Tuesday, February 28
Monday, February 27
Too Gay For You - Too Het'ro For Me
I found this hilarious parody of billboards seen in St. Louis and around the country. Thought you might enjoy.
EDIT: Billboard image originally in Orlando, FL.
PENIS
South Park's Greatest
QAF: Series Premiere
Sunday, February 26
Fags in Texas
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." --Jesus Christ
Why have that specific Jesus quote on his website? He used to be a flaming power bottom for hire. Don't judge, bitchez. He's seen the light of Christ and is now a fabulous breeder/politician. Funny thing is he omitted his escourt services in his bio. I don't know why; it'd look good on a resume for a politician to have networking skills. Who has better networking skills than a whore? He's probably been fucked by some pretty important homos. I'll bet he has shit on some closet cases too.
Tom's bio:
Tom is committed to giving our families a voice in Austin,
with a focus on Education, the Economy, and restoring
a "Spirit of Ethics" to our State House.
Tom's success as an entrepreneur has included being a Mary Kay
Independent Senior Sales Director and Pink Cadillac Driver.
Tom was recognized as one of the top recruiters and sellers with
Mary Kay and one of only 3 men to ever earn the use of the
highly coveted Pink Cadillac.
Oh yeah and apparently he doesn't need a make-up crew to make him look pretty when he makes public appearances. He can rouge his own cheeks, thank you very much. So all you texans out there, vote for tom. And remember, you've sold your ass for between $200 and $500 too, so don't hate.
Frying Rears
Two Christian groups that claim to help homosexuals change their sexual preferences will hold a conference in St. Louis this month. A local gay rights group calls the gathering's theme "harmful."
Exodus International, one of the participating groups, had billboards installed along St. Louis-area highways last week. Focus on the Family, the other group, will host the meeting Feb. 25 at the First Evangelical Free Church in Manchester.
The billboards show a man's face and say, "I questioned homosexuality. Change is possible. Discover how," and lists the Web site for Exodus, of Orlando, Fla. The group says its affiliated counselors and ministers help "individuals who want to recover from homosexuality."
I really don't like St. Louis. The entire midwest really. What I want to know is how they can expect gay men to take seriously a woman whose last name is Fryrear. I can't imagine being introduced to her and not laughing in her face. And not just because she's a stupid twat.
These organizations make me sick. I think my mom's actually involved with Focus on the Family. Or was. She's kinda getting over the whole "we have the technology...we can rebuild him" phase. Anyway, can't wait for spring break in St. Louis.
Queer as Folk: The Fugly Season
There's just one problem. The distributors changed the box art from this gorgeous piece of art:
To this piece of shit:
It looks like it was thrown together in five minutes on M$ Paint. I'm really pissed that they'd try to put something like that on the shelves and expect people to buy it. I'm seriously considering not buying it at all because of the atrocious cover design. I can deal with sub-stellar DVD box designs. I'm not a fan of season one's DVD case, but it's not ugly by any means. Hopefully they'll go back to the original design before the release.
Back Online
Thursday, February 23
Wednesday, February 22
Tuesday, February 21
Kiwi Safari
Thursday, February 16
A Different Kind of Trojan
The OSX/Leap-A worm spreads via the iChat instant messaging system, forwarding itself as a file called latestpics.tgz to contacts on the infected users' buddy list. When the latestpics.tgz archive file is opened on a computer it disguises its contents with a JPEG graphic icon in an attempt to fool people into thinking it is harmless.
The worm uses the text "oompa" as an infection marker in the resource forks of infected programs to prevent it from reinfecting the same files.
What really surprises me is that this has nothing to do with OSx86 (codename for OSX on the new Intel compies.) Rather frightening.
Three cheers for wanka's new candy: malware milk balls. :P
Harlequin
Wednesday, February 15
Arachnophilia
I think the moral of the story is, once you get AIDS, you can fuck pretty much anything you want. No matter how many legs it has. When I first saw this, I saw the scorpion one on its own and I thought it had something to do with my astrological sign. I was like, "Um...score?" Then I saw it was about AIDS. Rather disappionting. Cool pictures though!
Tuesday, February 14
Wal-Mart Abortions For Less
Wal-Mart said today it plans to start stocking and selling the emergency contraception drug Plan B at its 44 Massachusetts pharmacies after receiving a directive from state regulators.
The retailer said it is also giving serious thought to carrying the drug at all of its 3,700 pharmacies nationwide. The only other state where Wal-Mart sells the so-called morning after pill is Illinois, where a state law requires it. Elsewhere, Wal-Mart has refused to stock the drug for undisclosed "business reasons."
Suck on that, religious right. Business reasons my ass. They adhere(d) to the belief that making contraceptives easily available will only increase sexual experimentation among people who should be keeping it in their pants til they tie the heterosexual knot. It's the same theory that keeps other like-minded people from sponsoring AIDS reseach cause they say that once there's a cure, people will just fuck fuck fuck. It's almost like they're glad it's here. Anyway, I'm glad their finally moderinzing though. Honestly, who even cares about contraceptives except the catholic church any more?
Monday, February 13
Goddamn Facebook
Hi,Jesus fucking christ, can no one take a joke any more? Honest to god, I had two or three black people in that group. I wonder who flagged the group. Oh well. Satire is dead.
The group The Abercrombie & Fitch Society For the Promotion of Racial Hygiene (BC Chapter) has been removed due to a violation of the Terms of Use.
Continuing to violate the Terms of Use will result in termination of your account.
Facebook Team
EDIT: Added continued correspondence with bitch at facebook.
This is kind of disappointing. The group in question was a satire on Abercrombie's discriminatory hiring practices. It was linked to afjustice.com, a site dedicated to the elimination of such bigotry. They've filed and won a number of lawsuits against the store already. I can only assume that the violation to which you refer is in regard to your non-discriminatory policy, specifically, " you agree not to use the Web site to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;" The goal of the group was not to cause hate. It was created to draw people's attention to something vulgar, obscene and hateful in the hopes that they would then do something about it. Anyway, I don't expect the group to return, and I'm not going to try to recreate it. I just feel that your conduct policy needs to take into account satire, which has been an effective tool at bringing attention to and ending discrimination for hundreds of years now. Thanks for your time. Terribly sorry for the trouble.
Peter Herman
A few minutes later, facebitch responds:
Hi,
Thank you for explaining the purpose of the group. The problem
with satire on a site like Facebook is it is impossible for
administrators to tell what is harmful and what is meant as a joke.
It is Facebook's policy to remove anything that could be considered
threatening (even if it is just a joke) because it has no way of
verifying who is and isn't getting hurt by the situation. I'm very
sorry for the inconvenience it causes in your case. Hopefully you
can understand the need for Facebook's policy.
Thanks,
By the way, I didn't cut off the signature. There wasn't one. Just "thanks,". :P
Group Bernal Jernal
Saturday, February 11
Friday, February 10
Google Earth + Winter Olympics
Google Earth has released preset locations for the Torino Olympics. Check out all the icy Italian fun.
Thursday, February 9
Stupid Girl
Touchdown
EmbEDIT:
Also, pay very close attention to the first line. Very clever. :D
The IT Crowd
And just so that you have absolutely no excuse, here's episode 1:
Wednesday, February 8
Whine and Dine
Also, check out the new video podcasts. I'm loading up my ipod as
Tuesday, February 7
AIDS Cure Hype
Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do...In addition to being a potential checkmate to HIV, the compounds show indications of being just as effective against other diseases plaguing humankind - among them influenza, possibly even the dread bird flu, along with smallpox and herpes.Oh my gods, it cures death! Well, let's hope they're at least right about AIDS.
I smell a Nobel Prize...
Oh, and PS, why are the mormons, reporting on this? I thought AIDS was god's gift to gay people according to them.
PPS, this blog is getting way too gay-newsy. Sorry.
Out to Court
Well there's been another (alleged) outing. This time a little (read: a lot) closer to home. Cardinal Egan, lord superior of the New York City archdioces, has been accused of being gay. So why's he being taken to court?
Hoatson [the accuser] claims... that, as leaders of a church requiring celibacy and condemning homosexuality, actively gay bishops are too afraid of being exposed themselves to turn in pedophile priests. The bishops' closeted homosexuality, as the lawsuit states, "has compromised defendants' ability to supervise and control predators, and has served as a reason for the retaliation."This is a really interesting case and I'm kind of interested to see how this develops. On the one hand I'd love for him to be outted, causing a huge scandal by revealing that even higher-ups in the church can be gay, and hopefully repairing a lot of the damage the church has cause in NYC. On the other hand, I feel that if that does happen, this case could be used to justify publicly outing other individuals who don't deserve public scrutiny.
This could of course be just a huge smear campaign meant to tranish/destroy Egan's public approval. At this point, if the word "gay" preceeds the name of a priest he automatically is thrown into a huge investigation. My friend from high school a Jesuit priest whom I will affectionately refer to as Jazz has implored a number of times that people stop making priest jokes because they've gotten people in trouble, probably people he knows. He himself has never, to my knowledge, been accused.
Anyway, I don't know how recent these allegations are, but the fact that they're now being taken to court is rather odd. We'll see how this ends up. As for the evidence, they've apparently got a lot of priests willing to risk their reputations either to lie and bust this guy or tell the truth and have the same result. I honestly don't think they'd perjure themselves for something so serious (and self-incriminating.)
Now that similar allegations are written in a lawsuit, the landscape has changed. Now, Aretakis has the platform to try to prove them�and he says he's prepared to do it. He says he's accumulated a list of priests and witnesses who have agreed to provide "firsthand evidence of the sexual proclivities" of Egan, Hubbard, and Myers, if subpoenaed. Some have written statements relaying "homosexual relationships with these bishops," he maintains; others know people who have had the affairs.
Monday, February 6
Non-Linear Progression
In spite of the gay bar massacre and arkansas shoot-out, we really do have it a lot better than other countries here in America. Take Cameroon for instance.
The modern state of Cameroon was created in 1961 by the unification of two former colonies, one British and one French.
Since then it has struggled from one-party rule to a multi-party system in which the freedom of expression is severely limited.
While we may have things like the Patriot Act beginning to infringe upon people's privacy, we don't have the censureship/exposure troubles taking place there. The media in Cameroon have apparently started a gay witch-hunt.
The newspaper editors say they are exposing people who engage in "deviant behaviour". Some 50 people have been named and the papers have sold out. Homosexual acts are banned in Cameroon, with up to five years in jail. But the campaign has been condemned by the state communication council for invading people's private lives. The council also challenged anyone who felt they had been libelled to take legal action. So far, none of those named has gone to the courts.
So basically it really sucks to be gay in Cameroon and in comparison it only kinda sucks here. What's really disappointing though is that South Africa is officially more progressive than America. While many in the country hold more traditional beliefs, they still redefined marriage in the constitution from a "union between a man and a woman" to a "union between two persons". This all came about because South Africa's constitution specifically outlaws descrimination based on sexual orientation and in fact was one of the first countries to do so.
So basically America's at the point where we'll have to make the choice soon to go the route of Camaroon or South Africa. It's an issue that's been ignored long enough. Honestly though, that newspaper scandal in Camaroon will only show people just how many gays there are in the country in spite of the their laws essentially forbidding them. I've been told that in most cases people are generally more tolerant of other peoples, cultures, ideas, and sexual orientations when they see that friends, family, people they see every day are different. I unfortunately can't really testify to that as I've had my share of familial struggles since coming out. That seems to be the fault of certain individuals' religious beliefs (addictions?) both for me and for the people of Camaroon who are primarily Christian from what I've been able to gather. Hopefully our country (family and friends) will be able to get over its religious convictions and start caring more about the people they live with and care about. Seriously, you never know who'll comt out of the closet next. It could be someone you've known all your life or maybe only 4 or 5 years.
Sunday, February 5
Vintage Video
Insane Clown Fag-Hater
Robida's flight ended in a small Arkansas town, some 1,500 miles away.
Saturday the car was spotted in the northern Arkansas town of Gassville. As police officer Jim Sell attempted to apprehend Robida, the teen fired twice at the officer, killing him.
The car then sped off. State troopers laid spike strips on the roadway. Despite two punctured tires the car continued on into downtown Norfolk where police had set up a roadblock.
The car did a 180 degree turn and then slammed into several parked vehicles.
After being ordered to surrender the teen opened fire.
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said that during the shootout Robida turned, pointed the gun at a female in the car with him and killed her. State Troopers said they could not confirm that the woman had been shot by Robida.
They said they would wait for ballistics tests before commenting further.
Saturday night news of Robida's capture was brought to Puzzles Lounge personally by New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang.
The news was greeted with applause.
Interesting quiz from said myspace:
You scored as Disappear. Your death will be by disappearing, probably a camping trip gone wrong or an evening hike you never returned from. Always remeber that one guy who was hiking alone and got in a rock slide. He could have died, but he cut his own hand off to save himself. Don't end up like him (or worse, dead).
Disappear
100% Gunshot
93% Stabbed
87% Suicide
67% Eaten
67% Accident
53% Posion
53% Drowning
33% Cut Throat
20% Suffocated
20% Natural Causes
13% Disease
0% Bomb
0%
Oops. Guess those quizzes aren't quite as accurate as he'd have liked considering some of his other quizzes. He kinda went out with a bang. Also, scroll down to his "sex icon." Way gay. The poor fucker fancied himself to be one of the Insane Clown Posse. Looks like he didn't make it through the initiation. I'm crying on the inside. Tears of joy. They say he died in my homestate. Kinda weird that they flew him all the way out there. Especially since they flew him to Springfield. I would have thought they'd have more advanced facilities in St. Louis. Or maybe even a little closer to where the shoot-out happened in Arkansas.
le clown lui-m�me
Thursday, February 2
78th Oscar Noms
Best Picture Nominations (really the only award anyone cares about):
- Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)
- Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
- Crash (Lions Gate)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures)
- Munich (Universal and DreamWorks)
Electric Six
God bless America.After finishing his drink, the man walked to the back of the bar where two men were playing pool, shoved one to the ground, then pulled a hatchet from his sweat shirt and began swinging at the man's head, cutting him, the bartender said.
Other patrons tackled the man, sending the hatchet sliding across the floor, the bartender said. That's when the man pulled out a handgun, he said. The gunman shot both pool players and also fired at a patron who was leaving the bathroom, hitting him in the chest.
Oh, and the bastard that done it:
This kid's younger than me and an apparent Nazi enthusiest with violent tendencies. Kinda sad. I'd have felt sorry for him the day before this happened. Not so much any more.