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OK, so I screwed up last night and commented an hour too early on Facebook about Mystique’s elimination on RuPaul’s Drag Race, much to the howls of protest from a few folks on the west coast who were still watching the show. Definitely my bad. But I also got yelled at by people who DVR’d the show with plans to …

Why must TV’s talking heads insist on saying “on the ground” when they just mean “there.” Stop that right now. That’s all I got.

Want proof that there’s no such thing as karma? New Yorkers Richard and Mary Morrison owe the state $950,000 because of a scam committed via a string of homeless shelters they operated, reportedly giving themselves “big bonuses” and committing other “financial chicaneries” over many years. The state pulled their non-profit status and assessed years of taxes on the donations made …

A dozen or so times this week, wingnut lackeys have attempted to friend me on Facebook, thinking that I won’t just look at their friend list and see their connections to Tony Perkins, “Bishop” Harry Jackson, Matt Barber, etc. Dumbasses. Even though my Facebook page has tons of strangers on it, it’s very rare that I get a request from …

The horrible shrieking noise that startled most of Manhattan last night was the sound of tens of thousands of gay men when Time-Warner Cable’s Fox signal fucking froze during the last fifteen minutes of the season finale of GLEE. This was at least second time that’s happened during GLEE. TWC is clearly anti-gay. Or at least, anti-show queen.

Is it just me or has Gmail just given up on spam blocking? A year ago I’d get one or two a week, max. Lately, it’s 20 or 30 a day. Annoyed!

On Saturday I met somebody who had never heard of the cassingle. That’s all I got.

Realizing that complaining about one’s cable provider is as fruitless as complaining about the weather, I still must vent about Time-Warner’s “paperless” billing system. In addition to providing your 87 digit account number, to pay online one must also enter a “customer code,” which, hello, is only available on the paper bills. And of course, to get your customer code …

Oh, joy. Look what came in the mail today. That’ll put a funk on the last few days of one’s forties.

Yesterday was World Vegetarian Day and we missed it. And here I’d planned a delicious banquet of adorable bunnies, kittens, and endangered turtles. Dammit!

As I mentioned yesterday, the streets of Manhattan’s East Side are completely gridlocked this week due to the UN General Assembly. Notices of street closures have been posted everywhere for weeks, but that doesn’t matter to the heavily botoxed woman who at this writing is completely blocking all three lanes of Second Avenue with her SUV “until someone in real …

Times Square, Sunday, 1PM So I’m standing there enjoying Broadway On Broadway when a teenage girl gives me a double-take, smiles, and says, “Oh, hi! Do you mind if I take your picture?” I’m thinking she doesn’t seem like your typical JMG reader, but I’m flattered, of course, and say, “Sure!” After the photo, she says, “Thanks so much! My …

So the super and a couple of workmen are in my kitchen this morning measuring for a new floor. Apartment door: open. I look over from my desk and catch a glimpse of Shelley out in the hallway. Shit. I make an awkward jump over the workers just in time to see her dashing up the stairs. I pursue. Fourth …

If you’re a stand-up comedian opening for Donna Summer in front of 10,000+ New Yorkers, you probably shouldn’t start with jokes about plane crashes. Seriously. When the guy started in on Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot of the “miracle on the Hudson,” things got really (but hilariously), ugly, with Brooklynese chants of “Get off da fuhkin’ stage!” washing across the crowd. …

Seriously, Lincoln Center? Preservationists who have voiced concern over the changes being made to Lincoln Center in its redevelopment may be alarmed to learn about one in particular: The centerpiece of the performing arts complex, its plaza fountain, is not only being replaced, but its water effects are now being “choreographed” as well. The firm doing it is also responsible …

“Bullshit! God has horns.” Silliest. Episode. Ever. What happened to the Fellowship of the Sun story? And there’s a Queen of Louisiana? Points for Hoyt’s mama’s hilarious freak-out. Otherwise…

This week New York City did another 24-hour crackdown on using cell phones while driving, issuing over 7000 tickets in one day, more than ten times the daily average, netting the city about $1M in fines. The tickets are $120 each, but $200 for cab drivers. The funny thing about this ticket blitz is that every New Yorker knows that …

I accidentally left my computer speakers turned on last night. Sometime around 5am I was awakened by a loud musical chime announcing the automatic download of an update of some sort. So I got out of bed and answered the door. My door buzzer sounds like a cat being strangled, so I have no idea what I was thinking. You’ve …

So last night the New York Philharmonic gave a little free concert in Central Park. A free concert for 100,000 people. Some HuffPo blogger is calling it “Ludwigstock.” Funny. And annoying, because even though I’m just a few blocks from the park, I never knew about it. The New York Times reviewed the event as “the perfect New York night.” …