Monthly Archives: August 2006

The Dugout Can’t Handle The Truth.com

The Dugout, Sunday 7pmAnnouncement: “Gentlemen, I’m So & So from TheTruth.com and we are here at the Dugout today looking for men with very hairy backs to cast in a national anti-smoking commerical. This is a paid casting and if you are cast you will also get residuals from future showings of the commercial. You must have a very hairy …

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Bet They Found The Gig On Craigslist

Casting Call: Eight athletic men needed for DVD promotion. You must be fit, dark, sullen and willing to wear a pleather Roman Centurion outfit (including helmet!) outside Grand Central Terminal (in the rain, during rush hour) while carrying a litter of Rome: The Complete First Season box sets, as hundreds of thousands of commuters mock you. If passing homosexual bloggers …

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Hersh Story Grows

Lots of attention is being paid to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s claim in The New Yorker that the United States engineered the Israeli attack of Lebanon in order to ensure that Hezbollah forces would not be able to attack Israel once the U.S. bombing of Iran begins. Hersh has a track record of exposing U.S. misdeeds, going back …

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Morning View – Midtown East

I took this picture from the Empire State Building back in the early spring.

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Hat Trick!

George Bush on the Lebanon ceasefire: “We can only imagine how much more dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapon it seeks.” Hey kids, why fail at two simultaneous wars when you can fail at THREE? Buy two disasters, get one free! Every third body bag is on the house! Hey, got any spare teenage males …

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Dead Man’s Chest

I love Johnny Depp, I really do. Edward Scissorhands? Brilliant. But I’m just having trouble wrapping my head around the phenomenal success that Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest is having. To date, the film has grossed $855 million worldwide, and the thing is still going strong. Next week it will pass Finding Nemo to become the highest …

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Kitchenbeard Does The Pier

My buddy Stephen, the former NY’er also known as blogger Kitchenbeard, was in town this weekend to officiate at his brother’s wedding, as Stephen is a bona-fide internet authorized minister. It appears that San Francisco is treating him well. That’s Stephen on the right of the three men standing in the middle of the picture, on the Christopher Street Pier …

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Sharpie Snark Wars

From a poster in the 68th Street subway station under Hunter College: “Last year 1 out of 12 high school students was assaulted by a fellow student.” A short graffiti war follows: Snarky 1: That should be “were assaulted”. Snarky 2: No, “one….was” IS correct! Snarky 3: Y’all is funny! Snarky 4: Y’all ARE funny. Snarky 5: Dumb bitches. It’s …

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Next: The War On Lipliner

The Transportation Safety Authority has removed lipstick from the list of items banned from carry-on baggage. And the drag queens of America rest a little bit easier.

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HomoQuotable – Christine Quinn

“I don’t believe there is any expectation of privacy as it relates to going to a club.” – openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, commenting on the privacy concerns of gay activists regarding her proposed rules that would require NYC nightclubs to videotape and electronically record the IDs of patrons. Christopher Dunn, of the New York Civil …

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Morning View – New York Water Taxi

Vasco snapped this for me yesterday from the Christopher Street Pier. The NYC Water Taxi makes stops all along the lower half of Manhattan and has special service from the South Street Seaport to Shea Stadium on game days. You can get a “hop-on/hop-off ” pass for $15 on weekends, which allows two days of unlimited use.

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Kiki & Herb, Alive On Broadway

Friday, David and I attended the opening night of Kiki & Herb’s Broadway debut in their new show, Alive On Broadway, at the Helen Hayes Theatre, where the septuagenarian duo served up their fantastically twisted takes on Gnarls Barkely, Dan Fogelberg, The Cure, Public Enemy, and many others. The storyline is familiar at times to longtime fans, but Kiki’s (Justin …

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More Stats

As requested, here’s the JMG readers browser share. For the record, I use IE at home and at work. I know, I know, I am a luddite when it come to these things. I’m told I should switch to Firefox, but IE seems to work just fine. What are the advantages? (Clicky pic-y makey biggy).

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Viread Shows Potential As HIV Preventive

Early testing of HIV therapy drug Viread as a preventive for HIV has shown promising results in a study funded by Bill and Melinda Gates. Single daily doses of Viread and a placebo were given to almost 1000 African women in the study. Only 2 of the women taking Viread contracted HIV, versus 6 of the women taking the placebo. …

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Morning View – Guggenheim Museum

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The Numbers Don’t Lie

Since Apple only has 5% of the market share, yet over four times that many JMG readers use Macs, my conclusions are: 1. The gays love Macs. 2. The gays use these Macs to read JMG. …so therefore… 3. The gays love JMG! It’s right there in the numbers people! (These stats only represent the last 100 JMG visitors, but …

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Back On The Shit List

Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has rescinded his support of the GenderPAC/HRC Diversity Statement. Last week I blogged that he had signed the document, to organizers’ surprise. Put old Ricky back on the Santorum List.

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Linkyloveland

-Wednesday, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC performed the national anthem at RFK Stadium, as part of Night Out At The National’s, the annual gay & lesbian night for DC’s pro baseball team. AOL Gay & Lesbian editor Kenneth Hill has the stirring video of their performance. Check out GayBaseballDays.com for gay nights at the ballpark near you. -Check …

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No Big Whoop

OK, so the new drill is that we cannot carry drinks and toiletries onto a plane. Big deal. I have no problem with this. The biggest downside for me with likely be increased rage at non-compliant passengers, who already drive me to near-violence by insisting on bringing ginormous “carry-on” luggage into the cabin. From now on, I’ll just stow my …

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Morning View – Big Apple Store

Here’s the glass cube entrance over the subterranean Apple Store at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, which I go past every single day and will never ever ever shop in, ever.

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