It’s been interesting to observe my attitudes and behavior about my birthday this year. In the past, I’ve generally not paid much attention to holidays or other recurring special occasions, even sometimes lightly disparaging anniversaries of births, deaths or other events as “artificial” or as “cosmological circumstances of planetary revolution with no intrinsic meaning.” OK, […]
Celebrating birthdays today: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling turns 38. Additionally, Rowling made Harry’s birthday July 31st; Harry would be turning 23 this year. And Richard Griffiths, who plays Uncle Vernon Dursley in the filmed versions of the Potter books, is 56. Dean Cain, former Superman in Lois and Clark, turns 37. Actor Michael Biehn […]
On a purely selfish, perhaps even slightly prurient basis, I was willing enough to watch Bravo’s Boy Meets Boy last night, with its sixteen attractive young allegedly queer men cavorting in shorts and tank tops around a Palm Beach swimming pool. From an intellectual and (dare I say it? dare I believe it?) moralistic standpoint, […]
Earlier today at a wide-ranging press conference at the White House–only his eighth since being handed the presidency–George W. “Fabulous” Bush said that government lawyers are looking at ways to prevent gay marriage, according to an AP report carried in The New York Times. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and […]
Last night, Jeff and I were talking on the phone and he noted that he felt like he’d OD’ed on queer reality television that evening; I agreed, saying that after watching last week’s episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy repeated at 8:00, the premier of Boy Meets Boy at 9:00, and the new […]
I have a shameful secret… I am a big crybaby. I get inexplicably teary in situations ranging from watching television commercials to reading children’s books to listening to music, even when the medium isn’t particularly sad or objectively affecting. So tonight, during Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, I had tears streaming down my cheek. […]
Due primarily to Jeff’s influence, I’ve seen more movies in the past couple of weeks than in the entire first half of the year. And the most recent choices, especially, really have been worthwhile. Chicago, of course, the most well-known, speaks for itself. We saw it Sunday afternoon at the Cinema and Drafthouse just up […]
Soon, very soon, I will have the power to mold the television-watching possibilities for a nation! Mwaha-ha-ha! Straight America, fear me! I’ve been randomly selected as a Nielsen household for a week starting this Thursday. I am so going to program the TiVo to load up with queer programming for the week. But don’t be […]
Last night, Jeff and I went to see Bend It Like Beckham (a wonderful film, by the way). The pre-film features included a PSA on behalf of the Will Rogers Institute, “a national health organization dedicated to the support of lung research and developing new treatments and cures for pulmonary diseases and disorders.” How to […]
Last weekend, I was talking to my sister about Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and she asked me to tape it for her, since she was eager to see it but her local cable system doesn’t include Bravo (or Food TV… even more reason to pity any poor gay boys growing up there, not […]