Filed under: gay, hot | Tags: best week ever, headmaster magazine, new york city, pulp
This video of Pulp at the Reading Festival in 1994 has been on Youtube for a year and it only has 1400 views so far, which is a crazy shame that maybe we should all collectively cry about. It’s so good! And the sound is good, too.
Anyway, I’m going to see Pulp IN THE FLESH at Radio City Music Hall tonight and I am so so so so so excited. I haven’t seen them live ever, and also I haven’t been to Radio City since my largely Jewish sixth-grade class took a big trip (with most of our parents) down there to see the Rockettes. (It took us six hours to get there and the one clear memory I have of that trip is this one girl Lori Carocciola’s mom spent some of the gridlock time by dancing in the aisles when “Rumpshaker” came on the radio. Oh, and that we almost didn’t make it back home because that same girl’s dad had disappeared into a bar at one point and the bus driver wouldn’t leave because we were one person short.)
Filed under: gay, movies | Tags: me me me me me, movies, new york times, swoon, tom kalin
This New York Times article from the other day about important gay movies–and specifically the gay movies deemed important by celebrated gay New Yorkers–got me wondering which gay movie has been the most important to me, and I’m slightly at a loss. As a teenager I watched basically every movie released on VHS, and some of them were pretty gay. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was a lot of fun, and Priest was pretty sad, and the Isaac Mizrahi documentary Unzipped was my favorite movie of 1996, according to a hand-written list that I found a few months ago. I’ve mentioned here before my love for Robert Altman’s Prêt-a-Porter, and Bound is just generally a really awesome movie, complete with Jennifer Tilly’s voice and lesbian sex scenes choreographed by Susie Bright.
But how important are these films, in the grand scheme of what it means to be gay and what it means for me personally to be a gay movie-lover?
The cover story in the new issue of the South Florida Gay News takes a look at a five-year sting conducted by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office against gay men in county parks. It’s a very frustrating story, though sadly it’s also rather predictable: Two cops, Peter Lazar and Van Garner, made over 600 arrests between 2005 and 2010 by convincing men to expose themselves to the officers on public property.
Allegedly the detectives were there in response to a request from the Palm Beach County parks department, but the paper’s investigation reveals that no such request was ever made. The director of the parks department, at least, says he had no idea about the operation, even though it took place under his nose for five years.
It’s not surprising that the parks department didn’t make a claim about a rampant sex problem, though, because public sex seems to happen only rarely in Palm Beach County. During Garner and Lazar’s five years on the job there were a grand total of four arrests for men having actual sex with other men in the parks. (And if there were only four arrests, that might have only been two actual sex acts.)
Filed under: gay, hot | Tags: billy miller, fred jensen, naked pictures of your dad, patrick o'brien, ron amato, statistics
We’re rapidly closing in on the end of the year, so I thought I’d present you with 2011′s twelve most popular posts on Naked Pictures Of Your Dad. (I’m going by unique hits to each photo’s page, not the number of Tumblr likes and reblogs. Though I should mention that, despite several lengthy posting breaks this year, my number of Tumblr followers more than doubled.) Actually, each of the top ten posts got about a thousand more hits than the corresponding posts did last year.
Boners and stuff after the jump:
Filed under: gay, magazines, people from rhode island | Tags: headmaster magazine, magazines, me me me me me, sale of the century
This Tuesday we’re having a holiday party for Headmaster in Providence at The Avery. 7-10pm.
We’re also throwing a two-and-a-third-days-only-more-or-less sale at the new Headmaster Online Shoppe. Order now and save on magazines, prints, or our new series of black-on-black tool shed notebooks. The magazines also make delightful presents, I should note.
Filed under: gay, heterosexuals, hot, internet | Tags: conner habib, eurovision, fleshbot, fleshbot awards, me me me me me, model call, new york
Just a quick reminder about a bunch of stuff I’ve got going on in the next 48 hours:
1. Tomorrow (Thursday) night I’m reading with Conner Habib at the AS220 Project Space in downtown Providence. 7pm. I’m very excited to meet Conner in person finally, and also excited (yet nervous!) to be reading a story in front of some people I actually see regularly but who maybe don’t know as much about me as they think they do…
2. Friday I’m helping njoy throw the official after-party for the Fleshbot Awards at the G2 Lounge in New York (9th Ave @ 14th St.) The party’s free and open to the public and will be really fun–awesome music, drinks galore, and one njoy eleven (a giant, 2.75 lb. stainless steel toy with a retail value of about $300) will be given away to one lucky partygoer.
3. I’m still working on my month-long photo project, documenting guys in my apartment as I prepare to move out and move in with my boyfriend after six years of living apart. Preview images–basically untouched/barely-touched photos that may or may not end up with the final portfolio–can be seen on my Tumblr.
4. I’m blogging about fashion, still, and just today I posted a piece about what to where when you’re a couple and you’re performing at the Eurovision Song Contest.
[photo: Italy at Eurovision 1984. Not the best look.]
Filed under: gay, hot, people from rhode island | Tags: conner habib, me me me me me, providence, readings
So, close readers of this blog will know that for a couple of years now I’ve had a giant mental and physical boner for porn star writer Conner Habib. So I’m super-excited to announce that this Thursday he’ll be in Providence and we’ll be reading some non-fiction together.
The reading takes place at 7pm at the AS220 Project Space–that’s the one on Mathewson St., next to the Stable. The reading starts at 7pm and I can genuinely say that you should totally try to be there. Conner is a very smart and interesting guy, and hopefully when we finally meet face-to-face I’ll be able to, you know, function and not just start slobbering. Although COME ON would you blame me. Especially now that I just saw stills from Joe Gage’s upcoming Dad Goes To College. Holy Lord does that look like my new favorite movie ever.
Filed under: gay, personal | Tags: me me me me me, models, personal, providence
It’s official… After seven years (and four roommates) in the same apartment, I’m moving at the end of November. Not far, just under two miles, but far enough that I’ll be spending a lot of time in the coming weeks cleaning out my attic. And my basement. And my garage. And my bedroom. And so forth. (I’m not a hoarder, exactly, but seven years is a long time for books and papers to accumulate.)
That said, I’m doing one last major thing before I go: You know how periodically I advertise that I’m looking for models for dirty-ish photo projects? Yeah, so I’m going to do one more run of those before I go, as a way of saying goodbye to the place and also as a way to keep my sanity and not stress over what I’m going to do with all of my belongings now that I’m not going to have an attic and basement and garage…
So, if you’re in the Providence area and feel like taking your pants off for me, drop me an e-mail (mixtapesforhookers@gmail.com) and we can talk.
[photo: Guy In My Bedroom, 2008 (?)]
Filed under: gay, people from rhode island | Tags: occupy providence, owners, the gays, victims
I’ve been avoiding most of the talk surrounding the Occupy Wall Street movement, mostly for the completely selfish reason that I’ve been seriously job-hunting for months now and have no leads whatsoever and I don’t know if I can mentally handle the knowledge that there are thousands and thousands of other people out there who are in exactly the same position, if not worse, and that basically we’re all trying to get the same ten or twenty jobs. It’s… daunting. And sad, but mostly daunting.
The Occupy Providence movement, which officially kicked off nearly a week ago, was largely organized by queers, from what I can tell. I haven’t visited the encampment, although it’s smack in the middle of downtown (across from the city’s only bus terminal), but that’s the impression that I get, anyway.
There’s a local LGBT news listserv I subscribe to, where occasionally someone will say something that’s only partially related to the gays and then the moderator will immediately step in and tell people that one can not promote one’s event on the LGBT listserv unless it’s about AIDS or unless a drag queen is hosting. (Literally, she has said that.) It’s a good policy during election season and kind of a frustrating policy when it’s not election season.
But anyway, this one person’s e-mail slipped through the other day, and it’s so completely misguided and weird that I thought I would share it with you:
Filed under: gay, hot | Tags: manhunt daily, me me me me me, stanley tucci, starfucking
I’m guest blogging over at Manhunt Daily for a couple of days. It’s fun, so far I’ve gotten to talk about sucking Stanley Tucci’s dick (I wanna I wanna I wanna I wanna) and failing to seduce the Vios salesman. Who knows what filthy nonsense I’ll say next.
