Like this is a surprise: after rumors of destroying hotels rooms while high, Olympic gold medal record holder and strip club aficionado Michael Phelps appears to have been photographed purportedly, as the kids say, getting his weed on and then some. Truthfully, I blame Caroline “Paz” Pal.
Like this is a surprise: after all the Beckham butt groping by fellow teammates, David intends to stay on Italy, joining AC Milan permanently, after wife Victoria gave her blessing, which supposedly means the Beckham will be leaving Los Angeles.
Like this is a surprise: the inside sleeve to Morrissey’s new vinyl single, I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris, features a photograph of Moz and assorted musicians nude, save for vinyl records affixed astonishingly to their, um, smiths. Honestly, he's a petty hot DILF.
Excited about the new cycle of America’s Next Top Model? No, neither am I, and yet for those that are, a preview of the girls soon to submit to Miss Tyra.
Project Runway, whose sixth season is indefinitely missing in action pending the settlement of protracted legal action, is something I actually do get excited about, and in its absence, I like other fans are forced to find creative ways to occupy the time until Heidi and Tim return.
Finally, dispelling rampant rumors of a breakup, lovely lesbians Lindsay Lohan (who looks quite hot) and Samantha Ronson, were spotted departing from Los Angeles, California, headed to Tampa Bay, Florida where they will attend the ESPN Super Bowl party, although at this point it is not a party till Phelps parties.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Mormons Disclose Spending To Fight Prop 8, Evangelical Empire Collapsing, Lesbian Land, Pottery Barn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Boss Rhys Meyers, NFL
According to reports filed late Friday, between July 1st, 2008, and December 31st, 2008, officials for the Mormon Church spent more than one-hundred and eighty thousand dollars in in-kind contributions to support the passing of Proposition 8 – that in addition to the upwards of at least twenty million dollars contributed by Mormon families to the Yes On 8 campaign.
The Associated Press reports that the televangelist empire created by Robert H. Schuller, which is best exemplified by the weekly Hour of Power broadcast from the gaudy confines of the Crystal Cathedral located in Garden Grove, California, is collapsing and is not likely to survive, owing in large part to the still unexplained departure of Schuller’s obvious successor, his son Robert A. Schuller.
Communal living, looming, potluck dinners, woman spelt with a y – it can all only mean one thing – a quasi-secretive lesbian community and the New York Times visits the clandestine enclave located, surprisingly, in Alapine, Alabama, in the heart of the American Bible belt, and finds a land that time forgot.
If I could, I would have voted Barack Obama for Prime Minister – the whole medium cool vibe, the intelligence, the political engagement, and the very righteous First Family – it all seems so much more alive than the barely there Stephen Harper and family. When I realized that daughters Malia and Sasha were rocking J.Crew – my causal clothier of choice – I fell a little more in love. Now comes word that Michelle is, in conjunction with California based designer Michael Smith, planning to decorate the children’s White House rooms with items from the Pottery Barn, well, I’ve fallen in love hard.
I admire Jake Gyllenhaal, what with the pretending and all, although his entire ensemble worn at the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s tribute to David Fincher – the, um felt fedora and the whole serious scarf scenario – may be giving up the secret of one of my favorite faux-terosexuals.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the body/face of Huge Boss’s new cologne Element, was on hand in Manhattan Friday at Macys to launch said scent, sporting something just short of scruff.
On the eve of 44th Super Bowl, The Washington Post examines an interesting, but barely noticed trend in the NFL where league officials, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, no longer endorse military terminology to describe games – a shift in policy carried over into NFL films, which used to be saturated with phrases like “search and destroy” and “devastating ground attacks.” All of this takes on more meaning with one of the teams, the Arizona Cardinals, appearing for the first time in the Championship and still mourning the loss of former safety Pat Tillman, who left the NFL after September 11. 2001, to serve in the military and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
The Associated Press reports that the televangelist empire created by Robert H. Schuller, which is best exemplified by the weekly Hour of Power broadcast from the gaudy confines of the Crystal Cathedral located in Garden Grove, California, is collapsing and is not likely to survive, owing in large part to the still unexplained departure of Schuller’s obvious successor, his son Robert A. Schuller.
Communal living, looming, potluck dinners, woman spelt with a y – it can all only mean one thing – a quasi-secretive lesbian community and the New York Times visits the clandestine enclave located, surprisingly, in Alapine, Alabama, in the heart of the American Bible belt, and finds a land that time forgot.
If I could, I would have voted Barack Obama for Prime Minister – the whole medium cool vibe, the intelligence, the political engagement, and the very righteous First Family – it all seems so much more alive than the barely there Stephen Harper and family. When I realized that daughters Malia and Sasha were rocking J.Crew – my causal clothier of choice – I fell a little more in love. Now comes word that Michelle is, in conjunction with California based designer Michael Smith, planning to decorate the children’s White House rooms with items from the Pottery Barn, well, I’ve fallen in love hard.
I admire Jake Gyllenhaal, what with the pretending and all, although his entire ensemble worn at the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s tribute to David Fincher – the, um felt fedora and the whole serious scarf scenario – may be giving up the secret of one of my favorite faux-terosexuals.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the body/face of Huge Boss’s new cologne Element, was on hand in Manhattan Friday at Macys to launch said scent, sporting something just short of scruff.
On the eve of 44th Super Bowl, The Washington Post examines an interesting, but barely noticed trend in the NFL where league officials, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, no longer endorse military terminology to describe games – a shift in policy carried over into NFL films, which used to be saturated with phrases like “search and destroy” and “devastating ground attacks.” All of this takes on more meaning with one of the teams, the Arizona Cardinals, appearing for the first time in the Championship and still mourning the loss of former safety Pat Tillman, who left the NFL after September 11. 2001, to serve in the military and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Alan Cumming Hypotheses, Daniel Mendes, Diesel's Brief Boys, Gossip Girl Gossip, Taylor Kitsch Sexy, Bob Dylan Sells Out, Orlando Topless, Coachella
Silly Alan Cumming – at a recent party to celebrate the opening of Donna Karen’s new Urban Zen space in Manhattan, Mr. Cumming postulated that there exists a direct correlation between the sizes of the male appendage and the corresponding level of confidence. Alan continued expounding, suggesting that President Obama’s, um, penis, would be particularly, um, profound, given Barack’s elegance and sense of self-esteem, and that a friend of his happened to gather a glance at the gym.
An up close and personal photograph of Ian Thorpe’s boyfriend has surfaced and no, there is nothing gay about Daniel Mendes and Thorpe; not one thing.
Diesel continues commercial campaigns that liberally steal from a laundry list of gay male fetishes. Previously, it was all about the foot fetish; now, it is all about underwear, both, incidentally, make me feel slightly dirty.
A story so resoundingly real it just has to be true: It seems that pretend heterosexual Chace Crawford and non-practicing homosexual Ed Westwick – the Gossip Girl boys and Chelsea roommates – and everyone’s favorite faux-mosexual Lindsay Lohan, in New York City where she seemed not to eat, all wound up together, along with Gossip Girl gil Jessica Szor, in the said apartment of Chace and Ed, and well, it was a nasty scene, with Chace calling Lindsay a loser and Long Island trash (ouch!)
Taylor Kitsch, who is so good at being bad, but then wanting to be good again on Friday Night Lights (and again, like Mad Men, I have grown weary demanding you watch, but you must nonetheless) talks Tim Riggins, the big brood, and the homoerotic, not necessarily in that order.
It has just been announced that Bob Dylan is pairing with Will. i. am (an individual that could not be both more annoying or less culturally relevant) to star in a Super Bowl ad for Pepsi. On the inside, I am crying. A lot.
Orlando Bloom shirtless, wearing leather pants, with just the slightest suggestion of black underwear! I have stopped crying!
Finally, the 2009 Coachella lineup has formally been announced, and it kind of makes me want to go. Acts confirmed for the three day festival include Morrissey, Amy Winehouse, Fleet Foxes, Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, The Cure, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, and Beirut.
An up close and personal photograph of Ian Thorpe’s boyfriend has surfaced and no, there is nothing gay about Daniel Mendes and Thorpe; not one thing.
Diesel continues commercial campaigns that liberally steal from a laundry list of gay male fetishes. Previously, it was all about the foot fetish; now, it is all about underwear, both, incidentally, make me feel slightly dirty.
A story so resoundingly real it just has to be true: It seems that pretend heterosexual Chace Crawford and non-practicing homosexual Ed Westwick – the Gossip Girl boys and Chelsea roommates – and everyone’s favorite faux-mosexual Lindsay Lohan, in New York City where she seemed not to eat, all wound up together, along with Gossip Girl gil Jessica Szor, in the said apartment of Chace and Ed, and well, it was a nasty scene, with Chace calling Lindsay a loser and Long Island trash (ouch!)
Taylor Kitsch, who is so good at being bad, but then wanting to be good again on Friday Night Lights (and again, like Mad Men, I have grown weary demanding you watch, but you must nonetheless) talks Tim Riggins, the big brood, and the homoerotic, not necessarily in that order.
It has just been announced that Bob Dylan is pairing with Will. i. am (an individual that could not be both more annoying or less culturally relevant) to star in a Super Bowl ad for Pepsi. On the inside, I am crying. A lot.
Orlando Bloom shirtless, wearing leather pants, with just the slightest suggestion of black underwear! I have stopped crying!
Finally, the 2009 Coachella lineup has formally been announced, and it kind of makes me want to go. Acts confirmed for the three day festival include Morrissey, Amy Winehouse, Fleet Foxes, Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, The Cure, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, and Beirut.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Court Rules Yes On 8 Donors Be Made Public, Canadian Lawyer Employs Gay Marriage Defense In Polygamy Case, Sam Adams, Matthew Mitcham, Jake Jousts
A federal judge late Thursday has thwarted a legal maneuver by supporters of Proposition 8 to withhold public disclosure of campaign donors, arguing that the California Political Reform Act, which requires that all donations made over one-hundred dollars be accompanied by the name, employer, and business, must stand. In summation: the hate mongers and homophobes masquerading as Christians while funding decidedly anti-Christian activities - good luck hiding.
An attorney representing Winston Blackmore and James Oler, on trial in Bountiful, British Columbia accused of numerous charges of polygamy has entered an argument that if a man can marry a man – same-sex marriage being legal in Canada – why a man cannot marry more than one wife. Blair Suffredine insists he is trying to challenge the country’s antiquated polygamy laws and in no way means to minimize the importance of gay marriage.
Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times about Sam Adams – “the great gay hope” – and his sex scandal and aims to gain political perspective from the private morass.
The impossibly cute and heroic Matthew Mitcham adorns the cover of the February issue of the Advocate, and Towleroad offers a sneak peak, well worth the look.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal was called for jury duty today in Los Angeles for a case of assault and battery and – irony alert – Mr. Gyllenhaal, being following by a TMZ paparazzo, committed something close to assault and battery.
An attorney representing Winston Blackmore and James Oler, on trial in Bountiful, British Columbia accused of numerous charges of polygamy has entered an argument that if a man can marry a man – same-sex marriage being legal in Canada – why a man cannot marry more than one wife. Blair Suffredine insists he is trying to challenge the country’s antiquated polygamy laws and in no way means to minimize the importance of gay marriage.
Timothy Egan writes in the New York Times about Sam Adams – “the great gay hope” – and his sex scandal and aims to gain political perspective from the private morass.
The impossibly cute and heroic Matthew Mitcham adorns the cover of the February issue of the Advocate, and Towleroad offers a sneak peak, well worth the look.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal was called for jury duty today in Los Angeles for a case of assault and battery and – irony alert – Mr. Gyllenhaal, being following by a TMZ paparazzo, committed something close to assault and battery.
Prince Harry Impersonator Imprisoned, Eliminated Top Chef Bores, Shia Sighting, Emile Hirsch, Beckham In Briefs, Beached Warriors, Channing Tatum
Twenty-one year old Elliot Gibson, a Prince Harry “impersonator” (he is also an economics major at the University of Newcastle) is struggling after his alter-ego’s breakup with Chelsy Davy, telling anyone and everyone that he is besieged with female fans of the beloved red head, believing him to be the real Royal and that he intends to lay low for the next while. I know; I did not make it up and there are pictures to prove it!
Jeff McInnes, eliminated last night on Bravos’ Top Chef, is telling anyone and everyone that the show “used” him as sex object. It all becomes very confusing soon after and might involve ceviche (which I like lots), but truthfully, I sort of got bored.
Guess which Hollywood may or may not be a Detroit Tigers fan? Hint: this person is still wearing the same pants worn three days ago and seems to have a fetish for bags.
Emile Hirsch, so good in Milk and soon to be seen in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, got back to black – Hugo Boss Black.
David Beckham, not one to be fashionably outdone, is back in briefs – Emporio Armani.
Oh, to be in New Zealand, in January, on a beach, with the Warriors rugby team. I'm not sure who they are, but they're big, burly, and seem to like to workout in little more than black briefs, a portal of photographs here.
Channing Tatum, fast becoming the new Ryan Phillippe, stars in the upcoming G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, and yesterday he was out and about in Los Angeles doing little more than walking and waving and yet it was all more than enough.
Jeff McInnes, eliminated last night on Bravos’ Top Chef, is telling anyone and everyone that the show “used” him as sex object. It all becomes very confusing soon after and might involve ceviche (which I like lots), but truthfully, I sort of got bored.
Guess which Hollywood may or may not be a Detroit Tigers fan? Hint: this person is still wearing the same pants worn three days ago and seems to have a fetish for bags.
Emile Hirsch, so good in Milk and soon to be seen in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, got back to black – Hugo Boss Black.
David Beckham, not one to be fashionably outdone, is back in briefs – Emporio Armani.
Oh, to be in New Zealand, in January, on a beach, with the Warriors rugby team. I'm not sure who they are, but they're big, burly, and seem to like to workout in little more than black briefs, a portal of photographs here.
Channing Tatum, fast becoming the new Ryan Phillippe, stars in the upcoming G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, and yesterday he was out and about in Los Angeles doing little more than walking and waving and yet it was all more than enough.
Ted Haggard
Tonight – Thursday – is the premiere on HBO of the documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Haggard, who now prefers to identify as a “heterosexual with issues” (which sounds more devious than I am sure Haggard would like) is suddenly everywhere, his wife Gayle in tow, making the rounds from a the television critics conference in Los Angeles last week, to an appearance on Wednesday’s Oprah, to Good Morning America, to Nightline, to World News Tonight, to well, it seems never ending.
Haggard’s tale of male prostitutes and drug use (ironic, naturally, since he at one time preached against the purported evils and sin of homosexuality) is a familiar one: conscientious self-serving hypocrite falls mightily from grace and attempts redemption by pleading publically for forgiveness. What makes the story somewhat noteworthy is the stunning way it underscores just how entrenched homophobia remains in society – systematically so, and how, sadly, there are so many men and women who remain the sort of self-hating homophobes Haggard is an advertisement for.
The film, which I have not yet seen, but will watch this evening, is drawing tremendous reviews, all of whom point out that the recent media saturation of Mr. Haggard should not, in anyway, overshadow what promises to be either a remarkable treatise on homophobia or an exercise in both faux-heterosexuality and faux-humility.
Haggard’s tale of male prostitutes and drug use (ironic, naturally, since he at one time preached against the purported evils and sin of homosexuality) is a familiar one: conscientious self-serving hypocrite falls mightily from grace and attempts redemption by pleading publically for forgiveness. What makes the story somewhat noteworthy is the stunning way it underscores just how entrenched homophobia remains in society – systematically so, and how, sadly, there are so many men and women who remain the sort of self-hating homophobes Haggard is an advertisement for.
The film, which I have not yet seen, but will watch this evening, is drawing tremendous reviews, all of whom point out that the recent media saturation of Mr. Haggard should not, in anyway, overshadow what promises to be either a remarkable treatise on homophobia or an exercise in both faux-heterosexuality and faux-humility.
Ian Thorpe Would Like You All To Know He Is Still Not Gay, Shia Sighting, Hottest Broadway Men, Streep Shuns 30 Rock, Sarandon To ER, Mad Men Designs
Ian Thorpe has addressed, for the moment, the deafening din that he and his boyfriend Daniel Mendes are lovers, that Thorpe himself is gay, and that there is something to the recent photographs of the twosome visiting Daniel’s family in Brazil over the Christmas holiday, something other than two men who live together sharing a vacation where Speedos were the fashion choice of each and every day. Thorpe, in a statement released through his management company said that he finds “this kind of inaccurate speculation tiresome and I am annoyed by the hurt it has caused those closest to me.”
It all has become, in a very short time, very odd and very sad, especially since the article I have linked, meant to act as defense against the rumors, implies that the only reason Thorpe does not come out is because it will mean a loss of revenue from endorsements, a sad reality underscored by the woeful lack of commercial sponsorship for fellow Australian – the heroic and out Matthew Mitcham.
Guess which Hollywood hobo ( wearing the exact same outfit two days in a row no less ) took his hippie mom to an IHOP for lunch?
The hottest thirty-seven (which seems like an odd number) guys in theater – afterelton.com has this list, including the usual sexy suspects Cheyenne
Jackson and Nick Adams.
Contrary to my earlier posting, Meryl Streep will not be appearing on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock, with the source of the story, the always unreliable Daily News having fabricated the entire event, including the exchange between Streep and Alec Baldwin at the SAG awards Sunday. However, fellow Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon is going to appear on ER, joining George Clooney in a much anticipated episode scheduled to air soon.
Mad Men (I’m obsessed) costume designer Janie Bryant speaks of inspiration, matching an apron to an outfit, and her plans to launch a clothing line.
It all has become, in a very short time, very odd and very sad, especially since the article I have linked, meant to act as defense against the rumors, implies that the only reason Thorpe does not come out is because it will mean a loss of revenue from endorsements, a sad reality underscored by the woeful lack of commercial sponsorship for fellow Australian – the heroic and out Matthew Mitcham.
Guess which Hollywood hobo ( wearing the exact same outfit two days in a row no less ) took his hippie mom to an IHOP for lunch?
The hottest thirty-seven (which seems like an odd number) guys in theater – afterelton.com has this list, including the usual sexy suspects Cheyenne
Jackson and Nick Adams.
Contrary to my earlier posting, Meryl Streep will not be appearing on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock, with the source of the story, the always unreliable Daily News having fabricated the entire event, including the exchange between Streep and Alec Baldwin at the SAG awards Sunday. However, fellow Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon is going to appear on ER, joining George Clooney in a much anticipated episode scheduled to air soon.
Mad Men (I’m obsessed) costume designer Janie Bryant speaks of inspiration, matching an apron to an outfit, and her plans to launch a clothing line.
California School Allowed To Discriminate Against Lesbians, Cardinal Mahony Under Grand Jury Investigation, Canadian Discrimination, Amanda Platell
The Fourth District California Court of Appeal in San Bernardino ruled Monday that the California Lutheran High School is, by law, permitted to discriminate. In a 3-0 decision, the Court deemed the school was acting within the parameters of the law when, in 2005 it expelled two girls after questioning them on their sexual orientation and the relationship they had at the time. The case, which is likely to go to the Supreme Court on appeal, was the first in the State to visit the Unruh Civil Rights Act, amended in 2005, forbidding any discrimination based on sexual orientation; a law which includes education facilities, but only public ones. An attorney for the Lutheran High School said he was please with the ruling as it upheld the School right to freedom of expression and religion.
The United States Attorney General in Los Angeles is preparing a federal grand jury investigation into Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, to determine whether Mahony and other Catholic leaders committed fraud by failing to deal with priests it knew was abusing children.
A Canadian couple claims that a doctor in Winnipeg, Manitoba refused them treatment because of their sexual orientation. Andrea Markowski and her girlfriend Ginette insist that Doctor Kamelia Elias, who was trained in Egypt and recently moved to Canada, refused to treat them, although Elias claims she merely suggested the two find a doctor who had more experience with gay patients.
Stonewall, the leading British LGBT equality group, is concerned that the coverage of a recent adoption of two children taken from the grandparents and placed in the home of two gay men has veered into homophobic territory, in particular reporting by one Amanda Platell, who seems to have seized upon the story only to attack the pubic perception of gay parents with a kind vicious wrongness that is frightening.
The United States Attorney General in Los Angeles is preparing a federal grand jury investigation into Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, to determine whether Mahony and other Catholic leaders committed fraud by failing to deal with priests it knew was abusing children.
A Canadian couple claims that a doctor in Winnipeg, Manitoba refused them treatment because of their sexual orientation. Andrea Markowski and her girlfriend Ginette insist that Doctor Kamelia Elias, who was trained in Egypt and recently moved to Canada, refused to treat them, although Elias claims she merely suggested the two find a doctor who had more experience with gay patients.
Stonewall, the leading British LGBT equality group, is concerned that the coverage of a recent adoption of two children taken from the grandparents and placed in the home of two gay men has veered into homophobic territory, in particular reporting by one Amanda Platell, who seems to have seized upon the story only to attack the pubic perception of gay parents with a kind vicious wrongness that is frightening.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Neil G. Giuliano Resigns
Some breaking news: GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano is stepping down to pursue other projects, including a book about his political and public life. Mr. Giuliano has been GLAAD’s president since September 1st, 2005 and has worked tirelessly on behalf of the LGBT community. Neil is a friend and I want to offer congratulations to him on all he has accomplished in the past three years or so and wish him well on his future endeavors.
Degrassi Star Reminds You He Is Gay, Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps, Backstreet Boy Birthday, Joaquin’s Joke, Scott Herman’s Briefs, Neil Patrick Harris
Degrassi: The Next Generation star Adam Ruggiero, who now officially has made a career out of being gay, talks, um, about being gay.
This obsession with Ian Thorpe’s weight is officially ridiculous, with more pictures surfacing of Mr. Thorpe, back home in Sydney, Australia, and those pictures being scrutinized within an inch of their life and well, it is all simply stupid. He is happy, he is very cute, and his blond friend is cute too. There, I said it.
Strip club aficionado and pretend heterosexual (and fellow Olympic gold medal winner) Michael Phelps continues a from of career prostitution (he is appearing, briefly, here in Calgary on March 3rd at something called The Power Within, along with a dangerously happy assortment of others, which you can attend for hundreds of dollars) appearing in Saudi Arabia at something called the Global Competiveness Forum, where, sadly, he injured himself.
Backstreet Boy Nick Carter celebrated his birthday Monday evening in Los Angeles, joined by brother (dealer?) Aaron, who is apparently dating a transsexual; so, many, many questions.
The angry and anguished Joaquin Phoenix’s career change – Academy Award winning actor to rapper – is apparently a hoax, something I called after seeing the “performance” in Las Vegas, replete with funny glasses and fake nose. I must say I am impressed; at this time in history, we really need more overfed, overpaid celebrities staging faux-guerilla art. Can the return of the flash mob be far off? Ugh!
The gayness that is this season's MTV Real World – no sleep till Brooklyn – continues with the vaguely cute Scott Herman modeling for a new line of men’s organic underwear, Baskit Underwear’s Pure line to be precise, although one hopes that before next week’s launch they manage to shoot another campaign, because this one makes the models appear as though they are being held hostage.
The ever so cute Neil Patrick Harris is everywhere, Tuesday evening attending a night of How I Met Your Mother at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences along with his co-stars, including the very pregnant Alyson Hannigan.
This obsession with Ian Thorpe’s weight is officially ridiculous, with more pictures surfacing of Mr. Thorpe, back home in Sydney, Australia, and those pictures being scrutinized within an inch of their life and well, it is all simply stupid. He is happy, he is very cute, and his blond friend is cute too. There, I said it.
Strip club aficionado and pretend heterosexual (and fellow Olympic gold medal winner) Michael Phelps continues a from of career prostitution (he is appearing, briefly, here in Calgary on March 3rd at something called The Power Within, along with a dangerously happy assortment of others, which you can attend for hundreds of dollars) appearing in Saudi Arabia at something called the Global Competiveness Forum, where, sadly, he injured himself.
Backstreet Boy Nick Carter celebrated his birthday Monday evening in Los Angeles, joined by brother (dealer?) Aaron, who is apparently dating a transsexual; so, many, many questions.
The angry and anguished Joaquin Phoenix’s career change – Academy Award winning actor to rapper – is apparently a hoax, something I called after seeing the “performance” in Las Vegas, replete with funny glasses and fake nose. I must say I am impressed; at this time in history, we really need more overfed, overpaid celebrities staging faux-guerilla art. Can the return of the flash mob be far off? Ugh!
The gayness that is this season's MTV Real World – no sleep till Brooklyn – continues with the vaguely cute Scott Herman modeling for a new line of men’s organic underwear, Baskit Underwear’s Pure line to be precise, although one hopes that before next week’s launch they manage to shoot another campaign, because this one makes the models appear as though they are being held hostage.
The ever so cute Neil Patrick Harris is everywhere, Tuesday evening attending a night of How I Met Your Mother at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences along with his co-stars, including the very pregnant Alyson Hannigan.
Weighing Ian Thorpe’s Weight, Scottish Gay Adoption Uproar, Alberta Bishop Condemns Oilsands, Iceland’s Gay PM, Washington State Gay Bill, NPH, Shia
London’s Daily Mail is all over the Ian Thorpe story and apparently for the Mail, the story has little to nothing to do with hints that Thorpe may have found love with Brazilian Daniel Mendes, but rather focuses exclusively on Ian’s increasing weight.
The Daily Mail, in fact, seems obsessed over the rather odd story coming out of Scotland, where an elderly couple, grandparents to a five-year old boy and four-year old girl, who wanted to adopt the children (their mother is a twenty-six old recovering heroin addict) , but who were told they were too old to be considered for adoption. The children are now being placed in the home of a gay couple, and this has prompted the Scottish Catholic Church to issue a statement that it vehemently opposes the decision since according to spokesperson Peter Kearney there exists “an overwhelming body of evidence showing that same-sex relationships are inherently unstable and reduce the life expectancy of those involved.”
Meanwhile, quite commendably, a Catholic Bishop in Alberta has condemned the continued exploration and pillaging of the province’s oilsands, and has joined the deafening number of voices calling for a moratorium on any further development of the northern area until all environmental and social issues have been completely addressed. Bishop Luc Bouchard, in an online letter to parishioners, stated that the “integrity of creation in the Athabasca oilsands is clearly being sacrificed for economic gain (and that) future development of the oilsands constitutes a serious moral problem.”
Johanna Sigurdardottir, a sixty-six year social affairs minister in Iceland, is posed to become that nation’s Prime Minister as early as Thursday, making her the first openly gay prime minster in the world. The country, which separated and attained independence from Denmark in 1944, is experiencing its worst economic crisis ever, and the conservative government collapsed Monday after news that the countries banking industry had failed under massive debt.
What is being deemed the “everything but marriage bill” was put forth Tuesday in Washington State in the legislature. Sponsored by Senator Ed Murray and Representative Jamie Pederson, the measure would give gay couples all the benefits and rights afforded to straight couples.
The ever so cute Neil Patrick Harris (whose valiant effort could not save a poorly written Saturday Night Live despite guest host Harris) was on hand along with his stunningly sexy boyfriend David Burtka at this past Thursday’s ART LA 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art benefit and the twosome will be appearing this Saturday (along with Star Trek sexiness that is Zachary Quinto) at a special reading to benefit the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
Guess which Hollywood hobo continues the charade that all is well?
The Daily Mail, in fact, seems obsessed over the rather odd story coming out of Scotland, where an elderly couple, grandparents to a five-year old boy and four-year old girl, who wanted to adopt the children (their mother is a twenty-six old recovering heroin addict) , but who were told they were too old to be considered for adoption. The children are now being placed in the home of a gay couple, and this has prompted the Scottish Catholic Church to issue a statement that it vehemently opposes the decision since according to spokesperson Peter Kearney there exists “an overwhelming body of evidence showing that same-sex relationships are inherently unstable and reduce the life expectancy of those involved.”
Meanwhile, quite commendably, a Catholic Bishop in Alberta has condemned the continued exploration and pillaging of the province’s oilsands, and has joined the deafening number of voices calling for a moratorium on any further development of the northern area until all environmental and social issues have been completely addressed. Bishop Luc Bouchard, in an online letter to parishioners, stated that the “integrity of creation in the Athabasca oilsands is clearly being sacrificed for economic gain (and that) future development of the oilsands constitutes a serious moral problem.”
Johanna Sigurdardottir, a sixty-six year social affairs minister in Iceland, is posed to become that nation’s Prime Minister as early as Thursday, making her the first openly gay prime minster in the world. The country, which separated and attained independence from Denmark in 1944, is experiencing its worst economic crisis ever, and the conservative government collapsed Monday after news that the countries banking industry had failed under massive debt.
What is being deemed the “everything but marriage bill” was put forth Tuesday in Washington State in the legislature. Sponsored by Senator Ed Murray and Representative Jamie Pederson, the measure would give gay couples all the benefits and rights afforded to straight couples.
The ever so cute Neil Patrick Harris (whose valiant effort could not save a poorly written Saturday Night Live despite guest host Harris) was on hand along with his stunningly sexy boyfriend David Burtka at this past Thursday’s ART LA 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art benefit and the twosome will be appearing this Saturday (along with Star Trek sexiness that is Zachary Quinto) at a special reading to benefit the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
Guess which Hollywood hobo continues the charade that all is well?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Matthew Mitcham To Receive Order Of Australia, John Updike, Martin Delaney, Roddenberry Remains In Space, Every Little Step, Masturbation Medicinal
Matthew Mitcham, the openly gay Olympic gold medal winner, is to receive his native Australia’s Order Of Medal this year. Congratulations to Matthew, in training for the FINA World Championships held this year in Rome from July 18 to August 2nd, in case you were thinking of planning a visit to the motherland to view the splendor that is Mr. Mitcham.
The great American writer John Updike, whose sense of detail in the ordinary is often misunderstood as a simple fondness for all things white, middle-class, and Presbyterian, but whose fiction was much more, died Tuesday. He was 76. The cause of death is cancer and the New York Times offers this obituary.
On Friday, the founder of Project Inform, Martin Delaney, died from complications resulting from liver cancer. He was 63. Although not HIV-positive, Mr. Delany was one of the first and foremost HIV/AIDS activists, who was largely responsible for the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Public Health Service maintaining a policy of permitting patients with HIV and AIDS to receive drugs still in a testing stage; a policy that has not only produced more effective treatment, but saved lives.
The cremated remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife Majel, who died in December, 2008, are to be launched into space in 2010, never to return again.
Every Little Step, a documentary film that looks at the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, will open on April 16th, 2009, in selected theaters.
Male masturbation good news/bad news: The good news is that for men over fifty who masturbate regularly combat the risk of getting prostrate cancer; the bad news is that men in the twenties and thirties who masturbate often run the risk of getting the disease.
The great American writer John Updike, whose sense of detail in the ordinary is often misunderstood as a simple fondness for all things white, middle-class, and Presbyterian, but whose fiction was much more, died Tuesday. He was 76. The cause of death is cancer and the New York Times offers this obituary.
On Friday, the founder of Project Inform, Martin Delaney, died from complications resulting from liver cancer. He was 63. Although not HIV-positive, Mr. Delany was one of the first and foremost HIV/AIDS activists, who was largely responsible for the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Public Health Service maintaining a policy of permitting patients with HIV and AIDS to receive drugs still in a testing stage; a policy that has not only produced more effective treatment, but saved lives.
The cremated remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife Majel, who died in December, 2008, are to be launched into space in 2010, never to return again.
Every Little Step, a documentary film that looks at the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, will open on April 16th, 2009, in selected theaters.
Male masturbation good news/bad news: The good news is that for men over fifty who masturbate regularly combat the risk of getting prostrate cancer; the bad news is that men in the twenties and thirties who masturbate often run the risk of getting the disease.
Andy Roddick Rocks, Ian Thorpe In Love, Touching Beckham’s Butt, GLAAD Nominees, Meryl Streep Is 30 Rock-tastic, Ellen’s Birthday, Hugh Jackman
Andy Roddick, who seemed stuck in a kind of mediocrity mode since winning the United States Open in the 2003, now appears in the best shape of his career, physically and mentally, as witnessed yesterday by his three set semifinal win over defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, which advanced Andy to the next round of this year’s Open.
Roddick was leading the match when Djokovic was forced to retire because of cramps – a result, likely, of the impossibly high temperatures that hovered near one-hundred, as the host city, Melbourne, continues to endure a heat wave. There are more pictures of Mr. Roddick at play yesterday than one could presumably ever want here.
Also from down under, news of Ian Thorpe and his “mate” Daniel Mendez, seen together over the Christmas holidays in Brazil, adding fuel to an already raging fire that the twosome are something slightly more than friends and roommates, despite Thorpe’s incessant denials that he may be gay.
It seems that the twosome, introduced by Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies at least three years ago, have attended the 2007 Australia’s Next Top Model Final and the 2008 Australian MTV Awards together, and the press is speculating that Daniel is whom Ian referred to when he said six months ago he was “in love” with someone who did not live in Australia.
Who does not want to touch David Beckham’s butt for good luck or just touch it? AC Milan, Beckham’s current team, on loan to them for three months or so, have dubbed David the “lucky talisman” and groped his greatness after he scored his first goal for the club Monday as a part of their 4-1 victory over Bologna.
The 20th Annual GLAAD Media Award nominees were announced Tuesday, the long list here, and yes, they somehow honor Tyra Banks.
Alec Baldwin Sunday night at the SAG Awards secured the great Meryl Streep’s services as a guest star on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock.
Ellen DeGeneres, nominated for a GLADD Media Award, celebrated her fifty-first birthday in Los Angeles Monday, at a small celebration at the Chateau Marmont, accompanied by her now none legally recognized wife Portia de Rossi thanks to Proposition 8, with Ellen stealing style tips from another lovely lesbian Samantha Ronson, and that is never a good thing.
Finally, Hugh Jackman, Hall of Fame DILF that he is, having safely returned to New York City from Vancouver, British Columbia, was all dad Monday, enjoying a spirited pickup game of soccer with his son Oscar.
Roddick was leading the match when Djokovic was forced to retire because of cramps – a result, likely, of the impossibly high temperatures that hovered near one-hundred, as the host city, Melbourne, continues to endure a heat wave. There are more pictures of Mr. Roddick at play yesterday than one could presumably ever want here.
Also from down under, news of Ian Thorpe and his “mate” Daniel Mendez, seen together over the Christmas holidays in Brazil, adding fuel to an already raging fire that the twosome are something slightly more than friends and roommates, despite Thorpe’s incessant denials that he may be gay.
It seems that the twosome, introduced by Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies at least three years ago, have attended the 2007 Australia’s Next Top Model Final and the 2008 Australian MTV Awards together, and the press is speculating that Daniel is whom Ian referred to when he said six months ago he was “in love” with someone who did not live in Australia.
Who does not want to touch David Beckham’s butt for good luck or just touch it? AC Milan, Beckham’s current team, on loan to them for three months or so, have dubbed David the “lucky talisman” and groped his greatness after he scored his first goal for the club Monday as a part of their 4-1 victory over Bologna.
The 20th Annual GLAAD Media Award nominees were announced Tuesday, the long list here, and yes, they somehow honor Tyra Banks.
Alec Baldwin Sunday night at the SAG Awards secured the great Meryl Streep’s services as a guest star on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock.
Ellen DeGeneres, nominated for a GLADD Media Award, celebrated her fifty-first birthday in Los Angeles Monday, at a small celebration at the Chateau Marmont, accompanied by her now none legally recognized wife Portia de Rossi thanks to Proposition 8, with Ellen stealing style tips from another lovely lesbian Samantha Ronson, and that is never a good thing.
Finally, Hugh Jackman, Hall of Fame DILF that he is, having safely returned to New York City from Vancouver, British Columbia, was all dad Monday, enjoying a spirited pickup game of soccer with his son Oscar.
Monday, January 26, 2009
T.R. Knight And Mark Get Happy, Scott Bailey, This Year’s Model Jethro Cave, Ed Westwick, Shia Style, John Barrowman, Ryan Reynolds, Killers, Fatone
Cute couple T.R. Knight, thirty-five, and his younger boyfriend Mark Cornelson, nineteen, did Disneyland Sunday, riding and rolling and well being ridiculously happy.
Scott Bailey, so good in the wonderful made for television movie Prayers for Bobby (airing repeatedly on the American Lifetime network), playing the title character, wrote an essay outlining his experience making the film, that is surprisingly gentle, moving, and above all, sincere, and while there are certain criticisms regarding straight actors playing gay (it is a fallacious argument) Mr. Bailey is so cute and endearing that for me he can do no wrong.
Jethro Cave, the son of Nick Cave – yes, of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – inherited his Father’s androgynous appearance and sense of sketch, and while he is not nearly my type, the eighteen-year old was the breakout model at the recent Italian fashion week, a portfolio of the strangely sexy Jethro here.
Make believe heterosexual and Gossip Girl boy Ed Westwick, who is starring in S. Darko, the sequel to the cult classic Donnie Darko, does Teen Vogue, and there is video.
Guess which Hollywood hobo has new pants! And new shoes!
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman is to host a new six-part BBC show, tentatively titled Tonight’s The Night, which sounds sort of cringe inducing, but Barrowman is so cute that for me he can do no wrong.
The suddenly sexy (and future Hall of Fame DILF) Ryan Reynolds worked out in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is currently filming additional scenes for the upcoming X-Man Origins: Wolverine, and Mr. Ryan Reynolds looked oh so hot.
Joey Fatone, last seen opening a toilet in Times Square (really, I posted about it) was somehow secured an assignment for the “fledging” TV Guide network interviewing arrivals Sunday at the SAG Awards, where Mr. Fatone asked Milk star James Franco whether it was challenging for a straight man to play gay, and good news, Mr. Fatone will be appearing at next month’s Academy Awards, so the stupidity will be continue unabated!
Scott Bailey, so good in the wonderful made for television movie Prayers for Bobby (airing repeatedly on the American Lifetime network), playing the title character, wrote an essay outlining his experience making the film, that is surprisingly gentle, moving, and above all, sincere, and while there are certain criticisms regarding straight actors playing gay (it is a fallacious argument) Mr. Bailey is so cute and endearing that for me he can do no wrong.
Jethro Cave, the son of Nick Cave – yes, of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – inherited his Father’s androgynous appearance and sense of sketch, and while he is not nearly my type, the eighteen-year old was the breakout model at the recent Italian fashion week, a portfolio of the strangely sexy Jethro here.
Make believe heterosexual and Gossip Girl boy Ed Westwick, who is starring in S. Darko, the sequel to the cult classic Donnie Darko, does Teen Vogue, and there is video.
Guess which Hollywood hobo has new pants! And new shoes!
Hall of Fame DILF John Barrowman is to host a new six-part BBC show, tentatively titled Tonight’s The Night, which sounds sort of cringe inducing, but Barrowman is so cute that for me he can do no wrong.
The suddenly sexy (and future Hall of Fame DILF) Ryan Reynolds worked out in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is currently filming additional scenes for the upcoming X-Man Origins: Wolverine, and Mr. Ryan Reynolds looked oh so hot.
Joey Fatone, last seen opening a toilet in Times Square (really, I posted about it) was somehow secured an assignment for the “fledging” TV Guide network interviewing arrivals Sunday at the SAG Awards, where Mr. Fatone asked Milk star James Franco whether it was challenging for a straight man to play gay, and good news, Mr. Fatone will be appearing at next month’s Academy Awards, so the stupidity will be continue unabated!
Prop 8 Arguments Readied, Sam Adams Returns, Halliburton Pays Millions, Grime Job Losses, True Blood, Hugh Jackman, Mel White, Ugly Betty Bounced
All of the legal arguments for and against Proposition 8 have been prepared and the briefs submitted to the California Supreme Court, awaiting a hearing which could begin as soon as the beginning of March, with a ruling expected to be delivered ninety days later; a ruling that will either uphold the November 4th, 2008 voted initiative that effectively eradicated the right of gay men and women in the state to legally marry or will strike down Prop 8 as fundamentally unconstitutional.
Portland, Oregon mayor Sam Adams returned to work Monday, making the first public appearance since the purported sex scandal broke a week ago. Adams made only one comment to the crowd of reporters as he made his way to City Hall – “I’m ready to get to work” - presumably with more pressing issues to attend to, like the Saturday night shooting in the downtown, that so far had claimed the lives of two and left seven others injured.
Halliburton, the company once headed by former vice-president Dick Cheney is expected to pay five-hundred, fifty-nine million dollars in order to settle charges it bribed Nigerian officials, with three-hundred and thirty-two million paid to the United States Department of Justice and the remaining one-hundred and seventy-seven million paid to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The day is not yet over, but it already is a bad one for employment news: three separate American companies announced layoffs totaling over sixty thousand today, including Caterpillar, Sprint, and Home Depot. Starbucks is expected to announce record layoffs of management early next week.
The barely contained camp that is True Blood has added – big surprise – another cute boy to its ravenous roster.
Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, ever stylish, departs Vancouver, British Columbia Sunday after filming additional scenes for the upcoming X-Man movie, with the sexy Australian recently confiding that his “wife” prefers him to don wardrobe while in the bedroom, executing a little role playing, all of which makes me feel quite queasy.
Mel White, the gay rights activist and founder of Soulforce, is set to appear on the next installment of The Amazing Race, partnered with his son, Mike White, the screenwriter of such excessively heterosexual works like School of Rock and Nacho Libre.
Finally, ABC continues to eagerly demonstrate it knows next to nothing about television, having already cancelled the wonderfully whimsical Eli Stone and the daringly brilliant Pushing Daises, and is now reporting that Ugly Betty is being placed on sabbatical beginning March 26th and will not return until sometime in June. Granted the great, but erratic Samantha Who? is filling its Thursday spot, but come on people, get rid of the malfeasance that is Grey’s Anatomy first.
Portland, Oregon mayor Sam Adams returned to work Monday, making the first public appearance since the purported sex scandal broke a week ago. Adams made only one comment to the crowd of reporters as he made his way to City Hall – “I’m ready to get to work” - presumably with more pressing issues to attend to, like the Saturday night shooting in the downtown, that so far had claimed the lives of two and left seven others injured.
Halliburton, the company once headed by former vice-president Dick Cheney is expected to pay five-hundred, fifty-nine million dollars in order to settle charges it bribed Nigerian officials, with three-hundred and thirty-two million paid to the United States Department of Justice and the remaining one-hundred and seventy-seven million paid to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The day is not yet over, but it already is a bad one for employment news: three separate American companies announced layoffs totaling over sixty thousand today, including Caterpillar, Sprint, and Home Depot. Starbucks is expected to announce record layoffs of management early next week.
The barely contained camp that is True Blood has added – big surprise – another cute boy to its ravenous roster.
Hall of Fame DILF Hugh Jackman, ever stylish, departs Vancouver, British Columbia Sunday after filming additional scenes for the upcoming X-Man movie, with the sexy Australian recently confiding that his “wife” prefers him to don wardrobe while in the bedroom, executing a little role playing, all of which makes me feel quite queasy.
Mel White, the gay rights activist and founder of Soulforce, is set to appear on the next installment of The Amazing Race, partnered with his son, Mike White, the screenwriter of such excessively heterosexual works like School of Rock and Nacho Libre.
Finally, ABC continues to eagerly demonstrate it knows next to nothing about television, having already cancelled the wonderfully whimsical Eli Stone and the daringly brilliant Pushing Daises, and is now reporting that Ugly Betty is being placed on sabbatical beginning March 26th and will not return until sometime in June. Granted the great, but erratic Samantha Who? is filling its Thursday spot, but come on people, get rid of the malfeasance that is Grey’s Anatomy first.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Equity Summit Simmers With Anger, 2010 Too Soon To Revisit Prop 8, PGA, SAG Winners, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zac Efron, Grace Jones Likes Rafael’s Rump, Push
The 2009 Equity Summit in Los Angeles over the weekend, drew an overflow crowd of over four-hundred, almost all of whom were angry with the failure of the No On 8 campaign to combat Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban that passed narrowly on November 4th, 2008, citing a lack of direction by the leaders, an inadequate response to the concerns and needs of the LGBT community, and the absence of a clear cohesive message. The anger, however, is likely a good sign, since where there is anger, there often is hope.
If the California Supreme Court fails to overturn the same-sex marriage ban, several gay activists and leaders are concerned that 2010 might be too early to bring an initiative back on a ballot that would repeal the amendment, contending that twenty-one months is too short a time to try and convince voters to reconsider gay marriage, and that a second straight loss would devastate the move towards complete civil rights, although I would argue that the leaders of the No On 8 need to capitalize on both the newfound sense of activism that colors almost all of the LGBT community and the perceptible shift, although perhaps puny, in the publics empathy towards homosexuals securing fundamental equal rights.
Sean Penn won the Screen Actors Guild award Sunday night for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his work in Milk, while 30Rock swept the comedy category, and Mad Men won outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama. A complete list of the winners is here.
Slumdog Millionaire, which won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the SAG awards, captured the Producer Guild Award Saturday for best feature film, while 30 Rock, Mad Men, and HBO’s John Adams took the television honors.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal and his “girlfriend” Reese Witherspoon were out and about in Los Angeles Saturday, with Jake scowling, sporting a new coif.
Fellow fake heterosexual Zac Efron, having safely landed in Japan with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens ahead of the opening of High School Musical 3, was met with overstated hysteria.
The delightful diva that is Miss. Grace Jones, whose new CD Hurricane is out now, talks Aretha Franklin’s hat, motherhood, President Barack Obama, and the joys of Rafael Nadal, though not necessary in that order.
Finally, the Sundance Film Festival, with threats of a boycott and the seemingly more urgent inauguration, seemed a little less festive than usual, but one film that has benefitted big from a screening in Park City, Utah, is the small movie Push, winning the grand jury prize, the audience award for drama, and the special jury prize for acting. Other winners included We Live In Public and The Cove.
If the California Supreme Court fails to overturn the same-sex marriage ban, several gay activists and leaders are concerned that 2010 might be too early to bring an initiative back on a ballot that would repeal the amendment, contending that twenty-one months is too short a time to try and convince voters to reconsider gay marriage, and that a second straight loss would devastate the move towards complete civil rights, although I would argue that the leaders of the No On 8 need to capitalize on both the newfound sense of activism that colors almost all of the LGBT community and the perceptible shift, although perhaps puny, in the publics empathy towards homosexuals securing fundamental equal rights.
Sean Penn won the Screen Actors Guild award Sunday night for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his work in Milk, while 30Rock swept the comedy category, and Mad Men won outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama. A complete list of the winners is here.
Slumdog Millionaire, which won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the SAG awards, captured the Producer Guild Award Saturday for best feature film, while 30 Rock, Mad Men, and HBO’s John Adams took the television honors.
Pretend heterosexual Jake Gyllenhaal and his “girlfriend” Reese Witherspoon were out and about in Los Angeles Saturday, with Jake scowling, sporting a new coif.
Fellow fake heterosexual Zac Efron, having safely landed in Japan with “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens ahead of the opening of High School Musical 3, was met with overstated hysteria.
The delightful diva that is Miss. Grace Jones, whose new CD Hurricane is out now, talks Aretha Franklin’s hat, motherhood, President Barack Obama, and the joys of Rafael Nadal, though not necessary in that order.
Finally, the Sundance Film Festival, with threats of a boycott and the seemingly more urgent inauguration, seemed a little less festive than usual, but one film that has benefitted big from a screening in Park City, Utah, is the small movie Push, winning the grand jury prize, the audience award for drama, and the special jury prize for acting. Other winners included We Live In Public and The Cove.
Sam Adams Reportedly Returning To Mayor’s Office Monday, Beau Breedlove Interview, Why Sam Should Stay Editorial, Nine Shot Saturday In Portland
Portland, Oregon City Commissioner Randy Leonard is reporting that embattled Mayor Sam Adams is not resigning his position and intends to return to office Monday, although Mr. Leonard’s credibility appears to be slightly suspect.
Additionally, Beau Breedlove, whose own credibility and culpability in the sex scandal has yet to be questioned, granted an interview with the decidedly anti-Adams Oregonian – an interview that incidentally was conducted by a team of three reporters – where Breedlove both defended Adams and denied that he was a victim of Adam’s advances. Breedlove also stated, on the record, that the sexual relationship between the two men did not begin until Beau was eighteen-years old.
Yesterday, Saturday, Portland’s alternative newspaper the Mercury (it is staggering how many alternative media sources the city has) published an editorial explaining why Sam Adams should stay as the mayor, citing the previous work Adams has done, and underlining that the city faces far more dire, pressing issues that the timing of a handful of kisses.
For example, the shooting of nine people in the downtown core last night, two of whom died, seven of whom are injured, and the gunman, who is twenty-four, is in critical condition after attempting to kill himself after shooting randomly in a popular underage club.
Additionally, Beau Breedlove, whose own credibility and culpability in the sex scandal has yet to be questioned, granted an interview with the decidedly anti-Adams Oregonian – an interview that incidentally was conducted by a team of three reporters – where Breedlove both defended Adams and denied that he was a victim of Adam’s advances. Breedlove also stated, on the record, that the sexual relationship between the two men did not begin until Beau was eighteen-years old.
Yesterday, Saturday, Portland’s alternative newspaper the Mercury (it is staggering how many alternative media sources the city has) published an editorial explaining why Sam Adams should stay as the mayor, citing the previous work Adams has done, and underlining that the city faces far more dire, pressing issues that the timing of a handful of kisses.
For example, the shooting of nine people in the downtown core last night, two of whom died, seven of whom are injured, and the gunman, who is twenty-four, is in critical condition after attempting to kill himself after shooting randomly in a popular underage club.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Prince Harry Sexy And Now Single, Zac Efron’s Garbage, Michael Pitt Is YSL Hot, Hockey Players And The Stars Who Love Them, Andy Roddick, Tennis Bum
Royal red head cutie (and the gay man’s prince of choice) Prince Harry and his girlfriend of five years Chelsy Davy have broken up, with speculation that Davy dumped Harry because of his “lifestyle.”
Pretend heterosexual Zac Efron and his “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens left Los Angeles Saturday en route to Japan where the twosome will be on hand to open High School Musical 3, but not before Zac took out the trash, rocking a Members Only jacket.
Michael Pitt, who is very cute in that kind of borderline boarder/musician way, is the star of a new short film that introduced the Yves Saint Laurent’s men’s fall fashion for 2009, and while the film, shot in beautiful bluish black and white is essentially an ad, the simplicity and the sexuality is more interesting than almost all of the films I saw last year.
In the battle of the young Hollywood supposed starlets who date professional hockey players, in this corner the lovely Hilary Duff and her boy toy, New York Islander’s center Mike Comrie and in this corner the frightening Elisha Cuthbert and her boyfriend, Calgary Flames’ defenseman Dion Phaneuf, both men, bizarrely hail from Edmonton, and I’m just saying.
Andy Roddick continues to advance at the Australia Open Tennis Tournament, which is great news for you and I as Mr. Roddick prefers to practice shirtless.
Finally, one of those in attendance at the Australia Open prefers to be without pants.
Pretend heterosexual Zac Efron and his “girlfriend” Vanessa Hudgens left Los Angeles Saturday en route to Japan where the twosome will be on hand to open High School Musical 3, but not before Zac took out the trash, rocking a Members Only jacket.
Michael Pitt, who is very cute in that kind of borderline boarder/musician way, is the star of a new short film that introduced the Yves Saint Laurent’s men’s fall fashion for 2009, and while the film, shot in beautiful bluish black and white is essentially an ad, the simplicity and the sexuality is more interesting than almost all of the films I saw last year.
In the battle of the young Hollywood supposed starlets who date professional hockey players, in this corner the lovely Hilary Duff and her boy toy, New York Islander’s center Mike Comrie and in this corner the frightening Elisha Cuthbert and her boyfriend, Calgary Flames’ defenseman Dion Phaneuf, both men, bizarrely hail from Edmonton, and I’m just saying.
Andy Roddick continues to advance at the Australia Open Tennis Tournament, which is great news for you and I as Mr. Roddick prefers to practice shirtless.
Finally, one of those in attendance at the Australia Open prefers to be without pants.
Show of Support For Sam Adams, American Family Association Wages War, Shia Stupidity, Wentworth Miller, Ben Affleck Briefs, Anderson Cooper Bloopers
Two rallies were held Friday in Portland, Oregon in support of embattled Mayor Sam Adams; the first was held at noon in front of City Hall where the participants, mostly community leaders and elected officials, urged Adams not to resign, citing the need to focus on large, more pressing issues like the city’s surging unemployment rate. The second rally, held last night, also in front of City Hall, attracted hundreds of people who came to show their support for Sam Adams, all reiterating the refrain to that Adams stay in office.
Portland’s gay and lesbian community appears surprisinginly divided over whether Adams, a long standing city civil servant and the first openly gay in America to be sworn in as mayor, should resign, although oddly, there appears to a feeling that as a gay man, Adams, and all his actions and words, reflect the gay community, rightly or wrongly, with several suggesting that Adams has set the work done by gay activists back years, with story of sexual dalliances feeding conservatives who view gay men as predators. In fact, JustOut, the Portland LBGT newspaper who named Adams its person of the year, called for him to resign immediately after the story broke this past Monday, citing Adams abuse of the truth and the loss of trust.
Of course, this is all occurring in a country whose latent Puritanism lies just beneath the surface at all times and who tends to demonize all things homosexual, as witnessed by the fine folk at American Family Association, a group whose hatred of gays and lesbians is left of transparent it is so thinly disguised. The organization, led by the spectacularly stupid Donald E. Wildmon, whose self-important sense of morality is as stunted as is his intellect, discovered, along with the rest of the world, President Obama’s agenda of civil rights, including a number of LGBT issues his administration, which led Wildmon to surmise that Obama plans to “reshape society” where “unborn babies are not worth protecting” and gays “deserve special rights.” Mr. Wildmon, who still contends that a cultural war in being waged (Pepsi, apparently, is an enemy in said war, having contributed to advancement of the gay agenda) wants his followers to let the Obama White House know they do not support the protection of those who “practice perverted sex,” insisting that this is crisis mode, and that the AFA’s “children and grandchildren” are counting on them.
I am thinking that Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf might need to return to placing paper bags over his head, if only to prevent the young train wreck from making vaguely homophobic comments like this. Although, big snap for the paparazzo’s retort.
The soon to be unemployed, but nonetheless very sexy Wentworth Miller braved the wintry weather of Los Angeles Thursday, out and about at the Grove, looking cute and casual.
Also out and about Thursday, also in Los Angeles, Hall of Fame DILF Ben Affleck, offering a brief glimpse of his choice in underwear while attending to his dad duties; get it? Brief glimpse?
Finally, who does not love cute Anderson Cooper (the Coop to his friends, of which I am certain you are one) made all the more loveable but this recent on air calamity suggesting Anderson may have stayed late – very late as in have not been to bed late – at the Gayla Inaugural Ball.
Portland’s gay and lesbian community appears surprisinginly divided over whether Adams, a long standing city civil servant and the first openly gay in America to be sworn in as mayor, should resign, although oddly, there appears to a feeling that as a gay man, Adams, and all his actions and words, reflect the gay community, rightly or wrongly, with several suggesting that Adams has set the work done by gay activists back years, with story of sexual dalliances feeding conservatives who view gay men as predators. In fact, JustOut, the Portland LBGT newspaper who named Adams its person of the year, called for him to resign immediately after the story broke this past Monday, citing Adams abuse of the truth and the loss of trust.
Of course, this is all occurring in a country whose latent Puritanism lies just beneath the surface at all times and who tends to demonize all things homosexual, as witnessed by the fine folk at American Family Association, a group whose hatred of gays and lesbians is left of transparent it is so thinly disguised. The organization, led by the spectacularly stupid Donald E. Wildmon, whose self-important sense of morality is as stunted as is his intellect, discovered, along with the rest of the world, President Obama’s agenda of civil rights, including a number of LGBT issues his administration, which led Wildmon to surmise that Obama plans to “reshape society” where “unborn babies are not worth protecting” and gays “deserve special rights.” Mr. Wildmon, who still contends that a cultural war in being waged (Pepsi, apparently, is an enemy in said war, having contributed to advancement of the gay agenda) wants his followers to let the Obama White House know they do not support the protection of those who “practice perverted sex,” insisting that this is crisis mode, and that the AFA’s “children and grandchildren” are counting on them.
I am thinking that Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf might need to return to placing paper bags over his head, if only to prevent the young train wreck from making vaguely homophobic comments like this. Although, big snap for the paparazzo’s retort.
The soon to be unemployed, but nonetheless very sexy Wentworth Miller braved the wintry weather of Los Angeles Thursday, out and about at the Grove, looking cute and casual.
Also out and about Thursday, also in Los Angeles, Hall of Fame DILF Ben Affleck, offering a brief glimpse of his choice in underwear while attending to his dad duties; get it? Brief glimpse?
Finally, who does not love cute Anderson Cooper (the Coop to his friends, of which I am certain you are one) made all the more loveable but this recent on air calamity suggesting Anderson may have stayed late – very late as in have not been to bed late – at the Gayla Inaugural Ball.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Support Sam Adams, NY State Senator Supports Same-Sex Marriage, Clay Aiken and Reed Kelly, Emile Hirsch, Shy Shia, Couple Charade, Hanks Apologizes
While Portland, Oregon mayor Sam Adams continues to ponder his fate at this hour, a rally is planned for today – Friday, January 23, 2009 – at 12:00PM PST, in front of City Hall, where a number of elected officials, arts, community, and business leaders will gather to show their support for Adams, including a message to be read from Portland native Gus Van Sant. Later on Friday, at 5:30 PM PST, another rally in support of the Mayor is planned, with a scheduled appearance by Dan Savage; a rally organized by the Facebook group Support Sam Adams, which now has over two-thousand members, and which I encourage you to join.
To the surprise of almost no one, New York State Governor David A. Patterson has asked Democratic congresswoman Kirsten E. Gillibrand to assume the Senate seat that was left vacant after the appointment of Hillary Clinton as President Obama’s Secretary of State. In addition to Gillibrand favoring abortion rights and the removal of troops from Iraq, an aide confirmed Friday morning that she favors legalizing same-sex marriage, rendering her the first Senator from the Empire State to come out in support of gay marriage.
While I am not entirely certain that Clay Aiken and Reed Kelly make a perfect couple, these photo booth pictures convince me that they are a fun couple, who seem more than happy together.
How cute is Emile Hirsch, what with his teaching of bike riding to his “girlfriend.”
Despite opting for the rather alarming fashion choice of wearing a paper bag over his head Wednesday, Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf sans bag, was out and about Thursday in Los Angeles, but still seemingly without showering, and again, the cries for help get louder and louder and louder.
Though I love them both, I sincerely wish Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker would end the whole charade.
Finally, although I am not entirely sure why, but harboring suspicions, Tom Hanks has now apologized for his remarks last week that Mormons who contributed to the passing of Proposition 8 were “un-American,” retracting his statement ever so slightly, all of which impresses me not.
To the surprise of almost no one, New York State Governor David A. Patterson has asked Democratic congresswoman Kirsten E. Gillibrand to assume the Senate seat that was left vacant after the appointment of Hillary Clinton as President Obama’s Secretary of State. In addition to Gillibrand favoring abortion rights and the removal of troops from Iraq, an aide confirmed Friday morning that she favors legalizing same-sex marriage, rendering her the first Senator from the Empire State to come out in support of gay marriage.
While I am not entirely certain that Clay Aiken and Reed Kelly make a perfect couple, these photo booth pictures convince me that they are a fun couple, who seem more than happy together.
How cute is Emile Hirsch, what with his teaching of bike riding to his “girlfriend.”
Despite opting for the rather alarming fashion choice of wearing a paper bag over his head Wednesday, Hollywood hobo Shia LaBeouf sans bag, was out and about Thursday in Los Angeles, but still seemingly without showering, and again, the cries for help get louder and louder and louder.
Though I love them both, I sincerely wish Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker would end the whole charade.
Finally, although I am not entirely sure why, but harboring suspicions, Tom Hanks has now apologized for his remarks last week that Mormons who contributed to the passing of Proposition 8 were “un-American,” retracting his statement ever so slightly, all of which impresses me not.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
John Robert McGraham Murder Suspect Arrested, Sam Adams Scandal Cost City Soccer Team, Portia de Rossi, Paper Bag Prince, Mad Men Marriage, Tom Brady
Some great breaking news on a story I followed late last year: an arrest according to the Los Angeles Times has be made in the horrific murder of John Robert McGraham, the much beloved homeless Los Angeles man who was set on fire on October 8th, 2008. Apprehended in Rancho Mirage is thirty-year old Benjamin Mathew Martin. Although Los Angeles Police cryptically ascribed the motive as being a combination of “personal dislike and a little bit of crazy” it is still not clear what, if anything prompted the killing.
Small groups of anti and pro Sam Adams demonstrators gathered Thursday at Portland’s City Hall, but the Mayor stayed away. A group that supports the embattled Adams is organizing a rally and, somewhat inexplicitly, a columnist for the Oregonian, one John Canzano, has written an article suggesting that Adams and the sex scandal is likely to cost Portland an opportunity to be next Major League Soccer league’s expansion city, which in a city that just – just as in days ago – announced it now had a nine percent unemployment rate and rampant gang activity, seems slightly beside the point.
Portia de Rossi is launching her own vegan shoe line.
Guess which Hollywood hot hobo is hiding under the paper bag? The cries for help just keep getting louder and louder.
On Monday, the New York Post’s page six revealed that Mad Men’s great Elizabeth Moss was dating Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen – the two met when Jon Hamm guest hosted this past fall and Moss appeared in a Mad Men sketch – and now Moss has told usaweekend.com that she and Fred are, um, engaged, which was a little quick, but, seriously, who has not been there? Congratulations to the happy couple!
A couple not – repeat NOT – engaged: one Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot backup quarterback Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, with Bundchen telling the Boston Herald that all the stories, including one run by People magazine a week or so ago, are completely untrue. Whew!
Small groups of anti and pro Sam Adams demonstrators gathered Thursday at Portland’s City Hall, but the Mayor stayed away. A group that supports the embattled Adams is organizing a rally and, somewhat inexplicitly, a columnist for the Oregonian, one John Canzano, has written an article suggesting that Adams and the sex scandal is likely to cost Portland an opportunity to be next Major League Soccer league’s expansion city, which in a city that just – just as in days ago – announced it now had a nine percent unemployment rate and rampant gang activity, seems slightly beside the point.
Portia de Rossi is launching her own vegan shoe line.
Guess which Hollywood hot hobo is hiding under the paper bag? The cries for help just keep getting louder and louder.
On Monday, the New York Post’s page six revealed that Mad Men’s great Elizabeth Moss was dating Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen – the two met when Jon Hamm guest hosted this past fall and Moss appeared in a Mad Men sketch – and now Moss has told usaweekend.com that she and Fred are, um, engaged, which was a little quick, but, seriously, who has not been there? Congratulations to the happy couple!
A couple not – repeat NOT – engaged: one Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot backup quarterback Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, with Bundchen telling the Boston Herald that all the stories, including one run by People magazine a week or so ago, are completely untrue. Whew!
Caroline Kennedy Has Housekeeper Issues, Obama Orders Guantanamo Gone, Inaugural Gayety, Adams Rally While Witch Hunt Continues, Lily’s Lesbian Likes
The New York Times is now reporting, cryptically in fact, that Caroline Kennedy withdrew her name from consideration of the vacated New York State Senate seat largely because of both a “housekeeper” and “tax” problem. The report also suggests that Kennedy’s missteps and unpreparedness served to embarrass her and undermine what, if any credibility she may have held. There still is no named source, just someone close to the office of Governor David Patterson, with this version contradicting the version released yesterday that cited Caroline’s concern for Ted Kennedy, her uncle, and his health woes.
President Barack Obama has officially ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison within the year, reports The Washington Post, and to end any and all harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorist suspects citing a move towards fighting terrorism “consistent with our values and ideals.” With the proud pace Obama is moving at, I think it will be more a question of what he and his administration accomplishes in one-hundred hours instead of one-hundred days.
The Daily Beast has this coverage of the of the LGBT Gayla inaugural ball held Tuesday evening, noting that while the attendees quaffed Obama-tinis and were serenaded by Rufus Wainwright (who, surprisingly bathed) there is still a feeling of skepticism as to whether gays and lesbians are actually a part of the civil rights package President Obama aims to bring about, although there still exists a sense of hopefulness. Seriously, if I read one more account of how hopeful we gays are, well, just wait.
Two separate rallies are being planned in Portland, Oregon – one to show support for Mayor Sam Adams; the other to demonstrate against, that according to the Oregonian. I still contend that there is something suspicious about the timing and the response to the revelation that he and then seventeen-year old Beau Breedlove began a sexual relationship, that Adams subsequently lied about. Particularly bothersome is why someone claiming to be a reporter this past Saturday would inquire whether I knew of pending rape charges to be brought against the Mayor.
Lily Allen – love her – was out and about Wednesday evening in London till the early hours of Thursday with her cute younger brother Alfie, and in an interview with the United Kingdom’s Gay Times to come out Friday, the said Miss. Allen reveals that she frequently has lesbian fantasies and enjoyed a romantic threesome with identical female twins in San Diego, although, honestly, who has not been there? I am right?
President Barack Obama has officially ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison within the year, reports The Washington Post, and to end any and all harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorist suspects citing a move towards fighting terrorism “consistent with our values and ideals.” With the proud pace Obama is moving at, I think it will be more a question of what he and his administration accomplishes in one-hundred hours instead of one-hundred days.
The Daily Beast has this coverage of the of the LGBT Gayla inaugural ball held Tuesday evening, noting that while the attendees quaffed Obama-tinis and were serenaded by Rufus Wainwright (who, surprisingly bathed) there is still a feeling of skepticism as to whether gays and lesbians are actually a part of the civil rights package President Obama aims to bring about, although there still exists a sense of hopefulness. Seriously, if I read one more account of how hopeful we gays are, well, just wait.
Two separate rallies are being planned in Portland, Oregon – one to show support for Mayor Sam Adams; the other to demonstrate against, that according to the Oregonian. I still contend that there is something suspicious about the timing and the response to the revelation that he and then seventeen-year old Beau Breedlove began a sexual relationship, that Adams subsequently lied about. Particularly bothersome is why someone claiming to be a reporter this past Saturday would inquire whether I knew of pending rape charges to be brought against the Mayor.
Lily Allen – love her – was out and about Wednesday evening in London till the early hours of Thursday with her cute younger brother Alfie, and in an interview with the United Kingdom’s Gay Times to come out Friday, the said Miss. Allen reveals that she frequently has lesbian fantasies and enjoyed a romantic threesome with identical female twins in San Diego, although, honestly, who has not been there? I am right?
Nick Youngquest Continues To Conquer One Nude At A Time
Nick Youngquest, the super sexy Australian rugby player with a penchant for posing in various stages of undress, has done all of us and a single special Louis Vuitton sweater a favor by posing in said stages of undress once more, this time for the French gay magazine Tetu, (the pictures are vaguely NSFW) and all I can say is Mr. Youngquest, I, on behalf of many, thank you Sir. Simply, thank you!
Oscar Nominations, Milk Earns Eight, Dead Snow, Prayers For Bobby, Taylor Lautner Spits, Still Sexy, Zac Efron Stares, Still Sexy, Justin Gaston
The 81st Academy Award nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles, the complete list here, and surprisingly, they managed to get a lot right, including the much deserved besting acting nominations to Richard Jenkins, so brilliant in the little seen The Visitor, a small film that will change your life, and the equally brilliant Melissa Leo in the equally little seen Frozen River. As well, unlike the recent Golden Globes, the Oscars bestowed a number of rightful nominations to Milk, including best picture, Sean Penn for best actor, Josh Brolin for best supporting actor, Gus Van Sant for best director, and Dustin Lance Black for his detail, smart original screenplay. The Academy Awards take place on February 22nd.
Dead Snow, one of the more original films debuted at Sundance, has courted a distributor, IFC Films, who will distribute the comedy/horror film about a group of eight medical students who encounter, well, dead Nazi zombies.
The Lifetime network premieres the made for television movie Prayers for Bobby this Saturday, January 24th, and here is an early review that despite finding flaws, praises the film.
Taylor Lautner, the still sexy star of the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon (Dakota Fanning is now starring as well), likes his spit.
Pretend heterosexual and still sexy Zac Efron looked lost deep in thought Wednesday in Los Angeles on his way to a photo shoot for an upcoming Interview magazine cover story. Well, maybe not so much lost in deep thought as just lost, vacuously so. And I kid, because I can.
Not yet practicing homosexual and underwear model Justin Gaston, mimicked Efron’s look last night, albeit the dollar store version, on a “date” with the public nuisance that is Miley Cyrus, who, by the way, rode her bike. Her bike people! Pink, with a white basket bike people!
Dead Snow, one of the more original films debuted at Sundance, has courted a distributor, IFC Films, who will distribute the comedy/horror film about a group of eight medical students who encounter, well, dead Nazi zombies.
The Lifetime network premieres the made for television movie Prayers for Bobby this Saturday, January 24th, and here is an early review that despite finding flaws, praises the film.
Taylor Lautner, the still sexy star of the upcoming Twilight sequel New Moon (Dakota Fanning is now starring as well), likes his spit.
Pretend heterosexual and still sexy Zac Efron looked lost deep in thought Wednesday in Los Angeles on his way to a photo shoot for an upcoming Interview magazine cover story. Well, maybe not so much lost in deep thought as just lost, vacuously so. And I kid, because I can.
Not yet practicing homosexual and underwear model Justin Gaston, mimicked Efron’s look last night, albeit the dollar store version, on a “date” with the public nuisance that is Miley Cyrus, who, by the way, rode her bike. Her bike people! Pink, with a white basket bike people!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
30 Rock Rolls Out Guest Stars, Clooney Returns To ER, Cera Disputes Development, Hugh Jackman, Hollywood Hobos, Tyra Goes Gay, LiRo, Tom Brady
I can hardly contain my excitement for the early birthday present that is the coupling of Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Tina Fey’s 30 Rock, and the terrific twosome tell Entertainment Weekly all about working together with typical wit. The magazine also reveals that everyone’s favorite big, bouncy Broadway musical diva Patti Lupone is appearing on 30 Rock where she will play, um, Frank’s mother.
People magazine is reporting that to the surprise of no one, George Clooney is returning to ER for the final time (the series ends this March), filming his supposedly secret scenes this week.
Michael Cera is on the defensive, disputing claims that his refusal to participate in the rumored Arrested Development movie is the reason said film is delay, with Cera stating that no script currently exists.
Hall of Fame DILF and upcoming host of the Academy Awards Hugh Jackman is in Vancouver, British Columbia reshooting scenes for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but not to despair – according to an email sent by the star to his fans, the reshoots are not a sign of trouble.
The notoriously nasty Ryan Gosling, whose work each and every Monday night at the Bardot club in Los Angeles is apparently rocking, made with the gym Thursday, defying those who dare suggest he is not sexy.
Fellow Hollywood hobo, the young Mr. Shia LaBeouf, was in a contemplative mood Wednesday, I suspect trying to comprehend how things got so bad.
Thursday and Friday, bad crazy Tyra Banks is all about the gays and the bisexuals, with Thursday’s show examining the men who play gay for pay, and Friday’s show asking the musical question is bisexuality for real or bogus, and I so did not make that up.
According to Transworld News (so you know it HAS to be true) 2009 will see my tow favorite lovely lesbians of 2008 – Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson – marry, evidenced, according to the report, but the recent disclosure that Lohan and Ronson have opened up a joint bank account.
Reuters is reporting that Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot backup quarterback Tom Brady is “upbeat” about the recent surgery he underwent to repair a damaged knee hurt on opening day 2008, although rumors continue to swirl that Brady is not likely to rehab in time to return for the 2009/2010 season.
People magazine is reporting that to the surprise of no one, George Clooney is returning to ER for the final time (the series ends this March), filming his supposedly secret scenes this week.
Michael Cera is on the defensive, disputing claims that his refusal to participate in the rumored Arrested Development movie is the reason said film is delay, with Cera stating that no script currently exists.
Hall of Fame DILF and upcoming host of the Academy Awards Hugh Jackman is in Vancouver, British Columbia reshooting scenes for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but not to despair – according to an email sent by the star to his fans, the reshoots are not a sign of trouble.
The notoriously nasty Ryan Gosling, whose work each and every Monday night at the Bardot club in Los Angeles is apparently rocking, made with the gym Thursday, defying those who dare suggest he is not sexy.
Fellow Hollywood hobo, the young Mr. Shia LaBeouf, was in a contemplative mood Wednesday, I suspect trying to comprehend how things got so bad.
Thursday and Friday, bad crazy Tyra Banks is all about the gays and the bisexuals, with Thursday’s show examining the men who play gay for pay, and Friday’s show asking the musical question is bisexuality for real or bogus, and I so did not make that up.
According to Transworld News (so you know it HAS to be true) 2009 will see my tow favorite lovely lesbians of 2008 – Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson – marry, evidenced, according to the report, but the recent disclosure that Lohan and Ronson have opened up a joint bank account.
Reuters is reporting that Hall of Fame DILF and New England Patriot backup quarterback Tom Brady is “upbeat” about the recent surgery he underwent to repair a damaged knee hurt on opening day 2008, although rumors continue to swirl that Brady is not likely to rehab in time to return for the 2009/2010 season.
Hillary Clinton Named Secretary of State, Caroline Kennedy Withdraws From New York State Senator Bid
Two breaking stories, both New York State related: First, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been appointed Secretary of State, but a vote of 94-2, sworn in at roughly 5:30PM EST.
Second, and still breaking, according to this report, which uses a unnamed source as the only background. Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for the New York State Senate seat, vacated by Clinton, owing, the article suggests, to concerns of her uncle’s, Ted Kennedy, health.
Second, and still breaking, according to this report, which uses a unnamed source as the only background. Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for the New York State Senate seat, vacated by Clinton, owing, the article suggests, to concerns of her uncle’s, Ted Kennedy, health.
Sam Adams Investigation, Gays Hopeful, Obama’s LGBT Agenda, Michelle’s Gown, The Girl’s J.Crew, Jonas Brothers, Chris Evans’ Muscles, Lucas Grabeel
According to this report, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger will lead an investigation into the conduct of Portland Mayor Sam Adams, although like the supposed scandal itself, there are conflicting details about the direction said investigation will take. Tuesday, Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer apparently contracted Kroger requesting an inquiry, but only after suggesting that Adams supposed sex scandal rendered him vulnerable to blackmail – a notion straight out of the nineteen-fifties.
Many gays and lesbians remain optimistic, frightfully so, that President Barack Obama, despite the dreadful decision to ask hate-mongering homophobe Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation, will work hard to continue to forge equal rights for homosexuals, according to this report, including Kate Kendell, the executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is pretty much the kind of complacent comment you would expect from someone who failed so spectacularly in fighting Proposition 8, despite Kendell’s penchant for providing excuses and remaining elusive.
It should, however, be pointed out mere moments after being sworn into office Tuesday, the official web page of President Obama’s White House was updated to include a healthy and impressive compendium of LGBT civil rights his administration wants to enact, including a repeal of the truly terrible don’t ask; don’t tell military policy and an expansion of federal rights for LGBT couples.
He and First Lady Michelle are so cool and so cute that I’m willing to have faith too, especially as both looked so radiant last night, and Michelle rocked that Jason Wu gown. That and this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see my causal clothier of choice J.Crew inform me that they designed Malia and Sasha’s inaugural outfits.
The two girls, by the way, were surprised last night, their first night in the White House, when they led their friends on a scavenger hunt and found the Jonas Brothers, who were hiding, and if they were in a closet, well it makes the story sensational.
Chris Evans has muscles; very hot, very moving in motion muscles.
The cute albeit young Lucas Grabeel, one of the stars of High School Musical franchise and very good (and almost unrecognizable in Milk), was in Park City, Utah, making the Sundance scene.
Many gays and lesbians remain optimistic, frightfully so, that President Barack Obama, despite the dreadful decision to ask hate-mongering homophobe Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation, will work hard to continue to forge equal rights for homosexuals, according to this report, including Kate Kendell, the executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is pretty much the kind of complacent comment you would expect from someone who failed so spectacularly in fighting Proposition 8, despite Kendell’s penchant for providing excuses and remaining elusive.
It should, however, be pointed out mere moments after being sworn into office Tuesday, the official web page of President Obama’s White House was updated to include a healthy and impressive compendium of LGBT civil rights his administration wants to enact, including a repeal of the truly terrible don’t ask; don’t tell military policy and an expansion of federal rights for LGBT couples.
He and First Lady Michelle are so cool and so cute that I’m willing to have faith too, especially as both looked so radiant last night, and Michelle rocked that Jason Wu gown. That and this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see my causal clothier of choice J.Crew inform me that they designed Malia and Sasha’s inaugural outfits.
The two girls, by the way, were surprised last night, their first night in the White House, when they led their friends on a scavenger hunt and found the Jonas Brothers, who were hiding, and if they were in a closet, well it makes the story sensational.
Chris Evans has muscles; very hot, very moving in motion muscles.
The cute albeit young Lucas Grabeel, one of the stars of High School Musical franchise and very good (and almost unrecognizable in Milk), was in Park City, Utah, making the Sundance scene.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Rachel Maddow, Clay Aiken Might Not Be Gay, Brody Jenner Makes With A Male Porn Star, Gisele Bundchen, Shia LaBeouf Loses License
Rachel Maddow talks about Bishop Gene Robinson and Fox News, and does so, as always, with humor and intelligence.
According to this report from the New York Post (who, incidentally, incorrectly identifies Clay Aiken as an American Idol winner, when he was in fact the runner up) a reader of the Tampa Bay, Florida blog Pop Life has a rather infamous reader who relishes posting comments and she – and given the malleability of internet identities, I and everyone else is assuming it is in fact a women – posted an odd diatribe postulating that Clay Aiken is not in fact gay, but was turned so by the lurking gay mafia.
Public annoyance Brody Jenner apparently likes his male porn stars to be big – huge big.
Tom Brady thief Gisele Bundchen, still in Rio, still ridiculously pretty, was out and about Monday evening, wearing some sort of sadomasochistic leather shirt.
Hobo at large Shia LaBeouf has had his driver’s license suspended for a minimum of one-year, the result of Shia refusing to take a breathalyzer after being involved in an accident in Los Angeles in July, 2008, which can only mean more images of Mr. LaBeouf boarding.
According to this report from the New York Post (who, incidentally, incorrectly identifies Clay Aiken as an American Idol winner, when he was in fact the runner up) a reader of the Tampa Bay, Florida blog Pop Life has a rather infamous reader who relishes posting comments and she – and given the malleability of internet identities, I and everyone else is assuming it is in fact a women – posted an odd diatribe postulating that Clay Aiken is not in fact gay, but was turned so by the lurking gay mafia.
Public annoyance Brody Jenner apparently likes his male porn stars to be big – huge big.
Tom Brady thief Gisele Bundchen, still in Rio, still ridiculously pretty, was out and about Monday evening, wearing some sort of sadomasochistic leather shirt.
Hobo at large Shia LaBeouf has had his driver’s license suspended for a minimum of one-year, the result of Shia refusing to take a breathalyzer after being involved in an accident in Los Angeles in July, 2008, which can only mean more images of Mr. LaBeouf boarding.
Portland’s Problem: The Mayor, His Former Lover, A Nasty Left-Wing Press, and the Electorate’s Hysterical Response
A follow up to an earlier posting – Portland Mayor Sam Adams held a press conference Tuesday afternoon, meeting with reporters for the first time since the confirmed story of his relationship with a then seventeen-year old, Beau Breedlove, broke, and addressed the media and the citizens of Portland, admitting wrong doing and offering an apology, but stopping short of suggesting he intends to resign, although he did offer that would be an option should the constituents think resignation in the best interest of the city.
Adams, elected this past fall, is the first openly gay man to hold office of the mayor in the United States. The issue now though, is unfortunately made murky by public’s response, since it is not clear to me whether voters are upset Adams lied, attempted to deceive them, had a sexual relationship with a technical minor, betrayed the office, or whether this is simply fuel to a fire over sexual orientation?
In fact, this past Sunday, supposedly because I had posted about Adams mayoral victory, I received an email from a member of Portland’s media inquiring whether I had any information regarding pending rape charges about to be brought against the Mayor, inquiries I dismissed as hysterical and badly misinformed, and now realize that the press – specifically the Willamette Weekly, who pressured Adams Monday by revealing they would break the story – had an agenda it needed fulfill and that fulfillment took the form of publishing what I contend is largely a non-story.
And what of Beau Breedlove, whose character and motives remain unexamined in the rush to judgment? Does not a soon to be eighteen-year old whose political ambitions were obvious need to accept if not complete culpability, but assume some responsibility?
Adams, elected this past fall, is the first openly gay man to hold office of the mayor in the United States. The issue now though, is unfortunately made murky by public’s response, since it is not clear to me whether voters are upset Adams lied, attempted to deceive them, had a sexual relationship with a technical minor, betrayed the office, or whether this is simply fuel to a fire over sexual orientation?
In fact, this past Sunday, supposedly because I had posted about Adams mayoral victory, I received an email from a member of Portland’s media inquiring whether I had any information regarding pending rape charges about to be brought against the Mayor, inquiries I dismissed as hysterical and badly misinformed, and now realize that the press – specifically the Willamette Weekly, who pressured Adams Monday by revealing they would break the story – had an agenda it needed fulfill and that fulfillment took the form of publishing what I contend is largely a non-story.
And what of Beau Breedlove, whose character and motives remain unexamined in the rush to judgment? Does not a soon to be eighteen-year old whose political ambitions were obvious need to accept if not complete culpability, but assume some responsibility?
Number 44
It is now President Barack Obama, having been sworn into office earlier today, the 44th President of the United States. Delivering an impressive, articulate speech – evocative, literate, and passionate – whose principal theme was one of change.
The words, the sentences, functioned as an obvious rejection of the recent past, of failed foreign policy and dismantling of dignity. The speech called for a summoning of strength, for a celebration of diversity, of liberty, and of inclusion. It married the past, whose history still lives everywhere today, with the present, and offer the possible in the future. It summoned an idea of God, of faith, repeatedly. It championed ambition, courage, and responsibility.
It was difficult to watch Obama deliver the inaugural speech without being reminded of what it must have felt like to have witnesses John F. Kennedy, whose sense of duty echoes loudly in all that Barack does or says, and like Kennedy, and like Martin Luther King Jr., Obama seems to inspire a sense of the unlimited, of a daring to dream, marking him distinct from other politicians, like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sense of the political is often stunted and narrow, and who fosters cynicism where optimism could and should grow.
The day, majestic, mirroring the spirit of hope Barack harkens was tarnished, briefly, by the appearance earlier by Rick Warren – still an unforgiveable selection by President Obama, given the reckless hatred the man espouses, and the danger he represents to all gay men and women everywhere.
I wrote the day after the election my willingness to dream with the President, to believe in him, and yet, I have, since November 4th, realized that homosexuals are not a priority for the 44th President, that we all remain, politically expendable, for the moment.
I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King Jr. who reiterated the conceit that calling for the freedom of one group does not mean denying freedom to another, so the idea of diversity and of inclusion presented by President Obama remains incomplete until we all partake.
The words, the sentences, functioned as an obvious rejection of the recent past, of failed foreign policy and dismantling of dignity. The speech called for a summoning of strength, for a celebration of diversity, of liberty, and of inclusion. It married the past, whose history still lives everywhere today, with the present, and offer the possible in the future. It summoned an idea of God, of faith, repeatedly. It championed ambition, courage, and responsibility.
It was difficult to watch Obama deliver the inaugural speech without being reminded of what it must have felt like to have witnesses John F. Kennedy, whose sense of duty echoes loudly in all that Barack does or says, and like Kennedy, and like Martin Luther King Jr., Obama seems to inspire a sense of the unlimited, of a daring to dream, marking him distinct from other politicians, like Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sense of the political is often stunted and narrow, and who fosters cynicism where optimism could and should grow.
The day, majestic, mirroring the spirit of hope Barack harkens was tarnished, briefly, by the appearance earlier by Rick Warren – still an unforgiveable selection by President Obama, given the reckless hatred the man espouses, and the danger he represents to all gay men and women everywhere.
I wrote the day after the election my willingness to dream with the President, to believe in him, and yet, I have, since November 4th, realized that homosexuals are not a priority for the 44th President, that we all remain, politically expendable, for the moment.
I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King Jr. who reiterated the conceit that calling for the freedom of one group does not mean denying freedom to another, so the idea of diversity and of inclusion presented by President Obama remains incomplete until we all partake.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams Purported Scandal
Mayor Sam Adams of Portland, Oregon, who is the first openly gay man to ever be elected mayor of a major city, is embroiled in something remotely resembling a scandal, involving a relationship that Adams had with Beau Breedlove, when it was believed Breedlove was then seventeen and Adams was forty-two, although according to Adams, their sexual relationship did not begin until 2007, when Breedlove was eighteen.
During the mayoral campaign, the relationship between Adams and Breedlove was brought up by the media, but Adams then denied it, and apparently encouraged Breedlove to lie as well.
You can read the complete coverage from The Oregonian here and from the Willamette Week here, which is Portland’s alternative weekly, and whom was going to break the story tomorrow, Wednesday, and who had presented the evidence they had gathered to publish said story to Adams and his team last Thursday, all of which presumably prompted the Mayor to reveal the details now to the constituents.
The story, which is breaking and seems to be evolving by the hour, is one that I feel conflicted about posting since on the one hand the relationship between Adams and Breedlove appears to have been consensual, but the details make it seem salacious and give credence to those who are quick to categorize all gay men as predatory. As well, I’m not sure how their relationship impacts Mayor Adam’s capacity to govern Portland, a city by the way that faces a number of urgent issues including the sudden surge in gang activity.
During the mayoral campaign, the relationship between Adams and Breedlove was brought up by the media, but Adams then denied it, and apparently encouraged Breedlove to lie as well.
You can read the complete coverage from The Oregonian here and from the Willamette Week here, which is Portland’s alternative weekly, and whom was going to break the story tomorrow, Wednesday, and who had presented the evidence they had gathered to publish said story to Adams and his team last Thursday, all of which presumably prompted the Mayor to reveal the details now to the constituents.
The story, which is breaking and seems to be evolving by the hour, is one that I feel conflicted about posting since on the one hand the relationship between Adams and Breedlove appears to have been consensual, but the details make it seem salacious and give credence to those who are quick to categorize all gay men as predatory. As well, I’m not sure how their relationship impacts Mayor Adam’s capacity to govern Portland, a city by the way that faces a number of urgent issues including the sudden surge in gang activity.
Monday, January 19, 2009
NY Magazine Imagines Gays Looking Beyond Rick Warren, NY Times Give Love To Big Love, Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker, Brandon Jenner, Gisele, Boy George
New York Magazine suggests that gays are trying hard to look past hate mongering homophobe Rick Warren, way past, to the not so distant future, to a kind of mythical land, the land of chocolate if you will.
The New York Times looks at the return of HBO’s Big Love – which, if Sunday’s premiere served as any indication, is revitalized and seriously spooky – and how precipitous the conclusion of fiction and reality has been for the show set among an breakaway sect of Mormons in Utah.
Hall of Fame DILF and my soon to be husband Ryan Phillippe was out and about in Los Angeles Monday, at IKEA no less, with his “girlfriend” Abbie Cornish, were Mr. Phillippe purchased a mirror; a rather large, floor length mirror, still scowling, still sexy.
Fellow Hall of Fame DILF Paul Walker favored us all with a trip to Hawaii, and by extension the beach, frolicking, and while I’m not so sure about the scruff, the body is smoking.
Brody Jenner bores me in every possible way imaginable and yet I concur with POPWRAP that his brother, his actual brother Brandon, excites me in every possible way imaginable.
Gisele Bundchen – Tommy thief that she is – is at hard at work with a campaign for Colcci, with a majestic male model that looks suspiciously like Ryan Phillippe. Seriously, stay away from him Miss. Bundchen, stay away.
Finally, poor Boy George, who troubles with substance abuse have been well documented, begun his fifteen month prison sentence Friday and this report from The Daily Mail details a forlorn, sad man, whose life has now gone to a place I’m guessing was unimaginable only a year or so ago.
The New York Times looks at the return of HBO’s Big Love – which, if Sunday’s premiere served as any indication, is revitalized and seriously spooky – and how precipitous the conclusion of fiction and reality has been for the show set among an breakaway sect of Mormons in Utah.
Hall of Fame DILF and my soon to be husband Ryan Phillippe was out and about in Los Angeles Monday, at IKEA no less, with his “girlfriend” Abbie Cornish, were Mr. Phillippe purchased a mirror; a rather large, floor length mirror, still scowling, still sexy.
Fellow Hall of Fame DILF Paul Walker favored us all with a trip to Hawaii, and by extension the beach, frolicking, and while I’m not so sure about the scruff, the body is smoking.
Brody Jenner bores me in every possible way imaginable and yet I concur with POPWRAP that his brother, his actual brother Brandon, excites me in every possible way imaginable.
Gisele Bundchen – Tommy thief that she is – is at hard at work with a campaign for Colcci, with a majestic male model that looks suspiciously like Ryan Phillippe. Seriously, stay away from him Miss. Bundchen, stay away.
Finally, poor Boy George, who troubles with substance abuse have been well documented, begun his fifteen month prison sentence Friday and this report from The Daily Mail details a forlorn, sad man, whose life has now gone to a place I’m guessing was unimaginable only a year or so ago.
David Letterman’s Final Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, Julia Roberts Will Hurt You, Patti Lupone Will Destroy You
One of the best recurring features on The Late Show with David Letterman has been the “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches” that have effortlessly eviscerated George W. Bush, and Friday, as Bush prepared to leave office, Letterman offered the final farewell segment.
What is great about this Julia Roberts versus some poor paparazzi, other than that it is expletive laden, is the irony that Roberts, in a moment of explicit anger, failed to gauge, since someone so protective of their privacy, has had said privacy go viral.
Patti Lupone, currently starring on Broadway in a revival of Gypsy, also loses it, this time deservingly so, on members of an audience who would not stop taking pictures, and although there is no video (which would be irony x irony) there is audio, which is itself ironic.
What is great about this Julia Roberts versus some poor paparazzi, other than that it is expletive laden, is the irony that Roberts, in a moment of explicit anger, failed to gauge, since someone so protective of their privacy, has had said privacy go viral.
Patti Lupone, currently starring on Broadway in a revival of Gypsy, also loses it, this time deservingly so, on members of an audience who would not stop taking pictures, and although there is no video (which would be irony x irony) there is audio, which is itself ironic.
John Foley Bans Books (Or Tries To), Shepard Farley, Death of Donald Sanderson, Gisele, Brandon Stoughton, Role Models, Kelly Osbourne Arrested
On the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, a Seattle area teacher, John Foley, wrote this dumb diatribe in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer demanding that the English curriculum be updated, removing Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huck Finn, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men since the present a problem in teaching young students the context of those novel’s use of the word “nigger,” which is akin to suggesting that no one should study Fitzgerald or Hemingway because their works glamorize alcohol. Foley, who interesting is an author of children’s books, is stunningly stupid and that he teaches anyone is frightening.
The effortlessly and excessively cool Shepard Farley (who is sort of a hot DILF by the way) created the now iconic posters of Barack Obama, one of which will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington tomorrow, and he tells the Los Angeles Times how the work came to be.
Switching subjects succinctly to sports, this story about the death of Donald Sanderson, a twenty-one year from Whitby, Ontario, who died on January 2, 2009, from an injury he suffered on December 12th, 2008 during a hockey game, when Sanderson, who stood six feet, two inches and weighed two-hundred pounds, lost his helmet and hit the ice during a fight, slipping into a coma he never awoke from, is noteworthy if only because the event, despite initial interest, has been buried by the media and hockey insiders alike as it underlines how dangerous and dated fighting in hockey – at all levels – has become.
Gisele Bundchen, whom I used to think beautiful and interesting before she a) stole my Tommy and b) distracted my Tommy therefore c) I am now undecided and often find she tries too hard. Nonetheless, Miss. Bundchen was in Brazil – her home – working as a part of that country’s fashion week where Miss. Bundchen failed to out model the very pretty transsexual Patricia Araujo. There, I said it.
Speaking of all things models, male model Brandon Stoughton who shot suddenly to superstar status for a second when he appeared in Britney Spears’ Womanizer video, stealing the show from said Spears, really is a model and a very sexy one at that.
Role Models Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott – each cute, but for different reasons –were on hand to promote the opening of said film in Madrid.
Not a role model – not even close, in any definition of that word – the perpetually pouty Kelly Osbourne was arrested on January 2nd, in London, in a story just breaking now. It seems that the cranky Miss. Osbourne took unkindly to the taunting of a journalist who deemed Kelly’s boyfriend “dumb” for not knowing what an earthquake is – so unkindly that in fact she struck said journalist. On top of the Los Angeles police investigation of her mother, Sharon, for a separate alleged assault, one thing is clear: the Hogan, the Kardashian, and the Lohan families all face stiff competition for bad crazy family of the year.
The effortlessly and excessively cool Shepard Farley (who is sort of a hot DILF by the way) created the now iconic posters of Barack Obama, one of which will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington tomorrow, and he tells the Los Angeles Times how the work came to be.
Switching subjects succinctly to sports, this story about the death of Donald Sanderson, a twenty-one year from Whitby, Ontario, who died on January 2, 2009, from an injury he suffered on December 12th, 2008 during a hockey game, when Sanderson, who stood six feet, two inches and weighed two-hundred pounds, lost his helmet and hit the ice during a fight, slipping into a coma he never awoke from, is noteworthy if only because the event, despite initial interest, has been buried by the media and hockey insiders alike as it underlines how dangerous and dated fighting in hockey – at all levels – has become.
Gisele Bundchen, whom I used to think beautiful and interesting before she a) stole my Tommy and b) distracted my Tommy therefore c) I am now undecided and often find she tries too hard. Nonetheless, Miss. Bundchen was in Brazil – her home – working as a part of that country’s fashion week where Miss. Bundchen failed to out model the very pretty transsexual Patricia Araujo. There, I said it.
Speaking of all things models, male model Brandon Stoughton who shot suddenly to superstar status for a second when he appeared in Britney Spears’ Womanizer video, stealing the show from said Spears, really is a model and a very sexy one at that.
Role Models Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott – each cute, but for different reasons –were on hand to promote the opening of said film in Madrid.
Not a role model – not even close, in any definition of that word – the perpetually pouty Kelly Osbourne was arrested on January 2nd, in London, in a story just breaking now. It seems that the cranky Miss. Osbourne took unkindly to the taunting of a journalist who deemed Kelly’s boyfriend “dumb” for not knowing what an earthquake is – so unkindly that in fact she struck said journalist. On top of the Los Angeles police investigation of her mother, Sharon, for a separate alleged assault, one thing is clear: the Hogan, the Kardashian, and the Lohan families all face stiff competition for bad crazy family of the year.
Ryan Phillippe Rides, Shia LaBeouf Needs To Bathe, Rosie Will Run You Down, Holey Miley, Sundance Dies A Little, Lohan Smokes, Andy Murray Is Smoking
Hall of Fame DILF (and my future husband) Ryan Phillippe, a loyal Philadelphia Eagles fan by the way, a team who are now, surprisingly, en route to Tampa Bay, Florida for an appearance in the Super Bowl on February 1st where they will meet the equally surprising Arizona Cardinals, but I digress, was making the scene Friday in West Hollywood, being all bad biker boy, still scowling, still so sexy.
Shia LaBeouf still unshaven and unwashed, still scowling, not so sexy.
Rosie O’Donnell, who may yet live to be forgiven for her feigned attempt at reviving the variety hour (it still haunts me; Thanksgiving eve will never, ever be the same I fear without some sort of entertainment exorcism) was out and about in Miami, with family, on land and water, looking equally terrifying on both.
Please stop her before she is able to strike again! Please! I implore all citizens!
The formerly famous Ashton Kutcher (and I kid, because I can) stole Michael Phelps’s geek sexy look and made the scene in Sundance – a festival, which, by all indication, is as over as could be. Seriously, where are the films? Where are the acutal stars? Nick Hogan? I think I just died a little.
Apparently all the stars – from the A list to the F – are in Washington, clamoring to be seen, cashing in their celebrity to be a part of President-elect Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, including, of course, my favorite lovely lesbian couple of 2008, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson.
Finally, as Andy Murray’s world wide tennis ranking has increased, so apparently too has his hotness, as witnessed in Australia.
Shia LaBeouf still unshaven and unwashed, still scowling, not so sexy.
Rosie O’Donnell, who may yet live to be forgiven for her feigned attempt at reviving the variety hour (it still haunts me; Thanksgiving eve will never, ever be the same I fear without some sort of entertainment exorcism) was out and about in Miami, with family, on land and water, looking equally terrifying on both.
Please stop her before she is able to strike again! Please! I implore all citizens!
The formerly famous Ashton Kutcher (and I kid, because I can) stole Michael Phelps’s geek sexy look and made the scene in Sundance – a festival, which, by all indication, is as over as could be. Seriously, where are the films? Where are the acutal stars? Nick Hogan? I think I just died a little.
Apparently all the stars – from the A list to the F – are in Washington, clamoring to be seen, cashing in their celebrity to be a part of President-elect Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, including, of course, my favorite lovely lesbian couple of 2008, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson.
Finally, as Andy Murray’s world wide tennis ranking has increased, so apparently too has his hotness, as witnessed in Australia.
Barack Obama, Gene Robinson, Rick Warren, and the Folly of the Faux-Festivities
Sunday, on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the last full day of George W. Bush’s presidency, President-elect Barack Obama, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, began his three-day inaugural festival, with a celebration attended by thousands on the great Mall, and a number of performances by artists as diverse as Beyonce, Garth Brooks, and Bruce Springsteen, all of it broadcast live by HBO.
The festivities, a kind of faux-inauguration in anticipation of the real one Tuesday, also featured an invocation by the openly gay Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, although HBO and presumably the President-elect’s team chose not to air Robinson’s prayer (and apparently more than half of the assembled audience could not hear the prayer owing to a mechanical failure), adding insult to an already insulting situation, although the text of Bishop Robinson’s gracious and lovely prayer is here.
I realize that the need to embrace Obama as something just short of savior is strong, given the political aberration that has been the eight year Bush administration, but the early pass by politicos, the media, and most importantly, the electorate given to the President-elect needs to be rescinded right now, because not only was his choice of hate mongering homophobe Rick Warren deplorably transparent as being nothing more than the currying of political favor – Obama seeking to establish rapport with a moderate evangelical base he inexplicably contends important to his administration – it explicitly articulated a contention that gay men and women are still politically expendably and to ignore that obvious fact, along with Obama’s God problem, is not only naïve, it is retrograde stupid.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles west, a hundred or so protestors gathered outside of a Rick Warren-less church – the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California - to demonstrate against Obama’s selection and Warren, who was instrumental in helping pass Proposition 8 – the voter initiative that effectively removed the right of gay men and women in that state to legally marry. I am certain that those gathered in support of gay rights doubt the supposed spirituality of Rick Warren as much as I as well as contending that Barack Obama’s failure to renege his invitation to Warren is a mistake likely to haunt his administration in ways yet unseen.
The festivities, a kind of faux-inauguration in anticipation of the real one Tuesday, also featured an invocation by the openly gay Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, although HBO and presumably the President-elect’s team chose not to air Robinson’s prayer (and apparently more than half of the assembled audience could not hear the prayer owing to a mechanical failure), adding insult to an already insulting situation, although the text of Bishop Robinson’s gracious and lovely prayer is here.
I realize that the need to embrace Obama as something just short of savior is strong, given the political aberration that has been the eight year Bush administration, but the early pass by politicos, the media, and most importantly, the electorate given to the President-elect needs to be rescinded right now, because not only was his choice of hate mongering homophobe Rick Warren deplorably transparent as being nothing more than the currying of political favor – Obama seeking to establish rapport with a moderate evangelical base he inexplicably contends important to his administration – it explicitly articulated a contention that gay men and women are still politically expendably and to ignore that obvious fact, along with Obama’s God problem, is not only naïve, it is retrograde stupid.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles west, a hundred or so protestors gathered outside of a Rick Warren-less church – the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California - to demonstrate against Obama’s selection and Warren, who was instrumental in helping pass Proposition 8 – the voter initiative that effectively removed the right of gay men and women in that state to legally marry. I am certain that those gathered in support of gay rights doubt the supposed spirituality of Rick Warren as much as I as well as contending that Barack Obama’s failure to renege his invitation to Warren is a mistake likely to haunt his administration in ways yet unseen.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Obama’s Evangelical Problem, Inauguration Festival, Lady GaGa Gets GAY, Joaquin’s Rap Debut, Leonardo DiCaprio, Armani All Stars, Kellan Lutz
According to this article from Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the selection by Barack Obama of hate mongering homophobe Rick Warren - who equates bestiality, incest, and pedophilia with homosexuals no less – to deliver the inaugural invocation Tuesday should not come as surprise to gay men and women who rightly feel badly betrayed by the President-elect: the choice is instead a stark reminder of the new political reality, where the blurring of party lines for political gain is less a careful calculation and more an obvious tool employed by crafty, cynical leaders, because as the piece points out, Obama needs to broaden the Democratic support base and that would include a new generation of more “moderate” evangelicals, who still regard progressive issue like abortion and gay rights as aberrations they strongly oppose.
The President-elect, meanwhile, was in Washington Sunday, where the three-day inaugural festival began, highlighted by musical performances from a number of artists including Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, and U2.
As I posted last week, Lady GaGa’s London visit included a performance at the infamous G-A-Y club Saturday, and by all reports the Lady rocked it hard before departing Sunday for New York.
At some point I thought the retirement last fall of Academy Award winning Joaquin Phoenix from acting and subsequent announcement that he was returning as rapper was an elaborate Andy Kaufman-like joke, but no, my instinct that Joaquin is simply crying out loud for help seems confirmed, with this report, including pictures, of Mr. Phoenix’s Las Vegas debut Friday evening, who looks crazy, dirty bad, as opposed to crazy, dirty good.
The very cute Leonardo DiCaprio (accompanied by his Mother and “girlfriend” Bar Refaeli was seen Saturday at Los Angeles International Airport, departing for London where he will attend the premiere of his new film Revolutionary Road Sunday night, before hurrying back to Washington to participate in Tuesday’s Presidential Inauguration.
The front row at Giorgio Armani men’s 2009/2010 fall fashion in Milan was graced by two very sexy sport’s stars – Hall of Fame DILF David Beckham and rugby player Danny Cipriani.
Finally, I sincerely wish AnnaLynne McCord would be true to her word – she denies dating her smoking sexy co-star Kellan Lutz and yet the twosome are seen together everywhere.
The President-elect, meanwhile, was in Washington Sunday, where the three-day inaugural festival began, highlighted by musical performances from a number of artists including Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, and U2.
As I posted last week, Lady GaGa’s London visit included a performance at the infamous G-A-Y club Saturday, and by all reports the Lady rocked it hard before departing Sunday for New York.
At some point I thought the retirement last fall of Academy Award winning Joaquin Phoenix from acting and subsequent announcement that he was returning as rapper was an elaborate Andy Kaufman-like joke, but no, my instinct that Joaquin is simply crying out loud for help seems confirmed, with this report, including pictures, of Mr. Phoenix’s Las Vegas debut Friday evening, who looks crazy, dirty bad, as opposed to crazy, dirty good.
The very cute Leonardo DiCaprio (accompanied by his Mother and “girlfriend” Bar Refaeli was seen Saturday at Los Angeles International Airport, departing for London where he will attend the premiere of his new film Revolutionary Road Sunday night, before hurrying back to Washington to participate in Tuesday’s Presidential Inauguration.
The front row at Giorgio Armani men’s 2009/2010 fall fashion in Milan was graced by two very sexy sport’s stars – Hall of Fame DILF David Beckham and rugby player Danny Cipriani.
Finally, I sincerely wish AnnaLynne McCord would be true to her word – she denies dating her smoking sexy co-star Kellan Lutz and yet the twosome are seen together everywhere.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Transgendered World’s Next Top Model, Portia de Rossi, Jeremy Piven Protests and Pouts, Mad Men, Veronica Mars Movie, Andrew Wyeth, Amy Antics
Transgendered model – Patricia Araujo – closed the Rio Fashion week Friday, and summarily stole the show. Take that Tyra!
Portia de Rossi says that she is a changed woman, thanks in large part to her marriage to Ellen DeGeneres, citing a newly found sense of self-confidence as a result of living as an out gay woman.
The producers of Speed the Plow, not surprisingly, have filed a grievance against the incredibly annoying and untrustworthy Jeremy Piven, who left the show abruptly after two months, citing the now infamous high levels of mercury in his system owing to the curiously large consumption of raw fish. The man himself, Mr. Piven, not surprisingly, has fired back, stating that the producer’s allegations are “absurd and outrageous.” The lesson: do not hire deeply closeted divas full of drama until said deeply closeted divas come out. There, I said it.
Finally, fantastic Mad Men news: Friday, series creator Matthew Weiner reached a deal with Lionsgate Studios that will see him helm the show for at least another two years, develop another series with Lionsgate Television, and a possible feature film .So now, if I can just hold on for another six months or so. Meanwhile, Mr. Don Draper himself, the seriously sexy Jon Hamm, is keeping busy with Miss Liz Lemon herself, the ridiculously cute, comedic Tina Fey, as the two film an episode for an upcoming 30 Rock, where Jon will play lover to Tina in a three part-arc.
Another beloved television series, Veronica Mars, cut down far too soon in its prime, is being resurrected for a feature length film that creator Rob Thomas hopes to have finished writing soon, with production set to begin sometime this summer. The complete cast, including Miss Mars herself, Kristen Bell, is said to be onboard.
One of the most popular American painters, Andrew Wyeth, has died. He was 91. Mr. Wyeth’s popularity, unfortunately, led to critics questioned his artistic merit, as though the two were mutually incompatible.
Amy Winehouse, still in St. Lucia, still looking remarkably healthy, plays a spirited game of scrabble. And before you assume that her reported antics have annoyed anyone, it seems that the island’s government officials have been busy sending Amy gifts, grateful for the publicity she is bringing them.
Portia de Rossi says that she is a changed woman, thanks in large part to her marriage to Ellen DeGeneres, citing a newly found sense of self-confidence as a result of living as an out gay woman.
The producers of Speed the Plow, not surprisingly, have filed a grievance against the incredibly annoying and untrustworthy Jeremy Piven, who left the show abruptly after two months, citing the now infamous high levels of mercury in his system owing to the curiously large consumption of raw fish. The man himself, Mr. Piven, not surprisingly, has fired back, stating that the producer’s allegations are “absurd and outrageous.” The lesson: do not hire deeply closeted divas full of drama until said deeply closeted divas come out. There, I said it.
Finally, fantastic Mad Men news: Friday, series creator Matthew Weiner reached a deal with Lionsgate Studios that will see him helm the show for at least another two years, develop another series with Lionsgate Television, and a possible feature film .So now, if I can just hold on for another six months or so. Meanwhile, Mr. Don Draper himself, the seriously sexy Jon Hamm, is keeping busy with Miss Liz Lemon herself, the ridiculously cute, comedic Tina Fey, as the two film an episode for an upcoming 30 Rock, where Jon will play lover to Tina in a three part-arc.
Another beloved television series, Veronica Mars, cut down far too soon in its prime, is being resurrected for a feature length film that creator Rob Thomas hopes to have finished writing soon, with production set to begin sometime this summer. The complete cast, including Miss Mars herself, Kristen Bell, is said to be onboard.
One of the most popular American painters, Andrew Wyeth, has died. He was 91. Mr. Wyeth’s popularity, unfortunately, led to critics questioned his artistic merit, as though the two were mutually incompatible.
Amy Winehouse, still in St. Lucia, still looking remarkably healthy, plays a spirited game of scrabble. And before you assume that her reported antics have annoyed anyone, it seems that the island’s government officials have been busy sending Amy gifts, grateful for the publicity she is bringing them.
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