Monthly Archives: January 2007

Sing It!

In 1978 when I was budding 19 year old gay activist, one of my most treasured possessions was my copy of Tom Robinson Band’s Power In The Darkness. That summer I had gone shopping for the album just to get the hit single 2-4-6-8 Motorway, which I’d seen at the top of UK charts. Back in those days, I often …

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The Time Is Now 11:55

Yesterday the hands of the Doomsday Clock were moved two minutes closer to midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited global warming and the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran as the reasons for the change. The time on the clock has been changed 17 times since its creation in 1947.

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Iraq War Cost Put In Perspective

Embiggen the chart to see the outrageous cost. Universal healthcare? Unaffordable! Thousands of lives to enrich Haliburton? Affordable! (via New York Times)

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Canadian Marriage Stats

Some interesting marriage stats came out of Canada today. British Columbia, which apparently tracks these things more than the rest of Canada, reported: -Those entering into same-sex marriage were an average of 13 years older than hets getting married. The average age for gay men getting married was 44, for lesbians it was 42. -As we’ve seen in Massachusetts, lesbians …

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Open Thread Thursday

What are you reading?.

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Back On The Chain Gang

According to Sunday’s New York Times there are now over 200 Starbucks in NYC. There are 220 Duane Reade drugstores and soon to be over 200 Rite-Aid stores. There’s more than 100 each of Payless Shoes and Gap. In Manhattan alone, there are two Home Depots and two K-Marts. It’s true, New York City is a shopper’s paradise! There’s a …

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Haloscan Malfunction

The comments tally has not been updating since last night, so new posts will appear to have zero comments. Hopefully Haloscan will have this issue resolved soon. The “recent comments” widget in the left column is working correctly.

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The War With Iran Is Coming

The war with Iran is coming. Bush is taunting Iran. Russia announced yesterday that they have sold air-defense missles to Iran. The new war is coming and the Democrats know it. What country are we living in? How is this happening? The president is insane and needs to be removed.

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Morning View – Gapstow Bridge, Central Park

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Diana Ross Loves You

“Yes, I’ve heard a lot about it. I’m going to see it with my lawyers.” – Diana Ross, joking on last night’s CBS Late Show, when David Letterman asked her if she wasn’t curious about Dreamgirls. Ross said that she’d been too busy to see the movie and had never seen the musical, but was otherwise gracious about Beyonce’ Knowles. …

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Maloney Lands On His Feet

Failed New York State Attorney General candidate Sean Patrick Maloney has been appointed by Governor Elliot Spitzer to be his Deputy Secretary. Maloney will work with Spitzer on policy priorities, presumably including Spitzer’s campaign vow to approve gay marriage. This appointment may help lay the groundwork for Maloney one day becoming NY’s first openly gay governor, unless Christine Quinn gets …

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Joe – 1, Bitch – 0

This morning a woman brazenly cut into the front of a long checkout line at the place where I pick up breakfast, bullying the cashier into waiting on her. Speaking for the rest of the customers, I told her that her manners were “as brittle as her fried dye-job”. Don’t you love it when you don’t walk away thinking, “Ooh, …

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Last FM

Always slow to jump on these social networking trends, I finally joined LastFM in December. LastFM is an service that tracks what its users are playing on their iTunes player, creating individual webpages for each user, allowing members to see each other’s playlists. For those interested, here’s my LastFM page and a listing of the last several hundred songs I …

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The Happy Hooker

Last night I had a drink with Mike Jones, your 2006 choice as Queer Of The Year. Jones is in New York City to meet with the publisher of his coming tell-all book, and to appear as the guest of the Gay & Lesbian Task Force at their cocktail reception tonight. Mike was charming, a gentle muscleman with arms so …

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HomoQuotable – Christine Quinn

“I think that the New York City electorate will always elect the person they feel most connected to and the person they think is most competent and effective.” – Christine Quinn, the openly gay Speaker of the New York City council, when asked if NYC is ready for a gay mayor. Quinn is high on the short list of probable …

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The Good Foot Was Gotten Upon

I’ll be in recovery from last night’s Body & Soul party for the rest of the week. After a couple of warm-up Manhattans at the Farmboyz’ Upper West Side pied-a-terre, the seven of us cabbed down to Pacha in Hell’s Kitchen to find the Will Call ticket line snaking down 46th Street. Thirty minutes outside, another 30 in the coat …

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Stop Lying, Condi

Above: Condi Rice advising Congress on Bush’s “troop surge”.

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Ain’t No (Brokeback)
Mountain High Enough

During his opening monologue on last night’s SNL, Jake Gyllenhaal nicely skewered his rabid gay following, saying he wanted to send them a “special thank-you.” Then he put on a black bouffant wig, ripped away his suit to reveal a full-length sequined gown and launched into a pretty damn good version of Dreamgirl’s And I Am Telling You. I bet …

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What I Learned Last Night

If you stick a fork into an electrical socket, you get a bit of a buzz. Wasn’t expecting that.

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Body & Soul Reunion Party

I’ve wrangled a large portion of my posse to attend tomorrow’s Body & Soul party at Pacha. I’ve only been to two Body & Soul parties: the final event and 2004’s Reunion Party. Both were just tear-the-roof-off-the-sucker out of this world. I’m hoping for more of the same. Aaron tells me the last reunion party drew 6500 crazies. We plan …

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