The mountains of snow blanketing Germany are rather impressive—it started snowing a couple days ago and hasn’t really stopped since. Saturday I wore my pair of hiking sneakers when I went downtown—in Müller I noticed lots of dirty tracks under my feet, and I thought to myself that some earlier customer sure was messy. Then I visited WeimarColleague’s flat, where I took off my shoes and had a lovely meal. When I stood up and put on my shoes, I realized I’d left a lake of dirty messy water under my shoes. I’d managed to forget that these shoes hold dirty ...

John McNally, ever the self-promoter (just like moi), had sent me a copy of his new book and asked me to write a review of it in Amazon. Honestly, I try not to write the straight review, because that's just not me, but I don't think the readers on Amazon would get my usual style, so here I am.To his credit, John didn't say that I had to write a good review, but he did sweeten the pot by offering me his autograph. Anyway, I read the book, which is a short collection, and I enjoyed it immensely. In my ...

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I go out this morning to start my car and to bring the trash and recyclables out when I notice it looks awfully icy out there. I look closer and it seems that it must have rained at some point overnight and froze solid since everything had this thin layer of ice on it – the porch, the driveway, and the cars.So I get the ice melt out and sprinkle it down the stairs. Then I fill a cup of it up so I can make it out the driveway with the trash. I do fine and get the garbage ...

Crush object: Christopher Meloni, actor.- Brief stints on television (1st and Ten, The Fanelli Boys) and bit parts in movies (Junior, 12 Monkeys) lead to his breakout role as a hotheaded gangster in Bound.- More TV roles followed (usually on crime shows like NYPD Blue and Mario Puzo's The Last Don), but he really got our attention as the bisexual serial killer (and frequently nude) Chris Keller on HBO's groundbreaking Oz.- At the same time, he also starred on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a very different role, as Police Detective Elliot Stabler. His performance ...

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         ::    Sean Penn was honored as Best Actor of 2008 by the National Society of Film critics for his portrayal of Harvey Milk in Gus van Sant 's Milk . Penn was a runaway winner in that category with 87 votes. 40 votes went to runner-up Mickey Rourke for his comeback role in The Wrestler . In the award for Best Director, Van Sant came in second to Mike Leigh , director of Happy Go Lucky . Van Sant was in the running because of two films, Milk and Paranoid Park . Critics handed out their Best Picture ...

Je tenais à remercier très chaleureusement toute l'équipe du blog ON BOARD GUYS.COM qui a eu la gentillesse de publier un post sur mon nouveau blog. Je vous encourage vivement à aller leur rendre une petite visite (pourquoi petite ?), vous verrez vous ne serez pas déçu : modèles, magazines, mode... tout y est ! Hé ! Qu'est-ce que vous faites encore là ? Allez hop hop hop, c'est par ici : ON BOARD GUYS.COM ! ...

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En Mars de l'année dernière, l'organisation non-gouvernementale, ILGA-EUROPE (qui regroupe plus de 200 associations LGBT en Europe) a organisé une conférence sur les familles LGBT au parlement européen. Cette conférence avait pour but de renforcer le dialogue entre les institutions européennes et la société sur le thème de la reconnaissance juridique de ces familles. A cette occasion, ILGA-Europe a présenté deux rapports, l'un donnant une vue d'ensemble sur l’absence de droit international d’où les problèmes auxquels sont confrontées ces familles. L'autre rapport préconise avec l'implication de l'Union Européenne, d'établir un programme sur cinq ans avec une coopération plus étroite ...

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Empire model Santiago Peralta was 'Eye Candy du Jour' on Saturday at The Imagist, lensed by Greg Vaughan [above]. Santiago says he enjoys pondering on the mysteries of life with his best ... ...

Checking out Dobby Gibson's website on my lunch break, I came across this YouTube clip of Frank O'Hara reading his poem, "Having a Coke with You": I've read this poem numerous times but it's never felt alive for me until now. Which leads me to wonder...could YouTube be the ideal medium for the transmission of poetry? ...

text and photos by Rex Wockner A Jan. 24 summit in Los Angeles to strategize about "winning back marriage rights" in California will be only partially open to media -- a decision that has led to the resignation of one member of the organizing committee and to complaints from California gay media figures. The Equality Summit apparently will bring together some 150 activists to organize and strategize in the wake of the passage of Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 ballot measure with which voters amended the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage. But according to summit coordinator Anne Marks of Equality ...

The new memoir out next month from American Gladiators veteran Dan Clark (aka Nitro) is given a sneak peek today by Page Six. In recalling the toll steroid use took on his pecs, Clark has also created a whole new memoir subgenre that can only be dubbed 'tit lit': Writes Clark: "Bitch t- -s, man boobs, breast-chesticles is what they're called on the street. Gynecomastia is the scientific name. No matter what you call it, I [had] it. I hate[d] taking off my shirt. For photo shoots, [I'd] wet my nipple with spit . . . [to] look firm instead ...

It is a new year. This blog shall live and be reborn someday, if it can find its alignment.I can't wait for the Macworld 2009. It will the be last Macworld with Apple presenting a Keynote. Maybe someday, Apple will stop by when it has something to announce, but I'm betting it's abandoning Macworld because it can't hew to IDG's fixed schedule.It has little to do with Steve Jobs' health because Jobs is alive, and the company he runs is moving smoothly, but that can't ever be ruled out. I wonder why Apple is doing this, unless it is intentional--it ...

Towelroad discovered that the New York Times is anti-"GAY." If you try to text an article from the Times' mobile website with "gay" in the headline, the word "gay" will be automatically replaced with "BEEP." So don't be confused if if someone texts you a story about BEEP marriage or BEEP sexx or BEEP bars or BEEP faces. ...