Monday, September 15, 2008

Page 1 Consider (09/15)

  • Foot Fetish: Cristiano Ronaldo is a ball hog, but who's complaining? (Play)

  • Road to Progress: The California Department of Motor Vehicles has reversed itself, and will allow a Santa Clara, Calif. man to have an HIV POZ vanity plate for his 2007 Toyota Prius. Times sure have changed. I remember when my friend in Huntington Beach tried to get his LIVIN W ARC plates back in '89 and was unceremoniously denied. (Advocate)

  • Mystery Man: Pitcher Barry Zito had the best curveball in the game, but somehow he lost it. The continuing metaphysical crisis of baseball’s pretty-boy prince of confusion. (NYT)

  • DeadSpace: Who has not, at some point, wondered if an acquaintance was dead or if enough good things had been said about a deceased loved one? Tributes.com, a new Web site, hopes to serve as a portal for those looking to memorialize and learn about the lives of friends, family and the famous. Officially open to the public Sept. 23, it brings the social networking and archival features of sites like classmates.com and weddingchannel.com to the deceased. (NYT)

  • Paging Jack McFarland: Don't want to wait for a "Dawson's Creek" reunion? Better move to the (212)! (NYDN)

  • Levi's, Out of the Closet: The Levi’s 501 button-fly line of jeans sold by Levi Strauss & Company is joining with the Logo unit of MTV Networks, owned by Viacom, for a campaign called “Logo Unbuttoned.” Promotions for the campaign are scheduled to begin on Tuesday 9-16 on Logo, a network aimed at gay and lesbian viewers that since its introduction in June 2005 has signed sponsorship deals with other mainstream marketers like Orbitz, Stolichnaya and Subaru. (NYT)

  • Vote for Dorian Gray: I love how the NY Post is reporting that celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg "deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain" for the current cover of The Atlantic, like you have to go out of your way to make a 72-year-old one-time prisoner of war who has been on the campaign trail nonstop for over a year look bad. (NYP)

  • Sing Out: Gospel singer Ray Boltz comes out of the closet. (Washington Blade)

  • Balls to the Wind: Who wants to watch CNN weather hunk Rob Marciano, um, adjust himself on live television? (Soup Cans)

  • Miami Cools on Anti-Gay Measure: A new poll shows that a ballot initiative to rewrite the Florida constitution and enshrine anti-gay law does not have enough support to pass muster in November. Meanwhile, the mayor of Miami has come out against the proposed amendment, saying, "I don’t see how this amendment protects anything."
    (EDGE Boston)

  • Congrats: Actor George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, were married Sunday in a multicultural ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum that featured a Buddhist priest, Native American wedding bands, a Japanese Koto harp and a bagpipe procession. (AP)

  • RIP: Remembering the work of David Foster Wallace, who died Friday in an apparent suicide. (NYT)

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