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I can help it, but every time I see the Staten Island Ferry I still think of Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. There are nine ferries making the 25-minute trip and it’s the best free ride in the country, bar none.

Armistead Maupin has launched a blog. Interestingly, he mentions wanting to meet Mike Jones, saying, “Hustlers, for my money, do far more good than pastors.” Testify! I sent Mike an email to nudge him to drop by and say hello to Mr. Maupin. You should do the same. I was rereading a bit of Michael Tolliver Lives last night, and …

“I wouldn’t be surprised if she made that African boy into a coat and wore him … for 15 minutes, and then threw it away.” – Morrisey, speaking about Madonna at his concert yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia. (via – Huffington Post.) Should this have been a HomoQuotable?

At his Senate confirmation hearing today, Surgeon General nominee Dr. James Holsinger renounced his previous anti-gay views, saying of his infamous “Pathophysiology of Homosexuals” paper, “The paper does not represent where I am today. It does not represent who I am today,” and that he would never advocate a position contrary to his conscience and that he would resign rather …

Today at 3:30pm EST, I’ll be appearing on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ to chat about the Bob Allen story. Listen here live..

Time Magazine has listed their Top 5 Worst Websites of 2007, so chosen because of cluttered homepages, clunky interfaces, slow loading time, and intrusive advertising. Time’s shitlist: 1. eHarmony2. Evite3. Meez4. MySpace5. Second Life Their Top 50 Best Sites list includes LastFM (love it!), StumbleUpon (meh), Twitter (yawn), YouTube (indispensable) and about 46 other sites I’ve never heard of.

When I was 13, I bought my first 45 rpm single, Paul Simon’s Kodachrome. I can remember excitedly threading the hole in the record over the handlebar of my bike and racing home to dance around my bedroom while Paul Simon’s reedy voice scratched out of my aunt’s old portable player. Of course, back then “portable” record players were about …

It’s too hot for the tourists to take pedicabs, as this row of bored drivers near the entrance of Central Park at Columbus Circle attests.

“I’m not in anyway associated with that they are saying, this is disgusting.” – Florida state representative Bob Allen (R-Merritt Island), shortly after he was arrested for soliciting a male undercover cop for sex in a Titusville park restroom. The busted pol allegedly offered $20 if the cop would let Allen blow him. Because we both went to UCF and …

It appears to be based on DC coffee-house gossip, but the #1 story on Digg right now is a rumor that Dick Cheney is also on the DC Madam’s list of clients. As rumors go, it’s a sweet one. However, I imagine that with PDFs of the phone numbers on the list now widely available, Cheney would have been the …