Remains of the Day (09/13)

 

UCR: Rankings never please everyone. But I can definitely get behind this list of greatest new wave bands that includes Blondie, Pretenders, Go-Go's and B-52s

The Randy Report: Florida school district must restore banned LGBT books

Washington Blade: YouTube suspends gay Nigerian streaming TV channel

Gothamist: Fran Lebowitz is still not invited to FranCon

IG: There's a new gay hunk on "Jeopardy!"

NTU: Research shows differences in body dissatisfaction between bisexual and gay men

Dallas Voice: Voting expert David Grasso discusses how the LGBT community votes and the impact it makes

MetroWeekly: Garden State Equality endorses straight Democrat over a gay Republican

Walla!: Remind me why these "queers for Palestine" seem more concerned with upending Western democracy than their actual queer Muslim brothers and sisters?

Dear Abby: Gay couple enjoys straight friends on cruise, until they see extremist Facebook posts

NYT: Could your favorite TV and movie characters afford their homes today?

DNYUZ: Sweden will offer migrants $34,000 to go home

ABC News: Springfield, Ohio, parents ask GOP ticket to stop using their child as "political tool": '"My son was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti"

USA Today: Imagine wanting this to be your legacy

Speedo Sunday: Three large men vs. three tiny swimsuits

Hot Cat of the Day: Your Uber has arrived

Question: Does anyone know why THIS Morning Wood from 2017 has recently become one of my most popular posts ever? It has no text or other identifying characteristics, so I'm not even sure how people are finding it. 

Stereogum: A bunch of legendary musicians recently convened in London’s Konk Studios for a mysterious new project. Courtney Love (Hole), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine), Adrian Utley (Portishead), and Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey) were “covering Marianne Faithfull songs,” Googe wrote on Instagram. The multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Christophers also shared a post, describing the get-together as “an amazing experience in the merging of music and film.. Don’t want to say much more but you’ll find out soon enough.”

Variety: The last thing standing between Kathy Griffin and a real comeback

RIP: Performance artist legend Chilli Pepper has died

On the Rag, Vol. 825

Rosacea-Americans rejoice; a real-life trans-American adventure; exploring LGBT Chiang Mai; and more in this week's rag 'n' mag roundup BELOW. 

Leaders Commemorate 9/11 at Ground Zero

 

President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and a nearly 80-year-old angry narcissist all gathered in New York City this morning to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Because one of them decided in 2021 to end our nation's rich history of a peaceful transfer of power, this meeting at Ground Zero was noteworthy since it was the first time they were ever all together.

On a personal note: I'm coming to terms with the reality that at my age there is an entire generation -- and another right behind -- who wasn't even alive when the most monumental world event of my life took place. (How can Sept. 11 have been 23 years ago?) 

That day we lost our David -- he and my friend Ken were both pilots for American Airlines -- but he is never far from our thoughts. Ken and I talked about him in June when I visited Paris -- where both of them planned to retire -- and we imagined what his neighboring apartment would look like if he were alive today. It may have been more than two decades ago, but it can still hurt as if it were yesterday. xo

President Biden: 

On this day 23 years ago, terrorists believed they could break our will and bring us to our knees -- they were wrong.

In the darkest of hours, we found light.

That is why terrorists targeted us in the first place: Our freedom, our democracy, our unity.

David was first officer on American Flight 77. Remember the crew from all four flights HERE.

Criminally Built

Biggest regret in life: I never got a prison gym bod.

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Remains of the Day (09/10)

Deadline: "Studio One Forever" documentary is finally ready to get moving ... I wrote about my doppelgänger at the WeHo dance club HERE.

Joy Behar: What happens when your shrink is the one who needs help?

Oldster: In the fall of 1977, a (gay) high school nerd took on the bullying jocks.

IG: Hear the demo of "Like a Virgin" that got Madonna to snatch it up and take it to Nile Rodgers

It's Either Sadness or Bookphoria: A review of Jax Calder's "The Unlikely Heir"

The Randy Report: Legendary actor James Earl Jones dead at 93

People: Colton Underwood gives an exclusive look inside nis "not traditional: nursery ahead of baby son's arrival

Greg in Hollywood: Hunky NBC News correspondent Steven Romo gives memorable speech while accepting NLGJA Journalist of the Year

Page Six: New "Queer Eye" cast member Jeremiah Brent jokes he cried an "uncomfortable" amount during Season 9 filming: "There was a lot of joy" 

WCT: Gay couple donates $75 million to Art Institute of Chicago

Boy Culture: "Queer" stars Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey stark naked

PinkNews: Texas dad sentenced to six years in prison after beating 2-year-old son for "acting gay"

Hot Cats of the Day: U.S. halts plan to remove iconic stray cats from a historic area in Puerto Rico’s capital