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I’ve had to put comment moderation on, for the moment, as I’m getting slammed with a couple of hundred spam comments a day for the last few days. Their number has been steadily increasing for the last few weeks. I can’t figure out their purpose, as all of the multiple links in each spam comment appear to be nonworking. Additionally, …

Bah. Nothing like an entire weekend spent curled into a fetal position. I threw my back out at noon on Saturday while leaning across my desk to clean my computer screen. I never wreck my back doing normal back-wrecking things like moving furniture. No, I throw my back out by kicking my neighbor’s Sunday Times out of the way on …

It’s CMJ time again in Manhattan, and last night our crew gathered at Fat Baby on the Lower East Side for a DJ showcase featuring Blowoff (pictured with me, above) and MSTRKRFT. Standout tracks for the evening were two new Rich Morel productions: Pursue (Morel Pink Noise Mix) – I Like It Electric, and Love Story – Madelin Zero + …

From everybody’s favorite gay archaeologist, comes a request that we put in a call or thirty to the anti-gay marriage hotline set up by a group called Protect Marriage Arizona. You’ve all got a phone sitting right there on your desk or under your left asscheek. Pick it up, dial, and voice your opposition. It’s a free call, for YOU. …

My hat is off to Mike Jones, but I worry for his future in Colorado, with so many of the Zombie Army Of God likely plotting his demise in something other than the traditional fiery pit of hell. I can only imagine the volume of death threats that must be pouring in. (photo via Towleroad.) RELATED: Watch Haggard admit hiring …

My buddy Jerry and I hung out backstage with Meat Loaf after last night’s show at Times Square’s Palace Theatre. He’s a very nice guy, charming in person, but almost three hours of one crashing, overwrought Jim Steinman ballad/epic after another was not my cup of tea. That didn’t stop the sold-out venue (average age around 60) from going apeshit, …

When the Foley scandal broke, Fox News was identifying him as a Democrat. So how long before Fox starts referring to Haggard as a Muslim? UPDATE: My boss is peeved that I didn’t credit him with suggesting this post. Oops.

Tom Brokaw interviewed Ted Haggard in 2005: Ted Haggard: I’m not a power broker. I don’t call presidents. I don’t harangue the White House. Tom Brokaw: You don’t have to call him. He calls you. Haggard: I’ll be talking to the White House in another three and a half hours. Brokaw: About what today? Haggard: I don’t know the subject …

“Hi Mike, this is Art. Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply. And I could pick it up really anytime I could get it tomorrow or we could wait till next week sometime and so I also wanted to get your address.” – Disgraced right-wing evangelical Ted Arthur Haggard, …

You know that your sack action has seriously declined when you find yourself standing in the local gay sundries retailer, staring at a giant display, and realizing that you no longer know which brand of lube you usually buy. Tragic. At least I still know which beer I drink.