Regular visitors to This. That. No Other. know that my brand of cranky activism owes a huge debt to the likes of Larry Kramer and Michelangelo Signorile. Y’all also know of my affection for and admiration of my rockin’ New York bloggerbuddy Eric Leven. Well, tomorrow afternoon, two generations of queer/AIDS activists meet on Signorile’s [...]

Ten Things I Didn’t Need to Hear While Sedated During the Colonoscopy:

“I’m sorry, sir, but you won’t be needing ‘leather cleaner’ for this procedure.”
“Is the IMAX crew ready to roll?”
“Does that thing look a little like Garth Brooks to you?”
“Are you sure you followed the bowel-cleansing instructions, sir?”
“Has anyone seen my iPod?”
“That can’t be right.”
“All [...]

When I first heard the Aussie technolectro duo The Presets a couple of years ago, it was like my two of my favourite ’80s genres — Industrial and New Romantic Techno — had done some serious drugs, went out to a dank and very loud nightclub, fell in love while dancing under seizure-inducing lights, fucked [...]

So, it’s 8:20PM and I’m about three-quarters through the second phase of my preparation for a colonoscopy. I’m on the third liter of the night, of reconstituted Klean-Prep™, the magically-delicious (not) diarrhea-inducer from Dublin. (I wonder if I could’ve gotten it cheaper 2 weeks ago? Tough explaining to Canada Customs, though, why anyone would actually [...]

Like all good albums, it took me a while to warm to the grittier edge of B-52s’ Funplex, but it was inevitable, really. If you don’t like syncopating, goofy fun, I urge you to give this one a pass.
B-52s, “Love in the Year 3000″ (Funplex, 2008):

There’s an adult version (by the same clever VJ, Tom [...]

It’s 5:55PM and I’m looking at a small bottle of lemon-ginger-flavoured Phosphates Solution compound. In 5 minutes, if I’m to follow the directions in the “PREPARING YOUR COLON” section of the mailer I received a few weeks ago, I will swallow it completely. In just over 2 hours, I’ll be mixing (and swallowing) a package [...]

Will O’Neill’s quite brilliant distillation of What Happened Last Weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXpibN7Hug

Your Host on Toronto Island
For all the bitching I do about Toronto, we do enjoy four non-wintry months of the year, when the city is considerably more bearable — terrific, even. Sunny summer weekends inevitably find Champ and me hanging with pals on Toronto Islands’ Hanlan’s Point Beach. The OutTraveler magazine recently featured “The Best [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

Add this one to the ridiculously long list of Why I Love David Lynch.
In related news, it looks like Canada will (finally) be getting the iPhone. Through Rogers. Ugh. Blame the embarrassing delay on the ridiculously long list of Why Canada is a Pathetic, Communications-Monopoly-Strangled, Second-World Nation.
It has been widely speculated that the stumbling block [...]

1) Statue of Molly Malone:

2) Painting of Prince Albert:

It’s all in the eyes.