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Cliché-O-Rama

I want to share with you a list of horrifyingly clichéd homilies I posted some time ago on another site. I’m prepared to hear your eyeballs scraping as they roll upward, but maybe one or two will resonate with you. The last ones are particularly dicey, embarrassingly approaching New Ageisms — which I abhor — [...]

Machines of Loving Grace

The title of this post is cheerfully ripped off from the Richard Brautigan poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” — a typically-whimsical, typically-Brautigan meditation on a future devoid of labour and filled with connectedness, via technology, to all of the natural world — but it’s really just the title I’m stealing.

I want [...]

Green on Thursday #94: Dropping the Soap

Oh, bygone eras of sublimated male eroticism! Before there was Xtube there was newsgroup photo-sharing and before those there were dirty videos (βeta!) and magazines. And before those there were International Male catalogs and “fitness” magazines and before those there were the swimsuit and underwear sections of Sears and Eaton’s catalogs.

And before those there were [...]

I Love “Look Around You” So Much That I’ve Changed My Name To Lookaroundyou Stewart

I’m not kidding, you guys, Look Around You is nothing short of brilliant.

Both a parody of and homage to television science programs circa 1980, the mood, look and content is captured perfectly.

Even if you’re not as high as Jesus, the silliness piles on top of silliness until you’re doomed to laughter. This BBC series makes [...]

The Irony (For Geeks Only)

Oh, Intertubes. How you provide endless, endless hours of information, stimulation, frustration and, yes, humour!

If you’re a geek and you don’t already, you really need to check out Lifehacker, an invaluable source of tips, trends and other, wired-world ephemera. An intriguing post yesterday tipped us to AreMySitesUp?, a website in which you can enter site [...]

Joe Stirs the Pot and Rings the Dinner Bell

OMG, you guys, I love Joe.My.God.! He’s, like… totally!

Those of us old enough to remember — and those of us still alive to remember — ACT-UP and Queer Nation (and, before geezers like me, Stonewall) have long wondered when the latest generation of queer kids will have their big moment of anger and solidarity. If our early-’90s [...]

Obama, Big and Small. REALLY Small.

Spanish artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada crafts a giant Obama out of sand and rocks on a beach in Barcelona, not far from where Champ and I trundled in September.

John Hart, Sameh Tawfick, Michael De Volder and Will Walker crafted teeny-tiny, half-millimeter Obamas out of carbon nanotubes. 150 million of them make up each [...]

Yes We Carve

On a lighter note, a little nice goes a long way to assuage the continued psychic wounding by the ugliness from the GOP nominees and their lying, racist, dumb-fuck supporters.

Barack O’Lanterns, courtesy Yes We Carve:

Get. Out.

So it’s National Coming Out Day today in Canada — even though it’s technically an American invention — and I’ve been totally, totally out to absolutely everybody for… wow, twenty-one years? Geez.

And, really, I want to tell you… except for a good cry with my Dad when he asked and I told him, [...]

Prejudice and Pride

So, here’s a couple of upcoming events for ya.

The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its International Classification of Diseases in the early ’90s. <Insert eye-roll at the WHO’s foot-dragging here.> May 17th was thus designated as International Day Against Homophobia and this year’s campaign focuses on healthcare workers and professionals:

I dunno about [...]

Dear Mom

I got taller. But not gayer.

I joke here about loving to scandalize my Mom — with all the swears and nudity and gay sex and unbridled grumpiness and whatnot — but the fact is, my Mom is the greatest Mom who ever lived and I love her to bits. I probably wouldn’t be able [...]

Safer Safer Sex

Anyone who finds a frank discussion of gay sex — unencumbered by polite words and descriptions — in any way offensive should probably give this entry a pass. No, really. You’ll thank me later. I mean it, Mom.

Oh, if you’ve also got a problem with overly long, rambling and anecdotal information — or [...]

How To… Get Almost-Free Express Package Delivery

Thanks to email, Hallmark.com, online banking and Amazon.com gift certificates, the need to send actual, hold-in-your-hand mail has diminished enormously. Yet… sometimes ya just gotta, right?

You’d think that with the diminished volume, mail carriers like Canada Post(/Postes Canada) would be able to get an envelope or package to its destination faster than in years past. [...]