Craig, Daniel

Bond? Read the Fleming books when I was a kid. Never saw an entire Bond movie until Daniel Craig landed the part. I'll make up my own mind, thanks, but this from Rolling Stone could be the movie review sentence of the week:

"Bond seems to have come down with a serious case of Jason Bourne penis envy, leaping across rooftops from Bolivia to Haiti like a jug-eared Matt Damon."

Perhaps the envy is on the part of the director. Cannot imagine Craig envying metro-Damon anything, penile or otherwise. And really, whose ears are juggier?

Non-neurotic Sex

Tie Me Off & Hit Me Up

Cosmetic surgery addict injected cooking oil into her own face
A Korean woman addicted to plastic surgery has been left unrecognisable after her obsession led her to inject cooking oil into her face.

Me? I'm just scheduled with Dr. Berger for my penis reduction surgery in December. Merry Christmas to me.

Additional Medical News: Aids Cure?

Ha. Had To Put This In For Ya

Update 11/21/08: Well, this was a minute by minute count down....now that the movie's opened, the counting down is over, ain't it.

Time For Some Camille

My Favorite Obama Voter

Okay, I'm A Fan

Paramore - New Music - More Music Videos

Teens. Angst. Crushes. Love. Separation. Vampires. Werewolves. Families. High School. Twilight. New Moon. Eclipse. Breaking Dawn. Stephanie Meyer.

1000 Words

Where Men are Men

Just in time for Veterans Day a story from the Army Times about how real American men are spending their time. Sorry bros. Thems the facts.

[The] SEALs quickly demonstrated that, aiming their silencer-equipped weapons to shoot and kill the kidnapper in the room before he could fire a round. The engineer said he heard the sounds of the operators shooting and killing a guard posted outside.

The SEALs turned to the now former hostage and told him they were there to take him back.

“I was in favor of that, 100 percent,” he said. “I was very surprised, very amazed and very happy.”

Read the whole thing here.

Way To Stay Classy Brothers and Sisters

Where the boys are.
Stomping that styrofoam cross in Palm Springs.

AIDS Cure?

Don't get your hopes up, bro, but the WSJ reports:

NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.

The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.

"I was very surprised," said the doctor, Gero Hütter.

Nuptials

Look, I don't want to get married.
Neither to a woman nor to a man.
And I'm pleased for Ellen and Portia, truly. Their happiness is a good thing.
And full disclosure requires me to acknowledge that I voted FOR Proposition 8 [See previous post.] in California last week and I'm not Black Church nor Mormon nor Christian Evangelical. I'm high church Anglican -- cos I like the incense. And if you knew my parish you'd be surprised at my vote for Prop 8. And if I participate in the Rite of Reconcilliation this year, and admit my vote to my confessor, I doubt I'll be granted absolution. Not without dramatic display of pangs of contrition. Probably be shunned in my Parish if word gets out. It's not that I don't think Gay Divorce is coming. Whether I care or not. It is coming. That cat's outta the bag. I'm merely asserting patience as a tactic.
But all of that aside is it not rather bizarre that Mayoress Rasmussen can legally get hitched to guy in California while so many others propositionally cannot?
What the heck?

Hat Tip to blunter-than-me The Other McCain....
Why not these boys?








Why Can't We Marry Each Other?

Turmoil in Westwood

I'm no regular reader of Rod McCullom, not yet anyway, but his dismaying post today over at Rod 2.0 gives us this sad-if-true report from Westwood:

Not that this wasn't expected. The recent passage of California's Proposition 8 has exposed some of the latent racism of many within the LGBT community—instigated in part by many in the e-telligentsia such as revisionist Andrew Sullivan and sex advisor turned sociologist Dan Savage. Unfortunately the "blame the blacks" meme is being commonly accepted by some so-called "progressive" gay activists
...
It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at me
...

Just one more justification for my stance that "Gay" is a political position (liberal, self-centered) not a hyphenate identity or a lust orientation or an affectional preference and one more reason why I stay on the Studio City side of the hills and, except for church, try never to go to the city. Why mingle with those first-and-formost-gay? (Are they capable of discussing anything not related to gayity?) What's the enduring bond? Shared latency? Propensity for groupthink? What the heck, my cafe society days are decades behind me.
Of course regardless of what Rod 2.0 reports it is Conservatives and Republicans who are always branded as racists -- contrary to what one could see with one's own eyes should one choose to look -- never the Liberals or Democrats or "Progressives." Talk about a tired meme. Perhaps people really are stupid. Can't see what's right before their ideological peepers.
Got eyes? Use 'em. Then remember what you've seen.
Anyway, if you read Rod 2.0's article and the comments and the anecdotal references to groping some'o'you will know what I mean when I say that as my college mate Crazy Mary used to say back in Iowa, back when she used to slide notes under my dorm door:
"Fucking us ain't knowing us, white boy."
I digress. So though we're all prone to hyperbole these days if the street ugliness Rod 2.0 describes is true -- and not just another creepy story -- if it's true that men were called niggers in Westwood by cowardly faggoty clone hysterical angry shrill clone pinched clone oppressed middle-class spoiled caucasian homosexuals who could be surprised? No, really.
Even Rod 2.0 says the racism was not unexpected.
What a community.
Still, get a grip, boys and lesbians. This is 2008. Gay Divorce will come. Just not yet. Might take more than forty years to change thousands of years of tradition. Forget the Black church for a moment. Forget the Republicans. Forget even Governor Mrs. Todd Palin's excellent wardrobe. Can't your parading bigotry be limited to anti-Mormon bigotry? Ain't that enough hatin' for right now? All together now. Ebony and Ivory. Gay Kumbaya. And goddamn the Mormon interlopers.
Question: Anyone remember when man-on-man sex was outlaw sex? Uh huh. Anyone remember when what men-who-like men wanted was to be left alone? Remember when it was about gettin' some head. Or givin' some. To say nothing about ass. Remember when whoever got to the bed first got to be bottom? Pardon my vulgarity. I'm not saying I remember any of that, I'm just reporting what I've been told about those days. Back when affection was a bonus. And life-long commitment? Either sanctified by the church or licensed by the state -- who wanted it?
Not men.
And you racist uptight girlie-men with muscles in West Hollywood? Blaming African-Americans for your disappointment? Who you think it was who fought the NYC police in what was that 1969? It wasn't the clones. Hell, the first generation of clones hadn't even arrived yet in their flannels and Wranglers or 501s and work boots. It was Uptown Negro cross-dressing men who fought the police down in the Village, on Christopher Street. Each and every one of those sixties transvestites more man than you'll ever be in your LA whiny anger at being oppressed out of a wedding cake.
Generally I try to avoid using the language of "rights." That's your fetish, not mine. In this quest for Gay Divorce my final question is always, has been for years, since Anita Bryant really, when did bourgois respectability become a right?
That's what you're "fighting" for here, ain't it? Please accept me. It's my civil right to be accepted.
Fuck that.
And hey, what about the Black church choir singer's right to be DL? His Down Low Pride? DL at church. DL at home and with family. DL in his "community." Ain't he got rights too? I'm just saying.
Rod 2.0? You're a writer. Rethink your use of the words community and latent. Might want to reexamine the concept of "landslide" too.

Update Sunday, Nov. 09, 09:30 PM: Mormon Church Vandalized

Crazy Bald Guy

From (stoutly Pro-Palin) The Other McCain:

but . . . look, anybody who ever thought it was a good idea to nominate a 72-year-old bald guy just doesn't know anything about politics. To nominate a 72-year-old bald guy who's spent the past 10 years in a bitter feud with his own party's grassroots base? That's just crazy.

Zod In Oh Twelve

Can't blame me. I'm one of the Blessed 82 who voted for General Zod.

Your Teachers Union At Work

Who's got the skull full of mush? Kids or La Professora?

Update: Too bad they'll never fire the simpletress.

Post Election News

Brooklyn Marine sergeant & wife tortured, slain in California

Killees.




Killers .

Sallie Mae

Yeah, well, Dick Morris ain't always right but he's always fun and this time he's giving me hope. Yeah yeah, I know, hope is for chumps, but so what.

AN ELECTION THAT THE REPUBLICANS NEEDED TO LOSE -- GOOD LUCK OBAMA

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on November 5, 2008

If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.

Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy. The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt, student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.

What is it I find so hopeful? The opportunity to default on my student loans. And to think, I almost drained my 403b last year to settle that old debt....Wait -- maybe I shouldda drained that thing. Read the whole thing here.

Dealing With Victory

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Ahhh, What a Beauty

Something worth looking at on CNN. No Divatude, either.

Piper Palin Last Night in AZ

The Lincoln Bedroom

Before I go to sleep here's a post from T Olsen over at CT:
"The most meaningful thing that has ever happened."
That's how Oprah just described Obama's win tonight in a brief interview with CBN.
Yeah, it's a weird quote. Also a bit weird that she's on Pat Robertson's CBN. But hey, it's a historic night.
Okay, g'night now.

1000 Words

Kate Smith

Not sayng the fat lady's singing, just saying what the heck. Musical interlude.

President and Mrs. Bush

Okay I voted. Over at Sportsmen's Lodge. At the green table, not the orange table. Unlike thin-skinned, easily outraged, uber intimidatee actor/bozo Tim Robbins, voting took me all of ten minutes, including parking. Tomorrow I'll tell you how out of touch with my "community" (by that I mean Studio City) I am. And whether or not I can still divorce a guy here in California. Meanwhile, if I don't go to the gym, I'll go back to work so my boss can go vote. We don't agree on much, but that's not the point, and not to worry anyway, she's probably voting for Barr. She doesn't like Obama or McCain -- among a hefty list of things she doesn't much like. Of course, she's Persian, so there's some'o'that Iranianism mixed in too -- appropriately so. But, she's a citizen, and like many of us, loves to vote on election day, no matter the outcome. Wonder how that "mock" election we had at work ended up?

Don't Forget To Vote

Me? Even though Obama's predicted to win CA by 3 million, so my vote won't count at the top'o'the ticket, leaving me free to vote for the Libertarian, which I'd like to do despite it being Bob Barr, I cannot pass up this predeortained opportunity to vote for Governor Mrs. Todd Palin. Love the Palins. They stir up so much hatred on the "Progressive and Tolerant" side that I gotta love them. Love babydaddy Levi Johnston too.

1000 Words

I Feel Like A Very Baaaaad Man

People take photographs of a Damascene goat, which won the Most Beautiful Goat title, during the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...
Picture: REUTERS

Susan Sarandan's Dress!

New York Press
POSTED TO CULTURE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
Cumming's Attractions: Alan Dishes on Presidential Penetration Preferences at Faggy Fundraiser
Alan Cumming wanted me to vote for Barack Obama, even though the Scotsman couldn’t pull that lever himself.

“Alas, I didn’t get my citizenship in time. On Thursday I’ll be a citizen, but I missed the registration date.”

As a last-ditch effort to raise money for Obama’s campaign, the Tony Award-winner called on his celebrity friends to provide auction items for a fundraising event Tuesday night at Eastern Bloc, the Soviet-themed East Village gay bar.

Items included a Donna Karan dress worn by Susan Sarandon to the Emmys (pictured), limited edition posters and DVDs signed by famous folk, a personal dog training session with—no joke!—Jennifer Jason Leigh and an invitation to Liza Minelli’s 2002 wedding to David Gest, the highest-earning item, which went for $500.

Eastern Bloc co-owner Gabriel Beaton assured me, “All the money at the door goes to Obama. And after we cover our expenses every other dollar we make goes to Obama.” With less than a week until the presidential election, Cumming emphasized the high stakes, “It’s a make or break situation. The whole world is holding its breath. Either America is going to get it together or we’re totally fucked.”

What changes does he foresee? “I think the sensibility will change. Immediately what will happen is that the world will change its perception of America.” As the Price is Right theme music began, I asked Cumming who’d make a better lover, Joe Biden or Obama. “I’d be so nervous about sleeping with the next president of the United States,” he said. “They’re both very sexy.”

Posted by Antonio Cerna at 11:11 AM

Scottish hottie Alan Cummins thinks Joe Biden is very sexy. What can I say?

Hmmmm. AC or DC?

Obama opposes gay "marriage?" Or not?.
(What's Michelle laughing about?)



Here's a thought or two.

Oh, and this November 4th update from the Honorable Thomas Sowell:

Gays were on their strongest ground when they said that what they did was nobody else's business. Now they are asserting a right to other people's approval, which is wholly different.

None of us has a right to other people's approval.

Creepy

There's so much creepiness going on with those Obama worshippers. Tatted numbers on the arm is but the latest; might not be the creepiest thing, even from the Kos Kooks, but Lord Lord.

Miss Laura's parents gotta be proud:

That's why it was such a surprise the day I found my
desire to win was stronger than my fear, and made
204 phone calls.I gritted my teeth every time I dialed.
But I did it. So I got myself a souvenir, to remind me
I can push myself further than I thought I could go.

Wonder if she got the idea when That One was giving his Citizen of the World speech in Germany? Yeah, Germans have a thing about numbers tatted on the arm.

Random sampler of previously creepy things here, here, and here.