Monthly Archives: August 2008

Working In

Crunch Gym, Lafayette Street, Tuesday 4pm Steroided Meathead: Your hands are on the bar wrong. Put them here and here. Angertwink: If I wanted help from you, I’d buy it from you and then inject it. (Provided by Paul)

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Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, LGBT Ally, Dies Of Aneurysm At Age 58

Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH), a staunch friend of LGBT causes, has died at age 58 of a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm. The 58-year-old Tubbs Jones was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong supporter of LGBT civil rights and a critic of the Iraq war. She was a co-sponsor of H.R. 2015, the …

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Slow Connection

As predicted, internet providers are beginning to throttle the speeds of customers who use big amounts of bandwidth in their viewing habits. While Comcast’s new network management scheme—to slow down heavy bandwidth users’ entire connection—started back in June, we’re just getting some of the grislier details. People hitting their pipe hard—whether it’s watching a boatload of streaming video or FTP …

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Morning View – Chinese Consulate

Protests continue daily at the Chinese Consulate on the West Side Highway at 42th Street, where at night the Free Tibet crowd has been projecting a giant Tibetan flag and other images onto the bare face of the building. After the protesters posted a video of their projection of the Olympic rings turning into handcuffs, the International Olympic Committee lodged …

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Open Thread Thursday

Hip us to some new fun blogs. Yours too.

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McSuper Makes It Legal

Congratulations go out to our dear friends Mark Superdaddy Kane and Tim McSweeney, who slipped off to Provincetown last week and got married after thirteen years of living in sin. While we all feel a tiny bit cheated that we didn’t get to get drunk and cry over exchanged e e cummings poems or whatever, what Mark and Tim did …

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“I Am Not Michael Phelps!”

Via Gawker, a totally not Micheal Phelps but equally goofy tall guy gets mobbed by Chinese who can’t tell the difference. Steve Parry is a BBC commentator who won bronze swimming in the Athens Olympics. He’s very cute about the confusion.

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Signorile Takes On Bill Donahue Over His Mission To Ban Towleroad From DNC

But all Donahue can do is complain about the commenters and those photos of men in their bathing suits. (Which Mike correctly points out are of Olympians.) Parts 2 and 3 of the interview are below.

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Mormons To Plant Hate In 1 Million Yards

The Mormon Church is coordinating a plan to put one million “Yes On 8” signs in Californians’ front yards on September 22nd. Boyd K. Packer, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Magic Underwear, has laid out the plan in a detailed message to the presidents of their klutches, or whatever you call a Mormon diocese. …

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Cazwell – I Seen Beyonce’ At Burger King

And she was eat’n, she was eat’n. Been singing this all morning. Love the New York “n”. What’s that called, linguistically? I missed this clip when it came out last week, but it’s already gotten 400K hits on YouTube. Our dear Father Tony is a hooge fan of gay rapper Cazwell. Who’s the drag queen playing Beyonce?

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Daily Grumble

OK, listen people. I’ve done my best to keep up with all these social networking doodads. I got a MySpace page for the blog. I’m on Linkedin. I’m on LastFM. I even created a Facebook account, even though I can’t figure out what I’m supposed to do with it. But I give up. Not doing Twitter. Not doing Tumblr. Enough! …

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It’s A Cool, Cool Summer

To misquote Bananarama, it’s a cool summer. Other than that miserable but short-lived heatwave last month, NYC has had quite the moderate season. This morning the news noted that we’ve only had 11 days over 90 degrees, but usually average about twice that. Seems like the weather patterns have flattened here for the last couple of years, very little snow, …

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A Message From Mrs. DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres posted this cute message on her site today. Almost a thousand commenters have chimed in with well wishes already.(Via – Towleroad)

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Hairdar

Wednesday, 8:40am, 6 train platform Chick 1: Did you see how he was the only one at the meeting who noticed my bangs? Chick 2: Gay. Chick 1: Oh, totally.

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Obama Attacks McCain On Economy

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This Weekend: NLGJA Convention

This Friday I’ll be heading down to DC for the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s annual convention. I’ll be speaking on a Saturday panel defending my support here for a trans-inclusive ENDA. As panel moderator Michael Triplett pointed out to me, I have “lots of very vocal” readers who didn’t agree with my position, so we’ll be talking about …

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China Ties U.S. In Total Medals

For the first time since 1936, the total Olympic medal count winner may not be the United States or Russia.From the Dallas Morning News: The last time the U.S. failed to win the overall medal count was 1992, when the Unified Team earned 112 to America’s 108. That also was the last year in which the U.S. lost the gold …

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Rachel Maddow Lands MSNBC Show

Openly lesbian journalist Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show from MSNBC. Rachel Maddow has been sounding off about politics on MSNBC so often she might as well have her own show. And now she does. The liberal commentator and Air America host, who has become a breakout star for the cable channel during this campaign, is taking over the …

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David Byrne’s Bike Racks

Art rocker David Byrne has designed nine temporary bike racks which have been installed around town as part of the Summer Streets program I’ve been raving about. The dollar sign is naturally on Wall Street, the high heel is in front of Bergdorf’s, and the reclining woman is in Times Square, although today’s tourists may not get the reference. The …

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Morning View – 42nd & Park

Looking west from the Grand Central Viaduct. Embiggens nicely.

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