Despite being a big Days of Our Lives fan throughout high school and college, I don't really follow the soaps anymore. I've got several friends who are simply mad for the Luke and Noah storyline on As the World Turns, but the tortoise-like pace with which those boys were permitted to proceed to their first big kiss was enormously frustrating.
As noted by Nightcharm, the 1980 William Friedkin travesty Cruising is going to be released on high-definition DVD this September, uncut (ahem) with restored unseen footage. (N.B.—that last link, in addition to featuring a lengthy consideration of the film and its attendant controversies, also features some naughty pictures of nekkid fellas.)
In the dawn-tinted Parthenon of awful gay movies, Cruising stands alone. It doesn’t merely backfire; it backfires brilliantly. ...
Cruising was certainly a shocker in its day. The 1980 thriller is set in the night-world of New York’s orgiastic backrooms, peepshows and open-air fuck-fests that ran 24/7 in the bushes of Central Park. A then hot and nasty Al Pacino goes undercover to attract a serial killer, decoying himself as a hungry bottom in wife-beaters and low-slung jeans. The killer, meanwhile, a lanky, long-torsoed lad whose face is always concealed, is shown tricking and then killing his bound-up S&M partners — a sort of buyer’s remorse we usually associate with the black widow spider — ever whispering in his victim’s ear the moronic catchphrase “You made me do that.”
"Rob Cole, a pioneering gay journalist whose efforts helped create a national readership for the Advocate, the long-running gay publication, died June 30 at his home in North Hills. He was 76."
Chris Jones shares trade secrets of a Chicago theatre critic. The really good ones, like where to park and get grub. However, as one commenter notes, nearly every theatre in Chicago is accessible by CTA trains or buses, so a great tip is to leave the car at home.
There's something that appeals to the obsessive and the transportation geek inside me about mileage running, but I have the impression it's something you don't mention you do at parties.
I am skeptical of hyperbole, but when Joe posts about something titled "The Greatest Entrance In Drag History", I'm gonna have to look. And so are you, by gum. Don't blink around the 30 second mark.
Rick & Steve, Logo's new animated series about the world's happiest gay couple, premieres tomorrow night. Voice talent includes Alan Cumming, Billy West, Laraine Newman, Margaret Cho, Peter Paige and more; it's created and directed by Q. Allan Brocka (late of Boy Culture) with music bits by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q etc.).
A little help? Where might a homosexual gentleman go in Manchester, England—on a Thursday night, say—to enjoy drinking and dancing with similiarly-inclined fellows? Specific recommendations (in other words, I've already assumed a stumble down Canal Street) are appreciated. Have you any favorite nightclubs? Do let me know. Thanks!
After about a million years (well, 12), the movie adaptation of Matthew Rettenmund's witty, sexy novel Boy Culture will open in March. Here's the official website and, naturally, Rettenmund's got a blog.
Derek Magyar, who geeks may remember as Kelby on Star Trek: Enterprise, is a great choice to play X, and Patrick Bauchau also as Gregory. Looking forward to this one.
"Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies has targeted pop princess Britney Spears as a desirable guest star to feature in the next series of the science fiction show." No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. Oh hell no. No.
Dayum! Next time I start to think I have a few too many pieces of antique Apple hardware cluttering up my basement, I'm gonna go back and look at this.
"One of the best-known riverfronts along the Mighty Mississippi is slowly giving way. ...orange fencing and other barriers are used to keep the public away from sinkholes and broken concrete along the river's edge."
[this is baaaaaad] "Scientists are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans."
Good kid with a good name does a good thing. "After the only grocery store in Truman, Minn., closed earlier this year, 17-year-old Nick Graham bought and re-opened it to help save the struggling community."
CAD renderings of 4222 Clinton Way, otherwise known in TV Land as the home of Mike and Carol Brady and their brood (and Ann B. Davis as Alice). Cooooool.
"Press releases are an enormous hoax. They're written by people who pretend to be excited and received by people who pretend to be interested. It's time for a change."
GayProf looks at the tub-thumpers. "Even within the queer community, we hear claims that bathhouses 'make us look bad' or 'are indecent.' To those queers who suggest such things, I say, 'Kiss my ass. Why do you want all queers to "fit in" so badly?'"
"If you are writing for a general audience...it may be helpful to envision one typical reader...and write as if you were sending a letter to that person. If your friend wouldn't understand a term or phrase, don't use it." And more good advice.
"I received a nice thank you letter and noticed that there were about 2 paragraphs thanking me, 4 telling me what my benefits would be and seven paragraphs making pledges to me."
"Monopoly board game players can now pay for properties with debit cards." Sigh. ~In other news, the top hat is now a trucker cap and the roadster is a Hummer.~
Rhode Island Is Famous For You: The lyrics to my favorite state song that's not actually an official state song. I once sang this to win a bet.
You can order Vans shoes, a long-ago staple of my wardrobe, online.
CNDB.com: The Celebrity Nudity Database. Because, you see, you can look up anything on the web.
Mac Merch: You could buy me just about anything on this page for my birthday, if you'd like, and I'd be awfully pleased. I guess I missed my chance to buy one of these "Moof!" shirts, but I'd settle for this one. (Not for $40, but still...)
TrailerVision: Trailers for movies that don't exist.
HOW HOT WAS IT?: McSweeney's serves up a steaming selection of punchlines. It was so hot...
NAUGHTY: An illustration of (one of the many such) double standard the Motion Picture Association (MPAA) has regarding same-sex/opposite-sex onscreen sexual relations and affection.
I LOOKED ALL DAY... for the answer to a relatively simple question I had about AppleScript syntax. No wonder AppleScript is considered one of the Macintosh's best-kept secrets. It's powerful, but damned if you can find the documentation. Dig this funky URL!
"Another point I would make: some people think gay rights doesn't hurt anybody, but I would say to be a single male over 40 years old, the gay movement is very hurtfuldefinitely detrimental to my position, because I am a totally heterosexual individual. In the past, I would have gotten credit for that. Today, people say, 'Why aren't you married?' Or, 'Maybe he's gay.'"
"I will speak personally. I'm a conservative on this matter. I am a tolerant person, but I believe sexuality is a private matter and it should stay private. I do not believe in gay expressions of sexuality in public, period. If someone says, 'Well, that's unfair,' well, I would say, 'O.K., now we can have a 1950's morality as far as heterosexual expression of sexuality.' But I do not believe that gays should be kissing in public. I don't believe in openly homosexual people! It used to be it was a mental illness. Today they think there's some biologicalthe bottom line is, the answer to that would be they're now proving that schizophrenia has a biological basis. You're born with schizophrenia, too, but no one's saying, 'Well, that's normal.'"
Um, hey there Sparky: maybe your problem isn't that women think you're gay. Maybe it's that they think you're a backward, Victorian jerk. Eh?
Brad L. Graham is a writer, editor, riverboat gambler, fashion consultant, softshoe dancer, professional assassin, freelance factotum and singer of sentimental ballads.The BradLands is his home on the web.
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Despite being a big Days of Our Lives fan throughout high school and college, I don't really follow the soaps anymore. I've got several friends who are simply mad for the Luke and Noah storyline on As the World Turns, but the tortoise-like pace with which those boys were permitted to proceed to their first big kiss was enormously frustrating.
After about a million years (well, 12), the movie adaptation of Matthew Rettenmund's witty, sexy novel 
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