Monthly Archives: January 2007

Rosie O’Donald

I like Rosie O’Donnell. Despite the Tom Cruise nonsense, despite the “ching-chong” controversy, I think she is one ballsy bitch dyke. And this recent hilarity that the tabs are calling “Rosie O’Donald” just reinforces my admiration. But America doesn’t feel the same, apparently. According to today’s Editor & Publisher, Gallup polls show that Rosie has a 63% unfavorable rating from …

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What I Learned Last Night

If you’ve never had a cigarette, the first one gets you kinda high. Wasn’t expecting that.

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Esposo Y Esposo

A northern Mexican state approved gay unions yesterday. Coahuila, population 2.3 million, borders Texas and hosts hundreds of maquiladoras, factories set up by U.S. companies to exploit the cheap local labor pool. Crazy. It’s just about the last place in this hemisphere that I’d expect to approve gay unions. Today Coahuila, tomorrow Oaxaca!

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Morning View – Miss Lee

Yesterday’s open thread made me snap this pic of Miss Lee’s establishment on East 60th Street near Bloomingdales. Somebody told me yesterday that visiting a psychic was just as satisfying and therapeutic as seeing a professional therapist. I’d buy that. Hey, are there any psychic therapists? “I predict that it’s all your mother’s fault.”

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FTL V. NYC

Yesterday I got an email from a friend who recently left NYC for Fort Lauderdale: Hopefully by the time Spring rolls around, I’ll be back in NYC full-time. I don’t know how you handled living down here. I am BORED OUT OF MY MIND. The only thing saving my sanity is that I have some decent friends down here. I …

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Last Day For Noms Closed

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Four Years Of Opinion On The War

Red: Bush Approval RatingBlue: War Worth It.Green: Did Right Thing/Not A Mistake.(via – Andrew Sullivan)Over on The National Review, John Derbyshire nicely sums up the bizarre logic Bush handed us last night: —-We can’t leave Iraq without a victory.—-Unless Maliki & Co. get their act together, we can’t achieve victory.—-If Maliki & Co. don’t get their act together, we’ll leave. …

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Morning View – Pigeon Predator

I found this giant Red-Tailed Hawk enjoying a pigeon in Central Park. A nearby photographer mentioned that this particular hawk is the son of the famous Pale Male, the hawk that lives on Mary Tyler Moore’s balcony and has created so much controversy. I say we import another couple of thousand hawks. Kill all dem pigeons! Kill ’em now! Related: …

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Open Thread Thursday

How’s your love life?.

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Yvonne de Carlo, 84

Farewell to Lily Munster, my favorite sitcom mom. 1. “Oh, Marilyn… the circles under your eyes. How lovely you look today.” 2. “Eddie! You better start dawdling, or you’re going to be on time for school!” 3. “Have you done everything? Have you put away your toys and brushed your fangs?”

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Who Ya Gonna Call?

OK, you trollbusters out there, here’s a class project. Some of you have noted and responded to “Regina Griggs”, recently trolling the JMG comments. (The real Regina Griggs is the media spokes-hater for Parents & Friends Of Ex-Gays.) Let’s engage the JMG brain-trust out there and see what y’all can do with the Fake Regina’s IP address: (redacted). I understand …

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HomoQuotable – John Waters

“I’m a big fan of K-Fed, that’s who I want to marry. What did he do that was so wrong? She’s the idiot. She’s the one who gave him the Ferrari. Who gives a Ferrari to rough trade? Who could blame him for taking it?” – John Waters..

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Children Of Men

Last night I saw Children Of Men starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, and Michael Caine. It was bleak, grim, depressing, violent. I loved it. I’ve always dug the apocalyptic, dystopian sort of movies (The Stand, The Day After, Threads), and Children Of Men is the best of its sort that I’ve seen in ages. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu …

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Eau de Secaucus

Seriously, it was Jersey.

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Fish Needed, Stat

125th & Lexington, the 5 train. Man With Aquarium: Hey, is this here the express train? Joe: Yes, it is. MWA: Nobody asked YOU, fuckhead! OK, then.

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Shivering With Antici…

UPDATE: Above: The actual iPhone. Is everybody just sitting out there on white plastic pins and needles, waiting for today’s big product announcement at Macworld? Trembling with unimaginable delight at whatever Steve Jobs is going to unveil? Tapping your credit card nervously on the edge of your keyboard, ready to BUY BUY BUY it, whatever it is? Because You. Must. …

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Urban Dictionary Nominee

Rock star Bob Mould just hipped me to his latest Net term: wink. Stands for “Wikipedia link”. I like it, I like it. Well done, Bob. Reference the post below, here’s the wink of the day. Related: Don’t miss out on Bob and Rich’s big MLK weekend edition of Blowoff, this Saturday at DC’s 9:30 Club. It’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, …

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Latest Web Dilemma: What To Wear?

In a San Francisco Chronicle story about gay men finding their spirituality, amongst the usual raft of platitudes that life in the gay ghetto “sucks”, that gay culture is founded on false “fabulousness” and excessive carnality, the thing that struck me most was a casual mention of the gay hook-up website Lovetastic.com, which requires that members only post pictures of …

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What Wrong With My Canary?

A mysterious gas odor has got Manhattan in a panic. Sirens, evacuations, breathless news coverage. The gas is bothering people from downtown to Harlem to Jersey City. We can faintly smell it here on the 26th floor above Grand Central, but we’ve just heard that Rockefeller Center (six blocks away) has been evacuated, and the PATH trains have been shut …

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Mile Marker

Today I have lived in New York City for one day longer than I lived in San Francisco. Five years, nine months, 14 days. I suppose it’s odd that I’ve tracked the time so closely, but it still feels like I’ve just landed here. I never planned on being in NYC this long. When I left Fort Lauderdale in 1995, …

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