Monthly Archives: November 2006

Stressed

I think I may just make myself sick from worrying about this damn election. I can’t remember when I have stressed and plotzed like this. It sure ain’t helping my aching back, that’s for sure. And on THAT topic, a little note to the Duane Reade drugstore at 72nd & 1st: Why, oh WHY do you stock the back pain …

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Joel Seah

While in Maine last month, I met artist Joel Seah, part of whose work Yankee Queer (above) recasts the images and messages sent to him by men on Manhunt.net. Seah’s man-moths, complete with lurid species names directly taken from their emails to him (Partyan Dplay, Whiteon Lyplease), are fascinating. Joel is an Assistant Professor of Art, Printmaking and Drawing at …

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Marlin Beach Pool Bar

After seeing last week’s post about the late Marlin Beach Hotel, a reader sent me this scan of one of the hotel’s postcards, circa 1960’s, before the place turned gay. (Embiggen makey pretty.) You can see the windows into the pool that I mentioned. The text on the back of the postcard reads: “The Marlin Beach Hotel – This is …

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Polling Station

This morning I voted for the third year in a row at the Jewish senior center on the end of my block. As usual, the place was a confusing madhouse of directional signs and vigorously waving old ladies. They get quite anxious if you slow the process or walk aimlessly once you get your booth assignment. “This way! This way! …

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Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos

From last night’s Simpsons episode, Treehouse Of Horror, 2006. Another typically Simpsonian dig on the Bush regime.

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Midday View – Grace Building

I got this shot last week on my lunch hour, which I occasionally spend in Bryant Park across from this, the W.R. Grace Building on 42nd Street. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft, the 50-story Grace is a virtual double of the Solow Building on 57th Street, another Bunshaft creation. It may be a bit difficult to detect at this front-on angle, …

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HomoQuotable – Betty Bowers

“If Haggard’s unblinking congregation could sit and listen to such a liturgical Liberace week after week and not realize they were in the presence of someone who makes Barry Manilow in a full-length mink look butch, they really need to recalibrate their ability to detect prescription-strength doses of flamboyance.” – Betty Bowers, “America’s Best Christian”. Read the rest of Betty’s …

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Tweaker Ted’s Monday

9:00 AM – Reads New Testament. Focuses on parts about redemption. Tries not to think about sweaty mansex. 9:15 AM – Does huge bump of tina. Alphabetizes CD collection . Allen (Peter), Almond (Marc), Aviance (Kevin)….. 10:00 AM – Tries not to think about hot sweaty mansex. Fails. Masturbates. 10:05 AM – Does huge bump of tina. Reverse alphabetizes CD …

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Senate Too Close To Call

According to today’s NYTimes graphic, tomorrow’s election is still impossible to call, regarding the possible return of the Senate to Democratic control. The House of Representatives appears to be securely moving to the Democratic side. Visit the Times site for a neat navigable-by-state assessment of all the races.

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Comment Moderation

I’ve had to put comment moderation on, for the moment, as I’m getting slammed with a couple of hundred spam comments a day for the last few days. Their number has been steadily increasing for the last few weeks. I can’t figure out their purpose, as all of the multiple links in each spam comment appear to be nonworking. Additionally, …

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Bah

Bah. Nothing like an entire weekend spent curled into a fetal position. I threw my back out at noon on Saturday while leaning across my desk to clean my computer screen. I never wreck my back doing normal back-wrecking things like moving furniture. No, I throw my back out by kicking my neighbor’s Sunday Times out of the way on …

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Blowoff At CMJ

It’s CMJ time again in Manhattan, and last night our crew gathered at Fat Baby on the Lower East Side for a DJ showcase featuring Blowoff (pictured with me, above) and MSTRKRFT. Standout tracks for the evening were two new Rich Morel productions: Pursue (Morel Pink Noise Mix) – I Like It Electric, and Love Story – Madelin Zero + …

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A Flaming Flare From Arizona

From everybody’s favorite gay archaeologist, comes a request that we put in a call or thirty to the anti-gay marriage hotline set up by a group called Protect Marriage Arizona. You’ve all got a phone sitting right there on your desk or under your left asscheek. Pick it up, dial, and voice your opposition. It’s a free call, for YOU. …

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Mike Jones – Man Of Steel (Balls)

My hat is off to Mike Jones, but I worry for his future in Colorado, with so many of the Zombie Army Of God likely plotting his demise in something other than the traditional fiery pit of hell. I can only imagine the volume of death threats that must be pouring in. (photo via Towleroad.) RELATED: Watch Haggard admit hiring …

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Meatspace

My buddy Jerry and I hung out backstage with Meat Loaf after last night’s show at Times Square’s Palace Theatre. He’s a very nice guy, charming in person, but almost three hours of one crashing, overwrought Jim Steinman ballad/epic after another was not my cup of tea. That didn’t stop the sold-out venue (average age around 60) from going apeshit, …

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Misdirection

When the Foley scandal broke, Fox News was identifying him as a Democrat. So how long before Fox starts referring to Haggard as a Muslim? UPDATE: My boss is peeved that I didn’t credit him with suggesting this post. Oops.

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Speed Dialing

Tom Brokaw interviewed Ted Haggard in 2005: Ted Haggard: I’m not a power broker. I don’t call presidents. I don’t harangue the White House. Tom Brokaw: You don’t have to call him. He calls you. Haggard: I’ll be talking to the White House in another three and a half hours. Brokaw: About what today? Haggard: I don’t know the subject …

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HomoQuotable – Ted Haggard

“Hi Mike, this is Art. Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply. And I could pick it up really anytime I could get it tomorrow or we could wait till next week sometime and so I also wanted to get your address.” – Disgraced right-wing evangelical Ted Arthur Haggard, …

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Epiphany

You know that your sack action has seriously declined when you find yourself standing in the local gay sundries retailer, staring at a giant display, and realizing that you no longer know which brand of lube you usually buy. Tragic. At least I still know which beer I drink.

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Speaking In Tina Tongues

Ted Haggard, the virulently anti-gay head of the National Association of Evangelicals was outed today by a Denver television station after it aired an interview with a male prostitute who claims that Haggard has been patronizing him for three years and had used crystal meth during their sessions. Watch the interview here. (via – AmericaBlog.) Haggard, married with five kids, …

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