Tag Archives: silliness

Quote Of The Day

Speaking to a Florida audience yesterday, Barack Obama compared the state of the economy to a burning house and said this about Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist: “Everybody needs to grab a hose and that is what Charlie Crist is doing here today.” Crist responded by demonstrating his preferred hose size.

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“Inauguretha (My What?)”

My pal Blake sends us his downtempo dance remix of Aretha Franklin’s uniquely phrased performance at the inauguration, with some help from sound bites from Diane Feinstein and Larry King. It’s very Slave To The Rhythm. Audio possibly NSFW.

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KeepMeOut.com

If you find yourself compulsively checking Facebook or whatever, there’s a web nanny site that will block you for returning within whatever time limit you set. I know you’re not gonna put this here website thingy in there, right?

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The Internet Is Fast

In response to Wednesday’s story about the Passion 4 Christ Movement, somebody is already out with these. You can also get one that says “Liberal Masturbator”, but sadly there’s no “Ex-Ex-Homosexual.” Yet. (Via – Slog)

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In Christ’s Name, Stop Being Human!

Direct from the Passion For Christ Movement is this line of T-shirts so you can tell the world you are no longer a dirty homosexual, no longer a depraved compulsive masturbator, and no longer a damned-to-hell out of wedlock fucker. A satisfied P4CM customer raves: Simply stated…. How might I assist in this mighty endeavor? See, I, myself am an …

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Lance Sea Kitten

Okay, PETA, I give. This IS funny. Not content with the reams of newsprint that have already been dedicated to our Save the Sea Kittens campaign, we’re going for a little more face time for our finned friends by asking Lance Bass, the former ‘N Sync singer and “Dancing With the Stars” alum, to change his last name from “Bass” …

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Daily Grumble

As I just Facebooked: “Joe ponders the futility of activism blogging when the top two searched items in years are ‘Aretha’s hat’ and ‘bacon explosion’.” Image via my pal Kitchenbeard.

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HuffPoll: Who’s The Hottest Freshman Member Of Congress?

Huffington Post is running a silly poll asking “Who’s The Hottest Congressional Freshman?” Among the candidates is openly gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO). Click the image if you’d like to vote.

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Saddlebacking

The results are in.

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The Gay Alphabet

Everbody who thought “M” would be for “Madonna”, raise your hands.

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Aretha’s Big Hat, Part 3

To the left, our own Dr. Jeff models Aretha Franklin’s now-famous inauguration hat, which has caused a deluge of inquiries for its maker. The calls began to flood Luke Song’s hat shop not long after Aretha Franklin finished belting out “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Franklin, who wore a gray felt custom-designed hat from Mr. …

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The New Golden Girls

The group is called Pistol Youth. (Tipped by JMG reader Carlos)

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Beard Song

I thought this was too silly for the blog yesterday, but this morning I found myself singing “beard and soup, beards and soup, they don’t go together, beards and soup.” What’s that bit at the end about “beards and man dates”? Apparently they do go together.

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More On Aretha’s Hat

It cracked me up yesterday to watch my post about Aretha’s hat become one of the most searched items in almost five years on writing JMG. Aside from zillions of Google hits, the post was top ranked over on BuzzFeed’s viral videos chart, where readers went into a photoshopping frenzy. My favorites are my SF pal Ggreg Taylor’s creation below …

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Leather Limericks

I forgot to post a short story yesterday, but in honor of the MAL brouhaha, here’s a few leather limericks I posted here in 2004. Slave wrote of his love and his prideAt being seen on the town by Sir’s sideHe wrote of chance and of fateAnd of finding love lateSir’s one word response: ‘Unsubscribe’ —- Top9 planned it all …

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Do-It-Yourself Shepard Fairey

Mine didn’t turn out too great, but you can make your own Shepard Fairey-ish Obama poster here. UPDATE: JMG reader Billy did a much better job with my photo than I did, so I’ve swapped in his.

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Go Gotti

No less than the Wall Street Journal says it’s OK to pop your collar. In fact, they say it isn’t even all that faggoty. From “fashion reporter” Teri Agins: [T]here’s nothing foppish about turning up the collar on leather jackets, coats and some shirts. Check yourself out in the mirror from all angles to experiment with ways to pop up …

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Decaf Soy Caramel Macchiato

Here’s the list of cities who consume the most and the least caffeine per resident. “The survey considered numerous caffeine sources, including coffee, tea, sodas, energy drinks, chocolate, pain relievers and caffeine pills.Considering caffeinated coffee consumption alone, it was no surprise that Seattle ranked No. 1 nationwide for the second consecutive year.” Most Caffeinated: 1. Tampa 2. Seattle 3. Chicago …

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Capitol Cat Cam

It’s not clear why, exactly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has posted a YouTube video showing her cats padding around her office at the Capitol Building. Wait for the 40-second mark where Pelosi shows off her YouTube-y hipness.

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No Pants 2K9 NYC

Over 1200 shivering Gothamites showed yesterday for Improv Everywhere’s annual No Pants Subway Ride. Check out Improv’s galleries of pants-less nonsense here.Photos credit: Katie Soloker.

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