UPDATE: Above: The actual iPhone. Is everybody just sitting out there on white plastic pins and needles, waiting for today’s big product announcement at Macworld? Trembling with unimaginable delight at whatever Steve Jobs is going to unveil? Tapping your credit card nervously on the edge of your keyboard, ready to BUY BUY BUY it, whatever it is? Because You. Must. …

Rock star Bob Mould just hipped me to his latest Net term: wink. Stands for “Wikipedia link”. I like it, I like it. Well done, Bob. Reference the post below, here’s the wink of the day. Related: Don’t miss out on Bob and Rich’s big MLK weekend edition of Blowoff, this Saturday at DC’s 9:30 Club. It’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, …

In a San Francisco Chronicle story about gay men finding their spirituality, amongst the usual raft of platitudes that life in the gay ghetto “sucks”, that gay culture is founded on false “fabulousness” and excessive carnality, the thing that struck me most was a casual mention of the gay hook-up website Lovetastic.com, which requires that members only post pictures of …

A mysterious gas odor has got Manhattan in a panic. Sirens, evacuations, breathless news coverage. The gas is bothering people from downtown to Harlem to Jersey City. We can faintly smell it here on the 26th floor above Grand Central, but we’ve just heard that Rockefeller Center (six blocks away) has been evacuated, and the PATH trains have been shut …

Today I have lived in New York City for one day longer than I lived in San Francisco. Five years, nine months, 14 days. I suppose it’s odd that I’ve tracked the time so closely, but it still feels like I’ve just landed here. I never planned on being in NYC this long. When I left Fort Lauderdale in 1995, …

When you are hurrying to get up to your friend’s apartment before you explode and die from the need to piss, make sure you don’t accidentally take the Shabbat elevator.

Ah, here’s something right up my disco alley. A tribute party to the Paradise Garage’s DJ Larry Levan will take place Sunday, January 21st at Pacha in Hell’s Kitchen. The party benefits Gay Men’s Health Crisis. Martha Wash will perform and the DJs include Danny Krivit of Body & Soul. Tickets are $35 , but only $15 if you still …

(Above: Park Avenue at 60th Street, looking north.) Known since the 1830’s as Fourth Avenue, it was more than 50 years later that this section of the street was renamed Park Avenue, after the railroad tracks were sunk beneath the street. Only a six-block section, from 8th to 14th Streets, is still called Fourth Avenue today.

Thanks to the work of the blogosphere, there has been a thorough debunking of the “gay cure” hysteria that PETA is attempting to stir up (by way of a website, celebrity denouncements, and a sloppy, fact-challenged Sunday Times article that reads as if PETA wrote it themselves.) Back in September 2006, a biologist using the handle Empty Pockets, on the …

Oh, how much better my Xmas would have been if I’d only seen this, which a reader sent yesterday. Seriously, wonderfully disturbing. (NSFW, needs sound.) Again, I love my people.

Grand Central Terminal food court, Thursday 1pm Woman 1: And the way she plays like she’s this supreme cooler-than-everybody New Yorker! Always wearing those severe black outfits. Please. I just want to kill her. Woman 2: Not to mention those dorky giant glasses. And always going on and on about hanging out with some “cool” band nobody’s ever heard of. …

Here’s a recap of some of the 2006 HomoQuotables: Mary Cheney – “Go fuck yourself.” Elton John – “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people.” Ian McKellen – “We’ve got to peddle the lie that we’re all the same so we all buy the same products. That’s why they don’t like openly gay people on …

The old issue of sex in gyms has reared up in San Francisco after the Department of Public Health there observed men having sex in the steam room of Gold’s Gym in the Castro, forcing them to order management to address the situation. In addition, men being screened for syphillis at the SF-DPH have reported sexual encounters in the Gold’s …

Shortly after taking this photo, I stepped to the water’s edge to look at the ducks and swans. A 4-year old little white girl waved as a swan swam over. “Hello Mr. Swan! What up dawg?”

It fascinates me to see where people are reading JMG. Lady Sitemeter tells me that just yesterday I was visited from folks in government (CDC.gov, Senate.gov, NYC.gov) the military (Army.mil, Navy.mil), ad agencies (Publicis, Ogilvy, Mediavest), universities (UCSF, Columbia, NYU), and for some reason, tons of retail and media companies (Macy’s, Viacom, Fox, NBC, Clear Channel). Where do you work? …

Broadway theatres grossed an all-time record $25 million during the week between Xmas and New Year’s, with 15 shows grossing over $1M each, the highest of which was Wicked, with $1.8M, the all-time one week Broadway record for a single house. (Although, thanks to premium ticket prices that push $400-$500, even dreck like Disney’s Tarzan can throw a million-dollar gross.) …

In no particular order, here’s a recap of some of the hottest gay culture topics discussed on JMG in 2006. What was the biggest issue for you? 1. When Is Outing OK? – Four case studies. 2. HIV IS A Gay Disease – Says the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. 3. Mass. Marriage State – Lesbians out-marry gay men 2-1. …

…with the man who says, “My beard is my new dick.”

So while I was up at a conference in Maine, I met a female recent national leather title-holder. International Ms. Cruelty, or something like that. Anyway, she was with her slave, who was a girl, who called her “Daddy”, because the slave was her boy. I. Love. My. People.