Angels and Others

One of the reasons we moved to NYC... is this commercial from the 80's. When 8th Avenue was good(crack whore,pimp junky) scary instead of bad ( Disney, soccer mom, Red Lobster) scary. Ahh, Good Times.

If you'll miss Pluto as much as we will you can sign a condolence book for the dear departed planet here . Bye Pluto. We hardly knew ya.

Laughter Through the Tears

Our countrymen died real deaths on Sept. 11, and we need to listen to their last words. By Garrison Keillor Aug. 23, 2006 It was painful to hear the woman in anguish on the 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, crying, "I'm going to die, aren't I? I'm going to die." Melissa Doi was 32, beautiful, with laughing eyes and black hair. She was lying on the floor of her office at IQ Financial, overwhelmed by smoke and heat, calling for help. And then there was Kevin Cosgrove on the 105th floor, moments before it collapsed, gasping for breath, saying, "We're young men, we're not ready to die." And then he screamed, "Oh my God" as the building started to collapse. It's in their voices, what they went through. Those were two of the 1,613 calls to 911 released by New York City last week, on almost all of which the caller's voice was beeped out. The city argued that to hear persons in anguish in their last minutes cons...

We can hear you now...."Who's the little bald kid?" Well the little bald kid is one of Allen Durgin's in the title of this post. This Allen was diagnosed with leukemia two and half years ago, and has been fighting this disease ever since. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has helped many kids Allen, survive. This is were the second Allen Durgin comes into the picture. This Allen is one of our favorite people and more importantly the uncle of the first Allen. Still with me? Good. So Uncle Allen being one of those sporty fags( the kind we read about in OUT magazine while eating snickerdoodle's for dinner) has decided to run a triathlon (running ,biking and swimming) to raise money for the Leukemia Society. His goal is to raise$3,000 and he's just $400 short. This is where you come in. All you have to do is click the link below and make a donation of any amount. You'll help little bald kids, you'll get that warm glow (usually reserved for the discovery ...

Absinthe Combining the traditions of vaudeville and music hall with Berliner Kabarett, Absinthe is a variety show on acid, a late night saunter through the sultriest, strangest circus in town. Fairground attraction collides with sideshow burlesque to transform the elegant, sumptuous confines of the Spiegeltent into something just a little…below the belt. Roll up, roll up… Slip through Alice's looking glass and be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor. Absinthe is an astonishing array of the sexiest, funniest, wettest and wildest acts you ever see! The smash hit of festivals around the world makes its triumphant entry to New York with a twist, a shimmy and a shot in the dark. Every ticket has sold out wherever this incredible show has toured … Standing ovations… Queues around the block… Absinthe celebrates the risk, danger, sensuality and pure unadulterated pleasure that a night at the cabaret circus should be! We saw this show over the week-end and loved it and some of the...

Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Another Day (1979) "One for the vaults." Have a groovy week-end.

Marc Jacobs's shockingly unshocking new ads Homoerotic imagery is nothing new in advertising. Witness the Marlboro Man or, more recently, all those shots of half-naked yet oddly overdressed guys who apparently like to congregate in steam rooms and dungeons. That's why we found Marc Jacobs's new campaign, which includes an unabashedly straightforward image of two fully clothed men kissing, so refreshing. Shot as always by Juergen Teller, the ads do away with innuendo and instead depict makeup artist Dick Page and his husband James Gibbs in a series of intimate moments in their Manhattan apartment and outside their Long Island house. "You always see something more sexual and aggressive, a stereotype of gayness," Teller says. "For me, this ad is about two human beings loving each other." Robert Duffy, president of Marc Jacobs, concurs. "We try to make a lot of things we say and do positive statements," he says. "They are a normal family, what...

Slam poet Ernie Cline takes a look at humanity and sees a bunch of monkeys .

the show with zefrank

Our friend James turned us on to this clip from Night of a 100 Stars. It's a mega number filled with many now dead dancers and Christopher Walken. Enjoy!

Hip Answers To Square Questions For better or worse ,no one will ever be that cool again.

Some Relief The heat wave has finally broken and we should put on our skates and boogie through the streets of the city. But since we shun physical activity whenever possible we'll just let Steve Guttenberg and his white pants do it for us. Have a great week-end !

I Just Wanna F*cking Dance! Our buddy James sent us this homemade music video of the dance version of a song from "Jerry Springer: The Opera" It sort of made us cry...a little. Must be the heat..yeah that's it the heat.

I'm posting Bouguerean's Dante et Virgile au Enfers because this weather brings to mind thoughts of Hell,it's a beautiful work of art and...well.. get a load of Satan's ass . Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)

Yeah it's just a little warm today. The subway at 103 degrees? Dante you can kiss the fattest part of my sweaty ass .