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Swag Tuesday

This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is an autographed copy of Out Magazine columnist, author, and actor Jesse Archer’s latest book, You Can Run: Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels In South America. Archer’s acting resume includes the movies Boy Culture, Hustler WP, and A Four Letter Word –which he also co-wrote, earning him the Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay at …

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There’s No Basement In Sparta

I ran into Lady Randomocity while she was performing her court-ordered community service and as she hitched up her alcohol-monitoring anklet she mentioned that this week’s Swag Tuesday winner is Buster from San Antonio. Buster sez: “That’s simply amazing! And my first post on your site, too. The last time I won anything was a weekend in Palm Springs in …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Warner Home Video, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is a 2-disc special edition DVD of 300, the sepia-drenched homoerotic Spartan muscle and gore fest that so fascinated the gay blogosphere earlier this year. Due out on July 31st , this special edition version contains 90 minutes of bonus material, including the intriguingly titled segment, “The Shocking Life of …

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The Hottest Place For A
Honeymoon In A Hotel Room

In the wee hours of the morning, Lady Randomocity called me from her mahjong game in Brighton Beach to slur the name of this week’s Swag Tuesday winner, Manhattan Bill, whom she thinks is the first Gothamite to win so far. Bill sez: “Now I’m feeling the groove!” Bill wins four remastered double-disc CDs from Universal Music Enterprise’s Gold Series, …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises, this week’s Swag Tuesday haul is a collection of four digitally remastered double-disc CDs from Universal’s Gold Series, and they are a queen’s dream: Patti Labelle, Olivia Newton-John, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Carpenters, comprising 150 hits in all. These four releases are now available, with additional titles added to the series all the …

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Maine Munchies

This weekend I ran into Lady Randomocity while she was tossing back at a few during happy hour at the Regal Beagle, where she told me that Adam of Ellsworth, Maine was the winner of Swag Tuesday’s Weeds prizes. Adam: “My guy and I just started watching Weeds, and I’m totally hooked…I can’t wait to get my ticky-tacky lil’ hands …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Showtime, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is an advance Season Two DVD box set of their hit series, Weeds, which goes on sale July 24th. And as a bonus, Showtime is throwing in a cute little Weeds gardening kit. From the Amazon product review: Funnier, darker and more daring, the second season of this acclaimed Showtime series reaches …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Def Jam/Island Records, this week’s Swag Tuesday booty is an autographed copy of Rihanna’s hit CD, Good Girl Gone Bad. The CD contains this summer’s smash, Umbrella, which is #1 this week for the 5th week, making it 2007’s longest running #1 single to date. Umbrella was also the biggest hit of NYC’s Pride parade, it seemed like …

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To Be Delivered By Bike Messenger

I spotted the Oracle of Randomocity working the corner of Crack and Ho, where she stuck her head into my taxi to reveal that this week’s winner of Swag Tuesday is fellow New Yorker, Croft, the 104th commenter, who gets Cyclizen, the new novel by Jim Provenzano. Croft sez: “I’d like to thank the academy, and, wait, I wasn’t finished, …

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Swag Tuesday

This week’s Swag Tuesday prize is Cyclizen, the new novel from Jim Provenzano, author of PINS and Monkey Suits. Many of you know Provenzano from his decade of reporting gay sports news and from his articles in San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter, where he is an arts editor. The Cyclizen synopsis: Kent R. Hyles, a 24-year-old jaded activist-emeritus, rides through …

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He’s Jon, The Winner, He Is

Shortly after last call at the Bada Bing, Lady Randomocity finished her lap dance to text me the winner of this week’s Swag Tuesday, Jon of Jersey City, who wins an advance box set of Showtime’s hit series The Tudors and Tudors t-shirt. Jon gushed: “Holy crap, that’s fantastic! You are awesome, Your web site is awesome and I can’t …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Showtime, this week’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is a special advance DVD box set of the full first season of their hit series, The Tudors, starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII. In March, I attended a screening of the first two episodes of The Tudors and I was immediately reeled in by the lush photography and uber-hot cast. Steve …

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28 Rochester Lane

Lady Randomocity stepped away from the keno table, lit a Marlboro 100, and revealed that Dan of Rochester, NY, was the winner of this week’s Swag Tuesday: a copy of Armisted Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives. Dan sez: “Read Armistead Maupin!! Not just the Tales of the City series, but The Night Listener, and Maybe The Moon – two of my …

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Swag Tuesday

This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is perhaps the most hotly anticipated gay lit release of the year, Armisted Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives, out today from HarperCollins. Is there any other series of gay books more beloved than Tales Of The City? It doesn’t seem possible. Maupin denies that this is a seventh volume of his beloved Tales of the City, …

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Boulder Bounty

Lady Miss Oracle spun her wheel yesterday, landing on commenter #49, Carl, of Boulder, Colorado who says, “This is so exciting! It will be a lovely break from reading medical journal articles. Maybe someday I can go there for the annual “Greyhounds on the Beach”. Carl wins Fay Jacobs’ bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of A&M Books, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is a double-whammy of beach reading pleasure. Take a peek inside the beach culture of fabulously gay Rehoboth Beach via bestselling author Fay Jacobs’ two compilations of stories about gay life on the summer playground for Washington DC’s homos: the bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

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Hotel, Motel, Holiday Win

With an appletini in one hand and a Marlboro 100 in the other, Lady Random spun her glittery wheel and landed on Fog City Mike, this week’s Swag Tuesday winner. Mike, a music writer who has just written the liner notes for the upcoming Sugarhill Gang reissues, will be getting a copy of Mike Jones’ I Had To Say Something, …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Seven Stories Press, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is a hardback copy of Mike Jones’ brand new autobiography, The Art Of Ted Haggard’s Fall: I Had To Say Something (cowriter: Sam Gallegos). The book ships this week. I can’t imagine that any regular reader of this or most any other gay blog would not know who Mike Jones is, …

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California Chaos

Lady Random’s wheel landed on #108, making this week’s Swag Tuesday winner Thomas, who blogs from California at Oh, Manchester. Thomas sez: “Holy s—, I never win anything! Wow. I’m very excited to have won this week’s Swag Tuesday – Edmund White is one of the best writers around and has been for decades, and should be considered a national …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Avalon Publishing, this week’s swag prize is Chaos: A Novella and Stories, the new book from Edmund White, revered author of the must-have trilogy for fans of gay literature: A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. And many of you may fondly recall 1977’s The Joy Of Gay Sex, which White coauthored …

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