Everyone's all excited about gay marriage in New York. My husband's been weeping over pictures like these. If you're looking for a particular flavor of queer couple, there's a guide here with remarks, for the likethewatch experience:

By the numbersButch/Femme Couples: 4, 5, 17, 18, 31, 32, 33, 37, 40, 41, 58 ( Read more... )

One of my favorite communities on LJ is futuramaActual good news, though: last night I got an email back from a food mag to which I'd submitted a very short piece, and it is being published, and this is a paying market. First sale! I'll share a link when it happens ( Read more... )

The girl in this "softer world" strip looks like beatgoddess.

"...[T]here were several schools of mime in Paris, and none of them spoke to the others." -"Lines of Resistance," a profile on white South African filmmaker William Kentridge, by Calvin Tomkins, in The New Yorker, January 18, 2010 issue.

Food porn ahoy. And, since these two posts, this and the one previous, are public, consider them an invitation to my twin obsessions. Want more? Comment so I'll become intrigued with you and "friend" you. Then you can read my more intimate posts, where I intimate and/or refer to perverted and/or illegal proclivities, reveal my friends' secrets, and ( Read more... )

rexlezard came to get his giant box of unique rubber duckies from our back porch. He's building nice shelves for them in his current apartment, so the hundreds of squeaky bath toys can once again be displayed with pride. On the front porch, the box gave way and the ducks poured out onto the floor. I was up to my ankles in mostly yellow rubber ducks in ( Read more... )

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I finished "The Man Who Fell to Earth" today and I don't know if it was really, hugely, appallingly bad, or just pretty bad, indeed. ( Spoilers galore )

From a review in of "The Joy of Sex":

If "The Joy of Sex" was like "Joy of Cooking"... "Our Bodies, Ourselves" was like the "Moosewood Cookbook"....Here's a trick you might try at home sometime: pick almost any recipe in the "Moosewood." Now add bacon. You will find that the addition of this decidedly unwholesome ingredient makes the food taste ( Read more... )

Adding to the list of classic shoe humorous real-life events, an Iraqi threw both of his shoes at Dubya on his last visit there as President. This is about the rudest thing an Iraqi can do, according to the article. I imagine it's akin to flipping him the bird or mooning him. He got a prize, and naches from basically the entire sane world. Add mine ( Read more... )