But if not, then I really don’t want to hear a fabulously
wealthy, successful, and good-looking man carry on about his
veil of woes when 100,000 Pakistanis just got crushed beneath
their homes.And I especially don’t want to hear it when
Mr. Martin is out on tour during interviews flogging a brand
new album which, if successful, will surely bring more of
the misery he claims to be so desperate to avoid. Perhaps
Ricky’s next album should be called El Muchacho Que
Gritó Lobo.
DON’T YOU LOVE IT WHEN THEY
GET THEIR KNICKERS IN A TWIST?
Wingnuts, that is, and this week there are two examples of
wingnut angst that just give me the warm fuzzies all over.
The first is courtesy of our number one choice for President—Ms.
Oprah Winfrey! The wingnuts over at LifeSiteNews
are all atwitter because Oprah is “endorsing”
the homosexual lifestyle—again! This time the big O
is inviting a once-homophobic straight man on her show to
talk about his path to tolerance. As if that weren’t
horrifying enough, the LifeSiteNews reporter indignantly informs
us that once Oprah even referred to a lesbian couple on her
show as “married”! Anyone with a smidgen of common
sense knows the proper response to a lesbian couple on your
show is a good old-fashioned tar and feathering.
Meanwhile over at WorldNetDaily, they are
just astounded that Time magazine not only recently
did a cover story about gay teens, but by the fact that the
magazine did not disclose it was written by—wait, are
you sitting down?—a gay man! Yeah, because every news
story comes with a little disclaimer about the journalist’s
“lifestyle”. If there is even a named journalist,
that is. WorldNetDaily’s story
on Time doesn’t actually have a writer credited
with writing the piece, but I think we can safely infer they
are white, wingnut, and Christian, even without a little bio.
Oh, and they’re creepy. Really creepy. The ironic part
is that I also thought the Time story on gay teens
was pretty crappy. Whether the author was gay or not, the
piece played into the whole faux “fair and balanced”
thing where even if 99 out of a 100 scientists say the earth
revolves around the sun, then half the article has to be devoted
to the one lunatic claiming otherwise. Sigh.
NOW HERE IS A PRODUCT I CAN REALLY
GET BEHIND
One of the things I most loved about living in Australia was
the tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that permeated pretty much
every aspect of Aussie life. A perfect example of that is
the four-year old company aussieBum
out of Sydney. aussieBum, a retro-line of swimwear, is the
brainchild of Sean Ashby who very nearly lost his shirt, er,
shorts when department stores refused to carry his designs.
So Mr. Asbhy did what every desperate salesman does these
days—he created a hip, fun website chock-a-block with
hot, young men modeling his “cossies”. Then he
stood back and watched his product fly out the door. The
Sun Morning Herald details
Mr. Ashby’s rags to riches story. And the company’s
tagline? “If you doubt yourself, wear something else.”
Check out the site and you’ll see just why they say
that.
I
GUESS “HOW COD ROT” JUST DOESN’T ROLL OFF
THE TONGUE
Producers of British cult fave Doctor Who have announced
a spin-off of the long running sci-fi hit. Called Torchwood
(an anagram of Doctor Who) the show will center on the bisexual
Captain Jack, played by the openly gay John Barrowman.
Writer Russell T. Davies promises
the show will be “dark, wild, and sexy, it’s the
X-files meets This Life. It’s a stand-alone
series for adult audiences which will have its own unique
identity.” Yeah, yeah. That’s all fine and dandy,
but I wanted a sci-fi series where Jean Luc Picard got it
on with Han Solo (I’m not the man they think I am. Oh,
no, no, no, I’m a Rocket man...). But I’ll settle
for Torchwood if I have to.
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