Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” is the first album cover I have a recollection of seeing.  When I look at this cheeky and striking cover, I will always be five years old, exploring my father’s office.  Match this childhood nostalgia with my adult love of Dawn of Reagan Era critiques.  I love me some America, but [...]

Something I discovered recently about myself is that when I undertake a project of great importance, I produce a fantastic amount of excess nervous, destructive energy that must be dumped somewhere miles away from the project.  I am putting on a show in June.  This show has devoured (hopefully not needlessly) nearly every waking work [...]

15 years ago, we had one of the best summer movie seasons in recorded history.  I’m not talking about “oh, that’s the summer that gave us ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Jaws.’”  Those are one-offs.  I’m talking about 1996, where week after week, there was a new flavor of ice cream to suckle on.  “Twister,” “Mission: Impossible,” [...]

The New York Times Friday profiled two straight athletes, wrestler Hudson Taylor (pictured left) and 2003 World Cup winning rugby star Ben Cohen (right).  They are two straight Allys.  If you’re unfamiliar with the term Ally, it means a pro-gay straight person.  By pro-gay, I don’t mean someone who’s okay with us, I mean someone [...]

Tonight marks the Twitteringly anticipated re-opening of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Screenings.  Over here in LA, you can feel the collective squirm build up in us over the past few months, waiting for day.  For LA movie people, the first day of Hollywood Forever is the official start of Summer. And hotchachacha, do they have [...]

Thanks for choosing Husband of the Month Club.  The man who is selected will be your husband for 30 days, so enjoy!  And for straight men and lesbians (or interested parties who simply don’t care for the man), you will still be sent the Husband, so feel free to buddy around with him.  The rule [...]

“I Know You Got Soul”, and not The Carpenters’ “Close to You”, is the song I use to turn my frown upside-down on days like today, where the blues inexplicably runs ramshod over my thought.  Is it the small depressions I visit on myself when I start each morning by pulling up my Gay News [...]

In the most awesome time ever for society, 1959, the UK introduced “The Watershed,” a Production Code that would strictly prohibit what was seen on television before 9 pm.  This wasn’t officially enforced until the next best time for society, the mid 1980′s, when it came back full force to exclude all but the dullest [...]

The “1-Up” AKA “Super Mario Bros. Shot” is a half shot of Midori melon liqueur and a half shot of Malibu Rum.  Got this from the fabulous Drunken Moogle. Not a barn burner, but damn is it fun on a hot pre-summer day like today where all I want to do is play retro video [...]