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The Attack Of The “Barely-Legal” Ho-Bags

While I am well aware that I’m not exactly within their target demo, in the few months I’ve been using MySpace, the site has gone from just slightly interesting, right on over to pretty damn annoying. If you get 10 emails, 8 of them are from “barely-legal girls” who are “personally inviting you to share in their online modeling show”, …

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Monday Affirmation

YOU are an important person. A rare individual. Today’s is Sting’s 55th birthday. And in honor of the rock’s sexiest senior, here’s a song he co-wrote with rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith, Adventures In Success, as part of Goldsmith’s 1983 Will Powers project, Dancing For Mental Health, the “first and only comedy self-help dance record.” That’s Goldsmith’s computer-altered voice on the …

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This Town Comin’ Like A Ghost Town

When will I remember what a waste of time it is to come in to the office on major Jewish holidays? Midtown is deserted. There’s a line-up of about 50 unclaimed cabs in front of Grand Central. It’s spooky, seeing the streets relatively empty like this. Now put down that donut, shouldn’t you be fasting today? I am one of …

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The Novice Contestant

The Powerhouse, San Francisco, 1999 I’m at the Powerhouse for the Mr. Powerhouse Leather contest, whose winner will compete in Mr. San Francisco Leather during the Leather Week buildup to Folsom Street Fair. My buddies Doug and Leif are standing with me on our “perch”, the little raised platform on front of the second floor of the bar, from which …

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Tomorrow: Folsom Bound

Folsom StreetOn the way to Polk and CastroYou don’t find them finerFreedom, freedom is in the air, yeahSearching for what we all treasure : pleasureCycles, cycles in the night shining brightBright neon nights tell a glory storyLeather! Leather! Leather! Leather, baby!Levi’s and T’s are the best now all right Dress the way you please, and put your mind at easeIt’s …

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Less Protesters. More Cops.

One of the neat little features of my click-tracking program is that it tells me how many times a particular link is clicked or how many times a photo has been embiggened. This morning I’m a little amused to see that of the eight photos of yesterday’s Iran/Iraq/Pakistan protest at the UN that I posted, so far 611 of you …

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Bush Closes Down Midtown

Leaders of the world are sitting a few blocks away from me, as George Bush is just about to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. All of Midtown East is locked down. Roads are closed and traffic is gridlocked everywhere. There are thousands of cops in evidence, and I’ve noticed some “businessmen” wearing sunglasses and earpieces as they …

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And They All Meet On Craigslist

An interesting new study from the New York City Health Department revealed that almost 10% of the men who self-identified as straight, also reported having had sex with at least one man in the previous year. Most of those men also reported being married. They were also less likely to have been tested for HIV or to have practiced safe …

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