Monthly Archives: October 2006

Morning View – Food For Thought

Worst.Title.Ever. Just be glad that I don’t keep porn in there, otherwise this post would be called Hot Lovin’ From The Oven. Hanging from my vestigial control knobs are two leather bears, made two years ago as Christmas ornaments by Eddie, who is rather crafty.

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Open Thread Thursday

Who’s your favorite straight person, in terms of doing good work, generating good will, and creating an overall positive benefit to the gay community? I’d probably have to go with Jon Stewart, of The Daily Show, whose frank and pithy commentary reveals to a national audience the idiocy and illogic of homophobia..

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The Fog Lifts

On my lunch hour, I hopped on the S train (conveniently located in my office basement) and popped over to Times Square to visit the information center and pick up some guides to Open House New York. The suitably NYC-icy guy behind the counter snarked that he had no guides, he didn’t know when they were coming and that he …

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Open House New York

The annual Open House New York occurs this weekend and I am jig-giggling with antici…. During this weekend, many NYC cultural/architectural landmarks that are not usually open to the public are available for exploration. Many sites require reservations to visit and some are already sold out, so take a look at their availabilities. We’ve got a small group of digicam-happy …

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Not The “Good” One

I’ve got a five-day conference in Portland at the end of the month. Not the “good” Portland, as my boss hastened to mention. Portland, Maine. I’ve never been to either, so what do I know? This is the same conference that took me to Minneapolis last year, which loyal readers may recall, I ended up loving. So, then. What’s the …

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Population Boom

Cheese and rice! It’s getting crowded in here. Will you thousands of folks who came here looking for this please make some room for the regulars? UPDATE: Over 20,000 Googlers by 5pm and not one has questioned the last three lines of the transcript, which I totally made up. It’s comedy gold, Jerry!

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Obrigado, Brazil

Brazil, inarguably one of the most progressive countries in the world when it comes to LGBT issues such as homophobia, HIV, and gender identity, is spearheading a move to expand its Brazil Without Homophobia program into Spanish-speaking South America and has obtained the agreement of all ten Mercosur nations to include sexual orientation and gender identity within their overall human …

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Morning View – My Apartment

A couple of months ago, Eddie surprised me with this beautifully framed poster of the Warsaw Ballroom, knowing that that the Warsaw remains my all-time favorite gay nightclub, out of the hundreds that I’ve haunted over the last 30 years. Sadly, the Warsaw location is now a Jerry’s Deli, a sight which I hope to never see and probably won’t, …

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Blog Hopping

Good stuff from my pals: Foxy tells a great story about a close encounter at the Salvation Army. Guys in underwear. Text messages. Mark Kane delivers another achingly poignant tale of 70’s gay life in NYC. I walk through a freighted city, heavily populated with ghosts.Waremouse’s Folsom photo essay, which includes a sneaky shot of me at the Blowoff show. …

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Page Applications Skyrocket, Mostly From Chelsea

“Pages are the fluffers of liberty.” – Samantha Bee, Senior Washington Correspondent, The Daily Show.

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Fog

I’ve been back from San Francisco for a few days now, but I still find myself daydreaming about the visit, drifting back to the Cool Grey City Of Love. I’ve been second-guessing my decision to move to New York City since day one of my arrival here. For the first year or so, I started every morning by logging into …

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The Cards Never Lie!

Youree Dell Cleomili Harris, native of Los Angeles, better known as Miss Cleo, fake native of Jamaica, comes out of the closet in this week’s Advocate. Start jokes on how we should have seen this coming: now.

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Morning View – Empire State Building

The Empire State Building, as seen from 40th Street and Fifth Avenue, six blocks away. I cropped the rest of the shot out, but if you embiggen, you should get some OK detail. I’ve been waiting for a cool crisp fall day to try and get some shots from the top, free of the haze that usually restricts the view …

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HIV *IS* A Gay Disease, Says LAGLC

I’ve been getting emails all morning asking what I think of this new campaign from the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. And my answer is….I’m not sure. All of the old issues of stigmatization and shaming come back to the surface, yes. But I’m also very mindful of the recent stats on infection rates and with that in mind, …

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Foley IM Transcript

Maf54: You in your boxers, too?Teen: Nope, just got home. I had a college interview that went late.Maf54: Well, strip down and get relaxed. Maf54: What ya wearing?Teen: tshirt and shortsMaf54: Love to slip them off of you. Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?Teen: A little.Maf54: Cool.Maf54: By the way, right now I’m sitting on a dildo shaped …

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The Attack Of The “Barely-Legal” Ho-Bags

While I am well aware that I’m not exactly within their target demo, in the few months I’ve been using MySpace, the site has gone from just slightly interesting, right on over to pretty damn annoying. If you get 10 emails, 8 of them are from “barely-legal girls” who are “personally inviting you to share in their online modeling show”, …

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Monday Affirmation

YOU are an important person. A rare individual. Today’s is Sting’s 55th birthday. And in honor of the rock’s sexiest senior, here’s a song he co-wrote with rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith, Adventures In Success, as part of Goldsmith’s 1983 Will Powers project, Dancing For Mental Health, the “first and only comedy self-help dance record.” That’s Goldsmith’s computer-altered voice on the …

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This Town Comin’ Like A Ghost Town

When will I remember what a waste of time it is to come in to the office on major Jewish holidays? Midtown is deserted. There’s a line-up of about 50 unclaimed cabs in front of Grand Central. It’s spooky, seeing the streets relatively empty like this. Now put down that donut, shouldn’t you be fasting today? I am one of …

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