 2000 a Pennsylvania lesbian couple created two turkey baster babies using sperm donated by the then-living father, a friend. The couple civil-unioned in Vermont in 2002, but broke up in 2006, with one of the women winning monthly child support payments …

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Stealthberg

As the leading Republican candidates continue to trip over themselves in a fight to the bottom, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly relaunched the site he used in his last two mayoral campaigns. Term limits means that Bloomberg cannot be NYC mayor again. When asked if he plans on running for president, he usually waffles between “no” and “not likely”. …

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Escaped Bear!

From LOGO’s Big Gay Sketch Show:

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Re-Busted

He Who Shall Not Be Named is back up to his old tricks. Literally..

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Less Worried

My mother just emailed me to say that Orlando police have already caught the guy that raped her neighbor. He is the son of another woman on her street. My mom, being the person that she is, is now very upset for the mother of the rapist. I, however, am feeling less worried. Go OPD!

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