Last weekend, my houseguest was my former boss, Jerry Suarez, his visit coincidentally beginning just a couple of days after I’d blogged about him in my post regarding the New York Times article about the AIDS Quilt. Jerry has been associated with the Quilt for almost 20 years now, starting in Miami as a panel maker for his father and …

Here’s the AP wire story. Unbelievable.

Christian rightwingers have set up ObamaNation.com to attack Sen. Barack Obama’s views on gay rights and abortion. The director of the group, Pastor Clenard H. Childress, Jr, says, “60 percent of all new AIDS cases in America will be the result of the violation of Leviticus 18:22 and Romans 1:27 (men having sex with men). If he were to become …

Next week’s WYSIWYG show is almost sold out, so if you’re planning on going, get your ticket today. There’s a feature story on the show in today’s New York Post, for which I gave the reporter hilarious pull-quotes. But you’ll have to come to the show to hear them because they got cut from the story.

Last night I attended a Mediabistro publishing industry mixer hosted at the Google headquarters in Chelsea. I usually don’t enjoy those sorts of things too much, there are always clumps of adverstising hotshots in severe black outfits and tiny cruel angular glasses who are compulsively checking their Blackberrys while shaking your hand. But last night’s event was actually pretty decent, …

What are you driving?.

New York City fired first in the latest round of the nanny-state oneupsmanship wars, banning trans-fats in its restaurants. California responded with the proposed calories-on-the-menu rule, seen a couple of posts below this one. Not to be upstaged, NYC is now pitching a “No iPods or cellphones in the intersection” rule, citing a spate of pedestrians mowed down because they …

I don’t belong to the website Bear411 but many of my friends do. The site bills itself as the “top bear website” and boasts over 100,000 members. Over the years, I’ve heard from a few of my friends that they have had difficulty getting a membership to the site, presumably because they don’t meet the bear “standard”, namely that they …

State Senator Carole Migden (D-SF), a potential San Francisco mayoral candidate, has proposed a bill which will require all chain restaurants, even those with only one California location, to post the caloric count for their food items in “plain view” on menus or menu boards. I’ve seen these sort of posters in McDonald’s and Burger King, usually hidden behind a …

-Via Daily Kos. .

Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual. And in other news, I love pussy. “Completely.”.

This weekend I was hipped to the latest YouTube phenom, Mr.Deity, a series of hilarious film shorts that skewer Christian dogma, starring a nelly, distracted Mr.Deity as director of the universe and his Smithers-ish assistant, Larry. And check out the super-hot faux-hawked Jesus that appears in Episode 2. .

I live to the right of the #1. But the real reason for this post is that some dude has created a downloadable NYC subway map for your iPod. Get it here..

Back in the ’80s, I used to call my roommate “the keeper of my tricks”, because I seemed to have a hard time remembering the guys I was meeting. I’d point out some hot guy to my roommate and he’d say, “Oh, him. You already did him. He’s from Boston. Nice guy. Has a convertible.” Oops. Those days are long …

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Osama bin Ladin, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has officially become a 2008 presidential candidate. Giuliani, one of the most reviled public servants in New York City history (no mean feat), became an almost mythic national figure in the aftermath of 9/11 as he skillfully posed on steel rubble and mastered the …

“Jesus is starting to put me back together. I have spent so much time in repentance, brokenness, hurt and sorrow for the things I’ve done and the negative impact my actions have had on others.” – Ted Haggard, in an email accidentally sent to a Colorado radio station, in which he announces that he and his wife have decided to …

I had a rather strange encounter at the Eagle last night. I was wearing the Piggly Wiggly t-shirt that my buddy Little Tom bought me when he visited San Francisco for Mac World last month. Tom and I were leaning on the pool table under the big screen playing the Super Bowl when a guy a pointed at me and …

The Saint At Large has YouTube’d a bit of the movie starring transexual porn star Buck Angel (NSFW), filmed for last year’s Schwartzwald-themed Black Party, which I fake live-blogged afterwards. The music is Brainbug’s ominous trance classic, Nightmare. This year’s Black Party is March 24th. Tickets go on sale February 16th.

The temp is 8 degrees with a wind chill of -10, and I am telling you I’m not going back to gloves now that I’ve realized how much better mittens are. And could I look more like a chubby fireplug? Sigh. .

The best commercial during the Super Bowl came from Coca-Cola. The crowd I was watching with roared when an apparently gay guy (wearing a pink shirt with a sweater knotted around his neck) was pulled from his red convertible so that the main character could give him a Coke. I thought it was cute. The “gay kiss” Snickers ad didn’t …