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She has made over 60 films, and the Kennedy Center could only come up with one former co-star to pay tribute. Kathy Bates. So they were forced to stage selections from Pajama Game and Seesaw. Why wouldn't any of Shirley's former co-stars show up to salute her?
The Divine Miss M. is taking on the great Mae West. HBO Films has put in development Mae West, a movie about the true Hollywood original, with Bette Midler attached to star and executive produce. The project is the brainchild of William Friedkin (The Exorcist), who will direct and executive produce. Broadway heavyweight Harvey Fierstein, who recently penned the book for Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, is writing the script. Also executive producing is Jerry Weintraub, who executive produced HBO Films’ Emmy-winning Behind The Candelabra. Mae West, based on West’s autobiography Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It, chronicles West’s rise friedkinto stardom when she takes New York by storm after writing and starring in her scandalous Broadway show Sex and battles authorities over obscenity charges. Instead of taking the road of a wide-eyed Hollywood ingenue, West forged her own path, writing and starring in her own risqué plays, including her breakthrough Sex, which had her prosecuted and sentenced to 10 days in prison for “corrupting the morals of youth.” The notoriety fueled her career and didn’t stop her from tackling taboo subjects in her next plays, including 1928 hit Diamond Lil, about a racy 1890s woman, which opened the doors to Hollywood for her. GoodnessHasNothingToDoWithIt_bookWest was a late arrival, signing her first movie deal with Paramount at 39, but went on to make a string of hits, becoming one of the highest-grossing stars of the 1930s while still finding ways to push the envelope and keeping studio censors busy. Midler’s career path resembles that of West — she too made a name for herself onstage in New York (she made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Fiddler On The Roof) before segueing to features in her 30s for a successful movie career, which has earned her two Oscar nominations. Midler just started a three-week engagement at the Geffen Playhouse of I’ll Eat You Last after a successful Broadway run. Midler has been earning strong reviews for her portrayal of larger-than-life Hollywood agent Sue Mengers in the one-person play written by John Logan and directed by Joe Mantello.
Have at them, girls.
In what could be one of the more startling reversals since New Coke, a report released Monday claims that Microsoft will bring back a Windows 7-style Start menu to what is being called Windows 8.2. (snip) (In Windows 8.2) with the ability to boot to the desktop, access apps via the Start menu, and launch Metro apps via Windows on the desktop, there seems to be a good chance that users will be able to bury the Metro-styled, Windows 8 Start page where IT WILL NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN.
A spinoff thread from the never ending saga of Colton Haynes threads, dedicated Jerreth, ex-boyfriend to DL Twink Saint, Colton Haynes. Discuss!
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OMG. What did I just sit through? That was horrific high camp. Michael Douglas should go into hiding.
The Wellbeing Toilet, as its called, is designed to enhance the position of your body (and ultimately how you get rid of bodily waste) by enabling you to squat rather than sit. Photos:
The Toilet Of The Future Corrects The Mistake We're All Making In The Bathroom
on PBS now. Love them both.
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Michael Griffin worked at the Holy Ghost Preparatory School for 12 years teaching French and Italian. He said that although administrators, including the principal, knew he was gay, he never had any major conflict with the Catholic administrators until Friday. Griffin said he was fired on Friday after he had emailed administrators to tell them he was going to file for a marriage license and would be slightly late to work. Griffin said the school administrators told him that the email sent on the school email server made his relationship public and therefore they had to fire him if he decided to go through with the marriage. In a statement sent to ABC News from McCloskey and Holy Ghost Preparatory School, the school president said Griffin was fired for violating the terms of his contract by deciding to marry a partner of the same sex. "Unfortunately, this decision contradicts the terms of his teaching contract at our school, which requires all faculty and staff to follow the teachings of the Church as a condition of their employment," McCloskey said in the statement. "In discussion with Mr. Griffin, he acknowledged that he was aware of this provision, yet he said that he intended to go ahead with the ceremony. Regretfully, we informed Mr. Griffin that we have no choice but to terminate his contract effective immediately."
Gay male teacher fired after applying for marriage license. Only 3 weeks before x-mas
This blog lists the M4M group sex parties in New York Man I'd love to live in NYC
Adventures in Group Sex - Listing of Daily Gay Group Sex Parties
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.)
Just saw a promo for the new season - they have two new housewives and one of them is Joyce from Siberia!! 10 bucks says Vyle will hate her because she is a working actress. ring ring....ring ring.."hello?" "Hi Joyce this is Heather Dubrow, just so you know I turned down Siberia..I have a letter from my agent.."
OVERALL, do you think Michelle has a keen sense of fashion style, or do you think her style OVERALL, is a dud? \ \ Include pix to your replies if you like.
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Here's 2014 NYC Taxi calendar.
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Have any of you ever achieved this? I am 41, and am wondering if there is any point in continuing to starve myself. I have two obese parents. I recently stopped dieting, but continue to exercise. I have gained 15 pounds, but I don't feel terrible about it. I am still within normal bmi measurements (barely).
We''ve been dating for 6 weeks, and he slept over for the first time last night. This is silly, but I''m curious. I keep my room at 66 degrees when I sleep. Is that really as cold as he says it is?
We are doing a week in St. John in January and a week in Belize in April. I need to look forward to this to get me through the winter! How about you Datalounge?
I admit it: I wouldn''t mind her life. Married to a rock star, huge career, tons of money, attractive, famous parents, jet-set lifestyle, etc.
In which we agree to stop posting XY pics then wondering why the thread was closed. Number 12 in a saga
Would anyone be surprised by this news?
Jeremy Renner prefers his gals 'masculine'
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The new wave of celebrity coming out dares you to not “bi” into it. Last week, diving champ Tom Daley posted a YouTube video intriguingly titled, “Something I want to say.” And it was a mouthful. Daley revealed that he’s in love with a guy (reportedly Oscar winning Milk writer Dustin Lance Black, though Black hasn’t confirmed that yet) and he’s deliriously happy about this development. But “of course I still fancy girls,” Daley significantly added. (That’s good news for girls, if not for Black, lol.) The week before that, Maria Bello—the Golden Globe-nominated actress from films like The Cooler, A History of Violence, and Prisoners—wrote a New York Times Modern Love essay describing how her relationship with her best friend (Clare Munn) eventually evolved into a romantic one, to the actress’s surprise and delight. In the article, Bello revealed that she told her 12-year-old son from an ex-boyfriend about the relationship, not sure of what to expect. His reaction? “Mom, love is love.” And that’s long been the most resonant message of the LGBT community. I’ve written before about people who pretend to be bisexual as a cover for their actual gayness, but that doesn’t discount the fact that millions of real bisexuals actually exist and that a relationship between any consenting adults is perfectly valid as long as they find it so. Just because some of us can’t fathom such a concept for ourselves doesn’t erase the reality that for many people looking for relationships, gender is not an issue, the person is. And that’s the same message gay men and lesbians have always propagated to justify their own relationships! Of course, the love flow can work both ways. In 1997, actress Anne Heche—who’d previously had relationships with men—hooked up with funny lady Ellen DeGeneres, as the world went wild flapping their gums about it. But when they broke up three years later, Heche took up with a man, as angry gay people called her a traitor and a phony. But Heche had already said that love involves falling for a person, regardless of expectations or labels. That seemed to me like a true statement of bisexuality, and her dating men again didn’t come off the least bit contradictory or hypocritical. So, let’s welcome Daley and Bello into our ranks regardless of the tags they might fall under. Let’s plug up the biphobia and open our minds to a world of romance where unscripted things happen all the time. Just please tell me off if I ever claim to still fancy girls.
Michael Musto: Tom Daley And Maria Bello Are Bi, Get Used To it
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?
Why is she so self-destructive?
Janeane Garafalo: I've committed career suicide over and over
Bring my daughter the shot!!!
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NBC is looking to start a new holiday tradition. After the success of the ambitious The Sound of Music Live! last week that drew 18.6 million viewers, the network is committing to staging another live family-friendly musical production for the holiday season in 2014, NBC confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said in an interview with The New York Times that they were "circling a couple of titles" that could be staged next year, to be led by Sound of Music producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan. The only rules are that they must be Broadway classics with a slew of familiar songs. "All weekend, people have been calling us and emailing us," Greenblatt told the Times. "Rights holders of musicals have said, 'Please do one of our shows.' We’re excited to try it again." Greenblatt also confirmed that live TV musicals may become an annual thing for the network come the holidays, voicing his belief that event television is crucial to the future of broadcast. "There’s enough to do a handful of these over the next years, if we keep increasing the learning curve," Greenblatt said. "There may be a little bit of a phenomenon to the first one of these. Who knows what happens year two, three or four. But you’ve got to have events. I think we could do this again -- and again and again.” Though Sound of Music took 18 months to put together, Greenblatt said the next live musical won't take nearly as long. "Now that we have done it once, we don’t need 18 months again," he said. "We know a lot about how to do it." THR previously reported that the price tag for the three-hour extravaganza that aired Dec. 5 was close to $9 million. A 22-song soundtrack featuring Carrie Underwood is available on iTunes, with an encore airing sometime before Christmas and a DVD/Blu-ray release on Dec. 17. Meron had hinted in an interview with THR that he and Zadan had high hopes for more live TV events in the future should Sound of Music prove successful. "What we are hoping is in success that we open the door to another kind of entertainment that can exist on TV," Meron said at the time.
Let's cast it!!
Olivia sings "Love Song" as she fades into view with a "Logan's Run"-like set around her. The best parts are her hitting the Mariah Carey octaves and the final credits of the video. If you are not mesmerized by this moment in 70s pop culture, you have no soul.
For Olivia Newton-John fans, this may be the best moment in TV ever ...
Does it radiate a feeling to the penis? Second question: do researchers believe that the prostate is there for pleasure besides its main functioning?
It looks like George Zimmerman may get off Scot-free yet again after his girlfriend reversed course on her decision to press charges against him for allegedly trashing her house and waving a gun in her face. Newly obtained court documents show that Samantha Scheibe, 27, has demanded that Zimmerman's charges and his no-contact order be dropped, effective immediately. "When I was being questioned by police I felt very intimidated," Scheibe said in a sworn statement dated December 6. "I believe that the police misinterpreted me and that I may have misspoken about certain facts in my statement to police." Scheibe goes on to claim that Zimmerman "never pointed a gun at or toward my face in a threatening manner," and insisted she "want[s] to be with George." cording to the Orlando Sentinel and … Read… Scheibe's affidavit flies in the face of what she told a 911 dispatcher during the November 18 incident. "I need police right now," she exclaimed during the taped phone call. "He's in my house breaking all my shit because I asked him to leave. He's got a freaking gun, breaking all my stuff right now." Zimmerman was subsequently arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor battery, and misdemeanor criminal mischief. He was released on his own recognizance after paying a $9,000 bond. A search warrant released the following week showed that Zimmerman was packing a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, three handguns, and over 100 rounds of ammunition when he visited Scheibe's house.
George Zimmerman's Girlfriend Has Change of Heart, Wants Charges Dropped
Seriously, what is going on with the DL admin people?
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
I've been testing my levels. They seem to go up and down a lot. Am I doing it wrong?
For me, it's banana bread. Ummm...yummy!
I submit that Ashton Kutcher is prettier than either Mila Kunis or Demi Moore.
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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Eleanor Parker, 3-time Oscar nominee, dies at 91 Actress Eleanor Parker, a three-time Oscar nominee who played the scheming baroness in "The Sound of Music," has died at age 91.
You're 35! Stay as sweet!
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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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The songwriting frauds are the ones who who brag about how they "write their own songs" as if they sat down and wrote them all by themselves, but when you look at the writing credits their names are listed with a committee of like ten other people
Ben Affleck knows the drill when it comes to the paparazzi, but he's sick and tired of his children being followed and photographed. In a new interview with Playboy, Affleck shares his thoughts on being in the spotlight and admits that although he's fine with photographers following him around, he's not okay with grown men chasing after his three kids -- Violet, 8, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, 1 -- with Jennifer Garner. "You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care. There are a couple of guys outside right now. Terrific. That's part of the deal. But it's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money," he tells Playboy. "It makes the kids less safe. They used to take pictures of our children coming out of preschool, and so this stalker who had threatened to kill me, my wife and our kids showed up at the school and got arrested. I mean, there are real practical dangers to this." "My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain ... As their father it's my job to protect them from that stuff," Affleck explains to Playboy. "I try my very best, and sometimes I'm successful. The tragic thing is, people who see those pictures naturally think it’s sweet. They don't see the gigantic former gang member with a huge lens standing over a four-year-old and screaming to get the kid's attention." "The kids are always looking down because they're freaked out and scared of these people," he adds. "And so they yell. Which is fine if you're Lindsay Lohan coming out of a club, or me or any adult," remarks Affleck. "With kids it's tasteless at best."
Ben Affleck Lashes Out At Paparazzi, Says It's 'Wrong And Disgusting To Follow Children Around'
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?
He's a household name now and totally beloved. He started working full-time for the Stern show back in 2006 when he went to Sirius. He was also on the Shatner roast. Was that the beginning of this massive career he now has? He's a national treasure.
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Do you just get a gift no matter what? or do you choose not to participate?
The Sportsman Channel said Monday it has hired Sarah Palin to be host of a weekly outdoors-oriented program that will celebrate the "red, wild and blue" lifestyle. Video:
I'm most looking forward to seeing what Todd Haynes does with "I'm Still Here."
Here it is - the moment we have been waiting for! Have at it, bitches!
The Kelly McGillis thread has me thinking. I came out in the 80''s and it seems that almost every gay rumor around in the 80''s and 90''s have been substantiated. \ \ Let''s list the rumors and those that have been confirmed: \ \ Kelly McGillis\ \ Jodi Foster\ \ George Michael \ \ Lead singer of Judas Priest\ \ Queen Latifah
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).
Here are just a few: There are seven calories in a teaspoon of semen. Complete sexual inactivity may lead to a reduction in penis size. Complete sexual inactivity may lead to a reduction in penis size.
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.
So... what's going on here?
A DL holiday tradition! The 1925 Western Electric Christmas Party Photo!
What are they really like? I'm too scared to do drugs so I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of fun. Am I? Can guys who go to these things share what they are like?
Earlier this month, blogger Jessica Shyba and her family adopted an adorable 7-week-old mutt. They named him Theo. On his third day as part of their family, Theo joined Jessica and her toddler son Beau for afternoon snuggle time. Beau fell asleep and then so did Theo… The next day, he joined in the naptime ritual again. “And so began,” Shyba says, “the most organic and beautiful friendship I have ever witnessed.” Since then, every day Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep and then joins him for his two-hour snooze. Of course, mama can hardly contain herself and is posting pictures of the cuteness on Instagram. And for that, we can all be grateful…
Toddler naps with his 2-month-old puppy every day
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I nominate this one. When I saw it on Amazon I almost busted my gut from laughing so hard.
A British pop superstar and Kim Kardashian's gorgeous half-sister walk into a gay bar . . . It sounds like the beginning of a tired old joke, but in this case, it's for real: This past Saturday, Dec. 7, Harry Styles took new girlfriend Kendall Jenner to Therapy, a popular gay bar in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen nabe, a source confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. The same day that the One Direction singer, 19, and model/reality star, 18, were spotting leaving the Ganservoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District together, the pair resurfaced at Therapy with a few other pals, and "didn't make a huge deal about it," the source tells Us. Saturday's theme at Therapy was "Gays Gone Wild," with other bargoers dancing up a storm to pop hits. Alas, Styles, Jenner et al, however, didn't hit the dance floor, the source notes. And the crooner isn't new to Therapy, either. "Harry has actually been her a few times before," the source explains of the fairly low-key hangout. "He's just a regular customer when he comes in -- he gets a table and usually drinks beer and cocktail on the side," adds the source of Styles, who was dating Taylor Swift around this time last year. As it happens, Styles "walked out when they played 'What Makes You Beautiful,'" as other patrons finally began recognizing the celebrities in their midst, the source said. "He was holding Kendall's hand." Although the pair have denied any romance, the evidence suggests otherwise: Five days after a news-making dinner date in L.A., Styles was spotted leaving the Malibu home of Kendall's father Bruce Jenner at 9:30 a.m., and the pair reconnected hours later for lunch at Soho House in West Hollywood, with Styles picking up the check. "They definitely plan to hang out more," another insider told Us.
Any stories?
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?
The gossip continues.
“I don’t think that we should be going to the Olympics at all," Gaga reportedly stated. “I mean, I would never take anything away from [the athlete’s] hard work, I just think it is absolutely wrong for so many countries to send money and economy in the way of a country that doesn’t support gays..."
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
In contrast to the "Which celebrities will come out in 2014" thread, who are the gay celebrities that you think will NEVER come out, not even on their death beds? I nominate: John Travolta Hugh Jackman
...and it's not Gina Carano.
Saw After Midnight. Overrated.
the camera does not lie!
BREAKING ++ Finally caught on tape: TomTin (Tom + Dustin lance Black)
for r598 in the last theatre thread
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Please tell us of your latest problems. Your financial woes, your family troubles. Anything that is getting you down. I can't guarantee what the other bitches will say BUT I will officially condole you on your troubles in the official DL/AB Fab manner!!!
Are you going, darling? Anyone who's anyone will be - Bono, Peter Gabriel. Important people, darling.
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Yum.
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.
The Herald in Plymouth [quote]Appalled by articles on diver Tom Daley I AM appalled at the way your newspaper has handled Tom Daley's appalling confession; and pages 16 and 17 of Saturday's Herald left me feeling I wanted to vomit. However you frame it, homosexuality is a perverted form of sex, and is absolutely abhorrent. The way your newspaper has glorified this disgusting lifestyle, has sickened me to the core, and I want no further contact with the Plymouth Herald. My contributions to Your Say, and my purchase of The Herald may not represent a significant loss, but it at least registers one person's rejection of your newspaper's appalling standards on this occasion. I shall at least have the satisfaction that I am no longer contributing to the ongoing circulation of The Plymouth Herald. I thank you for the past association, but I wish you total failure for the future, so long as you perpetrate such perverted ideas. JOHN J JONES
Angry homophobe writes letter to Tom Daley's local paper
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I was actually asked by a straight woman why gay guys are "statistically", she put it that way, more attractive. I didn't have an answer. I somewhat agree with her. Yes, there are MANY ugly gay males. However, you have to admit that there are a majority of what is classified as the desired male beauty. I'm referring to facially, not body, mind you. I know that a lot of us take care of our skin, and what not, but that doesn't explain why many of us have symmetrical faces. This brings me to the next subject: gay face. Why do so many gay men have it? Is there a link between homosexuality and what we classify as "gay face"? Many gays have it. Surely, you can create this look if you pluck your eyebrows, and put lip gloss on, but most of us don't, and many of us still have "gay face". So, you may be wondering, what do these two subjects have to do with one another. Well, male beauty is usually defined by faces that have some feminine features. In fact, when polled, women chose men who had more feminine facial features as the ones who would be good fathers.
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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?
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)
Close behind Sandler in second place is Katherine Heigl followed by Reese Witherspoon in third place.
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors
December 7, 2013 Straight guys twerking awkwardly on Vine is officially a thing (thanks for kicking off the meme, John Mangum), so we may as well enjoy the gratuitous six second videos on a weekly basis, don't you think? This week's hottest half-naked bros twerking in a Vine video comes courtesy of Carson Hiner, who wastes a perfectly good strip-twerk-dance on someone who doesn't seem to be enjoying it as much as many people we know would.
"Hot Straight Shirtless Guy Twerking In A Vine Video" Of The Weekend
Who knew this was a trend? Yeesh.
An official associated with the Republican National Committee made head-turning comments at a GOP holiday party last week, accusing gay individuals of pushing health care reform because they die earlier in life. Speaking at Berrien County Republican Party Holiday Reception last Thursday, RNC Committee member Dave Agema said that while working with American Airlines, he repeatedly witnessed gay colleagues claiming AIDS victims as lovers, just so they could get health care coverage.
Homophobic RNC Committee Member Accuses Gay Colleagues Of Manipulating Health Benefits
Frighteningly accurate.
And they got married. *Married?* *MARRIED!*
Photographer Piero Pazzi, has delivered his annual “Hot Priest Calendar” where he has selectively photographed some of the sexiest Roman Catholic priests from Vatican City, Italy. Which sexy priest is your favorite?
These hot and REAL Vatican priests will get you on your knees and praying in no time
the middle singer (in this pic) sports quite an impressive package.
George Eads will take a leave of absence from the long-running drama after engaging in a heated exchange with one of the show's writers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The actor, who has played Nick Stokes since the series premiered in 2000, will appear in the first three episodes of CSI's upcoming 14th season. Producer CBS Television Studios declined to reveal a date for his return but said he would be back later this season. "George Eads will not appear in several episodes during the first half of the season. We look forward to him returning to CSI very soon," a rep for CBS TV Studios said in a statement to THR. The actor signed on to return as a regular along with the rest of the cast when CBS renewed the series in March. His absence, sources say, is not considered an attempt to renegotiate his contract. Eads -- and co-star Jorja Fox -- were both briefly fired from CSI in 2004 after a short-lived salary standoff with the network and studio. Instead, Eads was unhappy with the creative direction of his character, sources tell THR, and clashed with an eight-months-pregnant co-writer of a recent episode. Word of the incident is said to have gotten back to showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and resulted in a meeting that ended with Eads threatening to quit. A rep for Eads declined to comment. Eads is one of only three actors who have been with CSI from the start (Paul Guilfoyle and Eric Szmanda are the others). Fox left and later returned to the show. Sources tell THR that Eads' absence will be addressed in the fourth episode of the season when Catherine (Marg Helgenberger, who will reprise her role in the landmark 300th episode) hand-picks his character to receive special training at Quantico. CSI returns Sept. 25 on CBS.
"She must not know who the HELL I am!" Starts November 3rd
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6
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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
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?
This is my own diagnosis, obviously, and I got my medical license on DL. He's trying to ruin my life and gaslight me to all our friends, what should I do? It really sucks, you guys, I still love him.
I will never understand some people's fascination with trannys. Ugh just the though of a dude dressed up as a woman with breast and a penis makes my stomach turn.
Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa Engaging In Threesome With A Tranny!
Family Guy is fixing their huge fuck up. Brian is returning to the land of the living. IMO maybe next time they should make Lois a widow. Lois and Brian always had he hots for each other. He could become the man of the family Peter never was or could be.
There is an interesting article in the New Yorker (linked from a Daily Fail article, I know) about a sales clerk in a luxury mall in the US getting depressed being in contact with wealthy customers. The little time I worked in sales my favourite customers were those who had saved a long time to treat themselves to something wonderful. You could tell they weren't the type to max out their credit and how truly exciting it was for them. I would give them the most sumptuous wrapping and extra samples and freebies. With wealthy customers, I got all kinds, blasé, cheap, difficult, friendly and unassuming. I never felt depressed about it, but then again it was a short stint. The New Yorker article has interesting comments.
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Here's a portion of my list: For my mother: Neely O'Hara's classic fragrance, "Self-Destructive". For my brother: the "Just Guy Stuff. No homo." sweatshirt with matching sweat pants. For my aunt: the Bonnie Franklin Memorial pop-up book. Everytime you open a page, you hear, "Dammit Julie". I'm still going through the catalog to figure out the rest. What will you be buying?
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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.
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.)
What's it saying?
There were rumors about Eminem which seem sort of gross since she was playing his mother but other than that, anything?
Clothing guide for everything from pants to suits to shoes: Converse sneakers, a leather watch, a navy suit...and the list goes on:
I have been watching OZ a few times a week as HBO is rerunning it on one of their channels. I never have seen it before and have only heard it referred to here, mostly in connection with Chris Meloni and Lee Tergesen. \ I have to say that these two men have a chemistry that is amazing. I can well believe the rumors that their relationship was more than a professional one. As to the show, it is truly powerful and very disturbing. Sometimes the brutality is too much for me and I have to turn it off. I''m also really impressed with Rita Moreno.\ If anyone cares to comment on the program or the actors, I would enjoy reading it.
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
This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.
How Many American Men Are Gay?
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Director of "Boys in the Band" and "Cruising" will attempt to make his gayest film yet
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I used to smoke, I quit. My parents absolutely hated it. A huge motivation for my quitting was that I didn't want to hear them carping about it. So I was surprised recently to be at a holiday party where my adult friend who smokes went out to smoke with his parents. I don't know what my point is here, it just felt really weird.
Porn production halted for the fourth time this year.
This is a thread devoted to tech questions regarding anything and everything tech. Ask and answer away, bitches.
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Paul Crouch, a pioneering televangelist who founded Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian TV network, died today, according to the network's website. He was 79. The church reported in October that Crouch had fallen ill and was taken to a Dallas-area hospital while on a visit to a TBN facility in Colleyville, Texas. He had "heart and related health issues," the church said, and he was later returned to California for continued treatment. The son of a Missouri missionary, Crouch moved to California in the early 1960s to manage the movie and television unit of the Assemblies of God. A decade later, after receiving what he believed was a message from God, he began to buy television stations, cable channels and satellites and developed enough Christian programming to sustain a 24-hour network. By the mid-1980s, Orange County-based TBN was “the country’s most-watched religious network,” according to J. Gordon Melton and Jon R. Stone in their book “Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting.” With his bubbly wife Jan, Crouch anchored TBN’s flagship program, “Praise the Lord,” a nightly two-hour talk show featuring guests, Scripture and entertainment. He was known for preaching a gospel of prosperity, imploring viewers to open their pocketbooks to further God’s works and reap spiritual and material blessings in return. During four decades on air he often generated controversy, in particular because of the extravagant lifestyle he and his wife led. Critics complained that his jets, mansions and lavish expense-account meals were paid by tax-exempt donations from TBN’s legion of “prayer partners,” whose pledges enabled the network to surpass its rivals in size and global reach.
Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, dies at 79
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Let's continue all things Andy Cohen here.....
This was in another Sound of Music Live thread but really, it deserves its own.
Anybody else watching this at US pace? It's an amazing French series about various people who've died at various points in time who suddenly reappear with no explanation. The acting is uniformly wonderful and the young man who plays Simon is exceptionally beautiful.
CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. (AP) — The last walk that Ronald Westbrook took began as early as 1 a.m. when he slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs. It ended three hours later when Westbrook, a 72-year-old who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, knocked in the dark on a stranger's door last month. Police said a man inside that home, 34-year-old Joe Hendrix, got a .40-caliber handgun, went outside to investigate and shot Westbrook in a horrible mistake. The unlikely collision between two strangers — one deeply confused, another perceiving a threat — illustrates both the difficulties that caregivers face in keeping loved ones with Alzheimer's safe and the consequences of miscalculation in a state that celebrates its gun culture. Westbrook's widow struggles to comprehend how she lost her husband of 51 years and discussed what happened in an interview in her house this week, sitting on her couch beside her Bible. "I can't imagine him feeling threatened by my husband, that's what surprises me," said Deanne Westbrook, 70. "Because Ron wasn't like that. He probably, I think he was so cold. He was looking for help when he was ringing that doorbell at their place. I think he just wanted somebody to help him." Hendrix declined to comment because of the ongoing investigation. His attorney, Lee Davis, described his client as distraught. The local district attorney has not yet decided whether to press criminal charges against Hendrix for what happened on Nov. 27. "He is not a gun-toting rights activist who's saying, 'Keep off my property,'" Davis said. "He's a man who thought he had to take action because of what he believed to be a real and imminent threat." A retired nurse who once cared for dementia patients in a nursing home, Westbrook's wife was perhaps better equipped than most to care for a spouse with Alzheimer's. The progressive disease results in memory loss, impairs judgment and can leave its victims disoriented. She installed door alarms to alert her if her husband tried wandering away. She was already making plans to get more advanced care at home as the disease progressed. "I don't feel angry," she said. "I just feel sad. I never would have thought he would've (come) to an end like this. I was prepared for the Alzheimer's to get worse and for me to take care of him here. And I was going to do it." Others can sympathize. Marylou Hable, who works for A Place for Mom, helping match families with care and living facilities, said she works with Alzheimer's patients and their families every day. Yet she still struggled when her husband's uncle came to live with them. She took all sorts of precautions to protect him, but one night he wandered out after midnight. She and her husband were exhausted and didn't hear the alarms. Alzheimer's patients often seize on a past memory, and the uncle was trying to find the streetcar to go home to Cleveland, Ohio, even though he had moved to Michigan. He was beaten up and robbed, but luckily police contacted Hable and her husband when he turned up in the hospital. "Here I am in the industry and I couldn't keep John safe," she said. An incident in mid-November may have set the stage for the fatal error. Shortly after Hendrix's fiancee moved into her new rental home, a man appeared at the door just before midnight on Nov. 19. He pounded on the door while Hendrix's fiancee was alone with two children, and he demanded to see someone whom Hendrix's fiancee did not know, Davis said. She called Hendrix, who was in nearby Chattanooga, Tenn., who told her to call 911. By the time sheriff's deputies and Hendrix arrived, the man was gone. Davis said what happened was documented in a police report. Afterward, Hendrix took a Glock handgun that he kept in his apartment and brought it to his fiancee's home. The following week, Deanne Westbrook woke up and noticed that her husband and the couple's two dogs were missing. Not long after, a police officer arrived to deliver the news, and the dogs were returned to her. For reasons that are not clear, Westbrook left his home and started walking. A deputy sheriff noticed him along a road around 2:20 a.m. and stopped to ask what he was doing, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said. Westbrook told the officer that he was gathering mail and then planned to return to his home up a hill. While Westbrook's answers were curt, nothing about the conversation alarmed the deputy. Wilson said barking dogs woke up Hendrix and his fiancee in her home sometime before 4 a.m. Westbrook had walked to their house, the last in a cul-de-sac. He rang the doorbell, knocked on the door and tried the handle. In what may have been a startling move, Westbrook left the front of the home and moved out of view. The woman called 911, and Hendrix got his gun. While the woman was on the phone with a dispatcher, Westbrook returned to the door a second time, Wilson said. Hendrix left the house and found Westbrook outside in the dark. He told police that Westbrook ignored commands to stop, identify himself and raise his hands. The sheriff said Westbrook approached Hendrix, who fired four shots. "Obviously, in hindsight, it's very easy to say, 'Why didn't you stay inside? Why didn't you keep the door shut?'" Davis said. "But the reality is, how long are you supposed to wait until somebody comes through your door? And had the person come through his door with his fiancee there, then what would have happened?" Under Georgia law, people are not required to try retreating from a potential conflict before opening fire to defend themselves from serious imminent harm, said Russell Gabriel, director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at the University of Georgia. State law allows people to use lethal force to stop someone from forcibly entering a home if those inside reasonably fear they are going to be attacked. Deadly force can even be used to stop someone from trying to forcibly enter a home to commit a felony. "Different people have a different understanding of what is reasonable," Gabriel said. "Reasonableness is a classic jury question."
Alzheimer's Sufferer Fatally Shot After Knocking On Wrong Door
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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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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[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.'
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?
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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Tighter than tight pants--no wonder they sang so high.
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.
Does he have a hairy dick?
Let me tell you all a very bittersweet story. Let's just call it: "Karma" - So once upon a time in a land far away there was a special and sweet kid who had a dream to become a painter. He was a brilliant artist and was ahead of his time. He had hopes, and dreams just like we all do. Unfortunately, the art schools did not feel the same as he and they rejected him. Fast forward a few years lat...er he was roughed up and bullied on top of that by the same people he once loved. His Name was Hitler. Then fast forward a few generations, there was once upon a time a young lady who also had the same hopes and dreams as Hitler did. She probably loved the Jews as much as they hated her. She still loved them. As a matter of fact, the majority of her friends were Jewish. She loved them so much and just wanted to be accepted by them that she even tried to convert to Judaism, but no. It was still not good enough for them. They mocked her, rejected her and laughed at her through and through when all she ever did was show them her love. Her name was Tila Tequila. -
I think the guy's cute, but those yellow, filmy teeth are a complete turn-off. I admit tons of stars overdue the whitening, but he looks white trashy
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start reading ladies... my money is on Courtney Act.
Bop.
Movies: 12 YEARS A SLAVE AMERICAN HUSTLE CAPTAIN PHILLIPS FRUITVALE STATION GRAVITY HER INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS NEBRASKA SAVING MR. BANKS THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Television shows: THE AMERICANS BREAKING BAD GAME OF THRONES THE GOOD WIFE HOUSE OF CARDS MAD MEN MASTERS OF SEX ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK SCANDAL VEEP
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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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Yes, morbid, I know, but there was a similar thread here years ago, and you have to admit it''s interesting...\ \ [italic]Female:[/italic]\ \ Tori Amos\ \ Fiona Apple\ \ Fantasia\ \ Fran Drescher\ \ Terri Hatcher\ \ Oprah\ \ Billie Holiday\ \ Connie Francis\ \ \ [italic]Male:[/italic]\ \ Axl Rose\ \ Carlos Santana\ \ Billy Connolly\ \ Thomas Dekker\ \ Rufus Wainwright\ \ Henry Rollins\ \ Marilyn Manson\ \ Ozzy Osbourne\ \ John Peel\ \ Clyde Barrow\ \ Sid Vicious\ \ T.E. Lawrence
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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'
Bieber was on the radio with Ryan Seacrest this morning to plug his new documentary, "Justin Bieber's Believe," which he claims will show how difficult it's been for him to go from teen star to manhood in the public spotlight. Audio:
Who is on your Favorites list. I have: fitdude82 dibs condoras treyhot youngbreeder david89ing spartacus_22 doublejuice dos_pedros amazinghole stevenexposd
Partying, partying, YEAH!\ \ Fun, fun, fun, fun.\ \ Looking forward to the weekend.
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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?
old, Old, OLD!
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Lots of love from the Emmys but nada from Datalounge? Last night's episode was top notch. Absolutely no reduction in action, suspense or acting. Everyone is still bringing it and the excitement level from last season has been brought over to the new season. Am I the only one that watched?
Carrie is back...back I tell you!
is gay. You knew that right?
Great character actor. Loved him in Thelma & Louise, Fatal Instinct, Quiz Show and all of the many films he's been in--small or big budget. He also had a great ass back in the day, particularly in Grease 2.
1.Male celebrities: If people ask you why you got into acting, make sure you say that you took acting classes to meet women! Don't tell people you were doing Bette Davis impressions in front of the mirror as a 4-year-old. 2.Tell people you had a hot affair with a celebrity of the opposite sex who is now deceased. Since he/she is dead, there will be no way to disprove your claims!
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.
I vote for Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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I'm in the mood for a snack!
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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:
Did women really dress like her in the mid-to-late '70s? Is what she was wearing considered a caftan or a muumuu?
After all Tom is just 19 and may lack the sexual experience of Dustin's typical partner. We can certainly assume Dustin has sucked Tom's cock. Do you think Tom has reciprocated yet? Do you think Dustin has touched Tom's asshole yet?
In what is easily the best news we've heard all damned day, Deadline, has learned that Dan Knauf, creator of the cult HBO series "Carnivale," has joined NBC’s upcoming 10-episode series "Dracula" as showrunner/head writer, working with series creator Cole Haddon. NBC's "Dracula" will feature Jonathan Rhys Meyers ("The Tudors", Shelter, Velvet Goldmine) as the iconic vampire. The series, from producers Tony Krantz and Colin Callender and writer Cole Haddon, is being produced for both NBC and the UK’s Sky Living. It was originally bought by NBC in January with a “script-to-series” commitment, meaning that it wouldn’t go through a pilot stage but straight to series if NBC brass liked the script. "Dracula" is produced by Krantz’s Flame Ventures, Callender’s Playground Entertainment, Universal TV, and NBCU International Prods.’ Carnival Films & Television, the company behind "Downton Abbey". Krantz and Callender are executive producing the series with Gareth Neame and Anne Mensah. Haddon and Flame’s Reece Pearson co-executive produce. Based on an idea by Krantz, it is set in the 1890s and has been described as “Dangerous Liaisons meets 'The Tudors,'” which is fitting given that "Tudors" star Meyers has been tapped to play the title role. The new series reunites Meyers with NBC's Bob Greenblatt, who cast the Irish actor in "The Tudors" while running Showtime. As a producer, Greenblatt gave Meyers his first starring role in the CBS telefilm Elvis, which was overseen by Universal TV EVP Bela Bajaria, then head of CBS’ movies and miniseries division. In the NBC/Sky Living series Dracula (Meyers) arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier but falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. “It is a timeless tale with relevant, surprising twists and turns with the exquisite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the marquee role,” Bajaria said.
I guess this year is as predictable as all the previous years: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Fruitvale Station, Gravity, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, Saving Mr. Banks, 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street. The 10 TV programs selected are: The Americans, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Mad Men, Masters of Sex, Orange Is the New Black, Scandal, Veep.
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I got douche chills watching this.
[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)
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
Who are some stars who are widely assumed to be straight, but you think they might be queer? For me its Jennifer Lopez. Never heard any rumors about her but she always dated flamers like P. Diddy and that backup dancer guy with gayface.
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Wasn't she the go-to female child star at the time? And it's obvious her mother/manager wasn't afraid of edgy roles.
He does make gaffes when he speaks, but he's pretty decent.
What is happening here on DL? There is a new 900 page Barbara Stanwyck biography by Victoria Wilson, and unless I'm missing something, no one on DL has mentioned it. The book is actually the first volume of the bio that Wilson is writing, and deals with the years 1907 - 1940. It covers her marriage to Frank Fay, her romance with Frank Capra, who made her a star, and second marriage to Robert Taylor. The reviews I have read say nothing about Stanwyck as a lesbian. Maybe Stanwyck didn't turn to the ladies for love until later in life.
How about female stars who were, perhaps, not known for their great beauty but had a film role or a few years when they were at their ravishing best OR were made surprisingly glamorous? %0D\ %0D\ I''ll start. Judy Garland. 1943-45. Perhaps in Presenting Lily Mars or The Clock. Never looked lovelier. Then the decline began.
Be honest!
BY SHAUN KITCHENER ON JULY 18, 2013 Zachary Quinto Splits From Glee's Jonathan Groff: 'They Remain Friends' Couple have reportedly gone their separate ways Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff have reportedly split up, but remain on good terms. The Star Trek actor is even thought to have seen Groff in a play recently, months after they parted ways unnoticed. According to Gossip Cop's source, rumours that the relationship ended explosively are false, and there is "nothing salacious" about the story. The couple confirmed they were an item last year, one year after Quinto announced that he is gay. Following the success of Star Trek Into Darkness earlier this year, Quinto will soon be diving into a threequel - and he reckons it could start shooting in 2014, despite JJ Abrams' involvement with Star Wars. "Star Trek 3 should be filming, I suppose, next year," he told Buzzhub. "It’s going to be made a lot quicker than the last one. That’s the plan, although nothing is confirmed yet." Groff, meanwhile, has previously appeared in 12 episodes of Glee in the recurring role of Jesse St James, and he's also been seen in The Good Wife and The Conspirator.
Zachary Quinto Splits From Glee's Jonathan Groff: 'They Remain Friends'
I'm counting on DL to point out the differences. I've avoided getting involved with bisexual men for years - not for any issue with their own sexual orientation but because, based on my experiences, I've always felt they were different from gay men. But I met a really great guy and we're very attracted to one another. So I thought I'd break my rule and give it a go. We've had a few dates and have a lot of chemistry. I've made it clear that I'm not a bottom, that I'm versatile, that I'm gay and that I'm a grown man. I feel strongly that his sexuality shouldn't define mine in a limiting way. I've been pretty persuasive about the joys of ass play and I haven't been aggressive and have promised to take my time with him, etc. His comfort level is my highest concern. And he has a gorgeous ass. But he's a bit of a tease, a bit coy. He says things like, "If you're lucky, maybe I'll let you do this...," etc. I suppose a certain amount of negotiation is to be expected but it makes think what I've always thought about this equation - bisexual men just want to control everything. Any experience here?
If I open multiple tabs with different articles, it's even worse. Has anyone figured out a way around it? I am very busy promoting the homosexual agenda so seconds count.
Lets name some. \ \ Either past or present. If you''d like, link a pic to back up your claim.
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.
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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.
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.
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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in 2016?
Is he a girlyman?
6'5" Jared Padalecki needs bodyguard to go shopping in NY???
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."
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!
So fucking hot!
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C'mon all you people pronouncing NYC and SF and LA ovah, it's time to put your money where your mouth is and repopulate and revive this old bankrupt city. Crime, grit, dirt, pockets of artists, Detroit is where it's at. So why aren't you all going?
I want to hear his opinion on Jodie. Everyone go to their bathrooms, shut the lights and say, "I'm JIVE!" three times.
Tim Meadows WENT OFF on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend -- saying he'll NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN after they excluded him from a throwback sketch. Meadows -- who appeared on the show from 1991 to 2001 -- swore off the show after watching the "Brasky Bar Guys" bit ... a reoccurring sketch he often appeared in during his time with the show. Meadows tweeted: "They did Brasky without me" ... adding, "Not even a 'hey would you want to come to do one line and bring your kids to see the 5 directions...?' Nothing... Wow..." "I will never watch SNL again." Meadows also explained why he thinks he's persona non grata -- and it traces back to his movie, "The Ladies Man." "Sorry the ladies man bombed," Meadows wrote ... "If it would have done better they wouldn't treat me like a red-headed step child." After the rant, Tim cooled down and seemed to back off his comments ... saying, "I'm not mad at the show. I know what it takes to produce those sketches in a short amount of time. I talked to a friend on the show who said it WAS a last minute sketch." "I acted like a baby. I'm happy for all of my friends success and will always be grateful and proud to have been a part of SNL. That being said don't forget to see 'Anchorman 2' coming soon to a theater near you." Fun Fact: "The Ladies Man" bombed so bad it took SNL 10 years to make another movie.
Tim Meadows -- 'I Will NEVER Watch Saturday Night Live Again'
Years ago, I read an article in Harper's or The New Yorker about mothers in Polynesia or some tropical place. They massage their babies' genitals to get them to stop crying and this practice is completely acceptable. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Do you consider this to be child abuse?
I've never understood why that it is. You want big muscley guys to top and master you, not fling their legs up in the air.
Now, Clinton Kelly is no shrinking violet, but as a guest co-host, he's seated between Shrieking Sherri and Slutty Jenny. He can't get a word in edgewise. Neither of the bitches knows how to listen. They've run all over him in the rudest kind of way not letting him finish a sentence or even speak. I SO want to turn off the show and haven't watched it in months but for the first time in ages, I want to see/hear some of the guests. Johnny Mathis is about to sing.
Oh, Glennie - how fun for you to host the Kennedy Center Honors! I'm sure Caroline selected you because of your stunning resemblance to her uncle Teddy.....
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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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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?
So, what was the defining moment of 2013. For me, it was section 3 of DOMA falling and getting married.
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I am attending tonight's service and honey, Sister Bonnie is PREACHING IT. Tell 'em all, bitch!
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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.
It's very frustrating as feminine gay woman who is attracted to the same to see these sexually ambivalent women in the bars. Yes, I live in L.A. so they are the minority, but still they ruin the vibe. Especially when they are of the stud variety who come on to ladies like 14 yr old boys! No class, no decorum. THEY SCARE ME!!
Doh!
Is this legal?
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!'
Dayna Morales and the Gallop Asian Bistro made a 'joint decision' to end her employment at the restaurant, the business said on its Facebook page Wednesday. It did not determine exactly what happened with the receipt, in which Morales says a customer did not tip her because they did not agree with her lifestyle and criticized her for being openly gay. Long article, with photos and video, at NY Daily News link.
New Jersey [lesbian] waitress accused of doctoring receipt leaves job
Still in prison. Are they lifers, now? Stay tuned.
I blame the Mexicans.
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Think of him on top of you...
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?
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Hospital staffs unprepared for onslaught of the newly-insured.
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I thought I'd bring you up to date. I now have an ugly black eye and I am recovering from a pummeling you wouldn't believe. All of this was for simply suggesting I might consider a small financial settlement if he wanted out of our relationship. He smacked my face so hard I have three teeth that are loose. I have a dentists appointment on Tuesday. That was the earliest appt. I could get. Then he doubled his fist and punched me in the head giving a nasty black eye. He called me a bunch of names I can't correctly spell, but they were mean and nasty. I'm considering filing charges, but there were no witnesses, so it's my word and injuries against his bruised hands. I'm really confused as to what my next step should be.
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.
So why are these places still open before that guy arrives? Aren't there food inspectors in those towns?
Someone get this sick bitch a sammich!
The 19-yr. old high school senior gets an Ebony makeover.
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Continued... come here to make fun of RPatz and KStew and their stans!
She said it was her worst interview ever? I can't find it online.
How about male stars who were, perhaps, not known for their great beauty but had a film role or a few years when they were at their ravishing best OR were made surprisingly glamorous?
is over. At this point, in 2013, only the most pathetic, craven souls remain hidden there. (I am not speaking of teens or even college students.)
My San Fran friends say NYC is expensive, but not San Francisco expensive. True?
What about the children?
The best part are the fake headlines from the future.
Pranksters Convince Alcoholic Friend He's Been in a Coma for 10 Years
Paul Rudd is host One Direction are the musical guest Did they start out by spoofing The Sound Of Music Live?
I'm employed!!!!
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What does it feel like?
We're having FOUR at my workplace. The President's reception, the company party, the departmental lunch, and my working group lunch. I'm skipping the big parties and only going to the lunches. It's this kind of forced socializing shit that makes the holidays stressful for an introvert.
Very draggy looking, as well. I haven't seen her in years, so was kind of shocked.
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I don't think I've ever seen anything quite this disgusting... but look at the beautiful people enjoying it!
Why didn't this incident get the high-profile Matthew Shepard treatment?
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.
I guess I'm just mean
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First up: the original fierce bitch Donna McKechnie. Poor video quality, but worth every second to see Miss "no bones or ligaments" McK's brilliance. Notice how much better she is than everyone around her!
She has Asperger's syndrome.
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.
In this thread we can dissect those men and post pics of them (both famous and non-famous).
Did you grow up with mixed bio/adopted sibling groups?
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.
"I'm deeply concerned with this movement that somehow marijuana isn't harmful and it doesn't hurt our kids," said Bergen.
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.
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.
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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
Here she is interviewing Jodi Arias. What do you think of her looks?
Posey, Pence, Ellsbury among 81 striking deals Associated Press - 5 hrs ago NEW YORK (AP) — NL MVP Buster Posey agreed to an $8 million, one-year contract with the San Francisco Giants, teammate Hunter Pence got a $13.8 million deal and Jacoby Ellsbury settled with the Boston Red Sox for $9 million on a busy Friday as players and teams swapped figures in salary arbitration. Eighty-one players reached agreements, leaving just 36 headed toward arbitration hearings next month in Phoenix. San Diego third baseman Chase Headley had the largest request and the biggest spread, asking for $10.3 million while the Padres offered $7,075,000. Boston reliever Craig Breslow had the slimmest gap. He sought $2,375,000 — that was $50,000 more than the Red Sox offered.
I am a lesbian who very rarely finds a straight woman attractive. Yet, on DL, straight men are highly prized. I just don''t get it.
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!
I got my BMW 328i sedan yesterday. Thought you'd like to know...TTFN.
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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?
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Go to the site below, record, post and then see if people can tell what part of the country/world you're from....
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?
Inspired by the Tom Daley thread. So did you ever date someone 20 years older while in your early 20s? Vote below and discuss
My parents rejoiced with pride in our President. I was about 10 but I knew then they weren't right in the head.
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.
How / why did the industry settle on '40 ?
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May the games begin again.
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Stars Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd.... I'm really surprised at how much casual nudity is in this movie. I don't really remember this movie (it was about the time I went to college), but it stars a lot of recognizable faces and big names... and so much skin. Very casual. And it made me realize that women showed boobs a lot more casually in mainstream movies in the 70s and 80s... I mean, this is billed as a John Landis comedy. There was even gratuitous beefcake.
Two designs. $25 each. I'm not affiliated w/Steve (though I sure would like to be).
Tom Daley's sweet little ass would be constantly wet and delicious
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?
It seems so phallic. Who sticks it in and what do they think as they do it?
She put out some pukey-looking food photos on Twitter and is appearing in public in unsightly outfits. One of her photos was of a slab of iceberg lettuce drowned in Russian dressing. Why would anyone even post a pic of that? Not exactly haute cuisine.
Discuss.
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.
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."
Think his agent is just mindfucking him with all these offers?
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She looks like the Joker.
This would probably cause a shitstorm. Free PR. Madonna will do it.
This thread is dedicated to my future gay husbands, Nathan Owens and Charles Michael Davis!
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For r29 in the "Why do Republicans hate Biden especially" thread.
fillin' yer hole!
For domestic abuse! He was arrested for beating his girlfriend with one arm.
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."
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The things I would do to this man! He has to be the sexiest athlete in all of sports. I hope one day he gives in and does ESPN's Body issue for 2014, I wil buy several copies because I want to see him naked!
Video: Cristiano Ronaldo Shows Off Abs & Bulge Modeling His CR7 Underwear Collection!
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.
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.
I had one that worked really well. I used to edit video clips in HD, edit them together, etc. Suddenly it became to much for my laptop to handle (videos would become choppy). The fan would go into overdrive. Yes, I cleaned the vents and wiped the hard drive clean. It didn't help any. So what size and specs should I get in a laptop? I'm not looking to purchase anything major, but I'd like to get something that'll work. TIA.
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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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Gay for pay porn star Chance Caldwell / Jay Huntington tag-teamed a girl with his real life son and fellow porn star Jerry!\ \ Father and son are doing well.
Yay for them. Seriously.
Will Aaron come out now?
Aaron Carter in bed with openly gay broadway actor MJ Rodriguez
Pamela Geller is once again calling for Congress to reject a resolution condemning the persecution of Burma’s Rohingya minority. As we noted on Wednesday, the Rohingya minority in Burma is facing a campaign of persecution that many human rights groups describe as ethnic cleansing. But since they are Muslim, they have little sympathy from Geller. In a blog post today, she claims that the Rohingya are waging “jihad in Burma,” but the “goosestepping thugs” of “Jihad agitators and their leftist shills” are covering it up and unfairly criticizing her. “Pure evil. The Left always does this,” she writes. Geller must then consider Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation as a leftist, jihadist group, as the conservative organization denounced the “ethnic cleansing” and “atrocities” committed against the Rohingya. We’re sure she also has words for the Republican congressmen who are co-sponsoring the resolution. Opposition to the jihad in Burma is fast becoming the third rail. The bogus myth of Muslim victimhood has become the rallying cry for Islamic supremacists organizations (CAIR, the OIC, et al) and their leftwing operatives across the nation and the world. And I dared touch that third rail when I called for Atlas readers, twitter followers and FB friends to contact their congressmen and vote NO on resolution 418 (more here). Jihad agitators and their leftist shills were none too pleased. It is clear that jihad terrorists are converging on Burma from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan -- a jihad group from the Caucasus announced that back in July. Still, media coverage and reportage on the violence in Burma is notoriously pro-jihad (is there any country that opposes jihad that the media likes?). Much is made of the Buddhists' reponse [sic] to Muslim violence against Buddhists in Burma. But Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese nobel peace prize winner and Myanmar's democracy and human rights icon, has spoken uneqivocally [sic] in support of the Buddhists, much to the media's crushing dismay. She had been, up until that point, a media darling. … Now their goosestepping thugs, the illegal uber-left network of hacktivists and anarchist entities, "Anonymous," has taken up the jihad in Burma as their latest cause -- so of course they would target me on twitter. The FBI has dismantled the leaders of Anonymous and arrested the group's core members, but anonymous trolls abound. This is left's idea od [sic] intellectual sparring. Pure evil. The Left always does this. They try to demean the character of their enemies by engaging in mockery and ridicule, which only makes more glaring their total inability and unwillingness to engage on the level of ideas.
Pamela Geller: Evil Liberals Who Condemn Rohingya Persecution Support 'Jihad In Burma'
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?
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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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Who knew she played Santa Claus wife! See link for more!
Because we will never get enough hot black men, bitches
Let's Post Pictures of Hot Black Guys - Part 3
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It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
if another thread was started, my apologies.
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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Carry on, literate DLers.
Anyone tried it?
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.
The first thing I liked about Orange Is the New Black is that it premiered on a dull summer Thursday. While weekends get busy in the summer, so much of the television goes away during the week (that’s the only real explanation I have for why I’m still watching Under the Dome). So on a pure consumer level, this television junky was thrilled by Netflix debuting 13 meaty new episodes of an intriguing prison drama this week. And in many respects, Orange is proving to be a perfect solution to the drought of quality content available this month on both digital and traditional platforms. I watched the show over the past few days, admittedly at a much slower pace than usual, but even still got sucked into the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a newly convicted resident of the federal penitentiary system. Orange represents an interesting cross between the distinctive styles of House of Cards — traditional serialized storytelling — and Arrested Development Season 4 — which is a Russian doll of flashbacks and interwoven events. The show, created by Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan, chronicles Chapman and the eclectic ensemble cast’s coping with prison life, but makes heavy use of flashbacks to shed light on how many of the inmates came to be institutionalized. Other scenes flesh out Chapman’s life prior to conviction, and between those reveals, the peeks into the lives of others and the main storyline taking place within prison walls, the end result is both linear narrative and rich tapestry. The format has invited comparisons to the ABC series Lost, the difference being that while Lost overused its flashbacks and rarely shed much real light on the characters, there’s seasons worth of back story left in Orange. The only main flaw of the experience came every time a new episode started — as visually gripping as the opening sequence is, you can only listen to a Regina Spektor song so many times in a row; skipping forward to timecode 1:13 or so became habit for me by Episode 6. It’s been said before, but it’s worth saying again: If Netflix is building its future on binge-viewing, it really needs to address a clean solution for those who wish to skip past the opening sequences. Those who might wonder about Orange, know that the show’s quality is solid — while the cast doesn’t include any Oscar winners, there are plenty of non-unknowns in the game, including Jason Biggs, Taryn Manning, Natasha Lyonne, Laura Prepon and the amazing Kate Mulgrew as Red, who could easily be a stereotype of a character (tough Russian mobster turned tough Russian prison cook) but is a surprisingly vulnerable presence. Not only is the show strong (so strong that Netflix has already renewed it for a second season), Orange is the New Black represents a major milestone for the service: Previous show releases have been major events, and the channel has used the novelty of premiering original content in bulk to drive press coverage and audience attention. Now, however, Netflix seems to be seguing to a new phase of its operation — where subscribers can just come to expect, on a semi-regular basis, the launch of new great shows. Orange is the fourth series to launch on the service in 2013 — none other, aside from the animated content being produced by Dreamworks, have been announced. Which is frankly disappointing; with the exception of Hemlock Grove (which currently has a 44 percent rating on Metacritic), Netflix has set an impressive bar for high-quality original series over the last six months. Similarly to the golden age of HBO, where the end of The Sopranos meant the return of Six Feet Under, followed by a new season of The Wire, the steady stream of new, unique and intriguing series we’ve been getting from Netflix has created a new, and quite welcome, tradition of potentially award-worthy programming. Here’s the highest compliment I can pay: Other Netflix series have left me excited for more Kevin Spacey political scheming or Bluth family antics. But Orange is the first time that I’ve finished watching a show and been excited about what Netflix might release next.
It''s a photo of Chris Pine and Zach Quinto, fully clothed but in a VERY homoerotic pose. It is a professional shot, and looks real, but I can''t imagine the context.
Wow - they're all pretty disgusting. This is not doing the "Persian" community any favors. And that gay guy needs to kill that moustache. Anybody else watching?
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?
Let's try not to get this thread closed down too...
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!
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?
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.
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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I was going to buy it for the photos, but they made him look all gross and sinewy. I can't fap to this.
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
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?
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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!
I want to run away from my life and go to a foreign country. I don't want friends or family to find me.
Because the first thread is full
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Any UK DataLoungers watching this? Second episode airs on BBC4 tonight. Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (BBC Four) is an award-winning Swedish drama about the Aids epidemic in Eighties Stockholm. Touching, bleak, at times painful to watch, this was a stark reminder of the disease’s impact. Based on Jonas Gardell’s novel Love, the first of three episodes introduced us to Rasmus (Adam Palsson), a 19-year-old from a provincial country town who throws himself into the city’s gay scene on leaving home for the first time, and Benjamin (Adam Lundgren), a reserved Jehovah’s Witness slowly coming to terms with his sexuality. We met the two protagonists in childhood, then as adults at a extravagant Christmas party thrown by Paul (Simon J Berger), with horrific flash-forwards to them in hospital beds just hours from death. “The story you are about to see is true,” said the voice-over. “It happened here, in this city. It was like a war fought in peacetime.” It was not an easy story to watch. It was, however, beautifully shot, flipping between shaky footage of men loitering under lampposts in Stockholm’s parks and cosy, softly-lit family scenes of the boys’ unsuspecting families. Symbolism was used very effectively, from the handprint on the window to the majestic white elk (“In some parts of the forest there are whole herds of them,” Rasmus’s father told him as a boy. “People shoot them because they are different.”) Paul was a brilliant character – flamboyant, self-deprecating, the very image of Rasmus and Benjamin’s parents’ worst nightmares with his feather boas and flowery wallpaper. The story developed quickly, giving us just enough of a glimpse into the world in which Rasmus and Benjamin found themselves – in parts seedy, yet also close-knit. The final scene, of the two lovers holding hands in the street, snow softly falling all around, was visually stunning, but a stark reminder that the worst is yet to come.
"Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves" - Swedish gay miniseries
I'm surprised "noone" have posted this yet. Go on then, spew. Let the hate go forth.
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?
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.
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
Post about a time when you got revenge on someone well deserving of it, in an epic way.
Do full-flown autistics?
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?
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...
Starring Miss Swann (Alex Borstein)... Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly. Anyone watch? Thoughts? It's yet another American version of a BBC show.
What is up with Claire Forlani doing that awful Irish accent for that Scotch commercial?
Many of those voting to cut food stamps are "Democrats." So those of you who hate the poor can celebrate. In a few months the poor will have about $2.85 a day to eat or 95 cents a meal. Congratulations America. You've officially become the cruelest nation on earth. Oh and btw, the money they are taking from food stamps are going to corporate farms, basically billionaires. This is only the beginning. Politicians on both sides want to take another 33 billion from food stamps. All of you who cheer this should hope every second of your life you will never find yourself in a position to need help from the government. Once they've sucked the programs for the poorest dry they'll be coming for SS, Medicare and unemployment.
The bill in the Senate to stop the cuts to food stamps failed, 33 to 66
'taint nobody's business if he do!
It just seems like a place that makes buying clothes easy - a one-stop shop. Right?
I've been studying like mad for the past few days and I'm so tired. What about you? What y'all up to?
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.
Discuss.
The UK store. What's the big deal about it? So much press about it in Los Angeles and NYC.
Another poll says 50% are from the US, but wasn't too informative on non US posters. Where are you?
Carter and George Nov. 22nd Bush are 89. Clinton and Jr. are 67.
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.
Yet I still hate him.
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Because hairy chest is a thing of beauty...
Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
Let's post pictures of amazing balls... goose-eggs, low-hangers, or just plain amazing sacks. Whatever, as long as the focus is on the balls!
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
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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.
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.
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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....
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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Who will play the little gay wrestler from New Jersey?
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!
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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?
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or an active one who just keeps it quiet?
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That is when my books are coming. Who is bringing them? What service started Sunday delivery?
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.
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.
Gay or not? He has gay-voice.
Did they rub their penises together?
-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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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"
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.’
And yet Beyonce shoes up to a VEGAN restaurant draped in fox fur! Is this bitch and her fake blonde ratty weave for real?
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
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?
Taboo!
This has been CONFIRMED by Howard Cosell, live on Monday Night Football! I'm crying as I type this!
***** BREAKING NEWS! ***** John Lennon is dead to me ... DEAD TO ME!
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)
Which celebrity deserves this distinction?
That is all.
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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
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?
Zombie!
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?
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
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!'
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
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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?
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).
A bit much, I'd say
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
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?
LOL!
Crazy fangurl in this thread trying to argue that Tom Daley is not actually dating DLB
[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?
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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?
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
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!
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.
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!
Carrie
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.
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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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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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.
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?
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
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.
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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.
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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?
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.
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:
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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
Post your hottest photos of Tom Daley here.
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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.
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?
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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2 hour episode updating "What Lies Beneath". ON NOW!!!!!!!!
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.
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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Which is better?
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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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.
Big Brother houseguest taking raw loads on live cam
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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
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."
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?
Check out what Latoya did to her face. Her nose is like Michael''s
Nicholas Sparks
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).
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