All the networks have been breathlessly reporting on “magician” David Blaine’s three-days-upside-down stunt in Central Park. “He could go blind!!! He could get brain damage!!!” However, Gotham’s blogs have been lighting up for the last day with photos of Blaine taking a break every hour to stand on his feet for ten minutes. Check out the gallery at Mollygood’s post: …

There’s a number of new highrise apartment buildings going up on the already cluttered W.42nd Street.

You just can’t top their crazy. PETA has written to Ben & Jerry asking them to start using human breast milk in their ice cream. From their site: Storchen, a (very innovative) restaurant in Switzerland, has just announced that they will be unveiling a new menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent human breast …

UPDATE: From Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director for the Family Equality Council: “Much like Rosie O’Donnell, the announcement that Clay Aiken is gay reinforces a simple reality: the American public can no longer say it Does not know a gay or lesbian parent. Clay Aiken’s desire to raise a child in an open and honest manner will make his life, and …

Via Gawker, a demonstrator protests behind the backs of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chief Ben Bernanke. Headline stolen from a Gawker commenter. And what do you know, the bailout is turning out to be a hard sell. “What they have sent us is not acceptable,” the committee chairman, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, told The Associated …

Sixteen months ago I adopted my beloved Shelley at the wonderful East Harlem ASPCA, so I must mention that this week they are waiving their adoption fees on all adult cats over three years old. Free Cats! For a limited time only, we’re making an offer you can’t refuse. From September 20 to 28, the ASPCA is hosting “Free Over …

In case your level of doom and panic wasn’t high enough, check out Naomi Wolf’s take on Sarah Palin in the Huffington Post. Her shit’s right out of the X-Files. Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. You have to …

It certainly didn’t turn out to be the biggest story of his day, but yesterday PBS ran an interview with John McCain’s gay chief of staff Mark Buse. From the transcript: JUDY WOODRUFF: Just to recap quickly the evolution of your time working for him [John McCain]. You started in 1984 as an intern when he was a member of …

Openly gay New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, 40, has won a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. From the Foundation: Alex Ross is a critic whose writing captures the often-elusive aesthetic and technical aspects of classical and contemporary music with clarity, grace, and wit. A staff writer for the New Yorker, his frequent essays display an expansive knowledge of music and …

As Sarah Palin is in town (despite being disinvited from yesterday’s anti-Iran/pro-Israel rally at the UN), the Daily News dressed up comedian Kristy Webb as a fake Palin and toured her around town. Fake Sarah was mobbed by deceived Gothamites in Times Square, in front of Lehman Brothers, and was even taken by the Stonewall Inn. Photo slideshow here. News …

Almost 25 days since Palin was picked and they still don’t trust her to speak off the cuff. I imagine she’s sitting in a hotel conference room while staffers drill her with flash cards. “Um….is that Kim Jong-il?” No, Governor. This is Angela Merkel. Next card.

With the city’s economy taking a major beating from lost banking taxes (10% of the city’s revenues come from Wall Street), some are suggesting that it’s time to start charging for the Staten Island Ferry again. Currently the city is giving about 20 million “free” rides a year. Taxpayers shelled out a record $5.69 last year for every “free” ride …

My erstwhile hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel, has come out against the Florida ballot amendment to ban gay marriage. The state’s voters will face an array of six questions on the Nov. 4 ballot, the most notable of which is Amendment 2 — the cleverly labeled “Florida Marriage Protection Amendment.” Who wouldn’t want to protect marriage? Trouble is, this amendment …

I must confess that I got a chuckle over this graphic I found in an OUTRAGED Freeper post about Miller beer again sponsoring Folsom Street Fair. You may recall that the Christers got in a major snit last year over the official Folsom poster, which was a leather take on the Last Supper. The poster brouhaha turned into a boycott …

I guess the earlier ads were net only. I really like this one.

Famed director Steven Spielberg and his actress wife Kate Capshaw have followed Brad Pitt onto the straight-celebrities-do-right list. By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other. We’re still waiting …

Central Park’s Tavern On The Green is the second highest grossing restaurant in the United States, serving 500,000 meals last year to the tune of $38M. Originally a sheep barn built in 1870, it became a restaurant in 1934. And since it’s Bette Midler day, I must mention that scene in Stella where she doesn’t want to ruin her estranged …

Courtesy of her promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is Jackpot: The Best Bette, a 19-track collection of Bette Midler’s greatest hits which hits stores and online retailers nationwide today. Rhino’s new career-spanning compilation from the “Divine Miss M” features nineteen tracks including hits and favorites culled from her Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Columbia Records years. The disc also serves up …