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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Siruis MP3
In case you’ve been tortured because you missed hearing me on Sirius on Friday, here’s an MP3 of my bit. .
Read More »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, …
Read More »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)
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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?
Read More »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 …
Read More »HomoQuotable – Edmund White
“As I was writing the book, I kept drawing up lists of chapters, and my AIDS was certainly one of them for a long time. And then, I don’t know, I thought I’d put it in the background.” – famed gay author Edmund White, (A Boys Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty) who curiously does not mention his 20-year …
Read More »OutQ On Sirius FM
Tune in Friday at 10AM to hear me on Sirius FM’s gay channel OutQ, on the OutQ In The Morning Show, with host Larry Flick. Non-subscribers can listen online (registration required). Sirius doesn’t time-shift, I’m on at 7AM on the West Coast. I first met Larry Flick back in the early 90’s, at the Billboard Dance Music Summit in San …
Read More »Morning View: Lunchbox Diner
This stainless steel Art Deco diner sits smack on the busy West Side Highway across from the Christopher Street pier in the West Village. There are few of these left in the city, but the remaining ones are lovely.
Read More »Open Thread Thursday
If you could undo one act in your life, one thing that you’ve done, what would it be?.
Read More »JMG Vidcast #1
Don’t Even Think About Dissing G_d
Scotland Yard is considering charging the UK’s Gay Police Association with a “faith crime” (PDF of English faith crime law), in the wake of complaints regarding their ad (below) placed in The Independent’s special Euro-Pride diversity section.The Gay Police Association has issued a lengthy defense of their ad. This is a good example of the slippery slope (groan) that is …
Read More »Meta Time
I noticed over on Gawker (who hasn’t linked to me in like, ages) that a gambling site is taking bets on which blog will be at the top of Technorati’s Most Popular Blogs list on January 1, 2007. Technorati ranks that list by how many other blogs link to a blog, not by total hits or unique visitors or whatever …
Read More »If This Sling Is Rockin’, It’s The Rapture
Times Square, Monday, 7pm Woman (waving bible): I talk to Jee-zus every day, do you? Me: No, but can you tell him he left his cockring in my sling? Woman (lowers bible): His what in your what? Me: That’s what I said to him!
Read More »Libertad Cubano?
A friend called me from Miami last night and held the phone out of his apartment window so that I could hear the wild partying that had erupted on the streets with the news of Fidel Castro’s having (temporarily?) handed power over to his brother, Raul. During my years in South Florida, I was fascinated by the parents and grandparents …
Read More »Random Homo Stat For Today
The chance of any gay man’s dog being named Max or Buddy is 63%. These odds increase dramatically if the dog is a large breed or if said gay man is tattooed, belongs to a gym, or drives a jeep. And if said gay man’s said dog is a black Labrador Retriever, 100% of them will be named Jake.
Read More »Pride, A Steeper Love
Spearheaded by Toronto’s gay pride committee, Canadian LGBT organizations are attempting to trademark the word “pride”, ostensibly “to protect the trademark against for-profit individuals or companies exploiting it in the queer market.” Companies or organizations that wish to use the word “pride” to promote their products or event must pay a fee, assuming the usage is approved. Remember when the …
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