Monthly Archives: August 2007

Morning View – Hans Christian Anderson

During the summertime, Central Park’s Hans Christian Anderson statue is the location for authors reading live from new original works.

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Storage Firm Shakes Up Pro-Lifers

Over the last year, I’ve written a couple of times about Manhattan Mini-Storage’s billboard campaigns, which comment amusingly on a broad range of social and pop culture issues, ranging from the government’s wiretapping to Paris Hilton and the Queer Eye guys. Their latest series, which started a few months ago, is beginning to cause a lot of upset among pro-lifers, …

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MoveOn.Org: Dick Cheney Was Right

Left-wing activists MoveOn.org are circulating this 1994 Dick Cheney interview in which he correctly predicts the quagmire of a potential invasion of Iraq. Listen to our prescient VP play Nostradamus, predicting exactly what DID happen.

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Morning View – 777 Third Avenue

The only reason I include such a blah-looking building as 777 Third in the Morning View series is because it is the home of Grey Group, the massive advertising agency conglomerate. Mediacom Worldwide, one of Grey’s buying agencies, is also at 777 Third.

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Open Thread Thursday

A couple of weeks ago I read a funny new novel, Paul Schmidtberger’s Design Flaws Of The Human Condition, in which, Ken, the gay lead character, and his partner of several years receive separate invitations for a friend’s wedding. Incensed, Ken devised this response: He zipped out the door and bought a beautiful long oval copper-plated fish poaching dish from …

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HomoQuotable – Steve Schalchlin

“Gay people who are raised in a religious environment, a conservative religious environment are basically told, ‘You’re not good enough / you don’t belong here / you need to change / you need to be something else.’ And so, in a lot of our lives, we end up leaving the church and hating God or hating Religion or hating the …

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Daily Show On Visible Vote

I’m kinda heavy on the videos today, but I cannot resist sharing last night’s Daily Show take on last week’s Visible Vote ’08 forum. Remember last year when I asked who was gay America’s best straight ally? Yup, still Jon Stewart.

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Karma Kameelians

Local Buddhists went to Chinatown and purchased $7000 worth of live eels, turtles, and frogs and then set them free in the Passaic River – in the hopes of improving their karma. The New Jersey EPA will be rebalancing their karmic windfall with a $1000 fine for releasing non-native species into an open environment. Existence is suffering. For idiots, especially …

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Clinton: You Are Invisible To The President

Hillary Clinton launched her first television commercial this week, in which she declares that soldiers, single moms, and the uninsured are “invisible” to the president. The White House immediately issued a strong criticism, calling Clinton’s ad “absurd”, “outrageous” and “unconscionable.” Clinton turned around and put their complaints right up on her campaign site. Good for her.

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My Back Was Gotten

I know I should thank a lot of you folks for rushing over to Baptists For Brownback yesterday to defend me on their demand that I be arrested and JMG deleted. But you do know that the site is satire, right? Right? Their post is pushing 600 comments now and the authors are keeping the joke running. I’d be exhausted …

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BearForce1

About 50 of y’all sent me this fun video yesterday. Here’s “the world’s first bearband”, BearForce1, giving a Stars On 45 approach to a dozen or so HI-NRG ’80s hits. I hear Amanda Lear, Donna Summer, Mel & Kim, Sabrina, Yaz, Sylvester, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Fun Fun, Dead Or Alive, maybe a couple of other things. Three of them …

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Morning View – Time Travel

This sign went up on Friday, in front of Trump Palace on Third Avenue. Remind me not to use East 68th Street in case I decide to go back in time. To May. Go DOT!

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Hairpiece Prayer Watch

Washington DC, Sunday afternoon For unknown reasons, Chuck Norris’ exercise infomercial is playing on the TV in our hotel room. Jerry: Ugh, I can’t believe I used to think he was hot.JMG: I don’t think I ever did, but especially not now that he’s a right-wing nutjob. He writes a column on some Christianist website. It’s mostly about Jeebus. And …

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Giuliani Wing-Nut Makeover Continues

Failing to reciprocate the love offered last week by Newsday’s bizarre declaration that Rudy Giuliani is the presidential candidate with the best track record on gay rights, “America’s Mayor” is now backing away from his previous support for gay civil unions. Now, campaign staffers are telling the Boston Globe that Giuliani feels New Hampshire’s civil union law “goes too far” …

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Swag Tuesday

This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is two tickets to this season’s Broadway smash, Xanadu, which has won rave reviews from all corners: the New York Times, Variety, and the New Yorker, which gushes, “The Most Fun You’ll Have On Broadway! Ridiculously Brilliant, Lavish and Sublime!” (Also gushing: me.) Written by Tony-nominated Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed) and featuring …

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Ad Shilling To Die For

You may recall Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played the gay mafioso Vito Spatafore on HBO’s The Sopranos. When Vito was discovered to be gay, the other mobsters beat him to death while sodomizing him with a pool cue. Now that the show is over, Gannascoli is capitalizing on his character’s Louima-esque demise by teaming up with Rockwell Billiards to promote …

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Move Over, Betty Bowers

You have been outdone..

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Morning View – Lipstick Building

At 53rd & Third, the 34-story Phillip Johnson co-designed Lipstick Building went up in 1986. Built to resemble a tube of red lipstick (I see brown, but whatevs) the tower is home to the headquarters of the massive international law firm, Latham & Watkins. The Lipstick is my favorite Phillip Johnson building in Manhattan. His Seagram Building (co-designed with Ludwig …

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Gotham Dims: Brooke Astor Dead At 105

The flags at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are flying at half-mast today. Brooke Astor has died at age 105, taking with her, perhaps, the final bit of New York City’s so-called Gilded Age of elegance and privilege. Known for the last four decades as the “leading lady” of high society, the unofficial First Lady of NYC, Ms. Astor used …

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San Diego FD Changes Parade Rules

The San Diego Fire Department has changed its policy regarding firefighters and parades. In the future, on-duty firemen will no longer be required to drive in any parade. All future parade participation will be on a volunteer basis and four hours of overtime will be paid to those that volunteer. The right-wing Christian law firm representing the firemen who claim …

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