McCain's Got No Heart

September 30, 2008

The Stranger has a hilarious letter "from" Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart to John McCain, in reference to his continuing to use their song "Barracuda." Ooh, is it funny.

They suggest that he stick to stuff produced by members of his own party, such as Chuck Morris's motivational tapes of Mel Gibson's audio book of Mein Kempf. This gave us a good laugh and made us pull out their self-titled 1985 album for a good rock out.

Read a Banned Book

September 29, 2008

This week is the American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Basically this means that the ALA is trying to call attention to restrictions on access and freedom of reading material. Check out this list of frequently banned and challenged books for some ideas on what you should be reading and fighting to protect the right of others' to read.

You won't be surprised to find out that many times a book is challenged for reasons of "homosexuality". For instance, this amazing children's books based on a true story about two male penguins that hatch an egg together, "And Tango Makes Three", is on the list. You'll actually recognize lots of books on the list, though, as some of your favorites. “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman and “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker are a couple of ours that make the list.

So read a banned book, write a letter to the editor or look here for other ways to fight censorship, at least this week.

Cool Stuff on New Season of Simpsons

September 26, 2008

Cool stuff that includes cameos by Jodie Foster, Anne Hathaway, Ellen Page and Seth Rogen. io9 has an interview with Al Jean, head writer for the show, where he spills some great details about the new season. Apparently Jodie Foster will be in a trilogy of episodes that includes a parody of The Fountainhead.

There's also a little something about the much-loved, annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode. "It airs November 2nd, so we're hoping doing a little thing about the election where Homer tries to vote for Obama but the machine keeps changing it to McCain and finally kills him." Scary!

The new season premieres September 28th (that's Sunday!) and we'll definitely be watching.

It's About Freaking Time

September 24, 2008

Yes, it's true. Clay Aiken finally came out. We're sure no one's surprised. But it's still an event, is it not?

People magazine has him on the upcoming issue holding his son with the title, "Yes, I'm Gay." More appropriate would be something like, "Duh, You All Know I'm Gay," or "Yes, I'm Finally Admitting That I'm Gay Now That I Have Millions of Dollars." Just suggestions.

Anyhow, he apparently would never have come out of the closet if he hadn't become a dad, saying, "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that." If you ask us, little Parker is the real hero here. Way to force your dad out of the closet!

More Gays on TV

September 23, 2008

According to GLAAD: "The overall number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) representations on the broadcast networks will more than double this year after a three-year slump." Yeah! Who wouldn't be happy about that? Gays make good TV, clearly.

If you want to read the whole press release, it breaks it down by networks and numbers. Fox who had no LGBT characters last year, now leads the pack with five. CBS is in the sniff position with zero LGBT characters. What is up with CBS? Oh yeah, they're all CSI and Big Brother. Yech.

Emmy Winners

September 22, 2008

So basically 30 Rock cleaned house. They won like a million Emmy's last night. Mad Men also won a couple and for some reason the mini-series John Adams won a bunch. Whatever. More importantly, our own Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D List won, yet again, for Reality Programming. Rock on Kathy!

Top Chef got an award for Picture Editing, but for some reason The Amazing Race won in the Reality Competition category yet again. Whatevs. We'd rather watch Project Runway or Top Chef any day. But maybe we're biased. And not very sporty. Heidi Klum was nominated for Reality Host and was on stage quite bit in different outfits. Check out The Dish's breakdown of her fashion.

In non-Bravo related Emmy news, one of our faves, Battlestar Galactica got a couple of awards for "Razor" and for visual effects. And Cynthia Nixon got an Emmy for Guest Actress on a Drama Series. It was onLaw & Order, of course.

Thanks Brad!

September 19, 2008

Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative to overturn the recent decision by the State Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage.

He said, "Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8."

This was, appropriately enough, after donating 2 million dollars to fight HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia. Brad and Angelina are actually so cool. Tabloids be damned.

Fox on Wilde

September 17, 2008

Maybe they just come up with this stuff to help sell the men's magazines they grace the covers of, but we'll bite anyway. Megan Fox is on both the cover of Maxim and GQ this month and in the GQ interview she says lots of saucy things and uses lots of five dollar words, but the only part we were interested in is this:

I decided that I was going to get her to love me back, and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl - a stripper named Nikita ... Look, I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

Oh that old argument. Actually this quote is actually better:

I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl -- Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She’s mesmerizing."

Killing wild animals? Now that's hot... or scary. Anyhow, we also like Olivia Wilde. It's cool that she moved from The OC to House, but still gets to be a bisexual!

Oh Carrie Fisher

September 16, 2008

She just got nominated for an Emmy for her guest spot on 30 Rock. She played Rosemary Howard a 1970's TV writer that was Liz Lemon's idol. She said of playing the character, "She was a pill addict, too. Not a big reach. "

She's not sure if she'll go to the Emmy's though, because of her one woman show, "Wishful Drinking", that is currently touring. She says of the show, "My crowd is gay, the mentally ill and seniors." Well that makes sense. No wonder we like her so much. We knew it wasn't just the Star Wars princess thing.

McCain Camp Calls Tina Fey A Sexist!

September 15, 2008

WTF? So everyone's probably already seen the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler doing Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton open of SNL this weekend (but just in case, we've got the vid below - it's hilarious). Anyhow, McCain spokeswoman Carly Fiorina, decided to weigh in on the "issue" (i.e. comedy skit?) and say that it was disrespectful and sexist and didn't portray Sarah Palin as a woman of substance.

The AP says this: The guest appearance by the show's former cast member and head writer was by all accounts a virtuoso impersonation and a viral hit. But Fey stars in NBC's weekly prime-time comedy "30 Rock," and it's unclear if she'll be moonlighting on "SNL" to skewer the Republican vice presidential candidate, to whom she bears a much-remarked-upon resemblance.

Well, you know who's side we're on. First, it was funny as hell. Second, you can't call Tina Fey a sexist. That's like calling Dave Chappelle a racist.

Gayest ANTM Ever

September 11, 2008

We've got sweet Isis, our first ever transgendered model contestant. Who, by the way, is so sweet and humble. They were giving her shit about her outfit this week, but we liked those shorts. But then when do we ever agree with anything Tyra says?

Also, this week we get a lesbian kiss in the jacuzzi. Okay, sure it was truth or dare or whatever, but Elina said she saw stars or fireworks or something and that Clark's lips were so soft. That sounds like someone who's going to end up kissing more girls to us. We would really love it if this season just degenerated into Elina's lesbian love story. That would be awesome.

Of course there was also the Alaskan "whitest, white girl." First she shoved Isis and then she seemed to imply that black people were loud and she didn't like it. Ugh. Hopefully this inane conversation about racism in the house doesn't continue.

R.I.P. 'Rent'

September 10, 2008

Rent ended it's twelve year run Sunday, making it the seventh longest running musical on Broadway. NPR has a short commentary on the show, questioning whether or not it was so dated that it had become less meaningful. We can't help but take a little umbrage at that idea. Is La Boheme also out of date and out of style? The queer and HIV+ positive characters in Rent still exist (albeit it not in the East Village). Not everyone these days is all Gossip Girl. We for one will mourn and remember fondly our Rent experiences.

Franco on Ginsberg

September 09, 2008

James Franco's really going for the gay parts lately. Not that we mind. Heck we're elated. But with Gus Van Sant's upcoming Milk, in which he plays Harvey's partner Scott Smith and the intense gayness of Pineapple Express (we'll be posting a review of that soon), Franco is going for the gay gold.

Anyhow, the Allen Ginsberg biopic will focus on the 50's obscenity trial that tried to censor the book-length poem, Howl. Mary Louise-Parker, Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels and Alan Alda are also cast in the film.

2 Minutes VMA's

September 08, 2008

Everyone's talking about how much the VMA's sucked, including our pals over at BravoTV.com and Andy Cohen. So while we're glad we didn't bother to watch, we couldn't help but be curious as to what was so bad about them. And then we found this Best Week Ever 2 minute summary. And now we feel as if we watched the whole show. And even in 2 minutes, it looked pretty bad. Enjoy!