03/15/2006
The new Pet Shop Boys single "I'm With Stupid" which mocks the relationship between George Bush and Tony Blair, is one of their best sounding tracks in years.
Between 200 and 1,000 hateful Iowans showed up at the Capitol in Des Moines in support of an amendment that would ban gay marriage. The good news? About two dozen high school students showed up to counterprotest. The organizer of that counterprotest, high school senior Robert Martin, told the Des Moines Register that the amendment "is really about slowing the trend. In the future, people (will be) more willing to accept gay marriage."
The President of Taiwan is obsessed with Brokeback Mountain. After his recent comments comparing Taiwan's relationship with the U.S. to that of the two ranch hands, President Chen Shui-bian has done it again with regards to his country's relationship with the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru.
Liza Minnelli resurrects Emmy-winning 1972 concert special: "With all the attention Liza With a 'Z' is getting, I feel like I've come home again," said the woman at the centre of everyone's attention. "This is what I love doing - the dancing, the singing. This is the kind of work I always loved doing. This is where I belong."
Ambien linked to midnight food foraging: "The next morning, the night eaters remember nothing about their foraging. But they wake up to find telltale clues: mouthfuls of peanut butter, Tostitos in their beds, kitchen counters overflowing with flour, missing food, and even lighted ovens and stoves. Some are so embarrassed, they delay telling anyone, even as they gain weight."
TAB: Beckham look-alike making bucks as a hustler: "I am straight but I get a lot of gay guys contacting me. Beckham is a gay icon. A couple of potential clients have put money into my account. I wouldn’t have sex with them but I would act as a dominator and they would be the slave. I would charge £150 a time. I think because I am straight that makes them want me more."
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When I was 12 years old, I recorded that special by holding a cassette tape recorder up to the speaker on the TV. Had to have my LIZA.
Posted by: joe | Mar 15, 2006 10:25:03 AM
Very interesting to read the commentary in the "China Times" complaining about the Taiwanese President comparing the relationship of his country and the USA, and later Nauru, to the relationship between Jack and Ennis in Brokeback Mountain. The author says it's inappropriate to make comparisons of international leaders to a homosexual relationship. He goes on to say that it would be more appropriate to compare them to more righteous relationships like the one between David and Jonathan in the Bible. NEWSFLASH....many of the most revered Old Testament scholars have studied and written extensively about the relationship between David and Jonathan and they have come to the conclusion that their relationship was EXACTLY like the one between Jack and Ennis. How ironic.
It's just like the dumb asses that say that Brokeback Mountain degrades the image of the American cowboy by associating it with the "gay lifestyle" (which, to them, is clearly the embodiment of all things feminine and weak and the antithesis of real manhood and cowboy values). They point to the good old days when REAL cowboy movies were made. When cowboys were revered and portrayed as the epitome of all things American, manly and STRAIGHT and the heros were played by such manly Hollywood icons as Rock Hudson, Montgomery Cliff and James Dean. I shouldn't have to point out the irony here.
Posted by: Zeke | Mar 15, 2006 10:54:21 AM
Liza? I don't understand the fascination with Judy Garland or Liza M? I think this is a generational thing that passed by me.
Posted by: noahj | Mar 15, 2006 11:25:53 AM
It's nice that two dozen high school students showed up at the capital to protest the Gay Marriage Ban Ammendment in Iowa, but where was the gay community during this rally of support for the ammendment?
Posted by: Patrick | Mar 15, 2006 11:30:54 AM
Busy defending high school students making and showing sex scenes in unrelated classes and over the objections of their teachers. Or maybe taping their mouths shut over the leader of a key Democratic Party constituency calling gays "filthy".
Interestingly enough, the sleep-eating stories don't scare me half as much as the sleep-DRIVING incidences to which Ambien and other sleep aids have allegedly been linked.
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty | Mar 15, 2006 12:31:47 PM
Patrick,
Those 2 dozen students ARE the gay population of Iowa.
Posted by: wayne | Mar 15, 2006 1:28:15 PM
For a closer Becks look-a-like watch Footballs Wives on BBC America. The actor who plays the metrosexual footballer Conrad [and who got a b.j. last episode]is a Becks clone. Have a look.
Posted by: John~in~LA | Mar 15, 2006 2:57:59 PM
Way to go PSB. Shoot The Dog is still a hot & clever song/video and American Life packs even more of a punch now after we've seen how the war has gone. It's great live with guitars too.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Mar 15, 2006 9:41:59 PM
Liza turns 60 this year. Another person born in 1946 who leads the Boomers into the sixth decade of our lives....
Many individuals criticise her, while loving her music. Her mother, Judy Garland, was a role model for Liza in most areas of her life.
Her father was gay. Her husband was gay. Both women were and are gay icons.
It's in the genes, I suppose (grin)
Posted by: Raymond | Mar 16, 2006 12:57:57 AM
Liza has become Judy in every way, both the good and the bad.
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Mar 16, 2006 6:20:52 AM
Yes, Noah J - it is a generational "thing". Liza and I were born in the same year - and we were in our mid-twenties when Judy died.
It speaks to gay life before the 70's and disco. It speaks to well, gay "speakesies" where lights warned you of a police raid, and the stud sitting at the bar with you was an undercover cop waiting to arrest you for solicitation. Yes, fortunately for this and future generations, it was "our" thing, and we were at the tail end of it- pun intended.
Posted by: Raymond | Mar 19, 2006 5:47:03 PM
Bartenders were our friend then. I was either an undergrad, or worse, a graduate divinity student with all to lose. A classmate was the bartender where I often went. If someone new approached me I didn't know, I would order the "usual". If he was a vice cop, my friend would give me the wrong drink. I could then watch my "p's" and "q's" - pun intended
Posted by: Raymond | Mar 19, 2006 5:50:43 PM
I was so dissapointed when I found out that Freddie Mercury liked Liza as opposed to Judy. She's such a knocked off in every way.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Mar 19, 2006 7:57:32 PM