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On Marathon Key, we’ve stopped at our usual on-the-way to Key West spot for conch fritters, oysters, and pulled pork. That’s Father Tony in the shadows with the pig. (That sentence may also apply at other times in the coming week.)

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!

An avalanche of more stats.

An editor comments on the selection: “We chose Uganda for the experiences that it can offer to travelers, separate from its current political situation. To be very clear: we are aware of, and condemn, Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill. We hope that travellers do not judge the country in general, and most of its people, by the sentiments of its government. Many …

Good news: Funding has been approved for a Star Trek theme park. Bad news: It’s gonna be in built in Jordan.

What are your plans for the Fourth?

Just the stuff that made it to the coffee table of my hotel room.

He still has the attitude that probably cost him that chunk of his ear.

A rolling billboard for one of the local dirty bookstores.

I found this description of the funky building now housing Walgreens on Duval Street: The Strand Theater in Key West opened in the mid-1920s as a single screen movie house that sat 800 around people. The theater closed sometime in the early 1980s and reopened as a nightclub. It remained open as a few other nightclubs until it became a …

I went whizzing all over the island on my little scooter this morning.

Yesterday Father Tony and I arrived in the mid-afternoon and were whisked to our Cypress House accommodations with instructions to quickly prepare for the Key West Pride kickoff party at Island House. After a few hours of poolside menz and frozen drinkies, we were hustled off to dinner at The Flaming Buoy (heh) where the co-owner related how a recent …

Father Tony and I are staying at the fabulous Cypress House, where we have adjoining apartments. I’ll post a slideshow recap of yesterday’s goings-on shortly.

I love everything about Key West’s airport, like the one luggage carousel. (Where’s my bag? Oh. Carousel one.) But especially the super creepy multi-culti statue family on the roof.

Father Tony and I are about to board our little prop plane for the hop from Miami to Key West, where we’ll be celebrating Gay Pride Week. Nonstop.

In order to reduce pilfering, some hotels have begun attaching RFID chips to their towels and linens. The radio-frequency identification chips designed by Linen Technology Tracking can be put in towels, sheets and bathrobes to keep track of stock and, more importantly, to ensure their return when light-fingered guests forget their manners. The market for such items sounds well developed. …

Today the Walt Disney Company broke ground on the five-year construction project for Disney Shanghai. “We’re incredibly excited to build a Disney resort in Shanghai, one of the world’s most vibrant cities,” said Thomas O. Staggs, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. “We are hard at work designing Shanghai Disneyland, which when complete will be a special place where …

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

The “no swimming” red flags are out due to the high winds. I’m told the other flag means “dangerous marine life.” Jellyfish, I presume, because the sharks are always there.