All those “Brown Meets Bush” headlines over the past couple of days had me wondering whether something earth-shattering was happening of which I was unaware, like Britney Spears going crazy and putting her panties on backwards or something.
And then I remembered that Britney Spears doesn’t have a bush. And she doesn’t wear panties, either.
Something else, [...]

Leaving the gym…
Gay A: “So, what’re you doing that’s exciting today?”
Gay B: “Not too much. I hafta go to the drugstore and get a prescription refilled by the hunkiest — but straight — pharmacist in the city, then to work”
Gay A: “Oh, the pharmacist at M_______ C_____?”
Gay B: “I know, right? Isn’t he just?“

View from my balcony, in the evening, 29 July 2007,
while listening to Led Zeppelin’s “In the Evening”
(from In Through the Out Door)
Ooooh whatever that your days may bring
No use hiding in a corner, ’cause that won’t change a thing
If you’re dancing in the doldrums, one day soon, it’s got to stop, it’s got to [...]

We’re so goddamned serious about your safety that we’ll remind you to not hold subway train doors when you’re not even on the subway train! We’re so fucking serious about your safety that we’ll take up revenue-generating ad space on our buses just to remind you to not do something which everyone but the criminally [...]

diggitus from San Francisco writes:
I busted this out for my girlie in like 30 minutes and she was all “daaaaamn, diggitus! this be some fine, fine fish!!” and I was all “check it: I threw this sucker together my OWN bad self, ya dig??” and yeah, we did it and we’d do it again
Uh-huh, you [...]

So, in the fall of 1974, I was 18 and was still recovering from being hauled by my family the year prior to the cultural wasteland known as Calgary, Alberta, and so was deeply immersed in all manner of alternative and music and alternative-music publications, from Rolling Stone to Crawdaddy to Creem. (There was a [...]

So while Champ and I spent the weekend enduring the endless — and mindless — chatter of beach-blanket homorons at Hanlan’s Point, Toronto Police were dealing with 4 gun murders. Four.
And what does our Mayor, David Miller, have to say about this?
Toronto Mayor David Miller said the latest rash of gun violence shows why Canada [...]

Not content to merely cheat on their wives with prostitutes, flirt online with hardbodied pages, send thousands of young Americans to their deaths and offer undercover cops in public washrooms twenty bucks for blowjobs, U.S. lawmakers are now seeking to close a loophole in recent legislation which allows for “fleeting” obscenities to fly on broadcast [...]

And so it was that a week of revelations (heh) concerning the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse rape started with a huge, $660 million payout to victims and their families and ended with a rental of the chilling, heartbreaking and utterly infuriating (and very, very good) documentary Deliver Us From Evil.

Some fun facts from [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSCZe18WII

So, Republican Bob Allen, husband and father, co-chair of John McCain’s Florida campaign, architect of a failed Florida bill to make tighter the existing prohibitions against public sex, vocal opponent of same-sex marriage and foe of a bill to curb the bullying of gay students… is busted for offering twenty bucks to an undercover cop [...]