Monthly Archives: July 2008

Curriculum Vitae

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McCain On “Obama Love”

This clip from John McCain’s YouTube channel makes the claim that the media is unfairly “in love” with Barack Obama.

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Fun With Plurals

Aaron and I noticed this on 8th Avenue across from the New York Times building last night.

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The New Old Gays

The New York Observer has posted a fascinating story about the reswishification of gay culture. Project Runway Season 1 contestant Austin Scarlett is New Old Gay, Project Runway Season 4 winner Christian Siriano is New Gay. The Scissor Sisters are New Gay. Rufus Wainwright flirts with being New Old Gay, but he’s really New Gay in a Judy Garland costume. …

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Scandal For John Edwards?

The National Enquirer is sticking to a story it posted last night which claims that NC Sen. John Edwards has been cheating on his ailing-from-cancer wife and has fathered a “love child” with documentarian Reille Hunter. According to the story, on Monday night Enquirer reporters caught Edwards sneaking in and out of Hunter’s hotel room in Los Angeles, causing the …

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Morning View – 200 Central Park South

I love the curvy balconies of 200 Central Park South. Very Miami-meets-Manhattan. The building went up in 1963 and has 300 apartments. The tower portion is 35 stories, but only the 21-story base is curvy like this.

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That Ain’t Right, Nike

Via The Gay Recluse comes word of the latest Nike campaign, which features a series of athletes “humiliated” by having their faces pushed into the crotches of other players. Tag lines on the “That Ain’t Right” campaign include “Your mama won’t let you come home after this. What would she tell the neighbors?” The ad was created by Wieden+Kennedy. Non-consensual …

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Estelle Getty, 84

Gay icon and perhaps the most beloved grandmother character in television history, Estelle “Sophia Petrillo” Getty died this morning at age 84 after suffering through several years of dementia. From her website today: To all of Estelle’s Fans, Sadly, today July 22, 2008 at 5:35 a.m. Pacific Time, we said our last good-byes to our little friend Estelle, who passed …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Fly Life, today we have two Swag Tuesday giveaways – five copies each of the new albums by Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and Estonian newcomer Kerli. Each of our five winners will receive both albums. Spotlight, the first single from Jennifer Hudson’s self-titled album is out already and was well-received by the boys at Pier Dance a few …

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Bunny Hates Chicken

Drag superstar Lady Bunny has joined up with PETA to protest KFC with a giant billboard near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel. Says Bunny: “I’ve joined the PETA gang to send the message that while PETA isn’t insisting that KFC stop serving chicken, it is strongly denouncing grisly procedures like de-beaking the birds while they are alive. EVERYONE I’ve …

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Rebranding The Pigeon

Wired has an idea on what to do about the worst scourge ever on American cities, the pigeon. When you look at a pigeon, you might see a dirty, rat-like bird that fouls anything it touches with feathers or feces, but I see a waste-scavenging, protein-generating biomachine. At a time when rising demand for meat across the globe endangers the …

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DADT Hearing Tomorrow

Fifteen years after it was enacted, tomorrow the House Military Personnel Subcommittee will meet to discuss repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Among those scheduled to testify are U.S. Army Major General Vance Coleman (Ret.), U.S. Navy Captain Joan E. Darrah (Ret.), and former Marine Staff Sgt. Eric F. Alva. “This hearing begins a conversation about the national security impact of …

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The Truman Show Delusion

Two psychiatrists have identified the “signature mental illness” of the YouTube era, people who think they are the star of their own reality show. The five patients Dr. Gold treated were white men between the ages of 25 and 34, the majority of whom held university degrees. “I realized that I was and am the centre, the focus of attention …

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Not Tomatoes, It Was Jalapenos

According to the feds, the recent 43-state outbreak of salmonella was not due to tainted tomatoes after all. It was jalapenos from a single Mexican farm. Thanks to genetic matching techniques, government scientists were able to definitively identify the source. So no fresh salsa for you, for a while.

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Poll: Obama With 46 Pt. Lead Among Gays

Not necessarily surprising, unless you expecting it to be higher. Among LGBT adults, 60 percent favor Obama while 14 percent favor McCain. Three percent of LGBT adults favor Barr, while 1 percent choose Nader. Six percent choose “other,” while 17 percent of all LGBT voters are not yet sure which candidate to support — comparable to the general population. Among …

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OK Pol Brent Rinehart Defends Comic Book

An excerpt via Towleroad: “Well, I’m not even sure as to what homophobic means, but let’s just keep in mind that we are in a cultural war. Not just here in the state of Oklahoma, but nationwide. And I have seen pictures and I have seen viewings of gay pride parades around the nation here and the state of Oklahoma, …

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Cake Wrecks

In a similar vein to yesterday’s FAIL Blog post, my pal and fellow blogger RJ shares Cake Wrecks, a new blog entirely dedicated to bad decisions in cake decorating. I’ll have a head slice, please. It’s full of heady goodness.

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AdAge Critic Blasts Omnicon Ad Agency Head For Homophobic Ads

Advertising Age critic Bob Garfield has published an open letter to Omnicon CEO John Wren, blasting three homophobic ads that have been produced by agencies under the Omnicon umbrella. Dear John, Two years ago, from BBDO, Detroit, came the spot for the macho subcompact Dodge Caliber. It featured a burly tough guy snorting the words “silly little fairy” at a …

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Morning View – Christopher & Hudson

Fairly bland looking for such a hotbed of sodomy and perversion, eh?

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New McCain Ad Blames Barack Obama For Rising Gas Prices

As a YouTube commenter wryly notes, Obama is totally responsible for rising gas prices because he went back in time and made sure that the world of the future would be dependent on a finite resource largely owned by foreign countries. Seriously ladies and germs, where’s all that oil we’re stealing from Iraq?

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