Tag Archives: JMG

This here website thingy is one of the finalists in 2008 Weblog Awards in the Best LGBT Blog category, which JMG won last year. My humblest thanks to those folks that submitted nominations. Voting begins today and you can vote for the blog of your choice once every 24 hours in the week-long (or so) voting period. There are some …

Rite Aid Pharmacy, Grand Central Terminal There’s a woman in line ahead of me who has just handed over a huge sheaf of prescriptions. She is a middle-aged business woman wearing a navy suit. She has a Blackberry clipped to her messenger-style bag. The two clerks seem to know her and they immediately pick up their pace and begin darting …

Another of my New Year’s resolutions for JMG was to update my Facebook status and Twitter feed more frequently, particularly when there’s a big news story involving LGBT folks. Y’all feel free to follow along. I’m also publishing my complete posts via RSS if you use a reader to follow your favorites.

Have a fun and safe New Year’s Eve, folks! It’s been a wonderfully wacky weird year here on JMG, hasn’t it? I posted 3000+ times, you commented 150,000+ times, traffic more than doubled, and the number of banned trolls became uncountable. Good times. Seriously. My humblest thanks go out to to all of you for being part of the JMG …

Left to right at a NYE 1998 party at my place in the Castro: Marty, me, Jerry, Robb, Jim, Robert (center, my roommate), Ed, and Ken. Half of those guys were visiting from Fort Lauderdale….the house was very busy that weekend, as I recall. Regarding my silver metallic shirt (since I know you’ll bring it up) – I used to …

Tonight’s weather promises to be very ugly for the expected 1 million revelers in Times Square. Winds are expected to gust from 40-50mph, bringing the wind chill to far, far below zero. Nightmare. I had pondered actually going to Times Square tonight, until a dozen or so of my friends collectively threatened to have me committed. Times Square on New …

Yeah, it’s seems pretty obvious, even 42 years ago.

This story makes its fifth annual appearance on JMG….Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to Westchester. …

I couldn’t resist sharing this old photo of me and Project Runway’s Chris March, taken at Wigstock West in 1996, the one year (I think) that Wigstock came to San Francisco. We used to see Chris at all the major events in outlandish costumes like this. I got the pic yesterday from my old SF roommate Eduardo, who’s now gay-married …

This is how the mouth-breathers at Free Republic just tagged their commentary on my post about the Obama birth certificate lunacy: TOPICS: Chit/ChatKEYWORDS: antichristian; bigot; birthcertificate; celebratesin; certifigate; conspiracytheory; crackpot; dnctalkingpoints; gaystapotactics; hedonist; homosexualagenda; ifitfeelsgooddohim; larrysinclairslover; lavendermafia; liberalbigot; missingbirthcert; moonbat; obama; religiousintolerance; sodomite; woowoo My favorite: ifitfeelsgooddohim. Loves it!

According to Typealyzer, some geegaw that analyzes blogs, this here website thingy comes out like this: INTP: The Thinkers The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working …

UES, Second Avenue, Thursday, 8PM A feeble-looking elderly woman with a walker is on the sidewalk with her poodle. As I pass her, the dog barks and jumps at me excitedly, his tail wagging furiously. The dog’s leash gets tangled in the old lady’s walker and I stop to help her. “Thank you very much! Wow, he really likes you.” …

My mom is visiting NYC for the first time since my aunt died in 1996. She’s finding the city enormously different and “strangely clean.” She keeps commenting on how friendly and courteous everybody seems now. Yesterday I toured her around the Midtown landmarks which have most changed since she last saw them: Times Square, Rockefeller Center’s Top Of The Rock …

Holy crap! Post 5000 already? We only hit 4000 in April. A quick recap of the last thousand posts: Hillary, Obama, McCain, Crist, veepstakes, Manhunt, bears, ENDA, asshats, Prop 8, Jeebus. (What did I leave out?) There JMG newbies, yer all caught up.

Via Dr. Jeff comes this shot of the drink menu at Jumpin’ Jack’s Seafood Shack in Fire Island’s Cherry Grove. The drink is the invention of their bartender, a JMG reader who used to work at the NYC Eagle and who has been the subject of an Overheard post on this here website thingy. Anyway, I sound delish but I …

Artist and JMG reader Steve MacIsaac sent me this neat drawing he did, which is taken from my first vidcast. Me like. No wrinkles! You may recall that I also got a nice drawing last year from Fuzzbelly. Check out some of MacIsaac’s great work here. (Possibly NSFW). I like the “Shirtlifter” series – those are filed under “comics”.

My deepest thanks go out to my dear friend Aaron for helming this here website thingy for the last week. While it was hard to stay away, I managed to get in some pretty decent and much needed down time, both physically and mentally. I should probably do this more often. So as many of you have suggested, I’ve asked …

Gentle readers, I’m going to take a short blog vacation as I’ve been under the weather for the last couple of weeks, leaving me very stressed and unfocused, causing my job performance to suffer during a critical time of the year for us. I think a few days of unpluggedness from this here website thingy might be just the tonic. …

UPDATE: A retraction of this post can be found here. You won’t believe the REAL story. In Tuesday’s post about gay parenting, many of you weighed in on this growing phenomenon and what it means in the larger picture of our rapidly changing gay culture. Overwhelmingly, you expressed support for gay parents, with small minority expressing strong distaste for gay …

When I mentioned my 4000th post last week and wondered, “What HAVE we been going on about?” – I should have thought to look at my post tag counter. Since Blogger added post tagging in December 2006, here are the top ten most frequent JMG post topics and how many times they were used. 1. NYC – 3572. 2008 elections …