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.)

Tomorrow’s the Headmaster party. I’m genuinely excited about this, too. We’re a Critics Pick in Time Out New York and also we’re Gayletter’s pick of the day for tomorrow. You should come! Scroll down to see the flyer, or just go to Kings Cross at 356 Bowery tomorrow (Thursday) from 7-11pm. We’ll have drink specials and awesome music and homework and possibly also a photographer stationed in the men’s room. Here’s the Facebook invite.

On Saturday at the party we debuted a brand-new print (a self-portrait!) by Matias Uris, and it is soooooooooooooo lovely. You can find it on the inside cover of the new issue of Headmaster, but now you can also possess it in a larger, more frame-able 9″ X 12″ form. It’s printed in an edition of 20 and it’s on the web shoppe now for just $25.

The video for new Shoes track “Time To Dance” is the sort of thing that was so obviously made to go viral that you have to admire it. Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal as a mass murderer who uses a fencing costume (among other things) to commit his murders, the eight-and-a-half minute clip–for an already repetitive three-minute and sixteen second song that basically plays twice–will surely be watched by many, many, many homosexual men Jake Gyllenhaal enthusiasts who would have never otherwise heard a track that’s rather aggressively blah. They were even nice enough to show him in a towel for about three seconds.

It’s worth one viewing, though, although don’t feel especially obligated to turn the volume up.

Over on Naked Pictures Of Your Dad, I’m taking nominations for next month’s list of The 100 Hottest Men That Ever Lived (Or At Least Lived During The Era of Photography and Video).  To give the list some diversity, I’m offering prompts each day and asking people to email me up to three suggestions for each category.

As of right now I’m taking suggestions for Hot Athletes and Hot Canadians.  I’ll keep updating this post with each day’s prompts…  If you have favorites, send suggestions to mixtapesforhookers@gmail.com.

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:

12.) With 1563 hits and 231 likes and reblogs, this photo of newish porn star Patrick O’Brien was the twelfth most popular image on NPOYD this year.  [He's also pictured at the top of this post, in a shoot he did for Randy Blue.]

11. Posted August 19, this vintage beefcake is Fred Jensen, and he’s photographed by David Martin.  It got 1599 hits, but only 61 notes.

10. The tenth most popular post, hilariously, was my mirror self-portrait with boner and thunderthighs at the Hotel Richelieu in New Orleans.  Because I am modest–ahem–I’m just going to make that one a clickthrough.

9. This strapping fellow comes to us via the great Men Of The World blog.  I don’t know who he is or who the photographer is, but he scored 1,808 hits and 305 notes.

8. The oldest post on the list is this one, originally put up on January 21.  1,909 hits for this girthy fellow, plus 237 likes and reblogs.

7. Via Visions of Penis, this odd image scored 1967 hits, plus 161 Tumblr notes.

6. This February 2nd guest post by James, commemorating NPOYD’s second anniversary, was quite popular.  The Ron Amato photograph got 2,524 hits over the year and 302 Tumblr likes and reblogs.

5. This Jack Off Material post from July got 2,529 hits and 261 notes.  Again, no clue about who this fine, fine, fine, fine man is or where this photo first appeared, though it’s very Playgirl-looking.

4. Another unknown model, originally posted on February 18, this guy racked up 2,636 hits and got 377 likes and reblogs.

3. Finally, something with a little bit of narrative.  This Men Of The World post from March 13 only had 204 notes, though it did get 2,657 unique hits in its own right.

2. No idea who this hunky man is, either, and again no idea about the photographer, either.  But he was popular, getting Liked and Reblogged 455 times in addition to getting 3,689 unique pageviews.

1. The single most popular post of the year was an anniversary guest-blog by Billy Miller, editor of Straight To Hell.  This PG-13 photo of a Wolverine opting for the patdown got 4,666 hits, almost 1,000 hits more than any other post I put up this year.

Well, there you go.  Check back on the Tumblr to see all 1,998 posts I’ve put up so far this year, and expect a few more before tomorrow’s over with.

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.]

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.

Just thought I’d mention that I’m helping to plan the 11.11.11 celebration of the njoy Eleven, which is taking place next Friday at the Gaslight Lounge in New York.  It’s also the official after-party of the Fleshbot Awards, which are taking place earlier in the evening at the Highline Ballroom.  Expect to see porny celebrities, hear good music provided by the ever-skilled (and dreamy) HARSHBOYS, and possibly even win an njoy Eleven of your own.

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.

At long last, I can finally announce this reading I’m organizing in Providence on June 9th. I am very, very excited to have put this together. These are some of my favorite people (ahem ahem ahem ahem), largely because they are all smart and funny and interesting, and so I expect this event to be a big heap of fun.

The reading is part of Q30, which is this month-long queer art happening that a guy named Michael Kurt organized. He’s taken over a space downtown for the month and there’s readings and talks and music and films and a whole bunch of other stuff. It’s good that it’s happening in June because with the colleges out there’s often a shortage of interesting events going on.

Full performer bios after the jump:

AUDACIA RAY is a former sex worker and current media maker (and shaker). She has blogged about sexuality, culture, and politics since 2004 -including stints blogging for Fleshbot and the Village Voice – and spent three years as an executive editor at the Utne Reader award-winning $pread magazine. She is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration and won a Feminist Porn Award for her film The Bi Apple. These days, Audacia is the director of the Red Umbrella Project, which amplifies the voices of people in the sex trade through live storytelling events, media training, and advocacy workshops. Her monthly storytelling series the Red Umbrella Diaries and her blog Waking Vixen were named to the Village Voice’s Best of 2010 list. Learn more about her work at redumbrellaproject.org and audaciaray.com.

Born on the same day as Dolly Parton and Edgar Allan Poe, LOLA D. SORROW enjoys reading, writing, and driving very fast. She is currently studying to become Dr. Queer, Medicine Woman.

MARIA DIAZ is a writer who lives on the Internet. She currently works as a sex toy slinger in marketing at EdenFantasys.com.

MATTHEW LAWRENCE is a writer, curator, event planner and part-time dogwalker. He co-edits Headmaster, the biannual art magazine for man-lovers, and lives in Rhode Island with his dear friend Lady Catterley.

MELISSA GIRA GRANT is the co-editor of Coming & Crying, a collection of true stories about sex. Her work has appeared in Jezebel, Slate, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and $pread. She lives in Brooklyn and on the internet.

WILL VAIL is a blogger currently working as a clerk for a national chain of adult video stores. He is currently working on a hyper-text novel and will soon launch the experimental blog First Chapter.