As a Barnes & Noble employee, I used to notice that Borders employees were a grumpier lot, less concerned with books, what the best ones were, what was in the books, where the books properly GO.  A lot of times the shelves were too high.  A simple solution would have been to lose the top [...]

1: The Voice of the “Hulu” Guy President Obama may have a strong and assuring voice, but right now, I have to take a little break from it.  I choose instead to listen to the velvety dulcet tones of “The Hulu Guy” that greets you before the commercials at the top of every Hulu video.  [...]

Plenty has seen improvements over the years by the intervention of a gay man in the design and interpretation process.  Yet there are some serious areas of major money-making businesses that could do with some style, panache or just a plain old edgy renovation. 1) K-Mart In the battle of large-scale Everything Stores, K-Mart is [...]

My friend James Barry often says about the addictive southern chicken chain Chick-Fil-A, “It’s just chicken and a pickle on a biscuit, people.”  This is a quote often accompanied by a link to a story about how sickeningly anti-gay the wildly successful restaurant is. His link is often commented on by chicken lovers who instruct [...]

The Golden Globes were Sunday, and whatever reverence you give such an event, there is no denying that it wasn’t a great milestone for gays in entertainment.  You might have gotten in your head from enough Limbaugh/Palin/Bush screeching that Hollywood is plenty liberal and even plentier gay.  But with the occasional One Gay Oscar movie [...]

I have taken a major step, my first of many, into getting old.  I now have a pair of reading glasses, in addition to my maximum strength contact lenses (they do not make them any stronger without a special order).  And LASIK is out of the question, as I am not a candidate (because I’m [...]

The big thing in 50′s pop cinema was 3-D.  It came back in the 80′s.  I’m no slave to the rule of threes, but thirty years later, we’re blabbing about 3-D again. Only this time, it looks like it’s here to stay.  I have no original complaints about 3-D so I’ll spare you them.  What [...]

There, we returned. The 112th Congress began this week and today, the odious John Boehner has succeeded the fine-and-dandy Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. I’ll miss Pelosi, but unlike Boehner, I’m not gonna blubber about it. I’m not an End-of-Dayer like the Tea Partyers or like Huffington Post.  I don’t believe America is [...]

Apparently Anna Kendrick (far left) sat like that the entire interview. This was a press junket interview for “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” done by Paul Constant of Dan Savage’s fabulous Seattle online newspaper “The Stranger.” Mr. Constant refused to air the interview or print about it until yesterday.  Because he was disgusted with how [...]

Today is a very special day for me.  Two years ago, I moved my first box into this condo in West Hollywood.  My beautiful home in the most beautiful city I’ve ever lived in.  Nothing has given me more joy than planning the remodel of this place, bit by bit.  Swapping out carpet for laminate, [...]

Summer is almost over.  Well, the movies are.  Thoughts turn to Oscar predictions and fall favorites.  The last movie you were excited to see this summer has come, wowed, and gone (the fabulous “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”).  But what an underwhelming season. Come to think of it, there hasn’t been a really slam-bang, week-after-week [...]

OK, so Jay Leno sucks and Sarah Palin sucks, and yet their March 2nd duet together got such endless rounds of applause it was sickening. Watch a clipdown, courtesy of the marvelous Daily Show.

…this video. Angry, Angry man.

So, a key Senate Panel today officially rejected the Public Option in President Obama’s health care plan.  It was rejected 15-8.  15-8! In a Democratically controlled senate– talk about a death panel.  This already toothless plan is now…what? I don’t even know.  Are we heading for some sad realization, like with the Writers Guild Strike, [...]

FAIL: Lady with Temperature Confusion So a lady comes up to me at the Cafe, talking about a refund on her coffee.  I ask why.  She tells me she was served cold coffee.  This often happens, as coffee can cool after it’s been brewed awhile.  HOWEVER! I tested the coffee– piping hot.  I think it’s [...]