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Let’s start the week out with a self-satisfied snicker, via political troubadour Roy Zimmerman. Wait for the super-clever line around 2:30, I laughed so loud I kicked my speaker plugs out. Seriously, I’ve been laughing like Mutley all morning. And thanks very much to the faithful reader who sent this in. UPDATE: Check out Roy Zimmerman’s other, equally hysterical songs, …

Sunday, 11pm, Christopher Street, West Village I’m on my cellphone, leaning against a tree. A handsome young man comes running up the sidewalk at me. His jerky gait on the broken cement suggests he’s trying not to break his mother’s back. Or maybe trying TO break it, I can’t tell. He’s shouting something, but I can’t make it out with …

OK, so there’s no such place as “Central Park East”, I don’t think, but it seems like an appropriate name for this view across Conservatory Water, where adult screwballs entertain kids with their tiny remote-controlled motorized yachts. I fondly recall the time some guy (who was all hopped up on goofballs or some shit) leaped into the water and started …

Saturday, 1am, 2nd Avenue, East VillageStoned Dude 1(pointing): You wanna eat there? Stoned Dude 2: Thailand Cafe? What kinda food do they have? SD1: Um, Thai food, dude. SD 2: Like what? SD 1: Dude! Like noodles and shrimp. That kinda shit. SD 2: Fuck that. I don’t like Chinese..

You might remember Manhattan Mini Storage’s Queer Eye(ish) campaign, mentioned here last year. I love the new campaign too, Mike at Manhattan Chowder has more examples.

This month’s issue of The Atlantic features a fascinating article on gay life in Saudi Arabia. The author, Nadya Labi, investigates and contrasts the historical acceptance of gay behavior in Arabic nations versus the emerging concept of gay identity, and how the two are colliding in the increasingly Westernized Arabic world. In Saudi Arabia, sodomy is punishable by death. Though …

It’s been a good week for the movement. -The ACLU claimed a victory in Okeechobee, Florida, a small town near the northern edge of the Everglades, where their federal lawsuit forced Okeechobee High School to recognize the Gay-Straight Student Alliance. The school had banned the group as a “sex-based club”, saying it violated their abstinence-only policy. -New Hampshire’s state house …

And moving to News Of The Deranged, Tom Cruise is coming to Manhattan next week to host a $100,000 per table fundraiser to benefit a Scientology “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project”, which claims to be able to detoxify cops, firefighters and rescue workers who were exposed to poisons during the World Trade Center rescue. Crazy, right? Even crazier, this …