Eat Your Heart Out, Trekkies!
Labels: Fun, Transformers, Weird
"Trying to find gold in a silver mine... trying to drink whiskey from a bottle of wine." —Elton John
My office conducted its second annual bake-off last week. As if a bake-off isn't gay enough, ours is now annual. And it inspires some fierce competition.
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| That's me in the back of the second team, striking the Charlie's Angels pose with an electric mixer. This is what gay cable networks get up to when no one is looking — in case you were wondering. I wonder what Bravo does. |
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| We called them 'Get Lillet'd Marshmallows' |
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| From top left, clockwise: Yummy Balls, Macadamia Nut Pie, 80-Proof Irish Car Bomb Gay-teaux, Eat My Cookie Cocktail, Tarte au Citron, Poached Pears in Red Wine with Lime Mousse. |
When Gmail offered me an automatic email response generator, I didn't think much about it.
Today is April Fools' Day, and it's also on this day in 2004 that Google released Gmail to the public. Many people thought it was a joke: It offered a whole gigabyte of storage, which was exponentially greater than what was offered by other free e-mail services at the time.
Gmail has played a number of memorable pranks on April Fools' Day. Last year, users signing into their Gmail account on April Fools' Day saw a banner announcing "New! Gmail Custom Time," which supposedly allowed users to pre-date some of their outgoing e-mail messages. On April 1, 2006, Google announced a new dating service, called Google Romance. They said, "When you think about it, love is just another search problem."
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| Click to enlarge. [www.youtube.com |
Labels: Fun
In every episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, the two contestants with the worst scores are made to compete against each other in what RuPaul likes to call "Lip Synch For Your Life." Recently, these little contests have been fascinating microcosms of drag desperation.
Labels: Drag, Facebook Poetry, Fun, Gay
Episode 2 has convinced me that RuPaul's Drag Race is one of the best shows on TV. It is not only fun and at times educational, but also surprisingly heartwarming, and ironically, very real. These guys are a few sequins and a couple of falsies away from being Barbie dolls, but they really are putting some realness back into reality TV.
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| "See you later, in the magazines. Wah wah wah wah." [www.myspace.com] |
Labels: Drag, Fun, Gay, RuPaul's Drag Race, TV
In a city as big and old and famous as New York, there's a landmark on nearly every corner. Someone was born here. Someone died here. Some drag queens started a social movement here. Someone recorded a watershed album here in the '60s. Here's a cafe from Sex in the City. Everyone's got a story about some point of pride in their neighborhood.

Labels: Fun, History, Jackson Heights
This is an old one I forgot to post.
Labels: Cute, Fun, Music, People We Like
For the ultimate in introverted passive aggression, you can't beat text messaging. Who knew the technology would become so indispensable to me?
ShopHere are a few more interesting accidental substitutions I have come across recently:
Sins
Pins
Pimp
Labels: Fun, Technology, Words
Rivaled only, perhaps, by Alanis Morissette's cover of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" is this startling yet gorgeous rendition of Pink's "Get This Party Started" by the legendary Shirley Bassey. A friend of mine directed me to this video confection at Joe. My. God.
Labels: Fun, Music, People We Like, Women of Genius and Talent
This is one of the most fabulous things I have ever seen. On so many levels.
Labels: Fun, Michael Jackson, Music, Orange, Philippines, Prison