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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'Little White Doves' by Dirty Vegas
Funny how the first time I heard this I thought it was the most inane thing ever, and the second time the most infectious song ever.
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Gaga for Kermit
The coming week in television has a few high spots, including a "Barbra Streisand Back to Brooklyn" and "Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular," which airs Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on. ABC. Always love my Kermit, although I doubt there's anything Gaga can do to top their "Rainbow Connection" duet or Deb punking out to "Call Me" with the whole Muppet gang!
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Retro Ad Watch
Because everybody loves a gay top.
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The Way Me Were
Light posting this week as Michael and I are in Arizona for my mom's birthday and Thanksiving. One of the walls in the guest room where we're staying is covered with old family photos -- some of which are altered depending on who the guest of honor is. Looks like me at about age 4, senior year at Dobson (taken summer '84) and my "Hollywood headshot 1991" this time around -- plus a Kenny and Michael snapshot on one of the nightstands!
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Morning Wood
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'Big' in Chicago
"I Am Big" wants you to meet Cassandra, who founded Project Fierce Chicago with a mission to reduce LGBTQ youth homelessness.
More "big" stories HERE.
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Song of the Day: 'Learn to Fly' by the Knocks
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Brief Encounter
See what happens when a straight, 50-year-old married father of two decides to revisit a youthful dream of becoming the next Jim Palmer HERE.
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Giving Thanks
Michael and I are in Phoenix enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving with the family. I hope you're having a great time wherever you are. I'm thankful for many things this year, including all of the readers who come by to see what I'm up to. I wouldn't still be doing this without all of the positive feedback and friendships that have resulted from it. Thanks, everyone!
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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'Dressed to Kill" by Cher
My sister and I went in on horribly overpriced Cher tickets for my mom's birthday this week. As regular readers know, Cher holds a special place in my heart, dating back to dating back to dancing to "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves" with Mom in her bedroom to watching "The Sonny and Cher Show" with my family when I was a little boy in Detroit. While I'm a huge fan, I'm not the kind who still races out to buy every album she puts out. This irked my Cher-obsessed friend Dishy to no end, so he sent me "Closer to the Truth" to add to my iPod for the trip home this week. As of this writing, I've only played about half of it. The scrapped Lady Gaga duet is still my favorite so far, but the song "Dressed to Kill" plays like such a caricature of Ms. Bono that I haven't been able to stop singing -- and laughing about -- it since! See if you feel the same way ...now don't disappoint me Cher: make sure you give Mom a healthy helping of the past on this tour ... it is going to be your "last," after all.
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Retro Ad Watch
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Sign Me Up
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Heavenly Gifts
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'Bureau' of Inspection
I have so been meaning to stop by the Bureau of General Services - Queer Division. First Tim Teeman raved and now THIS. Expect to see me over the weekend, boys!
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On the Rag, Vol. 279
A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:
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Get Out wants you to meet Pete Forjohn, now tending bar at G Lounge in Chelsea / Online edition HERE.
Next: Jack Mackenroth looks positively great on the World AIDS Day issue / Online edition HERE.
Odyssey New York: He'll be your mirror / Online edition HERE.
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RIP: Peter Kaplan, Editor Who Gave Snark a Good Name
Peter Kaplan, Who Brought a Cutting Edge to The New York Observer, Dies at 59
Wow, completely stunned and saddened to read about this one. Had only heard he went to Fairchild after leaving the Observer a couple years ago, had no idea he was even sick. The city has lost another one-of-a-kind.
From his NYT obit:
Among Mr. Kaplan’s greatest coups was hiring a little-known freelance writer named Candace Bushnell to write a column about the hunt for love, or something approximately like it, in the urban jungle. Ms. Bushnell’s column, “Sex and the City,” which appeared in The Observer from 1994 to 1996, became the basis for the hit HBO series starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
“The more cancellations we got for her column,” Mr. Kaplan wrote in an essay in New York magazine in 2011, “the more the paper knew we had hit the jackpot.”
Though he went on to help carry The Observer across the digital threshold, overseeing the creation of its website, Mr. Kaplan was regarded by those who knew him as a throwback to an earlier age — to the New York of the Stork Club, the Automat and the Algonquin. He revered the stuff of that era, from classic black-and-white films that portrayed the city at its noirish finest (he knew the credits of nearly all of them by heart) to newspapers as they were originally conceived: damp, sweet-smelling and black and white, or, in his case, black and pink.RIP, Peter.
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Ivy League Whore Story
Samuel See died of unknown causes in New Haven, Conn., jail cell. He was known as a brilliant Yale University professor, but he was apparently linked to escort service websites that contain sexually explicit photographs, report says.
Samuel See was described as gifted by Yale students. The mystery surrounding his jail death has deepened with reported connections between him and sexually explicit male escort websites.
Sunder Ganglani, seen here, is the estranged husband of Yale University professor Samuel See, who was found dead inside a New Haven, Conn., jail cell jail after being arrested following a domestic dispute.
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Paul Walker Dies in Fiery Car Accident
Heartbreaking news out of Los Angeles. It sounds like the handsome actor was doing charity work for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines when he was involved in a fiery one-car crash. He's always been one of my favorites and seemed like a genuine person. He leaves behind a 15-year-old daughter named Meadow. Just tragic.
"Fast and Furious" movie star Paul Walker has reportedly died in a car accident Saturday afternoon in Southern California, reports TMZ. The accident occurred in Santa Clarita - outside of Los Angeles - when Walker's Porsche apparemtly lost control and crashed into a tree, TMZ reported. The car burst into flames and exploded, TMZ reported. Authorities are still investigating but TMZ reported Walker, 40, and another person in the vehicle died in the one-car accident. It is unclear who was driving at the time, TMZ reports. The actor has been taking people on test drives of the car at a car show to raise money for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines, TMZ reported.The irony is palpable: Not only was he most famous for high-speed car movies, he was also the victim of a recent Internet hoax that he had died.
On Saturday (November 30) the actor's reps officially confirmed that Paul Walker is not dead. “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said. Some fans have expressed anger at the fake report saying it was reckless, distressing and hurtful to fans of the much loved actor. Others say this shows his extreme popularity across the globe.
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