News of the Right

I’ve become an indiscriminate reader of personal ads on craigslist, which means that while I used to read only the M4M ads for my own pornographic enjoyment, I’ve branched out to all the other x4x variations (including the sadly desperate “missed connections“), though I get less, let’s call it “enjoyment” out of the pictures and ad text than I do in M4M. One thing I’ve come to notice is that gay men (and a few “straight” guys) are way more willing to show window shoppers the goods up front along with detailed descriptions of what they want to do/have done to them, but will not show face pics, whereas straight men and women will show you their faces and give just as lurid descriptions of sexual desires as the gay folk, but won’t show their junk. What this means really is that if there’s an ad with a “pic” graphic next to it, I’m more likely to find what I want to see/read about in the M4M section than in any of the others, but in the final analysis I’m probably just rationalizing my enjoyment of porn.

Every once in a while, I get surprised by pictures like this:

more behind the wrinkle

Last week, Ben and I watched with chilly gooseflesh the BSG preview in which Laura Roslin, cancer-ridden and decked out in her stern wig of justice, threatened mutineers aboard the Battlestar Galactica with her now famous line, “I’M COMING FOR ALL OF YOUyouyouyouyou!!!”. So, yesterday, Ben and his dog Muppet came over to watch BSG again, and he gave me this:

I think everyone in a three block radius heard my heart go “boom!“.

MY ARTICLE ON “WHY MY DOG IS BETTER THAN A BOYFRIEND” IN ON THE COVER OF THIS MONTH’S INSTINCT!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! It was actually the first thing I ever wrote for Instinct, but it wasn’t used until this month. Who cares, right? The point is that I got two pages and a cover credit in a national magazine!!!! I guess the next question is “What does this mean?” Could this be “it”? Could my writing sideline job have peaked already? Will I become the Erma Bombeck of gay periodicals? Or is it OK to ask for more to do? What is “more”? Should I quit my day job?

While I ponder, the pages are below for your perusal. Click to make them readable.

Again, I say “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

thanks to Scott for the heads up!

From Accordion Guy comes news of The Map of Humanity, a stellar (or terran, but better) piece of para-cartography by comic creator James Turner. Click on the map above for a substantially larger view, and click on Accordion Guy’s link above to read more about it.

I’m wondering who I can sell to get me one of these mounted and framed. For those heading to Comic Con, you can get them at the SLG Publishing booth (#1815).

Thanks to Joveth Gonzalez for the heads up!

UPDATE: MY BROTHER GOT ME THIS FOR OUR BIRTHDAY!!!!!

The Columbus COSI is not only host to the inordinately fun CSI: The Experience, but also to a GIGANTIC skeleton (click for the full effect):

According to COSI representitive, Claire Paul, the skeleton is

A sculpture by Tim Rietenbach, an associate professor at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Originally funded from an individual artist grant from the Ohio Arts Council and created for Springfield Museum of Art. This skeleton is 100 feet long, 30 feet higher than the COSI Atrium. It was constructed from fifty rolls of 14-gauge fencing material weighing approximately 1,500 pounds.The skull itself is 11 feet high. Installation of GIGANTIC at COSI is made possible through financial support from: The Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus College of Art & Design. Installed at COSI July 2003.

I was thrilled to see both while in Columbus this past May. I can’t wait to get my nephew there to play.