Neil Patrick Harris attends the Sony CIERGE Holiday Preview in Hollywood
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.
- Sir Ian McKellen showed up on The View today and mentioned that it wasn't until he came out that he became a movie star. He also had to endure Elizabeth Hasselbeck arguing with him about the NHS (apparently Lizzy is an expert on British health services), a flu-ravaged Whoopi Goldberg asking him if he's going to do another Harry Potter film (Ian had to gently remind her that he was in the Lord of the Rings films), and Sherri mispronouncing "Magneto". Not a shining hour for the ladies.
- Playwright Jo Clifford talks about the furor surrounding her play Jesus, Queen of Heaven.
- Above you can see a clip from Countdown with Lawrence O'Donell interviewing Dan Savage about the Maine loss. The bottom line? Dan is p.o.'d.
Meredith Monroe, Kevin Williamson, and James van der Beek
- The Paley Institute hosted Dawson's Creek: A Look Back in Hollywood last night, with out creator Kevin Williamson and the cast reminiscing about the 90's show. Unfortunately the only cast members who showed up were Meredith Monroe and Dawson himself, James van der Beek. If I was a snarky person, I'd say it was because they had nothing better to do, but that would be ... harsh.
- Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx is donating an early draft of the short story to the New York Public Library. Early alternative titles included Bulldust Mountain and Swill-Swallow Mountain. Can you imagine the Jay Leno jokes the last title would have caused?
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How about a thumbnail of the briefs guy with the link
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Regarding the Briefs Guy
I'm sorry but we probably will not be going back to having the briefs photo within the body of the main blog post.
Don't blame either snicks or Ed for this decision. If you want to blame anyone blame me. We received complaints from readers who'd like to be able to read the news contained in the post while at work without being confronted by a giant photo of a mostly naked guy. We are a PG site after all- and that's something that's sort of important to our advertisers.
We are trying to accomodate everyone here. The workaround to provide a link (with or without thumbnail) to each Briefs Guy does have a few benefits:
First, you can easily click through to all previous briefs guys via a link at the bottom of the pic now - that's pretty cool.
And for those folks who really only read the briefs to see the photo (and we know you're out there!) Then you can always go to the Briefs Guys link under "More" in the left navbar column.
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Meanwhile, those porny, heaving-bosom-ed Evony ads are all over EVERY other website in the world. I totally see your reasoning and respect your decision, but... I haz a sad!
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How about the full picture!
Agreed!
More on Moir
She was a last-minute nomination for Bigot of the Year at the Stonewall Awards in London - and according to someone who was there, she won it by a landslide. What's more the crowd of the great and the good - both gay and straight - in attendance greeted her 'win' with noisy acclaim.
Somehow I can't see her latest title being used as a banner headline over her column on a regular basis.
the competition
Sir Ian rocks!
He totally rocks!
Two days in a row with Ian in it? Makes me very happy
Marriage to Union
You know I've been contemplating on this matter for quite some time, that is marriage equality. I believe that it should be called something else i.e., union or civil partnership just for the fact that the word 'marriage' is so closely associated to religion, mainly Christendom. And with that change in name I do believe we have a better chance in getting equal rights under the law for partnerships (which has been shown to be more effective as seen in Washington).
Also, a big also, why would we want to associate ourselves with a religion that practically condemns us to hell for being who we are? or align ourselves under a religion that condoned slavery, pedophilia, and treated women as a second class? Doesn't make sense to me.
I completely agree with Mr. Savage on every point, Obama has much ado about nothing. Although he did manage to ban cloves, flavored cigarettes which i guess is very fitting for receiving a nobel peace prize. Rock on Obama, a change is a'comin'.
It should be called marriage
It should be called marriage because it is marriage. I'm an atheist, I didn't get married for the church, but I'm married and I can call it a marriage. It was marriage before christianity came along, Romans and Greeks got married. Church only weddings are not valid in The Netherlands, if you want to have a church wedding you still need to have the cityhall wedding first. It's still called marriage when you don't get the church wedding.
Christians need to learn that they don't own society or the world.
Well...
Meredith Monroe