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fillin' yer hole!
I'm in the mood for a snack!
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Let's try not to get this thread closed down too...
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin's ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides. But city officials say a business is pushing even Madison's boundaries by offering, of all things, hugs. For $60, customers at the Snuggle House can spend an hour hugging, cuddling and spooning with professional snugglers. Snugglers contend touching helps relieve stress. But Madison officials suspect the business is a front for prostitution and, if it's not, fear snuggling could lead to sexual assault. Not buying the message that the business is all warm and fuzzy, police have talked openly about conducting a sting operation at the business, and city attorneys are drafting a new ordinance to regulate snuggling. "There's no way that (sexual assault) will not happen," assistant city attorney Jennifer Zilavy said. "No offense to men, but I don't know any man who wants to just snuggle." Snuggle House owner Matthew Hurtado hasn't responded to multiple requests for an interview. His attorney, Tim Casper, said in an interview last month the business is legitimate and Hurtado has put precautions in place to protect clients and employees from each other. "The concept is obviously a novel one and you can see where they (the city) might be a little skeptical," he said. "Could something happen? Yeah, I suppose. But they're taking every precaution." In recent days, it's become unclear whether or not the house is still in business. No one answered the door there Saturday. A posting on a Facebook page claiming to be the Snuggle House's site said it had closed, but the page owner wouldn't identify themselves — or confirm if it was the home's official site. Neither Hurtado nor Casper have returned phone and email messages. Madison's concern seems to be deeper than in other cities where similar businesses have set up shop as cuddling has grown into a cottage industry over the past decade. Police in Rochester, N.Y., said they've had no complaints about The Snuggery, which offers overnight cuddle sessions. Be The Love You Are in Boulder, Colo., offers cuddles with "Snuggle Stars." Cuddle Therapy in San Francisco offers packages that "focus directly with your current needs around connection, intimacy and touch," according to its website. Police in San Francisco and Boulder didn't respond to The AP's inquires about those businesses. The nonprofit organization Cuddle Party has trained about 100 people across five continents to run group snuggle sessions, said Len Daley, a psychologist who serves as executive director at Cuddle Party headquarters in Montgomery, Ala. Betty Martin, a Seattle-based sex educator who facilities cuddle parties in that city, said she's never had problems with government officials or police. Cuddle Party participants must keep their clothes on and go through a pre-session workshop on how to say "no," she said. "People think if there's touch happening there must be sex happening. That's not the case at all," Martin said. Madison might seem like an ideal spot for snuggling. Former Gov. Lee Dreyfus once described the Democratic stronghold as "30 square miles surrounded by reality." The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates for atheists, is based here. Every year UW-Madison students hold a blocks-long party to celebrate the end of the school year and biking enthusiasts pedal through the streets in various stages of undress each spring. The Snuggle House sits above a bar about a block from the state Capitol. The only indication it's there is a welcome mat that reads "Snuggle House." The business's website features photos of bedrooms with hardwood floors and videos of four snugglers — three women and one man — talking about wanting to help people feel better.
Does anyone have this old recording? If so, could you please tell me how "Marvelous Party" begins on this recording? I had an album (back when one had LPs) of one Coward revue, and in it, the first thing you heard was the tinkling of ice in a glass as a rather Noel-like fellow woke from having been passed out, and moaned, dripping with sarcasm, "I've been to a marvelous party..." Only by the end of the song does he realize just how fun a party it was. Does this sound familiar? Is it the version on Oh Coward? If not, any idea what album it was? ALSO--totally unrelated--I once owned an LP of "Gorey by Grimes" (Tammy Grimes reading Edward Gorey poetry and books, hysterically). Of course it was never issued on CD. I can't seem to find the LP anywhere online. Anyone have a lead?
Yet I still hate him.
I'm one of the people who just tonight began looking at the health insurance programs offered to me in my state under the health insurance exchange program which is part of the very much needed ObamaCare program. I'd like for this thread to be a place where we can all talk about what we need, how we figure out how to get it, and what we should look for in a private health insurance program. I encourage all people with a previously diagnosed illness, HIV+, diabetic and more to participate. We can help each other. I spent only one hour and I found my best plan, it isn't that hard to do. Let's help each other figure this out before November 15. Kisses.
She looks like the Joker.
I read about this show in EW a few weeks ago, but just started watching on HBO and Youtube. I like it but don't think that Chris Lilley is as funny as The Kids in the Hall.
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Will Aaron come out now?
Aaron Carter in bed with openly gay broadway actor MJ Rodriguez
In a radio interview on Wednesday with conservative talker Laura Ingraham, Palin took dead aim at Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" initiative, which is all about getting children to "Just Say No". Here is a portion of the transcript: "Take her anti-drug thing that she is on. She is on this kick, right. What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families to deal with drug use." "And I know I'm going to be again criticized for bringing this up, but instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions and then our country gets back on the right track."
I want to run away from my life and go to a foreign country. I don't want friends or family to find me.
Accepted a job at the Chronicle and need to move there. Is it better to live in the City or it's surrounding areas like Daly City, Bay View, Oakland, San Mateo, Treasure Island Media, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Emeryville, Walnut Creek, Folsom, Fremont, San Bruno, Redwood City, Mountain View, Hayward?
Clothing guide for everything from pants to suits to shoes: Converse sneakers, a leather watch, a navy suit...and the list goes on:
Does it feel like an extention of NYC or a suburb of New Jersey? Is it culturally and racially separate from the rest of PA? Is it another Detroit?
Did you grow up with mixed bio/adopted sibling groups?
please discuss
I am attending tonight's service and honey, Sister Bonnie is PREACHING IT. Tell 'em all, bitch!
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Bring my daughter the shot!!!
Porn production halted for the fourth time this year.
Everyone has one, even Adam Levine (and Andrew Sullivan). I am amazed they are in fashion: I like well trimmed beards, but these look awful
Anyone tried it?
Is this legal?
Who is this guy? He's very famous in the media when it comes to gay issues. He gets into fights with all the anti-gay organisations, calling his site out by name. He's quoted and referenced in the news a lot. What's his story? His site isn't what I would call amazing in terms of design. It's frigging blogspot! What's his real name?
Of course there are tons of black and brown belts. I've seen blue, red and even green belts. But grey belts are now extremely rare. Why is that? I've seen a number of grey shoes, so why no grey belts? I've always thought grey goes with more colors than brown, so why is brown so much more popular?
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I'm employed!!!!
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Working Girl
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
Did they not know he was gayer than Richard Simmons on a unicorn? I mean, look at the photo. He's clasping his hands in a pose that just screams MARY! And I don't mean the holy one, either!
Interested to know what ethnic make-ups frequent the data lounge. Please don't make this more than what it is, just a curious census.
Seriously, what is going on with the DL admin people?
With Tom Daley coming out as bisexual, will other men follow his lead? And if not, why not, asks Patrick McAleenan As a gay man, I have mostly avoided dating bisexual men, but perhaps that's because I fell in love with one once. (He’s now married. To a woman.) Or perhaps there's another reason. Perhaps I haven't met enough of them, which would be understandable considering they are often compelled to remain closeted when it comes to their split sexuality. If that last point seems a stark generalisation, consider this. There's a pretty long list of famous women who have come out as bisexual: Anna Paquin, Evan Rachel Wood and Lindsey Lohan, to name a few recent examples. But with his admirable coming out earlier this week, diver Tom Daley is the most notable famous man. David Bowie circa 1970 doesn’t count. It was a long, long time ago. Daley’s revelation is considered significant because he is a sportsman at the peak of his abilities, and very few top athletes have outed themselves over the years. But will the news lead to a mass coming-out among male bisexuals? I sincerely doubt it. You can understand why. Society as a whole views bisexual males and females differently. I’ve sat at many dinner parties where the female guests have openly admitted to same sex attractions or experiences, but a man doing the same is simply not the norm. While a woman might receive a nod of approval, a bisexual man can still generate a stunned silence and a quick skip to the next course. We may have relaxed about out-and-proud gay men, but guys who admit to a dabble still face the questioning stares, and whispers of “is he gay, straight or lying?" Of course, men and women differ in sexual responses, attractions and desires. Women tend to be more flexible in their sexuality, but whether that’s innate or a function of living in a society where Katy Perry is worshipped for singing a song called ‘I Kissed a Girl’, and Madonna snogs Britney Spears on stage, remains to be seen. Young women are regularly bombarded with the message that bisexuality is something sexy to explore and display, but mainly for one reason: men like it. Had Justin Bieber released a song about flirting with bisexuality, it would have been career suicide. Had Michael Jackson followed Madonna's marketing strategy and kissed a male singer on stage, his reputation would have been destroyed long before his unfortunate demise. Male bisexuality is simply hard for many straight people to tolerate. Few would disagree that it’s seen as more acceptable for women to show affection to one another and be more physically close than men are. As a result, male bisexuality is more hidden. Many bisexual men are also in relationships with women who have no idea their partner likes both her and other "hims". It cannot be easy for a man to confess to his girlfriend that he is bisexual, and his partner is bound to worry that bisexuality is the beginning of the end of the relationship, which will conclude in a “bi now, gay later” scenario. Many writers and psychologists have wondered whether most self-confessed male bisexuals are simply homosexual men either in denial or trying to “have it both ways” - having sex with men while holding on to heterosexual privilege. Aside from the potential hurt that may be caused if the bisexuality is revealed, bisexual men face a real threat of abuse or violence. A 2013 hate crime report by Galop.org.uk, London’s leading anti-LGBT hate crime charity, showed that 1008 homophobic crimes were reported in London during 2012/13. Prejudice, stigma and abuse of bisexual people originates both within and outside LGBT communities, and is a hidden problem. But if male bisexuality remains underground, then there's no way to have an open conversation about it and the myths and challenges surrounding it. Once that conversation is out in the open, we would soon reach an important question: why does it matter if men are bisexual or not? Whether they are largely gay but just haven't accepted the fact yet, or largely straight with a touch of gay thrown in, out of date ideas about who gets to have what kind of sex are bad for everyone. There are potentially many men who feel they have to suppress healthy, normal sexual feelings to avoid judgement, or even worse. Male bisexuality remains a challenging and confusing subject for most people, and often most of all for the bisexual man himself. The only way that will change is if we're prepared to talk about it more.
Tom Daley was pictured with a UK male stripper name Johnson, 6 months prior to him coming out this past week. And still follows the stripper on Instagram. Maybe Tom is not as innocent as he would have us to believe I think he is a little freak that plays naive and innocent for the cameras, but behind closed doors he's a big freak that gets it INNNNN ! I'm sure he watched Dustin Lance Black's porn and then met him and gave him his number because he wanted to experience him sexually for himself.
Tom Daley Pictured With A Male Stripper 6 Months Before Coming Out!
In which we agree to stop posting XY pics then wondering why the thread was closed. Number 12 in a saga
Go!
Look at me. LOOK! AT! ME!!!
It seems so phallic. Who sticks it in and what do they think as they do it?
I got my BMW 328i sedan yesterday. Thought you'd like to know...TTFN.
new rules say why can leave it out
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I quit watching a lot of shows this year, but these were the ones I really enjoyed. What are yours? 1. Orphan Black 2. Broadchurch 3. The Good Wife 4. Mad Men 5. American Horror Story 6. Parenthood 7. Masters of Sex 8. Parks and Recreation 9. The White Queen 10. Veep I could never get into Breaking Bad, Scandal, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy or Boardwalk Empire. I still watch Modern Family, Project Runway and Walking Dead,but the good days are behind them. I still watch Top Chef and Survivor and Girls sometimes. I quit watching The New Girl, Nashville, Vampire Diaries, Revenge and Grimm this season. Gave up on Glee and Grey's Anatomy a while back. No I'm neither fat nor live in a basement. I have a bf and a social life; TV is my relaxation.
Each wrestler is covered in one of the following toppings. Raspberry jam, butter cream, vanilla cream, frosting, chocolate, jelly and toffee. All to bring more attention to HIV/AIDS. See link below!
The AFI Top 10 will be announced Monday, 12/9. The SAG nominees will be announced Wednesday, 12/11. The GG nominees will be announced Thursday, 12/12. Winners from the NY Critics, LA Critics, Boston Critics and the National Board of Review: Best Picture: "American Hustle" (NY); "Gravity" (LA - tie); "Her" (NBR; LA - tie); "12 Years a Slave" (Boston) Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity" (LA); Spike Jonze, "Her" (NBR); Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave" (NY, Boston) Best Actor: Bruce Dern, "Nebraska" (NBR, LA); Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave" (Boston); Robert Redford, "All Is Lost" (NY) Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" (NY, Boston, LA - tie); Adele Exarchopoulos, "Blue is the Warmest Color" (LA - tie); Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks" (NBR) Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, "Nebraska" (NBR); James Franco, "Spring Breakers" (LA - tie); James Gandolfini, "Enough Said" (Boston); Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" (NY, LA - tie) Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle" (NY); Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" (LA); Octavia Spencer, "Fruitvale Station" (NBR); June Squibb, "Nebraska" (Boston) Discuss....
One of my favorite standards; they're playing the Willie Nelson version on the radio right now. The lyrics are almost poetic. I didn't realize that the verses were all haikus until I did some research. Question for you savants: I've never understood the reference to "icy finger waves." I thought a finger wave was something you did to your hair. Does anyone know what it means in this song?
Fresh off the smash ratings of Sound of Music, the producers of the Broadway bound musical Bullets Over Broadway have made an offer to Carrie to join the cast. They are eying her for the pivotal role of Olive Neal, which garnered Jennifer Tilly an Oscar nomination for the film version. What is it about Carrie's performance in Sound of Music that would make producers think she would be right for Olive Neal?
So as per usual I am loosing weight and as per usual the last fat to go is in my face. The rest of my body fine.My face looks like they did practice moon walks on it.:) It sucks!! Anyone have any ideas how to lose it?
Which celeb hit Skid Row the hardest?
Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, President Obama promised Americans they could keep their healthcare plan if they liked it. But already hundreds of thousands of citizens are receiving notification that their plans are being cancelled because they don't comply with the new law, and, according to NBC News, the Obama administration has known for at least three years the cancellations were coming. While campaigning for health care reform in 2009, Obama went out of his way to make one thing perfectly clear: if you like your current health care plan, you will be able to keep it. On June 15, 2009, Obama said this: "We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.” In 2012, he echoed that sentiment, saying, "“If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.” However, many are finding that not to be the case. More than 300,000 cancellation notices have been sent out in Florida, according to Kaiser Health News, and another 180,000 in California. In New Jersey, the number of cancellations tops 800,000, the Star-Ledger reports. According to NBC News, approximately 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million Americans who buy their health insurance individually should expect to receive a cancellation letter over the next year "because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law." This could result in millions of Americans being forced to purchase different policies, potentially at higher premiums. Top 5 Product Launch FailuresPlay video." Top 5 Product Launch Failures So how did the Obama administration know the cancellations would be coming? The Affordable Care Act states that people who had health insurance prior to March 23, 2010 – the day President Obama signed the bill into law – will be able to keep those policies even if they don't meet the requirements of the new law. However, the Department of Health and Human Services tightened that provision, so that "if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date -- the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example -- the policy would not be grandfathered," NBC News reports. Because the market for individual insurance experiences significant turnover, the insinuation is the Obama administration had to have known many policies "grandfathered" in would not qualify for the ACA. NBC News claims that the administration knew in 2010 that "more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them." “This says that when they made the promise [that individuals could keep their plans], they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” Robert Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates told NBC News. Monday, former Obama adviser David Axelrod said on MSNBC's Morning Joe that "most people are going to keep their own plan." When asked about Axelrod's admission of "most" as opposed to all, White House spokesman Jay Carney acknowledge that some individual's plans will be cancelled, but countered that the plans they switch to will be better and affordable. "What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage," Carney said. "… So it's true that there are existing health-care plans on the individual market that don't meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act." Actually, what the President said back in 2009 was "[the Affordable Care Act] is for people who aren’t happy with their current plan. If you like what you’re getting, keep it. Nobody is forcing you to shift." Only now, some who like their plans are being forced, including Laszewski. According to NBC News, he has a so-called "Cadillac plan" – "the best
What is going on here? Are insurance companies cancelling coverage to derail Obamacare?
[bold]Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is[/bold] If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe. Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation – in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet's history. Not that our leaders seemed to notice. Last month the world's nations, meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 environmental summit, accomplished nothing. Unlike George H.W. Bush, who flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend. It was "a ghost of the glad, confident meeting 20 years ago," the British journalist George Monbiot wrote; no one paid it much attention, footsteps echoing through the halls "once thronged by multitudes." Since I wrote one of the first books for a general audience about global warming way back in 1989, and since I've spent the intervening decades working ineffectively to slow that warming, I can say with some confidence that we're losing the fight, badly and quickly – losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in. When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math. For the past year, an easy and powerful bit of arithmetical analysis first published by financial analysts in the U.K. has been making the rounds of environmental conferences and journals, but it hasn't yet broken through to the larger public. This analysis upends most of the conventional political thinking about climate change. And it allows us to understand our precarious – our almost-but-not-quite-finally hopeless – position with three simple numbers. (please see the link for the three numbers, and a discussion of each one... it's interesting, informative, and sobering)
So... what's going on here?
A DL holiday tradition! The 1925 Western Electric Christmas Party Photo!
What is up with Claire Forlani doing that awful Irish accent for that Scotch commercial?
Be honest!
1. Who is DL's most despised chicken hawk? 2. What is the term for someone who was once in great shape, but has gone to seed? 3. What kind of soap is considered "trashy?" 4. What items must you NEVER stack in random piles throughout in your home? 5. If you are vacuuming and come across some dried up cat poop, what should you NEVER do with it? 6. How much money should you try to extort from your rich boyfriend when you dump him? 7. What is Cheryl's hygiene problem? 8. Who is DL's most hated female celebrity? 9. Paul Walker's recent death was tragic for DLers predominantly because he was: a. rich b. relatively young c. gorgeous and had a big dick 10. What is the name of the Janet Jackson troll? 11. You can tell someone is gay if they look like they're smelling __________. 12. What kind of exercise can you do while wearing pearls? 13. Name a popular frau disease. 14. If you can tell someone has a large endowment by looking at their face, they have_______. 15. What is the sexiest sign of the zodiac? 16. Name something lesbians like to bring to a potluck 17. True or False: Bisexuality is rare in men 18. How does Anne Hathaway sign her posts? 19. Name the celeb who or died shortly after a DL'er 'allegedly' hooked up with him. 20. Name for an older man who wears inappropriately young clothing and hairstyles.
Well?
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Trailer for the upcoming movie "Gravity" starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney; astronauts attempt to return to Earth when their space station is shattered by debris. The screenplay is credited only to Alfonso Cuaron (who also directed) and Jonas Cuaron, but I swear I read a sci-fi story with the same basic plot when I was a child -- I can't remember if it was a space station near Earth or near Mars, but it gets hit and the survivors, in their space suits, are drifting away from each other, inevitably to die, but still able to communicate with each other. Anybody else know this story?
Thumbprint Cookies are my favorite for this holiday period; but I've never made them. I'm willing to this year. What are the best nuts to use? Does Datalounge.com posters prefer coconut to nuts? Concerning Macaroon Cookies: I haven't made them and wonder how involved they are. A local store has the colorful ones priced at 2 for $3.00; and I'm reluctant to spend that much. Are they really good; and would they worth making?
Saw After Midnight. Overrated.
"She must not know who the HELL I am!" Starts November 3rd
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6
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I just arrived last night here in Seoul and I have a round of consultation appointments today at various clinics. Which clinic I choose, I am to have the surgery tomorrow or the next day. I am thinking of getting rhinoplasty, sliding genioplasty, and maybe liposuction under the jaw to make my jaw look more defined and masculine. Jealous, bitches? Anyone here have plastic surgery before?
Still in prison. Are they lifers, now? Stay tuned.
Tom Daley's sweet little ass would be constantly wet and delicious
Let's continue all things Andy Cohen here.....
It's like the topic says: which male actors and celebrities are bisexual? I don't mean out bisexual like Alan Cumming but the ones who you know or who are rumored to be bisexual.
The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable Actress edition. Wow even Cate and Sandy have too much dignity to grovel like this.
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Joachim Gauck is first major political figure to boycott Games, understood to be in response to Russia's rights violations The German president has become the first major political figure to boycott the Sochi Winter Olympics in February. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, Joachim Gauck last week told the Kremlin of his decision, which is understood to be a response to the Russian government's violations of human rights and harassment of the opposition. Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor who played a key part in the East German protest movement before the fall of the Berlin Wall, has declined any official visits to Russia since coming to office in March 2012 and repeatedly criticised the country's "deficit of rule of law" and "air of imperialism". In June, a scheduled meeting between Gauck and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was cancelled – supposedly because of clashing schedules. Gauck visited the Olympics and the Paralympics in London last summer. The head of the Russian parliament's foreign delegation on Sunday criticised Gauck's decision. Alexey Pushkov tweeted: "The German president Gauck has not criticised the killing of children and women in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he is so critical of Russia that he doesn't even want to travel to Sochi." The boycott is the first of the Games by a major political figure. So far, it has mainly been artists and activists such as Stephen Fry, Harvey Fierstein and Lady Gaga who have called for a boycott of the Sochi Games in reaction to a new Russian law that criminalises gay "propaganda". In an open letter in June to the British prime minister and the IOC, Fry said "an absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 in Sochi is simply essential". David Cameron has ruled out a boycott, arguing that anti-gay prejudice would be better tackled by presence rather than absence. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has since echoed Cameron's stance, pointing to the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan as proof that public attention could do more to change attitudes than boycotts. In July, US senator Lindsey Graham also called for a US boycott of the Gamesin July, though his motives had been slightly different: the South Carolina Republican said Russia needed to be rebuked for offering asylum to Edward Snowden. While Germany under chancellors Gerhard Schröder and Merkel has traditionally been keen to tread carefully in diplomatic exchanges with Russia, a standoff between Gauck and Putin has seemed only a matter of time. Gauck, in his post-1989 role as special representative for Stasi archives, has come to represent a systematic investigation into the crimes of East Germany's surveillance state, while former KGB agent Putin has overseen the rehabilitation of secret service personnel during his time in power. In German political circles, it is no secret that there is little love lost between the two presidents. On Sunday, Gauck's office confirmed he had declined to travel to Russia next February, but seemed to pull back from explicitly describing his decision as a boycott. A spokeswoman said there was no fixed rule that the president had to visit the Olympics, and that president Horst Köhler did not visit the 2010 Games in Vancouver. The German Union of Olympic Athletes said no visit by the president to Sochi had ever been planned in the first place. Gauck was, however, planning to take part in a welcoming party in Munich for returning German Olympians.
I caught a few episodes of this show last year. Meh. A few weeks ago I was spending the weekend with my family (very rural, no cable) and caught the show again. I was shocked- I laughed my ass off, and loved how the "two different worlds" theme had developed. I know it's "family friendly" and somewhat lowbrow...but the execution is flawless and the chemistry is awesome. The subtle, "over the head" jokes are (and I risk credibility and goodwill by typing this) at the level of "Arrested Development". Working in a "Dick in a Box" joke into a show like this? Brilliant. Anyone else watching?
He's already earned himself a reputation as a hell-raising movie star, even at the age of 27, but Shia LaBeouf has now allegedly been involved in a 'boozy bust-up' in which he unveiled his full fury. Dining at a chic restaurant bar in London's Covent Garden, Shia was approached by a female fan who left in tears after having spoken to the star. The woman's boyfriend is reported to have then approached the Transformers star which resulted in a 'tussle', according to The Sun of Sunday. 'Shia pursued him and was overhead saying, "I can get you killed",' the paper reports. The paper claims that Shia was eventually removed from the restaurant bar by a group of waiters and onlookers. A witness told the paper that 'Shia went for this guy after he upset his girlfriend. It was shocking. He looked out of control.' This is the second anger management issue for the American star here in the UK. In October the star was reportedly beaten up on a clubbing night out in London, while on a break from filming the aptly-titled movie Fury with Brad Pitt. Shia is said to have filmed two sisters, one of whom was vomitting, ignoring requests to stop doing so. The situation allegedly ended with Shia being hit and kicked by a pssserby who had intervened, with bouncers from the club then stepping in to break up the fracas. This may all be two cases of life imitating art. Shia's 2012 film Lawless saw him star in the gruesome Western killfest as a violent criminal during the prohibition era.
Shia LaBeouf to fellow restaurant guest: 'I can get you killed!'
Here's 2014 NYC Taxi calendar.
Nelson Mandella is gone, the person I would have picked as Most Important Person (Living) in the World. I can think of no one else who even comes close.
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[quote]A romantic reunion? Tom Daley arrives in the US...just days after he announces new relationship with a man 8 December 2013 He’s increasingly spent time Stateside since he was linked to Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. And British Olympian Tom Daley was spotted arriving in Houston, Texas, on Thursday after flying in from London. The 19-year-old was met at the airport by a blonde woman and the pair made a stop at Whole Foods on the way to his hotel. The handsome star wore a comfortable casual outfit for his travels, wearing an olive green T-shirt, a black quilted jacket , beige trousers and black high-top trainers. He looked relaxed and happy to arrive in Houston, where he is training for the UK Diving Championships in February, wearing a smile as he dragged two suitcases. He recently sparked speculation that his new relationship could be becoming serious, he was spotted ‘house-hunting' close to the Olympic Park, where he triumphed at last summer's Games. The Sun reported that the sports star was eying up a plush new pad with rumoured boyfriend Dustin Lance Black, a stone's throw from his new training ground in east London. 'They were both asking questions about the facilities so it looks like the two of them will be spending a lot of time together there,' an onlooker told the newspaper. The athlete's personal life was thrust into the limelight recently when he posted an emotional video on YouTube, saying he was dating a man. Although Tom hasn't confirmed the identity of his new beau, the pair were photographed grabbing a coffee together in Los Angeles in October, where the 39-year-old Milk screenwriter lives. His spokesman refused to comment on his rumoured house hunt, while the star has continued to live with his mother Debbie in his hometown of Plymouth after the Olympic Games. However it looks like he is ready to fly the nest as he focuses on training for Rio 2016 at the new aquatic centre. Tom revealed that making the decision to come out and reveal his sexuality was 'terrifying'. Speaking about his new love, Tom said: 'I’d never felt like anything like it before. We were at a party and I hadn’t even spoken to him all night. I didn’t know what to do or if he was gay at first.' On the Jonathan Ross show Tom said: 'I’d never felt the feeling of love, it happened so quickly, I was completely overwhelmed by it to the point I can’t get him out of my head all the time. I’ve never had it before where I love someone and they love me just as much.' Asked why he hasn't identified his beau, Tom said: 'At the moment, I wouldn’t like anything to change. 'I hope it doesn’t get ruined by the media attention, everyone has been so supportive and I hope it continues that way.'
It is so tasty though.
OMG I just noticed that!!!
Who will play the little gay wrestler from New Jersey?
Who knew this was a trend? Yeesh.
OMG. What did I just sit through? That was horrific high camp. Michael Douglas should go into hiding.
It's horrific. The week lies before you - obligations, stress, possibly a job you detest. The weekend is over. You're possibly alone and confronted with your own purpose in life. Is this what you want? Is this what your week should be, year in and year out? Set that alarm!
I'm surprised "noone" have posted this yet. Go on then, spew. Let the hate go forth.
Carter and George Nov. 22nd Bush are 89. Clinton and Jr. are 67.
Is it boring? Too expensive? Too depressing? Are the inhabitants as pretty as the rest of South America? Would a young( ish) American be bored there? Assume a degree of Spanish competence. Could I live there after retirement?
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Michigan trash set at least 12 fires after Michigan State's football win over Ohio State. You just knew this was going to happen. Police put a brave face on it, say they didn't have to use tear gas as usual.
Why not you?
So I was unboxing some stuff and found this bottle of wine that was given to me when I graduated from High School in 1998. So I was like, ooooo gurl, I'm gonna have me some wine with a vintage. So I open that shit up and the cork shreds and it smelled like fucking ass vinegar. What the fuck? So I Google and discover that corked wine spoils. So how in the hell do these people keep these 200 year old wines around?
Who will she cry over more?
So for whatever reason,lets say I was cocky and I thought it would be easy and all my friends said Apple sucked,so I got a Samsung after an Apple 4.THE BIGGEST MISTAKE ON A PHONE I HAVE EVER MADE. Is hard to use. The battery constantly drains and make s Apple's battery a masterpiece. In short I find after 6 months of using this phone that I want to yell to the world that Apple is the messiah of phones and Samsung is a sad substitute. Know I am in the minority with this and yes itunes sucks but I wish I'd never thought of Samsung. My fault totally. Anyone have any other stories they wld like to share?
'taint nobody's business if he do!
List and discuss them here.
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or an active one who just keeps it quiet?
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I was going to buy it for the photos, but they made him look all gross and sinewy. I can't fap to this.
"I'm deeply concerned with this movement that somehow marijuana isn't harmful and it doesn't hurt our kids," said Bergen.
That is when my books are coming. Who is bringing them? What service started Sunday delivery?
I guess I'm just mean
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First, he insists that there be a meal of hot tamales, which he usually gets shipped in from Texas. I can deal with it, even though they are pork and the essential element is LARD. But, he insists on making chili with that. And he goes BALLISTIC over the idea that we put kidney beans in the chili. He says chili is about peppers, not beans and will not allow it. He gets hostile, even. So here we go: lard-pork tamales and this beef soup made with five types of peppers, tomato paste and beer.
Think of him on top of you...
is way over the top. The guy was 95 is it any surprise that he died? It's not like he was Princess Diana, the most beloved human being in the world and died tragically and unexpectedly in a car crash.
Probably less. Garth Brooks expected to be #1, One Direction likely #2. Spears may clock in at #2-4. Poor homophobic bitch.
Britney Spears' New Album Expected To Sell A Grand Floppage Of 115-120k Copies
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The men of the Warwick Rowing Team have just released another video showcasing the making of their 2014 nude calendar and they promise that this version is "bigger, longer, and uncut." Ay Dios mio! We're still thinking about the last one! Check out the new video for yourselves! (NSFW-ish)
Naked Warwick Rowers Reveal 'Bigger, Longer, & Uncut' Video Of Their 2014 Calendar Shoot
I can retire, but I'm afraid I won't have enough to do and will sit at home all day. DL posters who have retired: are you enjoying the hell out of it?
She has Asperger's syndrome.
Am watching the film for the first time. Was this thing rated PG? It would be teetering on PG-13/R today mainly for all the minors in underwear and the hilarious masturbation scene. But it's enjoyable. My favorite is Scheckler. That actor is very talented and funny. And according to this pic in 2007, doesn't even resemble the chubby kid he once was. Barry Robins as Cotton is an acquired taste. His freakout at the end is pure scenery chewing. Bill Mumy is also quite good. Anybody see this in theaters upon its original release? How did it do?
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Gay or not? He has gay-voice.
Did they rub their penises together?
What about the children?
one guy awhile back basically washed my face and recently another tried to chew off my lips. most recently another darted his tongue around. What the fuck?
WTF
Who knew she played Santa Claus wife! See link for more!
Paul Rudd is host One Direction are the musical guest Did they start out by spoofing The Sound Of Music Live?
if another thread was started, my apologies.
-Book stackage kept to a minimum -Great fabrics, but the living room looks staged for a Redfin shoot -Two paintings for which I'd kill your mother -Lovely bedroom, needs better art. Love the bare wall above the bed -His own work is displayed everywhere. Staging? All in, it's surprisingly contemporary.
Tasteful Friends, Roy Hamilton Proves Everything Comes Back Into Style
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Seriously. Every site has different rules. It makes it almost impossible to come up with a password or pattern I can remember across three dozen different sites that all demand passwords. I know you're not "supposed" to use the same password on multiple sites, but it's easy to use one for "non-critical" sites (where you lose nothing if you get hacked, really), and then just have a simple pattern that is easy to remember to vary the passwords across other sites. But when different sites have different, and conflicting rules, it fucking sucks. Like one site demands that you use an upper-case, a lower-case, a number, AND a symbol, and that your password must be 10 characters or longer. A different site says your password must be 6-8 characters. Yet another says "no special characters". UGH! Fuck you all. Let ME choose the password. If I get hacked, let it be my fucking fault... not YOURS because you made me have to write down my damn password just to remember it. Either that or just get one UNIFORM set of standards. Seriously, this is fucking ridiculous.
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Continued... come here to make fun of RPatz and KStew and their stans!
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Old thread link below. ...where will Kalinda end up? And what of the strangely perky Robyn? ...will Peter manage to promote all the pretty girls out of his line of sight? ...will Grace Florrick get into more boring, icky trouble? ...will Diane get her judgeship? ...and will Alicia ever find a man who's not kind of a sleaze? I don't really care that much about Will, because he's kind of a jerk. Cary is nothing but that self-satisfied smile, & Eli's great, because he's completely untrustworthy.
Over the weekend, Barron Hilton — brother to Paris and Nicky, son of a hotel — got his ass kicked at a mansion in Miami allegedly at the behest of Lindsay Lohan. What a fantastic news story. According to the Hiltons, Barron and Lindsay were at a party for rich and gross people on Friday night when Lohan — who has miraculously managed to stay out of trouble since leaving rehab in August — overheard the boy Hilton trashing her. Later in the night, Barron was attacked by an unknown man in what the Hiltons say was retaliation ordered by Lohan. Though it now appears to be deleted, Paris issued a not-so-vague threat on Instagram (how the world turns!) regarding the attack, per the NY Daily News: "They both will pay for what they did. No one fucks with my family and gets away with it!!" Nicky Hilton also seemed to be alluding to the incident on Twitter, though I can't parse the tweets at all. Maybe you can do better. Or maybe not, whatever. Barron filed a police report after the incident, saying that Lohan egged on the attacker as he beat him up. Lohan's reps deny this, which I am and choosing to ignore as you also should. The feud between the Hiltons and Lohan dates all the way back to 2006 when an oily human named Brandon Davis called Lohan a "firecrotch" to paparazzi. Amazingly, neither side has quite yet figured out a way to milk television money out of this. But let's give them some more time.
Paris Hilton's Brother Bloodied in Attack Ordered By Lindsay Lohan
I have a really big family, somewhere around 45-50 adults, and for quite a few of us we only see eachother at the family's huge get togethers at x-mas time, so my grandmother picks names out of hat for who we are to buy a present for and then calls to let us know. This year I got my half-brother's new wife. I don't know her at all and I barely know my half-brother. He's 17 years older than I am so I saw very little of him growing up as he was out of the house to college and then the military. Pretty much the only time I've spent with him has been when he's been able to be at the giant x-mas gatherings at my grandmother's house. I had no idea what to get her so my grandmother offered to try to find out what she might want. My grandmother just called and told me what she wants is a "serious purse" . I have no idea what that means, and neither does my grandmother. I guess when she asked my half-brother's wife what a serious purse was she just laughed and said that I'd know what she meant. (WTF?) I have no idea what she meant by that, or what a "serious purse" is. Does that mean an expensive or designer purse? Or a work purse? Or what? Anyone have any idea what it is?
As requested.
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Neil Patrick Harris - definite top (Burtka couldn't top a sundae) Zachary Quinto - allegedly a top Lance Bass - allegedly a top Anderson Cooper - going to go with bottom Matthew Bomer - probably bottom Christopher Seiber - definite top Cheyenne Jackson - top (what a waste if he's not)
I am curious where people are posting from. I know this has been done before, but I searched back, and only found one ersatz poll from earlier this year.
I love Chopped and thought all of the celebrities came off as surprisingly not annoying, even Teri Hatcher! The celebrities were: Teri Hatcher, Anthony Anderson, Dawn Wells and Antonio Sabato, Jr. I really like Dawn Wells. I know she's a pothead but other than that I'm unaware of her political beliefs. I hope she's not anti gay.
I'm 50 years old, and pretty alarmed at how many young guys I know who have sero-converted. Condom use has not caught on with the guys who weren't around to experience the big 1983-1996 AIDS die off. I'm figuring that the population who may benefit from a drug like this may often be in less than perfect health to start with, and if one can't use a damned condom, how likely is one to faithfully stay on a drug regimen? What might be the long-term effects? I was initially horrified to think anyone would take a potent HIV drug while perfectly healthy, and risk the side effects (and feeding into Big Pharma's profit scheme), just so they can continue barebacking.....but what if that's just my prejudice? What if ultimately it saves lives?
Here it is - the moment we have been waiting for! Have at it, bitches!
So Far: Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" Runner-up: June Squibb, "Nebraska" Best Supporting Actor: (tie) James Franco, "Spring Breakers"; Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club" Best Cinematography: "Gravity" Best Editing: "Gravity" Best Production Design: "Her"
Dang. The Orwellian doublespeak they keep coming up with is staggering. I hope some of his teabagging nitwit followers are among the 1.3 million. Extending federal unemployment benefits would actually be a “disservice” to the millions of out-of-work Americans who receive them, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. "I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they're paid for. If you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers," the popular Tea Party Republican said on “Fox News Sunday." "When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy," Paul added. Paul’s comments come in response to efforts by congressional Democrats to extend the benefits as part of a year-end budget deal, but most Republicans have rejected the package due to the estimated $25 billion price tag. About 1.3 million jobless Americans are slated to lose their federal benefits at the end of the year if Congress doesn’t renew the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that provides a federal safety net to the long-term jobless whose state benefits have expired.
Rand Paul -- Extending unemployment benefits is a disservice to people who receive them
The hauntingly brutal nonfiction film Blackfish focuses on those leaping, frolicking, seemingly happy-go-lucky (even dolphin-esque) whales in captivity in places like SeaWorld, where every so often they’ll crunch down on a foot or arm and drag someone under until he or she drowns. And then you glimpse something wrong — something monstrous and unnatural — in this picture. And once you do, you won’t be the same. The film begins in 2010, when esteemed 40-year-old trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a whale named Tilikum before a horrified Orlando SeaWorld crowd. The incident was generally viewed as a freak accident. The first wave of reports said that Brancheau had slipped and fallen into the water, the next (the version SeaWorld still stands by) that Tilikum had gone for Brancheau’s inappropriately dangling ponytail. But this was — by all credible accounts — a savage attack. Tilikum had killed before, once at a place called SeaLand in Vancouver, once (possibly) at SeaWorld in Orlando. (The problem is that no one could prove what had actually happened to a disturbed man who’d snuck into SeaWorld after hours and was found in the morning on Tilikum’s back, naked and dead.) The big fella remains at SeaWorld, by most definitions psychotic but a source of million-dollar sperm to make more orcas for more lucrative fish shows. What’s an aquatic theme park without a killer whale? This is one of those docs during which audiences gasp and cry out — or just cry — at regular intervals. Sometimes we cry for the humans, sometimes for the whales. After the prologue that alludes to Brancheau’s fate (we must wait more than an hour to hear the full story), director Gabriella Cowperthwaite cuts to a burly, bushy old guy who took part in a 1970 expedition to steal baby whales from their mothers to supply the burgeoning fish-show industry. The man is an ex-mercenary who claims to have toppled presidents. But what he can’t forget are those whales. Orcas, you see, don’t part so easily with their children. Cowperthwaite animates what happened while a researcher narrates. The males attempted to divert the human predators while the females and children swam the other way. A brilliant diversion — spoiled by a spotter plane that relayed the whereabouts of mothers and children. Whales are complicated, intelligent, highly emotional beings. They stick by their mothers for life in family pods. A mother who loses a child will make the kind of sound that transcends species. You hear that sound in Blackfish. You will never forget it. Tilikum was one of those young ones snatched from his mother. Former Orlando SeaWorld trainers recall the anguish of mothers losing children (SeaWorld would ship babies to other parks), the excruciating solitary confinement of orcas like Tilikum, and even how males’ dorsal fins, erect in the wild, would sadly go limp and curl over in captivity. Those ex-trainers are riveting subjects, chiseled and eloquent. And traumatized. Editor Eli Espres will cut back and forth from their tearful recollections to footage of their younger selves, smiling and spouting their insipidly hearty SeaWorld spiels. I loved listening to curly-haired Samantha Berg (now living at the opposite end of the U.S. — in Alaska), Dean Gummersall (especially cretinous as a SeaWorld spokesman in his early days, now appropriately and likably embarrassed), John Jett, and especially the weathered, sardonic Dr. David Duffus. But I shouldn’t single anyone out—they’re all compelling. They all came to love those whales, even Tilikum, driven mad by isolation and regular attacks by the tag-team torture of formidable mama whales. There was no place else for him to swim. The movie unfolds like a thriller. We see trainers seconds away from their deaths — which are not, mercifully, shown. But the near-deaths are shown and are awful enough. Top trainer Ken Edwards is repeatedly pulled under by a whale (not Tilikum) that will not let him go. It went on for twelve agonizing minutes.
John Waters' no-smoking PSA I didn't realize he used to be hot.
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each other, and yet we are living in such proximity. There’s no barbed wire around West Baltimore or around East Baltimore, around Pimlico, the areas in my city that have been utterly divorced from the American experience that I know. But there might as well be. We’ve somehow managed to march on to two separate futures and I think you’re seeing this more and more in the west. I don’t think it’s unique to America. I think we’ve perfected a lot of the tragedy and we’re getting there faster than a lot of other places that may be a little more reasoned, but my dangerous idea kind of involves this fellow who got left by the wayside in the 20th century and seemed to be almost the butt end of the joke of the 20th century; a fellow named Karl Marx. I’m not a Marxist in the sense that I don’t think Marxism has a very specific clinical answer to what ails us economically. I think Marx was a much better diagnostician than he was a clinician. He was good at figuring out what was wrong or what could be wrong with capitalism if it wasn’t attended to and much less credible when it comes to how you might solve that. You know if you’ve read Capital or if you’ve got the Cliff Notes, you know that his imaginings of how classical Marxism – of how his logic would work when applied – kind of devolve into such nonsense as the withering away of the state and platitudes like that. But he was really sharp about what goes wrong when capital wins unequivocally, when it gets everything it asks for. That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that it has achieved its dominance without regard to a social compact, without being connected to any other metric for human progress. We understand profit. In my country we measure things by profit. We listen to the Wall Street analysts. They tell us what we’re supposed to do every quarter. The quarterly report is God. Turn to face God. Turn to face Mecca, you know. Did you make your number? Did you not make your number? Do you want your bonus? Do you not want your bonus? And that notion that capital is the metric, that profit is the metric by which we’re going to measure the health of our society is one of the fundamental mistakes of the last 30 years. I would date it in my country to about 1980 exactly, and it has triumphed. Capitalism stomped the hell out of Marxism by the end of the 20th century and was predominant in all respects, but the great irony of it is that the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure, has elements of both arguments and never actually achieves any kind of partisan or philosophical perfection. It’s pragmatic, it includes the best aspects of socialistic thought and of free-market capitalism and it works because we don’t let it work entirely. And that’s a hard idea to think – that there isn’t one single silver bullet that gets us out of the mess we’ve dug for ourselves. But man, we’ve dug a mess. After the second world war, the west emerged with the American economy coming out of its wartime extravagance, emerging as the best product. It was the best product. It worked the best. It was demonstrating its might not only in terms of what it did during the war but in terms of just how facile it was in creating mass wealth. Plus, it provided a lot more freedom and was doing the one thing that guaranteed that the 20th century was going to be – and forgive the jingoistic sound of this – the American century. It took a working class that had no discretionary income at the beginning of the century, which was working on subsistence wages. It turned it into a consumer class that not only had money to buy all the stuff that they needed to live but enough to buy a bunch of shit that they wanted but didn’t need, and that was the engine that drove us. It wasn’t just that we could supply stuff, or that we had the factories or know-how or capital, it was that we created our own demand and started exporting that demand throughout the west. And the standard of living made it possible to manufacture stuff at an incredible rate and sell it. And how did we do that? We did that by not giving in to either side. That was the new deal. That was the great society. That was all of that argument about collective bargaining and union wages and it was an argument that meant neither side gets to win. Labour doesn’t get to win all its arguments, capital doesn’t get to. But it’s in the tension, it’s in the actual fight between the two, that capitalism actually becomes functional, that it becomes something that every stratum in society has a stake in, that they all share. The unions actually mattered. The unions were part of the equation. It didn’t matter that they won all the time, it didn’t matter that they lost all the time, it just mattered that they had to win some of the time and they had to put up a fight and they had to argue for the demand and the equation and for the idea that workers were not worth less, they were worth more. Ultimately we abandoned that and believed in the idea of trickle-down and the idea of the market economy and the market knows best, to the point where now libertarianism in my country is actually being taken seriously as an intelligent mode of political thought. It’s astonishing to me. But it is. People are saying I don’t need anything but my own ability to earn a profit. I’m not connected to society. I don’t care how the road got built, I don’t care where the firefighter comes from, I don’t care who educates the kids other than my kids. I am me. It’s the triumph of the self. I am me, hear me roar. That we’ve gotten to this point is astonishing to me because basically in winning its victory, in seeing that Wall come down and seeing the former Stalinist state’s journey towards our way of thinking in terms of markets or being vulnerable, you would have thought that we would have learned what works. Instead we’ve descended into what can only be described as greed. This is just greed. This is an inability to see that we’re all connected, that the idea of two Americas is implausible, or two Australias, or two Spains or two Frances. Societies are exactly what they sound like. If everybody is invested and if everyone just believes that they have “some”, it doesn’t mean that everybody’s going to get the same amount. It doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be people who are the venture capitalists who stand to make the most. It’s not each according to their needs or anything that is purely Marxist, but it is that everybody feels as if, if the society succeeds, I succeed, I don’t get left behind. And there isn’t a society in the west now, right now, that is able to sustain that for all of its population. And so in my country you’re seeing a horror show. You’re seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you’re seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education. You’re seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war on dangerous drugs that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative state in the history of mankind, in terms of the sheer numbers of people we’ve put in American prisons and the percentage of Americans we put into prisons. No other country on the face of the Earth jails people at the number and rate that we are. We have become something other than what we claim for the American dream and all because of our inability to basically share, to even contemplate a socialist impulse. Socialism is a dirty word in my country. I have to give that disclaimer at the beginning of every speech, “Oh by the way I’m not a Marxist you know”. I lived through the 20th century. I don’t believe that a state-run economy can be as viable as market capitalism in producing mass wealth. I don’t. I’m utterly committed to the idea that capitalism has to be the way we generate mass wealth in the coming century. That argument’s over. But the idea that it’s not going to be married to a social compact, that how you distribute the benefits of capitalism isn’t going to include everyone in the society to a reasonable extent, that’s astonishing to me. And so capitalism is about to seize defeat from the jaws of victory all by its own hand. That’s the astonishing end of this story, unless we reverse course. Unless we take into consideration, if not the remedies of Marx then the diagnosis, because he saw what would happen if capital triumphed unequivocally, if it got everything it wanted. And one of the things that capital would want unequivocally and for certain is the diminishment of labour. They would want labour to be diminished because labour’s a cost. And if labour is diminished, let’s translate that: in human terms, it means human beings are worth less. From this moment forward unless we reverse course, the average human being is worth less on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism. Mistaking capitalism for a blueprint as to how to build a society strikes me as a really dangerous idea in a bad way. Capitalism is a remarkable engine again for producing wealth. It’s a great tool to have in your toolbox if you’re trying to build a society and have that society advance. You wouldn’t want to go forward at this point without it. But it’s not a blueprint for how to build the just society. There are other metrics besides that quarterly profit report. The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It’s a juvenile notion and it’s still being argued in my country passionately and we’re going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I’m astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not? If you watched the debacle that was, and is, the fight over something as basic as public health policy in my country over the last couple of years, imagine the ineffectiveness that Americans are going to offer the world when it comes to something really complicated like global warming. We can’t even get healthcare for our citizens on a basic level. And the argument comes down to: “Goddamn this socialist president. Does he think I’m going to pay to keep other people healthy? That’s socialism you know. HMO [health-maintenance organisation] contract. Motherfucker.” What do you think group health insurance is? You know you ask these guys, “Do you have group health insurance where you …?” “Oh yeah, I get …” you know, “my law firm …” So when you get sick you’re able to afford the treatment. The treatment comes because you have enough people in your law firm so you’re able to get health insurance enough for them to stay healthy. So the actuarial tables work and all of you, when you do get sick, are able to have the resources there to get better because you’re relying on the idea of the group. Yeah. And they nod their heads, and you go “Brother, that’s socialism. You know it is.” And … you know when you say, OK, we’re going to do what we’re doing for your law firm but we’re going to do it for 300 million Americans and we’re going to make it affordable for everybody that way. And yes, it means that you’re going to be paying for the other guys in the society, the same way you pay for the other guys in the law firm … Their eyes glaze. You know they don’t want to hear it. It’s too much. Too much to contemplate the idea that the whole country might be actually connected. So I’m astonished that at this late date I’m standing here and saying we might want to go back for this guy Marx that we were laughing at, if not for his prescriptions, then at least for his depiction of what is possible if you don’t mitigate the authority of capitalism, if you don’t embrace some other values for human endeavour. And that’s what The Wire was about basically, it was about people who were worth less and who were no longer necessary, as maybe 10 or 15% of my country is no longer necessary to the operation of the economy. It was about them trying to solve, for lack of a better term, an existential crisis. In their irrelevance, their economic irrelevance, they were nonetheless still on the ground occupying this place called Baltimore and they were going to have to endure somehow. That’s the great horror show. What are we going to do with all these people that we’ve managed to marginalise? It was kind of interesting when it was only race, when you could do this on the basis of people’s racial fears and it was just the black and brown people in American cities who had the higher rates of unemployment and the higher rates of addiction and were marginalised and had the shitty school systems and the lack of opportunity. And kind of interesting in this last recession to see the economy shrug and start to throw white middle-class people into the same boat, so that they became vulnerable to the drug war, say from methamphetamine, or they became unable to qualify for college loans. And all of a sudden a certain faith in the economic engine and the economic authority of Wall Street and market logic started to fall away from people. And they realised it’s not just about race, it’s about something even more terrifying. It’s about class. Are you at the top of the wave or are you at the bottom? So how does it get better? In 1932, it got better because they dealt the cards again and there was a communal logic that said nobody’s going to get left behind. We’re going to figure this out. We’re going to get the banks open. From the depths of that depression a social compact was made between worker, between labour and capital that actually allowed people to have some hope. We’re either going to do that in some practical way when things get bad enough or we’re going to keep going the way we’re going, at which point there’s going to be enough people standing on the outside of this mess that somebody’s going to pick up a brick, because you know when people get to the end there’s always the brick. I hope we go for the first option but I’m losing faith. The other thing that was there in 1932 that isn’t there now is that some element of the popular will could be expressed through the electoral process in my country. The last job of capitalism – having won all the battles against labour, having acquired the ultimate authority, almost the ultimate moral authority over what’s a good idea or what’s not, or what’s valued and what’s not – the last journey for capital in my country has been to buy the electoral process, the one venue for reform that remained to Americans. Right now capital has effectively purchased the government, and you witnessed it again with the healthcare debacle in terms of the $450m that was heaved into Congress, the most broken part of my government, in order that the popular will never actually emerged in any of that legislative process. So I don’t know what we do if we can’t actually control the representative government that we claim will manifest the popular will. Even if we all start having the same sentiments that I’m arguing for now, I’m not sure we can effect them any more in the same way that we could at the rise of the Great Depression, so maybe it will be the brick. But I hope not.
Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.’
For me, it's banana bread. Ummm...yummy!
I think the majority of DLers would say intelligence, but in all honesty, I think most people are missing DISCIPLINE. It's kind of baffling to see how many people are incapable of sticking to any kind of routine or plan long enough to reach their goal--myself included. But it made me think just how far above the fray you can go with that one simple trait. Well, discipline and ambition. Those two seem far more important than intelligence or talent (unless by "intelligence" you mean craftiness or cunning).
And yet Beyonce shoes up to a VEGAN restaurant draped in fox fur! Is this bitch and her fake blonde ratty weave for real?
I saw him at the gym (Equinox in Soho/NYC, does anyone know if he lives around there?). The guy is a bonafide stud. He's a fucking bro. He's gotta be one of the hottest celebrities and definitely the hottest gay one. Over Ricky Martin, and got more meat and manliness than Matt Bomer. Would anyone care to argue?
Mine: People who drive neck to neck on a 6 lane highway and under the speed limit. I don''t know if it''s where I live (on the coast, so people are more laid back) but every fucking morning I get stuck behind people lollygagging along doing 40 on a 45 mph road, so I normally do at least 55. All you can do is wait until one of them inches forward enough to squeeze in front. This morning I was doing 52 and left them all in the dust. WTF are they doing and do they ever look in the rearview mirror and see a mile of traffic behind them?
OMG, has anyone seen this Ken Burns film? I'm riveted. It's like we are doomed to repeat our history's failures. Trying to legislate morality. Plus all the glamour and murder of the 20s
Carry on, literate DLers.
Another poll says 50% are from the US, but wasn't too informative on non US posters. Where are you?
The American porn industry is facing shut down once again, after another performer tested positive for HIV this week. Neither the name nor gender of the performer have been released but the adult-film industry trade group Free Speech Coalition has called for all filming to be suspended following the positive test at a Los Angeles testing centre, the LA Times reports. If the shut down goes ahead, it would be the third time filming has been stopped this year. Diane Duke, from the Free Speech Coalition, said: "We take the health of our performers very seriously and felt that it was better to err on the side of caution while we determine whether anyone else may have been exposed. "The next steps will be to perform additional tests, determine a timeline, and identify any first generation partners. "We want to make sure all performers are protected. The performers' health and safety is the most important thing." The industry was previously shut down in August after an actress tested positive for HIV , and again in September when a doctor reported another performer had tested positive. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation told the LA Times they hoped this latest case would encourage agencies to enforce a law requiring condom use in adults films.
Porn industry to shut down for third time this year after performer 'tests positive for HIV'
Is he out of his mind?
Has anyone here seen it? thoughts?
Where's Philly Snoop, and why isn't he shoveling my sidewalk?
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This has been CONFIRMED by Howard Cosell, live on Monday Night Football! I'm crying as I type this!
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Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska) Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity (Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis) Best Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity (Runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color) Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her (Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis)
The last post of the other thread: "Does anyone know how Henry and Corey met? Did they star in a movie together? It just seems so random how close they are if they're dating or not."
In its newest story which is only available to subscribers so far, The Sun claims that it was Tom Daley that went after Dustin Lance Black. By LEIGH HOLMWOOD, Deputy TV Editor Published: 19 minutes ago [quote]How Tom Daley wooed boyfriend Dustin [quote]TOM Daley has revealed HE made the first move on boyfriend Dustin Lance Black. [quote]Tom Daley reveals he wooed his boyfriend by tapping his number into his phone - and signed off with a 'winky face' [quote]Call me ;-)
The Sun: Tom Daley has revealed HE made the first move on boyfriend Dustin Lance Black
How come this has never been turned into a movie or TV mini-series? Sounds fascinating. From Wikipedia: The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955. Beginning with the arrest of three men in October 1955, the investigation broadened to encompass allegations that over 100 young men and teenage boys had been involved in sexual acts with a ring of adult homosexual men. By the time the investigation wound down in January 1957, some 1,500 people had been questioned, sixteen men faced charges, and fifteen of them were sentenced to terms ranging from probation to life in prison. Reportage of the investigation and arrests set off a moral panic in Boise, fueled by incendiary editorials in the city's newspaper. Although framed in terms of "protecting children" from adult predators, the probe was not confined to investigating charges of men having sex with underage boys and some of those convicted and sentenced to prison were found guilty only of sexual encounters with other consenting adults. The scandal highlighted the tension between the perception of homosexuality as a mental illness requiring treatment and homosexual sex as a criminal act mandating punishment and led to an examination of the problems of juvenile delinquency. The reasons behind both the start and the end of the investigation are unclear. In his seminal book on the scandal, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City, journalist and academician John Gerassi suggests that the investigation began as a means for the wealthy elite of Boise to assert and maintain economic control of the city and the state. He asserts that a gay millionaire known as "The Queen" was the target of the probe, although he was never charged. With the son of the loudest proponent of the investigation implicated, Gerassi suggests that the forces behind the probe realized that homosexuals were at every level of society and that their wealth and power would not necessarily insulate them, leading them to quietly halt the investigation. More details at link.
When does a relationship between therapist and their patients go too far? When does it start to be a bit strange? So I have this friend who goes to a therapist. Nothing unusual. She also goes to the group therapy. Nothing unusual. She also became good friends with a couple of the others going to the group therapy. Nothing unusual. I find it strange how the revere their (female) therapist. Now when they have an event, they invite the therapist. They are on first-name terms with their therapists and also 'friends' on facebook. One published a book (I read a couple of pages, it's IMO tirdsome) and the therapist is commenting on facebook all the time aboug how wonderful and superb the book is and on which page she currently is. Of course the therapist also appears in the book along with her contact details. Maybe I'm jealous but I find all of this very strange. And I can't talk to my friend about as she won't hear any 'critical' opinions about the therapist.
Which celebrity deserves this distinction?
That is all.
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Who is on your Favorites list. I have: fitdude82 dibs condoras treyhot youngbreeder david89ing spartacus_22 doublejuice dos_pedros amazinghole stevenexposd
We rightly ridicule the frau lifestyle, but at least these women will have kids and grandkids to care for them when they're old. I'm only 46, but I'm preparing myself, psychologically, for end of life dilemmas. I don't want to feel lonely, but I imagine I will. I will off myself if the pain is too much, if I get ALS, and/or I am immobilized by stroke or accident.
Via his Twitter account, Boston Globe critic Ty Burr offered a behind-the-the scenes look at the votes, and Peter Keough kept a live tally on Critics a Go-Go. Here's what we learned: 12 Years a Slave came second to Nebraska for Ensemble Cast, with some suggesting August: Osage County's Meryl Streep for "our annual Anne Bancroft Award for Overacting." Best Screenplay took five ballots to decide, with Enough Said prevailing over The Wolf of Wall Street. Again, Burr expressed regret more voters hadn't seen Wolf. Voting for Best Animated Film was preceded by a statement from Village Voice critic Inkoo Kang, who echoed accusations that Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises goes easy on war criminals. After a polite debate, The Wind Rises won the award, with Frozen finishing a close second and four critics abstaining. The Act of Killing's Joshua Oppenheimer finished second for Best New Filmmaker, winning best documentary shortly thereafter. Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster finished second for cinematography. Burr quipped that the "best editing" award should be changed to "most editing," a complaint often lodged of the Academy Awards as well. The Wolf of Wall Street came second; Burr speculated it might have done better had more critics been able to see the film first. Runners-up for "Best Use of Music," an award unique to the BSFC, were Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street. Best Ensemble Cast: Nebraska Best Screenplay: Enough Said Best Documentary: The Act of Killing Best New Filmmaker: Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises Best Cinematography: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) Best Editing: Rush (Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill) Best Use of Music in a Film: Inside Llewyn Davis
Enough to make such a product I guess. Weird. Any other strange Christmas gifts you've discovered?
So how many kids ask for a Lego PRISONER TRANSPORT for Christmas?
Frighteningly accurate.
The only gay actor who was a box office draw and who played gay.... This was 50-60 years ago. He was an expert performer who is largely forgotten--does he embarrass the gay cultural elite?
It's manipulative and lacks restraint. There were several audible guffaws toward the end as people were clearly thinking, "Oh please, now what?" I half expected the movie to end with Skylab falling on her. Apollo 13 was better.
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I agree they're sexy - I've been into them since I was, oh, a teen (lots of sticky issues of International Male and Undergear). But what exactly is it about them - cumgutters too - that's so sexy? Is it just a matter of the arrangement of shapes? Or does a great set of abs mean something to our subconscious?
Zombie!
It just seems like a place that makes buying clothes easy - a one-stop shop. Right?
I realize this show has been around for years but, as always, I am late to the party. What a great show. Everyone is very calm and serene. No over-the-top reporting. The stories are diverse and I find them interesting and informative. Bus safety, The Black Keys (?), Cuban BBQ, Guam...they make it all very interesting. Anyone else a fan to this sweet way to start Sunday mornings?
I knew it was coming but didn't know how or why, and then to see Chrissie, Sam and Zoe all together in a bar... with Pauline's doggie doorstop... Well, in a word, wow! And say goodbye to Andy Hunter, too...! Any other EastEnders fans care to weigh in?
I have recently lost about 80 pounds (combined surgery, diet change, and exercise), and I am exercising (cardio and weights) almost daily. I look SO much better and it is nice to feel good again, and look good in clothes. I still have belly fat though. Anyone know of any secrets that really concentrate on getting rid of it? I am wondering if it's just my age (48), or can this fat be blasted away? Help me Obi-Won Datalounge, you're my only hope.
Justin Bieber IS ZORBA! Selena GOmez is EVITA! Sofia Vergara is KISS of THE SPIDER WOMAN! jesse Tyler Ferguson IS NABUCCO!
Negative restaurant reviews are a dime a dozen. Negative customer reviews? Not so much. Or so we thought. Brave Cafe, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, may be disrupting the status quo. The Bondi Beach cafe's owner launched an epic exchange with customer Paul Martin on December 2 after Martin wrote a few negative words about the place. "Dirty. Ants. Burnt food. Extortionate prices," Martin wrote on December 1st on Brave Cafe's Facebook page and in a review of Brave Cafe on his blog, Paul in Oz. The next morning Martin woke up to a vicious response via Facebook from Brave Cafe owner Benjamin Hewitt, which Martin then published on his blog. "Paul, I’m shocked to hear that you didn’t love the food and enjoy the vibe," the message started. It quickly spiraled out of control from there. In response to Martin's complaint that there wasn't enough maple syrup on his pancakes, Hewitt wrote: Your table said that you weren’t happy with the amount of maple, for instance. Well, for one, we actually use REAL maple syrup at $50 per litre! But why not just politely ask for some more at the time instead of waiting until 10pm that night to take revenge? And then there was this outburst: Do you know how to/can you simultaneously manage ten, gen Y part-timers, so well, that you are able to ubiquitously catch every sloppy act of laziness (and there are more than you can ever prepare or train for these days), across a menu that has so many components and potential pit-falls-before they are almost certainly pounced upon by the average, ‘scarcity-based, pumped-up, myopic consumer-come-casual-social-media-activist-OUTRAGE-readied-advocate’ for unreasonably great food, at unreasonably cheap prices, in impossible time frames??? Well, if you haven’t, I don’t really recommend it. In defending the price of Brave Cafe's organic gluten-free pancakes, whose flour is "6 times more expensive than the regular crap bleached flour you would get anywhere else," Hewitt wrote: Thanks for throwing it on just to kick our business, even although the price is right and that what happened was out of my control. No, really. Thanks Paul. Martin handed it back to Hewitt on his blog, addressing each point, from ants -- he flicked off 8-10 from his table -- to the burnt pancakes -- so hard you could use them as a hammer. He suggested Hewitt "invest in a people-skills course." We haven't seen an online meltdown like this since Amy's Baking Company lost its sh*t after the owners appeared on Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" and caused Ramsay to walk off his show for the first time ever. When accusations surfaced over how owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo yell at their customers and steal tips from their employees, the Bouzaglo's responses on Facebook were nothing short of insane.
Restaurant Owner Unleashes Insane Rant After Customer's Bad Review
Because the first thread is full
The world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday, but at least one British columnist wanted it to stop mourning quite so much. Rod Liddle--a writer for the Spectator magazine whose views on race tend towards the incendiary--scoffed at the amounts of coverage he was seeing on the BBC: It's as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let's re-run the entire history of South Africa. That's better than watching the country we're in being flattened by a storm. Liddle hedged his bets by allowing that, "on balance," Mandela had probably done good in the world. Criticism came swiftly.
Columnist On Mandela Coverage: 'Famous Nice Black Man Dies!'
This would probably cause a shitstorm. Free PR. Madonna will do it.
Someone in the another thread mentioned that Beyonce has mysteriously shut down the careers of a few artists who have spoken against her in the media! These include Blu Cantrell Keri Hilson Keyshia Cole Does she call up their record companies and tell them to cut them off, or else?
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He's gay as fuck. Who's he kidding?
Tom Daley Discusses Really Being In Love For The First Time With “Mystery Man” (Video)
If for some reason you still don't understand how repellant Reagan was, look at this Buzzfeed piece about all the times the mention of AIDS got him and his people to laugh.
All the times the Reagan White House Briefings Laughed at AIDS
DENVER -- A baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony must serve gay couples despite his religious beliefs or face fines, a judge said Friday. The order from administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer said Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver discriminated against a couple "because of their sexual orientation by refusing to sell them a wedding cake for their same-sex marriage." The order says the cake-maker must "cease and desist from discriminating" against gay couples. Although the judge did not impose fines in this case, the business will face penalties if it continues to turn away gay couples who want to buy cakes. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against shop owner Jack Phillips with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission last year on behalf of Charlie Craig, 33, and David Mullins, 29. The couple was married in Massachusetts and wanted a wedding cake to celebrate in Colorado. The commission is expected to certify the judge's order next week. Nicolle Martin, an attorney for Masterpiece Cakeshop, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Phillips had argued that making cakes for gay wedding ceremonies violates his Christian beliefs. Mullins and Craig wanted to buy a cake in July 2012, but when Phillips found out the cake was to celebrate a gay wedding, he turned the couple of away, according to the complaint. A similar case is pending in Washington state, where a florist is accused of refusing service for a same-sex wedding. In New Mexico, the state Supreme Court ruled in August that an Albuquerque business was wrong to decline to photograph a same-sex couple's commitment ceremony. Colorado has a constitutional ban against gay marriage but allows civil unions. The civil union law, which passed earlier this year, does not provide religious protections for businesses.
Judge to Colorado baker: Serve gay couples wedding cake or face a fine
Links to pics would be nice. Thank you.
TIME magazine critic Richard Corliss placed the space epic at the top of a list that includes "American Hustle", "Her", and "12 Years a Slave". Commenting on his #1 pick of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, Corliss gushes: "An epic of desperate peril and profound wonder, Alfonso Cuarón’s thrilling 3-D drama is a testament to human grit and groundbreaking technical ingenuity. It deserves to be seen once for the wow factor and a second time to try to figure out how Cuarón and his digital savants managed to make the impossible seem so cinematically plausible."
Gravity is #1 on TIME Magazine's Top 10 Best Movies list for 2013
today's NYT
If you ever happen to come across a Republican on television these days, chances are that you will hear the name Ronald Reagan. Recent Republican debates are the perfect example of the love fest that the current Republican party has for Reagan as each candidate name drops the former president at every turn. If you only listened to conservatives you would think that Jesus Christ was the only person above Reagan on the totem pole of conservative love. They talk about his love of low taxes, less government and conservative family values. The problem is that when you step out of the conservative dream and come back to reality, you find that not only was Ronald Reagan a bad president, but he was one of the worst presidents we've seen in modern times. Reagan's policies have destroyed the United States for three decades, and for the eight years he was in office, here are eight reasons why Ronald Reagan was the worst president of our lifetime. 1. Reagan cut taxes for the Rich, increased taxes on the Middle Class - Ronald Reagan is loved by conservatives and was loved by big business throughout his presidency and there's a reason for it. When Reagan came into office in January of 1981, the top tax rate was 70%, but when he left office in 1989 the top tax rate was down to only 28%. As Reagan gave the breaks to all his rich friends, there was a lack of revenue coming into the federal government. In order to bring money back into the government, Reagan was forced to raise taxes eleven times throughout his time in office. One example was when he signed into law the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Reagan raised taxes seven of the eight years he was in office and the tax increases were felt hardest by the lower and middle class. 2. Tripling the National Debt - As Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, the government was left with less money to spend. When Reagan came into office the national debt was $900 billion, by the time he left the national debt had tripled to $2.8 trillion. 3. Iran/Contra - In 1986, a group of Americans were being held hostage by a terrorist group with ties to Iran. In an attempt to free the hostages, Ronald Reagan secretly sold arms and money to Iran. Much of the money that was received from the trade went to fund the Nicaragua Contra rebels who were in a war with the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. When the scandal broke in the Untied States it became the biggest story in the country, Reagan tried to down play what happened, but never fully recovered. 4. Reagan funded Terrorists - The attacks on 9/11 by al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden brought new attention to international terrorism. All of a sudden, Americans coast to coast wore their American flag pins, ate their freedom fries and couldn't wait to go to war with anyone who looked like a Muslim. What Americans didn't realize was that the same group that attacked the United States on 9/11 was funded by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Prepping for a possible war with the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan spent billions of dollars funding the Islamist mujahidin Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. With billions of American dollars, weapons and training coming their way, the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden took everything they were given and gave it back to the United States over a decade later in the worst possible way imaginable. 5. Unemployment issues - When Ronald Reagan came into office 1981, unemployment was at 7.5%. After Reagan cut taxes for the wealthy, he began raising taxes on the middle and lower class. Corporations started to ship more jobs out of the United States while hiring cheap foreign labor in order to make a bigger profit. While corporations made billions, Americans across the country lost their jobs. As 1982 came to a close, unemployment was nearly 11%. Unemployment began to drop as the years went on, but the jobs that were created were low paying and barely helped people make ends meet. The middle and lower class had their wages nearly frozen as the top earners saw dramatic increases in salary. 6. Ignoring AIDS - By the time the 1980s came around, AIDS had become one of the most frightening things to happen to the country in recent memory. No one understood what AIDS and HIV really was and when people don't understand something, they become scared of it. The fear of the unknown was sweeping across the country and Americans needed a leader to speak out about this horrible virus, that leader never came. Instead of grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge, Reagan kept quiet. Reagan couldn't say the words AIDS or HIV until seven years into his presidency, a leader not so much. 7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million Undocumented Immigrants - In today's GOP, the idea of any immigrant staying in the United States whether they are legal or illegal isn't something that conservatives embrace. What might shock them is that in 1982 Ronald Reagan gave nearly 3 million undocumented workers amnesty. The biggest reason for undocumented workers coming to the United States is because corporations hire them at a cheaper rate than they would an American citizen. All the laws that would have cracked down on companies who hire undocumented workers were, of course, removed from the bill. 8. His attack on Unions and the Middle Class - The Republican war on unions and the middle class has been heating up in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, but it has been going on for a long time. Unions are formed to give a united voice to the workers in an attempt to create fairness between the corporations and their employees. On August 3rd, 1981, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went on strike in an effort to get better pay and safer working conditions. Two days later, taking the side of business, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 workers for not returning to work.
8 reasons why Ronald Reagan was the worst president of our lifetime
Calling something Cajun does not make it Cajun. Voodoo sauce is not a thing. The latest entry into the fake Nawlinz food scene is Noveau Tavern in Chicago. The menu say 'New Orleans Cuisine' yet it has bullshit dishes on the menu. NO ONE IN NEW Orleans eats maple syrup on a po boy. Chicken sausage....WTF? This is an American cuisine, the ingredients are not hard to find. Why on earth hire some Chicago chef to make a mockery of it?
His thread is maxed out, so here's a new one for anyone who wants to continue advising him, making fun of him, and reading him to filth. Old thread here:
The boy band are currently leading the battle for Christmas number one fragrance - maybe that's why Harry Styles and Swifty didn't work out? :( People want to smell like One Direction more than Lady Gaga, according to soaring sales figures for their new fragrance. The boys are leading the battle for Christmas number one fragrance according to online beauty retailer feelunique - proving they aren't just pretty faces. The teen heartthrobs' Our Moment fragrance has sold at least five times as many as any other celebrity fragrance in the run up to Christmas. Well it's no surprise really given the amount of obsessed fans they have. According to the fashion site, one bottle is currently being sold every minute - that's a whole lot of 1D love. Coming in second is outrageous singer Lady Gaga with her 18th century-inspired Fame perfume. Close behind her is pop princess Britney Spears with Fantasy, followed by chart topping songstress Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday. And poor Justin Bieber clearly hasn't dropped his top enough this year after all, because the women are beating him as he comes in fifth with his fragrance The Key. Despite Taylor Swift’s Wonderstruck being the biggest celebrity seller last year, she is coming in sixth so far this time round - let's hope she's not TOO bitter about her ex stealing the top spot. At number 10 is burlesque babe Dita Von Teese's scent, with David Beckham, Kate Moss and Beyonce stealing spots above her. Siobhan McDermott, feelunique general manager, said: "It just proves that women will quite literally do anything to have Harry Styles’ scent on their skin.” Yes, yes they will. Here are the top 10 so far: One Direction: Our Moment Lady Gaga: Fame Britney Spears - Fantasy Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Justin Bieber - The Key Taylor Swift - Wonderstruck David Beckham - Homme Kate Moss - Kate Beyonce - Heat Dita Von Tesse - Eau de Parfum
One Direction perfume beats Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift fragrances
Colder than a witches tit!!!
There's not been enough love out there yet for the hot British actor Sam Claflin, who in "Catching Fire" plays the sexy Finnick Odair, who is forced to prostitute himself for both sexes in the Capital by President Snow after winning a previous Hunger Games. He is very sexy in the movie, which downplayed his whoring (although it is alluded to, and he does wear little but a fishnet over his waist in one big scene).
Would anyone be surprised by this news?
Jeremy Renner prefers his gals 'masculine'
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A bit much, I'd say
Jesus take the wheel! Carrie Underwood isn't letting "Sound of Music Live!" critics get her down. The country singer has slammed "mean people" via Twitter on the very same day the film's original star, Kym Karath, bashed Underwood for her acting chops. Karath played Greti von Trapp in the 1965 musical film "The Sound of Music." "Plain and simple: Mean people need Jesus," 30-year-old Underwood wrote via Twitter on Friday, Dec. 6. "They will be in my prayers tonight...1 Peter 2:1-25." The Bible scripture Underwood cites states to "rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind." Underwood responded to "mean people" just hours after the Internet exploded with some harsh words about the show. Karath was one of many to comment about the live event, and slammed the singer for landing the role of Julie Andrews' Maria von Trapp. At the time, Karath was watching the three-hour program with former costars Charmian Carr (Liesl von Trapp) and Angela Cartwright (Brigitta von Trapp.) "Mystified & disappointed so far by SOM special," Karath tweeted during the live performance on Thursday. "So far only happy with Stephen Moyer." ("True Blood" star Moyer played Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp.) "Must admit some scenes are actually painful to watch." She added: "Love Carrie Underwood but this role is just not right for her. She is lovely her voice is beautiful but acting is wrong." Despite snarky tweets from viewers, Underwood shared her excitement for how well the production went shortly after the curtain closed. "Glory to God tonight...I couldn't be more proud," she tweeted. "What a tough thing to pull off and we did it! I am so blessed!!!" "Sound of Music Live!" ultimately pulled in 18.47 million viewers for NBC.
Carre Underwood Slams 'Sound Of Music Live!' Critics: Mean People Need Jesus
Am I the only one who noticed this or am I the only one who is brave enough to say this? It's episode after episode of some random issue but really the best part of it is the fucking. That's why EVERY episode must have a love scene so that we may see young scrumptious Gale Harold's various beautiful body parts.
News UK red-top outsold by rival by more than 20,000 copies in November, but remains the UK's top-selling title across six days
Daily Mail overtakes Sun as biggest-selling Saturday paper in UK
At what ratio do you seed?\ \ I always seed a minimum of 2 to 1 and if I really like a movie like Thundercrack I seed 10 to 1. \ \ I have about 250 seeds and I turn on so many at a time, turning some off if no one is taking advantage of them and moving down the line. \ \ I do however have about 20 loaded at 70 to 90 percent with no seeds re-appearing. \ \ What do you think my chances are of ever completing these films. \ \ I should let you know that the bulk of what I download are obscure 70''s porn flicks. Mostly hetero, but all fun.
Is this possible? Anyone know? Thanks in advance for sharing any knowledge you may have.
They need to take the stick out
Danica Patrick and her boyfriend don't take too kindly to Jay Mohr poking fun at her
I fully support breast cancer awareness and do one of the walks with my boyfriend's sister every single year for the past 4 years. However, I never see any heavy public push for 'mens' cancers; those cancers which kill many men such as colorectal, testicular etc.. Everywhere you look, products in the stores are emblazoned with the pink ribbon, in my state there are those pink ribbon license plates and I swear it seems like every other person has one. The NFL and major league baseball go totally pink during this time of year to the point of being slightly absurd. The network news will have long packages covering the plight of those suffering from breast cancer and/or who've overcome it. Those are all really great things, but colon cancer and testicular cancers kill many men every year; perhaps less than breast cancer but not by so much as to ignore it. There are also men with breast cancer, but one would think breast cancer is a strictly female thing, even though it overwhelmingly affects women. Isn't there some way to bring the plight of mens' cancers more to the forefront? Or, how about just a pop culture push to make everyone aware of all cancer? Maybe a new logo or ribbon which would bring to mind cancers suffered by all people regardless of sex or race?
Tom Hiddleston is returning to the theatre for the first time in five years with the lead role in Shakespeare's Coriolanus along with a veteran, respected cast that includes Mark Gatiss. After that, he heads to Toronto to film Guillermo del Toro's paranormal thriller Crimson Peak with Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam will these roles finally help him break out of the Marvel universe?
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LOL!
Crazy fangurl in this thread trying to argue that Tom Daley is not actually dating DLB
The gossip continues.
[quote]Well I have to be completely honest and say, I''m not a huge fan of Charlie Sheen. I don''t make it my goal to ever talk badly in the press, we''re all in it together, that''s the way I look at it, but Charlie in particular, especially the way that he''s affected other people that I know %E2%80%94 point blank, Charlie and Corey started their careers pretty much together, and Corey fought for his entire life to recover from those early experiences and to get his life together%0D\ %0D\ %0D\ [quote]And [he] eventually did so, and yet he was snubbed by all his peers on both of the award shows where he should have been honored. Whereas Charlie has lived a very parallel life, the only difference being is that he had a hit TV show.%0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ %0D
gay or straight? and who's she dating?
I wanna smack those "va-kay shway" girls in the mouth on those Old Navy commercials.%0D\ %0D\ You?
Police estimate it was only going 40-45 mph. Although they hit a curve with a posted 15mph limit, a car with that kind of handling capacity should've easily been able to take it at 40. "The Porsche that actor Paul Walker was riding in when he died on Saturday was traveling at approximately 40 to 45 mph when it came to a bend in the road where the speed limit drops to about 15 mph, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Monday. It was in that vicinity where the driver, Roger Rodas, apparently lost control of the vehicle, ending in the fiery solo accident, the source said. Walker, 40, and Rodas, 38, were killed at the scene, police said. Their autopsies were put on hold Monday, as the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office waits for dental X-rays for each man to aid in making the official identifications, said Craig Harvey, chief of the coroner's operations bureau."
BREAKING NEWS: Paul Walker's car was NOT racing right before crash
This thread is a continuation of the one linked below.
H A P P Y. W/ @jasonrlandau," wrote Cheyenne Jackson with this cute photo on Instagram yesterday. It appears that the actor and singer has found love again with fellow Instagram enthusiast Jason Landau — a few months after it was announced that he and husband Monte Lapka were divorcing amicably after two years of marriage and 13 years together. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Jason is a L.A. actor best known for his recurring role on American Dreams and a guest spot on Will & Grace. photos of the new lovers at link
You are WASTING my time! What do you want?
I noticed a few recently. 1. Just before they go to Hollywood, Lucy is on the phone with her friend Marian Van Vlack discussing the trip. Couple of episodes later, when Mrs McGillicuddy arrives, Lucy asks her mother how Marian Van Vlack is doing, as if she hadn't had contact with her in ages. 2. In that same episode where Mrs McG arrives, she announces she wants to go Hollywood so she can take her book to Dore Schary, with the hope that he'll turn it into a screenplay. A few eps later, when they're all in Hollywood, Ricky makes a comment about Dore Shary, and Mrs McG shrieks over and over, "Who's Dore Schary? Who's Dore Schary?" 3. This one's a blooper: in an episode when they're getting ready to go to Europe, Fred brings his old vaudeville trunk to the Ricardos. The phone rings, and Ricky picks it up. I don't know if the sound people had the phone ring prematurely, but just after he picks up the phone, with phone to the ear, he turns to Fred and asks what that trunk is. Lucy has to quickly remind him that he's on the phone when she scoldingly says, "the phone, dear." Any others you can think of?
Looks like another "auto accident" happened.
A six minute trailer of the new Wachowski produced film and directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Academy Award Winners Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Halle Berry & Susan Sarandon. Gorgeous music, looks beautiful and I hate trailers that give everything away, but at six minutes, I still have no idea what's it's about.
What are the major differences between those actor/actresses who work on a TV series like Breaking Bad and those who work exclusively in films such as Skyfall? Do they make the same amount of money? And from reading the DL, it seems many here hold the opinion that being a TV actor is not very good to an actor's career.
Thoughts?
Because hairy chest is a thing of beauty...
Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
Will she have us all killed?
Lesbian drama for a cold winter's day!!!!
He's on AC 360 Later....will he and Anderson hook up after the show?
Do men wear jorts anymore? I mean the [italic]really[/italic] short-short ones, with the extra fraying at the bottoms where you can tell they just cut up a pair of old jeans.
Tom Cruise looked extra yummy in jorts
Inspired by the Tom Daley thread. So did you ever date someone 20 years older while in your early 20s? Vote below and discuss
This is an offshoot of the "guys who won't bottom" thread. A trade top is someone who only gets sucked (and sometimes rimmed) and tops. In other words, he doesn't kiss, rim, suck, or bottom. For me, this is a total turn-off. I don't mind guys who don't bottom, but if they don't do ANYTHING else, it doesn't work for me. I wouldn't want a guy like that in real life, so I don't like it in porn either. When I see a video with any of these guys, I automatically avoid it (unless it's obvious that they've changed their proclivities.) Some trade tops (please add to the list and correct me if I'm mistaken): Trystan Bull Cody Cummings Zeb Atlas (although I think he's sucked a couple of times)
So implies Vanity Fair in a huge takedown in the January issue. [quote]She doesn't display much, if any, warmth (at least not to those who aren't in her inner orbit) and often won't meet people's eyes. In Silicon Valley, where having Asperger's has almost become a badge of honor—aren't all super-smart people a little socially awkward?—that shouldn't matter so much. The rules are always different for women, but Mayer's quirks go beyond coldness.
Yahoo's Marissa Meyer is a PR-hungry cunt! And possibly autistic!
What kind of swimsuits do you like on most guys?\ \ We''re not talking obese guys or elderly guys; or even necessarily just musclemen. What swimsuits do you like on most young men in general?\ \ (Also, I''m not including nudity as a choice since most public swimming pools and beaches don''t allow it.)
Both of their new films are bombing in their opening weekend!
Do the men from any other continent even come close to the Australian level of manliness? Answer honestly.
The internet's #1 Aspie boyfriend is looking crazy hot in the September issue of Vogue. (Quality publication -- they mostly let other people do the talking.)
There were rumors about Eminem which seem sort of gross since she was playing his mother but other than that, anything?
Steve is older and more experienced. But Tom is a hot twink with a marginally hotter body.
Paul Walker and his friend were murdered shortly after they discovered a conspiracy to supply victims of Typhon Haiyan with a prototype permanent birth control drug hidden in medicinal supplies and food aid. They had a damning recording and they were on their way to rendezvous with an ally who would have helped them get in touch with the right people. Turns out they were betrayed and someone rigged their car’s breaks to malfunction after a certain speed. Now that the loose end has been tied up, and the recording destroyed, the people responsible have nothing to fear as this will become another “conspiracy theory” no one will take seriously. “Now here is another thread with a conspiracy on a possible motive here. Apparently, Paul Walker had discovered dirty money in the Philippines disaster relief and that would make sense because he owned a company that specialized in rapid disaster relief. “ Did Walker dig to deep into corruption or was it an Illuminati Death? Then we have the massive damage to the car, the two videos below show the same car Paul Walker was killed in that had also been involved in an ultra high speed crash with fatalities and then the video of the aerial view of Walker’s car after the fatal crash.
She was a teenage prostitute who turned tricks after school.\ \ Why don''t more people talk about it?
Do you think this guy is secretly gay?
What do we think?
The Ordway Girl
Will the trend ever end. It makes me self-conscious. I hate having to take a group photo after every event and gathering.
Who was the most beautiful?
Discuss!
I am curious where your priorities are. Please answer this as honestly as you can.
One of my favorite television shows ever. Very sophisticated, and very much predictive of the style of later TV shows--it was the first show to be called a "dramedy," it used only a single camera, and was a huge influence on later shows like Thirtysomething. Blair Brown was wonderful as the star, and was very beautiful. This was the haunting, moody intro. It really captures a vanished kind of Eighties glamor (yes, there was such a thing).
One of a kind. Actor, writer, pianist, humanist. Comes from respectable Austrian stock. The 1950s and 1960s public had Schell. We have Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks.
Midway island. 200 miles from the nearest continent. The birds are dying from eating all of the plastic crap people throw into the ocean. Heartbreaking footage of dead birds cut open to show what's inside of them. It looks like the bottom of somebody's garbage can. Why the fuck are people dumping their garbage into the ocean?
Sad documentary about an island of birds, who die from eating our garbage in the ocean
They're doing a mash-up of Janet's "Rhythm Nation" and "Nasty" tonight. Looks promising.
On a POST-IT! With ME! Fuck him! I thought I picked a winner with him. I thought he could give me the stable relationship I craved. Shit, I've gotta find myself a man who will commit. No more horsing around!
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I just realized this. Gene says weird things once in a while - out of the blue - like "I''m a top!" (season finale) and something like "I want our new dad to be blonde!" He also loves house music.\ \ The show is pretty LGBT-friendly. Bob befriends trans hookers when he drives a cab part-time, for example.
Borgen is a Danish one-hour political drama television series (with elements of a soap opera). It tells the story of a charismatic politician, Birgitte Nyborg, who unexpectedly becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. It stars the sexy Sidse Babett Knudsen. Third and last season is currently airing in the UK.
The UK store. What's the big deal about it? So much press about it in Los Angeles and NYC.
And the groom's presumed dead wife walks in just seconds after we are married!
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Deneuve gets the Lifetime Achievement Award. But what is she wearing!
European film awards 2013 - do European actors not use stylists?
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I've been studying like mad for the past few days and I'm so tired. What about you? What y'all up to?
Who are they?
The webmaster must be French since this thread was shut down or more than likely, something happened to corrupt it. Please allow me to repost. I need your help. At the first of the year, I am planning a party for the Downton Abbey 4th Season Premier. Of course, it must be all things British. I know there are some "all things British" experts on here. Please advise regarding food, decorations, entertainment before and after the premier. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
I finally understand what all the talk about the prostate is about - if you hit the right place, it's great! DLer, would you please provide recommendations for excellent "p-spot" massagers?!
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So why are these places still open before that guy arrives? Aren't there food inspectors in those towns?
Did Neil Simon dumping her kill her film career or was she already on the way down when they split?
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He inflates faster than Zimbabwe's currency.
Does he have a hairy dick?
I've had Time Warner Cable forever, but I'm moving soon and thinking about switching to RCN. About once a month a lose all service (cable/internet/phone) for up to 18 hours. I do a lot of work from home, so this is very disruptive. Is RCN any better? Do they both suck? Can I live without NY1 and Moron Stage?
Go to the site below, record, post and then see if people can tell what part of the country/world you're from....
What's it saying?
Every year around the start of December, Fox News ramps up their “War on Christmas” coverage. It’s when they completely make up this notion that there’s some evil entity out there that’s slowly working its way through out society to kill Christmas. It’s completely absurd. For the last damn time, there is no war on Christmas. Are there people who make a big deal out of people saying, “Merry Christmas!” during the holidays? Yes, and those people suck. But that doesn’t mean there’s a war on Christmas. There’s always going to be groups of people who are “offended” by something and they’re often the ones who make the headlines. But that doesn’t mean they represent the majority — not even close. Preserving a separation of church and state during the holidays does not equate to an attack on Christmas. I’m a Christian, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I absolutely love this time of year. The colder weather, people are generally in better moods, the movies, the music, the atmosphere — I actually really enjoy all of it. Now, if someone says, “Happy holidays” to me, I don’t get offended — I just say it back. Generally if someone initiates a greeting, I just repeat whatever they say. I don’t reply with some sarcastic, “Merry Christmas!” when someone says something other than that to me. If someone says, “Happy Hanukkah,” I say that back as well. You know why? Because I’m not an immature prick. Honestly, if you want to talk about a “war on Christmas,” look no further than conservatives. It’s their warped view of Christianity, their insistence on shoving their religious views down everyone’s throats and their overall ignorance that’s driven so many people away from celebrating anything Christ-like with Christmas. This yearly event by Fox News is nothing more than a ratings ploy because it sells great to those who are too ignorant to think for themselves. They find a few obscure stories about someone who’s anti-Christmas making a big deal about something Christmas related, blast them on their airwaves relentlessly, then try to make it appear as if Christmas is being attacked everywhere. Here’s an idea: If Republicans would stop acting like such pricks in the “name of Christianity,” maybe so many people wouldn’t oppose anything that might be Christian related? Hmm, just a thought. But this fake “war” has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with money. Like I said, it’s just a tool used by Fox News to get people hostile and angry because that’s what sells. The truth is, there is no “war on Christmas.” There never was.
The War on Christmas: Brought to you by Fox News and Paranoid Republicans Everywhere
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64, doesn't look a day over 74.
Do you prefer Barbara or Lori? Robert is just awkward and seems out of his element. Daymond is just an ass.
so it was the Village, then Chelsea, then Hell's Kitchen What were the dates? (when did the village give way to Chelsea etc.)
I always tear up. I always cry at least once.
All because of Sarah Palin
BREAKING++ marty Bashir RESIGNS from MSNBC!!
Tripp
This morning he said, "Take my load you dirty f-word whore cum dump."\ \ Is this the way he really feels? Afterwards, I felt like total dirt.
Details, please.\ \ A thread created by request.
As in "bust a nut" or "I nutted all over his abs." I only learned of (or noticed) this use of "nut" about 5 years ago. It's way hot. But where does it come from? How long has it been in use? Why is "nut" used in relation to ejaculating / orgasming?
[bold]ALBUM OF THE YEAR[/bold] Sara Bareilles – The Blessed Unrest Daft Punk – Random Access Memories Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, Bad City Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist Taylor Swift – Red [bold]SONG OF THE YEAR[/bold] Pink – “Just Give Me a Reason” Bruno Mars – “Locked Out of Heaven” Katy Perry – “Roar” Lorde – “Royals” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert – “Same Love” [bold]BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE[/bold] Pink feat. Nate Reuss – “Just Give Me a Reason” Rihanna feat. Mikky Eiko – “Stay” Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell Williams & T.I. – “Blurred Lines” Justin Timberlake feat. Jay Z – “Suit & Tie” [bold]BEST COUNTRY ALBUM[/bold] Jason Aldean – Night Train Tim McGraw – Two Lanes of Freedom Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer, Different Park Blake Shelton – Based on a True Story Taylor Swift – Red [bold]BEST NEW ARTIST[/bold] James Blake Kendrick Lamar Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Kacey Musgraves Ed Sheeran [bold]RECORD OF THE YEAR[/bold] Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky” Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive” Lorde – “Royals” Bruno Mars – “Locked Out of Heaven” Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell Williams & T.I. – “Blurred Lines”
Now I don't expect people to get a new cell phone every year or every time a new model comes out, but if you still have a flip phone that is just sad. You might as well just stick with your landline.
Is it an aesthetic thing, or is it because they feel better when they''re inside you?\ \ I don''t have enough experience with bottoming to judge if it feels better to get fucked by a big dick than by a medium one, but I find medium(-to-smallish) dicks much more aesthetically pleasing.\ \ To say nothing of the fact that they''re much more comfortable to suck. But then I have a very small mouth - do all size queens have a mouth like Julia Roberts?
I've been a fan for years. I always thought he was a really handsome guy who never managed to break through to the A List. But now: Wow! The vultures have descended. He is now the most handsome, blue-eyed, undervalued actor in Hollywood. HELLOOO!? When he was alive, no one would have said this. The world is so fucked up now. There seems to be this "death cult" mindset that everyone has. That actors aren't celebrated until they've died. It's really messed up. What is wrong with the world? I never thought he was the best actor in the world. But he was really handsome, and certainly a better actor than Vic and The Rock.
Bebe
Just to torment Leah Remini I bet. Is the no end to the Chenbot's quest for global domination?
Did they view it as proof-positive that the guy was a Jew? Or just strongly suspect?
Would you wear one?
The eyes. Straight men are dead behind the eyes. Gay men have a twinkle in their eyes.
. . .to the highest bidder?
with at least some gay people....I got a job in Tarzana.
And no, I don't have any pot. I feel pretty crappy, jittery and anxious. Terrible.
Remember Nancy Oleson from Little House? What was her problem? She seemed really mental.
Good for her. Wonder if she has the same vocal chops as her mother.
Can you predict my future? What did I get on the last test? My marks still aren't posted yet.
Former star of "Taxi" and "Grease."
The other thread is full, and we need to provide emotional support to Brandon, Cameron and Abe the only studs left whose taints are untouched by dick or dildo (at least on film). Stay strong and whatever you do don't sign up with Men.com!
Jack and Victor have their own thread, and it's about time Brooke and Taylor have one too. I have been freaking out watching Brooke's out of control descent over the past few months. The payoff is turning out to be worth it. Can't wait to watch all week as Katie lets her have it. Hope and her Sleeping Fantasy was vomit-inducing, but typical Logan women getting everything they wanted. I miss Steffy and hope she comes back soon. The Maya/Caroline/Rick triangle is ridiculous beyond belief, and this webisode plot is just another idiotic turn.
Continue here
Lets name some. \ \ Either past or present. If you''d like, link a pic to back up your claim.
...and it's not Gina Carano.
This week, The Onion takes a look at the NYPD's most controversial tactic: stop and kiss. Tensions run high between supporters and opponents in the debate over this police activity.
I'm sure there will be absolutely NO disagreements!!
Why are more and more studios doing it? Money.
It has been many years since she died, even more since she sat next to her husband as his head was shot off. I was born after that, and my parents always had mixed things to say about her. She "held the country together" but then she made the "bone headed move" [my Mom with a rosary] of marrying Onassis. Enough time has gone by. How does History remember her. How do the fine folks of Datalounge?
I love fisting a hot hole. I'm a top and it really turns me on to work open a hungry hole.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows approximately 62 percent of gay men who know they have HIV/AIDS continue to engage in sexual relations without using a prophylactic, a behavior that can spread AIDS. The CDC estimates that 4% of the American population consist of MSM "men who have sex with men," and are more than 44 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS than heterosexual men and MSM make up 52 percent of the American population with HIV/AIDS, and account for about 63 percent of all new HIV/AIDS cases. The report concludes by noting reductions in “the burden of HIV among MSM ( men who have sex with men)is fundamental to reducing HIV infection in this country.” How in the hell can they possibly know this?? The homophobes must love this shit!
CDC Report 2/3 of gay men who know they have HIV don't use condoms.
'Wonder Woman' Returns On Me-TV Posted: 11/30/2013 2:26 pm EST | Updated: 11/30/2013 3:50 pm EST Lynda Carter's "Wonder Woman" is heading back to your small screen come Christmastime. Me-TV announced earlier this week that they'll show all 60 episodes of the 1970s series starring Lynda Carter starting Dec. 27 with the pilot. The show will join Me-TV's Saturday night line-up. "Wonder Woman" ran from 1975 to 1979 and since then, many networks have tried to recreate Carter's iconic portrayal on TV. Few have succeeded. Carter once told ET that Hollywood doesn't understand Wonder Woman's powers. "She is an Amazon Princess and she's got really strong sisterhood values. She's smart, and she just happens to be beautiful and super strong..." Now, it looks like Me-TV has the right idea by giving life to the classic show without altering a single thing. Catch the pilot of "Wonder Woman" on Me-TV on Dec. 27 at 8 pm EST.
I love when she says "expensiver."
How many nips of sherry did Julia Child have before she taped this show?
After several years of struggling after getting laid off a couple of times and trying to get back on my feet, I've been trying to do away with any kind of service that requires a contract and look for cheaper alternatives since I don't want to be stuck with a service I can't downgrade when things get hard financially. I dropped Directv when my contact was up and switched to Netflix and Hulu. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do about the cell phone. Contract is up. I'm tired of paying $80 a month for 450 minutes and unlimited data. Any suggestions as to what a good alternative would be? I'm over the whole cell phone thing as it is. Any other recommendations for companies that provide a decent service at a decent price and don't lock you into a service contract?
Is anyone else as bummed out as I am by the choice of Alyssa Milano as the host of the All Star Show? She's always struck me as the epitome of C list Hollywood, a tv star without charm or talent, just a kind of throwaway name. Couldn't they have gotten someone else? The list of All-Stars is actually kind of interesting though -- they actually have some winners this time, not just the runner-ups.
Who are they? Inspired by the "Beautiful people with no sex appeal" thread.
These revelations from Kitty Kelley''s book about how lazy-ass Oprah is--and how she always talks in the third person about herself with strangers--are cracking me up!
He used to be SO incredibly sexy, dapper, seemingly nice, smiling, happy.\ \ Now, he''s just this greasy, grimy mess who may be a good actor but whose personality seems to match his physical appearance. He seems to take himself way, WAY too seriously. Oh, and needs a bathe.\ \ I know he thinks he''s super cool, etc.., but how much longer can he play this shtick before everyone tires of it?
Son of Grover Dale and Anita Morris--talented actor--you can see his mother in his face.
Some seedy streets must still exist, right? Where?
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This show is on season 7 - has There ever been a marriage from it or even a successful long term relationship? I mean Stanger can't even find a man.
I want to hear his opinion on Jodie. Everyone go to their bathrooms, shut the lights and say, "I'm JIVE!" three times.
What goes behind the scenes in the Oscar season: [quote]Courting members of the press and critics who vote in pre-Oscar contests has long been standard practice because studios know that winning Academy Awards can bring big financial rewards. A film which collects Oscar trophies, or even just nominations, can expect a healthy bump in box office revenues. Of course, an Academy Award is also sought because of the prestige it brings. But the pursuit of winning Oscars has now become so intense, at times frantic, that it has reduced all the participants who are part of this annual frenzy – from journalists like me to big name stars – to pawns in a rather strange game.
Yes or no?
Should I get one?
Anyone else getting these in your yard or garden? They're not exactly transparent, but they mirror and reconfigure the light around them to make themselves seem invisible, like the predator in that movie Predator. I have three or four of them, and I'm beginning to worry that they're planning something.
I am enjoying it thoroughly. Anyone watching? I like the actress playing the lead character and her clones, and really enjoy the gay foster brother (I've always had a thing for hot campy guys). Maria Doyle Kennedy does "woebegone and stern" very well (The Tudors; Downton), but I have a feeling she'll get a chance to show more as the foster mom/grandmother as this goes on. Is the setting supposed to be Toronto?
Well?
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Is it because I've seen it too many times, or has this film aged really badly? I find a lot of it very draggy to watch now. Some of the old tunes still sound nice. I was pretty thrilled by it when it came out.
The latest set of threes:
Stewie
A thread dedicated to the Blatino model turned actor that is possibly the hottest stud ever to be on daytime TV. Discuss.
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My husband was sitting in a park near Beverly Hills today (a park in Coldwater Canyon). He looked up and there was a drone flying over, about three stories up. His friend said that it was military and you see them around that area "all the time." My husband just mentioned this offhandedly, but it really freaks me out.
I'm so worried about him. I bought six copies of his book to make up for all the movie role salaries he had to turn down.
Apparently not quite the brutes we thought them to be in their little dingy, messy caves.
What is with Gay Selfie Face? What makes so many gays want to shove the mouth to one side and snap a selfie?
I'm from a fly over state and moved to Los Angeles in Oct 2005 when I was 32. I left LA a few years later to attempt a career switch. After it didn't work out, I came back to LA three years ago. I'm trying to decide whether I want to live here long term. What do most regular, middle class people do to retire? Am I destined to pay rent until I'm 80? I make $100K/yr and have about $100K in savings (not including retirement) which isn't enough for a house. I'm single and I do want to focus on meeting someone but I doubt I can find a sugar daddy at my age. Should I just move?
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She is such a bitch.
What did you think of it?
What do you think?
Anyone watching? Only ten minutes in and my favorite character so far is dead. Dammit. But it was effectively creepy.
She bullies people to get their damn hamburgers.
Dave Thomas rolling in his grave
and he's never been married. And he's 40.
That sounds divine!
You use scissors to snip off a piece of your underwear every time someone gives you a tip.
Holy shit! In the past month I've seen Mary Lynn Rajskub pop up in episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Modern Family, and now Raising Hope (watching an episode on Netflix). How does one actress manage to sustain her career on bit parts without ever getting higher than the middle?
Continue the discussion of this apparent Christian closet case with a pretty face and nice ass. Discuss his "people's" attempts to suppress the DudeTube pics and videos. Go on then!
Couldn't find a thread--anyone watching? Lots of eye candy this season--most hot guys they've ever had. So far we know two guys are gay, including a cute blond guy who "only dates Asians"...
Anyone know him? Won't he be embarrassed by this when his friends, family and co-workers see this?
Creepy...
16 Celebrities With Nearly Identical Historical Doppelgangers
I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure if this ad is real or not. But it seems real and makes a lot of sense.
Wilde was 40 when he met Bosie, who was 20. Wilde was married with two children, and yet engaged in a torrid affair with Bosie regardless. And yet Wilde is revered as one of the most legendary gay men in history. So: if you believe everything above, why are you attacking DLB with such an unparalleled level of vitriol again? Would it make a difference if DLB was a writer of Wilde's caliber? (I think we can all at least agree there's no comparison on *that* level) Or if Tom was a British aristocrat? Does Wilde "get a pass" because social mores at the time were so much more repressive? What about the fact that Wilde, though wildly witty (pun intended, obviously), was by most rational standards fugly, and Bosie was one of the most infamously hot twinks in modern world history? As a reminder: Wilde and Bosie remained together, despite their 20-year age difference, until Wilde's death, even though Bosie was an unapologetically spoiled little shit who cheated on Wilde constantly. But for some reason so many people here think the DLB/Daley relationship is "doomed." Anyone care to try to explain their logic here?
I have a video that I'd like to combine with some music. Very basic. Maybe change some of the frames but mostly straightforward. Is there some software that will allow me to do this? I have some tech skills but am looking for something simple to do this.
Is there a way to see if an iPhone is/was possibly infected with some sort of virus or other form of malicious software? Two of my favorite sites, including DL, lost their subscription information and I can't understand why. The subscriptions may have elapsed but they appear to work on my computer. I tried recalling the DL subscription information but it doesn't seem to be bouncing to me email.
The original thread is almost full.
Some our quite disturbing, some are beautiful... reflective of the world we live in.
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This guy is so hot the camera is melting. \ \ Then the guy he wrestles is really hot too.\ \ But the finish to the wrestling match is bizarre. Who would have thought?
A singlet so tight you can see his...
the talking hat
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A few from a half hour ago, plus posts from as far back as ll/18/13. Seems very strange. But I did read that DL has been known to go haywire around 8 eastern standard time. Just found it interesting.
This thread is dedicated to my future gay husbands, Nathan Owens and Charles Michael Davis!
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Is this Deb in this Seiko watch ad? If so...WOW!!
We just had another lesbian falsely report a hate crime. What is it with our sisters these days? *** Dayna Morales, the New Jersey waitress and former U.S. Marine, who garnered national headlines after she insisted a family stiffed her last week because she’s lesbian, allegedly has a long history of telling whoppers to get attention and sympathy, including reports that she claimed to be suffering from brain cancer and her home had been damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Since the family who allegedly stiffed the server at the Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, NJ have produced a receipt they claim proves they left a gratuity and they aren’t responsible for the offensive note for Morales, media attention has focused on who to believe. Morales’ friends and coworkers eventually ratted out her many past indiscretions to the Journal News. When Morales worked at a day care center she told her fellow workers that Superstorm Sandy sent a boat through the living room of her home. Yet when they went by her house to see for themselves, they noticed only minor damage to the carpet by her front door and no signs of a boat. A coworker named Julie Howat said that Morales felt she needed to be a part of every tragedy that happened. “Every story she comes up with has a lie,” Howat revealed. “She needed sympathy and empathy.” Karolee Larkin, a former classmate who also worked alongside Morales at the day care center agreed. “You can’t believe much of what she says,” Larkin said. Also called into question is the extent of Morales’ military service. Morales allegedly told people she had not only served in Afghanistan, but that she was the sole survivor of an explosion that wiped out her entire platoon. Whoa! Someone obviously forgot how easy it would be to expose that kind of fib. The Journal News contacted a Marines spokesperson who confirmed Morales served four years in the U.S. Marines but there was “no indication of combat service in Iraq or Afghanistan.” As for the matter of the missing gratuity and note that ignited the firestorm, Gallop Asian Bistro manager Byron Lapola said he’s still investigating what happened and that Morales was “currently not on the schedule” to work.
“Stiffed” Lesbian Waitress Called “Pathological Liar” By Friends And Coworkers
There is an article about her in her local newspaper written by a friend who clearly hates her bro.
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BusinessWeek - Marissa Mayer's Latest HR Issue: Grading Workers On A Curve If Marissa Mayer is as good at identifying winning startups as she is at embracing contentious human resources practices, Yahoo! (YHOO) is going to be just fine. Several months after the great work-at-home kerfuffle of 2013, Yahoo employees were up in arms about a new policy that forces managers to rank employees on a bell curve, then fire those at the low end. According to AllThingsD, Marissa Mayer reportedly told Yahoo workers that the rankings weren’t mandatory, but many people disagree. The company hasn’t responded to a request for comment. (continued at link) This woman is a fucking disaster. That's what you get for hiring someone simply based on having a vagina and blond hair.
I have one burning now, but there's no increase in room temp. It's pretty and smells nice, but all the heat must be going up the chimney. Help?
Does this mean Letterman has heard the gay rumors, or did James put him up to it?
I'll begin: Rise, Madiba! The goddess beckons!
A new report claims that the Justice League will be a “United Nations” of superheroes, with each member of the team representing a different part of the world, while Denzel Washington, Idris Elba and Arrow’s David Ramsey have all been considered for ‘Lex Luthor’ in Batman Vs. Superman… Think McFly Think are reporting that their Warner Bros. source (who told them about David Goyer writing the Man of Steel sequel and Gotham being developed for TV) has now given them an update on the casting process for Lex Luthor in Batman Vs. Superman. Denzel Washington (2 Guns) was apparently the top choice, although “nothing ever materialized”, and Idris Elba (Thor: The Dark World) was considered before his deal with Marvel Studios put an end to that idea before it even really got started. However, one actor who has been approached is Arrow's David Ramsey. The site points out that this doesn't mean Luthor will definitely be played by an African American actor. They also claim to have some details on the planned Justice League movie, saying that the team will be portrayed as the “United Nations” of superheroes. Apparently, "The concept we’ve heard plays Superman represents the world as a whole (Being an immigrant of Earth he speaks for everyone), Batman would represent the United States with the American Affleck in the cape-and-cowl with the Flash possibly portrayed by an Hispanic or Laitno actor and as we saw announced yesterday an Wonder Woman played by an Israeli." Presumably, Wonder Woman would represent Paradise Island, and this would without a doubt help to differentiate the franchise from The Avengers. It would also line up with the sort of political overtones Goyer brought to the Batman movies he worked on and Man of Steel. For now though, take this all with a pinch of salt!
New JUSTICE LEAGUE Plot Details; WB Looking At African American Actors For Lex Luthor?
A good friend of mine discovered this recently and has been doing it a lot lately. Says it expands his mind, makes things clearer, makes him more creative. I tried it back in the day but don't know the potential downside and dangers if any. Have seen people in k-holes though. Should I be worried?
As requested on the womanly butts thread: "Can someone start a fresh thread for men with curves. This one has been trolled to death. And the other thread is not really about curvy men, its about dudes that would make good trannies and thats not the same thing." So have at it. Who has them?
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Fuck the Sound of Music! I'm pitching a special where viewers and celebrities all across America share their favorite Christmas cookies! It would be utterly fabulous, wouldn't it? And it would be hosted by ME, of course!
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He has made his first appearance on Arrow as Barry Allen. He made quite an impression with the fangurls: [quote]Did you go out and sniff the air last night? That special tang wasn't the nog n' pine scent of the holiday season, that was people across America falling in love with Barry Allen. "The Scientist," last night's episode, makes that doe-eyed dork absolutely irresistible. [quote]I loved this interpretation of Barry Allen so much it hurt! [quote]I loved GG as Barry Allen. It was a great performance, and I'm really interested to see more! Can't wait to see him with his powers, and his suit! There is something charismatic about him, but can someone who so looks gay actually be straight?
2 hour episode updating "What Lies Beneath". ON NOW!!!!!!!!
My San Fran friends say NYC is expensive, but not San Francisco expensive. True?
In July of 2012, the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple who were planning to celebrate with friends and family the marriage they had received in Massachusetts. The couple, Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, filed a complaint, and the Colorado Attorney General proceeded to do the same, and Friday, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Robert Spencer ruled against Jack Phillips, the owner of the bakery. Here are some of the arguments from ADJ Spencer’s ruling as to why “religious freedom” did not justify the Phillips’ violation of Colorado’s nondiscrimination law protecting sexual orientation: (more at the link)
Colorado Judge: Bakery That Refused Wedding Cake To Same-Sex Couple Broke The Law
A judge just gave the a-ok to cut public pensions in Detroit and apparently, CA is next. Supposedly, this is all a scam to plunder our wealth. When smaller municipal corporations had little resistance as test cases for these outrageous claims of fraudulent bankruptcy and default, the larger municipalities gained the confidence that the financially illiterate cesspool of people as citizens don’t know there heads from a hole in the wall when it comes to the financial reporting apparatus of government. The people were determined to be sufficiently ignorant of even the basic checking account balance of the general fund in their local governments and school districts, let alone the massive collective government investment scam robbing them of the entirety of their wealth, making it reasonable to assume that these municipal corporation’s financial position would likely never be challenged by that clueless mass of the indentured. And so the latest trend of conspiracy and fraud against those debt- slaves continues
How was she able to wear that costume on TV ? Especially that strip in the crotchal and buttal areas. I think that it looks great and I'm sure that the servicemen loved it, but ...
I want him in me, QUITE deeply.
for those on the regressive right calling for fewer regulations on businesses, or worst of call, toxic libertarians calling for NO regulations on business insisting the "free market will sort things out", i ask, is this how you want to live? because THIS (shanghai) is the product of unfettered capitalism...
Yep.
WTF?
Un-fucking-believable! She has Adolf Hitler strapped to a bed.
Gayvoice through the roof!
She was practically in Whoopi's lap and she rejoiced when Whoopi said Moms Mabley was a lesbian.
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So they're all gay, right? Which ones have hooked up with each other? I'm especially interested if any of the Russian cuties of the '90s were into the mansex (Alexei Urmanov, Ilia Kulik).
Since the other threads are closed, here's a new one!
She's 85. She's been sick for a number of years (diabetes, then heart disease) and her body is apparently in the process of simply shutting down. Her heart, her lungs, her kidneys. Her doctor says she's in pretty bad shape and getting worse. She has days, weeks, maybe months to live. It'll be either her heart or her kidneys that give out. Her death will be an easy one, he says. For her part she's being very philosophical about it all. She knows she's had a good long life and is grateful for that. She doesn't want to leave us, but she sees that it's out of her hands so she's simply accepting it. She's signed a Do Not Resuscitate Order and has refused any medical intervention such as dialysis and life support. All she wants is the meds that keep her going and comfortable. My 92 year old father is, naturally, quite upset but also philosophical. He's also grateful that they had a good long life together and knows that it had to end some day. He's unwell too and I don't think he'll be around too much longer either. They both live in a full-care senior's home. All of their practical and medical needs are taken care of for them. My sisters pop in on them regularly to take care of everything else and just to visit and talk with them (I live on the other side of the country) I know she's old, but it still hurts. It's not tragic or horrible or unnatural. It's just what happens to people when they live that long. But it still hurts. My siblings and I have a lot to be thankful for, certainly. And we'll miss them both terribly when they're gone. But we'll have happy memories of them. I'm not sure why I'm telling Datalounge (of all people) this. I'm actually keeping this pretty private in my real life. I haven't talked about it with anyone except my partner and my siblings. I feel like this is mine and I want to hold it close for a while. I don't want to share it until I have to. Does that even make sense?
I just watched a very well-done documentary about this on Investigation Discovery. This was before the current era of mass shootings, so it was quite shocking at the time, although only 6 people died.
She should have gone back to Minneapolis.
Any suggestions on what's really worth the money? I just bought a Nike Pro Combat Hypercool Shirt for light weights and cardio, but would love to hear if anyone has suggestions or cautions. TIA
Just watched it again last night and find the whole case bizarre. His last phone calls with a business contact seemed perfectly normal. I still think someone kidnapped them because of the food left out. They left quickly.
Just when I was going to take a look at it for the first time. Maybe I'm a jinx. Anyway, the reason I was going to take a look related to my situation. I used to be as regular as clockwork-- every morning it was the first thing I did before my shower and out the door. Then earlier this year I started dieting and cutting way back on calories and fat. Now I''m constipated all the time. I eat fiber gummies and take psyllium capsules and nothing. And my diet is higher in fiber (lots of vegetables and fruits) than ever before. Sometimes I don't go for four or five days! What gives?
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The smart ass kids, the over the top stereotypes, stupid dads, overbearing wives, gay minstrels, shaky camera, plots of nothing but reactions and punch lines. Shit. Just shit.
Which is better?
My parents rejoiced with pride in our President. I was about 10 but I knew then they weren't right in the head.
So let's start a new one!
We haven't had a "Flaccid Dicks" & casual nudity thread in a while...
I found out this morning that I'm on paid leave from my job for at least four weeks, tho it could be as long as eight weeks. I also got my X-mas bonus early. I haven't been on a vacation since I moved here (Incline Village, NV) 4 years ago so I'm thinking of taking my boyfriend on a vacation. He has some inner ear thing going on so he can't fly, which leaves driving. I don't want to be on vacation for the whole time, but I'm thinking maybe taking a couple week long trips. I'd rather not go anywhere that's too cold, the temperature here has been below freezing for awhile and I'm tired of winter. We like museums, especially art museums. We kinda like doing the touristy type of things. We're not exactly foodies but we like trying new foods and have really liked several food tours we've gone on in the past. We like architecture and walking tours. We like guided tours especially the type where you can get on and off at different stops. We like shopping (Incline Village is beautiful but it doesn't have shit for shopping). Any ideas where we should go?
A woman drove her car through the front window of a Trader Joe's supermarket in Oceanside Friday afternoon, terrifying shoppers, scattering merchandise and injuring nearly a dozen people. Chaos erupted inside the busy store on Long Beach Road as a white Buick Verano suddenly rammed into the checkout lines about 1 p.m., authorities said. There were no fatalities, but two serious injuries were reported. One man was run over by the car and another was pinned against a wall, Oceanside Fire Chief Kevin Klein said. Nassau police said the crash has been ruled an accident and did not name the driver, who fire officials said was about 80 years old."It's a miracle there were no fatalities," Klein said. "The store was crowded, and she entered through the front, right where the cash registers are, where people were lined up. . . . It was the worst-case scenario where she hit them." Maricel Baetiong, 39, of Island Park, said she was about to get in the checkout line when she realized she had forgotten to pick up vitamins. "I was standing right in the area where the car hit," she said after the crash. "I heard a big, loud noise, and I saw the glass shattered." Baetiong said she watched as a woman who had been knocked down by the car slowly stood -- dazed and in shock. An employee she had spoken to moments earlier was sprawled on the floor. Klein said about 40 people were in the store at the time, and injuries ranged from simple cuts from broken glass to "a couple of head injuries," though none were considered life-threatening. Eleven people were taken to hospitals, he said. Friday night, one victim remained at Nassau University Medical Center in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The driver was "extremely disoriented" after, and possibly before, the accident, Klein said.She backed into three parked cars in the store's lot before shifting into drive and losing control of the vehicle, Klein said. The car jumped a curb, crossed a 7-foot-wide walkway and smashed through the glass facade, coming to rest 20 feet into the store, he said. The driver was shaken up but not physically injured, Klein said. She was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
I'm Stopping In Trader Joe's. Need anything?
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Men who self-identify as gay, whether they are telling other people or not.\ \ I didn''t really want to include men who are in full denial and have never really self-identified as gay, but it''s probably too fine of a line not to include them. I know that sounds crazy, but I was trying to gauge the percentage of men, in their minds, self-identify as gay who then either come out or stay closeted.\ \ Also, fully closeted vs. partially closeted. \ \ Partially closeted meaning they have important people in their lives who know, many have existing gay relationships, go out to gay clubs, have gay friends, but other important people (certain relatives, work colleagues, certain friends/acquaintances don''t know, at least not via the person). I''m not including random people, such as if the cashier at the grocery store doesn''t know. \ \ I''d say 35 percent fully closeted, 55% partially closeted, 20% fully out.
Fans of detective drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch will finally find out how Holmes survived fall and faked his own death
BBC's Sherlock series three to begin on New Year's Day in the UK
Yes, some of the reactions to Nelson Mandela's death have been less than ideal. As a few have pointed out, the comments on, say, this National Review blog post or Sen. Ted Cruz's Facebook page regarding Mandela (the guy was a commie, racist murderer, yada yada) are fairly disgusting. To be fair, some commenters on the internet are always nasty and dumb, whatever the topic. But how about people who (maybe?) should know better? Here are the worst reactions to Mandela's passing, courtesy of… 1. Rick Santorum: With a straight face, the former Republican senator and failed presidential candidate, who is now making pro-Christian movies, compared Mandela's long struggle against the apartheid regime to Republicans' battle against…Obamacare: "He was fighting against some…great injustice," Santorum said on Fox News yesterday, "and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." There are a few key difference between the Affordable Care Act and a racist tyranny, but whatever. 2. Bill O'Reilly: During the same Fox News segment, host Bill O'Reilly emphasized that "great man" Nelson Mandela was a "communist." This is not true, but it is true that South Africa has a partially socialized health care system. 3. Nikki Finke: The famous Hollywood blogger tweeted this gem: R.I.P. Nelson Mandela, subject of Weinstein Co’s Idris Elba-starrer 'Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom' which opened Nov 29 and has awards buzz.
The Worst Reactions to Nelson Mandela's Death | Mother Jones
He was an influential gay hippie evangelical Christian who died of AIDS. I'd never heard of him before yesterday. There can't have been many like him. Anyone know him?
Do you know anyone who ever lived on one? Do you have to be Jewish?
"I have never seen it in all my years of cable," says Phil Griffin." Megyn Kelly blew out Rachel Maddow in the key demo on Tuesday after losing to her the night before. "I have never seen it in all my years of cable," says Phil Griffin. Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there's something fishy about Tuesday's ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation. "Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic. On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours," Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser. "Tuesday -- you guys should be doing some investigations; I have never seen it in all my years of cable -- same overnight, same everything. And they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible." Griffin continued, "I have never seen it. They did election-night numbers in the demo Tuesday." The Nielsen numbers Griffin refers to include MSNBC beating Fox News on Monday in the adults 25-54 demographic at 7 p.m. and tying Fox News at 10 p.m. At 9 p.m. on Monday, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show beat Fox News' new The Kelly File, hosted by Megyn Kelly, by a slim 10,000 viewers in the key demo. By Tuesday, though, Fox News was back to its dominant self, with 573,000 in the key demo compared with 261,000 for MSNBC between the hours of 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Perhaps most dramatically, Kelly's narrow loss to Rachel Maddow from a night earlier was significantly reversed, with Kelly drawing an audience of 623,000 in the key demo compared with Maddow's 291,000. Nielsen has not yet responded to Griffin's remarks. On Wednesday, Kelly beat Maddow 384,000 to 299,000 in the key demo, with CNN's Piers Morgan Live at 117,000. And on Thursday, Kelly beat Maddow 376,000 to 288,000, with Morgan at 157,000. Griffin's assertion that Fox News did "election night" numbers on Tuesday may have been hyperbole, considering on Tuesday Fox News had 2.65 million in primetime and 573,000 in the key demo, while on the night of the presidential election Fox News had 7.5 million viewers with 3 million from the key demo, according the Nielsen.
MSNBC President Wants 'Investigation' Into Fox News' 'Impossible' Ratings Gain
Big Brother houseguest Steven Daigle is diving into his next venture, butt first. He's doing weekly bareback shows on Cam4. Do you like to watch? Be a fly on the wall in the BB house 24/7 with the live feeds.
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Paltrow wins her battle with Vanity Fair after magazine reportedly ditches 'epic take-down' piece on the Oscar winning actress for 'softer' feature She’s been raging a one woman war against Vanity Fair magazine for weeks but according to new reports Gwyneth Paltrow has triumphed over the publication. The 41-year-old has been locked in a battle with Graydon Carter’s magazine since it revealed its intention to publish an 'epic takedown' of the actress following her refusal to cooperate with a planned cover story. Now, after urging her A-list friends to boycott the magazine, insiders suggest Vanity Fair are now planning a much ‘softer’ piece on the Oscar winner. Gwyneth has been staging something of a celebrity coup against the publication, with the actress composing a letter to her celebrity friends back in May urging them to boycott the magazine. As well as taking offence to the planned expose on herself, the actress was said to be angered by 'unflattering' articles the magazine printed about Tom Cruise and her ex-fiancé Brad Pitt. 'Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine,' she wrote in her letter. 'If you are asked for quotes or comments, please decline. Also, I recommend you all never do this magazine again.' It sounds like the campaign may have paid off as RadarOnline.com report that the famous magazine is planning to go lightly in their future article: ‘Whatever they wind up publishing, it’s going to be soft,’ a source claims. ‘Gwyneth’s campaign against the Vanity Fair article has apparently worked and she’s not as worried as she was three weeks ago’. ‘But the article is still coming out and she still refuses to participate in it.’ The threatened expose reportedly originally included a probe on the Seven actress’ friendship with Elle Macpherson’s billionaire husband Jeff Soffer. Gwyneth, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, was forced to deny any 'romantic relationship' with the property developer – following claims Vanity Fair has explosive details on the pair. According to Page Six, the magazine was planning to delve into their friendship after the two were spotted looking close at a Miami party in 2008. The actress was also forced to deny that she asked her A-list pals to boycott Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars party next year in response to their ‘take-down’ piece, with a report from Radar claiming that , ‘she wants to shut their Oscar party down entirely.' However the actress has vehemently denied the claims, with her representative telling Mail Online last month the allegations are 'completely false, Gwyneth has not asked anyone to not attend the party,' the 41-year-old's rep said.
Disappointed! Gwyneth Paltrow wins her battle with Vanity Fair
Is he the new Cody Cummings ?
An improvement I think. If the boys who can't yet embrace a gay identity stop claiming to be bi, maybe you bitches can accept that some people are actually bi. And don't get me started on "pansexual." What a joke.
Get it, son.
[quote]Is it jealousy or experience making everyone freak out about the age difference between the diver and the writer? When we think back on 2013, say in 20 or 30 years, will we ask each other where we were when we heard 19-year-old British diver Tom Daley was dating 39-year-old director/screenwriter Dustin Lance Black? You’d think it was the most pivotal news of this year judging by The Advocate’s web traffic or the gay gossip that spread like a wig store fire; curtains seemed to billow from a collective eye roll. Here’s some pearl-clutching comments from The Advocate story on this Gay/December pairing: “uh once again the old Queens going after the twink half his freaking age!!!” “19 & 40?! I guess they're the Tom & Katie of the Gays. Kinda creepy.” “I give it a year.” “What's he looking for? A father figure? Won't last!” “Mark my words, Tom is too young to be experienced in relationships. Their age will hinder their relationship, and they will not be together at some point. This will not last.” “This is a disturbing age difference, regardless of who it is.” My reaction wasn't as extreme; when told, I said, “Oy vey” and went back to work. Not until I realized the outsize reaction to, let’s call them Tustin, did I give thought to my judgment. Yes, yes, as gay people we’re not supposed to throw shade on (legal) relationships that stray from the norm; we’ve endured that our whole lives. But let’s be honest, even if you wished the new couple the best of luck on Facebook or told your boyfriend or wife that, “it’s so sweet,” you initially thought, Ew. Maybe we’re simply jealous. Who wouldn’t want to make waffles on Tom’s abs or run your fingers through Dustin’s hair while stroking his Milk Oscar with your free hand? Here are two exceptional, good-looking men at the top of their game. And they get to sleep with each other on 1,500-thread-count sheets! “Not fair,” we say, as we curse them and check BuzzFeed to forget our lives of quiet desperation. Of course, Dustin is on the receiving end of most of the envy. This middle-aged guy snagged a young cutie with a million-dollar smile and a ticket to Rio in 2016. Some of us assume his “conquest” wasn’t made on the merits of his appearance, because unless the older man is Joe Manganiello, why would a teenager be attracted to someone two decades older than him? DLB — that scoundrel! — must have used his brains, charm, and success to woo that baby dreamboat. Even if their love is as legitimate as Barack and Michelle's, their pairing reminds us of those rich, older men with status symbol beauties on their arms; those men who don’t want an equal as a partner, just a play thing to toss aside when she gets her first wrinkle. When we see matches like this, we assume the men are shallow and the women gold-diggers. Make both participants male and we think the same (e.g Calvin Klein, Bryan Singer and their youthful coteries). But that formula doesn't work with Tustin: DLB is dewy and good-looking in his own right, while bronze-medal winning Tom was a judge on a reality show, so he’s probably doing fine financially. Maybe we’re all wondering, what can a 19-year-old and a 39-year-old possibly get from each other? I can’t imagine they had similar childhoods (Tom just graduated from his) or many shared experiences. But that’s not to say they can’t offer up something tangible to each other besides silky hair and 0 percent body fat. For Tom, maybe DLB embodies confidence, intelligence, and passion; an example of a gay man he can admire. Describing DLB as a “father figure” to Tom is off; he’s too youthful for such a description. But many newly out gay and bi men want a sort-of fraternal figure to guide them through the queer door. In his famous YouTube video, Tom twice said his new boyfriend made him feel “safe.”
As requested. Was Michael Pitt a complete asshole towards JGL?
tells her "You are my Enemy!"
While we waited on a booth, there was the typical, omnipresent young'ish mother waiting with us. She had an infant in one hand and a little toddler girl, about 2 years old. The toddler did what toddlers do; She was sniffly, snorty, kept wiping snot on her little pink jacket as mommy ignored it, periodically reminding her that daddy would be joining them. Along the glass wall, there were small glass Christmas tree balls like you hang on a tree.. They were suspended from ribbon taped at the top of the windows at varying levels. Once the little girl discovered these, she began playing with them, eventually pulling them back and watching them bang against the glass. I knew one was going to shatter. Mommy allowed it, talking to the kid like she was more of a friend "Oh look, they're just taped up there, they could come down." but never once admonishing the little girl to stop it. Eventually, one fell, and cracked on the floor. Mommy could not be bother in the least by this and told the little girl to be careful not to step on it. But the little girl kept playing until finally, she pulled one back from the window, let it go and it shatters against the glass! Only then did mom make her quit and then called over the too-busy bus person to have him clean up the shit. And THIS is why I don't get mothers, not young ones anyway. They're horrible people. What is it about the new way of parenting that has them allowing kids to do these things? Do they think the kid is "discovering life"? WTF is this woman's problem?
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Especially December
Talk about nerve. Hoping to match History Channel's gigantic numbers for its 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys, that cable network's sister station A&E has bankrolled a four-hour tale about the real-life outlaw couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. It's not exactly fresh material: In addition to countless history books and documentaries, the bloodthirsty pair's story has previously been told in Arthur Penn's 1967 drama Bonnie and Clyde, one of the most important American films of all time, in terms of its violence, sexuality, and ironic style. A&E hired Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) to direct the project, and decided to air it simultaneously on A&E, History, and Lifetime, so kudos to them, I guess, for dreaming big. But this miniseries is terrible, as close to a complete waste of time as I've encountered in my two years of writing for this publication. In contrast to Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, or for that matter almost any gangster story you can name, this miniseries has no real point of view of its main characters — no sense of who they were beyond their most basic plot functions, much less what values they expressed or opposed. There's a smidgen of artistic POV in the dubious notion that Bonnie totally drove the relationship, while Clyde was a schlump who might have whiled away his twilight years in peace if that vain tart hadn't gotten her hooks into him. ("He held the gun. She called the shots," the ads assert, which would be silly even if we didn't see Bonnie firing actual shots in the clips.) Beyond that, this is another one of those dag-blasted historical potboilers that thinks "drama" equals "acting out stuff that happened." Clyde — played by Emile Hirsch, who has been excellent elsewhere but is close to a zero here — narrates the miniseries as a sort of extended rise-and-fall narrative, coupled with a foolish love story. This is the worst kind of narration — the kind that tells you things you could already see or intuit, when it's not smearing personal and historical factoids atop the scenes. Bonnie, played by Holliday Grainger of The Borgias, is a sexy hellion who attaches herself to Clyde as a means of escaping her humdrum existence. There's not much sense of the real-life Bonnie, who was comfortable around the "criminal element" long before she met Clyde and married a brutal criminal at age 16. This one just wants to be famous. She dreams of being an actress and practically falls apart when she gets a rejection letter from Columbia Pictures. She's the mastermind of Bonnie-and-Clyde-as-celebrities, the half of the couple who escalates violent situations or reacts to them with chilling indifference, and the fame-monger who obsessively maintains a scrapbook, comes up with the bright idea that "Bonnie" should go before "Clyde" in newspaper stories, and even confronts a reporter at home when she fails to get the order of billing right. Clyde, meanwhile, is depicted, rather half-assedly, as a quasi-mystical seeker, a man-child who had a vision of Bonnie as a much younger man and recognizes her as his dream girl: his destiny. Throughout the miniseries, Clyde comes off as essentially decent, if rather dumb and volatile, while Bonnie becomes more and more of a harpy, to the point that any love she once felt for Clyde is subsumed by a ravenous desire for more, more, more fame. This is vastly less complex, not to mention interesting, than the version of the relationship presented in the 1967 movie, where Bonnie and Clyde's thirst for notoriety was a team effort that came out of two very different dysfunctional family histories. An all-star supporting cast — including Holly Hunter as Bonnie's mother and William Hurt as Frank Hamer, who comes out of retirement to catch the duo — acts mostly in a void, their often precise and thoughtful choices presented in a blandly unimaginative manner. Were the miniseries well-made, its story might be engaging anyhow, in a bad-for-you-but-you-can't-stop-watching way. But the script, by Joe Bateer and John Rice, has no sense of shape; it's just a collection of things that happen
any DL suggestions?
Latter Days was okay but this other one is tired.
[quote]Another critical scalp (and this time it’s mine!) All good things come to an end (and some not so good things, too). I’ve been predicting the demise of careers in print journalism for some time, and yesterday the latest scalp was claimed: my own. After some eleven and a half years as theatre critic for the Sunday Express – which began with a review of the opening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium in May 2002 and ended with a column that included an instant gay theatre classic in Jumpers for Goalposts at the Bush last Sunday – I have been laid off. So I follow in the footsteps of Libby Purves and Kate Bassett, respectively let go from reviewing for The Times and The Independent on Sunday, earlier this year. While it was an editorial decision in each of those cases – for The Times to change its critic and for the Indie on Sunday to abandon criticism entirely – mine turned out to be more intimate, historical and entirely unrelated to my professional activities. The paper had been tipped off by a malicious third party that there were some private, personal (but entirely legal) images of me available on a gay website. I’d never seen or heard of the site myself so it was news to me, but yes, the thumbnail picture I was shown by the Head of Human Resources was indeed of me. I had not posted it, but remembered it being taken, by my reckoning, by a friend in San Francisco I have long lost touch with some 22 years ago – long before I either worked for the paper or the internet had come of age, so I never expected them to turn up on a website that didn’t exist then – or to find it still live now! The Sunday Express’s Head of HR, however, believes that the existence of any such images could bring the company into disrepute. My sexuality is public knowledge and by revealing this information freely as I’m doing now, it is clear that I do not agree. The editor of the paper also stated, in front of the HR head, that the images were “embarrassing”. Sorry to disagree with his world view, but I’m not embarrassed at all. (In the week that Tom Daley came out, it is good to be able to be honest about who you are and even what you look like without your clothes on – though I will agree that Mr Daley looks rather better in a state of undress than I do.) It is, of course, the prerogative of a newspaper editor to choose his own writers but there is a certain irony that a newspaper, now owned by proprietor Richard Desmond whose business interests once included the publication of Penthouse in the UK and Asian Babes – and which he continued to publish long after he acquired the Express group in 2000, until he sold the adult magazine business in 2004 – should be so affronted. (The company continues to own and operate Television X, a series of subscription adult television channels) It could be said that the only difference is that these are straight magazines and channels, whereas mine was defined as a gay one As Nigella Lawson is currently discovering, the salacious details of one’s private life are often now in danger of becoming public property. But it doesn’t make her less able to be a cooking authority and doesn’t, by the same token, change my relationship to an art form I am passionate about and rigorous about covering. I will continue to write, tweet, broadcast and publish with my usual passion and integrity for other outlets including, of course, The Stage.
This over used phrase, which has no legal meaning, is a euphemism for "he's a suspect, but we have nothing to prove he did anything." To the public, POI means "he's guilty."
My sister has been taking care of my Dad who is in hospice care and not expected to live much longer. This past Saturday, my sister called me to say that "something beautiful" had just happened in Dad's room. A white light appeared on the wall. They thought it was a reflection of the sunlight coming in through the window so they shut the blinds and darkened the room. My sister says it only got brighter. I linked the photo below. (Dad's in a deep sleep, not yet gone.) My best friend's mother is also in hospice and he went to see her this weekend. A white light (he says looks exactly like his late father) appeared over her bed too. And they also got a (more indistinct) picture. So I went online and started reading. It seems this phenomenon is pretty common. Has anyone else had an experience like this? I'm floored by it!
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Why bother? It tends to look laughably bad when guys continue to color their hair, despite the deep wrinkles carved into their face. Maybe it's sexist, but men and women weren't created equal when it comes to pulling off dyed hair. And with guys, the darker the dye-job, the funnier the results. Are any of you guilty?
It's almost painful to watch these days. And to think NY was once that way.
I love this series... so under-appreciated. One of the funniest things on TV, period. I CAN'T WAIT!
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I could never figure him out.
Almost brought me to tears.....May him and the person that was with him in that car rest in peace.
I don't text a lot and got a text this evening and thought it was from a friend who lives out of the country for part of the year. For some reason I only got the phone number and no name associated with the text. Turns out it was my boss, who was apparently at some bar drunk. In the course of the texting I called him a slut after he called me a bitch. Told him he was a drunk as well after his 3 fucked up attempts of sending a smiley face. How fucked am I?
On TCM now. Can anyone else compare?
What comes around goes around. She is a whore, and Edwards is a fool. I'm sure the 35 year really loves his sorry ass.
Check out what Latoya did to her face. Her nose is like Michael''s
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Let's name 'em.
An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as “freeriders” – in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned. Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama’s main channel for climate action. Details of Alec’s strategy to block clean energy development at every stage – from the individual rooftop to the White House – are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week. About 800 state legislators and business leaders are due to attend the three-day event, which begins on Wednesday with appearances by the Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson and the Republican budget guru and fellow Wisconsinite Paul Ryan. Other Alec speakers will be a leading figure behind the recent government shutdown, US senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and the governors of Indiana and Wyoming, Mike Pence and Matt Mead. For 2014, Alec plans to promote a suite of model bills and resolutions aimed at blocking Barack Obama from cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and state governments from promoting the expansion of wind and solar power through regulations known as Renewable Portfolio Standards. Documents obtained by the Guardian show the core elements of its strategy began to take shape at the previous board meeting in Chicago in August, with meetings of its energy, environment and agriculture subcommittees. Further details of Alec’s strategy were provided by John Eick, the legislative analyst for Alec’s energy, environment and agriculture program. Eick told the Guardian the group would be looking closely in the coming year at how individual homeowners with solar panels are compensated for feeding surplus electricity back into the grid. “This is an issue we are going to be exploring,” Eick said. He said Alec wanted to lower the rate electricity companies pay homeowners for direct power generation – and maybe even charge homeowners for feeding power into the grid. “As it stands now, those direct generation customers are essentially freeriders on the system. They are not paying for the infrastructure they are using. In effect, all the other non direct generation customers are being penalised,” he said. Eick dismissed the suggestion that individuals who buy and install home-based solar panels had made such investments. “How are they going to get that electricity from their solar panel to somebody else’s house?” he said. “They should be paying to distribute the surplus electricity.” In November, Arizona became the first state to charge customers for installing solar panels. The fee, which works out to about $5 a month for the average homeowner, was far lower than that sought by the main electricity company, which was seeking to add up to $100 a month to customers’ bills. Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, said the attack on small-scale solar was part of the larger Alec project to block clean energy. “They are trying to eliminate pro-solar policies in the states to protect utility industry profits,” he said. The group sponsored at least 77 energy bills in 34 states last year. The measures were aimed at opposing renewable energy standards, pushing through the Keystone XL pipeline project, and barring oversight on fracking, according to an analysis by the Centre for Media and Democracy. Until now, the biggest target in Alec’s sights were state Renewable Portfolio Standards which require electricity companies to source a share of their power from wind, solar, biomass, or other clean energy. Such measures are seen as critical to reducing America’s use of coal and oil, and to the fight against climate change. RPS are now in force in 30 states.
Conservative group ALEC pushes stealth tax on homeowners who install solar panels
I'm drinking a hot toddy and humming show tunes.
Piper Perabo stars in the new tv series for the USA network called "Covert Affiars." She plays Annie Walker on the show. Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Peter Gallagher also star in the show.%0D\ %0D\ The show seems to be very popular right now because it''s getting great reviews. Let''s talk about the show on here.%0D\ %0D\ Any gossip information? Behind the scenes stuff, etc.
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Can standard Fleet enemas be packed in carry-on luggage? Would hate to have the TSA confiscate them at the airport.
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Charles Scaglione Sr. recently has published a self-styled memoir chronicling his adventures in operating Rounds, a reputed NYC gay hustler bar that opened in 1979, and he's telling some secrets and naming some names. In Camelot Lost (RoseDog Books 2009) Scaglione offers a rarely-revealed insider's perspective into the business side of a gay nightlife establishment -- or "store" as it's referred to in the industry -- and as a straight man provides unique cultural insight into the gay scene as it leaves the wild seventies for the AIDS-ravaged eighties. Rounds, often euphemistically referred to by Scaglione as a "cruising bar," was located at 303 East 53rd Street in an upscale midtown area known as "the loop" where johns would seek to hook up with hustlers, and its owners apparently intended from the beginning to capitalize on the neighborhood vibe: "The street is a perfect location for a hustler bar. That is what it shall be." Scaglione, a former executive in the high rise office building industry in Manhattan, had no experience with gay nightlife but his two partners did. One partner was Seymour Seiden, a reputed mob-connected figure who was behind the Sanctuary at 407 West 43rd Street -- perhaps the first modern gay dance club -- which was closed by the city in 1972 as an alleged "supermarket in drugs," and the other was Ken Gersberg a/k/a Ken Gaston, a theater producer who had a successful track record with event promotion. The three men each contributed $50,000 although the apparently penniless Gaston needed to borrow his funds from three friends of Scaglione. The grand opening of Rounds in 1979 was a star-studded event according to Scaglione in Camelot Lost, and he alleges that record producer David Geffen, Studio 54 owner Steve Rubel, and fashion designer Calvin Klein were among those in attendance. Other celebrities and glitterati who allegedly patronized Rounds over the years included Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol and Vladimir Horowitz. The opening night did not end well for everyone, however. One patron, a friend of Gaston, was shot dead in his apartment later that evening, and apparently he had picked up some rough trade from the Hay Market, a gay hustler bar at 772 Eighth Avenue in the Times Square area. (In 1986 reputed Genovese capo Matty Ianniello was convicted for a skimming racket involving several gay bars including the Hay Market.) The story does not end well. Ken Gaston died of AIDS in May 1983 -- Shelley Winters delivered his eulogy -- and Seymour Seiden died of AIDS in April 1988. For anyone who doubts whether a straight man can offer a compelling memoir about the gay world, Scaglione offers some of his best writing in recounting the madness as AIDS took his business associates, close friends and Rounds patrons. Indeed, Scaglione writes with remarkable candor about the sexual freedom that generally prevailed during the gay liberation days -- a period which Seiden characterized as Camelot -- until so many were lost to AIDS. Rounds was closed in 1994 following an NYPD raid.(full story at link)
A Memoir About New York City''s Famous Gay Hustler Bar ROUNDS
It's handled.
From now until the end of the month saying "Happy Holidays" is meaningless. There's one holiday remaining in December. "Merry Christmas" is the only greeting you need.
I've been watching Long Island Medium (sue me)...I was surprised to see the Long Island that is depicted on this show. A giant, Italian Roman Catholics middle class suburb. Very middle class. I thought Long Island was a bit more high end, with the Hamptons and whatnot. Is this what LI is like, by and large?
I simply asked where our "Wild Elephant" get together was going to take place. I was mortified when my BOSS had to explain that it is, in fact, "White Elephant". Good lord. 😳 What have you done lately to embarrass yourself?
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Did any of you know Cary Leeds? He had the biggest cock in New York, lived in a penthouse on the West side, then moved to Florida, Delray then Miami. Did porn. Into orgies, black men. Any of you knew him, any stories?
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A black community college instructor in Minneapolis claims she was formally reprimanded over a discussion on racism in one of her classes. Shannon Gibney, an English faculty member at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, told MCTC student newspaper City College News in a video interview that three white students filed a complaint against her with the school after a discussion on structural racism in one of her communications classes. In the interview, which was posted by the college newspaper to YouTube, Gibney says a white student interrupted her lesson to ask "Why do we have to talk about this in every class?" Another white male in the class then chimed in, Gibney told the student paper, saying he didn't understand either. "It's like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?" the student asked, according to Gibney. Gibney said that when she told the students that they could file a complaint with the college's legal affairs department if they were so unhappy with the discussion, they took her up on her offer. That led to an official reprimand from the school in early November, she claims. Gibney told The Huffington Post she could not comment further because the case is in appeal. MCTC would not confirm that Gibney had been reprimanded after a student complaint, citing privacy laws. The school did, however, deny reprimanding her for leading a discussion on structural racism. "The college has taken no steps to prohibit faculty members from teaching about racism, including structural racism," college spokeswoman Dawn Skelly told HuffPost. "MCTC has never disciplined a faculty member for teaching or discussing structural racism. Conversations about race, class and power are important and regular parts of many classes at MCTC and have been for years." City College News reported that after Gibney spoke with the student newspaper, she was told she risks further punishment for violating the unnamed white male students' privacy. MCTC noted in a statement that nearly one in four of the school's employees are minorities, and that "of the eight new full-time faculty hires the college made for fall 2012, six are people of color." More than half of the 13,874 students enrolled at MCTC in fall 2013 are persons of color, according to the college. The story was first reported last month by City College News, but was picked up by outlets like the Raw Story and Salon on Monday. Gibney is not filing a lawsuit against the school, but is submitting a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging workplace discrimination at MCTC, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
Black College Instructor Claims She Was Punished For Discussing Racism
I know this has been asked a bunch of times but my workplace is having a Christmas party and I don't know what to bring. We're 30 people or so, most of them Carribean or Filipino. There must be six different chicken dishes (fried, jerk, adobo, etc.) and a number of various rice dishes. I was thinking of bringing a tray of raw vegetables and a 2-3 kinds of dip to add some color and lightness, but would welcome any ideas.
I repeat, ShaMichael has forgiven Sharkeisha.
Yeah, everyone knows "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen in one version or another. It's a great song even if it is over-done. Today, I discovered another really GREAT Leonard Cohen song, "Dance Me To The End Of Love"...holy fuck is it terrific! It is the kind of song I wish someone would sing to me... How many of you already knew the song? And what else am I missing, either by Cohen or someone similar?
Like a tuck driver or mechanic or machine operator or lifting heavy objects? Do your coworkers know you're gay?
The whole year all he does is bitch and bitch and come late when I need stuff and show up at inconvenient times and tell me why he cant do what I need but it will all always be a big drama… So, all of a sudden at Christmas, he is everywhere… so friendly, calling me by name, saying hello. Even offered to walk my dog this morning. Out of the clear blue. He just wants that Christmas cash and he is such a whore about it. I like to wait until about Dec. 23 just to see how much he will debase himself. Then, I just hand him a couple of hundred dollars as I walk by. I dont sweat it, but I sure make him work for every cent, since he doesnt work much at other times of the year.
I know she''s not everyone''s cup of tea, but I''m personally glad to see her career in recovery mode. Robert Downey Jr and Lindsay Lohan did far worse things yet they were able to find work...why was Winona treated like an outcast following her arrest? All she did was steal some designer scrunchies and socks. \ \ Anyway, I''ve been a fan of her since I was 6 years old (Beetlejuice!) and even though people make fun of her acting, I''ve always found her to be tremendous (even in crap like Bram Stoker''s Dracula).
I just finished reading the book by her friend/maid ("Living with Miss G") and the only memory I have of her is in Earthquake where she was cast as Lorne Greene's daughter ("Daddy!"). She wasn't very good in that, and as I went through this memoir it looks like her only real hit movie was a part in "Night of the Iguana" back in 1964. She was often described as wooden. Could she act? The book is good, by the way. And I kind of got the feeling that Ava and her maid were definitely more than employer/employee and possibly more than "just friends."
I did a search and could not find that this film has been discussed yet on here. It has gotten pretty much rave reviews from just about all of the critics. Has anyone on DL seen it? Is it as good as I've read? This weekend, help me choose: Philomena, The Dallas Buyer's Club or Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
He's hot as hell. Is he gay?
Grieving mother crying out for answers? Or Munchausen-by-proxy child killer?
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Too much corporate greed. Homophobe Alec Baldwin had a nice butt but his chest was too hairy. BUT I lost the narrative thread....Why did Melanie Griffith have to take her bouncy tit bags out to vacuum? Was that an electrical thing?
I''m watching an SATC rerun and they filmed her from behind in tight sweats and that girl has some seriously big thighs and butt.
Ronaldo was attending the official launch of his new underwear range, CR7, and anyone wondering what his debut collection looks like didn’t have to look too far - a 19-metre tall campaign image featuring the chiseled winger in all his glory was suspended above in the landmark building’s renaissance courtyard. Meanwhile the man in question, never shy about coming forward, was clearly delighted as he posed for photos between its legs. ‘I am very proud to officially launch CR7 today and especially to see my campaign image displayed in this beautiful building, one of the most famous landmarks in Madrid,’ he said.‘I put a lot of passion and dedication into creating this new underwear line and I am delighted to finally launch it globally today. ‘ Ronaldo has previously modelled for Armani Jeans, but his latest campaign marks an inaugural brand venture and his first attempt at fashion designing. His design debut was aided by Richard Chai – best known for his collaborations with Marc Jacobs and Donna Karen.‘Fashion and design are two passions of mine and I have wanted to launch my own brand for a long time. Working on this collection alongside Richard has given me a great creative outlet and I have loved every part of collaborating on the range, from selecting the colours and designs to testing the styles and fits myself,’ he said. ‘I am very proud that the collection is launching worldwide today.’ Ronaldo's new underwear range will be available to buy via www.cr7underwear.com from November 1.
Dazed Fraus Lament: "If only there had been some way of harnessing this technology so that slower speeds would have been possible!" Teary Mourners Ask Sky Pal to Take Frankie Muniz Instead.
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Three babies by three fathers – will it be third time lucky for Calamity Kate Winslet? The Oscar-winner's enthusiasm for marriage is surely not shared by her children And the next one, please: Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet marries Ned Rocknroll, the nephew of Sir Richard Branson Photo: AP By Judith Woods7:30AM BST 06 Jun 2013266 Comments Kate Winslet is pregnant again, and I blame Leonardo DiCaprio. No, he’s not the father (this time…), but remember that scene in Titanic where his character, Jack, is about to slip off into the icy Atlantic and bids Rose adieu by reassuring her she will live and go on to have lots of babies? Well, he missed one crucial detail; the dang dying fool only forgot to specify that they weren’t supposed to be by different fathers. Which is possibly why Winslet, 37, is having a baby with her newest husband, Sir Richard Branson’s nephew, Ned Rocknroll. The actress, who won an Oscar for her splendid performance in The Reader, always has a baby – but just the one, mind – with every husband, to keep it fair. Winslet already has a daughter – Mia, 12 – by the love of her life, ex-husband Jim Threapleton, and a son, Joe, nine, by the next love of her life, ex-husband Sam Mendes. The latest love of her life, 34-year-old Rocknroll, used to be called Abel Smith, but changed his name by deed poll, which probably says all we need to know about him. He and Winslet met in late 2011 on Necker, a Caribbean island owned by his billionaire Virgin tycoon uncle. They married in New York last December and now that she’s announced her pregnancy, it’s time to play Happy Families. Again. What her daughter, in particular, makes of Winslet’s revolving-door relationships can only be guessed at. But to the outside world, Kate, it just looks tacky. Three children by three different fathers doesn’t look good on anyone. To paraphrase Lady Bracknell: to have children by two men may be regarded as a misfortune, to have children by three looks like carelessness. I know that you are a woman of grand, towering passions and deep, gushy emotion, but you are steering perilously close to clinching the Ulrika Jonsson Dysfunctionality Award for Services to Broken Britain. Just one more marriage and you will match her run of four kids with different surnames. Tempting, huh? It might be if you had joined the cast of the now-defunct Shameless, but you are an A-lister, a home-grown star in the Hollywood firmament we should be proud of, not apologetic about. Given your CV thus far has been a triumph, with barely a clanger to speak of, how is it that you can make such discerning choices professionally yet disastrous choices personally? Threapleton was your nice-bloke starter husband and got left behind when your career went stratospheric. Mendes was your trophy intellectual spouse – Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller spring to mind – but given his oft-repeated mantra that monogamy was an unnatural construct, surely you knew the roving-eyed director was never going to be a keeper? Now you’ve spliced yourself to a man-boy who presumably thinks his surname lends him character. What on earth were you thinking? Actually, I suspect you weren’t thinking at all – you were feeling. That is what actresses do, and at your level they get paid very well to get lost in the moment and give themselves over to the heart rather than the head. But then the director shouts “Cut!” and they return to real life, where instead of the swell of violins there are children to be bathed and put to bed and told that no, sweetheart, Daddy’s not here because it’s not his night. Has bitter experience (your offspring’s, if not yours) taught you nothing?
Which is more pleasing? I find short torso to be more attractive. There is something strange about a very long torso and short legs.
Premiers tonight... this is the new fall show I've probably been most looking forward to. Karl Urban! Premiere tonight, and then a new episode tomorrow at its regular time. Anyone watching? Anyone excited?
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Openly gay filmmaker Lee Daniels recently discussed his belief that gay men in the black community just "can't come out." The "Butler" director sat down with Larry King for an interview on "Larry King Now" and discussed when he first knew he was gay. He was just 5 years old when he knew "something wasn't right" after walking downstairs during his dad's poker game wearing his moms red pumps. His father, he said, beat him severely for the act. Daniels went on to discuss homophobia in the black community overall. "I think that [gays] are prejudiced upon even by the African-Americans, too," Daniels explained. He provided an anecdote about when he went to the Gay Men's Health Crisis center in New York City while doing research for his 2009 movie "Precious." He said he was shocked to see all black woman at the center: They [the center] service black women with AIDS. Why? Because black men can't come out. Why? Because simply you can't do it. Your family says it, your church says it, your teachers say it, your parents say it, your friends say it, your work says it. So you're living on this 'DL' thing and you're infecting black women. So it's killing us. I think that because the black culture and the Hispanic culture have a thing about this. Daniels, a Philadelphia native, has discussed being a gay black man before. In an interview with The Huffington Post last year, he said that gay people are "third-class citizens." "We are nothing to many people, especially in the African-American community," he said. "We are told, especially as black men, that we have to live up to certain expectations. The churches say it's not good. Our neighbors say it's not good. Our friends and family say it's not good. I am living in my truth, and I demand that in cinema, too." Daniels' honesty has led to people like BET's Keith Boykin commending him for breaking down barriers and challenging "the persistent meme of our community's homophobia."
Lee Daniels, Gay 'Butler' Director, Says 'Black Men Can't Come Out'
Living in NYC or San Francisco is the only way to go. Gay ghettos in general. Blanket hatred of women. What else?
I really don't care for them. I get why people want them, it works for them. I'll concede that newborns are cute in a novelty sort of way because they are so tiny. But otherwise, in my case, I rarely find them cute or want to praise them. I fake it in public, because I guess we are supposed to. I don't wish them harm, I just prefer to not be around them, but it's out of my control sometimes. So I have to fake it and their parents probably think I like kids, but I really don't.
The breakout star of The Braxton Family has a hilarious knack for making up songs on the spot. This one (with Toni on keys) is about their sister Trina's cheating husband Gabe, and how he must have a "Ding-a-ling of Gold" for Trina to go back to him.
Is it embarrassing for Carrie Underweod to have circles sung around her by Audra McDonald?
"Her comeback this year has been nice, and her song "Body Party" is 1 of the biggest gay hits of the year."
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When will any of my Independent movies be released, even to Video? What about my triumphant return to Broadway... err, I mean ENCORES. Who doesn’t want to hear me sing Joey, Joey, Joey? Will the public ever believe I don’t' have genital warts….just a bad snip job? Will Jason ever get new dentures? Will Monty find true love? Place your bets, will Broadway's "Bad Boy" ever go back to being Broadway's "It Boy"?
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I took a cooking class and I thought the chef was a hottie. I saw him in his t shirt before he put on the white coat and felt lust in my heart. He did not really flirt back but seemed receptive with smiles etc. \ \ When he left the room for a minute one of other students who knew him told me that he was straight and very married. \ \ After the class I apologized and he said that one should never apologize for being complimentary and kind. I think he meant it. \ \ I wish everyone felt this way.
Matthew Broderick as a hot male model in "Torch Song Trilogy." A rodent with eyes is hardly one to make a drag queen swoon.
Anybody here into his music? Tesfaye's voice is being praised as the reincarnation of Michael Jackson's. The Weeknd collaborates with fellow Canadian Drake. In my mind, Drake drinks wine and smokes weed with him, and they have sex occasionally.
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But she hasn't acted in three years, going on four! So how is that possible?
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In a statement, the pair said: “After almost six years of marriage, Steven Pasquale and Laura Benanti are amicably filing for divorce. They remain loving and committed friends.”
at her Brooklyn home
I just came a cross this fascinating article that has side-by-side pictures that compare what some popular dog breeds looked like 100 years ago and what their ancestors look like now. I had no idea how much breeding has transformed these dogs over the years to look like some freakish approximation of what they were. Of course, all of the breeding has brought about a host of physical defects. The Bull Terrier transformation is particularly freaky to me. Whatever possessed breeders to want a dog with that kind of a skull?
A century of dog breeding - Today's purebreds look nothing like their ancestors
Although I live in a major city, Baltimore, I have spent most of my gay life without a close gay friend. All of my friends are straight, and as I get older: straight with children. At first glance I realize that there is a poverty in my life. Having no gay friends is like not having any black friends, or Jewish friends, or female friends. But then I ask what am I really missing. All my close friends love me and respect me. I am a good uncle. I keep up on matters in the gay community. Everyone knows I am gay- I don't hide it. And there is very little drama in my life. (not that gay men =drama) When I was in my twenties I went to the bars, community activities, etc. to meet other gay people and a possible mate. But I never really felt comfortable in that world. I have nothing against it, but it wasn't me. And so I did more things that I liked to do. I met other gays, but the friendship never took, and I always ended up being friends with the straight people I knew. Now at 48 I wonder is it really all that important. Being gay isn't the sum of my parts, and since I am not hindered by it do I need another person in my life to remind me of what they think being gay really means? Or am I really missing out? Does a happy gay man need other gay men or women as friends?
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Afterall, I've aged better than either of those two decrepit, haggard bitches. G is a desperate, Oscar-less mess. M is a stone-cold fish of a woman who can't recreate the sexual appeal or the raw, feral, pulsating heart of human rage and neuroses the way I can.
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She''ll apparently be gone after 13 episodes next season and Olivia will be promoted to off-screen supervisor. It''s possible Jennifer Love Hewitt might play the new detective. Meloni hasn''t reached a deal yet.
The playoff beard tradition is most unfortunate for a sport that needs all the help it can get for the TV audience. But if you ignore the beards, here are the four hottest players on the four remaining teams in the playoffs. For Pittsburgh - Sidney Crosby, James Neal, Matt Cooke, and Paul Martin For Boston - Tyler Sequin, Carl Soderberg, Dougie Hamilton, and Matt Bartkowski For Chicago - Patrick Sharp, Andrew Shaw, Patrick Kane, and Brent Seabrook For Los Angeles - Dustin Brown, Jonathan Quick, Jeff Carter, and Mike Richards
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They''re all so ridiculously good looking and hot. And don''t get me started on their thick, meaty bubble butts. They REALLY get my boihole all atwitter. Many of them are bi too. Most of the guys in my gym are Dominican, and I''ve slept with at least six of them in the past year. %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ I moved to Inwood last year, and they''re all around. They''re everywhere. It''s like a wet dream come to life. I never want to live anywhere else. Seriously addicted to these men. Surely there must be a 12-step program for me. Anyone else totally in awe of Dominican men?
The bell-ringing charity removed two links to 'ex-gay' therapy groups from its website's resource collection for dealing with 'sexual addiction.' see link for more
Salvation Army 'Does Not Consider Homosexual Orientation a Sin'
So Tom Daley has made the announcement that he is in a relationship with a man. He talks about how it makes him feel happy and safe. This is really where the discussion should end right? He's in a happy relationship, he feels safe, end of story. It shouldn't really be anyone else's business. But unfortunately, in today's celebrity obsessed culture, the private lives of anyone who's in the public eye are seen as up for discussion, especially when it comes to something like sexuality. Daley's revelation has led to a media storm with many media outlets labelling him as gay. And here's where my problem is with this whole discussion: Daley doesn't use any label in the video. The language he uses seems deliberately chosen to avoid any form of labelling of his sexuality. Either that or he feels that he hasn't settled on one yet. Regardless of his reasons, the media has mostly fallen over themselves to declare him a new gay icon. Even LGBTQ news site Pink News labelled him as such before rapidly changing their headline to 'Tom Daley: 'I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier''. They did also issue an apology for their original headline but it still stands that people were very quick to label him as gay. So why is this? Surely if he's, as he states in the video, in a relationship with a guy but still fancies girls that would make him bi or pansexual? If we're going to label him at all, why not use the correct one? Sadly, this is something that is common. Many bisexual celebrities are relabelled as either straight or gay, with Freddie Mercury, Virginia Woolf and Lady Gaga being just a few examples. The representation of bisexual people in popular culture is laughingly poor. In the Stonewall study Unseen on Screen out of 127 hours of TV surveyed, only five minutes and nine seconds were dedicated to portrayals of bisexuals. Five minutes and nine seconds. In comparison, gay men got four hours and 24 minutes and lesbians 42 minutes of screen time. In the grand scheme of things that's still a shockingly poor amount of time but compared to how long bisexuals get? It's an eternity. We've all heard the stereotypes about bisexuals. They're either confused and will decide on being straight or gay (an extension of this is the closeted argument that being bi is simply a step on the road to coming out fully) or they don't exist at all. They're greedy and promiscuous. I myself have been on the receiving end of this when a guy was chatting me up in a club. He backed off on finding out I had a boyfriend but when it came up in conversation that I was bi immediately turned around and asked, "So you will sleep with me then." Following on from this is the idea that bisexuals are carriers of STDs between the hetero and homosexual communities. Bisexual women are often asked if they'll participate in threesomes with straight couples simply because of their sexuality. Some people are told that they are reinforcing the patriarchy by participating in heteronormative as well as homosexual relationships. They are told that they are traitors if they move from a gay to a straight relationship. Finally, most people are told that it's simply a phase, that they'll make up their mind (usually to be straight) eventually. Bisexuality is very much a real thing, as is pansexuality. It is possible for people to love more than one gender. And bi erasure is also, unfortunately, a reality. And it's a huge problem within our society when you look at statistics to do with mental health and sexual violence in relation to bisexuals. In terms of suicidal thoughts, one Canadian study found where 7.4% straight men have them and 25.2% of gay men, 34.8% of bisexual men suffer from these. As for sexual violence, it's estimated from recent studies in the States that almost half of bisexual women have been raped with 75% being subjected to sexual violence of another form. Those figures are shocking. And we can't just ignore them and pretend they don't exist. How Tom Daley choses to identify himself is his own private business. How the media decides to label him is not: we should all be concerned about bisexual erasure within our society. It is real, and it is effecting people's lives in a big way. Imagine if every time a straight or gay person shared their sexuality they were told that they didn't exist, that they were simply wrong about how they understood their own identity. I recognise that for a lot of gay people this is a reality but in a more progressive society such as the UK, is it really that difficult to understand that a person can want to be with a person of any gender?
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I am not attracted to straights. I am gay, gay, gay. And I want a guy who is gay.%0D\ %0D\ What is it with you people who want sex with straightS?%0D\ %0D\ Their dicks and jiz taste just like mine, I assure you.
Sorry, I just needed to vent.
David Sedaris was one of six siblings, but in May this year that number became five when his youngest sister, Tiffany, committed suicide, shortly before her 50th birthday. Now, for the first time, the author and broadcaster has opened up about her death, her life and his feelings for her. He admits that he didn’t really know her very well – and so some of the things he discovered once she’d passed away gave him a shock. Firstly, there was the will – which stipulated that the family was not allowed to have her body or go to her memorial service, he wrote in The New Yorker. Tiffany’s house, in Somerville, Massachusetts, contained very few belongings – a mattress on the floor and two boxes’ worth of possessions. These were collected by David's actress sister, Amy. And in them were family photos that had been ripped to shreds. He wrote: ‘It seemed such a melodramatic gesture, like throwing a glass against a wall. Something someone in a movie would do.’ The family also discovered that she’d been a regular drug user, when she was young, at least. A classmate had drawn a marijuana leaf beside her name in an old school year book. And someone had written: ‘Call me sometime this summer and we’ll go out and get blitzed.’ Also in the house were ‘comment cards from a neighborhood grocery store, notebooks, receipts, a paper plate on a dresser that had several drawers missing, a phone number written on a wall, and a collection of mop handles, each one a different color, arranged like cattails in a barrel painted green’. A survey of Tiffany’s house revealed nothing about why she might have taken her own life, he said. The Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls author describes how looking at Tiffany’s possessions was fascinating, because of how little he knew her. The 56-year-old said: ‘Each of us had pulled away from the family at some point in our lives - we’d had to in order to forge our own identities, to go from being a Sedaris to being our own specific Sedaris. Tiffany, though, stayed away.’ Tiffany’s death was something that just didn’t add up for David. He added: ‘How could anyone purposefully leave us, us, of all people? Ours is the only club I’d ever wanted to be a member of, so I couldn’t imagine quitting.’
My god.
Are there any black gay porn sites with black men not pretending to be thugs? I find those sites degrading and racist.
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A thread in which we discuss celebrities - rumored to be gay or not - who have nevertheless remained single well past the age when most marry.\ \ Perfect example - the almost 37 year-old Leonardo DiCaprio.
What the hell has them so worked up? Christ theater queens are insufferable.
Sharpened labia of the night / Their breasts two strained and livid dots / Demons of piqued wicker drone...
Last night during NBC’s three-hour The Sound of Music live telecast (that really happened, right? we watched the entire thing, and we’re still not sure) two of our best pals showed up during one of the commercial breaks: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler! The spot featured the two women—who will host this January’s Golden Globe Awards—both sporting dark blazers and great hair, hanging in some kind of futuristic jazz bar. Amy’s at the piano; Tina’s standing by her side—just how they’re situated when they hang out on Saturday evenings in real life, we’re sure. They act out a bit related to practicing their “opening song”; it’s the sort of riff one images they devised together a few minutes before the camera rolled. It’s perfectly great. We’re excited for Tina and Amy to host again (we are humans living on earth, after all), but, given this will be their second year hosting, we have a few requests based on how things went the last time around. 1) More Airtime! So this decision probably has less to do with Tina and Amy and more to do with Mr. Golden Globes Producer Guy (“Please, call me Golden”), but last year, after all the buildup about our best friends hosting, they were semi-sidelined after their opening monologue. We understand that the Golden Globes is an overstuffed show featuring basically all the celebrities in the world, but when you have Tina and Amy, use them! Heck, we’d be cool with them just presenting every award. 2) More Interplay With Other Famous People! One of the most fun parts of last year’s proceedings was seeing Tina and Amy mix it up in the audience. (These 11 seconds were basically the highlight of the night.) More of that, please! We’d love to see a Tina-Clooney Gravity spoof, maybe Tina and Amy grilling Jon Hamm about the final season of Mad Men. Honestly, Amy and Jennifer Lawrence reciting the alphabet to each other would be more delightful than 99 percent of awards-show content over the last five years. 3) Give Amy a Golden Globe! This has nothing to do with hosting, but Amy Poehler has yet to win a Golden Globe or Emmy for her role as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation and that is insane (she’s been nominated for the former twice and the latter four times). Get it together!
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Sing Off-Key In First Golden Globes Ad
They''re such a hot mess, they give me a good laugh. I''m in the library, and this one specimen, thugged out beyond redemption with his TIMs and the vomit-yellow hoodies they all seem to be fond of this season, approaches this one girl he knows and is just so flaming my computer screen nearly caught on fire. I mean, really, you can thug yourself out, but who do you think you''re kidding.
Henry was just 21. This was for "Superman Flyby" to be directed by McG. This was the version that they refused to hire Matt Bomer for, because he was "too gay." Henry was deemed "just gay enough."
Watched "Garbo Talks" the other night, and now she facinates me. Anyone ever see her on the streets of NYC ? Guess it was quite a prize sighting if you did.
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"Because if you say anything, you're a racist, or you're a bigot, or you're a hater for some reason, whatever it is." -Glenn Beck
THE MALEBOLGE, NETHER REGIONS OF DARKNESS—Noting the incredible rate at which the community has grown, sources confirmed Thursday that Hell, the Endless Kingdom of Misery, is now a booming haven of gay culture. The Great Abyss, home of the damned, is reportedly inhabited by some 600 million condemned homosexual or transgender souls, a large proportion of its total population, and has by many accounts blossomed into an oasis of gay activism and community events. “I’ve only been here for a few months, but I’ve already fallen in love with it,” said 49-year-old Daniel Edelson, adding that he has already befriended hundreds of fellow gay men and women in the accursed underworld, all of whom have welcomed him with open arms. “The streets of fire and brimstone are full of so many great cafés, restaurants, bakeries, independent bookstores, and of course plenty of gay bars and clubs. There’s just so much to do.” “My favorite place is this wonderful little promenade along the River Styx, where couples always take walks together on the weekends,” continued Edelson. “I’d say this is easily the most LGBT-friendly place I’ve ever lived.” According to sources, the deepest bowels of Hell have over the past several millennia developed a thriving gay community that is said to rival the likes of the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea, San Francisco’s Castro District, Soho in London, and the Boystown section of Chicago. Along with its wide variety of gay-friendly businesses, the Underworld is also home to The 666, a sprawling, five-story gay nightclub that is reportedly the largest such establishment ever built. Reports confirmed The 666 is one of the most popular destinations in the Nine Circles, offering drag shows, multiple dance floors, six-headed go-go dancers, and live music. “It’s just nice to finally live in a place where I don’t feel like an outcast or an outsider,” said Vanessa Aldridge, 38, stressing that she has faced absolutely no discrimination since she, like all homosexuals and gay sympathizers, was sentenced to an eternity in Lucifer’s Den immediately upon her death. “There’s no stigma attached to openly being who I am here. Everyone is respected and free to live the way they want to live.” “It’s really refreshing, frankly, to live in a place where nobody gives me any weird looks when I walk hand-in-hand with my girlfriend,” Aldridge continued. “And all of the other eternally damned homosexuals down here feel the same. I thank Satan every day for welcoming me here.” Hell has been widely celebrated by gay rights leaders for its far-reaching acceptance of alternative lifestyles, and residents told reporters it is incredibly common to see a rainbow flag hanging over various shop awnings, in car windows, or atop thrones of blood-soaked bones and rotting flesh. Additionally, the Inferno’s Gay Pride Parade, held every July in the Second Circle, is noted for its extravagance and high attendance rate. Reports confirmed that, with thousands more homosexual souls flooding the Gates of Hell every day, the Chasm of Wickedness and Sin has truly become a sanctuary for gays and lesbians alike, a feeling proudly shared by a majority of heterosexual locals. “The gay community has really flourished here, and I have to say, they’ve been great for the place,” said Nephirem the Malevolent, a 10,000-year-old, 70-foot-tall minotaur who has resided in hell since rising from the ashes of a smokeless flame. “At the end of the day, they’re just like anyone else. Everyone has the right to express their love for whomever they want. They don’t bother me in the slightest, and if anything, we in the Dark Lord’s Army encourage any and all public displays of affection between same-sex couples.” “I think it’s great that they’ve carved out such a strong community for themselves here,” added the horned beast of ceaseless death and destruction. “I’m all for it.” In stark contrast to Hell’s ongoing embrace of persecuted groups, sources confirmed that Heaven remains the most bigoted and intolerant place in the universe.
It's about two male actors on a cable drama show having an affair, one of whom is considering coming out. The other is married to a woman. Who is it?
The gay New Jersey waitress who received thousands of dollars in donations after falsely claiming she was stiffed by a family who left her an anti-gay note instead of a tip, has begun to refund her victims via Paypal, according to facebook page Have A Gay Day.
GAY ‘RECEIPT HOAX’ WAITRESS IS ALLEGEDLY REFUNDING DONATIONS TO HER VICTIMS
What would DLB say?
**BREAKING: Tom Daley gay no more? Caught holding hands with attractive female.
This is an oldie but a goodie many of you may not ahve seen before. Years before "The Sound of Music" was made into a movie with her, Julie did a TV special with Carol Burnett. The centerpiece with a parody of "The Sound of Music" (then on Broadway with Mary), mocking how grotesquely goody-goody and Mitteleuropean it is. Thought this would be appropriate after last night. Sorry the video quality isn't better.
Julie Andrews mocks how goody-goody "The Sound of Music" is (with Carol Burnett)
It is not for for using like the "likes" button on facebook. It is for bon mots that can stand on their own, out of context, as witty and wise.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) accused President Barack Obama of rewriting the Constitution during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News. Bachmann's accusation came amid criticism of the Affordable Care Act, which she's slammed in the past. “He has rewritten the Constitution for himself as a part of his effort to fundamentally transform the United States of America,” Bachmann said Tuesday. Bachmann called the recently announced delay of online enrollment for small businesses "political management." “What are these delays about, what do they have in common? They all put off the very negative effects of Obamacare until the next election. That’s what this is all about," Bachmann said. "This is all political management. But we believe the constitution has to be respected." Bachmann has considered taking action against Obamacare before, saying in November that she and several of her GOP colleagues in the House of Representatives were considering suing Obama for allowing plans canceled under the Affordable Care Act to be extended through 2014.
Michele Bachmann: "Obama has rewritten the Constitution for himself to transform America."
Lets bring back Match Game! Name the following: 3 Regular Panelists: Regular Rotating Panelists: Host:
Guy engages in spontaneous gay street dancing.
Last month for retailers, it was all about post-Turkey spending sprees. In December, at least one retailer is upping the ante by offering an all-night, last minute shopping marathons. Macy's announced Thursday that it would open all of its stores for 48-hours straight, giving last-minute shoppers wiggle room to buy gifts the weekend before Christmas. The extended hours for the New York-based retailer will begin at 7 a.m. on Friday, December 21 and run through 7 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23. At 23 additional locations including Woodfield Mall and Oakbrook Center, Macy's will re-open at 8 a.m on Sunday, Dec. 23 and remain open through the close of business on Christmas Eve. And at 34 locations in California, Nevada and New Jersey, Macy's stores will stay open through 2 a.m. on Monday, December 24. Macy's experimented with the 48-hour retail marathon in certain test markets last year and found that enough consumers took advantage of the extended hours to warrant rolling out the program to their entire fleet this holiday season, according to spokeswoman Lauren Rapisand. Many of the shoppers were parents who used the late night hours to shop without children and people who worked late shifts who could get their shopping done during their breaks, according to Rapisand. "We found there were a lot of folks who appreciated the extended hours," she said. "The response was so good in test markets last year that we decided it would be a benefit to all of our stores."
Does Spence ever get to the city, and does he scort? I know some of you bitches had him. Spill it… worth it?
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
I just found out I have to take a drug test before I get hired. The problem is I take Adderall for which I have a prescription. I know this will show up, so what should I do?
May the games begin again.
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It's very tripy. Have has a hell of a time sleeping for a while so on Tuesday night I went to bed around 8:30 pm after taking an Ambien and when I woke up it was 7:30. I assumed it was 7:30 Wednesday morning, but then it started getting darker out and I finally figure out it was 7:30 pm on Thursday night. I'm sure I'll be up all night and all screwed up tomorrow.
Accepting Bisexuality: Attraction Across Gender Lines [EXPERT] The importance of bisexual destigmatization in the United States. Bisexuality is the new gay. By this I mean that since homosexuality is becoming increasingly acceptable in the United States, the proverbial torch has been passed to bisexuals and their allies. Now their cause needs championing because bisexuality remains stigmatized, stereotyped and discriminated against. Soon the term "biphobia" will become as commonly known as homophobia. Within the homosexual community, bisexuals have historically been seen as confused or not strong enough to claim their homosexuality. Playing both sides of the fence was seen as a cop-out and a good reason for gays to avoid association with bisexuals. Bisexual men and women were made to feel like they didn't belong in either the straight or gay camp, but things are changing. The Kinsey Scale, which was developed in 1948, was revolutionary in that it stated that many people do not fit into a homosexual box or a heterosexual box. Many of us are somewhere in-between, and people's "thoughts and feelings towards the same or opposite sex was not always consistent across time." For the first time, men who could love men or women could look at research that helped explain their existence. The research was important in helping bisexuals understand they were not wrong or abhorrent; they are simply at different places on the human sexuality scale. Many bisexual men never dared to explore both sides of their sexuality and chose to take the more accepted route of marrying a woman and starting a family. For some married bisexual men, it can be difficult to discover a same-sex attraction and ignore it. There are men in every state who make love to their wives and also have a male lover on the side. It's easy to assume the man in this example is really gay and is not able or ready to accept it but that may be far from the truth. If he is in fact a bisexual, he may be perfectly happy to have both men and women in his sexual life. The problem, of course, is it is probably not okay with his wife.
Get it, girl!
Many LGBT people are rejected by the evangelical church charity because they're "sexually impure."
Continued.
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Krampus is celebrated in the Alpine areas of Germany and Austria and Switzerland. He's a sort of an anti-St. Nicholas and goes around punishing the bad children whereas the Alpine Santa takes care of the good ones. Here's a pic of the jolly Krampus himself! Happy Krampus Day!
SEATTLE (AP) -- Gay weddings made up 17 percent of marriages in Washington this past year, the first year gay marriages were legal in the state. State officials reported Wednesday more than 7,000 same-sex couples got married between December 6, 2012, and the most recent complete month of data, September 2013. So far, most of the state's same sex marriages, 62 percent, were between two women. The top five counties where same sex marriages took place are King, Clark, Pierce, Snohomish and Thurston counties. Garfield County is the only county where no same sex marriages were performed. Washington's gay marriage law is also driving tourism. About a quarter of the gay couples who got married this past year in Washington were from another state. The biggest number came from Oregon.
Bryce Paup He was something else on the field. It was beautiful to watch his amazing body move in the tight football gear and the determination on his face. He could have Pauped me any time.
They look like freaks. Are they breeding babies for height over there?
I had a date with a guy who told me his first experience was with his uncle- who is also gay. When I said that it sounded like incest to me, he became defensive. On gay.com there use to be a chat room devoted to the subject. How many gays are victims of incest, but don''t think of it is incest because in the end they turned out to be gay?
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How many senior citizens do you think will just curl up and die? My mother just called because she has to go to church tonight and is going to miss Wheel! Can I please watch and see if they pick her Spin ID? Her whole neighborhood gathers and watches Wheel of Fortune with their little scraps of paper and pencils and they excitedly await the announcement of the Spin ID every night. And they all call it "Wheel," instead of the full name, as if they are cool kids.
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Still want to bareback?
Scientists Find Aggressive New HIV Strain
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Someone wrote a fake tweet and she is enraged! Enraged! E N R A G E D !!
First UP.
Male Ballet Dancers Who Look Like They're Wearin' Nuthin At All, Nuthin At All, Nuthin At All!
They've been letting her bark all night next door and she would pace outside by my bedroom window. I tried earphones and earplugs but it was a shrieking kind of sound, with howling. She was young, part retriever. I guess they were trying to get her to grow up. They're horrible people and I couldn't talk to them. No one else would do anything. People here aren't like that. Eventually someone just would have given her antifreeze of something. So I started tossing raw meatballs over the fence with a tiny amount of my Xanax and Diazepam in them, one each night around 10. It worked fine. But I guess there was a build up of something because Tuesday morning I heard screaming and they had found the dog dead with froth all over its face. The woman came to my door and asked if I had seen anything and then as much as asked if I did something. I said no of course not, I loved Shelly. (I would give her treats and even walked her when she was a puppy a few times before the people got weird) Now she's going all over accusing people. She says they're getting two pit bulls and if anything happens she's going to start civil war. Now I don't know what to do. Should I just go and tell her the truth? It was an accident. I could say I was trying to soothe the dog and it was a terrible mistake. If she gets pit bull they'll be barking all the time and I'll have to move, and I can't afford more rent. I'm afraid they'll hurt my cats, which Shelly never did. I have an understanding with my landlord and I'm worried. Can I be arrested if I confess? All I wanted was some sleep. I know how this sounds, but any ideas will be helpful. Has this ever happened to you?
What are your thoughts?
Their men''s exercise wears are so form-fitting, they border on gay fetish clothing.
I dare you!
The clearest definition of Bubble Butt EVER!
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Is this a legit non-sexual bathhouse where straight guys go to let off some steam? I remember a guy I dated a few years ago telling me that he would go there with his dad, who'' straight, on occasion for some steam and straight male bonding. Anyone ever been?
Tell me about the Russian/Turkish baths in the East Village.
you know, hog intestines.
All this brain injury talk makes me not want my son to be involved in that horseshit. What's the best way to insure he's not interested in sports. The difficulty is that several family members are football crazy (we're in the south) and people are already saying "Wow, he's going to be a linebacker" he's a boy, big for his age, and did I mention we're in the south?
I kind of experienced this this morning. I'm pretty attracted to the new-ish security guard in my company's lobby. He's really cute and I can tell he works out. We chat from time to time, and I am definitely flirty with him, which I can't imagine is lost on him. I know this sounds totally cliche and somewhat MARY, but when we're talking it's like time stands still and we're the only two people in the world. I get totally lost in his gorgeous smile and hearty laugh, and don't even hear the words coming out of his mouth. In my dreams, the attraction has been two-way, though I know intellectually that's not the case. But it's sure been nice to think about. Anyway, this afternoon as I came back from grabbing some lunch, I was going to stop and chat with him briefly. When I entered the lobby, however, I saw him talking to some chick who works on the floor above me. She's your typical stupid, slutty admin type...you know the sort...dumb as a box of hair, always advertising her looks with exposed cleavage and short skirts, and those stupid 10-inch hooker heels. She was totally flirting with him, throwing her tits and pussy in his face, and he was just totally eating it up. I awkwardly said hi to him, but he didn't even acknowledge me. Didn't even toss me a glace, he was so caught up in her. Again, I know he's 99% straight and into pussy, but there was that part of me that hoped that 1% would come out and want to have sex with me. It was just totally soul crushing, and I can't stop thinking about it. I'm really hurt, though I know I shouldn't be. ugh, why am I always attracted to the straight ones, and why does it hurt so much when my fantasies are deflated and reality hits like a ton of bricks? ugh, just ugh.
The ones I meet are into sports and hanging out in sports bars with their straight buddies. This one at work like to frequent cigar clubs. When I was young, we kept to ourselves and wouldn't dream of participating in these heteronormative activities. One of the great things about being gay is that we could create and celebrate our own culture that was nothing like "theirs." Ever try and have a conversation with a 20-something gay guy about "Mildred Pierce" or "Johnny Guitar"? They have no idea who Joan Crawford is. My goodness, she is an icon, part of our heritage, and they've never heard of her!! That's just one example, but there are many others as well. I don't care about fantasy football, and I find it sad, almost a betrayal, that young guys rather talk about their football league than, say, Roz Russell. Just venting.
How does it stay in business?
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$40k for 9 scenes - around $10k a scene. And if you''re thinking of doing porn and no-one will ever find out, read on...\ \ He''s gay, but says a lot of guys on Sean Cody are straight because the money is so much better than straight porn.
Was in the late 2000s? Early 2000s? They're definitely still here huge numbers. You can see them in every thread about any television show. It isn't the gay men or lesbians who get violent and bitchy, it's the TWoP crowd who uses this as their second home because I think so many of them have been run off from there. When and why did they become such a majority here?
Why is that? As an example, if a young gay man posted on here that he was contemplating suicide, more than half of the responses would be along the lines of "Couldn't you have done it BEFORE you wasted your $18?". I know. I've seen it. Bigotry is met with intense disdain, but mainly as an opportunity for more vocal attitude. No action. Gay culture is all about the "me". There is little unity. It's about protecting yourself, and alienation other gay men. I'm 29 years old, attractive, partnered and gay and I just can't motivate myself to go to gay bars. It's not fun. Why is it that a lot (not all) gay men have an inability to see beyond their own opinions and beliefs? Anything they have not experienced or don't like, they "hate" and anyone who doesn't hate it is "an idiot" or "should die in a fire". It's frustrating being open and proud about your sexuality, but feeling so alienated from the culture itself.
A few college dorms (not many) and most YMCA's and prisons I assume. Much of the military. Oh...and sometimes Bally's clubs. Any other places? Back before they knew we were gay most all men's spaces had gang showers.
I feel like showering after seeing this. What is going on here?
with scorn over that Sound of Music bullshit. Why are these two demographics so into this sort of thing? Didn't they know it would be shit when they plopped down on their sofas with their tubs of Ben & Jerry's and fruity martinis to watch it?
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Fit for a queen! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are planning their very own royal wedding of sorts. The famously over-the-top couple have set their sights on France's famed Palace of Versailles for their much-anticipated nuptials, the new issue of Us Weekly reveals. PHOTOS: Kimye's sweetest moments "Kanye has never been married and wants a big [wedding]," a source tells Us of the "Bound 2" rapper, 36, who has a 6-month-old daughter, North, with his fiancee. Adds another insider: "They are not working with a budget." Indeed, West seems to live by the motto "Go big or go home." When he proposed to Kardashian, 33, in October, he hired a 50-piece orchestra and rented out San Francisco's AT&T Park, which lit up with the words "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEEE!!!" on a giant screen. See more cute pics of Kimye.
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Planning Wedding at Palace of Versailles
Porn is more civilized. Religion is barbaric and evil. All the religious texts of the world don't add up to one four-letter word.
Note to straight people and breeders with spawn. Civilized people dont eat at sundown. We will eat our evening meal sometime around 8:30, and if you don't like it then put a few carrots in your fucking pocket and nibble in the corner until then. I'm not eating some god damn steak or big ass sea food buffet at 6 p.m.
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I keep seeing articles about how proud AJ is that Shiloh wants to be a boy, how often this kid is photographed and the fights AJ is having with Brad's mother about her androgyny. It's like she is trumpeting how liberal (and between the lines gay-friendly) she is. Isn't it terribly unseemly for her to pushing a sexual identity onto a child for publicity? Along the same lines, there are a lot of stories about this woman having sexual relationships as a young teen under her mother's roof, fucking her mom's lover, etc. Apologies if this has been discussed. I don't read these sites often.
The Von Trapps found out last spring that "The Sound of Music," the movie based on their real-life family that fled Austria to escape the Nazis during World War II, was being remade after almost 50 years into a live television event. Myles von Trapp Derbyshire is the great grandson of Maria von Trapp, the matriarch of the family, who was played by Oscar-winner Julie Andrews in the 1965 film. Even though Von Trapp Derbyshire told ABC News he doesn't understand why anyone would try to remake this classic film, his biggest problem is the casting of Grammy-winner Carrie Underwood for tonight's NBC special. "It's just upsetting that this could potentially be the final broadcast of our story," he said. "And although her voice is amazing, she doesn't have acting experience…. It's just the overall image, she's a country star, she won 'American Idol,' she's very public in kind of a tabloid way." The 28-year-old New Yorker is very proud of his family's legacy and said, "Now we have this very glossy, tabloid figure playing this role." He explained that Andrews and also Mary Martin, who originally played Maria von Trapp on Broadway in the 1950s, were both well-respected actresses. "[Our family has] had the conversations of who could play this role better and it was Anne Hathaway, for example," he said. "Here's someone who just won an Oscar for a similar situation [in Les Miserables]. She was able to act and sing." Myles's aunt Francoise von Trapp even went as far as to blog, "Carrie Underwood as Maria? Seriously?" when she heard of the casting for tonight's remake. Underwood, 30, recently told Entertainment Weekly that fans have gone as far as to send her hate tweets for taking on the role. She added that the acting part is her biggest apprehension of the live musical. "I think so many people out there still don't understand what we're doing and, therefore, they do have this incredible ownership over the movie, like 'You can't remake that movie!' I get hate tweets and stuff like that and like, 'You're not Julie Andrews!'" she told EW. "I know I'm not - nobody is, and I would never pretend that I was. I know my place, you know?" A request for comment from Underwood wasn't immediately returned to ABC News. To be fair, Myles admits no one should be sending Underwood nasty messages over this. "I did feel badly that she's been getting a lot of mean tweets from fans of the movie," he said. As to whether he'll watch the show tonight, Von Trapp Derbyshire is on the fence. The original idea was to boycott the broadcast, but he said after speaking with his mother, who is trying to be positive about the situation, she might have convinced him to watch. "We need to be educated," he said. "We can't walk in Friday morning to work or into a conversation without knowing what happened."
The Real Von Trapps Wanted AnnE to be in the Sound of Music Remake
Should be fun. I'm recording Sound of Music for viewing later. Anyone else going?
Some of these hilarious.
A new study by a team of researchers from Ohio State and Boston Universities found that conventional public opinion surveys tend to underestimate the number of individuals who hold anti-gay views while also under-reporting the proportion of LGBT individuals in the general population.
We need this in order to generate some great ideas for those overlooked holidays, like Arbor Day, Flag Day, etc.
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I have to update my slam book.
Yay!
Thoughts?
The new Season is on! Will Renee cry and freak out junior is coming to kill her? Will Big Ang get more silicone in her lips? And what are the names of the rest of the cast?? Discuss.
Would anyone be surprised by this news?
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I'll always be a man who finds only men sexy. But I'm tired of the 'lifestyle': the std's, the social climbing, the shallow relationships, the rainbows and the parades, AIDS and discrimination, ageism. The body nazis, bears, cubs, daddies, twinks... It's like- all bad.
Sophia Vergara.
I know a few bi men who identify as straight. They''re completely comfortable within themselves and acknowledge that they like guys/girls equally, yet if you asked them they''d say they were straight....Is this common amongst bi men?
I'd heard a rumor, then saw him out with his gf. He always claimed to be bi and was a top. He's gained a lot of weight. Do you think bi guys, once they get paunchy and balding/greying in their forties, just think they're better off with a woman?
or is it staged? I'm not sure what the laws are there. I sometimes find it depressing to watch, which can make it unfappable.
Lots of talk about bisexuals and bisexuality on this board; most of it pretty biased, shallow, yada, yada.\ \ So for all you bi folks out there and those of you who know the great bisexuals, give us your candidates for the Bisexual Hall of Fame, those who''ve raised the bar for all future bisexual men and women.\ \ No theories about if bisexuality or bisexuals exist. (We know they do.) No guesses about who is bisexual. No second hand stories. Just your first hand experience with the Best Bisexuals - either you or someone you know.\ \ What makes a great bisexual?
Did anyone watch this show? I thought it was awful. A bunch of self-centered douchebags and sluts!! No, thanks. Cancel this shit! What a disappointment!
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Stephen most recently played the young hustler on "Hung" where he showed off his incredible body.
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I just won an Oscar today. Back in the race.
Why isn''t he a bigger star? Get him a superhero franchise and beard, stat!
for r598 in the last theatre thread
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How do these sites stay in business?
Make the RHONJ look like graduates of Miss Porter''s.
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Cute.
"Datalounge" is so Geocities. Let's rename it.
His writing can be interesting, but really, who presents information like THIS?
People are talking Emmy for Britton. Wonder if it will really be that good?
Okay, here's the question for us- The media keeps saying that Healthcare.gov is still not working. How many people have signed up, how many have tried, and how many have failed. Is this gonna work?
The new season starts tonight. I'm excited to see what they do with human Cas, semi-human Crowley, "trial sick" Sam and protective Dean. New to the cast is handsome actor Tahmoh Penikett, as one of the fallen angels walking the earth. Dean has Cas... maybe Sam and this guy will end up being besties.
New Supernatural Tonight (10/08)
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When the fourth season of Downton Abbey premiers at the first of the year, I am planning a party. Of course, it must be "all things British." I need suggestions from DataLounge's Anglophiles. Food, decoration, entertainment prior to and after Downton Abbey, etc.?
Hey guys, I'm 23 and I'm struggling with how to feel about this situation. I have a friend whom I've known for about a year. We are not romantically involved in any way - I know him through another friend. I've hung out with him at parties, and he's a really nice guy. I find out that a month ago, he got drunk at a party and drove his car on the wrong side of the freeway at 4am, hit a taxi head-on and killed a passenger, and injured two others. He himself had just minor injuries. I'm not sure how to feel about this. I think what he did was completely repulsive and horrendous. That person is dead. But do I support him as a friend? Is what he did unforgivable? How do I support somebody who did something so heinous? Especially when it's at odds with my impressions of him - he is genuinely a nice guy, but he made a terrible decision and has to live with the consequences. Also just fyi, he is extremely successful, he's young around 24, and went to Harvard, Oxford, and was in business school. Have any of you experienced something similar? I feel like I should be supporting him as a friend, but I don't know how when I am so disgusted by what he did. What would you guys do? Thanks in advance.
Found some DVD sets at my library and checked them out. These shows are fake, annoying and never, ever, come to any conclusion. But we are treated to a lot of whispering (why are you whispering?) and quick cuts and sped up footage of clouds. And Zak Bagan may have a nice body but his hair is laughable.
I always wonder what the guys I'm around look like naked. I always think that if they're not showing a bulge, they probably hang low.
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They ought to at least allow bold and italics.
Look at all the viciousness Tom and Dustin are getting. Stay in people.
Believe it or not, people with this affliction, at their very core, are the inverse of the narcissist. People with BPD start out 'too sensitive', too empathetic. People with borderline personality disorder empathize to the point of pain. When the highly sensitive person grows up in a very non-validating and/or abusive environment, with a history of trauma, BPD can manifest. In order for borderline personality to develop, an invalidating environment with and a highly sensitive person MUST BE present. What is going on in a Borderline Personality Disorder sufferer's mind and how they are acting can be two entirely different things. To the sufferer, BPD is about deep feelings, feelings often too difficult to express, feelings that are something along the lines of this : If others really get to know me, they will find me rejectable and will not be able to love me; and they will leave me; I need to have complete control of my feelings otherwise things go completely wrong; I have to adapt my needs to other people's wishes, otherwise they will leave me or attack me; I am an evil person and I need to be punished for it; Other people are evil and abuse you; If someone fails to keep a promise, that person can no longer be trusted; If I trust someone, I run a great risk of getting hurt or disappointed; If you comply with someone's request, you run the risk of losing yourself; If you refuse someone's request, you run the risk of losing that person; I will always be alone; I can't manage by myself, I need someone I can fall back on; There is no one who really cares about me, who will be available to help me, and whom I can fall back on; I don't really know what I want; I will never get what I want; I'm powerless and vulnerable and I can't protect myself;. I have no control of myself; I can't discipline myself; My feelings and opinions are unfounded; Other people are not willing or helpful. To the family members, BPD behavior is often very frustrating can feel unfair and punitive - something like this: You have been viewed as overly good and then overly bad; You have been the focus of unprovoked anger or hurtful actions, alternating with periods when the family member acts perfectly normal and very loving; Things that you have said or done have been twisted and used against you; You are accused of things you never did or said? You often find yourself defending and justifying your intentions; You find yourself concealing what you think or feel because you are not heard; You feel manipulated, controlled, and sometimes lied to.
Please refrain from caustic, hateful comments here. I''ve met MANY very gay-friendly Africans from all across the vast continent. We hear horror stories from Zimbabwe and Uganda and pretty much every country in Africa, but I know enough to know that''s not the whole story.%0D\ %0D\ Who knows where the most gay-friendly places are?
Odd that she would be cast as a lesbian prostitute. Why would producers think of her in that role, much less a hooker role?
Primary psychopathy is the affective aspects of psychopathy; a lack of empathy for other people and tolerance for antisocial orientations. Out of 5, I scored 1.8 Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspects of psychopathy; rule breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior. Out of 5, I scored 2.9 Conclusion: I'm not a psychopath. What about you?
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Ozzy Osbourne "Disgusted" By Anti-Gay Church Using His Music Today 5:15 PM PDT by Erik Pedersen Ozzy Osbourne sounds ready to bite somebody's head off. The British rock god released a statement saying he was "disgusted" by a Kansas-based church's choice to play his music on the steps of the United States Supreme Court today. "I am sickened and disgusted by the use of 'Crazy Train' to promote messages of hate and evil by a 'church,'" said Ozzy, referring to the iconic song off 1980's Blizzard of Ozz. And lest you think he was peeved about the organist playing Randy Rhoades' riff in the choir loft, read on... The church in question is Westboro Baptist Church, a group known less for its choir than for its noisy, anti-gay protests staged at the funerals of U.S. soldiers, regardless of the fallen's sexual orientation. The small congregation, which chants things like "You're Going to Hell" and other feel-bad sentiments because it somehow associates dead soldiers with homosexuality in general, has garnered more attention now that their activities have turned into a free speech debate. The father of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, whose funeral attracted Westboro protesters, was awarded $5 million after suing the group and its founder Fred Phelps for emotional distress. The church appealed the ruling and the case is now going to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. Which is where two of Phelps' adult daughters quoted Ozzy in song, singing, "You're going straight to hell on your crazy train." They looked pretty pleased with themselves for thinking that one up, too. Maybe something from Ozzy's Diary of a Mad Man would have been more appropriate.
Ozzy Osbourne "Disgusted" By Anti-Gay Church Using His Music
I was a teenager in the early 90s. If you were a teen then too, let's list some memories that make us feel old. When I was a teenager... *Cell phones were still pretty new and called "Car phones." You used them for emergencies and shut them off when done. *I'd call my mom for a ride from school using a pay phone (which cost 10 cents). *There was no Facebook or Twitter or email. I did not spend any time on the Internet -- it cost 2.99 per minute and tied up the phone line. If an incoming call came in, I'd be knocked off. *To record a favorite show, I'd use a VHS tape. Laser discs were the high-tech thing, and Tivo was not around. *Mixed tapes (not even CDs!) were a romantic gift. Sometimes I'd tape my favorite songs off the radio. Man I feel old.
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Researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, led by Associate Professor Dr. David Harrich, say they have developed a form of gene therapy that turns the HIV protein against itself and ultimately stops it from replicating, according to the Australian Times. Harrich himself notes that his research is not an HIV cure. "You would still be infected with HIV," he said, according to the Queensland Institute's statement. "But the virus would stay latent, it wouldn't wake up, so it wouldn't develop into AIDS. With a treatment like this, you would maintain a healthy immune system."
Potential AIDS Cure, Discovered By Australian Medical Researchers, Modifies HIV Protein
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Dad was born in the Depression. Pushed hard by his parents. Only child. Went on to Ivy League school but dropped out due to lack of money, ended up finishing at state school. Owned his own businesses, did well, got married, had a couple of kids. All fine. Dad's parents died within a month of one another. He remained close to them their whole life. A year later, dad went on his annual guys' trip and ended up meeting another woman, having an affair. Came clean to my mother and decided it was meant to be - was absolutely convinced - with this other woman. Filed bankruptcy with his business, paid off my mother, left, moved to San Diego with this woman he'd met once. They remained married for several years until she left him. She was an alcoholic and drug addict with major issues. Dad regardless insisted she was his soul mate and had been told this by heavens. Now doesn't speak of it but becomes to other needy women who he insists need saving. He is now dating another drug addicted alcoholic. Dad lives alone in squalor with a small pension. He takes part-time jobs but gets fired for spouting off about his views loudly. He believes in aliens, UFOs, and believes other beings contact him about his fate. These "voices' talk to him and he goes on expeditions to talk to them and find them. No shame in talking about it. He will discuss it with anyone who will listen and show evidence of his diaries documenting these voices. He speaks of it rationally and calmly, with no shame. He has little interest in other people beyond cursory polite chatter. Not sure he knows what I do for work. He is outwardly jovial and caring but not a "dad" -- not the dad I knew. He would prefer to spout about his views or discuss other life forms. He can take care of his basic needs, food, shelter, though he looks shabby and needs new clothes and so on. He is in a relationship with yet another needy woman whom he says he's "counseling." We have a cordial, fine relationship but nothing close due to his self-involvement, lifestyle, and ongoing chatter about alternate beings. I'm not sure what to do. he is getting older. Eventually he'll need care. I am unclear if he's mentally ill or just weird or what. Would like some advice...Thanks.
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All OUT actually. And he's IN love.
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Very draggy looking, as well. I haven't seen her in years, so was kind of shocked.
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She is distancing herself from them
Anyone see the premiere? I thought it was nicely produced but don't see how they can make an entire series out of it.
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What would yours be if you were into that shit?
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If there was an award for the less Christmas-y Christmas card in the History of the world, I believe that the 2013 Kardashian Christmas card would take the prize. Shot by elite fashion photographer David Lachapelle, the card is a rather grim and depressing summation of the entertainment world – an industry ruled by a shadowy elite that is turning popular culture into a toxic wasteland populated with vacuous celebs such as the Kardashians. The wide panoramic card is filled with symbolism and references describing everything that the Illuminati entertainment industry is about. The shot takes place in an abandoned movie theater, one that appears to destroyed and vandalized. Here’s the card (click to enlarge). card There’s a lot going on there, so let’s look at it from left to right. First, there's Kim Kardashian posing with a revealing outfit. Her curves are pretty much the only reason why her entire family is famous right now. That is maybe one there's a huge dollar sign next to her. First, there’s Kim Kardashian posing with a revealing outfit. Her curves are main reason why her entire family is famous right now. That is maybe why there’s a huge dollar sign next to her. Behind the Jenner sisters are two Illuminati pyramids, complete with the All-Seeing Eye. Can't say that this card is subtle about who "owns" this entire family. Scaterred around them are dismembered mannequins, a symbol that is often used to represent Mind Control, a practice that is rampant in the Illuminati entertainment industry. Behind the Jenner sisters are two Illuminati pyramids, complete with the All-Seeing Eye. The card can’t be clearer about “owns” this entire family. Scattered around the card are dismembered mannequins, a symbol that is often used to represent Mind Control, a practice that is rampant in the Illuminati entertainment industry. The sister on the left wears a vulva-shaped headdress making her look like some kind of priestess. They stand on a pile of "celeb-worship" magazines, mountain of garbage on which their careers are built on (Kanye depicted as Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stones part of it). Behind the sisters (at the base of the pyramid) is an almost ironic box of Wheaties featuring Bruce Jenner when he was an Olympic athlete. Kylie (left) wears a vulva-shaped headdress making her look like some kind of high priestess. The sisters stand on a pile of “celeb-worship” magazines, the mountain of garbage on which their careers are built on (Kanye depicted as Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stones is part of it). Behind the sisters (at the base of the pyramid) is an almost ironic box of Wheaties featuring Bruce Jenner when he was an Olympic athlete. Khloe Kardashian is posing on the backseat of a car (why?) while Kourtney's son Mason lays on it as if life was sucked out of him. Above them is a baby-Jesus looking cutout with glory around the head. Is that North West? No idea. The matriarch of the family, Kris Jenner looks like some kind of female Pharaohe while Bruce is stuck in a tube, about to run out of air. Between them is the word "cashier", maybe meaning that its all about money transactions. Above both of them is tagged the word "fame", maybe implying that they're ready to do whatever it takes to be famous. Khloe Kardashian poses sitting on the backseat of a car (why?) while Kourtney’s son Mason lays on it, looking as if life was sucked out of him. Above them is a cardboard cutout looking like a baby-Jesus, with a glory around its head. Is that North West? The matriarch of the family, Kris Jenner looks like some kind of female Pharaoh while Bruce is distress, stuck in a tube, about to run out of air. Between them is the word “cashier”, maybe meaning that it is all about money transactions. Above both of them is tagged the word “fame”, implying that they’re ready to do whatever it takes to be famous. Next to Bruce is a disemembered mannequin wearing his Olympic medal. Did Bruce lose his "hero" status
I fill out application after application.\ \ They supposedly want to give dogs a new home, right? Well you can''t prove it by me.\ \ This is the typical scenario:\ \ I get accepted for a particular dog.\ \ And that''s when the fun starts...\ \ "We feed only raw food and insist you do too."\ \ "We are volunteers so even though that puppy has been on our site for a week, it will take a week or two or three to get back to you." And then I never hear back from them. \ \ "The dog''s foster family decided to keep it."\ \ "Yes we have other dogs - you''re approved - just pick one" And then I do and I never hear back from them. \ \ I follow up with a call or an email and still get no response.\ \ Whats with these nutcases? Do they get off on this or what?\ \ I mean - I''ve been approved, but they won''t give me a fucking dog?
Yes, of course, I think she's cute, but I also think she's a viable candidate for "the next Meryl Streep." Anyone agree?
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Now that a judge has ordered their release and they're in the hands of entities like the AP the CNN, we're being told they're too "gut wrenching" to listen to them. See, only the media has the backbone and maturity to hear the awfulness and they'll tell US what we should hear. That's been the line all afternoon as ancient Wolf Blitzer drones on about how the calls are too gut wrenching, with some reporter telling us "we have a lot of smart people going over these tapes to decide what's "news worthy" and will decide later.." WTF? Yes, they're awful. I have no personal desire to listen to them, but the media went to the courts, forced their release... they're part of public record so I find it to be the height of hypocrisy that they'll only release short soundbites now that every media and newspaper person has had a chance to satisfy their own personal curiosity. The media truly is more powerful and even more scary than the actual government.
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This extremely passive-aggressive airplane feud is one for the ages. It took place on Thanksgiving Day between a middle-aged woman known as "Diane" and a righteously-indignant TV producer, Elan Gale, who live-tweeted the entire hilarious, maddening encounter as it happened. The saga began when the US Airways flight to Phoenix was delayed at takeoff….
Annoying Airplane Passenger Thinks She's The Only One Who Celebrates Thanksgiving
Amy Sedaris and Ann Hathaway come to mind. So does J Aniston.
He's one of the hunkiest men in baseball!!! Let's celebrate his looks, especially that muscular ass.
We all know that Rob Halford of Judas Priest is out and proud, but what about the rockers who always pinged but have never officially declared they were gay? I always thought David Lee Roth pinged to high heaven, as well as Paul Stanley from Kiss and Poison's drummer, Rikki Rockett.
I'm (gasp!) Stephen Moyer's (gasp!) constant gasping, used (gasp!) to show strong emotion (gasp!) in every scene. (gasp!)
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In that commercial about how Blythe used to like the expression "Break a Leg" but now hates it because of her brittle bones, what is that one-woman show she's doing? She just goes out on stage in a white suit and starts talking. What does she have to talk for 90 minutes? People pay money to see her in a one-woman show?
Post your pictures of men showing affection to each other... like this:
I am very confused. Honestly don't even know what it is referring to, was there a live performance of the musical aired I assume? Just saying. Damn.
Roughneck, redneck, trailer trash.\ \ Something hot about a totally trashy guy.\ \ Let''s see ''em!
The flipside to the 'Actresses ith the best hair' thread. I'll start it off with Scott Bakula. I always wanted to run my fingers through his feathered mane on Quantum Leap, and I loved the gray streak.
Redheads are so sexy.
I know there's handful of us here on DL who watch.
I was just studying for my finals when suddenly I felt my heart skip a beat and I literally went blind for a second. Am I dying?
This week Miss Patti Stanger was hooking up the Manzo boys. Alvie is so fucking cute, Christopher is a cretin and mama Carolyn is sort of creepy clingy. Can''t wait til Bravo cross pollinates some more and gets Patti to hook up Dwight with somebody...maybe Phaedra''s Apollo.
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