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