Saturday, June 30, 2012
Bottom Gun
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 4:11 PM 7 comments
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beards,
Grindr,
tom cruise
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Money Shot

Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 6:36 PM 6 comments
Labels:
channing tatum,
magic mike
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Bullies Go Down
Wow, maybe the anti-bullying message is finally getting through to people. Gawker writes that the four Athena Middle School students who verbally abused an elderly bus monitor in Rochester, N.Y., have been suspended from school and its bus transportation system for one full year. (Because they're legally entitled to an education, they will be schooled at the off-campus Reengagement Center.) The boys are also "required to perform 50 hours of community service involving senior citizens, and complete a bullying prevention, respect and responsibility program."
A vacation fund for Karen Klein has already raised $667,000 in donations -- don't be spending it all on dollar slots, Grandma! -- but it's the fact that people are taking what happened seriously that really warms my heart. If you saw the film "Bully," then you know that school authorities normally blame the victim or at the very least try to minimize their attackers' offenses. Now let's just hope the next time an LGBT youth/minority/nerd/etc. -- rather than a cute old lady -- gets treated this way, a similar punishment is handed down.
Full story HERE.
Billy on the Street
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 5:47 PM 0 comments
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Billy Eichner,
Billy on the Street
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Sexy Carl Siciliano to Receive White House Honor
Great news via my pal David Mixner who writes:
New York City is bursting with pride today as the news was announced that one of our own is being honored by the White House as a "Champion of Change." Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, will receive the honor at the White House on July 12. Everyone who knows Carl knows that no one deserve the honor more than he does for his work with homeless LGBT youth. He is a fierce less fighter for their well being and rights.
Congrats, Carl!
Keep reading HERE.
Nora Ephron Does Not Do Blurbs -- or Detroit
Even a Motor City native has to love this gem of a letter from 1994:
Dear Elizabeth Wurtzel:
I’m sorry not to have written sooner, but your letter and book landed in a pile that other things got on top of. I finally read P.N. [Prozac Nation] and I think you are a brilliant and funny writer. I don’t give quotes, took myself out of the quote business years ago when my vet wrote a book (I had pets once) and asked for a quote. Not to link you with my vet. Anyway, you are truly wonderful and so is your book and I hope they do not send you to places like Detroit to promote it, which could make even a person with no history of depression depressed. I cannot imagine that you would ever want to write a screenplay, but if you ever do, call me up. I’m in the book.
Very best,
Nora Ephron
(Via Romenesko)
On the Rag, Vol. 205
A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay rags:
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 2:55 PM 2 comments
Labels:
jake shears,
On the Rag,
scissor sisters
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Opt Not to Renew Marriage Contract
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 2:50 PM 0 comments
Labels:
divorce,
katie holmes,
tom cruise
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Butt, Seriously?
Separate Is Not Equal
(h/t Towleroad)
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 10:00 AM 1 comments
Labels:
documentaries,
lgbt rights,
movies
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Song of the Day: 'I Got You' by Split Enz
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 9:00 AM 2 comments
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Neil Finn,
Song of the Day,
Split Enz,
Tim Finn
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Likin' 'Mike'
Now I Know I Know
(I'm thinking she had her first facelift between "Rockbird" and "Def, Dumb and Blonde" because that jawline is too good to be "true"!)
She looked and sounded OK on on Arsenio Hall, but the first part of this interview is excruciating!
By 1990, she's losing it a bit -- that "mascot" is out of control -- but she does reveal to an Australian talk show host what her two favorite Madonna songs are:
And while I'm at it, I had never seen Debbie on "Kids Are People Too," from 1980. Her too-brief answers are strangely charming -- and those kids ask some great questions!
And finally, Debbie's 2010 appearance on the Australian edition of "60 Minutes" is worth a look. How did I miss this story about "In the Flesh" becoming a smash Down Under when the DJ accidentally played the B-side of their debut, "X Offender"? She hasn't gotten any better at interviews over the years -- and you'll positively cringe as she tells her totally not true Ted Bundy story in explicit detail!
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 8:00 AM 3 comments
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blondie,
concerts,
debbie harry
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Fools Rush In
RIP, Susan Tyrrell
Killer Blow
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 5:12 PM 3 comments
Labels:
Lukas Rosol,
rafael nadal,
tennis,
wimbledon
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ObamaCare for Dummies
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 4:33 PM 0 comments
Labels:
affordable care act,
obamacare,
president obama
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Rainbow Shame
(For their part, Kraft stands behind the cookie.)
Of course, you can't be gay and fat. But God forbid you want to do a bump of coke at your local gay-pride parade ... you'll hear all about it!
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Chris Long Sports a 'Stache
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 2:11 PM 1 comments
Labels:
chris long,
football,
mustache
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Baby Steps?
When Harry Met Shilling
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 11:00 AM 1 comments
Labels:
advertising,
blondie,
debbie harry
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