Monthly Archives: October 2007

Broadway Friday

–Deborah Kerr, star of Broadway and films, died yesterday in Suffolk, England at age 86. Kerr made her Broadway debut in 1953’s Tea and Sympathy in which she spoke the most famous line of her career: “Years from now when you talk about this — and you will — be kind.” Kerr was nominated for six Oscars and received an …

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Flash Shopping

For their latest stunt, over 100 male “agents” of Improv Everywhere gathered in Central Park last week before descending shirtless on the Fifth Avenue flagship Abercrombie & Fitch store to test the reaction of store employees and shoppers. The store features numerous oversized photos of shirtless men and often has a shirtless model wandering around the store, but after a …

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Joan Rivers At Cutting Room

Last night Dr. Jeff, George, Damian, and I attended Joan Rivers’ workshop at Chris Noth’s Cutting Room, where she tried out some new material on a packed house. As usual, no topic or group is safe from Joan’s jokes as she riffed on gays, Jews, 9/11 widows, PWA’s, stroke victims, her plastic surgeries and the usual plethora of celebrities. We …

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Sex & Money Scandal At ORU

Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University, has requested a leave of absence as allegations from all corners continue to roil his administration. Roberts’ wife Lindsey is said to have spent the night in an ORU guest house with an underaged male on nine occasions. She has also been photographed with an underaged male in her sports car 29 times. …

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Morning View – Times Square Station

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Open Thread Thursday

It’s a given that Larry Craig / restroom stalls will be the #1 topical costume this Halloween. What else will be big? Bald Britney? Crying Chris Crocker? Miss Teen South Carolina? What will you be this year? I’m thinking: Charles Nelson Reilly. Gotta find the right ascot. Here’s some tips on your Larry Craig costume, via The Hill: •Sport a …

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OMG Brains!

Just in time for Halloween comes a zombie parody of Kelly’s Shoes, still the best thing to ever come out of YouTube. “What’d you expect, intest-tynes?” Love it.

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Dubya Speaks Of World War III

Yesterday Russian president Putin warned against outside military interference in Iran’s nuclear program. In response, today our ignoble leader ratcheted up the war-with-Iran rhetoric, saying, “If Iran had a nuclear weapon, it’d be a dangerous threat to world peace. So I told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested …

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The Castro Is CLOSED For Halloween

In an effort to avoid a repeat of last year’s lawlessness and gang-related violence, a concerted public relations effort is underway to let the public know that the Castro will be closed for Halloween. Will this work? The city has previously attempted to end Halloween in the Castro, most notably with a failed counter-event at Civic Center Plaza, but every …

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Staph Bigger Killer Than AIDS

New data from the CDC reveals that more Americans die annually from complications of drug-resistant staph infections than from AIDS. A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday. …

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Ellen’s Puppy Breakdown

Much ink has flowed since yesterday’s Ellen Degeneres show in which she broke down and sobbed for the first five minutes of the show. Ellen had overlooked the “must keep” proviso of her shelter puppy adoption agreement and when she gifted the puppy to the children of an employee, the shelter repossessed the dog. I happened to catch the show …

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Larry Craig: I Don’t Approve Of The Lifestyle

I watched Sen. Craig’s interview with Matt Lauer last night, watching Lauer lob softball after softball and through Craig’s denials, I just sat there thinking “Gayface, gayface, gayface.” I’m terrible. Here’s the complete transcript of the interview. From Tom Shales in the WaPo: One thing, at least, was made painfully clear by Matt Lauer’s interview with Sen. Larry Craig on …

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Voice Choice

From the Village Voice’s Best Of NYC 2007: Best Place For Gay Men Of A Certain Bent To Smoke, Cruise, And Maybe Even Get Their Wescos Polished – The Eagle Despite AIDS, changing fashions in sex and sexuality, and the West Side real-estate boom that continues to devastate area nightlife, crowds of he-men still flock to New York’s sole serious …

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Good Work Wednesday

SF: PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) hosts their 20th Annual Celebration tonight, October 17th, at the Federal Reserve Building. “The evening will include a sit down dinner for 400, entertainment, a special Founder’s Award presentation, a full-color program with a detailed narrative of the PAWS story, a live auction with select high-end packages to be auctioned off by San Francisco’s …

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A Killer Wedding

Two men convicted of killing are being allowed to marry in a Canadian prison. (Montreal, Quebec) Two men in federal prison in Quebec will marry later this month in the first same-sex marriage at the Cowansville Penitentiary. David Bedard, 22, is serving a 10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. Sony Martin, 26, serving a life term for second-degree murder. The two …

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HomoQuotable – Kate Kendell

“The removal of protection for transgender people, in addition to allowing continued discrimination against transgender people, would open the door to the court’s weakening of statutory protections under ENDA for all members of the LGBT community. Over the past two decades, many federal courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have adopted astoundingly narrow constructions of anti-discrimination statutes. We would be foolish—and irresponsible—to …

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Swag Tuesday

This week’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is the soundtrack to RuPaul’s new movie, Starrbooty, due out on DVD on October 30th. I caught a screening of Starrbooty back in June, just before the movie opened at NYC’s Newfest and the music was killer. There don’t appear to be plans to release the physical soundtrack separately at this point (although it is …

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Powerless

59th Street, 9am…..Woman 1: So I just looked her in the face and said “Fuuuuuck You!”Woman 2: Wow! Then what happened?Woman 1: She just shrugged and walked away. Sad.Woman 2: Yeah. “Fuck you” just has no power in this town anymore.Woman 1: Yeah, sad.Woman 2: Yeah..

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Remembering The Party

I’ve started this post several times over since I got back from last week’s Trocadero Transfer 30th anniversary Remember The Party event in San Francisco. I usually get my event reviews up pretty quickly, but not this time. Part of the delay was due to difficulties in getting the video below uploaded from my camera, but I think that a …

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Manhattan Monday

– DRV-IN, a one-car “drive-in” movie theatre has opened on the Lower East Side. For $75, you and your pals can sit in a 1965 Falcon convertible while films are projected on a pull-down screen. Three shows a day, concession stand available, reservations required. The theatre is sold out for days in advance. $75 to sit in a car and …

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