Tennis Tuesday

 Magnus Juell looks ready for Wimbledon in his all-white attire. See in detail BELOW.

Rewind

Forgive me, but I've been sick to my stomach since attempting to pick just 9 albums "that made me" -- despite knowing that nobody but me cares what I posted. 

Then I saw that my friend Greg cheated figured out a workaround by breaking his lists into decades, so I couldn’t resist a rewind.

Even then, I couldn't narrow my 1980s heyday down to 9 -- but just let me get this out so I can rest peacefully! (And they're not exactly ranked, just how I uploaded them.) 

1990s ☝

With apologies to Prefab Sprout, X and Aztec Camera plus all the synth bands I loved back then, including the Human League, Depeche Mode, OMD, Heaven 17, Thompson Twins and Yaz(oo).

1980s ☝

1970s ☝

1960s ☝

UPDATE:

(Full disclosure: I have been obsessed with making lists since I was a child, so a website that generates them is a recipe for OCD.)

Remains of the Day

HotSpots: Why dad bods are giving six-pack abs a run for their money in the gay community, where a little softness around the middle is becoming a sexy alternative to gym-sculpted perfection

New Times: Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack

Attitude: A massive "Grand Theft Auto 6" leak gives gamers an eyeful of leading man Jason's fully rendered penis as he rides a motorcycle and runs around Vice City completely naked

Saturday 'Stache: F**k, marry, kill?

The Caftan Chronicles: Catching up with '90s menswear designer John Bartlett about finding love after loss and his new mission rescuing shelter dogs

NYP: The transgender New York Times executive allegedly murdered by his in-laws had previously carried a baby who died shortly after birth -- a tragedy he blamed on his estranged wife's alleged abuse, which horrifyingly included forcing him to eat a dead cockroach

Metro Weekly: Turkish pop star Mabel Matiz faces obscenity charges over a music video featuring two men dancing together, in the latest crackdown on LGBTQ expression in the country

Speedo Sunday: Andy Cohen vs. micro swim briefs

DNA: A new study finds that AI image generators refuse to guess whether someone is gay but happily alter faces to make them "look gay"

Queerty: Greg Louganis is having the same problem every perennially single gay man I know 

PinkNews: Comely Virginia Republican calls school district’s LGBTQ History Month "disgusting"

Homobilia via Boystack: "The 60 Second Excitement" collects more than 100 vintage Polaroids of naked men -- gay and straight -- who posed in one man's home between 1963 and 1969, offering an intimate glimpse into the pre-Stonewall era

Hot Kitten of the Day: This little baby popped up on Threads and sure reminds me of someone!

Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe release "A Man From the Future," an eight-track musical tribute to gay codebreaker Alan Turing, whose work helped defeat the Nazis but who was later prosecuted for his homosexuality. Hear the opening track, "Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know," HERE.

#My9Albums

 

The instructions say: "Pick the 9 albums that made you. Search more than two million albums, put your nine in order, and share the poster," and so I did. Obviously, it's impossible to narrow it down to nine -- the first five Blondie albums all deserve to be on here -- and it was only after I'd finished that I realized I'd completely forgotten about "Beauty and the Beat" by the Go-Go's, although I don't see where I'd swap it in. But like most time-wasting social-media trends, it's fun. Tell me yours in the comments -- or make and share your own HERE.

On the Rag, Vol. 928

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Joey Pollari, Michael Johnston, Tom Hopper, Bruce LaBruce, Nicholas Hoult, Anthony Ippolito, Andrew Garfield and more BELOW.

Remains of the Day (10/07)

Dan Callahan: Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning star of "On the Waterfront" and "North by Northwest," dies at 102

Gr8er Days: Every one of Alfred Hitchcock’s still-living leading ladies

The Hat: As the midterms approach, off-Broadway tackles democracy, authoritarianism and resistance while larger theaters shy away from political risks

W42ST: Michael Musto shares his picks from the New York Film Festival, from must-see movies to the films that left him cold

Wrestle Wednesday: VPL in yellow

NYT: Long Island congressional candidate Chris Gallant is making the most of an unexpected tabloid reveal -- bondage photos from his past

Advocate: Samuel Alito blames marriage equality for America’s "decisive" turn "against religious liberty"

Attitude: Alfie Watts, winner of the British reality show "Race Across the World," comes out as bisexual, just like me in 1987(!)

BBC: Three arrested in a crackdown on a suspected criminal network accused of helping Bangladeshi migrants pretend to be gay to win asylum in Britain

PinkNews: Nyle DiMarco joins "All's Fair" for season two in a recurring role originally written for a hearing actor

Creepy Catalog: The story behind the haunting opening credits of "Rosemary's Baby"

HuffPost: Andrew Scott looks poised for an Oscar nomination thanks to his chilling performance in "Elsinore"

Out: Why Chris Colfer says a "Glee" reboot would be really hard to do

Greg in Hollywood: Van Hansis marks two years as Lucas Jones on "General Hospital," a role that turned a short-term gig into a life-changing move to Los Angeles 

RIP: Looking back at the life and career of soap stud Robert Kelker-Kelly, who starred on "Days of Our Lives" and "Another World" before leaving Hollywood behind

Hot Cat of the Day: A change of seasons

RIP: Remembering Michael Kearns, the fearless gay actor, performance artist and AIDS activist who came out when it was career suicide and later became one of the first actors to publicly disclose he was HIV-positive

Messy Debra: Bleeding-heart liberal Debra Messing pulls a Roseanne Barr. 

Someone really needs to study how a single issue can take over a person's entire life and personality. And I'm not just talking about the nutty Debra Messing types. Her counterparts on the other side, the #FreePalestine loons on my social media feeds, are equally incapable of talking about anything else. (Far too many of them seem a bit bummed a plane full of Jews didn't go down.) However well-intentioned the "cause" -- and much of it strikes me as performative -- once you're so consumed by it that you can no longer acknowledge historical complexity (Israel wasn't created in a vacuum, kiddies), you've lost it. We've now got people voting for city and state offices based on Israel, and I still see posts saying "thank god Kamala Harris didn't win" because the Biden administration "funded genocide." (That worked out great for 'em.) Are we sure this isn't a mental illness? 

Wait till I start basing my entire persona around the reunification of Ireland!