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This is FYF - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

• Texas Governor Rick Perry asked a question:  "We're creating more jobs than any other state in the nation. ... Would you rather live in a state like this, or in a state where a man can marry a man?"   I (just one single guy) know at least fifty (50!) Texans that left that state because it's a horrible place to be gay that could probably answer that for you.
• Inspired by the end of Rush, here's a brief cultural overview of poppers.
• That egg scare keeps getting egg-scarier.  My eggs are from Trader Joe's, so I feel like I'm safe.
• It was almost posted as a "lyricism" post, but the lyrics were weak.  It almost was posted as a song with today's weather, but it's just not good enough.  Maybe you can find a use for Power Station's "Some Like It Hot".
• Meanwhile there's Twin Shadow, from yesterday?  There's a special going where you can download the entire album for just a buck!
• In New York City you can be arrested for being lost.
• State Senator Ruben Diaz, Senior is bound to have a few skeletons in his closet, right?  Here's ten.
• There is a massive collection of materials available now regarding the history of the Black Panther party.  They provide insight on a huge range of topics including the efficacy of the FBI and the ease with which a government can suppress.  <tinfoilhat>And it leaves you wondering if there are FBI agents at HRC and other organizations.  </tinfoilhat>
• Missoni takes on Converse.

This is FYF - Monday, August 30, 2010

 

• The biggest news of the weekend broke right here:  Rush brand poppers is out of business.
• However, most sites though will lead today with New You Can't Use about the "gayest Emmy Awards ever".  Here's a breakdown of the winners with nary a word gay in it.
• Meet Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus (seriously, that's their names), Christian martyrs from the fourth century that were gay married.
• Interior Decorators are different than Interior Designers.  Get the two straight.
• Somebody pepper-sprayed Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church protesters.
• How to make custom ring-tones for free with iTunes.
• Anybody with decent handjob skills can lose weight instantly with Shake Weights.
• Think the Power Rangers were gay?  Well, you're partly right; one of them is.
• Do you still have cable?  Those monopolies are going down.
• Chi Chiz:  Safe for now.

This is FYF - Thursday, August 26, 2010

• Sean Penn in drag?  Given his stature, let's hope the category is butch queen up in pumps.
• Sorry if this is a little late this morning.  Needed to relieve the morning tension with some Sally Draper action.
• It's about time someone did something about all the bedbug problems, like write a self-serving press release.
• According to polls, there are now seventeen states where marriage equality is supported.  That number is pathetic.
• Team Trader Joe's.
• Want to walk from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific?  It takes 152 days.
• One of the eight Democratic New York State Senators that voted against marriage equality last year says that gays are giving her death threats and (shocker) contributing money to her primary opponent.
• Did you see The Human Centipede?  The sequel will have twelve actors in the centipede.  Ewwwww.
• The poetry of Inches magazine.

This is FYF - Wednesday, August 25, 2010

 

• Lady Gaga has an FTM alter ego "Jo Calderone" who has made the cover of Vogue Hommes (Japan).  This will be the lead story of 87.5% of "gay culture" sites today.
• You almost got a story about insomniac New Yorkers here, but it was in the Post.  We try not to link to evil.
• Wait?  There's already a mosque four blocks from Ground Zero?
• Affordable tie bars.
• The down low life of West Point cadets isn't as sexy a story as I hoped.  Morning wood denied.
• Speaking of which, one of these Bruce Weber ads used to be regular wanking material.
• You're not allowed to swim to Roosevelt Island.
• A Florida Christian group is getting together to have, OMG, a Qur’an burning.
• The New York City clerks office will soon be required to suggest people go to other states to get married so that they can be married in New York.  They will also be required to jump through flaming hoops carrying satchels of  oil-soaked money.

This is FYF - Tuesday, August 24, 2010

 

• In Toronto. a roving band of prayer-junkies camps out and preach-screams in front of gay households.  In one neighborhood, the neighbors drove them away.
• They are trying to obscure the Empire State Building with an ugly glass and steel tower.
• GLAAD announced their nominees for best gay advertisements.
• George Michael may be quietly humming "Freedom" from a jail cell.
• The remodeling of Bergdorf Goodman's Men's Shop is finally complete.
• Will you return to America's Next Top Model for Season 15?  Andre Leon Talley is back.  And there is a lesbian Hooters waitress.  (Me neither.)
• The GOP pays bloggers for favorable commentary.
• Ex-madam of the ex-governor Kristin Davis has enough signatures to get on the ballot and run for governor.
• "Nowadays, dressing in full peacock drag takes twice the effort to look half as glamorous."

This is FYF - Monday, August 23, 2010

• The Target boycott is spreading to Gilt Groupe who has recently affiliated itself with the retailer. Their Facebook page has become backlash central.
• The Internet exploded with a joyful chorus of "Fuck You!" this weekend.
• Chi Chiz in the West Village has been singled out by the city to guarantee that drugs won't be on their premises to which their lawyer replied:  "When the city figures out how to keep drugs off Rikers Island, they can hold us to the same standard."
• An alligator crawled out of the sewers this past weekend (three block from my house!)
• Architectural renderings of that "gay mega-resort" happening in Hell's Kitchen are on the minimalist side.
• A furniture designer created a line of upholstery influenced by the classic curves of Brigitte Bardot.
• Proof that gay marriage is a deviant aberration:  a married couple spent Friday night cleaning out their refrigerator.
• The moon is getting smaller.
• That Spank party?  No, we didn't either.  But many did and pictures were taken.

This is FYF - Friday, August 20, 2010

• While Facebook finally got their "Places" application up and running in the late afternoon yesterday, other things were still out of whack there, like their decision that a picture of Kylie Minogue with an oversized, stuffed teddy bear was X-rated.
• Rhode Island is cool with gay marriage, which is to see they are warm to the idea, or something.
• My "Tom Ford IQ" is a respectable "6".  What's yours?
• Here's everything you need to know about the Barneys Warehouse Sale.
• Maybe The Last Exorcism comes out in theaters today?  Not that anyone goes to theaters now what with the bedbugs and all.  Anyway, this viral marketing campaign utilizing Chat Roulette is probably a million times better than the movie anyway.  (I've watched it at least five times already.)
• Not to become "Trailer Town", but?  Sofia Coppola.  Stephen Dorff.  And?  STEPHEN DORFF!
• There is only one David Barton.  Correction:  There are only two David Bartons.
• "Snooki and I are the Typhoid Marys of the luxury branding world."
• Well, that was fast.  Target shareholders are starting to hear the complaints and are ordering a review of the company's political donation policies.  And thus concludes my daily posts about Target.
• Within your lifetime, balloons will become luxury items.

This is FYF - Thursday, August 19, 2010

• Good Morning.  Did you sleep well?  Then you're not going to get that 75%-off Balenciaga mink tuxedo, sucker.  There are already lines formed for the Barneys Warehouse Sale.
• How does Daniel Nardicio still get his parties onto Page Six?  He knows that Steven Slater wasn't at his birthday.  Oh, Daniel, you are trouble.  And genius.
• Remember back when you had dial-up and you would go to Stop Doctor Laura?  The fact that her television show was shuttered years again and that the webmaster has persevered in keeping the site active is cause for applause.
• One of the basics of cooking is making a simple bolognese sauce.  Here's something super-close to my own recipe (which also adds sautéed mushrooms and peppers and a touch of nutmeg.).  Invite a dude over and make this for him.
• True Blood (which is now on my NetFlix) apparently did a cover for Rolling Stone that wasn't gay enough, but we faggots are a resourceful lot.
• Finally, I remembered that I despise chain stores.  So despite the allure of that free dozen of eggs they offered, I won't be going to Target.  Unless it's to sing.
• Naomi Campbell told the truth.
• Read the text in the black box very quickly, perhaps in the style of someone that just did some fat rails.  Put it on YouTube.  You'll be famous.
• How to disallow other people from tagging you in Facebook's new "Places" application.  Sorry, stalkers.
• You must love Christy Love.
• Ego check:  Your dick isn't getting bigger.  Those Magnum condoms are counterfeit.

This is FYF - Wednesday, August 18, 2010

• "Doctor" Laura is ending her radio program.  "Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary," she said. "I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries."  Later, hater.
• Prop 8 is going to get you gay marriage, if, and only if, you are in California.  Here's why.
• Mo-mance:  "A non-sexual relationship between two gay men that are unusually close".
• That coupon for free eggs from the Target in Harlem is still unused, but in looking over the rest of the flyer I'm seeing all this "branded" food that they are purveying as "fresh".  Is their meat from cloned dead cows?
• Jon Benet Ramsey at 20.
• A handy world-wide list of where gays can marry and adopt.
• At first it pissed me off, but then I started cleaning up around the house to it.  "Rockin' Robin" mashed up with "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
• You can buy J.D. Salinger's toilet.
• Finally, a guide for the ladies wondering, "Is my husband gay?" written by a "Motivational Children's Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector".

This is FYF - Tuesday, August 17, 2010

• The Ninth Circuit Court has extended the stay on gay marriages until the case is taken up in December.  There are a few possible outcomes.
• Astronauts get naked when they feel filthy.
• When you don't like the results of your poll on marriage equality, do what these creepy fashion plates did:  change wording of the poll after the results arrive.
• Here is a complete glossary of everything about denim.
• New Mexico governor Bill Richardson has nothing better to do than consider a pardon for Billy the Kid, dead over 130 years.
• I have a coupon for a free dozen eggs from Target, but do I really want to go to Harlem to collect a free dozen eggs?
• Bacteria is getting more resistant to antibiotics every day, so keep using your Dial™ Anti-bacterial Soap if you want to make them even stronger.
• The title of this one sums it up nicely:  Whole Foods or Whole Farce?
• You need to understand Net Neutrality before it slows down non-corporate sites (like this one) and slows down your porn.
• That Riker's Island carrot cake looks good, doesn't it?
• The Basquiat candle has arrived with fourteen different fragrance notes.
• True love is and should be something that only publicists can arrange.