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Lyrics By Steinberg & Kelly

Christmas Eve, Orlando, my sister’s house… Six Year-old Niece: Uncle Joe, let’s play singalong! Uncle Joe: Oh, you have a karaoke machine! Neat! The machine, with its large colorful buttons, is clearly made for a child. My niece turns it on and grabs the microphone. The lyrics of the first song begin to scroll up the small screen. I made …

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Departure

No new blogging, today is a travel day for me. But something I just witnessed reminded me of this story, one of the first I wrote for JMG. Departure JFK airport. The JetBlue terminal. I’m sitting in the crowded pre-boarding area, waiting for my plane to Florida to arrive. Seated next to me are a man and his young son. …

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Dance Of The Sugar Plum Lesbians

This story makes its 4th 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. …

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Recap: Reading For Filth

Last night’s Reading For Filth show was moving, hilarious, historic. I read something from the JMG archives, Tripping Over The Tubs, and that went over pretty well, but then my former co-worker, the dynamic one-woman circus called Robbyne Kaamil (above, before the show) blew me off the stage with a rousing part-poetry, part gospel, sex-positive performance that had the audience …

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Three Thousand

This is my 3000th post. As I said a thousand posts ago, what have we been going on about?

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Tonight: Get Filthy

Tonight I’ll be appearing again at Reading For Filth at Rapture Books in the East Village. Other performers will be D-List Radio diva Robbyne Kaamil, Eric Leven, Our Lady J and a “surprise guest”. I look forward to seeing some of you there!

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Reading For Filth: December 5th

Next Wednesday, December 5th, I’ll be appearing again at Reading For Filth at Rapture Books in the East Village. Other performers will be D-List Radio diva Robbyne Kaamil, Eric Leven, Our Lady J and a “surprise guest”. I’m especially excited to have Robbyne on the bill with me, she and I worked together for years at our “real” job, when …

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My Magnetic Underwear

Yesterday I set off the theft sensors in almost every store I visited. After the third or fourth time of opening my bags to prove I wasn’t a shoplifter, it began to really bug me and I said something rather unkind to the guard at Home Depot. And then this morning I noticed tiny magnetic stickers on the waistbands of …

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JMG: 2007 Best LGBT Weblog

Thanks to your kind support, this here website thingy won the 2007 Best LGBT Weblog Award yesterday. Squeee! As I could not be in Las Vegas to attend the awards ceremony at BlogWorldExpo, the lovely and talented Pam Spaulding graciously agreed to go up to the podium on my behalf. Pam kindly sent along the above photo last night, what …

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Unaffirmed

So much for last week’s self-affirmation. According to this scale at the American Natural History Museum, I’d weigh 2.9 trillion pounds on a neutron star. Meh.

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Welcome Wagon

Monday, 9pm, IM conversation…..Friend Of Joe: Hey neighbor!JMG: Hey. Neighbor? You moved?FOJ: Yup, my sister and I just moved to the UES.JMG: Cool! Where?FOJ: You know that hi-rise over Bed Bath & Beyond?JMG: Sure, fancy building.FOJ: Yeah, it’s great. Super convenient.JMG: Right, you’ve got BBB in the lobby and that giant Food Emporium next door. A queen’s dream. 🙂FOJ: And …

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Filthy, Filthy, Filthy

Last night’s Reading For Filth show at Rapture was a lot of fun, the house was packed. Xavier led off with a reading from Dean Johnson’s blog, followed by Eric Leven (left), who read a hilarious original story about a Craigslist spawned Daddy vs. boy encounter that didn’t turn out quite as expected. It was Eric’s first public reading of …

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Tonight:: Reading For Filth

I’ll be reading tonight at Rapture in the East Village with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. I hope to see some of you there. RELATED: Pop over to Bloggernista for a great interview with Eric Leven. The interview is cross-posted on The Bilerico Project..

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Erratum

The story about the dog-collared twins at Folsom that so outraged Michelle Malkin is actually over two years old. It was first published in the Golden Gate [X]Press on September 29th, 2005. I should have done some due diligence when it comes to anything spewing from Malkin’s vile mouth, since she’s well known for twisting events to suit her wingnuttery. …

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Filthy Reminder: October 10th

I’ll be reading at Rapture next Wednesday with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. Tonight’s installment will be a memorial to Dean Johnson, who was to host the series. From Rapture: “Please feel free to bring photos, music, writings or any other Dean Johnson-related memorabilia for the Honoring Wall which has already sprung up around our …

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Reading For Filth

Wednesday, October 10th, I’ll be reading with Eric Leven (pictured), Jake Shears, Miss Understood, and Michael Cunningham at East Village hotspot, Rapture Cafe & Books, for Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex. Egad! An international pop star, a movie star dragster, a Pulitzer winner, and a local activist/heartthrob. I’m gonna have to dig deep into …

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Meta-Time

You may not be as fascinated with statistics as I am. But this list from BlogWorldExpo caught my eye. Over 57 million Americans read blogs. Over 12 million Americans write blogs. 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog. 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next …

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Chaka Khan Shouts Out To JMG

Chaka Khan sends a shout out to JMG readers to hype the Sept. 25th release of Funk This. It’s been ten years since Chaka’s last studio album and as the track that follows Chaka’s shout-out shows, we are in for a rare and overdue treat. Chaka is made of awesome. You baby mo’s out there – get schooled on what …

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Mr. Freeze

I’ve heard from a few readers that JMG is crashing Firefox browers or “freezing” occasionally in the last few days. Anybody have an idea what the problem is? I am computarded and clueless.

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About My Email Suckiness

I created the Gmail address for this blog last November and yesterday the inbox counter rolled over 10,000. Again. I mention this only as a really lame excuse for my sucky track record in responding to everybody. Usually I scan the inbox for familiar names and try to get back to those folks first. But I’m way behind on a …

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