Monthly Archives: September 2006

Morning View – Airport Express

My first view as I emerge from the subway in the morning is the bus stop for the express airport buses from Grand Central. The fare to JFK is $15, versus $60+ in a cab, and the bus is just as fast.

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Full House: 3 Queens & A Pair Of Bears

The murky legality of the online gambling industry in the U.S., what with the feds arresting industry corporate honchos at airports, has not dissuaded ParadisePoker.com from taking this huge honking billboard at One Times Square. Similarly unfazed are the people behind ComeOutPoker.com, “the world’s first online poker site catering exclusively to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community”, which launched …

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The Go-To Guy

2PM I’m walking past our conference room where one of the sales teams is having a meeting. Somebody inside says, “We should just ask Joe. He’s gay, he’s got to know.” I swivel smoothly on one foot and stick my head inside the room. “The answer is yes, it does hurt. But only at first. Usually.” I’m the go-to guy …

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Bringing Sexy Back?

Oh, it’s broughten..

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New York City Survives, Thrives

As a lovely counterpoint to the grim post below this one, yesterday I attended the annual Broadway On Broadway, a free concert in Times Square featuring the casts of current and upcoming Broadway shows, where host Martin Short and 50,000 theatre fans showed the world that New York City still gloriously, exhuberantly, spectacularly, survive and thrives. The Farmboyz, David and …

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That Day

Manhattan, September 11th, 2001That day, I got to my office on 42nd Street at about 8:55am. About ten minutes later, I got a call from Terrence in Orlando. “Honey, you should look out your window because a plane just hit the World Trade Center!” I have a fabulous view of the Chrysler Building from my office, but to see the …

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Coney Island

Another marathon bike ride with the Farmboyz today. At 11am, we took the bikes onto the D train from underneath the Upper West Side’s Dakota, emerging about 40 minutes later at the end of the line on Coney Island, the first visit for all three of us. We wandered around the boardwalk for awhile, marveling at an attraction called Shoot …

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Wired On Blogging

Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it. – The Ultimate Blog Post (via Wired.com)Clearly, this guy has never been to Folsom Street Fair. (HT – SF Bootdog)

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Deja Vu Vu Vu

Riding the subway this morning, grooving to some great new music, I had the weirdest feeling of deja vu. I had the weirdest feeling of deja vu. Deja vu. Yeah, like that. And then it hit me. For the last three years, my favorite albums of the year have all been late summer/early fall releases. There’s a weirdly comfortable and …

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Urban Living: 1-2-3

A single terrorist nuke, more likely in the 5- to 10-kiloton range (Hiroshima was 12 kilotons), will kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people in any big city but spare the rest. In New York, that will leave about 7.5 million of us to sort through the carnage. – How To Survive A Nuclear Bomb (via Slate.com)1. Having potassium …

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Hips Don’t Lie

On the same day that I found 100 people surfing in NYC, I cut through Central Park on the way home from dropping off the Farmboyz, to find about 100 people hula-hooping by the Bethesda Fountain. This town is cuh-ray-zee!

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Gotham City Surfing

Last year the Parks Department declared this stretch of Rockaway Beach, Queens, to be NYC’s official surfing-only beach. Previous to 2005, surfing was a ticketable offense. According to the city’s site, you should carry your surfboard onto the A train, then ride it to the 90th Street stop in Rockaway. The surfing beach is between 87th and 91st Street. I’ve …

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Advocate Reader Survey

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HomoQuotable – Oscar Wilde

“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” – Oscar Wilde.

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Maybe – The Three Degrees

In 1957, producer Richard Barrett steered The Chantels, a Bronx-born group of five teenage girls into the national top 20 with Maybe, a first for an all-black girl group. Then 13 years later, he gave the same song to his latest girl group production, Philadelphia’s The Three Degrees, who were on the cusp of becoming globally famous as the voice …

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Gleasonism

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Open Thread Thursday

The house is burning down. What’s the one (nonliving) thing that you save?.

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Backfired

NYC Eagle, Sunday 11pmI’m on the roofdeck of the Eagle, as I am on most Sunday evenings. The holiday weekend has brought out a huge crowd of regulars and tourists and I am penned into a corner of the deck, surrounded by friends and one very horny and persistent young cub. The cub has been touching me lightly as he …

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Morning View – Time Warner Center

Like most, I’m not too crazy about the Time Warner Center, but I am rather pleased with this photo, taken Sunday morning around 1030am.

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A Certain Ratio

My typically serene and genial office environment ripped at the seams on Friday over a bitter disagreement that forced our erudite staffers into two opposing camps. Curse words were uttered. Feelings were hurt. Disparaging comments about class and sophistication were made. The crisis: What is the correct proportion of peanut butter to jelly in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? …

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