Enjoy this tasty treat designed help to stall the inevitable soul crushingness that is known as the start of the work week. Savor it because as soon as you're done, it begins...
I don't know about you, but I think its actually harder to face a Monday after a three day weekend than after a regular weekend. I guess my sense of denial deepens more over three days and makes the acceptance of the inevitable that much more difficult.
What do you mean these aren't rose colored glasses? *#$%!
You might try reading very slowly...
- Jackass's Steve O joined the NOH8 campaign posing proposing to himself and kissing his bodyguard.
- Examiner.com interviews out actor Thom Bierdz, who returns to The Young & The Restless this week as the newly out character of Phillip.
- These folks who got Punk'd by Sacha Baron Cohen for Bruno aren't laughing. Meanwhile, the reporter got Punk'd by Defamer by thinking Bruno's full title is Brüno:
Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making
Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay
Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt, a title Defamer made up.
- Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe would love to play a transvestite or drag queen, because he looks good in eye make-up, and because they're "amazing, crazy, mad, weird people".
Roger Federer is walking on air. Andy Roddick? Not so much.
- Congrats to Roger Federer, who won his record-breaking fifteenth Grand Slam title yesterday, defeating a reborn Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. But spare a thought for poor Andy, who lost 16-14 in the fifth set. Always a bridesmaid. Props also go out to Serena Williams, who won her third Wimbledon title on July 4th, defeating her sister Venus.
- Speaking of tennis, gay icon Martina Navratilova is being sued by (another) former partner. Salon.com has a few words to say about it.
- The American Idol 2009 Summer Tour kicked off yesterday in Portland. All top ten contestants will be performing, including ... you know who.
- Not sure how we missed these John Barrowman pics, but since Torchwood: Children of Earth debuts in the U.K. tonight, I thought we'd share. These are from John's July 1st preformance with Lorna Luft celebrating the life and music of Lorna's mum Judy Garland.
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Not Only Does JB Look Incredibly Hot...
He also seems to recovering nicely from the injury to his leg that sidelined his trip to Chicago to attend a fan event where he was the guest of honor. He was there,actually..via Skychat from his Cardiff home @ 4am GMT.
I'm surprised you don't have the pics of him on a horse as part of a promo blitz for his "Robin Hood" panto this christmas.
Is it July 20th yet? I want my "Torchwood:Children of Earth"!
If you don't mind watching them on the computer...
I imagine the first one will be leaked to the internet sometime today.
"To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." - Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes
Miss Martina!!
First, let me just congratulate Serena on her 11th title (one away from Billie Jean King)!!
Second, maybe one thing has nothing to do with the other, but I find it kind of hypocritical that Martina is on this march to get chair umpires to stop players from grunting because she says its 'cheating' and yet she is bascially doing the same thing with the law against her ex-lovers... Makes me sort of disappointed in her as a person, even if she is one of the greatest.
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Chuckles!
Well i agree with Martina about the grunting
Alimony, Palimony and Why The Assumptions of Coupling Bug Me
Unless you are raising children (in lieu of or in addition to a personal career) or you agreed not to work in exchange for taking care of a home, I don't see why you are entilted to an ex-lover's money just because they have more than you and you were together for a long time. Gay, Straight or Bi, it shouldn't matter.
People are saying Martina is using the law against this women but isn't the woman also trying to use the law against Martina to basically say "You may have paid for the couch but I picked out the color so it's mine!"
Why exactly did this ex-girlfriend do to earn the wads of cash she's asking for?
We're not talking about a partner or wife who worked three jobs to put her husband through law school who once he's a successful lawer get's tossed aside.
Martina made every sent of that wealth on her own, through her own hard work (and business savvy) and she was wealthy when the scorned lady met her.
When you are together, as a couple, yes of course you share things (some couples more than others) and you might receive gifts from each other. Great, wonderfu. That's as it should be.
When you break up, you break up. Done, over with. You should take what you brought into the relationship and what is legally, rightfully owned by you and get the hell and move on with your life.
It's not the 1950s and women have a lot more choices about whether and how to support themselves (particularly lesbians who don't have children). Anybody who is dating someone as famous as Martina N has got to know that their lifestyle is going to change by virtue of dating them and it will change once again when they break up.
If I'm dating Martina and I decide to live the high life with her (or live off her) and don't have the common sense to make sure that I have my own nest-egg or safety net in case the relationship fails, isn't that my own poor judgement?
Alimony and Palimony should not be about forcing people to "keep" someone after a relationship is over.
It's nice if someone wants to help you out once you've broken up but the idea that they should be legally obligated to do so (when their are no children involved) has never made sense to me in modern times.
Middle class and wealthy women used to be forced not to work by social pressure (poor and working class women have ALWAYS worked) Therefore, they took care of the home and the children as their contribution to a family unit and THAT's why alimony (and sometimes palimony) made sense.
This is not the situation here and people are letting their resentment about how wealthy Martina N is (and others are) cloud their common sense.
The reason why people have prenups is so that folks don't just marry them for their money.
Do people who chose not to marry or who can't get married now have to do the same kind of thing?
And wouldn't people be laying all kinds of shame and ridicule on Martina had she struck such a contract or should she choose to do so in the future?
If I were Martina N, I bring said contract on the first date and just get it out of the way. I wouldn't even pay for diner least that imply some kind of future obligation to do so because that's how some people operate when it comes to dating famous people.
There is this presumption that if gay folks could get married everywhere, all gay people in long term relationships would do so. Or that all gay folks consider their long term relationships to be "like a marriage". I don't think that's fair or accurate.
A commitment ceremony is not a legal contract about property, it is a social statement about your heart. You can't legally obligate your heart to someone else in perpetuity and you shouldn't have to compensate them for breaking theirs.
I'm sure most people have someone in their past that they wish they could sue for breaking their heart but a broken heart (on it's own) shouldn't entitle you to someone else's wealth.
Wanting to stand before your friends and family to say you love someone and you want to share your life with them is not the same thing as saying "I vow to pay for all their expenses and give them half of everything I own should we break up"
We can't let our fight about marriage equlity make us blind to the reality that many, many people have no desire to get married ever.
This doesn't mean we won't enter into long term relationships (gay, straight or bi) but it's not the same as getting married and for some of thus that difference is signficant and meaningful.
I don't care what Martina "promised" her, if she doesn't have it in a legal binding contract, then it falls in the same bin as "I promise to love you for ever, never cheat on you and always call you before I go to bed a night"
"That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." (Bayard Rustin) ** "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common" (Dorothy Parker)
I wish I could remember who said this quote:
"There is no such thing as a lesbian breakup. There's only thermonuclear war...and then, hopefully, eternal friendship."