MONDAY, 06.24.02 okay, i just saw pink's "just like a pill" video for the first time and can i just tell you how turned on i am right now??? oh my gods...
SUNDAY, 06.23.02 last night was great!!! went over to the all new swanktuary for the re-housewarming shindig hosted by residents dan and glenn... it was wonderful to finally meet glenn and talk to him a bit... the place looked great, too... it's a totally different apartment since the construction of two new rooms and a ritualistic "cleansing" that i believe must have taken place... also finally met jeff (of the now closed tinmanic.com who turned out to be a total sweetheart... we talked about blogs and sex and our relationships with our mothers... thouroughly enjoyable pewbie snizm pusky flart sort of evening... woke up this morning feeling pretty good... went with brian into the city for a mexican brunch (uh, oh... there was yellow cheese in my huevos rancheros") and at some point broke the tooth that i had so much drama with last year... very upsetting, but i had to get over it quickly because i was then off to meet up with some friends - including dan (how wonderful to see him twice in less than 12 hours!!!) and his houseguest dave from new zealand for the first installment of the museum of television & radio's david bowie restrospective... it was amazing!!! the program included some craaaaaazy performances, outtakes, interviews and a documentary from bowie's career in the years between 1964-73 (my favorite being an unaired video for "space oddity" depicting bowie as both an astronought and a control tower operator)... i plan on seeing every installment of the five-part series and i strongly recomend it to anyone here in new york... oh, and it's only six bucks!!!
SATURDAY, 06.22.02 on sale now!!!
FRIDAY, 06.21.02 love this...
SATURDAY, 06.15.02 oh yeah, so i'm back home in new york... it was great to sleep in my own bed again and to see brian... i was a bit disoriented when i came out of the subway in brooklyn yesterday... everything has changed so much since i left on april 12th... anyway, i need a job now... please please please help me... (yes, i'm begging)... i'm cute and have varied talents...
FRIDAY, 06.14.02 now you see it. now you don't.
THURSDAY, 06.13.02 i got stranded on a sidewalk by a french quarter building for an hour today when it suddenly started raining... luckily i was only a few blocks from the gay end of bourbon where i ran to be stranded with other faggy stranded gays... that was my day so far... now, i'm sure that a lot of you have had trouble viewing the site today... i went way over geocities fucking bandwidth allowance last night... in order to hopefully cut down on it, i'm gonna try this out: when you see the pic icon:
note the slightly new design... well, my stay in texas is officially over... i hopped on a greyhound bus yesterday afternoon for a 12-hour journey to new orleans (yes, i'm back in new orleans)... the bus trip was insane, of course... at one point i decided that since i would have all this time that i'd do a little work on my computer... well... nope!!! a group of about 10 people travelling from mexico were sitting around me, including the boy sitting next to me who was about 9 years-old, maybe... when i turned my computer on he FREAKED OUT... he quickly called his family over to see it... turns out they had never seen a computer that you could hold in your lap... they were in awe... i had to perform a little for them ("this little pad thingie is the mouse..." etc. etc. etc.) which was cute and fun at first, but after about a half an hour my computer started hating me and i had to turn it off for a while which upset my new friends immensely... anyway, it was interesting... so, i'm only here in new orleans for one day before finally heading back home to new york... jonno and richard have been nice enough to let me stay at their home and will be (or at least better be) taking me out tonight... will fill you in, of course... waking up here was a nice experience... richard had stuck post its all around the house with things written on them like, dan'l, follow the stickies for some flanders-style fun, note our general lack of food. if you're really hungry, cafe flore is across the street to the right on the center, and wacky shower deluxe - note: hot & cold faucets are reversed for added wackiness!
SATURDAY, 06.08.02 just some fun quotes from last night...
GROUP OF 15 YEAR-OLD GIRLS - (to me) i like your shirt...
HOWARD - i had to use industrial tools to get through the brick!!! it was like lesbian work and everything...
ME (about CDs) - i'm really rough with mine. i mean - i can fuck up the bottoms and just buff the hell out of them, but if i scratch the tops... forget it... they're dead...
FRIDAY, 06.07.02 from today's los angeles times...
BEIJING - An embarrassing gaffe by China's usually staid state-run media has left a popular newspaper here with onion on its face.
Readers of the Beijing Evening News, the capital's largest-circulation newspaper, learned this week that the U.S. Congress had threatened to move out of Washington unless a fancy new Capitol was built.
"If we want to stay competitive, we need to upgrade," House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., was quoted as saying. "Look at the British Parliament. Look at the Vatican... Without modern facilities, they've been having big problems attracting top talent."
If a new building with more bathrooms and better parking was not erected, the article said, then U.S. lawmakers were prepared to pack up and move to Memphis or Charlotte, N.C.
The story seems newsworthy enough. Trouble is, it was lifted straight from the Onion, the satirical "news" publication based in New York that has caused countless American readers to double over with laughter at its weekly spoofs on current events.
Its story on the Capitol appeared in its May 29 edition, alongside such headlines as "Sexual Tension Between Arafat, Sharon Reaches Breaking Point" and "Man Blames Hangover on Everything But How Much He Drank."
A writer for the Beijing Evening News apparently picked up the item from the Internet, reworked the opening paragraphs and submitted it to his editors, who then published it as a straight news story, without citing a source.
Nobody, perhaps not even the reporter, appeared to realize it was a joke.
Yu Bin, the editor in charge of international news, acknowledged Thursday that he had no idea where the writer, Huang Ke, originally got the story. Yu said he would tell Huang to "be more careful next time."
But he adamantly ruled out a correction and grew contrary when pressed to comment on the article's total lack of truth.
"How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story?" Yu demanded in a phone interview. "How can you prove it's not correct? Is it incorrect just because you say it is?"
For the record, then, an aide to Gephardt said the congressman never made the remarks attributed to him.
And John Feehery, the media officer for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said his boss never called the Capitol a "drafty old building . . . no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch," as the Onion and the Beijing Evening News reported.
"He likes the Capitol just fine," Feehery said.
The Onion parody featured an architect's rendering of a proposed futuristic Capitol complete with a retractable dome, a "Dancing Waters fountain" and "55 more luxury boxes than the current building." The Evening News reproduced the entire illustration without crediting the Onion. There wasn't even a caption explaining what the drawing was.
Robert Siegel, editor in chief of the Onion, which prides itself as "America's finest news source," said he was amazed at the Evening News' gullibility.
"Wow, even journalists now believe everything they read," Siegel said from his home in New York. "If I were a reporter in Beijing and found an item like that . . . I might want to follow up and check my sources. Readers fall for that kind of thing all the time, and maybe I was naive, but I thought reporters would be smarter."
Huang, the author of the Beijing Evening News article on the unloved U.S. Capitol, couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
He or she -- the name is androgynous and very likely a pseudonym -- does not appear to be one of the paper's longtime contributors. An electronic archive search on the paper's Web site yielded Huang's byline on only two stories in the past two years.
Both appeared in Monday's edition. One was the Onion rip-off. The other, on the same page, was a longer investigative piece about the lack of security screening for most private charter flights in the United States.
But a little checking showed that this story, too, was cribbed: It was a direct translation of a front-page article from Sunday's Washington Post.
THURSDAY, 06.06.02 from this weeks harper's magazine weekly review...
TUESDAY, 06.04.02 i'd update you on my life but there's absolutely nothing going on...
SATURDAY, 06.01.02 what a short blog month that was... it's been really difficult to post as often as i'd like while i'm on the road... since our last broadcast update i've gone back to san antonio (where i was able to spend a couple of fun-filled days with conrad!) and now am in corpus christi for my cousin's graduation (which was last night)... i feel bad that so much time went by without a post that i'm going to post pics from dallas, san antonio, and a picture of me this morning after a wasp stung my eyelid while i was stretching for my morning run...
SATURDAY, 06.29.02 i marched in the drag march last night... it was so much fun!!! there were some very cute parties before and after so i partied all day and all night... it was so much fun!!! i even swallowed fire!!! (hey, you gutter brains, i mean that in the literal sense!!!)... in fact, i'm thinking of hooking up with my friend mila and a group of fire dancers up here... it will be so much fun!!!
i'll be selling these t-shirts (inspired by (ripped off from) a grace® brand soup mix) at gay pride this year... street price is $20 but as a special to my loyal readers you can have your very own for only $15!!! these shirts are limited edition and they're a hot commodity here in nyc... "they're the new black"...
it will be linked to a photo which will open in a new window... try it out!!!
phsychedelic...
(to each other but LOUDLY) what's that mean???
i think it's something baaaad...
...you know - like psy-cho...
HOWARD - ...words to live by...
News spoof ends up in Beijing paper
REPORTER FAILS TO GET THE JOKE, PUBLISHES SATIRE ABOUT U.S. LAWMAKERS CLAMORING FOR A NEW CAPITOL
By Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
Researchers in Scotland have determined that women are better liars than men. Australian scientists were trying to figure out why kangaroos are less flatulent than sheep. The Bush Administration issued a new report on global warming that for the first time accepts the fact that humans are the primary cause of recent climate change and that the main problem is the burning of fossil fuels. The report also acknowledges that massive and costly environmental damage is likely to occur, but concludes that nothing can be done about it and that the best course of action is simply to adapt to the catastrophic changes. A leaked report by the European Union concludes that the organic farming industry will be destroyed by genetic pollution from genetically modified crops if such crops are grown commercially in Europe. American diplomats were busy trying to block an international plan to provide more than a billion people with sanitation by 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency announced that two thirds of Americans live in areas where pollution from toxic chemicals poses an increased risk of cancer. The Food and Drug Administration said that some drugs designed to counteract biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism will be approved before they are tested on humans and proved to work. Studies in two different states discovered that welfare reform has had the unexpected effect of discouraging single mothers from getting married. from this weeks onion...
Drought-Ravaged NYC Institutes Alternate-Side-Of-Street Firefighting
NEW YORK - Suffering from months of drought, New York City instituted alternate-side-of-the-street firefighting Monday. "On odd-numbered days, even-numbered buildings are not permitted to catch fire," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a press conference. "For those who fail to comply, we will not be able to put out your fire until the following morning. Your kind cooperation will help conserve water resources throughout the New York area."
