Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Page 1 Consider (11/07)

  • CREEM of the Crop: A new book celebrating the legendary Detroit-born CREEM magazine has just hit the shelves. Although I can remember buying it at the Alpha Beta near my childhood home in Mesa, Arizona, every time Blondie was mentioned (even in passing), it was Joan Jett's 1982 cover in a sprayed-on leather suit that really made me love rock 'n' roll. (Amazon)

  • Your Ad Here (Oops!): Visitors to Gay.com can sign up to find the perfect anal sex dating partner, advice on sex and how-to articles on same-sex marriage and parenting. Over the course of at least two days in August, they may well also have seen banner advertisements about the anti-gay presidential candidate Mitt Romney, thanks to an automated Web advertising system that doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground. (NYT)

  • Supper Man: Michael Hebberoy is a culinary showman who breaks hearts as often as he breaks bread. (NYT)

  • Not So Big Love: It seems polygamous-sect chief Warren Jeffs unsuccessfully attempted suicide in his cell earlier this year, eight months before he was convicted of rape as an accomplice. What a coward. (AP)

  • Carrot Top Meet Priscilla Presley: Wanna see the worst celebrity plastic surgery ever? (Source)

  • Stepping Stone: According to a new poll, 70 percent of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that does not cover transgender people over not passing the bill at all. (I'm part of that 70 percent.) The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign and conducted on October 26, surveyed 500 members of the LGBT community across the country. The version of ENDA sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, which does not include job protections for transgender Americans, was voted out of the House of Representatives rules committee Monday night and is very likely to be voted on Wednesday. (Advocate)

  • How Do You Say Brown Noser in French? "I come to Washington to bear a very simple message, a message that I bear on behalf of all Frenchmen,” Nicholas Sarkozy said in a toast at a formal White House dinner in his honor. "I want to reconquer the heart of America." President Bush turned to the French president and said, "That's fine, but don't be putting your French tongue all over the Mrs. Hee-hee." (NYT)


  • Take the "Lay" Out of Malaysian: Thirty-seven men, including two foreigners, are facing floggings and lengthy jail terms following a raid on what is described as a gay sex club that police say was operating under the guise of being a fitness center in northern Penang island. (365Gay)

  • Square Pegs: Maxim readers are now admitting what I've been saying all along: Sarah Jessica Parker is the least sexiest woman alive. (VOA)

  • We're Here! We're Queer. Let's Move: Gay Muslims find freedom in the United States, sort of. (NYT)

  • Straight Talk: OUT magazine asks its readers: who's the gayest person ever? (Queerty)

  • CBS Eye on Gays: Gay-lesbian network Logo is moving into the network news business, planning to televise a half-hour weekly newscast that is produced by CBS News.(HR)


  • I Wanna Be, Jerry's Girl! Since I never shut up about what a whore Jessica Seinfeld seems to be, I thought it only fair to post "her side of the story," which she gave to a Times reporter recently. Not surprisingly, her version of events only makes her come across worse than she's already perceived. (NYT)
  • 5 comments:

    Brechi said...

    SJP looks a little like that puppet, I think it's name was "madame"?

    Anonymous said...

    I still have my copy of Creem with that bad ass Joan Jett on the cover!!

    Anonymous said...

    Yeah-Elsa Lanchester-featured in photo with SJP-has it all over her

    Anonymous said...

    Regarding the OUT poll, I pretty sure that those who voted Zack Efron gay are guilty of wishful thinking. God knows that's why I voted that way.

    about a boy said...

    i used to like carrot top. well. i found him entertaining.

    now. the man just scares the shit out of me.