02/12/2008
News: Ferras, Facebook, Mariah Carey, The Nation, Polaroid
I had forgotten that AfterElton was doing a "Gay People's Choice Awards" contest but was extremely pleased to wake up this morning and find out that Towleroad won an award for favorite blog. Thanks to all of you who put in our name for this. It's much appreciated! Check out all the other winners HERE!
Sweet Jesus! Lightning strikes Christ the Redeemer in Rio.
Hillary Clinton 2008 bid hinging on Ohio and Texas. Superdelegate: "She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out. The campaign is starting to come to terms with that."
Mariah Carey names new album E=MC².
Facebook is the Hotel California. You can check out any time, but you can never leave. "Even if users terminate their membership, pictures of them posted by others remain online. But users can't really quit, anyway. Like guests at the Hotel California, people who check out of Facebook have a hard time leaving. Profiles of former members are preserved in case people want to reactivate their accounts. And all users' digital selves can outlive their creators. As the company's "terms of use" explain, profiles of deceased members are kept "active under a special memorialized status for a period of time determined by us to allow other users to post and view comments."
First all-Black production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof hits Broadway.
Victory Fund intern is nation's youngest Superdelegate!
If you aren't aware of Ferras yet, you will be soon. His single "Hollywood is Not America" has been licensed by American Idol as the song that's played when the losers hit the road after they're voted off the show. "Bad Day" made Daniel Powter a household name when he was a relative unknown. NewNowNext interviews Ferras about his expectations for the future, and, of course, his love of the gays.
SPOILERS: Wentworth Miller gets wet.
Florent files suit over extending restaurant lease. Judge: "I know this restaurant–Florent is a great place."
Can sugar substitutes make you fat? "Animals fed with artificially sweetened yogurt over a two-week period consumed more calories and gained more weight — mostly in the form of fat — than animals eating yogurt flavored with glucose, a natural, high-calorie sweetener."
Dolce & Gabbana's yummy new entree.
Digital Age: Polaroid exits film business. "Polaroid chief operating officer Tom Beaudoin said the company is interested in licensing its technology to an outside firm that could manufacture film for faithful Polaroid customers. If that doesn't happen, Polaroid users would have to find an alternative photo technology, as the company plans to make only enough film to last into next year. Polaroid has already quietly halted production of instant cameras. "We stopped making commercial-type cameras about 18 to 24 months ago, and we stopped making consumer cameras about a year ago," said Beaudoin."
John Barrowman's parents put him in a trash bin to shut him up.
The Nation endorses Barack Obama: "This magazine has been critical of the senator from Illinois for his closeness to Wall Street; his unwillingness to lay out an ambitious progressive agenda on health care, housing and other domestic policy issues; and for post partisan rhetoric that seems to ignore the manifest failure of conservatism over these past seven years. But as Christopher Hayes argued in our cover story last week, Obama has also exhibited a more humane and wise approach to foreign policy, opposing the Iraq War while Hillary Clinton voted for it, and has been a reliable progressive ally over the course of his career. While his rhetoric about "unity" can be troubling, it also embodies a savvy strategy to redefine the center of American politics and build a coalition by reaching out to independent and Republican voters disgruntled and disgusted with what the Bush era has wrought."
Posted 3:00 PM EST by Andy in American Idol, Barack Obama, Brazil, Dolce & Gabbana, Election 2008, Facebook, Fashion Men, Food & Drink, Hillary Clinton, John Barrowman, Mariah Carey, Music, New York, News, Photography, Theatre, Wentworth Miller | Permalink
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Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Feb 12, 2008 4:04:48 PM
Who imagined that the world could simultaneously sustain two chubby sodomite killer snarks posing as journalists? If Andrew Sullivan appeared in the same room with NY Times wunderschwule Patrick Healy would it explode into a disaster zone oozing in ego blubber? All that winter weight Healy has put on in the last few months [don't they have gyms near his office?] has not helped erase Patty's reputation as a fathead writer with a documented scary obsession about the Clintons personal lives and an axe to grind about her specifically. One would think that Healy would have remembered the damage his irresponsible reporting and pure invention have done in previous campaigns before he started typing this latest hit piece on Sen. Clinton which Andy references that would lead one to believe that he has intimate pillow talk with literally everyone in the know in her campaign and all the Super Delegates, too. Tell us something we don't know, Patty: do you use condoms?
Let's review some headlines and commentary from Patty's past. Ironically, the first one appeared exactly one year ago today and demonstrate that nothing has changed in Healy's MO during the interim:
Patrick Healy's Over-The-Top Coverage Of Hillary Continues
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/02/post_46.php
“Healy's past coverage of 2004 presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) was marred by inaccurate and incomplete reporting that provided Republicans and conservatives ammunition for attacks on Kerry's campaign. Healy covered Kerry's campaign in 2004 for The Boston Globe. ...
As the weblog Daily Howler noted, Healy misquoted Kerry from an appearance at a fundraiser in Florida in March 2004 -- and Healy's misquote was the genesis of a widespread Republican smear against Kerry.
The Columbia Journalism Review's CJR Daily weblog noted on May 13, 2004, that Healy, in a May 13 Globe article, mischaracterized Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration and left the impression that Kerry said that the administration had "failed" in its handling of the Iraq war.” – MediaMatters.org March 2006
[Healy's] NY Times article falsely suggested Clinton autobiography contradicts her story about seeing MLK – MediaMatters.org March 2007
Etc. etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: MIchael Bedwell | Feb 12, 2008 4:18:26 PM
congratulations on your win Andy, keep up the good work!
Posted by: Rafael | Feb 12, 2008 5:26:13 PM
I was at the dress rehearsal performance of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and I did not have the same reaction as the gushing Ms. Perez Hilton. I thought that Ms. Rose's performance was actually TOO affected and seemed out of place with the subtle performances of the rest of the cast. The dialogue seemed to ramble on in places and there was a general sense of awkwardness to the whole thing. Of course it was a dress rehearsal, so I'm sure there will be some tweaking/tightening done. At least I hope so. I will be attending a performance in March, so I'll know soon enough.
Posted by: soulbrotha | Feb 12, 2008 6:07:06 PM
I was just reading about sugar substitutes, especially aspartame/Nutrasweet, in The Diet Cure yesterday... if I hadn't returned it to the library I would have so much more to say here! She related the story of a client who cried when she suggested giving up tea, so instead she suggested keeping tea for a week and giving up the nutrasweet... the client discovered that she didn't even like the taste of tea and was totally addicted to nutrasweet. There's a lot of great information about nutrition and health in there, especially about the point in processing where food becomes basically "non-food" - oil after high-temperature frying, artificial sweeteners, refined sugar and refined flour, and some other stuff like that ends up stripping nutrients from our bodies instead of feeding us. Scary but useful stuff!
Posted by: oakling | Feb 12, 2008 7:16:55 PM
Mmmmmm......John Krasinski....mmmmmmm.
Posted by: Henry Holland | Feb 12, 2008 7:18:50 PM