To continue our dance theme today, I’m tardily reporting on the new cast for “Dancing with the Stars”. Normally I wouldn’t, since the show was cute about 5 years ago and it’s off the SGS cultural radar, (we’re fickle) but I have a theme to maintain, dammit! Also, the wunnerful Margaret Cho is a participant along with Florence “Mother Brady” Henderson, ex-teen queen Brandy, and Jennifer “Don’t put my ass in the corner!” Grey; we all LIKE them to one degree or another. Then there is the trainwreck known as the Hasselhoff; d-bag singer/hasbean Michael Bolton, some athletes, some reality scuzz and some Girl From Alaska…UGH. Though I’m hoping Our Lady Cho takes a bite out of Alaska Girl…and, maybe The Situation will knock her up! Awesomeness! Maybe, I WILL watch this time…
Yesterday we found out that aging fashion designer Calvin Klein had a new boy-toy, model Nick Gruber; today we discover that the said boy-toy is/was (allegedly) a fugly porn star who used the names, “Nick London” and “Aaron Skyline”. Calvin has a history of that; in “The Warhol Diaries” Andy Warhol recounts the closety Mr Klein “hanging” out with porn star Leo Ford on Fire Island back in the day. Not sure where Klein met his latest conquest but we’re guessing he is a very generous mentor…SOMEONE had to pay for those expensive new teefs for Mr Gruber…
My old employer, The Omaha World Herald, got into some doo-doo last week for refusing to print a same-sex marriage announcement. Happily, I won’t have to tear up my “Guild of Paper Boys, Local 671” membership card; the paper has backtracked and agreed to print the announcement after a huge outcry. Nebraska is FULL of the queer brethren/sistren; not ALL of us flee for Blue Statier climes…
The POTUS announced last night that we’re done (sort of) in Iraq, but the situation in Afghanistan drags on. Obviously, I have nothing flippant to say about this. OR, the tragic shooting in Seattle where a cop kills a partly deaf man whittling on the street after the man failed to heed the police officer’s cries to drop the weapon…even though the man wasn’t DOING anything with the knife other than whittling. We’re thinking the whole, “Shoot to Kill” thing needs re-examined. Our condolences to the man’s family and friends.
On a lighter note…HAPPY BIRFDAY LILY TOMLIN! She’s 71 today, (and, “that’s the truth!”) If you need a shot of Lily, go watch Robert Altman’s masterpiece, “Nashville” but ignore the quality of Ms Tomlin’s gospel singing and focus on the amazing performance. My favorite part, is Lily telling a weird story at a bbq and her awkward seduction by hottie Keith Carradine via the song, “I’m Easy”. It’s a treat. Check it out.
-Michael Strangeways
