Well, Well, Well ...

Here's Tom Welling looking ridiculously hot in the new Italian Vanity Fair.

(Photos by Steven Meisel)

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Tom Swelling?

Either I really am the chubby chaser my boyfriend claims I am or people are losing their minds, but these photos are being circulated around the blogosphere with everyone claiming that the Superman star Tom Welling is looking perhaps "not-so-Smallville" and "a little bit on the chunky side." And even the ever-diplomatic Trent (Pink Is the New Blog) was wondering if our modern-day Clark Kent was holding a pizza box rather than a laptop because "it looks like Tom is very familiar with pizza boxes." Ouch. We should all be as "fat" as sexy Tom.

Remains of the Day (01/29)

WeHo Times: Crunch Fitness closes West Hollywood steam room amid "inappropriate conduct"

The Randy Report: Senator Pete Buttigieg?

Tennis: Pam Shriver recovers her Grand Slam trophies that were stolen during L.A. wildfires

NYP: Anna Kournikova seen in wheelchair wearing orthopedic boot in rare public appearance

KIT212: Everyone's favorite gay "Jeopardy!" hunk is coming back ... again!

TMZ: "Smallville" star Tom Welling arrested for driving under the influence. See him in happier times skinny-dipping HERE; young and suited up HERE; and his "super" bulge HERE.

Gothamist: Man describes being drugged and robbed in Hell’s Kitchen gay-bar murder trial

BGay: Russell Tovey is starry-eyed for Tom Blyth in new gay romance "Plainclothes"

TV Line: How the late Linda Lavin will be written out of the upcoming Hulu comedy "Mid-Century Modern"

Josh Rincon: What does "Myspace Tom" look like today?

The Advocate: You know what would be far more helpful to trans people than retrofitting history (activists) or being a stickler and crank about all things trans (Martina Navratilova)? Uniting to win elections.

Alan Ilgan: What would you give to take your mom to two Broadway shows for Mother's Day?

Queerty: Jeremy Allen White will go bi-for-pay in new Netflix series from "Call Me by Your Name" author

ArtNet: A critic sees "queer erasure" in Smithsonian Museum’s Felix Gonzalez-Torres display

ICYMI: A new resolution in Idaho calls for the Supreme Court to review its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, saying America must return to the "natural definition" of marriage, which is “between one man and one woman"

Hot Cat of the Day: I'm so happy Mr. Satchel's fortunes have changed! xo

New wave legend: Robert X. Planet (of Killer Pussy fame) gets memorialized in his hometown alt weekly

Far Out: Debbie Harry picks her four favorite tracks from the 1960s

RIP: Robert Cromey, ally priest who performed San Francisco's first same-sex church weddings, dies at 93

Queerties 2025: See the nominees and vote HERE.

Wrestle Wednesday: I'm hearing that Michael Hawke's wonderful Gay New York 1970s and '80s group, which I blogged about last year, has grown from 600 to nearly 45,000 members! See what all the excitement is about -- such as these randy wrestlers -- HERE.

Remains of the Day (10/02)

The Cut: Jason Lewis, Eric Nies, Ian Somerhalder, Tom Welling and others remember the wild, sexy and decidedly pre-Instagram world of 1990s modeling

QulturVultur: Out actor Andrew Bonomolo says he was fired from a professional theater production after the company learned of his past as adult performer Troye Jacobs, and he isn't going quietly

KIT212: Adorable college basketball coach engaged to his adorable boyfriend and fellow coach

BF: Brian Ferrari looks back on a magical summer performing under the stars in Medora, North Dakota, in a poignant poem dedicated to his late dance partner, Jennifer Kay, who died suddenly this summer

Saturday 'Stache: Beach wood

DNA: Nik Ball by Jade Young Part II

The 74: The Education Department has formally scrapped Biden-era Title IX protections for LGBTQ students, with a new rule defining sex strictly as male or female expected next

PinkNews: Tom Ford’s Spring 2027 collection declares skimpy briefs are so in

Out: Joey Pollari is the newest hunky star of "American Horror Story: 13"

Washington Blade: House Democrats urge White House to confront Turkish government over anti-LGBTQ crackdown

NYP: Therapist who ran NYC gay men's group busted for sexually assaulting two "vulnerable" patients

Advocate: Transgender and intersex Kansans are challenging a sweeping new law that voided some 1,700 driver's licenses and requires gender markers to reflect sex assigned at birth

Instinct: Meet Ashton Summers, the gay porn star whose viral thrust has racked up more than 30 million views and inspired countless imitations

The Trevor Project: The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline has restored its “Press 3” specialized services for LGBTQ youth, more than a year after the federal government eliminated them

Speedo Sunday: Animal attraction

Dumb Bitch Hot Cat of the Day: Get a new boyfriend -- I speak from experience

Happy Birthday: Julie Andrews is 91 ... and Greg Brady is 72!

Eugene O'Neill Goes to Equinox: Toxic masculinity, no matter how artful, isn't really my cup of tea. But major props to Jon Beavers (as Yank), Harrison Tipping and the rest of the cast for bringing depth and humanity to the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of "The Hairy Ape," a bleak portrait of a man whose strength is useless against a world that he is convinced sees him as "less than." Tickets HERE.

Barney Greengrass: Now who's the sturgeon king? 

TV Guide Brings Sexy Back

Patrick Dempsey is TV Guide's Sexy Issue cover man.

McDreamy and uber-hot Justin Chambers of "Grey's Anatomy" show off their guns.

TV's hottest pretty boys, Tom Welling of "Smallville" and Skeet Ulrich -- looking like Andrew Shue in his "Melrose Place" heyday -- of "Jericho."

Minka Kelly sure isn't a guy, but she's definitely one of the sexiest people on television, as is her "Friday Night Lights" bad boy Taylor Kitsch.


Dave Annable makes me want to watch "Brothers & Sisters."

Josh Holloway of "Lost" is Sex on a Beach.

Ugly Betty's not-so-ugly boss, Eric Mabius.


Hot Stuff: Shemar Moore of "Criminal Minds" and David Boreanaz of "Bones."


Another helping of Skeet and Anne Heche's latest find, James Tupper.
(All photos via TV Guide.)

Skinny-Dipping With Tom Welling

Damn The WB for being so good at editing, but if you watch the short, unaired "Smallville" clip above you can see BOTH of Superman's best ASS-ets in all their glory. (I think we all remember what one of his BIG strengths looked like packed into his britches. Now we get to see it FLY free!)

The edited-but-still-great-for-so-many-other-reasons version is below.

Related: See his "Super Bulge" HERE.

Super Bulge

Is that kryptonite in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

I don't know about you, but I never tire of seeing Tom Welling's super hero bounce around in his pants when he runs ...

Watching him SKINNY DIP is fun, too!

CW Post

I'm not sure what shows any of them are on, but there's no question that CW network has the best-looking guys on television, as seen at last night's upfront party at Abe & Arthur's in New York City:

Dream Porn: Ian Somerhalder, Robert Buckley and Tom Welling

Kristoffer Polaha

Chace Crawford

Shane West

When Ian met Robert

Super Daddy

Tom Welling is about to star in yet another show I won't watch, but by all means keep these grown-up photos coming! I've been in lust ever since I saw him go SKINNY DIPPING.

Hungville?

Is "Smallville" hunk Tom Welling's younger cousin doing gay porn? (QTC)

Chris Pine: The Bulge Files

 

I suppose it's kind of creepy that someone made a YouTube video featuring as many close-ups of "Star Trek" hottie Chris Pine's crotch as he could find. Yet strangely, I'm not complaining. (Via Tabloid Prodigy) 

 Of course, Chris has nothing on Tom Welling's Clark Kent, whose SUPER BULGE looks awfully good, especially when he's moving faster than a speeding bullet ...

 

UPDATE: Here's a follow-up on Chris Pine: 

Kenneth in the (212) Turns 20

Hard to fathom that when I spontaneously opened up a Blogspot template on Sept. 4, 2005, and wrote a short post late at night after watching Robby Ginepri beat Tommy Haas at the U.S. Open that I would be still be blogging two decades later ... yet here we are! 

Thanks to everyone who has come along for the ride, which certainly has exceeded my wildest expectations. (God knows it's always been for the love of it, with what little advertising revenue some of us once earned long since evaporated thanks to Facebook and Google.)

Along the way my site has allowed me to make numerous new friends -- some famous, some infamous, and some just tremendous -- get invited to countless parties, screenings, movie premieres, book releases, theatrical productions and more; achieve my dream of writing a book of essays after being "discovered" by a noted agent; and best of all even land a husband! 

In an attempt to remember what I looked like at the time, I dug up these these photos from 2005 -- the Hamptons, a Go-Go's concert, Miami. WeHo and Venus diner -- all of which made the blog!

Life has also had its somber moments over the years -- we buried our father; my best friend in town died suddenly months after I started my blog; I got and lost a dream job or two; I've said goodbye to two very special critters (Troy and Larry); and my brother Bill was taken way too soon -- so logging on here each day has been a source of stability when other things have felt out of control. (See also: World, The.)

While I don't have a timeline for how much longer I will digitally be Kenneth in the (212), for now I'll share with you my 10 most popular posts (out of more than 39,000) -- some expected, some not -- as I say cheers to 20 years. I wouldn't have done it without you! xo

Popular Posts

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  NYPD Officer Who Made Headlines for Twerking at Gay Pride Parade Dies of Sept. 11-Related Cancer

  Sad to read about the passing of NYPD Officer Michael Hance, who raised eyebrows and made headlines in 2015 for twerking with a rev...
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  Aaron Schock Nudes Have Finally, Um, Leaked

  We knew this day was coming. While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Aaron Schock used his power to routinely vote against t...
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  Super Bulge

  Is that kryptonite in your pants or are you just happy to see me? I don't know about you, but I never tire of seeing Tom Welling's ...
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  Trump to Shut Down White House Office of National AIDS Policy

  Well, that didn't take long. The attack on the LGBT community is already under way.  Towleroad notes that the White House LGBT...
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  The Heyday of Chelsea's 8th Avenue

  If "The Death of Chelsea's 8th Avenue" served as a stark reminder of the post-Bloomberg era of New York City, I'm ...
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  Str8 Talk Express

  This one sounds like a real "catch": St8 looking for gay roommate - 28 (Midtown East) Straight guy here, 28 professional,...
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  Twitter Thinks I'm 'Harassing' Aaron Schock

  Well, this sure is rich. Don't have a lot of time to flesh it out, but a dissertation could be written about how Twitter ha...
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  The 50 Hottest NFL Players of All Time

  With Superbowl Sunday upon us, I figured there was no better time to get this cut-throat game going. I'm sure I forgot someone --...
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  Eric Decker's Wife Wants You to Know Something

  I swear, I try not to be obsessive . But then my eagle-eyed readers keep digging up stuff and what's a blogger to do? As if Denver ...
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  The 100 Hottest Male Tennis Players of the Open Era

  1. Patrick Rafter: Always the most likable and lickable player on the circuit, it only makes me want to be this Aussie...

 

Below: I remember getting my boyfriend at the time to take these NYC-centric "promo" photos to use on Blogads. (Anyone remember those?) Oh, to be 38(!) again ...

Corner of 18th and 8th

Corner of 18th and 7th