happy black party!

THE SAINT AT LARGE

Some days, you eat the bear.

Some days, the bear smacks you against the ground like a little bitch and you cry and cry.

sorry i missed it...

NY1 News: Anti-War Rally Draws 40,000 Peaceful Protesters

"'We are demonstrating today on the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq,' said Sarah Sloan of A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. 'We are calling for the U.S. occupation of Iraq to end immediately in accordance with the wishes of the Iraqi people and their right to self-determination and the wishes of the U.S. soldiers and the vast majority of people in the world.'

'I'm upset with the president for just about everything,' said one protester. 'His war in Iraq that goes on and on and kills people, what he's done to our economy and what he's doing to our future.'

The police estimate that 30,000 to 40,000 protesters turned out for the march. They were shadowed by as many as 6,000 police on foot patrol, on horses, with dogs and even in helicopters, keeping a wary eye on the thousands of protesters."

Leather Limericks

by Sarge8x6
Celebrating St.Patrick's Day AND The Black Party
******
Flog9 planned it all in advance
This time he'd leave nothing to chance
He packed blindfolds, handcuffs and rope
But he should have brought soap
His trick, you see, was from France
******
Two tall hairy cops from New York
Went to meet a hot piggy at Pork
Much to their distress
He walked in, in a dress
Just like that swan thing on Bjork
******
Two guys at the Eagle discussed whether
It was tacky to wed wearing leather
Would the priest be in chaps?
Should they wear matching caps?
Could they drag their boy in on a tether?

strategies for the man hunt

so i log on manhunt and right away i get a message from "vasco510". Now, mind you, my real name is Vasco. Too weird...
He is a top but he is looking for well endowed fellows...
It happens too often: false advertising. Gotta do what you gotta do in NYC: first, all 'bottoms' became 'versatiles'. Now, they say they are tops that bottom...
i still like my friend sarge's take on the whole thing: time to evolve.

vasco510
New York -  midtown -  New York
Hot beefy muscular
Looking for hot passionate sex. Well endowed preferred.
I get into Fucking, 1 on 1, Group Sex, Voyeurism.
I am 42 years old.
Sexually I am A Top.

fuck!

swearing: a must!
via MemeFirst

psychosomatic symptoms

"From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting to old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!"

fractals

Cool Science Image

An oasis of sanity on gay marriage

"Now, be it hereby resolved that the New Hope Borough Council supports the issuance of marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples and calls upon the County of Bucks and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to issue such licenses."

I came to the historic riverfront town of New Hope expecting to find Gomorrah on the Delaware, its populace turned to pillars of salt for daring to so brazenly embrace homosexual union.

But on Friday, three days after the Borough Council unanimously voted in favor of gay marriage, all was quiet.

Philadelphia Inquirer | John Grogan forwarded by my friend Sexpartyguru

Worster Album Covers Ever II

Golden Classics
via Stone

i heart Redheads

It’s been documented: The Redhead Cluster Phenomenon.
You happen upon redheads in close sequence, followed by long periods of seeing none whatsoever. You’ll see five in an afternoon and then none for two weeks.

See Red Headed Men NAKED!

via Fleshbot

Trump Tries to Buy Rights to English Language; Judges Refuse

via Gothamist

fortune cookie wisdom

"Reasonable people endure;
passionate people live."
via dogpoet

Acknowledgements: My common sense

"I’m firmly against taxing fast food. Your fat ass is your fault. And I don’t understand all this Atkins and South Beach Diet crap. A diet book should have two pages in it:
Page 1 – Eat right.
Page 2 – Exercise.
Acknowledgements: My common sense."
via Bill Maher

meanwhile, in rhea county, tenessee

Homossexuals allowed again in the county.

But not welcomed.

"12-year-old Caitlin Kinney, attending the meeting with her mother, said she supported the commissioners' initial vote.

'I think they should go further, try to see if they can ban them,' she said. 'It's not a Christian thing.' "

"The spirit of Rhea county Christianity lives on among its youth"

via CBS News and AndrewSullivan.com

Sleeping Muse I

"Fascinated throughout his career by the theme of a reclining sleeping head, Constantin Brancusi refined the motif of the sleeping muse for more than a decade. In preliminary compositions such as Repose, 1906, and Sleep, 1908, he emulated Auguste Rodin's marble carvings of dreaming or contemplative female heads. But Brancusi deliberately developed a coolly dispassionate style quite unlike that of Rodin's emotionally expressionist sculptures, with their contorted poses and distraught faces. Instead, Brancusi simplified a subject into its most elemental shape, synthesizing the original figurative reference with the then new formalist discipline of abstraction.
 
In 1908-09, Brancusi sculpted two portraits of Baroness Renée Frachon, whose elongated oval face, thinly arched eyebrows, diminutive nose, and chignon hairstyle became the inspiration for the Hirshhorn's Sleeping Muse I. In this sculpture, Brancusi made the crucial transition from descriptive naturalism to abstract purity of form. The subtly delineated facial features do not interrupt either the contour or the surfaces of the head. Without overt reference to a body or subject, the image seems inner-directed, its pristine features and closed eyes conveying a classical sense of serene detachment and repose. The title implies the limitless realm of dreams and inspiration, while the white ovoid shape also evokes associations with an egg-a symbol for the potentialities of future life and growth. In subsequent versions, particularly two stone heads from 1917-18, Brancusi emphasized that analogy by further minimizing the descriptive details, a trend that culminated in the purely abstract ovoid Beginning of the World, 1920."
Hirshhorn Museum

crime against nature

Rhea County commissioners unanimously voted to ask state lawmakers to introduce legislation amending Tennessee's criminal code so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature.
Rhea County, about 30 miles north of Chattanooga, is among the most conservative in Tennessee. It holds an annual festival commemorating the 1925 trial that convicted John T. Scopes on charges of teaching evolution, a verdict thrown out by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality. The trial later became the subject of the play and movie, "Inherit the Wind."
FOXNews.com

"So much attention has been paid to the handful of places that have advanced gay civil rights in the last few months that the tidal wave of anti-gay legislation being proposed and passed across the nation - pioneered by Republicans - barely merits notice. One state - just one - has moved toward establishing equality in marriage for gays. Thirty-eight have banned it outright. A few have re-written their constitutions to ensure inequality for gay citizens."
AndrewSullivan.com

Gothamist knows golden shower

"Gothamist knows that Virigin Airlines is supposed to be risque and everything, but the new lipsticked-mouth urinal at the Virgin Airways Clubhouse at JFK is really gross. While golden shower may be a part of people's sexual repertoire, Gothamist sees no need for them to be encouraged. However, if this is a way for men to act out the fantasy, well, pee on. But it's just gross. The Post reports Virgin Airways as saying, "We expect the response to the urinal to be very positive. With everything we do, we want there to be a smile, and that's also the case in the clubhouse. The urinal is just for fun. But it's not the centerpiece of the clubhouse." But the spokesman admits, "There will be some people that won't like it."

Netherlands design company Bathroom Mania created the "Kisses" urinal. Made of vitreous china, "it's the one target men never miss." Blech."

photo by heather champ

In other sicko news...

"Entertainment Tonight recently revealed that when Michael Jackson flies, he demands KFC for all his meals. Just as I always suspected: Jacko likes chicken. In fact, he likes chicken legs up in the air! Pity that pilot."
La Dolce Musto

Bans on Interracial Unions Offer Perspective on Gay Ones

NYTimes News Analysis:
"Opposition to interracial marriage in the last century was in many ways more vehement than opposition to gay marriage today. It was, for instance, a criminal offense in many states. None of the 38 states that expressly forbid gay marriage by statute today go that far."
Graphic: Banning Interracial Marriage

new yorkers

forwarded by mr. df

a day to stay home

St. Patrick's Day
"Shirtless bartending firemen, bikini-clad bartendresses, and $3 Guinness pints! Puking on the L train, intra-office ass-pinchings, and hands-on investigation of the Irish curse: hurray for St. Patrick's Day! It's amazing that one holiday could so totally embody all our values of getting all liquored up and felt up.

Locations to avoid are listed at the NYC Bartenders & Patrons site and in the Murph's Guide. Most important: don't even go near McSorley's on 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd. Definitely avoid the lecherous leprechauns on parade up Fifth Avenue. Hell, call in sick and stay home with a bottle of Irish Mist."

via gawker

I am Belle de Jour

Confess to being Belle de Jour:
"Since the press has been filled with speculation, we thought we’d give you the chance to confess. I know that I’m Belle de Jour. But are you?"

Sample post:
Greetings and felicitations i am sorry indeed for making your acquaiantence in this way but your esteemed details were given to me by a colleague in the Nigerian Department of Works (Lagos).I am Belle de Jour and I was forced to flee my country of Liberia when a coup brought down the government of my good friend MR CHARLES TAYLOR. When I left he gave into my safe keeping a douche bag containing the sum of $100,000,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS) which I am seeking your respected help to move into your country, in return for which I will give you 30%.Until this money is moved into your country I am forced to assume the position of callgirl untill my assets is unfrozen.I thank you and look forward to a successful business relationship with you. I am confident, we will both benefit from the hard work I am now engaged in. I trust that you will enjoy and benefit from this opportunity to work with me.I respectfulkly remain respectfully yours,yours respectfully,BELLE DE JOUR (Mrs)
Posted by "Jello de Boer (Ms)"

Engrish of the Day

www.engrish.com

When the Circus Comes to Town

NYCDOT - Weekly Traffic Advisory:
Elephant Walk: There will be closures on Tuesday, March 16 from 11:15 p.m. to Wednesday March 17 at 1:00 a.m. at the following locations:
Route: Through the north tube of the Midtown Tunnel; Exit Midtown Tunnel at 34th Street; West on 34th Street to 7th Avenue; South on 7th Avenue to 33rd Street; West on 33rd Street into Madison Square Garden.
End: Madison Square Garden."

"It was 12:35am when the elephants finally emerged from the Midtown Tunnel, but the crowd still went wild- cheering, yelling, clapping, blasting circus music. Nick and I took a couple of shots at the entrance to the tunnel, then ran around the corner with the rest of the mob, and snapped a few more as the elephants came up 34th Street. Definitely one of those classic New York experiences not to missed!"
Bluejake

have i mentioned it's snowing?

dogpoet is moving to ny

"There are people out there who probably don't obsess over things beyond their control. But I'm not one of them. "

"Four years ago my life was so, so small. It fit within the tiny bag of crystal meth I'd buy from my dealer every few days . Everything's different. I've worked hard, and I've been blessed.

God, I miss my mother. I wanted to call her up and tell her the good news. I thought about her when I was standing at the urinal at work after the phone call from Columbia, and I just started laughing out loud. And then I finally cried a little, from relief and gratitude. And then I started laughing again."

to be intelligent...

"I believe that this state of affairs is contrary to the will of God. But traditionalists, especially Christian traditionalists (in whose ranks I include myself) need to get a clue about what has really been going on and face the fact that same-sex marriage, if it comes about, will not cause the degeneration of the institution of marriage; it is the result of it."

... is to be reasonable.

"Sex, childbearing and marriage now have no necessary connection to one another, because the biological connection between sex and childbearing is controllable. The fundamental basis for marriage has thus been technologically obviated. Pair that development with rampant, easy divorce without social stigma, and talk in 2004 of "saving marriage" is pretty specious. There's little there left to save. Men and women today who have successful, enduring marriages till death do them part do so in spite of society, not because of it.

If society has abandoned regulating heterosexual conduct of men and women, what right does it have to regulate homosexual conduct, including the regulation of their legal and property relationship with one another to mirror exactly that of hetero, married couples?"

Save Marriage? It's Too Late.
from The WSJ Editorial Page
The writer is the pastor of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Franklin, Tenn. He writes at DonaldSensing.com.

THE BIG BANG, SO CLOSE AND YET...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reached deep into space and time to come within "a stone's throw'' of the Big Bang itself.

Astronomers at the Space Telescopic Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus used the Hubble to obtain the deepest telescopic view into the universe ever - a million-second exposure of a small patch of dark sky in the constellation Fornax.

But scientists cautioned that more work would be required before they know if their surmises are correct. Astronomers will not be able to take a deeper picture until the James Webb Space Telescope goes into orbit in 2011.
via NYTimes

get physical

"Extraordinary scenes unfolded in Seoul on Friday, as politicians physically battled each other in the country's first impeachment bid since the nation was founded in 1948."
via CNN.com

South Korea's parliament, after a dramatic and rather pathetic brawl, voted to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun and suspended his powers.
It was a tawdry spectacle but with luck the closing chapter on a very disappointing presidency.
via MemeFirst

Gay Marriage: Update

"It's still too early to see what the final outcome of the Massachusetts legislature's struggle to prevent or allow equal marriage rights in the Commonwealth. The amendment that passed the preliminary round is by far the least objectionable. It would enshrine a semantic difference between heterosexual and homosexual marriages by calling the former 'marriage' and the latter 'civil unions.' But it would uphold the Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court's ruling that there should be complete substantive equality in terms of all protections and benefits. In other words: Vermont, but by constitutional amendment, not law. What bothers me about this is that it amounts to the constitutionalization of pure stigma. There's no possible reason to give gay couples something that walks, talks and squawks like a marriage but is called something else - except to maintain a purely semantic distinction, whose purpose is to reaffirm the inferiority of homosexual couples. Since many of these couples will get married in a religious ceremony as well, they may well describe themselves simply as married anyway. In time, common parlance will simply refer to all of the above as married. The only real difference may be that a civil union will be less transportable to other states. But that will also surely change, as some states will agree to recognize such civil unions, just as New York state has said it will agree to recognize Massachusetts' civil marriages. Of course, this process in Massachusetts is not, in many ways, a bad thing. It really has initiated an extraordinary public debate that has enriched many of us. The legislative and judicial processes in that state are signs that the system is working on a state level, and there is no need for clumsy federal intervention to pre-empt this state-by-state process and impose a premature 'solution' on the entire country through the drastic option of a federal constitutional amendment. That also goes for California, where the judicial process should be allowed to continue unmolested by Washington."

and, in an act of civil disobedience,
Dan Savage gets married to a lesbian

Amy Jenniges lives with her girlfriend, Sonia, and I live with my boyfriend, Terry. Last Friday I accompanied Amy and Sonia to room 403, the licensing division, at the King County Administration Building. When Amy and Sonia asked the clerk for a marriage license, the clerk turned white. You could see, "Oh my God, the gay activists are here!" running through her head. County clerks in the marriage license office had been warned to expect gay couples sooner or later, but I guess this particular clerk didn't expect us to show up five minutes before closing on Friday.
The clerk called over her manager, a nice older white man, who explained that Amy and Sonia couldn't have a marriage license. So I asked if Amy and I could have one--even though I'm gay and live with my boyfriend, and Amy's a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend. We emphasized to the clerk and her manager that Amy and I don't live together, we don't love each other, we don't plan to have kids together, and we're going to go on living and sleeping with our same-sex partners after we get married. So could we still get a marriage license?
"Sure," the license-department manager said, "If you've got $54, you can have a marriage license." ... It's not the marriage license I'd like to have, of course. But, still, let me count my blessings: I have a 10-year relationship (but not the marriage license), a house (but not the marriage license), a kid (but not the marriage license), and my boyfriend's credit-card bills (but not the marriage license). I don't know what a guy has to do around here to get the marriage license. But I guess it's some consolation that I can get a meaningless one anytime I like, just so long as I bring along a woman I don't love and my $54.

via Andrew Sullivan

drugs: just say know

urban75 neither condemns nor condones drug use -- this resource is for people to access the facts and make their own, informed decisions

counter fit at Wal-Mart

Four things made Wal-Mart cashier Janice Sanders suspicious of the nervous lady who wanted to pay cash for $1,671.55 in purchases.

First, the greenback Alice Pike allegedly handed Sanders had a picture of the Statue of Liberty on it.

Second, third and fourth: printed below Lady Liberty were the words "One Million Dollars."

"The cashier saw the bill and realized something was up," said Almond Turner, the assistant police chief in Covington, Ga.
via New York Daily News

photo by quarlo

sorry: it's so easy to say it.

Saying you're sorry does not mean you're sorry, let alone taking responsibility.

GIANTmicrobes!

"We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size! Now available: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, and Bookworm."

give god a chance

Guardian: Scientist has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists.

Dr Stephen Unwin has used a 200-year-old formula to calculate the probability of the existence of an omnipotent being. Bayes' Theory is usually used to work out the likelihood of events, such as nuclear power failure, by balancing the various factors that could affect a situation.

(...)

Factors that were considered included recognition of goodness, which Dr Unwin said makes the existence of God more likely, countered by things like the existence of natural evil - including earthquakes and cancer.

The unusual workings - which even take into account the existence of miracles - are set out in his new book, which includes a spreadsheet of the data used so that anyone can make the calculation themselves should they doubt its validity. The book, The Probability of God: A simple calculation that proves the ultimate truth, will be published later this month.

(..._

Despite his findings, Dr Unwin maintains that he is personally around 95% certain that God exists.

library destroyed

Washington (Reuters)
A tragic fire on Wednesday destroyed the personal library of George W. Bush. Both of his books have been lost. A spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had not finished coloring the second one.  More details to come.

fwd by mr. df

as seen on eBay

eBay item 2992105112: Barbie Super Bowl Halftime SHOW Janet
Starting bid: US $49.99
Time left: 6 days 0 hours
Ends Mar-14-04 18:13:34 PST

photo by laura titian

Gay Marriage? How Straight.

"'Being gay and single is the new smoking,' Mr. Rudnick said. 'It won't be socially acceptable anymore, and you will have to go outside.' Or as Michael Musto, the Village Voice columnist, told me: 'It used to be that the whole point of coming out of the closet was to get people to stop asking you when you are going to get married and have children.'

Those days are just about over, for better or for worse."
The Age of Dissonance

west side club busted

no, not THE west side club but A west side club: Sound Factory.



"Police raided a Manhattan nightclub and arrested its owner on federal drug charges early Sunday, alleging the club's lax security policies allowed widespread illegal activity."
via New York Newsday

my favorite dj of the moment

blue sky

via heather champ
(click on thumbail for enlargement)

Courtroom Tales of Martha’s Lies . . .

Irony:
"Martha Stewart, the woman who capitalized on her sense of decorum and good taste to build a business empire, is likely to go to jail for lying."

Manhunt Cartography Department

According to the latest available satellite tracking data provided by the U.S. Dept. of Maps and Roads, New Jersey cities are today being reported as continuing to be located in New Jersey, despite curiously conflicting claims from ManHUNT members.

In fact:

Hackensack is in New Jersey, not Midtown.
Jersey City remains in New Jersey, not Downtown.
Fort Lee continues its long tradition of not being located on the Upper West Side, and is also reporting an ongoing New Jersey location.

In summary, the latest survey notes that people who live in New Jersey deserve it.

by Sarge8x6  -  New York -  Manhattan - West Vil -  New York

hot air

Byrdhouse:
"Suburbia is such a strange thing to observe from a couple hundred feet."

In apparently unrelated breaking news stories...

Martha Stewart Convicted; Stephen Sprouse Dies

Martha Stewart: Guilty.
And The Smoking Gun, of course, has put the jury verdict form online so quickly you might suspect that they were actually on the jury.

Stephen Sprouse, edgy fashion designer, dies at 50.
forever associated, in my mind, with Velcro.

taxi fares are going up. but you shouldn't complain...

"New York taxi fares are the lowest of any big city in the country " (New York Daily News )
Among 14 major U.S. cities, New York has the lowest taxi fares - but not for long. Here's a ranking, including the current N.Y.C. fare and the proposed hike:

San Francisco $10.85
Honolulu $10.58
Boston $10.08
Las Vegas $9.30
Los Angeles $9.19
N.Y.C. (proposed) $8.65
Houston $8.40
Atlanta $8.08
Detroit $8.05
Miami $8.03
Chicago $7.77
Philadelphia $7.49
Dallas $7.35
New Orleans $7.09
N.Y.C. (current) $6.85

Average fare based on 2.8-mile trip with 4.77 minutes of waiting time.
Source: Schaller Consulting

the world out there

Hawaii may have the north coast of Oahu. California may have Malibu. But Peru has Punta Hermosa, south of Lima, the longest waves in the world at Chicama and, for 62 years, the fabled Waikiki Club.
The Peruvians Surrender to Surfing,
Body and Soul
After soccer, of course, surfing could almost be considered the national sport. Peru has a 1,400-mile Pacific coastline featuring more than 70 well-known surf spots, some with roaring swells that regularly reach 23 feet.

Some (peruvian) families have been surfing for three generations.

world subways

subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.

shoot the freak

the freak
Seven days a week, six hours a day, Behan is the star attraction of Shoot The Freak, the in-the-making cult classic of an amusement park game that has - along with a new baseball park and other improvements - helped defibrillate the heart of Coney Island. Shoot The Freak was invented last July by Anthony Berlingieri, a 39- year-old former hot dog vendor with a thick, hold-the-relish Brooklyn accent and an uncanny resemblance to Andrew 'Dice' Clay. Players pay to shoot paintball bullets with air-rifles at a live human target or "freak" who wears protective gear and insults the crowd while attempting to dodge the bullets.

"It felt good to blow him away," said Lane Miccio, all of 10 years old. "He was really annoying me."
Perhaps only in America could something so base, so wantonly violent and so unapologetically enjoyable even exist. In years to come, French philosophers may cite "Shoot the Freak" as evidence of American perversity and -- how you say? -- vulgarity, but Brooklyn novelist Ned Vizzini saw a powerful metaphor for our times.

"When you aim at the freak in that simulated living room, you're really aiming at your own sloth," said Vizzini. "And why doesn't the freak have a cordless phone? It's because he's a failure. You are shooting at that part of yourself."

Intellectual onanism aside, there's also the simple thrill of shooting a freak.

Another great Shoot the Freak picture.

happy birthday mr.df!

mr. df & i, pines summer'03

change is good. some.

I am sorry for all the changes on the look of the blog.
But they were always 'seinfeld-like' girlfriends...
Obssessing here? You betcha.
The look on today - aqua/blue full of white spaces is the closest to my blind vision of what i want. working out some bugs in it. for 12 hours now. so i need a break. my life is on hold...

Manly Scale of Absolute Gender

Because my feeling is, when God made man and woman He had something very specific in mind. It goes without saying that He did not want men marrying men, or women marrying women, but also what He did not want, in my view, was feminine men marrying masculine women.

I, for one, am not about to stand by and let that happen.

Delightfully absurd take on gay marriage by George Saunders in the New Yorker

Because then what will we have? A nation ruled by the anarchy of unconstrained desire. A nation of willful human hearts, each lurching this way and that and reaching out for whatever it spontaneously desires, trying desperately to find some comforting temporary shred of warmth in a mostly cold world, totally unconcerned about the external form in which that other, long-desired heart is embodied.

That is not the kind of world in which I wish to live.

I, for one, intend to become ever more firmly male, enjoying my golden years, while watching P become ever more female, each of us vigilant for any hint of ambiguity in the other.

And as our children grow, should they begin to show the slightest hint of some lingering residue of the opposite gender, P and I will lovingly pull them aside and list all the particulars by which we were able to identify their unintentional deficiency.

Then, together, we will devise a suitable correction.

And, in this way, the race will go on.

IT WAS THAT boring!

DOG blogs the Oscars®!
as forwarded by mr. jj - who should better start a blog soon.

Annie Lennox stunned by Oscar win

The Wanderer

by Loretta Lux

Mel Gibson's S&M religion

"Long before he emerged as the spear-carrier for the sort of Catholicism once preached by Gen. Franco and the persecutors of Dreyfus, Mel Gibson attained a brief notoriety for his loud and crude attacks on gays. Now he's become the proud producer of a movie that relies for its effect almost entirely on sadomasochistic male narcissism. The culture of blackshirt and brownshirt pseudomasculinity, as has often been pointed out, depended on some keen shared interests. Among them were massively repressed homoerotic fantasies, a camp interest in military uniforms, an obsession with flogging and a hatred of silky and effeminate Jews. Well, I mean to say, have you seen Mel's movie?"
via slate

Beautiful day

Grand Central, Grand Hyatt, Chrysler Building
by Mr. JJ

See You On The Dance Floor!

To our dear Body&SOUL family and friends,
To say that Sunday afternoons have felt empty -since our weekly party stopped in July 2002- would be an understatement. After more than a year of silence we would first like to acknowledge how deeply touched we are by your kind words of support and gentle reminders that ever since, it just left a void that could not seem to be filled.

There were some who concluded that after six continuous years, this was it, and in a city rich with its tradition of past legendary nights, it had become another one for the history books, the kind that many later wish they could have been a part of, even once…

While relentlessly searching for a suitable new home, we got a much-needed boost from some wildly successful parties overseas, in Tokyo, Japan as well in Napoli, Italy. But back in New York, our quest uncovered nothing as uniquely warm and raw as what we had been so fortunate to have for so long. The search continues.

But for right now, it is with immense pleasure and a great, joyful sense of relief that we would like to share with you the news of an upcoming special one-time eventparty on Sunday, March 21st, 2004, which will be held at Arc, formerly known as Club Vinyl, located at 6 Hubert Street in Tribeca. All of us will be there to share this long-awaited moment with you, your three DJ’s, Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell, Danny Krivit and François K. as well as John Davis, Ariel doing his magic on the lights, Andi on the warm-up and at the door, and the whole rest of the team you've all come to know as your ‘Body&SOUL family’.

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

"Mel Gibson and George W. Bush are courting bigotry in the name of sanctity.

The moviemaker wants to promote 'The Passion of the Christ' and the president wants to prevent the passion of the gays.

Opening on two screens: W.'s stigmatizing as political strategy and Mel's stigmata as marketing strategy.

Mr. Gibson, who told Diane Sawyer that he was inspired to make the movie after suffering through addictions, found the ultimate 12-step program: the Stations of the Cross."
Maureen Dowd: Stations of the Crass

mr.jj, photographer. (and i heart ny)

525 Fifth Avenue

I'm not gay

From Telegraph | News :

King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, an 81-year-old father of 14, yesterday surprised his subjects by denying that he was homosexual. His comments came as he underlined his support for same-sex marriage, having seen television coverage of such weddings in California.

hey ya!

click here: awesome!
via daveXtreme

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

some thoughts from Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish. You don't have to agree with his political views -- i don't. But i think he is one of the most provocative social commentators writing today, and not only on gay issues.
Plus he is a cub. WOOF!

"Well, I went last night to see the movie everyone is talking about. (...)

PURE PORNOGRAPHY: At the same time, the movie was to me deeply disturbing. In a word, it is pornography. By pornography, I mean the reduction of all human thought and feeling and personhood to mere flesh. The center-piece of the movie is an absolutely disgusting and despicable piece of sadism that has no real basis in any of the Gospels. It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery. (...) Toward the end, unsatisfied with showing a man flayed alive, nailed gruesomely to a cross, one eye shut from being smashed in, blood covering his entire body, Gibson has a large crow perch on the neighboring cross and peck another man's eyes out. Why? Because the porn needed yet another money shot. (...)

PILATE, THE SAINT: Is it anti-Semitic? The question has to be placed in the context of the Gospels and it is hard to reproduce the story without risking such inferences. But in my view, Gibson goes much further than what might be forgivable. (...) I wouldn't say that this movie is motivated by anti-Semitism. It's motivated by psychotic sadism. But Gibson does nothing to mitigate the dangerous anti-Semitic elements of the story and goes some way toward exaggerating and highlighting them. To my mind, that is categorically unforgivable. Anti-Semitism is the original sin of Christianity. Far from expiating it, this movie clearly enjoys taunting those Catholics as well as Jews who are determined to confront that legacy. In that sense alone, it is a deeply immoral work of art."

mouse potato

(n.) The wired generation's answer to the couch potato
via DailyCandy NYC: Lexicon VII

¡Popular Fiction!

Mental, Mental, Chicken Oriental.
Twockin', shaggin' and smurkin' tabs.
"Maccers remembered having decided that she had doubted she could ever respect him. It hadn’t been his patent inability to leave the kids and the uncouth and decidedly dumpy wife so much as the time when he had handed her a paperback he had picked up from an airport with an embossed cover and had told her that he had really liked it."
via maccers

via D O G P O E T ///

Putting Bias in the Constitution

"The Constitution has been amended over the years to bring women, blacks and young people into fuller citizenship. President Bush's amendment would be the first adopted to stigmatize and exclude a group of Americans. Polls show that while a majority of Americans oppose gay marriage, many would prefer to allow the states to resolve the issue rather than adopting a constitutional amendment. They understand what President Bush does not: the Constitution is too important to be folded, spindled or mutilated for political gain."
NYTimes Editorial

Book deal de jour

Just reported at Publishers Marketplace:

Well-known 28-year-old UK mystery blogger and high-end prostitute Belle de Jour's” (who is not Toby Young) LONDON CALLING, from the winner of the Guardian's Best-Written Web-Site of the Year Award 2003 to Helen Garnons-Williams at Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Orion, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for manuscript delivery in August 2004, by Patrick Walsh at Conville and Walsh. Italian rights to Rizzoli and Dutch rights to House of Books, both in pre-empts, with a Spanish auction underway.

Christy Fletcher at Fletcher and Parry is selling US rights this week, and there has already been considerable film interest.

via Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

another one for the memory

Grange Hall closing tonight
via WhatISee

my favorite place for brunch, hidden in a magic spot in the village and in my mind.
it follows the troubling closing of many other restaurants in new york city, as reported by gothamist

JUSTLY MARRIED

Fuck Hallmark

we love you, yes you.
I linked to this artist's valentine's - love his style and his 'dry' sensibility.
The dogs on the blog head are his as well (experimenting with pictures here, now that I have a place I can upload pics). Not sure why their sniffing spoke to me in such a way...

Muscle Bear Cub

"What is a Muscle Bear Cub?
Husky, hunky, hairy, butch guys with bulging biceps, bulbous butts, and full, furry bellies. Guys that call themselves 'bears' come in all sizes, from giant chubby grizzly bears to slim, slender 'otters'.
As they say, 'If you think you're a bear, you are one!' "

carnaval 1996

saudades do ademir...

new york city photobloggers

at the Apple Store - SoHophoto by quarlo

my sister, meu bem

fa, fafa, flavinha.
flavia gabriela assunção vasco (gabriela was MY contribution to her beautiful name)

she IS my family and today it is her birthday.

i love you and i miss you.