Monthly Archives: February 2007

Obama Not Black Enough?

Pointing to his “non-slave” roots and his mixed parentage, some American blacks feel that Barack Obama isn’t an “authentic” black American. Today Pam Spaulding delivers an incisive and comprehensive entry on the issue. If you aren’t reading Spaulding every day, you should be.

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Morning View – Non-Violence

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd’s Non-Violence stands near the entrance to the United Nations..

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Gaydar Founder Dead

Gary Frisch, 38, the co-founder of Gaydar, the gay hook-up site, died this weekend at age 38, after a fall from his eighth story balcony in London. Suicide is being considered. Frisch was a South African national who emmigrated to the UK in 1997..

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Withdraw

2006 Oscar – It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp. 2007 Grammy – My Humps.I formally withdraw my interest in pop music.

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Boner OTC ™

Viagra, the notorious party drug and HIV enabler, will be sold over the counter in British drugstores beginning (ahem) Valentine’s Day. At the outrageous cost of $25 per pill, purchasers must be males between 30 – 65 years old and must endure an hour-long “consultation” with the pharmacist. How is that “over the counter”?.

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The Declining Subjunctive

If I was a better writer, I’d pay more attention to William Safire.

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Regrets

The 6 train platform, Saturday 3PMWoman 1: I’m just sorry I slept with them. Woman 2: Well, you were drunk. Woman 1: Yeah, but now today I’m all red and itchy. Woman 2: Right? And you can’t put anything in there, cuz you’ll make it worse. (Horrified, the women realize I’m standing there.) Woman 1: Hey, we’re just talking about …

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Preferences?

Obama-Clinton? Or Clinton-Obama?.

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Nuke York City

Homeland Security is going to post “nuke detectors” in a ring around New York City and in key city center locations, hoping to detect dirty radiation bombs before they can be detonated. Still, it seems that just about anybody with a dirty bomb and access to a small boat could set something off within a hundred feet of the world’s …

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Weekend Links

Father Tony tussles with a Whole Foods patron. – Perge Modo Gay penguins in love at the SF zoo. – B.A.R. A letter from the AIDS Quilt. – JMG More Bear411 drama. – Sluggobear & Aaron.Giuliani moves abortion stance rightward. – NY Times

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New Erasure Album + Super Gay Tour

Well, now I know why I ran into Erasure’s Andy Bell way up in Portland, Maine back in October, as today Billboard is reporting that’s where Erasure recorded their new album, Light At The End Of The World, due in May. We’ll get to see the new material performed in this summer’s Pride season True Colors Tour, which will comprise …

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Davies Article & MTV News

An article about the Donnie Davies phenomenon in today’s Window Media publications (Washington Blade, NY Blade, Southern Voice, etc) features an interview with me. In case you don’t get enough of me here. And here’s an MTV News story featuring a hot tub interview with Joey Oglesby and the folks behind the Donnie Davies campaign. There are two screenshots of …

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A Dark And Stormy Night ’06

Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick …

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New Wainwright Album Drops In May

Gay heartthrob Rufus Wainwright’s new self-produced album, Release The Stars, (executive producer Neil Tennant) will be released in May, following his April appearance at Coachella. The album was mixed by Marius De Vries (Madonna, Melanie C, Kylie Minogue). With De Vries’ client history and with Neil Tennant as exec producer, I’m very curious how Wainwright’s sound might change on Release …

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Muskrat Love

According to the Journal of Neuroscience, there is finally direct evidence that humans secrete a scent that changes the chemistry of the opposite sex. At the study conducted at UC Berkeley, women who smelled a jar containing a chemical found in men’s sweat experienced higher sexual arousal, increased heart rate, and elevated mood. The women were smelling androstadienone, a “musky” …

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A Response From The AIDS Quilt Director

Last weekend, my houseguest was my former boss, Jerry Suarez, his visit coincidentally beginning just a couple of days after I’d blogged about him in my post regarding the New York Times article about the AIDS Quilt. Jerry has been associated with the Quilt for almost 20 years now, starting in Miami as a panel maker for his father and …

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Anna Nicole Smith Dead

Here’s the AP wire story. Unbelievable.

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ObamaNation.com

Christian rightwingers have set up ObamaNation.com to attack Sen. Barack Obama’s views on gay rights and abortion. The director of the group, Pastor Clenard H. Childress, Jr, says, “60 percent of all new AIDS cases in America will be the result of the violation of Leviticus 18:22 and Romans 1:27 (men having sex with men). If he were to become …

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WYSIWGY Almost Sold Out

Next week’s WYSIWYG show is almost sold out, so if you’re planning on going, get your ticket today. There’s a feature story on the show in today’s New York Post, for which I gave the reporter hilarious pull-quotes. But you’ll have to come to the show to hear them because they got cut from the story.

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Men In Black

Last night I attended a Mediabistro publishing industry mixer hosted at the Google headquarters in Chelsea. I usually don’t enjoy those sorts of things too much, there are always clumps of adverstising hotshots in severe black outfits and tiny cruel angular glasses who are compulsively checking their Blackberrys while shaking your hand. But last night’s event was actually pretty decent, …

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