Tuesday Ad Watch

Nice face -- too bad about the body.

Happy Movember!

Ed Ventresca gets my vote on the first Tuesday in Movember

If my calendar serves me right, today is the first of Movember -- that enchanted month of the year when men around the nation start growing mustaches to raise awareness and money for men's health and cancers affecting men. (I guess you could say I have a head start.)

Would love to hear from anyone participating -- I may have convinced Michael to join in, although he claims that prepubescent number he was sporting back in the day took him "five years to grow" -- because not only is it for a good cause, you know it'll get me going.

For details, click HERE.

To support Movember on Faceook, click HERE.

Which 'stache is right for you? No excuses, it's for a good cause!

Separated at Birth: Paul Lynde and Rick Perry?

WTF? At 1:18, watch "tough-guy" Rick Perry launch into the fiercest Paul Lynde impersonation far right of the center square HERE. (Mitt Romney just came in his magic underpants.)

Cornering Mixner

You can find David in Mixner's Corner each day at noon in Hell's Kitchen

Had the thrill of a lifetime yesterday lunching with legendary anti-war and civil rights activist -- and fellow Sun Devil -- David Mixner, who regaled me with stories of gay life in the '50s (scary!), advising world leaders (scarier!) and locker-room sex while playing football at Arizona State. (Go, team!) I've long admired the man Newsweek once dubbed the Most Powerful Gay Man in America -- if you're not familiar with him, he's featured on the new Out 100 and writes an eclectic blog HERE -- and feel certain he will soon have his own chapter in California's gay history textbooks. (We have him and his then-lover, Peter Scott, to thank for helping stop Proposition 6 from becoming law in 1978, not to mention being the first to tell his buddy Bill Clinton that his "don't ask, don't tell" compromise sucked ass -- and not in a good way.)

In the meantime, David's new memoir, "At Home With Myself: Stories From the Hills of Turkey Hollow" comes out today, and as you can see from his inscription, this man's got a way with words! (Thanks, David. The pleasure was all mine.)

Ruth Madoff Is Priceless

If we learned just one thing from Ruth "What's a Ponzi scheme?"(!) Madoff's interview with Morley Safer on "60 Minutes" it's this: she needs to be a "Real Housewife." Do something, Andy Cohen!

Morning Wood

Blame it on Movember, but I'm still hung up on Sam Elliott in briefs. And it get slightly naughtier over HERE.