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New York City fired first in the latest round of the nanny-state oneupsmanship wars, banning trans-fats in its restaurants. California responded with the proposed calories-on-the-menu rule, seen a couple of posts below this one. Not to be upstaged, NYC is now pitching a “No iPods or cellphones in the intersection” rule, citing a spate of pedestrians mowed down because they …

I don’t belong to the website Bear411 but many of my friends do. The site bills itself as the “top bear website” and boasts over 100,000 members. Over the years, I’ve heard from a few of my friends that they have had difficulty getting a membership to the site, presumably because they don’t meet the bear “standard”, namely that they …

State Senator Carole Migden (D-SF), a potential San Francisco mayoral candidate, has proposed a bill which will require all chain restaurants, even those with only one California location, to post the caloric count for their food items in “plain view” on menus or menu boards. I’ve seen these sort of posters in McDonald’s and Burger King, usually hidden behind a …

-Via Daily Kos. .

Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual. And in other news, I love pussy. “Completely.”.

This weekend I was hipped to the latest YouTube phenom, Mr.Deity, a series of hilarious film shorts that skewer Christian dogma, starring a nelly, distracted Mr.Deity as director of the universe and his Smithers-ish assistant, Larry. And check out the super-hot faux-hawked Jesus that appears in Episode 2. .

I live to the right of the #1. But the real reason for this post is that some dude has created a downloadable NYC subway map for your iPod. Get it here..

Back in the ’80s, I used to call my roommate “the keeper of my tricks”, because I seemed to have a hard time remembering the guys I was meeting. I’d point out some hot guy to my roommate and he’d say, “Oh, him. You already did him. He’s from Boston. Nice guy. Has a convertible.” Oops. Those days are long …

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Osama bin Ladin, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has officially become a 2008 presidential candidate. Giuliani, one of the most reviled public servants in New York City history (no mean feat), became an almost mythic national figure in the aftermath of 9/11 as he skillfully posed on steel rubble and mastered the …

“Jesus is starting to put me back together. I have spent so much time in repentance, brokenness, hurt and sorrow for the things I’ve done and the negative impact my actions have had on others.” – Ted Haggard, in an email accidentally sent to a Colorado radio station, in which he announces that he and his wife have decided to …

I had a rather strange encounter at the Eagle last night. I was wearing the Piggly Wiggly t-shirt that my buddy Little Tom bought me when he visited San Francisco for Mac World last month. Tom and I were leaning on the pool table under the big screen playing the Super Bowl when a guy a pointed at me and …

The Saint At Large has YouTube’d a bit of the movie starring transexual porn star Buck Angel (NSFW), filmed for last year’s Schwartzwald-themed Black Party, which I fake live-blogged afterwards. The music is Brainbug’s ominous trance classic, Nightmare. This year’s Black Party is March 24th. Tickets go on sale February 16th.

The temp is 8 degrees with a wind chill of -10, and I am telling you I’m not going back to gloves now that I’ve realized how much better mittens are. And could I look more like a chubby fireplug? Sigh. .

The best commercial during the Super Bowl came from Coca-Cola. The crowd I was watching with roared when an apparently gay guy (wearing a pink shirt with a sweater knotted around his neck) was pulled from his red convertible so that the main character could give him a Coke. I thought it was cute. The “gay kiss” Snickers ad didn’t …

A fake living room set up to promote Bravo’s Top Design attracted a couple of transit workers to take a break on the platform of the S train, underneath 42nd Street.

The Washington State Supreme Court recently ruled that the state could prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying because the state has a legitimate interest in preserving marriage for procreation. In a clever response, gay marriage activists have filed a state initiative that will allow only couples capable of having kids to marry, and require that they file “proof of …

I was all set to write a post encouraging attendance at The Big Voice, the critically-raved off-Broadway musical about, written by and starring two gay men in a 22-year relationship. This is the slow time of year for theatre attendance and when the shows with less than packed houses tend to fold. Then I got the following press release: An …

Belinda Carlisle dazzles at in-store appearance. – Boy Culture Prediction: Bears, by a hair. Ahem. – The Cup Of JoeMeth-related ER visits drop by 30% in SF. – Michael PetrelisOpenly gay high school quarterback dies in car crash. – ESPNActivists object to Tuscon TV expose’ on park cruising. – Box Turtle Bulletin.

I still thought it was the Baltimore Colts.