Tag Archives: Fort Lauderdale
Afternoon View
Hurricane Sandy did a number on Fort Lauderdale Beach, which seems about half as wide as when I last saw it. I don’t recall that lifeguard stand being so close the water.
Read More »Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach
I’m at Father Tony’s in Fort Lauderdale for the start of my usual holiday visit to Florida. It was about 30 degrees at LGA early this morning. Here, it’s 82 and muggy. Perfect.
Read More »Lesbian Couple Wins $10M Florida Lottery
HUGE props to Fort Lauderdale’s Sun-Sentinel for their wording: A Coral Springs woman has claimed a $10 million lottery win — the largest haul of the year so far in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Tara Tuttle, 35, claimed the $10 million top prize in the Billion Dollar Blockbust Scratch-off game at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee. Tuttle (pictured with …
Read More »Fort Lauderdale’s Beach Bear Weekend
I don’t usually mention these sort of events unless I’m going myself, but since I illogically consider Fort Lauderdale to be my home town… (Plus lots of my besties are going to attend.)
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The Thing That Ate Its Own Brain 8,
With Victoria Jackson As The Thing
Afternoon View – A1A
Morning View
Afternoon View – Hot Dog Heaven
Afternoon View – Turtle Hatchling Crossing
When the sea turtles hatchings burst out their eggs, they are often distracted by car and street lights and lured onto A1A. Coordinating the volunteer effort to guide the babies safely to the sea is Hugh Taylor Birch park ranger (and Ramrod bartender) Mark Foley. (The other and much hotter Mark Foley.)
Read More »Morning View – Winter Wonderland
Afternoon View – Sunrise Marina
Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach
FRC: We Have Kid Rock’s Bus!
Weekend Mix – DJ Herbie James
Shake off the snow and ice with this hot vocal house mix by Fort Lauderdale’s popular DJ Herbie James. Setlist. Website. Podcasts. UPCOMING GIGS: Fridays & Saturdays @ Ramrod. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Paul Ferrer. DJ Dave Huge. NOTE: This is the third in the revived JMG Weekend Mix series in which we highlight major national and up-and-coming DJ talent. …
Read More »Afternoon View – FLL Security Line
Fort Lauderdale’s airport is mobbed this afternoon and they are holding passengers out in a satellite rope maze before you can enter the regular mobbed rope maze. (Blurry photo from my shitty cell cam.)
Read More »Morning View – Hugh Taylor Birch Park
Morning View – Fort Lauderdale Beach
Father Tony and I are about to embark on a trip across the gorgeous Overseas Highway on our way to gay gay gay Key West, where you can expect a week of slightly drunken poolside blogging from the lovely Island House. Our fourth visit in about 18 months!
Read More »Afternoon View – The Island City
Although it’s a couple of miles inland, gay gay gay Wilton Manors calls itself “The Island City,” because its boundaries are defined by canals. Wilton Manors is known as a gay village, although its population is extremely diverse. Wilton Manors ranks 2nd in the U.S. for its percentage of gay residents as a proportion of total population, with 140 gay …
Read More »Afternoon View – Ripley’s Box
As I mentioned this morning, I’m spending a few days at the Fort Lauderdale home of my ex and his partner. While they were at work today I noticed that they’d placed the Xmas stocking embroidered with my late cat’s name on the box containing his ashes. (We always had stockings for the pets.) I left Ripley with Ken when …
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