Monthly Archives: February 2008

Funplex!

The B-52’s are streaming Funplex, the first single from their album of the same name, over on their MySpace page. The single is now available on iTunes, the album drops on March 25th. This is the first new album for the B’s in sixteen years. Did I ever mention that I got evicted from my first apartment in 1979 thanks …

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Hillary: Barack Is Change You Can Xerox

Hillary Clinton drew boos at last night’s Democratic debate when she again dissed Barack Obama for plagiarism, saying he represented “change you can Xerox.” Obama turned the boos into applause when he countered, “What we shouldn’t be spending time doing is tearing each other down. We should be spending time lifting the country up.” After making a thinly veiled reference …

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Morning View – Snow Day

Gotham is being socked with its first decent snow storm of the winter. Other than a couple of dustings, today’s 5-7 inches has been all we’ve gotten. In fact, January set a record for being the first time in something like 75 years that no snow had fallen during the month. If you’re flying today, it sucks to be you. …

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Day Of Silence For Lawrence King

Via MTV News: A series of candlelight vigils have been held throughout the U.S. in the wake of the student’s death (an estimated 1,000 people marched in Oxnard the weekend following the murder), in an effort to raise awareness of what many feel was a largely underreported case. MTV News attended one such vigil on Friday night, just outside of …

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Gay Porn Star Ryan Idol
Named In Charity Scandal

Scandal has erupted around yet another gay porn star. John Katopodis, 61, former member of the city council of Birmingham, Alabama and “close friend” of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford (D), is being investigated by federal prosecutors for allegedly misusing over $1M in funds from a charity Langford created to provide computers to needy children. Katopodis is suspected of using the …

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JMG Commenters Explained

(Via – Slog.)

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The History Of Gay Bars In NYC

Via Good As You, gay culture/history buffs will enjoy a blog called History of Gay Bars In New York City, where the author exhaustively unearths book excerpts and news reports of Gotham’s gay scene going from back to the turn of the 20th century until today. Unsurprisingly, most of the stories hinge on mafia ownership and crimes involving the clubs. …

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And For Much Needed Comic Relief….

Via Fleshbot, the Gene Simmons sex tape. (NSFW!) The best part is that the blood-spewing evil rock god gets his groove on to Foreigner’s I Wanna Know What Love Is. That kills me. That and how Silicone Barbie shows about as much enthusiasm as a blow-up doll.

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McCain Denies It All

About McCain’s alleged cozy relationship with lobbyist hottie Vicki Iseman: Sen. John McCain on Thursday denied assertions published in The New York Times that he once had a close relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients had business before his Senate committee. “I’m disappointed in The New York Times piece. It’s not true,” he told reporters in Toledo, Ohio, his …

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Freepers Really Hate McCain

It’s a telling sign of how much the right-wing dislikes McCain when over 40% of the Freepers say they won’t vote for him as the Republican nominee. The dark green portions of the results indicate Free Republic members, the light blue represents non-members.

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Teamsters To Endorse Obama

A bolster from Obama’s weakest link, blue collar workers: In a surprising boost for Senator Barack Obama, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will announce this afternoon that it is endorsing him, a top union leader said. With the Teamsters’ move, labor leaders said, Change to Win, a five-million-member coalition of unions that broke away from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., will likely vote …

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HomoQuotable – Leland Traiman

“Many lesbian/gay organizations claim that state-enacted same-sex marriage is ‘marriage equality’ even though it has no federal marriage rights. They claim that a federal civil union policy, which would include these rights, would not be ‘marriage equality’ because it would not contain the word ‘marriage.’ This places rhetoric over reality. The opposite is true: federal civil unions would be marriage …

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Even Bill

“If she wins in Texas and Ohio, I think she’ll be the nominee. If you don’t deliver for her, I don’t think she can be.” – Bill Clinton, speaking to Hillary supporters in Beaumont, Texas.

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Open Thread Thursday

How old were you when you came out or were outed to your parents?

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Michelle Obama Steps In It

Michelle Obama raised the ire of conservatives on Monday when she said, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.” Hmm, not the best choice of words for a potential First Lady. Right-wing blog Newsbusters responds: Doesn’t …

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Saturday: Blowoff NYC

In case you haven’t noticed it in my ad column, the next NYC edition of Blowoff is this Saturday at the swanky Highline Ballroom. Man, I’m jonesing for some hot tuneage from Mssrs Mould & Morel. At the last Blowoff, the club kind of got overwhelmed by the attendance and the line on West 16th Street stretched down to 9th …

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HomoQuotable – Rupert Everett

“I think all these pride marches have lost their centre slightly. If you encountered them in the beginning of the 1980s when the gay community was really in crisis with its back against the wall, they were very highly charged events about survival and trying to define ourselves and keep our heads up. “Now, because of all the fighting that …

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Gay Rights Cause Earthquakes!

“A cost-effective way of averting earthquake damage would be to stop passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the State of Israel, which anyways causes earthquakes.” – Shlomo Benizri, of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party, speaking in a Knesset debate on earthquake preparedness. Israel’s LGBT Association responded: “It is sad that a religious MK [Member of Knesset] in Israel …

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Stealing Your Thunder

It’s not just politicians who are plagiarizing these days. These identity thieves don’t want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and your cool taste in music. Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social-networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems. “Dude …

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Angry Parents Jam School Meeting To Demand Answers On King Shooting

The murder of Lawrence King brought hordes of angry parents to his middle school yesterday. Hundreds of parents filled an Oxnard gymnasium Tuesday night to ask hard questions about why school officials didn’t intervene more aggressively in an escalating feud between two students, which ended last week with the shooting death of 15-year-old student Lawrence King. In orderly fashion, one …

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