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04/19/2007


News: Simon Doonan, Yahoo, Richard Cordray, Pinhole Camera

RoadPayPal President Scott Thompson named CEO of Yahoo!

TorontoRoadPhoto: Toronto's pinhole year.

Sinead O'Connor calls off divorce after "beautiful evening of love making with nine (sic) other than husband".

RoadMassachusetts Supreme court Justice Margaret Marshall stepping down: "A 2003 decision declared that the Massachusetts Constitution prohibits the state from denying same-sex couples access to civil marriage. The ruling made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage."

RoadDarren Criss makes debut in How to Succeed in Business Without really Trying.

RoadMariah Carey tweets photo of herself in hospital bed with husband Nick Cannon after he suffers "mild kidney failure" in Aspen.

RoadThe Martha Stewart Show has been canceled.

DoonanRoadBarney's Creative Director Simon Doonan categorizes gay and straight foods: “Gay foods are more decorative; they’re more frivolous. The macaron craze is the ne plus ultra of gay fooderie. I can’t believe any red-blooded straight guy can even walk into a macaron shop. If you wanted to ruin a politician’s career, just publish a picture of him shopping for macarons.”

RoadPresident Obama, in recess appointment, names Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: "Make no mistake: President Obama's move will provoke a huge fight from Republicans. Most will declare this use of a recess appointment to be unconstitutional, while talk of impeaching Obama will likely spread throughout the right-wing media."

RoadVIDEO: Protester arrested for leading 'mic check' against National Defense Authorization Act at NYC's Grand Central Station.

RoadRyan Gosling hits the gym in his blue satin boxing shorts.

MuellerRoadMeet Kirk and Nate Mueller, gay twins and iPad design wizards.

RoadMIT researchers design suit that makes the wearer feel like a 70-year-old.

RoadFerndale, Michigan pastor Mark Bidwell dies: “My father was a vigilant supporter of the LGBT community and he spent the better half of his life advocating for LGBT rights,” said Bidwell’s daughter, Amy Dooley, 29. “Toward the end of his life he struggled with addiction which ultimately led to medical complications, including organ failure which led to his death.”

RoadJames Franco publishing a novel.

RoadRon Paul, secret winner of the Iowa caucuses? "That's because Paul's massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters  stuck around after the vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates — the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention."


British Sailors Lip-Dub Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You': VIDEO

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The ship's company on the HMS Ocean made this video after learning they would be home for Christmas. They arrive back on December 9 after  7½ months away - 225 days with 176 at sea, according to their YouTube page.

They were diverted to Libya after planning for a seven-week deployment. There are lots more details on the video page, but it's apparent they need to blow off some steam.

Watch them do it, AFTER THE JUMP...

Mariah Carey tweeted to them last night: "This is the best thing I've ever seen, you guys just made my day! Happy Happy Christmas!!! x0x0 to the troops."

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'All I Want For Christmas Is You': Miracle On 42nd Street

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Gawker has declared this the "first victory of the holiday viral video season," and I really hope they're right. You've gotta be a special kind of Christmas nut to draft intricate (and occasionally hilarious) choreography to an old Mariah Carey Christmasttime warhorse, teach said choreography to a friend, rehearse it enough that the both of you can nail it in a single take, buy or craft elven dance leotards, put them on, and convince another friend to film the fruits of your labor on a shaky camcorder in the middle of a deserted New York dance studio. But such nuts exist, bless them, and you can see the proof AFTER THE JUMP ...

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Mariah Carey Makes Sure HSN's All Stocked Up on Crazy: VIDEO

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Matt Cherette at Jezebel distilled Mariah Carey's HSN appearance down to four insane minutes:

Carey's live sales pitch began at midnight and lasted two inexplicably mind-blowing hours. In tangent after tangent, she complained about how horrible her pregnancy was, barked out orders to the camera crew, made up new words—basically, anything but try to sell her designs.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

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News: Space Shuttle, Education Attack, Murdoch, Closed Site

Corky road Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez claims that California's FAIR Education Act, which includes LGBT history in social studies courses, is an attack on the family: "[The law is] dangerous government intrusion into parents' rights [that] amounts to the government rewriting history books based on pressure-group politics." Actually, they're rewriting history to include actual historical events that helped shape our country.

 road Are Marcus Bachmann and Waiting For Guffman's Corky St. Clair the same person?

 road Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty actually seems to know quite a bit about Lady Gaga.

 road Brooklyn Bishop refuses to accept lawmakers who voted for marriage equality: "Bishop DiMarzio has requested that all gifts received from politicians supporting same-sex marriage legislation be refused."

 road The United States are growing more and more obese, and Mississippi is leading the way. Colorado, meanwhile, is the skinniest state.

 road Nancy Grace is going to lose her mind: Casey Anthony gets out of jail next Wednesday.

 road Remarking on New York's marriage equality law, National Catholic Reporter says church's leadership "has lost most of its credibility with the wider culture on matters of sexuality and personal morality, just as it has lost its authority within the Catholic community on the same issues."

 road Tim Pawlenty aid Vin Weber was forced to apologize after saying the Michele Bachmann has "sex appeal." "I made a mistake that was disrespectful to my friend Congresswoman Bachmann. I've been a Bachmann supporter in her congressional bids and I apologize. I was not speaking on behalf of Governor Pawlenty's campaign but nevertheless, it was inappropriate and I'm sorry," he said.

NewsWorld  road Rupert Murdoch's News of the World will close its doors amidst hacking scandal.

 road Some thoughts on President Obama sending condolence cards to families of soldiers who take their own lives: "This is a much more compassionate and fair policy, which acknowledges that the service of someone who ends hir own life is no less valuable than the service of someone whose life is taken by an enemy, especially since, in most cases, it's effectively the war that kills them either way."

 road How long can President Obama ignore medical marijuana?

 road DOWNLOAD: Buffetlibre's remix of Adele's "Someone Like You."

 road California officials are warning paparazzi to give Prince William and Princess Duchess Kate plenty of room during their visit to the Golden State.

 road NASA's final space shuttle flight goes up tomorrow, and, if this Pew poll is any indication, Americans clearly wish there were more on the horizon: "Fifty years after the first American manned space flight, nearly six-in-ten (58%) say it is essential that the United States continue to be a world leader in space exploration; about four-in-ten say this is not essential (38%)."

 road In other space news, Saturn's storms are gorgeous.

 road Mariah Carey needed a helping hand getting into the gym. Who doesn't?

Saturn_Storm  road Justin Timberlake tells Elle that his mom once walked in on him in bed with a girl: “I was caught one time. My mom wasn’t cool about it. I was too young to be in bed with a girl, so she was upset.” Was it Britney?

 road Lawrence King's former classmates testified that they saw Brandon McInerney shoot the slain student.

 road Molly Blooms, an Irish pub in Queens, will host a free wedding reception for a same-sex couple that ties the knot under New York's new marriage equality law.

 road The costume Yvonne Craig wore when she played Batgirl is being auctioned off.

 road New York City's clerk offices will be open on July 24th, a Sunday, for all of your gay marriage needs.

 road Gay news site PageOneQ has closed.

 road San Diego gay bookstore Obelisk damaged in building fire.


News: Lady Gaga, Google, Penguin, Palm Springs

 road Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz get married in secret ceremony.

Gaga  road Lady Gaga has ditched her green wig and is a blond once again.

 road Cars 2 rakes in $67 million to be number one at the box office.

 road Newt Gingrich responds to the news about marriage equality in New York: "I think the president should be, frankly, enforcing (DOMA), and I think we are drifting toward a terrible muddle which I think is going to be very, very difficult and painful to work our way out of."

 road Unlike her mother, Mariah Carey's infant daughter doesn't like her picture taken.

 road Anti-gay preacher at the inaugural Pride in Salisbury, NC pushes for police to charge 74-year-old woman who kissed him on the mouth.

 road Decrease in the sun's sunspots could lead to a mini ice age.

 road Dead bees used in ads in order to call attention to their plight.

 road Google defends itself from criticism it has faced from members of the LGBT community.

Penguin  road Efforts underway to save solitary penguin stranded in New Zealand and sent it back to Antarctica.

 road The American man behind the Gay Girl in Damascus hoax may have posed as a second Syrian lesbian.

 road Five people were wounded around the corner from San Francisco's gay Pride in a shooting unrelated to the event.

 road Gay man and good samaritan attacked by anti-gay men in Portland

 road Palm Springs has the highest concentration of gay couples in California: "With about 115 same-sex couples for every 1,000 households, Palm Springs ranks ahead of other notably gay-friendly cities like San Francisco and West Hollywood, according to an analysis of census data by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law, based at the University of California, Los Angeles."





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