Happy Gay Pride

Best. Camp. Scene. Ever.*




*not directed by John Waters

I [Heart] Pandora Boxx

I was a huge Raven fan for Ru Paul's Drag Race season 2 (the best contest reality show filming). But I loved Pandora Boxx a whole lot, as she was a great showgirl and comedienne.

Case in point: this inspired nugget (give it until about 1:18):



That bitch is fucking comedy genius.

Gay Fun Alert: New Scissor Sisters Album

Not for everyone...and barely for me: the (mostly) fun-as-hell gay campy-rock, retro-disco Scissor Sisters will have a new album out June 28. Their last one came out in 2006, and I enjoyed it kinda a lot but not totally. Like their first album, it had great songs peppered amongst some forgettable just-ok songs.

But it's good to see the gays taking back their rock/disco/new-wave musical birthright. And if nothing else, the Scissor Sisters do that.

From their first album:



From their second:



And, their best song ever:


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From their new album:

Epic Gods Fail

Chicago experienced an amazing storm this week, and the photos prove that all the gods failed.

Sometimes, a photographer goes out in search of a good photo--and, because of unforeseen circumstances, he comes back with a great photo, one that gets displayed all over the world.

And so it was last night as Tribune photographer Chris Sweda headed to the John Hancock Center skydeck to snap a few shots of the official debut of the Trump Tower spire--and a supercharged storm broke over Chicago.

Chris got the assigned shots as the spire turned from red to blue to white (below), but he got something much more powerful: A rare shot of lightning bolts simultaneously striking the Trump Tower and the Willis Tower (above).

A safe vantage point?

What Chris Sweda didn't capture is this: lightning also struck the building he was in, the elegant John Hancock Center (my favorite skyscraper ever). And at the same time.

But someone west of Chicago caught the whole thing on video.

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.

Compare this to the Epic Gods Win posted a few days ago, and I think it's safe to say that the gods are total crap.

Mitchell!

Watched MST3K's "Mitchell" with Mendez last night. Until we couldn't take any more/stay awake. "Eye of the Sammich"

Penn Gilette. I love that guy.

Penn Jillette Is Willing to Be a Guest on Adolf Hitler's Talk Show

It's not just us.

Beware Manos, the Sequel of Fate

One of the funniest, geekiest things I have ever read.

S H O R T I M A G I N E D
M O N O L O G U E S .

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I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
BY MIKE LACHER

- - - -

Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don't like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don't like that I'm all over your sister-in-law's blog? You don't like that I'm on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I'm pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don't all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can't all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I'm standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I'm fun. I'm the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business' website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I'm banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I'm shredding Reign In Blood on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I'm racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who'll kill me if I don't cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

It doesn't even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I'm famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I'm in your signs. I'm in your browsers. I'm in your instant messengers. I'm not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.

Enough of this bullshit. I'm gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.

The Lord has spoken

6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning

MONROE, Ohio -- A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.

Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests

The moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago.

I Double [Heart] Tim Minchin

Storm The Movie

And still too funny to ignore:



I wish he were gay so I could make him my husband.

It's Not Just Evolution They Want To Dismiss

David Barton is a Christian fundamentalist tool. He has no history bone fides, but he was lauded as a serious history scholar by the Texas Board of Education. He justifies his theocratic notions by waving around a letter by John Adams that he says proves that said Founder believed that the Holy Spirit supported...nay wrote...the Constitution. As John Adams was a Unitarian, such a supposition should be immediately and logically dismissed.

Glen Beck, however...

No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must be Administered by the Holy Ghost from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.

Distrust anything you hear from Fox News: they are all the infections that the sun sucks up.

Justin Bond Is A Genius

I Miss My Uncle Lowell

Pink, with her father, on the Vietnam war.



Let's pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan now so that fewer have to bear this pain. We have means of responding to 9/11 and other attacks that don't involve the needless slaughter of devoted and admirable young men and women.

My uncle died of cancer that can be traced back to Vietnam. The stories he told me are immeasurably horrifying, and they weigh on my conscience every day.

He would have been the first to accept me as a homo, and I miss him so much...

Time to get out, and time to figure out a way to not need them.

Toxic Avenger The Musical Mk 2

"There's only thing I need to make this happen..."

So Memphis won the Tony for best new musical play. Green Day lost, but they were all over the awards like aggressive herpes. But really, who cares?

I didn't, until I found out this: the music for this who-the-fuck cares Memphis musical was written by Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan. Again, so what?

But David Bryan has stated that he wants to move Toxic Avenger: The Musical from off-Broadway to Broadway, with his revisions and money.


As a fan of the original of Toxic Avenger: The Musical's original cast recording, that is fucking awesome. It could use some touching up, for sure; but a Tony-winning name behind the touch-ups stains my pants.