What's your favorite George Harrison song?
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Song of the Day: 'Blow Away' by George Harrison
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Wednesday Ad Watch
See, the gays really are taking over!
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Sinful Thoughts
My friend Yogi said she immediately thought of me when she saw this calendar of hunky Catholic priests during her recent visit to Rome. Wonder how she knew I'd been baptized in that god-forsaken place?
Info HERE.
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Page 1 Consider (09/04)
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RIP: David Frost
Getting Richard Nixon to apologize for Watergate didn't do much for me -- any apology you have to ask for isn't worth anything. But making him look like a fool? I'll admire you forever!
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Rep. Dan Kildee Strikes a Pose
Stephen Colbert's "Better Know a District" series is my favorite thing on television. But I thought I'd seen it all until he "got" Rep. Dan Kildee -- who represents the district that contains Madonna's accidental birthplace (her mother happened to be near a hospital in Bay City when she went into labor, but Madonna grew up in Oakland County) -- to "Vogue"!
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V.A. to Give Spousal Benefits to Gays, Citing Court Ruling
Via NYT: In a letter, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said President Obama had directed the executive branch to stop obeying a statute that limits such benefits to spouses “of the opposite sex.” Read HERE.
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Chaz Bono Is Half the Man He Used to Be
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Be Kind Rewind?
Meet the family in Canada who is trying to live for a year without any technology that was invented after 1986 -- including haircuts! “We’re parenting our kids the same way we were parented for a year just to see what it’s like,” says the dad.. Read HERE.
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Correction of the Day
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Food for Thought
As Debate Reopens, Food Stamp Recipients Continue to Squeeze
I don't want to accuse The New York Times of glamorizing poverty, but if "struggling mechanic" and "deer hunter" Dustin Rigsby isn't the hottest food stamp recipient of all time, I don't know who is. (Dustin!) Read HERE.
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French Toast!
Kudos to Richard Gasquet, who fought off a two-set rally by David "Energizer Bunny" Ferrer to reach his second Grand Slam semifinal. Here's hoping he has better luck against Rafael Nadal than Tommy Robredo did.
Best ass in the game?
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Tweet Nothings
I'd have thought there was something existentially wrong.
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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'Safe and Sound' by Capital Cities
Michael and I rented a car over Labor Day weekend, so I got to hear a lot of current music. Here's one I actually liked -- like a lost E.L.O. track from the "Xanadu" soundtrack.
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Mug Shot Thursday
NFL rookie John Boyett will have plenty of time to admire his guns now: He was just fired by Colts for getting arrested for being drunk asshole. It's nice to see the NFL is doing something about bad behavior, even if Boyett's facial skin hints they're not doing much about steroid abuse.
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Stars Rally to Scavullo Lover's Aid
The surviving partner of legendary fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo is getting some help from a few bold-faced names, who think he should be benefiting more from his partner's estate:
The New York Post reports:
Eighties supermodel-turned-actress Carol Alt is lending her name to a campaign to rescue the ailing gay partner of the late fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo from poverty. The Queens-born Alt, dubbed “The Face” by Life magazine for her ad contracts with Diet Pepsi, General Motors, Cover Girl Cosmetics and Hanes, saw a Post article about a bitter court battle between Scavullo’s family and the lensman’s former assistant, Sean Byrnes. “Sean was everything to Francesco. He chose the girls, he ran the studio, he did the styling,” Alt said. She called it an “injustice” that Byrnes, Scavullo’s creative partner, has been denied profits from his lover’s $1.5 million estate because of a muddled interpretation of the will.
The bulk of Scavullo’s estate is his archives — images of a nude Burt Reynolds, Andy Warhol wearing a Rolex, and Cosmo covers of models such as Brooke Shields. But the executors — Scavullo’s niece Angela Scott and friend Michael Horowitz — are refusing to turn over the trove to Byrnes, 61. The executors have insisted in legal documents that the artist intended for Byrnes to benefit from the archives only through payments from a trust. “It was Sean’s archives, too,” Alt said. “When you work with someone for that long, naturally you share everything.”
After Scavullo died in 2004, Byrnes fell into a deep depression and nearly landed in a state facility before his Brooklyn sister dipped into her retirement fund to help him, the shutterbug’s former agent told The Post. Scavullo’s agent, Elaine Korn, is rallying a list of boldface names to support Byrnes’ court case. She hopes the celebrities, some of whom Scavullo and Byrnes helped gain fame, will speak out in Byrnes’ defense. The list includes Blondie’s Debbie Harry, actress Rene Russo, publishing heiress Anne Hearst and supermodel Naomi Campbell. Scott and her attorney did not return calls for comment.
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Who Wears Short Shorts?
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Bee Sting
Samantha Bee hasn't been doing much for me lately, but she sure nailed it with this report on U.S.-Russian relations -- including's President Putin's anti-gay laws.
(Screen grab via Towleroad)
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Davenport, Pierce and Martinez Lead 2014 Tennis Hall of Fame Inductees
Three big female names from the '90s headed to Newport, R.I.
The Associated Press reports:
Major champions Lindsay Davenport, Mary Pierce and Conchita Martinez are among the International Tennis Hall of Fame nominees for 2014. The Hall also announced Thursday that coach Nick Bollettieri, wheelchair player Chantal Vandierendonck, executive Jane Brown Grimes and author and broadcaster John Barrett are up for election next year. Davenport won singles titles at the U.S. Open in 1998, Wimbledon in 1999 and the Australian Open in 2000. She was ranked No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, finishing at that spot in 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2005. Pierce was singles champion at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. Martinez is the only Spanish woman to win Wimbledon, beating Martina Navratilova in the 1994 final.Davenport always drove me mad because she seemed like she was every bit as good as the Williams sisters, but then her negative attitude/body language would creep in -- sometimes while she was winning -- and she would roll over and die. It got so frustrating that I stopped rooting for her. (What was the point?) Pierce was just a complete nut case, so I chose to appreciate it when she was "on" -- a true thing of beauty -- even when Steffi Graf was her occasional victim!
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