Maybe I should just give up and admit that I'm a livejournaler (-ist?). After six years (!!!) of LJ, I still pretend I'm too good for this, and will go a year without posting at a time. I sniff at it, I mock it, I feel guilty about my involvement with it, but I always come crawling back ( Read more... )

Dear Girls:

Nobody likes being told they resemble Victoria Beckham or Samantha Ronson, even if you mean this comparison favorably. If somebody does respond well to these proposed similarities, this person is undoubtedly afflicted with scabies, syphilis, scurvy, or worse.


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I just re-downloaded Fleetwood Mac's classic hit record, "Rumours", the cover of which features, if I remember correctly, Stevie Nicks looking typically Wiccan and Lindsey Buckingham in some kind of terrifying man-tights and a billowing nightmare of a poet's shirt. That leads me to think about some of the more embarrassing music that I love ( Read more... )

Gladstone Hotel Hosts Same Sex Immigration Lawyer Michael Battista LGBT activist and highly-regarded immigration lawyer Michael Battista is giving a speech on March 27th in Toronto at the Gladstone on some of the difficulties faced by queer refugees to Canada who have fled oppressive regimes. This guy knows his stuff, and this promises to be a ( Read more... )

Fascinating List of Animals Who Have Displayed Homosexual or Transgendered Behavior

Curiously, the Middle American Golden-Rumped Gabrielle was not represented on this list.

Actresses Who I Think Possibly Derive Some If Not All of Their Talents from the Fact That They Are Slightly Unhinged ( Read more... )

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Today when I was walking Lisa to class, I bore witness to one of those odd, sad, yet humorous-when-viewed-with-some-degree-of-removal moments we've come to expect from such cinematic auteurs as Wes Anderson. A rugged professor with a khaki fedora and a beat-up leather bomber jacket who clearly had Indiana Jones fantasies was walking out the door ( Read more... )

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