Month: December 2005
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Judy Garland's Scary Little Christmas
I’m no friend of Dorothy or brother of Judy or whatever the hell – I see Judy Garland more as a pill-popping charwoman than someone whose complete emotional and substance-drenched breakdown needs to be iconified, codified and membranced. But you know me: I have little pity for addicts. Sure she was talented – but isn’t […]
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Chased
One way that Ron entertains me is to purposefully mispronounce words. I asked him what he’s going to work on at the gym: RON: I’m gonna work on my legs and chaste. ME: So your going to work on your pake-terals? RON: Yep. My chaste. So juvenile and yet it makes me giggle like a […]
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How to Kidnap Citizens, CIA Style
How the CIA kidnaps citizens with our tax money: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility […]
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Ford Motors Caves to American Family Association Over Gay Advertising
The Aryan American Family Association has convinced Ford Motors to cease advertising in Out and Advocate: I reached XXXX on his cell phone, xxx of Ford pr. We had a lengthy and civil, if tense, discussion. He clearly confirmed that Ford was pulling ads from "advocacy publications," which seems to cover every gay magazine and […]
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Scudder on Relationships
From Scudder at Don’t Face the Facts: On paper he was everything some people might want in a partner: great job, great apartment, generous to a fault (he bought me three expensive shirts and a watch within the first month) but I felt he wasn’t seeing me… About three months into it, lounging around on […]
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Balducci Levitation: David Blaine's Secrets
Great PDF explaining the tricks David Blaine uses to mystify an audience.
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Declassified: US Backed Timor Invasion
US Backed Timor Invasion Thirty years after the Indonesian invasion, the formerly secret US documents showed how multiple US administrations tried to conceal information on East Timor to avoid a controversy that would prompt a Congressional ban on weapons sales to Indonesia.
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Brad Pitt Decides to Adopt Already Adopted Children
Anderson Cooper, my dear: I can’t believe the celebrity garbage you schlep on your show lately. You just nabbed an interview with Clinton and you spend your time on Brangelina’s marriage-less adoption and the Oprah/Letterman non-event.
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Gulf of Tonkin Was a Sham
It has long been suspected that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which spurred our launch into the Vietnam conflict was based on shoddy intelligence. The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an agency historian argued that the agency’s intelligence officers "deliberately skewed" the evidence passed on to policymakers on the crucial question […]
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Choke On It, Smoky
Some old iron lung is insisting on lighting his cigarette before he goes outside of the cafe, causing a waft of carcinogens to come back into the cafe. How tacky.