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Among the winners of this year’s Ig-Noble Awards, a prize given annually to scientists who used bizarre or unconventional methods to make legitimately useful discoveries, is Dr. Francis Fesmire of Chattanooga, Tennessee, whose cure for the hiccups has been corroborated by a team of Israeli reseachers. Dr. Fesmire’s cure? A slow, probing, circular rectal massage using the index finger. True …

1. Scrotum stubble.2. Simultaneously loathing and pitying self-hating closeted homos.3. Gravy Train and daisies, but not in the same bowl.4. Passing smug silent judgment on intergenerational relationships.5. A perfectly ripe “monogamist”. Here’s some other things to be happy about. We call it “sharing”. It’s a clear, crisp day here in “NYC”. Always be true in your “heart” to your partner/trick/polyamorous …

As a giant “Fuck You!” to those continuing to cry out against scaffolding advertising, Lufthansa drops this billboard-sized adscreen across the building facing the Main Library. The lions are pissed.

Gentle readers, the subject of one of my earliest short stories, my third grade teacher, Mrs. Shireman, has found my story about her here on JMG, through some self-googling. We’ve had a delightful and delighted email exchange, and with her gracious permission, I am reposting the story today, almost 40 years after its setting, rural North Carolina, 1967. Today Mrs. …

The woman on the left was the absolute best find of our Open House New York picture excursion. She was on duty at the Main Library and Father Tony and I almost dropped our cameras in awe and amazement at her elaborate Cyclonesque hair-do. She graciously smiled and twirled while we snapped away. On the right is a pic of …

Decades ago, I used to dream of opening my own gay bar. I had it all planned out in my head. I envisioned a little local saloon, downtown Fort Lauderdale, somewhere on the beachside of the Intracoastal. I had it all mapped out, the floorplan, the decor, the music, the beers on tap. But the one thing I could never …

Midtown has erupted into sirens. A plane has crashed into a high-rise. Appears to be my apartment block. Well, guess I’ll be heading home early today. UPDATE: The building is at 72nd & York, at least 1000 feet from mine. The fire looks quite bad. At this time of day, the only people likely to be home in that building …

You are kind and obedient, my virtual army of lovers. Embiggen the pic for the list of gay blogs most liked by Advocate readers. Many of my own personal favorites are on there: Andrew Sullivan, Towleroad, BlogActive, Keith Boykin, all of which are down there on my blogroll. Thanks very much to our own Foxy for providing the scan. (Post …

A gay Brooklyn man is on life-support with probable permanent brain damage, after being lured to Plumb Beach for sex by four straight young men who contacted him on what police are calling a “popular internet chat line”. Michael Sandy, 29, fled his attackers by running onto the Belt Highway where he was struck by a car, which left the …

Thanks to everybody for all the birthday wishes yesterday. I celebrated by dragging my enfeebled, liver-spotted carcass into bed at 8PM, falling asleep before they even found the body on Law & Order. Celebration was made, however, on Sunday night, on my usual round of beer busts, where multiple shots of Jager were handed to me over the course of …