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Morning View – Big Apple Store

Here’s the glass cube entrance over the subterranean Apple Store at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, which I go past every single day and will never ever ever shop in, ever.

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3:45PM

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iwantitiwantitiwantit

The “world’s largest plasma” television (103 honkin’ inches!) is on display in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, as part of a promotion by Panasonic. In the crowd, mixed in with the reporters, cameramen, and Panasonic execs, are panting middle-aged couch potatoes like myself. For you, gentle readers, I pushed my way through the salivating thongs to get this almost unobscured shot …

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Hillcrest Hardware

I found this fun 30-second commercial for a gay owned Ace Hardware in San Diego’s Hillcrest gayborhood. I know when I think of power drills, I think of drag queens. Don’t you? Thanks go out to Hillcrest Hardware’s Bruce, for letting me post this.

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Morning View – Atlas At Rockefeller Center

As the sun set behind Rockefeller Center, I took this picture of Atlas, who carries the world on his shoulder as shoppers peruse the Banana Republic nearby. Originally, I wanted this shot to demonstrate how Atlas resembles Mussolini, which created controversy when the sculpture was built in 1937. When I got home, I realized that Atlas’ face was in shadow, …

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Open Thread Thursday

I’m starving on this diet. Feed me with words. What’s delicious?

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Clear Channel Interview

If you want to catch my interview on Pride Radio, you can stream it here. Clear Channel’s lovely Jared informs me that the show will play about 600 times over the next 5 days. Wednesday: 6pm & 10pm.Thursday: 1am, 9am, 5pm.Friday: 1pm, 5pm, 10pm.Saturday: 2am, 11am, 4pm.Sunday: 11am, 3pm, 11pm. Somebody get those folks some content, STAT!

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CNL CEO Tom Hutchinson: Homophobe

As I noted three weeks ago, Florida’s Orange County has made it illegal to deny housing based on sexual orientation. Today comes the news that this move has cost Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty the support of his largest re-election backer, Orlando-based CNL Hotels & Resorts CEO Tom Hutchinson, who emailed Crotty to say he was pulling his support because …

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Where, When, Who

Yesterday, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made public a plan that, among other things, will require NYC nightclubs to purchase and use ID-scanning technology, ostensibly to prevent minors from using counterfeit IDs to gain entrance. Of course, no one is expecting that nightclubs will harvest and sell customer information to marketers. And surely no one is expecting the …

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Girl

Tuesday, 130PM I’m sitting with my friend Ken in the Grand Central lower-level food court enjoying some Chirping Chicken. I think I could eat Chirping Chicken every day. I look over Ken’s shoulder and notice a really hot guy standing in line at Eat-A-Pita. I nudge Ken to turn around. “Oof! Check out that guy.” Ken hardly blinks. “Girl.” “No, …

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Statement Has Santorum On It

Stunning organizers, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) has signed the GenderPAC and Human Rights Campaign’s Diversity Statement, which asks members of Congress to affirm that they will not discriminate in their own hiring based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. Santorum signed after meeting with a member of GenderYOUTH. Since 2003, 170 members of Congress have signed the document, …

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Morning View – Sherry-Netherland Hotel

The Sherry-Netherland Hotel has been standing its Gothic guard over the southeast corner of Central Park since 1927. At 42 stories, it has only 154 rooms and 100 of them are devoted to permanent residents, about whose multi-floor apartments Travel & Leisure devoted a portion of their June 2006 issue, prompting me to walk down and take this picture. In …

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Instant Disco History #8 – Disco Lucy

I’m sorry to do this to you, but history is sometimes ugly. Cheesy and annoyingly catchy, the discofied theme song from I Love Lucy reached #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976. A one-off hit from a group of studio musicans that dubbed themselves Wilton Street Place Band, Disco Lucy was produced by Trevor Lawrence, who recruited Lynda Lawrence …

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Siruis MP3

In case you’ve been tortured because you missed hearing me on Sirius on Friday, here’s an MP3 of my bit. .

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1 Bdrm / 1 Bath = 1 Arm / 1 Leg

Today’s AM New York riffs on the fact that the average apartment in Manhattan now costs over $1000/sq.foot, or an average of $1.3 million, by listing what $1.3 million could get you in other cities. It’s a common device of the NYC newspapers whenever new housing stats come out. Here are the examples AM NY uses today: Boise: 6 bedrooms, …

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HomoQuotable – Armistead Maupin

“Once you start to tell tales about your own life, it’s impossible to keep the artifice out of it. No matter how frank an autobiography may appear to be, it’s still a very carefully contrived contraption. ” – Armistead Maupin, revealing that he may never write a memoir. (via Advocate.com)

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Bloggers Do Downtown

A hastily improvised blogger lunch at Chelsea’s Elmo proved to be a lot of fun. Anything involving Bloody Marys can prove to be a lot of fun. Towards the end of the meal, I was making fun of somebody at another table wearing ginormous reflective aviator glasses. They seem to have replaced those amber-tinted Twilo glasses amongst the still-high-but-at-brunch-anyway disco …

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Sirius OutQ

I had a great time on Siruis today, thanks to OutQ’s charming hosts, Larry Flick, Keith Price, and their producer, The Cynthia. Also, thanks to JMG readers who tuned in! I said a couple of things I probably shouldn’t have, but what else is new? After my on-air bit, Sirius marketing guru Paul kindly gave me a tour of the …

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Hot Dog

I ran across this tug-of-war going on in front of the Met. He was not interested in coming out of the fountain. Do you blame him?

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Bike

Thursday, 7PMI’m in the bike department of Paragon Sports, a block from Union Square. All the bikes on display frighten me. They are oddly-angled and futuristic looking. They look like their riders would require a special outfit. Something spandex. Probably in yellow. Yellow spandex from the future. A tall handsome young clerk approaches me and with a thick Italian accent …

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