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Stream of consciousness. I broke a fingernail and they gave me a certificate for medical marijuana. I broke another fingernail and got a handicap sticker for my car. I drove the car stoned and ended up handicapped. See the danger of giving things out like candy?

Touche'

Thanks for sharing. I like theater articles...and the theater, of course.

More on the Sarah Palin birth controversy, from Huffington Post.It's enough to make me change my mind: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/palin-trig-trutherism_n_852585.html

This has gotten beyond my capacity to understand: April 22, 2011, 5:48 pm Google Says It Collects Location Data on Phones for Location Services http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/google-says-it-collects-location-data-on-phones-for-location-services/?hpw Followed by this: Google's Android mobile-phone platform faces soaring software attacks and has little control over the applications, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. Applications loaded with malicious software are infiltrating the Google operating system at a faster rate than hackers did with personal computers at the same stage in development, said Nikolay Grebennikov, chief technology officer for Kaspersky. The company identified 70 different types of malware in March, up from two categories in September. "The growth rate in malware within Android is huge; in the future there will definitely be more," Grebennikov said. Kaspersky will offer security on Android in the third quarter of this year. Hacking into mobile-phone software has become increasingly sophisticated, forcing Mountain View's Google to remove malicious applications that were available from its Android Market store last month. The applications, which were remotely disabled, gathered information about mobile devices and could be used to access personal data. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/21/BUL51J5G3C.DTL#ixzz1KJDI0Sqk

I saw the last production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, an early groundbreaking AIDS play, at the Public Theater. Now it is moving to Broadway, where it is in previews prior to an April 27th opening. In my opinion, every gay man that can should make it to see this play. It speaks of what our community suffered and continues to suffer. Playgoers receive this letter from Kramer after each performance: A letter from Larry Kramer PLEASE KNOW Thank you for coming to see our play. Please know that everything in The Normal Heart happened. These were and are real people who lived and spoke and died, and are presented here as best I could. Several more have died since, including Bruce, whose name was Paul Popham, and Tommy, whose name was Rodger McFarlane and who became my best friend, and Emma, whose name was Dr. Linda Laubenstein. She died after a return bout of polio and another trip to an iron lung. Rodger, after building three gay/AIDS agencies from the ground up, committed suicide in despair. On his deathbed at Memorial, Paul called me (we’d not spoken since our last night in this play) and told me to never stop fighting. Four members of the original cast died as well, including my dear sweet friend Brad Davis, the original Ned, whom I knew from practically the moment he got off the bus from Florida, a shy kid intent on becoming a fine actor, which he did. Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague. Please know that no country in the world, including this one, especially this one, has ever called it a plague, or dealt with it as a plague. Please know that there is no cure. Please know that after all this time the amount of money being spent to find a cure is still miniscule, still almost invisible, still impossible to locate in any national health budget, and still totally uncoordinated. Please know that here in America case numbers continue to rise in every category. In much of the rest of the world — Russia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa — the numbers of the infected and the dying are so grotesquely high they are rarely acknowledged. Please know that all efforts at prevention and educations continue their unending record of abject failure. Please know that there is no one in charge of this plague. This is a war for which there is no general and for which there has never been a general. How can you win a war with no one in charge? Please know that beginning with Ronald Reagan (who would not say the word “AIDS” publicly for seven years), every single president has said nothing and done nothing, or in the case of the current president, says the right things and then doesn’t do them. Please know that most medications for HIV/AIDS are inhumanly expensive and that government funding for the poor to obtain them is dwindling and often unavailable. Please know that pharmaceutical companies are among the most evil and greedy nightmares ever loosed on humankind. What “research” they embark upon is calculated only toward finding newer drugs to keep us, just barely, from dying, but not to make us better or, god forbid, cured. Please know that an awful lot of people have needlessly died and will continue to needlessly die because of any and all of the above. Please know that the world has suffered at the very least some 75 million infections and 35 million deaths. When the action of the play that you have just seen begins, there were 41. I have never seen such wrongs as this plague, in all its guises, represents, and continues to say about us all. Larry Kramer For more information, visit TheNormalHeartBroadway.com

James Durbin seemed much sadder at Stefano's loss than Stefano himself did. Durbin cried, then gave Stefano an endless hug after his last song. I think James will ultimately be the winner, and he and Stefano can still date, so it isn't so bad.

The San Francisco Chronicle today tells us how to travel safely (and where to go in Mexico): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/20/mexico_mix_safe_travel.DTL

A wise man!

From the NYPost today: Cops who fix tickets aren't corrupt -- they're courteous. That's the opinion of one police-union leader, who last night defended the practice as part of the culture of being a cop. Vigorously supporting members facing departmental or criminal charges in an ongoing probe, Edward Mullins, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, insisted the age-old practice is "just a courtesy" and cops reap no personal benefits. "The portrayal of some members of the department being involved in a major corruption ring of ticket-fixing for favors" and the idea that "labor organizations discreetly approve [of it are] ludicrous," Mullins said. Mullins has recorded an audio message asking current and retired members of the NYPD of all ranks to come forward with stories about fixing tickets to show it's not anything nefarious. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/union_boss_tix_fix_cops_just_aim_JVid5QhvVF0jMNIZFE2DRO#ixzz1K53BLPaX

I looked up Telly and learned that he played Angel at the Hollywood Bowl show, but not on Broadway. Still and all...he has an angelic look.

Not yet. Here is a website that DID talk about Patrick as a sex object, but with a wink! My Wink

No, I didn't know that. I thought 525,600 was the number of Thai boys you have been with!

Then you have a fight on your hands! And no fair using money!!!!

The son of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick, is in the hip clothing business, according to Gawker. Given how hard it must be to be the son of Arnold, give the kid credit for starting young. He is 17, thus we report only his business dealings, and not on his recent topless photo: http://gawker.com/#!5793511/arnold-schwarzeneggers-son-to-sexily-conquer-the-world

I suppose if you don't aspire to more class than Sarah Palin and her ilk then it is okay. But why do it on a site that tries to appeal to a cross section of gay readers, including those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Should they have to see that every time they log in? If so, maybe they will stop logging in. Christianity is the major religion here, and insulting it will win you few friends.

The Warblers, fronted by Darren Criss, and performers from the TV show Glee, appeared on the today show today. Groupie Marc Anthony did not appear with them! You can see them here: Marc's Warbler Buddies (I tease Marc Anthony here because apparently he knows one of the Warblers. I am jealous if he is the one I like!))

Well, duh. The study was conducted on women, so of course it would show only that.

Would a camp for gay kids be okay? They could learn from each other and from their counselors, engage in wholesome activities to become comfortable with their identity...oops, unless it was a camp in Malaysia, where effeminate boys are sent to learn how to butch it up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/malaysia-gay-counseling_n_850883.html

"P.S. Marcos has one of the most beautiful dicks I have seen! 8" of perfection! lol " Hehehe...yes, I heard that you rank it #31 out of the 8768 that you have been with! LOL

I am probably looking forward to lurkerspeak's tales of his trip as much as he is looking forward to his trip.

A short piece? It's 4 pages long! Short for the New yorker, I guess. What it did, though, was remind me why many don't like David Remnick. His sense of intellectual superiority reigns here, as he purports to review Manning Marable's book but essentially proselytizes for Alex Haley's earlier "autobiography" which Marable has now reduced to a pack of lies*. Apparently Remnick wants the Malcolm X that he remembers, not the Malcolm X that existed. *Not in total, of course, but in many of its essential parts.

Don't we all already know that sex makes us happy? So why is it so controversial when the head of the newsletter Surgery News writes that it is the semen itself that works as an antidepressant? http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/forget-chocolate-on-valentines-day-try-semen-says-surgery-news-editor-retraction-resignation-follow/ His argument is that women having unsafe sex are happier than women using condoms because the semen works as an antidepressant. Granted, that is a stretch from the simple statement that having sex can make you happier. It might encourage unsafe sex. But say if a woman is married and trusts her husband, do you think she is demanding condom use? No. And apparently she is happier for it! Anyway, the guy who wrote the article has resigned, the article has been pulled, and no one seems happy at all. I wonder is semen as a facial can work just as well...

And how was Pride Weekend in Phoenix?

Thanks for sharing the story. I found it an uplifting start to my week.